Which Foreteller's origin story are you looking forward to learning about the most in Kingdom Hearts 2.8?

[kyungshidae 2]

Which Foreteller's origin story are you looking forward to learning about the most in Kingdom Hearts 2.8?

[freer709 44]

Well i'm allied with Ursus in KHx[chi] so i guess i'll go with that...

Edited September 26, 2015 by freer709

[Komali 594]

Ursus, definitely!

[Ninkoro 123]

Im vulpeus ingame, but i just have to know....is twtown's mansion connected to unicornus?

[Toominator 916]

Im vulpeus ingame, but i just have to know....is twtown's mansion connected to unicornus?

Literally the same.

[Trece the Xam ( ▀ ͜͞ʖ▀) 3,859]

Leopardos. Why? I don't know, I've never understood the game (I don't speak Japanese)! But I'm sort of interested in him because there is one traitor among them and some theories state that Leopardos is one of the 13 darknesses (which probably means he's the traitor), and I want to see what people who read Japanese see  in this guy in order to make up these theories.

[Keyblade101 526]

Im vulpeus ingame, but i just have to know....is twtown's mansion connected to unicornus?

I'm planning on being allied with Vulpeus too, but I can't help but be curious about the Unicornus Foreteller and a possible connection with the Twilight Town mansion.

[Kingdomhe 1,362]

i need to know Lady Ava's story!!!!!!

[JBone 30]

I'm going to be in Slytherin when it comes out in english, so I guess I want to know the story of Anguis the most, haha.

[BlankShell 638]

I have no idea because I know very little about Chi. So... all of them?

[TheKingdomkid 1,194]

The Sixth one

[Movies798 1,358]

The Vulpeus because the vulpeus leader seems to be the most interesting one out of all of them to me.

[Eternalsleep 175]

The ursus foreteller because im 80% positive that he's the traitor

[gingienator 278]

Unicornis all the way!

He does seem like someone that has a lot to tell ; u ;

[Hero of Light XIV 2,381]

Wow, Unicornis sure is popular. Glad I voted for him! X3

[Guest]

Leopardos because I love Leopards and he seems to be the most likely character to be a traitor.

[Exiblade7 1,917]

Honestly, I'm looking forward to all of them. 

[Xiggy 26]

I'm going with the Unicornus too. 

[ScarletArisa 128]

Unicornis because of the mansion!

[Salve-SiS 125]

Why the heck Ursus's Keyblade looks so much like Terra's? THAT'S what I wanna know. 

[Hero of Light XIV 2,381]

Really I want to know everything about all of them, but I've always been interested in Unicornis. Mostly because he's kind of giving me a Riku-vibe, I'm not sure why. It might have to do with this fan theory I saw where each of the Fortellers might be connected to present day characters, Terra - Ursus, Ven - Leopardos, Aqua - Anguis, Kairi - Vulpeus, and Riku - Unicornis. It's just a fan theory and I honestly doubt that the Fortellers are the characters themselves, but who knows, maybe they could have been far distant ancestors, although I really hope 100 years isn't canon, that's way too recent in my book. But in any case, it could be that while they are their own characters, they could display some interesting parallels with present day characters, between their heights, genders, and color schemes, and even Vulpeus, or Ava, is showing some signs of caring for the people of the conflict at large, something similar to how Kairi's empathetic nature works. Maybe as we get to see and learn more about these characters we'll get to see just how far this does or doesn't go, but I do hope that at the very least each of them is made out to be somewhat of a good guy.

 

The story is that there were supposed to be at least 5 different factions in the war, one side fought to protect the light, one side fought to claim the light for darkness, one fought to gain power, one fought to reconcile both light and darkness, and the last one never wanted to fight in the first place but found that it got swept into the conflict regardless. With 5 Unions, this seems to line up pretty well, and with an idea of character affiliation in mind, it might make figuring out each of the Fortellers' intentions a little easier until official confirmation.

