KHBbS "Master Terra"

[hatok 6,413]

Aqua DID perform the ceremony. Nomura stated that there is no grand speech or anything that needs to happen. Terra had a speech with Riku but that wasn't required. Someone of strong heart simply needs to touch the keyblade of a Master. That. Is. It.

but that's the thing

it's nothing to do with being a Master, it just happens

[kybldmstr94 55]

but that's the thing

it's nothing to do with being a Master, it just happens

straight from the Nomura interview on the 20 Mysteries of the Series: "The Bequeathing is performed when a Keyblade Master
 touches someone using a Keyblade."

[hatok 6,413]

straight from the Nomura interview on the 20 Mysteries of the Series: "The Bequeathing is performed when a Keyblade Master
 touches someone using a Keyblade."

That already stands on shaky ground since for the longest time Sora's title was "The Keyblade Master"

But it also creates a strange standard for what it means to be Master. All it took to 'grant' Terra the power of the Keyblade Ceremony was for Xehanort to call him Master in a casual conversation and for Terra to raise his eyebrows? In that case, why is there ANY formality. Like if there is so little control over who BECOMES a Master, then really Yen Sid didn't have the power to choose if Sora or Riku became a Master in the first place

if anything it suggests it's an ability that people just sort of gain sooner or later

[kybldmstr94 55]

That already stands on shaky ground since for the longest time Sora's title was "The Keyblade Master"

But it also creates a strange standard for what it means to be Master. All it took to 'grant' Terra the power of the Keyblade Ceremony was for Xehanort to call him Master in a casual conversation and for Terra to raise his eyebrows? In that case, why is there ANY formality. Like if there is so little control over who BECOMES a Master, then really Yen Sid didn't have the power to choose if Sora or Riku became a Master in the first place

if anything it suggests it's an ability that people just sort of gain sooner or later

Yes you have a very good point. The way Nomura explains it is that no one person can really call you a Master, it's just something that happens. This is a topic that Nomura needs to delve deeper into, and maybe he will in KH3. For now all we know for certain is that anyone who wields a key blade can become a master if they have a strong enough heart. Also we know that only masters can pass on key blade inheritance. I don't think Master Xehanort made Terra a master. By the time Xehanort called Terra master, he had probably already been a master. Confusing I know but there is no good clarification yet about how to become a master. 

 

KH3D annoys me because the whole idea of this grand Mark of Mastery test doesn't make sense because I don't think Yen Sid has the right to decide who is and isn't a master.