The way he chose Terra right away after meeting him for the first time is, in my opinion, not "random", but indeed without more information, we can't really figure it out. Though he went to GREAT length just to get him. And since he was able to bring back a younger self, I really doubt it's the only thing he wanted from Terra. (Especially since the older Xehanort is still around)
I guess he just wanted to make Terra his vessel in the meanwhile, and turn him into a clone after the split (to create Xemnas).
From what I took from the Xehanort Reports Xehanort mainly took interest in Terra because he brought forth the best combination of traits Xehanort wanted:
-susceptible to darkness since his lust for power (even when in Terra's case it was out of noble intentions).
-strong body with much physical power (Xehanort dismissed Ventus as useable vessel because the boy was 1st too kind-hearted and gentle and 2nd because his body was to frail to be of use for Xehanort, as Ven is more skinny and his slender body is more suited for acrobatics and swift movements, not for power).
-young enough to grant him a much longer lifespan.
-somewhat overly trusting and afraid to lose.
From what I got in DDD the younger Xehanort won't be able to stay since he has to return to his own time, and Xehanort possessing himself would really be weird, rofl.
I guess she could have done something but in the end she stills ends up on the beach, so she can speak to Ansem. Besides the castle there's not much for her to visit.. Unless she could somehow visit worlds that fell into the darkness ? (KH1)
That's still much more than Ventus can do though, and we don't get any elaboration on Aqua's parts in DDD either.
I just brought this up in comparison to Terra.
That's not what I meant, I meant Ven would return with Roxas' experience and memories, and their hearts being similar wouldn't have made much of a difference. But yeah I guess I'm wrong.
I just hate this "Sora doubles" nonsense (cause there's also Xion) and I wasn't looking forward to having two identical looking characters. And if Roxas comes back with his own body, that means Naminé might too.... It just seems complicated.
And of course, as of now, there's no way to heal Ven. (maybe Roxas will agree to share his heart with Ven ?)
I was just looking for solutions, but since we have two identical looking characters, one missing a heart, one missing a body... It just seemed like a "simple" way.
I did understand the vibe behind it, but it still won't solve anything. Also since Ventus has no right to have Roxas' experience and memories, they belong to him and not to Ven.
Similar =/= the same. Sora and Ven are also similar.
Don't tell me you're also one of those who just has problems with Roxas and Ven looking the same? These two are so different character-wise it already hurts.
With Xion it's the same, reducing them just to "Sora and Ven" doesn't do them justice, they each have their very own personality and charme which makes them very different from Sora and Ven character-wise.
While there is a possibility of this, since Nomura said that Data-Sora saying thanks to Naminé in Coded doesn't really count because it didn't happen in the real world, if this happens they would have to explain
where the own bodies for them then come from.
I would personally be very happy if Roxas, Naminé and Xion would get their freedom after all they have been through, especially since Roxas was always wishing to be his own person. But that's personal opinion and I won't start to bitch around if they decide to solve it somehow otherwise.
It isn't really much of a problem if i.e. Sora agrees to support Ven's heart long enough so it can be reasonably formed again or some help from Kairi or the other Princesses of Heart. Nomura has many opportunities open for such a thing.
Ven isn't missing a heart, his heart is just injured, and if it can be nursed back to health it will someday be strong enough to be put back in its body and fully form again by itself from there.
Identical looks doesn't mean you just can put the characters together, rofl.
I didn't look at it this way, it's interesting. Though it would make things... a little bit too easy ? Or I guess it requires special "things" (that would be the first main quests of KH 3, to get those who are lost). Yeah I can see that working, first saving them, then fighting the darknesses. Though Terra might not be "out of this world" if Xehanort considers him on his side, but if he can't be saved by Sora he'll probably save himself. As for Aqua, she did not loose "herself", she just ended up in the dark realm, I wonder if she is considered "sleeping".
We can't say much about this as long as the second part of the normal ending with Ansem and Riku isn't translated and we don't know what more information might be hidden throughout the whole storyline of DDD.