 

If we are to temporarily accept the character affiliation idea, then we can assume that Anguis ("past Aqua"?) might stand for the side of protecting the light from darkness. Considering Aqua's story and how she was taught to resist the darkness and fight it with light, it would make sense if this parallel applied to Anguis as well.

 

Urus might be the easiest to guess about being paralleled to Terra, both of their Keyblades are already similar looking and they are the most well built looking of the Fortellers, so the idea of him seeking power regardless of either side makes sense, seeing as how Terra sought to gain strength, albeit for noble reasons. Maybe Ursus's Forteller has similar motivations as Terra, or maybe he sees things a different way. Either way, at least his affiliation with the Power faction makes sense from a visual standpoint.

 

Vulpeus's Forteller, or Ava as we now know her name to be, is likely representing the faction that got unwillingly swept into the war, and the latest plot update to the story might just be confirming that theory. Already we have seen that she cares deeply about hte fates of those fighting the battle against the darkness and her wistful musings about dandelions seem to suggest a desire to escape whatever she and the others are stuck in. This kind of ties back in with Kairi's personality, as while initially she was wistful of the idea of leaving home and exploring the outside world, she would later be found longing to return to what she called home and longing to be reunited with her friends in peace.

 

Unicornis' Forteller could be seen as the faction that is trying to reconcile both light and darkness, possibly recognizing the balance that the two create, only he might be trying to achieve that balance through a more peaceful manner than Xehanort would. His color scheme, stature, and the unique hair decoration of his mask heavily resembles Riku in many ways, and his theorised affiliation with both light and darkness could also resemble Riku's long inner struggle of coming to terms with both. Another interesting thing to note in support of his possible position is that whenever he is depicted with the other Fortellers, he is always positioned in the middle. Regardless of who's on either side of him, his position in the middle could be interpreted as a symbol of how he wishes to view things, through a balanced perspective, not trying to be all towards one side and against the the other. I've always found Riku's story of shouldering both light and darkness to be an inspiring one, and if I'm right to affiliate the Unicornis Forteller with him, then I am really curious to see what we will learn of him in time (I just hope he's not the traitor. I kind of doubt that, he's the last guy I would suspect, but maybe that's what Nomura is going for...).

 

Leopardos is a bit tricky, and it's where the theory itself gets a bit iffy, but if gender, relative height, and color scheme are to be considered, then it can be assumed that the Leopardos Forteller is meant to parallel Ventus. But with all the other roles already filled, that would mean that Leopardos' only remaining affiliation would be with the side that fought for darkness. But how can that work if Ven is supposed to be the parallel? Ven, the kid who got his darkness REMOVED from his body, leaving him nothing but pure light? Well, this is where a lot of assuming has to take the place of seen evidence. First off, we know that Ven was adopted by Master Xehanort as his apprentice, and Xehanort's ambitions with Ven was to either use him as a vessel or use him to forge the X-Blade. In either sense, he was trying to use him towards his goal of unleashing more darkness to "balance" the world. Back then Ven was considered weak, either through physical ability or will, he just couldn't meet MX's needs. So in spite of that failure Xehanort extracted Ven's darkness to form a being of pure darkness, Vanitas, who he could use towards his plan of clashing with a person of pure light in order to create the X-Blade. Now right away we see that Vanitas is already stronger than Ventus, yet he came from Ventus. This would suggest that Ven had great potential inside of him, but he lacked the will to tap into it, probably because he had a more fragile child-like nature to himself (I mean, he was roughly 11 years old when this all happened...stupid reused character models...). In any case, Vanitas can be seen as a physical embodiment of all the potential strength and power Ven had hidden inside him, latched to his darkness (either that or it suggested that Ven had a really strong darkness, but it makes more sense that he had a strong potential in his heart overall, otherwise his light wouldn't have grown to be as powerful as it did by the end of BBS, even with Sora's help). Now due to the fact that Ven later grew up with Eraqus and his pupils, he grew on his own and eventually worked against Xehanrot's ambitions. However, should things have been different and he stayed with Xehanort and did what his master required of him, could things have been different? In Xehanort's eyes, Ven was just a tool, something for him to exploit towards his goal of flooding the worlds in darkness. In that sense, Ven too was a pawn of the darkness, just not in the same sort of case we've seen with Terra and Riku. Whether it involved using his light or his darkness, Xehanort wished to use Ven to realize his own goals. With this in mind, we can bring it back to Leopardos and how he fits in with things. For one thing, Leopardos doesn't seem to burst with that same cheerfulness that we know Ven for, mostly due to the fact that the Fortellers as a whole tend to act more enigmatic in general, with the exception of Ava so far. However there is still something unsettling about a boy that age being so mysterious and nearly emotionless. And his emblem has the darkest color scheme of all, sure a yellow leopard, but behind it a black circle.

