Terra's Character file is

"One of the three Keyblade wielders who played a pivotal role in a historic clash more than a decade ago. Master Xehanort possessed his body, and although Aqua saved him, his heart may never find its way back where it belongs."

I never noticed this happen in BBS. Xehanort stabbed himself, most likely due to Terra. I always imagined Xehanort wanted to expel Terra's heart, but we never saw it come out. Plus, they do have quite the conversation inside Terra. So shouldn't he be inside Teranort? The way this describes it, it seems Terra's heart isn't inside his body.

Where could his heart be? Maybe it found its way into his Lingering Sentiment, or maybe into someone else? Maybe Riku?

I always kind of figured (crap, this involves math)...

 

Xehanort + Terra= Terranort

Terranort becomes "Xehanort" (apprentice)

"Xehanort becomes Ansem SoD & Xemnas

Ansem SoD worls his way into Riku's heart, where he still has a little foothold, even now

 

So I figured that there might be a little bit of Terra left in Riku, considering we never got an actual explaination for this! I think the "official sources" I saw said that the Lingering Will was just Terra's feelings at the time when he was possessed rather than his actual heart, like a ghost. But even then, I'm not to sure.

 

Come on, Nomura. I hated "Where's Waldo?". Don't do this to me...

Terra took control of Terranort after the fight against Aqua and stabed himself in order to get rid of Xehanort's heart. We can see the Guardian fade away opening a portal to darkness.

Terra falls into that and Aqua saves him. The memories are directly connected to the heart, and Terranort didn't remember who he really was, Kingdom Hearts' logic has a lot of exceptions when dealing with hearts, so we can't know for sure what was left inside Terra's body, but I think that even in conflict, maybe his heart and Xehanort's shard turned into one single thing, and that the stab only expeled the darkness for some time.

About his heart not finding it's way back, I guess that the darkness where it is sleeping is not necessarily phisically distant, Ven's Keyblade helped Aqua in the Dark Realm and by that time his heart was already within Sora right? Maybe, his heart did went away in the events of the "accident" that created the founding members of the Organization XIII, events that were not explained yet.

Also, now we know Xehanort can split his heart in pieces to create new versions of himself, that mechanic may be important to explain some details, but in the end I guess it's something to be explained in future secret reports, like Namine and Roxas were explained as exceptions created from the same body.

 

PS: Here is the scene he stabs himself by the way (I looked for it to remember what happened):

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=35KUnRYgi3Q&feature=relmfu

Edited August 18, 201213 yr by Cactuar

I think that Terranort used the phrase "Terra's heart has been extinguished, smuthered by the darkness within him!!!" of course this never happened, and as seen in the final episode and blank points, Terra's heart was still clinging to it's existence within terranort. So once Ansem SoD and Xemnas were defeated, Terranort should have returned, and with him, Terra's heart. My best guess is that He is one of the XII and that everything will be explained in KH3