The Xehanort that norted Xehanort

[Wabitear 3]

Hello everyone, I wanted to post a theory that I had in mind since BbS came out and I did not see posted anywhere, this theory is about Xehanort. Of course there will be spoilers concerning every game.

 

When I had to face Ansem for the first time in KH I thought it was a very dark and mysterious character, a very cool boss, and of course I always wandered what the hell was that genie like creature behind him.
In KH II Xeahnort was introduced, and it still was a really cool and mysterious guy, of course even Xemnas was pretty badass too.

Now, in BbS we discover who truly is Xehanort, with the introduction of Master Xehanort, a character that i didn't like very much, it just feels like all the things happened in KH where just becouse of an old man who had nothing better to do. And here's when I started to elaborate the theory that i'm going to explain you.

Let's get to the point already: I think we have yet to see the true Xehanort.

 

We know Master Xehanort can posses other people and making them his vessels, we've learned this when he possessed Terra in BbS, and we've seen that this was the Organization's true goal in DDD. He possessed Terra, Saix and Xigbar (or Isa and Braig, I still have no idee if those in DDD where nobodies or somebodies) then how do we know he's the true Xehanort? More specifically, are we sure that the one we know as Master Xehanort (and for extension even Young Xehanort) is the original bad guy? What if he was just another vessel of a greater darkness?
This would explain (sort of) what is the Guardian behind Ansem SoD and Terranort, and why Xehanort's heart is of pure darkness.
In fact, it appears that Xehanort needs 13 pure darknesses to contrast the 7 pure lights, but only his heart is of pure darkness (otherwise why would he split it in his other vessels or summon different versions of himself, he could just gather 12 random dark guys) and I don't think he's born with it.

Then who's the original Xehanort? Well, I didn't have a clue, always thought was some ancent forgotten entity, until KH X (chi).

 

Thanks to KH X we know that during the Keyblade war, a Keyblade Master “bestowed his six followers with new names, and gave five of them a tome of prophecy. These five became the Foretellers” 

Now, we have seen that Master Xehanort's Keyblade is very similar to the other five Foreteller's Keyblades (you can see a discussion about this HERE), and the fact that the sixth follower is not mentioned may be becouse of his darkness.

In conclusion:
The Keyblade wielder Xehanort, a name given to him by his master that represents his darkness, found the way to keep living. Maybe he had no other choice, maybe it was a plan, but somehow he (or at least his heart) was able to reach the time when the young man we know as Young Xehanort opened his heart to the darkness, in order to escape the water prison of the Destiny Islands. Maybe YX wasn't even his first vessel, maybe there were more. He kept living in his new vessel (giving him the possibility to wield a Keyblade) and trying to reach one day Kingdom Hearts.
Did he lose the memories of his true self? Is that why he wants to know what happened? Or maybe he guided his various vessels without letting them know of his plans and possibly his existence as well?

Anyway, when the vessel grew old he knew enough, he knew that he needed hearts of pure lights and darkness in order to forge the X-blade and reach Kingdom Hearts but he needed more time, and more vessels, and thus began KHBbS, with him possessing Terra etcetera, etcetera...

 

This explains the ability to posses others, the reason why Xehanort's heart is so dark, why he is so obsessed with the keyblade war, the passion of Xemnas for anagrams, why his Keyblade is similar to the other Foreteller's and why he knows so much about time travel. Also, one or more of the New Organization's members could be other of his vessel's that we've never seen, but this is highly improbable.

A little extra, a “Theory in the Theory”, you want to know how I think the original Xehanort looks like?

Well, here's the representation of his heart/darkness (which appears when we fought his heartless and in BbS)

And here's his armour/body (which appears when we fought his nobody and in BbS)

That also would explain why his moves are so different from the other Xehanort's versions

So, that's it, let me know what do you think about it, thanks for your patience.

Edited May 4, 2014 by Wabitear

[Robbie the Wise 5,050]

One little gaping hole in this theory is that fact that Xehanort corrupted himself via time travel and his close relationship to the darkness. Xehanort is not the only wielder with the ability to transfer his heart ALL keyblade master have learned this ability.

 

When Terra was possesed by Xehanort he immediately took on physical features of Xehanort as well as his control over the body. The Xehanort that we see prior to his departure from Destiny Islands to Master Xehanort look the same albeit one looks younger. This does not suggest to me that an external force caused any changed during that time frame. I think it a real stretch to say the sixth follower jumped all the way to Xehanort time and showed no manifestation whatsoever during Xehanort's life. Further proof Young Xehanort needed to be possessed by Master Xehanort in order to be able to use a keyblade an ability he had not yet acquired. If Xehanort was possessed by the heart of a wielder this would not be necessary. Xehanort transformation into the man we know today took place over time it was like Young Xehanort decided one day to blanket the universe in darkness. Its stemmed from the passion of his beliefs and the close proximity he held with the darkness.

 

Also I'm not sold on the No Heart and Gaurdian thing. For one No Heart is the Lingering Will of the armor Xehanort wore when he was young. Xemnas who was the shared nobody of Terra and Master Xehanort had access to it so it makes sense why he would be wearing it.

 

I think the most likely scenario is that Xehanort somehow came across the five tomes of prophecy (It would explain how he knew so far ahead but nothing beyond the clash of the 13 vs 7) during his travels. Combined with the knowledge they have and his passionate belief that light and darkness should exist in equal balance began plotting access to Kingdom Hearts and the creation of his ideal universe.

[MarkXIIII 106]

The keyblade war took place many decades or centuries before BbS.

Everything that happens in Chi is not temporally related to the Main series.

Same mythology but those characters are like fairy tale characters or myths.

 

Xehanort read those books and stories on Destiny Islands and then became the freak  he is now before BbS but after Chi.