 

Then there is that mysterious figure in the Black Coat. Nothing has been said to suggest who he is, but we do know that a black coat is typically affiliated with Xehanort, or at the very least someone who uses darkness to some degree. But as we see in dreams he does tend to interact with the Fortellers in at least one instance. And what about the story of the Fortellers and their Master of all Masters? Said Master had 6 apprentices, yet he gave the Book of Prophesies to only 5 of them, those five being the Fortellers. What happened to apprentice number 6? Why was he not given the same honor? Could it be that the Master saw that he harbored dark intentions? Perhaps it is he that is spreading doubt among the Fortellers, giving them the idea that a traitor stood amongst them? Maybe he really is trying to convince one of them to betray the light and pursue the dark?

 

What if that Forteller was Leopardos' master? If the man in the Black Coat/Apprentice Number 6 is to be paralleled with Xehanort (for obvious reasons), then we would probably first assume he would go after Ursus, like how Xehanort went after Terra. But we have to remember that Xehanort went for Ventus first, but his attempt at using Ven failed. Maybe what we could be seeing with Leopardos is a different outcome, that this "not-Xehanort" actually did convince him of why the side of darkness might not be all that bad. And there's nothing suggesting that Leopardos is totally evil, we've seen before that darkness isn't inherently bad, it just tends to be exploited by a lot of bad people, and at times it can harm a denizen of the Realm of Light if it isn't managed properly. Maybe this Mysterious Figure 3 (or 0 in X's case) convinced Leopardos that there is good in darkness that is being denied by the other unions, that in a world filled with light it deserves the chance to be in balance with it. We haven't seen enough of his personality to confirm this, but it seems as though a lot of other fans are suspecting him to some degree as well, and if he is later depicted to be a bit more distant or unfamiliar compared to the other Fortellers, this might just turn out to be true.

 

But that's not to say that this Mysterious Figure 0 hasn't whispered in the ears of the others. Maybe he's just sewing seeds of doubt among everyone, trying to convince the Fortellers to start suspecting each other, eventually singling somebody out to the point that they have no choice but to adopt that role of "traitor", regardless of what their original intentions were. This could also be what divides the unions from each other, and it could possibly make each of the Fortellers' wills more extreme than they originally were, to the point that they would fight each other for their ideals, forgetting their once common goal, needlessly dragging the members of their unions into a conflict that they never had any part in. Maybe that's what Master Ava is sensing and perhaps she's trying to do something that will preemptively prevent such a thing, as she has already been shown to have concern for the Keyblade wielders in this story.

 

Sorry for the long length guys, I just thought this was worth considering. But this is all HEAVY speculation and I wouldn't be surprised if only half or none of this turns out to be true once the story keeps progressing. Hopefully by the time we get 2.8 however, everything will be made clear. All in all though, my only hope is that Unicornis does not turn out to be the traitor, because I really REALLY want to be in that union but I am always compelled to go for the side of the good guy first. However it looks like this game is looking to be the kind of story where no one is technically a "bad guy", they just share the same goal but follow different paths. That makes finding the "good guy" that I want to be all the more difficult because you could side with anybody really if you put your mind into it. Until we get the game though, I'm going to be paying as much attention as I can to the Unicornis Forteller.

Edited September 27, 2015 by Hero of Light XIV