Yes, that's true. And it's not THAT far from how Mickey does things, he usually is pretty slow on giving required information, and seems to forget to mention important details.
Here's something from Re:coded: while Data Riku's in Disney Castle from Datascape, they suddenly hear alarms going off and Riku tells them it's a hacker. It was comfirmed that Pete cut the link to the real World, but did that also mean he was the hacker, too? Until the cinema for Re:coded was made in 2.5 I never caught onto who cut the link, and my later guess was Xehanort, or someone with relation to him was hacking into the datascape's secrets. That would explain why M. Xehanort has this information in DDD, right? But, I suppose Maleficent could've just as easily passed on anything she discovered inside to him. I guess how Xehanort is able to know even Sora's deepest hidden secrets...that's another mystery.
You say Data Sora ACTUALLY gained a real heart of his own? I was trying to follow when Mickey started telling himnabout his new power and stuff, but I wasn't absolutely sure about him having a heart. If Xehanort knows so much, then why couldn't he belive data can hold hearts, as he stated it couldn't clearly in the Grid to Sora in DDD. Was this passed something his understanding could grasp, or was he trying to be deceicive there?
*coughs* Reminds me of Eraqus not telling Aqua that it's kinda more important to bring Ventus back than to look after Terra. *coughs*
I'd just agree that Micky underestimated the power of Xehanort and thought the rest of the information could wait until the end of the MoM.
To Eraqus, both were equally important though as he sees both Terra and Ven as "surrogate sons" of a sort.
If one is honest though anyone seems to have underestimated Xehanort's power. Even Yen Sid freaks out once he learns the true extent of his plans and not even Xehanort's closest accomplices, Braig and his own younger self, know exactly what's going on.
That may be, but even without Xehanort, Ventus was a "threat" and Eraqus knew that. Wasn't that why Ven wasn't allowed to leave in the first place?
By the way, did Eraqus know about Vanitas? I'm just curious on that one.
I don't get from where you got the notion that Ventus was a "threat"?
The reason Ventus wasn't allowed to leave was because he was too young (in Eraqus' eyes). The assertion that Ven wasn't allowed to leave because of him being a potential X-blade ingredient was a lie told by Master Xehanort in order to turn Ven against Eraqus and provoke the situation that would eventually culminate in Terra battling Eraqus.
Master Xehanort set the whole thing up, that's why he immediately called out to Terra afterwards and told him about "the fury" in Ven's eyes before sending him to LoD to confront Eraqus.
Eraqus wanted protect him from danger because he cared deeply for Ven.
His lack of knowing Xehanort was finally initiating his plans made him more...lenient than he usually would have been.
Exactly. On top of all this comes that after Xehanort brought Ven to his care four years ago and seemed truly remorseful for what he tried to do, Eraqus apparently was willing to give his former friend the benefit of the doubt and believed that Xehanort truly changed.
Too bad that Xehanort can be one hell of an convincing actor and "keep up appearances". Terra got hit with it also pretty hard.
That doesn't explain why Eraqus tried to seal Ven's heart away (ie kill him) when Ven found out about the whole X-Blade plot. He stated this was to prevent the thing from being created, as it "has no place in this world."
In this situation Eraqus was acting on desperation and fear. As I stated above, it is pretty likely that Eraqus believed Xehanort had abandoned his ambitions for the X-blade after offering Ven into his care four years ago and seemed to be remorseful for what he did.
When Ventus came back to him knowing about the whole X-blade stuff, Eraqus realized that it was Xehanort who told him and that he did not give up his ambitions at all. Eraqus then also realized that Xehanort was already quite far ahead in pursuing this plan and decided to act rather than think.
While it is definitely morally wrong to attack Ventus (which he also soon after realized), Eraqus was certainly not acting out of malice, but out of desperation.
All of Birth By Sleep is one big lesson in why people shouldn't jump to conclusions or be hasty.
Now that you mention it, despite the official theme being "destiny is never left to chance", BBS as a whole
does have the theme of bad things happening because people act rashly without thinking:
- Terra immediately draws his Keyblade when he sees Unversed appearing while still standing directly beside Snow White, inadvertently scaring her and causing the misconception that he send the monsters after her (this is later talked about in Ven's story).
- The dwarves immediately accusing Ventus of ill intent despite only seeing him for the first time as well as continuing to stubbornly antagonize him.
- Aqua constantly jumping to conclusions about Terra in zig-zaggy motions whenever she hears either positive or negative things about him.
- both Terra and Aqua acting rashly on emotional whims during the reunion at Radiant Garden instead of both listening to each others explanations.
- Ventus jumping to conclusions that Aqua's intent in Radiant Garden is "awful" and mean without actually considering the bigger picture.
- Terra guarding Hook's loot and fighting Peter Pan instead of hearing out his side first (to his credit, he acknowledges later that he picked a fight over nothing).
- Eraqus' actions towards both Ven and Terra that have been cited already so often.
These are only the instances I can think of on a whim. I'm pretty sure there are several more instances in BBS where characters act rashly.
Hmm. Maybe Eraqus was also so afraid of the X-Blade to be forged, because his and Xehanorts Master kept telling them how horrifying the Keyblade War was? It seems that their Master loved to tell that story quite often. Also nobody really wants a doomsday weapon to be made, well expect if you are Xehanort.
It's pretty likely that this plays into it as well.
It is implied that Eraqus knows quite a bit more about the whole legend of the first Keyblade War than he lets on. Xehanort even calls him out on it in the first snippet we got about the conversation between Young Eraqus and Young Xehanort.
He also says this to Xehanort in the flashback in BBS:
Eraqus said:
Wait, Xehanort. There is a reason the precepts bar us from such knowledge. Why do you seek the X-blade? Would you blanket all the worlds in darkness, reduce them to nothing!?