Well,From this, I thought he meant the dark abyss WAS Kingdom Hearts, or in my example, the dark Heartless-esque shell around the True Kingdom Hearts, which is Light. The Door there is the Door that the KoPH unlocks. However, since Kingdom Hearts is more powerful even in it's battered form than half the χ-blade and the PoH, then it can still force the Door open to attempt to communicate, like it tried to contact Sora's Shard(s). That is what I believe.
Keep in mind that your source is XH, the character with undeniably the most disturbing darkness fetish in the series. His bias makes him more unreliable than even KHwiki. Given how the 7 PoH act as substitutes in the RoL for KH, it seems fair to conclude that KH, as an entity, is purely light. I'd go so far as to say that the reason why there are (assumedly) no natural hearts of pure darkness is because all natural hearts have at least some level of light within them, constituting KH's nature as the heart of all worlds.
(off-topic: I might develop a theory involving a pseudo-KH of sorts for cases such as Vanitas.)
The χ-blade isn't the only example of a name change in the series. Terranort changed his name from Xehanort to Ansem, the name his Essence of the Heart would use as well. His Nobody used that name, but added an X and scrambled the letters to make Xemnas. Xemnas then used this same method to rename all the Organization XIII members. Also, Ansem the Wise changed his name to DiZ to hide his identity. It is this example that best fits the χ-blade's renaming.Before the War, when all was peaceful, the weapon's name may have been the Life-blade, on account it protected the source of life, Kingdom Hearts. After the War, the children decided to rename it using the letter χ, which means death. This name change could have been an attempt to limit the desire for the weapon, so that the Keyblade War would not happen again. They banked on everyone fearing such a weapon and having no desire to get it. And it worked for a while. But Xehanort does not fear Darkness, so the name χ-blade didn't stop him from seeking it. If anything, having the name of Death-blade probably enthralled him greater.As for how the name change is relevant to the future: it is probably possible that Xehanort thinks the "Death-blade" will allow him to defeat anyone who tries to fight him. If the χ-blade's purpose is to actually protect life, it may not work at all for him, leading to his downfall.
In the KH universe, a special name reflects that person's purpose and nature. In that sense, you have credibility. However, I would argue that the concept goes deeper. In regards to purpose and nature, those traits usually reflect the central themes of the series in some form or another.
Braig to Xigbar:
1. Represents the difference in nature between the two, specifically how Braig feels emotions. That, by extension, reflects how emotions (and, by extension, hearts) define who someone is.
2. Represents Xehanort's influence over Braig. In turn, that reflects the theme of losing yourself.
AtW to DiZ: Given that he lost his identity, "Darkness in Zero" reflects how his anger and hatred are all that's left of him that defines who he is. And that he's in the Realm of In-between.
Xehanort to Ansem: Gonna be honest. Even though I still feel like there's still some unknown meaning, I don't know how to elaborate on this one.
Well, a minimum of 3/4 is good enough for me to call "meanings relevant to established themes" an established pattern.
Adding to past events to reveal a plot device is not a stranger to the series. See: Xion in 358/2 Days, the entirety of BBS (especially the Terra-Xehanort business), multiple keyblade wielders throughout the series, and time travel in DDD.Also, they at least knew 13 was going to be an important number back then. There are 13 explorable worlds in KH1: Destiny Islands, Traverse Town, Wonderland, Olympus Colliseum, Deep Jungle, Agrabah, Hundred Acre Wood, Monstro, Atlantica, Halloween Town. Neverland, Hollow Bastion, and The End of the World. Plus, I think there were 13 Ansem Reports in the game (correct me if I'm wrong). Also, obviously, the 7 PoH. Then in CoM: 13 floors for Sora, 13 floors for Riku. 7 Nobodies in the castle during the game (Naminé, Vexen, Lexeaus, Zexion, Axel, Larxene, and Marluxia).It seems like they knew that both 7 and 13 were going to be important throughout the series.
