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Like just the name alone sounds like a good idea "world of Balance"

In all other senses he's human enough on his own

Ansem has... self-consiciousness and identity.. He's technically a two-for-one deal, with Guardian... He is, by all means, technically a heartless, but.. he blends into the two types

he could orient light and dark on both sides of the monstrosity

It's such a wild idea

Xemnas isn't much different to other humanoid nobodies I suppose wheras Ansem is strangest heartless out there

Xemnas' only real unique thing is.. he gains an armor

He.. rides a dragon

and.. gets a fancy coat

Well Xemnas is unique because he can transform any other nobody into a dusk or into a org member if he wanted to

That coat is very fancy though ?

yes, that too, of course

but like... ansem can just possess you

and literally erode your body away

I don't think he can it do it past Riku though

Since he gained a physical form from that

well, you probably need to willingly accept the darkness and him, first

because remmember DDD?

Ansem wasnt able to posess someone who didnt accept him tho

They mention that they needed to lie about the new hearts thing

Also his appearance when he takes a body, seems to potentially be modelled after a 30 year old Xehanort

Just potentially

I hate the lie

in order to make the org members willingly accept the heart pieces

Yeah

it makes Xemnas so much less interesting

Before he was a man in a deep desire to be human again

I still hold that Xemnas is still that

because of his final line in kh3

I'd been on the whole the have hearts idea before the 3DS even existed and people were like that's a stupid idea

Who realized life without emotion is meaningless

Actually I correctly get things long before they happen all the time and people ridicule me until it actually happens. Kind of sucks man

It seems to me, idk if this makes sense, but Xemnas wanted emotion but the turmoil in him meant he saw the emotions of anger and hate, as the only good ones