Heart2Heart

Hmm.... There is a lot to think about. My interpretation of the sequence of SoD's time travel is that shortly after being created (when AX splits into Heartless and Nobody) THEN SoD went back (b/c thinking about it, after taking Riku's body as a vessel, he turned it into his own body, but.....if he had been created as the brown cloaked figure, then this later form makes little to no sense) and the form SoD took after casting off his "form" (I still don't understand, either Heartless can just time travel, or as a Heartless, SoD had to become an even more simplistic existence before he could time travel) IS the brown cloaked figure, and to keep the timeline going, he REMAINS in this form (I have no clue as to what he could have been up to) and this SoD who has already gone back and discussed things with YMX is the one who takes over Riku and is beaten in KH1. One thing to add is that the possibility of a stable time loop works fairly well, considering Ansem is not YMX, MX, or even AX, he's the Heartless of AX, making him separate enough from YMX that paradox doesn't occur w/ their contact. (I have no explanation, so I won't go further into it, but while Ansem's role is STARTING to become understandable, but by YMX not being in the past to grow up with Eraqus and Master _____, ditch the Keyblade Armor, etc, how is MX possible? Only thought is since he's time traveling forward, if everything's a "stable time loop", then when YMX would reset to his own time, it doesn't matter since he WOULD grow up to be MX in the past, and when he would eventually rewind back, it would still be that same time no matter what point in the future he did it) But the one point I very much agree with that has been said is the significance of the Replica Program, it easily could be meant for creating cheap and effective vessels for the Xeha-carnations (thus a means for them to stay in the present) also, can't say for sure, but it's possible that since the Riku Replica was created during Riku's continuation through CO, so the Replica may have contained a replica of the remains of Ansem SoD, giving him other means of returning....