Kale Harmony

I love your post. Very insightful.Note. This is all specilation and can EASILY be wrong. No Barking please. I'm just letting my imagation fly when it comes to proof no matter how well thought out this may be, or what themes it draws on.It's entirely possible in the post keyblade war, that all the people are the same people, and that much like how everyone forgot Radiant Garden's name when it became a heartless world still functioning in the realm of light, people just don't remember what it was like before the worlds were divided or that a cataclysm even happened.It's also possible that like Data Sora, all the illusion/data worlds grew their own hearts because of the illision/data children being able to "see the heart in something" and make it so "it then becomes real", and that everyone in the original interconnected world did die.Either way, I think it's possible that like the Kingdom Hearts made of hearts and worlds, "The Unknown" may be manipulating everyone in KH X to make a Kingdom Hearts from all the light gathered. Given the world is interconnected and not divided into worlds, enough stolen light could cause a collapse of everything, and set up "The Unknown" (Ansem Sod) to become his own Kingdom Hearts ie The Darkness, and be the only one left ie The Realm of Darkness. Xemnas does ponder if he's all that's left, or all there ever was when considering his true self, before asking Roxas if he remembers his true name.Kingdom Hearts includes many light and dark parrallels in it's storytelling, like Xigbar being "Half Xehanort" and Kairi being both a Princess of Heart and a Gaurdian of Light. Much like Xehanort is visited and manipulated by his Ansem SoD (who has a note written in the room in the part of hallow bastion appearing in The End of the World. (near fighting Chernabog in KHI) about being the "prognosticate of darkness" near those mechanical tomb looking things, talks of "becoming darkness itself", and as one of the princesses put it, had a peaceful grin on his face entering the keyhole to unlock The End of the World), it would not surprise me if Ephemera from KHX (Assuming the storytelling takes place in the sleeping world is found by Ansem and filled with Xehanort's Heart like his yonger self was, creating a link between both post war and pre war, meaning that Every Xehanort incarnation seeks Kingdom Hearts to find themself and be whole and that until then they are incomplete.This also, given my idea that people could have forgotten the war or that the data versions grew they're onw hearts, it's possible both Riku and Xehanort are Special Nobodies of Ephemera. The difference in their time placement in the series deals with the Hearts that created each of them, and their respective roles in the series. Riku having the Keyblade choose him before Sora, and Xehanort seeking the Darkness (Mickey got the Kingdom Key D quite possibly because Xehanort inhereted the Ram Keyblade.) Master Xehanorts inside Epherema for Young Xehanort, and Kingdom Hearts inside Epherema for Riku. Master Xehanort says that "destiny is never left up to chance" because of his knowledge of the darkness being the catalyst for the plot of every event. (Data Sora mentions darkness's effect this under the wording of how hurt works to Data Roxas given Darkness causes people to harm other people, and that causes other people to take said action in relation to the things they love and enjoy) The Darkness also has much power over the physcial given it's the flipside to the Realm of light. So! If Darkness is able to be aware of itself (Given it's the ultimate outcome to Ephemera-Nort making a Kingdom Hearts just for him out of the True one), then any of the Xehanorts have whatever knowledge and power the Darkness wishes to give them, and given the sheer power they just with darkness alone have, and the goal Master Xehanort is working towards, it's seemingly unlikely he wouldn't have just destroyed his opposition, in the way to forming the 7/13 clash. The way they guide and challenge via the manipulation the characters is fasicnating, and made Master Xehanorts line about "guiding them to their proper places" extremely noticable to me. All of the sleeping worlds either suffered a massive wound like in Notre dom, or are still missing something, Like Monstro from Pranksters paradise. This means that unless Ephemera becomes his whole self again, Daybreak town and therefore the entire connected pre war world, and therefore the True Kingdom Hearts cannot wake up until there is that RECC0NECT. Master Xehanorts original goal was not to get the Xblade. It was to find the hidden truth behond the keyblade masters secrets, and the precepts mentioned in BBS. In taking off his Armor with that intent I think he found the answer and became a pawn to the Darkness, which is his original self. Why of all people would it choose him? If destiny is left not left to chance and the finder of the true Kingdom Hearts recreats the world to thier wishes, the Wishes of both Xehanort and Ephemera are refelcted in the reformation of things post war. The worlds are divided in a way that keeps them symbiotic and peaceful like Epherema maybe was inspired to create by the data/illusions he was so moved by to betroy his own clan and find out the truth (Much like Riku and Xehanort make their innitial choices with that same jusitce in mind), and the darkness's omnipotence, and lack of heart was relflected by the ambitions of every Xehanort.This means that this the Will of the Darkness is to be whole and seek a better world for everyone in which it can exist. All the extra manipulation of characters and guiding is the darkness experiencing it's role the main story in the main story. Feeling the hearts of those who could hang onto themselves in it, ie Aqua, Ansem the Wise, Mickey, and Riku, Kairi, Riku and Sora, is a reflection of the it's considerations on what to do about itself, and how it values friendships, quality of lives, justice for what is right, the stability of the worlds, new possibilities, and the ability to accept people and things for who they are respectively.This is reflected in which doors were closed, and which Xehanorts failed, ect. The Darkness knows it can't end everything else, like the door to darkness in KH I, and it can't end everything like the door to oblivion in KH Re:Chain of Memories, nor the Door to Nothingness in KH II. It knows it can't be asleep after Soras and Riku's efforts in KH:3D, and it knows it needs hearts and a heart of it's own after events of KH Re:coded, and it can't change the destinies of people, after the events of KH Birth By Sleep. All of these themes were likely on the mind and consideration of Ephemera when he was considering the information he had on the events of KH X.This means Master Xehanort WILL acheive his goal. The protagonists will not win, and the keyblade war will be had, whether it's everyone remembering the trauma of the catacylsm and the darkness getting too strong and overpowering the light, or a second keyblade war staring everyone who played KH X waking up and rampaging all over every world via the ability to travel the lanes between with their keyblades.This second cataclysm leaves Master Xehonort with the Xblade and the ability to create a brand new world where Darkness like the Light before it is accepted and valued by children, and soon adults alike, making him able to be himself and Ephemera to be himself, along with any nobody who wasn't allowed to exist without being a recusant and firetrucking up the system of the worlds structure. Every one wins, and fate is including for the darkness is once again up to the True Kingdom Hearts, now that it's sleep is ended along with the sleep of eveyone else in it's dream.Chew on this babble of mine awhile. The themes add up. It's interesting at the very least.PS for shits and giggles in this event this would be true, I ship Sora and Kairi, Riku, and Namine, and Roxas and Xion because themes, and warm fuzzy redemptive feelings.PS again. Something esle worth nothing with the Ram Keyblade is that the head on it looks like the Guardian Ansem has.