It was said by Nomura that the things that Naminé did in Coded (informing about the tormented ones) and Ansem's Data (in DDD) wil eventually lead to saving the tormented ones and that will be in KH III.
So yes, actually saving them will be a big point of KH III.
"Terra" has surely "dissappeared" from the world since he's not exactly in control of himself atm and Aqua also "disappeared" into the Realm of Darkness.
With "the world" they are usually talking about the Realm of Light. Even Riku in Chain of Memories when he came out of the RoD into Castle Oblivion was essentially "born by sleep".
I guess I just give you Nomura's exact wording:
(on a funny side note, the people "calling out" for Sora to save him are exactly seven, Naminé, Xion, Roxas, Terra, Ven, Aqua and Ansem the Wise, just like there are seven keyholes of sleep in DDD).
-- Ansem the Wise says to Aqua “Everything is born from sleep.” What does this mean?
Nomura : In that scene the ones who are calling for “Sora” are the ones who have already disappeared from the world. But in the world of KH there is no concept of death, that for example they are just sleeping within Sora’s heart. If you can just wake them up, they’ll be able to return to the world, they would be “born from sleep”. That there would be a possibility of this, is what Ansem the Wise is saying. Even Aqua, who isn’t in the realm of light, would be born from sleep.
-- In that case, do the characters we see in that scene have a chance of returning?
Nomura : Yes. The data that Ansem has hidden within Sora is the secret to that revival. When Ansem had become DiZ, and studied the heart and emotions, the results he found he hid within Sora. There are a lot of people who thought that Coded was about finding those results, but that’s not true. The ending of Coded was about finding out that DiZ had done something to Sora, as Namine said, finding out about the data that Ansem hid. What that data is will be revealed in the next game. Two more games aside from KHIII are in the works.
That's the first thing I wanted to check out ! He's using Xehanort's keyblade, so obviously he became evil again, but he's refusing to call himself Xehanort, which means it's a little more complicated.
I guess Nomura will show us more in a future game, about what happened inside this Xehanort.
As for Xemnas, he's indeed not Terra, but that doesn't mean Terra didn't stop him from doing things (like using the keyblade), who knows.
It could also be that he's using Xehanort's blade because Terra's is stuck with the Lingering Sentiment at the KG for whatever reason.
He doesn't call himself "Xehanort" either because he already
became Ansem, Seeker of Darkness or it is mainly the throwback to KH 1 and 2 where he stole Ansem the Wise's name.
Whatever happens there are still things left to be unraveled. Either in KH III itself or if it will exist the last, ominous mystery game which will fill gaps in the whole timeline from the end of BBS to DDD.
Another possibility I won't rule out, yet the total lack of information makes theorizing difficult.
Oh it would, but from what I read they decided to go "alternate timelines" (meaning "our" timeline is not altered and they can get anybody anywhere without caring about the consequences...), which is kind of a cop out since yeah it makes things a little bit too easy, but at least it stays coherent.
It could nonetheless have been explained easier, like i.e. that the consciousnesses/senses of self of defeated/disapperared beings (like Ansem SoD, Xemnas or Vanitas) end up in the Realm of Sleep. Would have explained their apperarance there distinctively easier than Time travel goo.
Different timelines make it somewhat easier, but require more flowcharts to keep track of things, lol.
Yeah it was his only mistake in BBS, understimating Terra and thinking he could consume him. Thanks to Aqua, Terra almost took over Xehanort before he sealed their hearts.
Another one was him not expecting Aqua even to survive this long or Ventus destroying his own heart a second time to foil him.
The bitter irony is that each of the BBS Trio did what they did in order to save the other two and in the end they got all badly screwed over.
They managed to derail most of Xehanort's first scheme, but couldn't stop him for good.
Oh thanks, I didn't get that. So maybe Riku has a "Terra phase" in his story and it's not seen on youtube yet ?
Like I said, I don't have a clue yet, but I won't rule out the possibility of there at least being a hint dropped.