Accidental additions to the canon universe do indeed happen. Case in point, Riku passing his keyblade to Roxas. However, the key word is
accidental. Meaning, it's essentially useless to predict them happening if such concepts haven't probably even been elaborated upon. Given how KH1 clearly revolved around KH lore's early and undeveloped days, it's even more unlikely that a correlation between KH and the shards in that manner could be safely established, given the integrity of that example (as in, it could potentially relate to/affect several natural laws in the KH universe).
Also, I was talking more so about the "7 lights/13 darknesses" concept rather than the numbers in general.
They could very well be protecting all of the people. I just felt that Shards of Darkness would focus more on the dark citizens. Maybe the theory could be changed to them protecting the general people.
The question isn't so much "what is the reason" as it is "why would the reason even relate to such and such in the first place."
.As for why Shards would protect common people, all hearts are connected to Kingdom Hearts. If all hearts are overun by Darkness, Kingdom Hearts will be too. Which is exactly what hapened.
Yes and no. KH resides in the RoD because of the birth of darkness in peoples' hearts. However, even though KH is the heart of everything, that does not mean that it's a literal reflection.
Here's a clearer example. I may not know your religious beliefs, but I'm sure you have fair knowledge over the Christian God (mainly that he's both all-knowing and all-powerful). "God" knows what it's like to be imperfect and to have weaknesses, because he understands through humans. However, given that he's all-powerful, he
isn't imperfect or have any weaknesses, even though he knows what it is like.
Paradox. Contradiction. Incomprehensible. Call it whatever you want. Case in point, it's a fair comparison, if I may say so myself.
Yes, the χ-blade shattering led to the Darkness corrupting Kingdom Hearts, destroying the World. But, it is possible the War continued for a short time over the Shards, resulting in Darkness entering everyone's hearts, which are connected to Kingdom Hearts. Since they fell to Darkness, KH did the same.Otherwise, how would anyone, including Xehanort, know the number of Shards, especially the Dark ones? If the χ-blade shattered and the World instantly fell to Darkness, how would anyone know the number of Shards? You could argue that Xehanort was told about it by the Dark Shards themselves (if they can be said to speak), but then how would Eraqus and Yen Sid know?It's more likely that the last leg of the War was over the Shards. Thus, by the end of it, everyone knew about them, including the surviving children. These children kept the information in case it was needed, but kept it relatively secret (ie, told only Keyblade Masters).
If KH being summoned results in the reunion of all worlds, it's fair to say that KH's absence altogether results in the separation of all worlds, as well. Furthermore, the entire reason behind the separation of worlds was to prevent the chaos that resulted from the clashing of forces of all kinds. Taking those two points into consideration, we can reason that the destruction of the X-Blade, the separation of worlds, and the departure of KH are all codependent effects (for lack of better wording) that happened at the same time.
In regards to knowledge, well. We can argue why at least some people know of the existence of the Keyblade of Peoples' Heart, the existence of the X-Blade itself, etc. Moral of the story, it's pretty rare to find a case where the fact that someone/people having knowledge over a certain subject actually means something.
Also, as you can see by me changing the Shards of Darkness' purpose from specifically protecting the dark citizens to protecting all the people, I am willing to change the theory to reflect new info. This thread will act like a large-sized puzzle. Place the pieces together, then if they fit better somewhere else, move them. Or if they don't go to the same puzzle, remove them.Happy theorizing!
BITCH, I've been theorizing for a few years now, if it wasn't obvious in the first place. Clearly, I'm going to be familiar with the nature of theorizing, lolol
Not saying that I'm offended or anything, of course. You'll just find that I'm one of the last people you'll have to remind the joys of theorizing, given how I've given my fair share of theories and critique on this site (and still continuing <33). Given the decent quality of your current knowledge over KH lore, and assuming you can walk your talk over your love for theorizing, I'm open to the idea of you earning some rep in the future.
