In this theory, I ponder weird occurrences I’ve started to notice between Young Xehanort and Xigbar while chatting with my pals.
First meeting:
The first time we see Xigbar and Young Xehanort together is in the Re:Coded secret ending. Xigbar unconvincingly tells Young Xehanort how scary Xehanort/Keyblade wielders are. Xigbar wonders if Young Xehanort knows what Master Xehanort wants or what he’s planning (which apparently he doesn’t). Young Xehanort proceeds to mansplain the keyblade to Xigbar. Xigbar who is Luxu who was one of the OGs
There’s nothing super revealing in this scene even knowing that Xigbar is Luxu. It’s just hilarious that Xehanort is telling the history of MoM’s keyblade to Luxu of all people and how obvious it is that he’s putting on an act.
“Find the hearts joined to yoursâ€:
To my knowledge, only Xigbar and Young Xehanort have told Sora to do this. None of the rest of the org members seem to care about Sora THAT much. They want him to fall to darkness, sure, but that was so he’d be a useful vessel. Whether it was him or Roxas. After some point, they obviously gave up on that though.
Why only these two? HmmmMmMmmmmm
“There’s no saving you. -insert young Xehanort’s crazy face during the final battleâ€
Although XIgbar only tells Sora to find the hearts joined to his once, Young Xehanort does it at LEAST twice. Once during Toy Story when his tone is low and… helpful? And again when Sora has finished saving everyone and ends up in Big Hero 6. Sora even antagonizes Xehanort and asks why he cares, but Xehanort plays it off smugly and nonchalantly.
Finally, when he’s defeated during the final battle, there’s no sad goodbyes. He’s… ecstatic that Sora’s time in this world is done.
At this point, I think Young Xehanort knew more about Sora than even Master Xehanort did. Like, maybe Xigbar used Young Xehanort to his own ends, even more than he sorta used Master Xehanort? But.. for what?
Why did these two drop hints that Sora would do anything to save his friends, encourage him to do so, and then taunt him that he did just that? I feel like it was intentional and separate from whatever Master Xehanort was doing.
“There are 7 hearts you must save.â€
At the beginning of the game, there is a disembodied voice that tells Sora he must save 7 hearts. By my calculations, I think that is:
Mickey, Aqua, Ven, Riku, Donald, Goofy, Lea. That makes 7. We didn’t meet 7 Princesses this game so it can’t be them.
There are people he needed to save in a different way (Aqua, Ven, Terra, Roxas, Xion), but that’s only 5 people.
There’s also the whole situation with Kairi that is sorta a beast of it’s own, so right now, I choose to believe Mickey, Aqua, Ven, Riku, Donald, Goofy, and Lea were the 7 the voice spoke of.
Interestingly enough, when Young Xehanort was dying, he seemed already convinced that Sora would soon die. Did he assume that because Sora was already going to die after saving his 7 pals? Or did Young Xehanort know that Sora would pull the final trigger and save Kairi even though she wasn’t dead yet? How would Young Xehanort know he’d do that?
“No. This’ll take all my heart.â€
Sora says this right before he starts diving to save his 7 pals. This leads me to believe even after returning and resetting everything to before Terranort wiped them out, Sora was destined to ‘die’. It was only a matter of time. That would account for Young Xehanort showing up in Big Hero 6 acting so smug and why he was even smugger after he was defeated.
Sora was always going to fade away. Saving Kairi possibly sped up the process. But he might’ve already been doomed.
Conclusion:
Someway, somehow, it was part of Xigbar’s intentions that Sora go through all of this and fade away. Xigbar’s plans with Sora were a step above whatever Xehanort was planning. Maybe?
Xigbar recruited Young Xehanort to assist in this greater priority task. I doubt he told Young Xehanort too much or who he really was. As always, Xigbar just played along and acted like a second fiddle.
This leads me also to the secret ending. “Yozoraâ€. I’m almost positive that MoM is the one who goofily holds his hands up to the moon at the very end. If that’s the case, he is also in the TWEWY place. Right? For what reason?
Is he waiting for Sora to show up there? That’d be interesting.
