Honestly, I don't see how the pink VS gray thing is speculation.
Days's plot is
literally about the difference between a Keyblade and a non-Keyblade defeating an Emblem Heartless, and in this game anytime an Emblem Heartless is killed by a Keyblade it releases a pink heart, and when killed by a non-Keyblade it releases a gray heart. What could be more straightforward than this?
What would be the point of having any color difference at all if not to show it's a difference in what weapon is used?
Regardless of whether KHII played it consistently,
Days is what defined the rule, and KHII came before it, so it's at most a retcon.
Really, dude? You're going to argue KH2's lack of consistency, yet the thought doesn't cross that a multiplayer game isn't going to stay consistent with what was established in the game?
For the Dream Sword, maybe. But the Soul Eater, considering that every Gear, except two, is either the Soul Eater or its + versions, it seems a bit unlikely.
The connection between Riku's sword and keyblade seems the same with Lea's chakrams and Keyblade. Both used previous weapons they were comfortable with using as a intermediary for how their keyblades would look.
Though only the Soul Eater has been confirmed. Lea's Keyblade could simply look like his chakram. Aren't Keychains implied to be related to memories? I think I read a Nomura interview where he said Sora lost all his Keychains in Castle Oblivion, but I can't remember which was.
Alternatively (yes, I now this is grasping the straws and totally speculatory, and I'm not using this as evidence, but more as an "what if?" or an hypothesis), what if
everyone has an incomplete Keyblade in their heart, that only chosen wielders can complete it? We know Keyblades can't be obtained out of nowhere. We know they are somehow man-made. We know there's as many Keyblades as there are hearts qualified to wield them. We know they can be summoned out of thin air like the Organization's weapons. We know Soul Eater somehow became the Way to the Dawn, and some assume the same happened to Lea's chakrams.
So, maybe the reason the Soul Eater has shown that Keyblade-only ability and the chakram didn't is because it was set in stone that SE would become a full Keyblade, because Riku was a chosen wielder, while the chakram still wasn't in this process. So, maybe
all of the Organization's weapons are incomplete Keyblade pieces that they somehow learned to summon.
This hypothesis would explain:
1- The similarities between the Soul Eater and chakram cases and why only SE displayed the pink heart power.
2- Why the Dream Sword is considered a Keyblade, assuming it isn't an oversight.
3- Why the Soul Eater became the Way to the Dawn in the first place.
4- Why the Organization can summon their weapons out of thin air just like wielders can summon their Keyblades, but doesn't explain how they, and Riku, were able to cheat the process in the first place. In Riku's case, I think it has to do with Ansem SoD.
5- Why people were able to create copies of the χ-blade in the first place: if the χ-blade is a counterpart to Kingdom Hearts, then Keyblades are counterparts to hearts. It still leaves the question of how the first wielder(s) accomplished this. Did they touch the χ-blade and received a Ceremony from it?
6- Give us further context to Nomura's line, "[there are] as many [Keyblades] as there are hearts qualified to wield them", because
everyone has an incomplete Keyblade, therefore, every qualified heart has one, and can complete them.
7- Why Xehanort wants to use
people to forge the χ-blade rather than searching its actual fragments.
Opinions? Again, I'm not using this as evidence, nor claiming it is fact.
Nomura also said that there's only one Keyblade per heart and despite Sora using KK, Riku was still its rightful owner. There's nothing definitive is all I'm saying.
Source? I only remember him saying "[there's] as many Keyblades as there exist people with qualified hearts" in the Director's Secret Report XIII.
Hell riku got that sword from maleficent
Source? KH1 doesn't tell us how Riku got the Soul Eater, and given that we know
he met Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, at Destiny Islands and
Ansem has a double edged Soul Eater, I find it more likely its origins would have something to do with him.
Your the one spouting speculation, the dream swords first appearance was before sora had a keyblade of his own in kh1. Thus it cant be a keyblade.
It could be an incomplete one. Nomura said Sora was always destined to wield a Keyblade, but having Ventus made him get one (from Riku) earlier.
Drawing information from canonical sources more important that you think it is. Suppose there's someone in the vast expanse of Internet saying that everything that happens in KH is just in Sora's dream. Would you believe it?
This is not even comparable because that claim didn't come from an official material.
That claim is of questionable validity, I'll tell you that, and so is Mobile because it has never been stated as a canonical, official game. It's only that it bears the banner of Kingdom Hearts.
It was released by Square Enix, therefore it's official, even if non-canon. Not official would be something fan-made or a random employee making it without the company's involvement.
Anyway, even if non-canon, it's still official, therefore the info there is only invalid if it explicitly contradicts the canon games. Would you that "Lionheart is a Keyblade that uses Leon's power" is invalid because it came from
Mobile.
I can also create a KH game set during Xehanort's youth, but would people really use anything, even just a single thing, from my game as basis of their arguments? They won't, because my game is not an approved game.
The fallacy of your argument is due to the fact that you have been mistaken when it comes to what the Soul Eater is classified under. It has been said that Keyblades are swords, which is true, and the Soul Eater is also a sword. However, the umbrella term here is sword instead of Keyblade, so saying that the Soul Eater is a Keyblade because it's a sword is erroneous. That's what you seem to be implying, considering you kept bringing up the fact that the Oathkeeper and Way to the Dawn are swords, too; it sounds like your claim is that because Keyblades are swords, then the Soul Eater is a Keyblade because it, just like the other two examples, is a sword.
No, the Umbrella is a Keyblade.
And you seem to be missing my point. I used that because Anagram was claiming a Keyblade is not a sword, when not only does the game refer to two Keyblades as swords, but Xigbar calls the Keyblade a "key-shaped sword" or "key-type sword" depending on what translation you prefer. Ergo, Keyblades are explicitly a type of sword.
By the way, I won't be able to post frequently in this thread, because I'll be busy starting tomorrow.