Here's something I've been pondering for a while: we all no that the opposing elements of Darkness and Light have inherent weaknesses to each other but why is it that denizens of the Realm Of Light are pretty much screwed in the Realm Of Darkness but Heartless have no problem surviving in the Realm Of Light? Is it because all Heartless were originally people from the Realm Of Light or that the Darkness truly is more powerful than the Light? If the former, does that mean that the Realm Of Darkness truly has no natural denizens of it's own? And if it does and the Heartless aren't it, then what the heck could be living in there?

The Heartless ARE the natural denizens of the Realm of Darkness. The Pureblood Heartless weren't born from someone losing their hearts to the darkness. And while it IS possible for someone to become a Pureblood Heartless, as shown by Sora becoming a Shadow, the Pureblood Heartless existed before that, as they are merely the darkness of the heart.

Heartless naturally are made from darkness. Purebloods are formed from the darkness of the heart while emblem capture the hearts of those that lose their hearts. You're only going to find purebloods in the RoD and thriving for obvious reasons. As for the RoL, well, there is a lot more the come up against there.

Here's something I've been pondering for a while: we all no that the opposing elements of Darkness and Light have inherent weaknesses to each other but why is it that denizens of the Realm Of Light are pretty much screwed in the Realm Of Darkness but Heartless have no problem surviving in the Realm Of Light? Is it because all Heartless were originally people from the Realm Of Light or that the Darkness truly is more powerful than the Light? If the former, does that mean that the Realm Of Darkness truly has no natural denizens of it's own? And if it does and the Heartless aren't it, then what the heck could be living in there?

Or maybe the realm in which sora is living is not the realm of Light at all. Because in the realm of darkness there lives nothing that is good, yet in the supposed realm of Light we have Clayton/hook/hades/Red Queen/Jafar/boogie etc. My theory is that our Realm is just "the realm of the living" and that True light exist someplace else. Or to explain it with theology: Hell<<<<<Earth<<<<Heaven

The Heartless ARE the natural denizens of the Realm of Darkness. The Pureblood Heartless weren't born from someone losing their hearts to the darkness. And while it IS possible for someone to become a Pureblood Heartless, as shown by Sora becoming a Shadow, the Pureblood Heartless existed before that, as they are merely the darkness of the heart.

 

 

Heartless naturally are made from darkness. Purebloods are formed from the darkness of the heart while emblem capture the hearts of those that lose their hearts. You're only going to find purebloods in the RoD and thriving for obvious reasons. As for the RoL, well, there is a lot more the come up against there.

Yes but as far as we know, there are no naturally occurring Hearts in the Realm Of Darkness, only in the Light. If Pureblood Heartless are the Darkness of the Heart, that would mean that they used to be people so they did originally come from the Light. The only beings that can survive in the Realm Of Darkness are the Heartless, those with exceptionally strong Hearts (such as Aqua and Mickey), and the exceptionally evil (the Xehanorts) and none of them originally came from the Realm Of Darkness.

Yes but as far as we know, there are no naturally occurring Hearts in the Realm Of Darkness, only in the Light. If Pureblood Heartless are the Darkness of the Heart, that would mean that they used to be people so they did originally come from the Light. The only beings that can survive in the Realm Of Darkness are the Heartless, those with exceptionally strong Hearts (such as Aqua and Mickey), and the exceptionally evil (the Xehanorts) and none of them originally came from the Realm Of Darkness.

No. If they are the darkness of the heart, they're just the opposite of the people from the Realm of Light. Like, for example, there might be one Pureblood for every person that exists in the Realm of Light, or something like that.

 

Yen Sid even said in KHII that there'll be Heartless as long as there's any darkness in people's hearts.

The Heartless ARE the natural denizens of the Realm of Darkness. The Pureblood Heartless weren't born from someone losing their hearts to the darkness. And while it IS possible for someone to become a Pureblood Heartless, as shown by Sora becoming a Shadow, the Pureblood Heartless existed before that, as they are merely the darkness of the heart.

 

This is incorrect. Purebloods are born when someone loses themself to the darkness. That's why it's said that they are "the darkness of the heart". When someone succumbs to darkness, the darkness in their heart consumes their heart and they turn into a Pureblood Heartless. This is what happened to Sora, Xehanort, Scar, some Keyblade wielders from KHX, etc.

 

Nomura said that there is absolutely no difference between Purebloods and Emblems besides the fact that Emblems are artificially created. Pureblood Heartless are people's hearts that have been devoured by darkness and Emblem Heartless are people's hearts that have been artificially forced to be devoured by Heartless, presumably by some scientific machine.

Edited January 28, 20178 yr by Elfdemon_

The Heartless we see in the Realm of Light are vastly weaker than they would otherwise be, they are effectively "screwed", just as beings born in the Realm of Light are when they enter the Realm of Darkness the Heartless are weakened simply by BEING there, this is why they tend to congregate in worlds where the Light is weaker and the Darkness is stronger, it's like a safe haven to them where they can't or won't exist elsewhere. This is the reason why the opening of the Hollow Bastion keyhole caused all the Heartless to increase in strength massively and why even the normally barely even worth bothering to kill Shadow Heartless were a threat to Aqua while she was in the Realm of Darkness. The reverse isn't really true for RoL beings in the Realm of Darkness because the Realm of Light is actively being corrupted by Xehanort and his cronies with Darkness while nobody is out there trying to corrupt the Realm of Darkness with Light and there's no group of mindless creatures from the Realm of Light trying to invade the Realm of Darkness either. In short, in the Realm of Darkness the Darkness holds all the cards while the same is not true of the Light in the Realm of Light.

 

The differences between a Pureblood Heartless and a Emblem Heartless comes down to their origin. Pureblood Heartless are born when a person's heart is consumed by the Darkness within, or when someone forcibly extracts the Darkness out of their own or someone else's Heart, while Emblem Heartless are created artificially by trying to forcibly corrupt a Heart with Darkness. Pureblood Heartless don't leave behind Hearts because the Darkness has utterly consumed the Hearts at the moment of the Pureblood's creation (it's also possible they are simply formed out of large enough concentrations of the Darkness at times) while the Emblem Heartless do because the Hearts the Emblems are composed of were never completely consumed by the Darkness due to the process being an imperfect replication of how Hearts become Pureblood Heartless.