Alright. Those are all my thoughts.
First meeting:
The first time we see Xigbar and Young Xehanort together is in the Re:Coded secret ending. Xigbar unconvincingly tells Young Xehanort how scary Xehanort/Keyblade wielders are. Xigbar wonders if Young Xehanort knows what Master Xehanort wants or what he’s planning (which apparently he doesn’t). Young Xehanort proceeds to mansplain the keyblade to Xigbar. Xigbar who is Luxu who was one of the OGs
There’s nothing super revealing in this scene even knowing that Xigbar is Luxu. It’s just hilarious that Xehanort is telling the history of MoM’s keyblade to Luxu of all people and how obvious it is that he’s putting on an act.
“Find the hearts joined to yoursâ€:
To my knowledge, only Xigbar and Young Xehanort have told Sora to do this. None of the rest of the org members seem to care about Sora THAT much. They want him to fall to darkness, sure, but that was so he’d be a useful vessel. Whether it was him or Roxas. After some point, they obviously gave up on that though.
Why only these two? HmmmMmMmmmmm
“There’s no saving you. -insert young Xehanort’s crazy face during the final battleâ€
Although XIgbar only tells Sora to find the hearts joined to his once, Young Xehanort does it at LEAST twice. Once during Toy Story when his tone is low and… helpful? And again when Sora has finished saving everyone and ends up in Big Hero 6. Sora even antagonizes Xehanort and asks why he cares, but Xehanort plays it off smugly and nonchalantly.
Finally, when he’s defeated during the final battle, there’s no sad goodbyes. He’s… ecstatic that Sora’s time in this world is done.
At this point, I think Young Xehanort knew more about Sora than even Master Xehanort did. Like, maybe Xigbar used Young Xehanort to his own ends, even more than he sorta used Master Xehanort? But.. for what?
Why did these two drop hints that Sora would do anything to save his friends, encourage him to do so, and then taunt him that he did just that? I feel like it was intentional and separate from whatever Master Xehanort was doing.
“There are 7 hearts you must save.â€
At the beginning of the game, there is a disembodied voice that tells Sora he must save 7 hearts. By my calculations, I think that is:
Mickey, Aqua, Ven, Riku, Donald, Goofy, Lea. That makes 7. We didn’t meet 7 Princesses this game so it can’t be them.
There are people he needed to save in a different way (Aqua, Ven, Terra, Roxas, Xion), but that’s only 5 people.
There’s also the whole situation with Kairi that is sorta a beast of it’s own, so right now, I choose to believe Mickey, Aqua, Ven, Riku, Donald, Goofy, and Lea were the 7 the voice spoke of.
Interestingly enough, when Young Xehanort was dying, he seemed already convinced that Sora would soon die. Did he assume that because Sora was already going to die after saving his 7 pals? Or did Young Xehanort know that Sora would pull the final trigger and save Kairi even though she wasn’t dead yet? How would Young Xehanort know he’d do that?
“No. This’ll take all my heart.â€
Sora says this right before he starts diving to save his 7 pals. This leads me to believe even after returning and resetting everything to before Terranort wiped them out, Sora was destined to ‘die’. It was only a matter of time. That would account for Young Xehanort showing up in Big Hero 6 acting so smug and why he was even smugger after he was defeated.
Sora was always going to fade away. Saving Kairi possibly sped up the process. But he might’ve already been doomed.
Conclusion:
Someway, somehow, it was part of Xigbar’s intentions that Sora go through all of this and fade away. Xigbar’s plans with Sora were a step above whatever Xehanort was planning. Maybe?
Xigbar recruited Young Xehanort to assist in this greater priority task. I doubt he told Young Xehanort too much or who he really was. As always, Xigbar just played along and acted like a second fiddle.
This leads me also to the secret ending. “Yozoraâ€. I’m almost positive that MoM is the one who goofily holds his hands up to the moon at the very end. If that’s the case, he is also in the TWEWY place. Right? For what reason?
Is he waiting for Sora to show up there? That’d be interesting.
Alright. Those are all my thoughts.