I never liked that picture of the removed darkness in Ven's heart since it means that Vanitas had the smaller chunk and yet he was able to fully function after the split even though heis heart amount of smaller.
It makes every sense though as Xehanort stated in his reports that Ven was actually
too good-hearted and bright.
Ven's heart
was predominantly light which is reflected correctly in the awakening platform.
It also gives credibility again to the notion way back from KH 1: The brighter your light the longer your shadow becomes.
While the part of Ven's heart that was darkness is not particulary
big the darkness
inside that part is pretty deep to outbalance his bright light.
The reason Vanitas was able to function way "better" than Ven's bigger part of the heart was however not the size, it were the circumstances.
Firstly, Ven's heart was already weakened due to heartless-attacks before, then MX
cutting it with his keyblade induced severe trauma (and memory-loss)
and on top of this Vanitas taking much of Ven's remaining energy at his creation practically sealed it.
Despite having the way "bigger" part of the heart Ven's heart was in a way worse shape than Vanitas's.
The size is not really relevant on
that topic.
Not to mention Vanitas's "chunk" of Ven's heart was but the core of the pure heart of darkness that Vanitas formed
after that.
Hence the name of the theory.
Don't think we need to split hairs over that. A twentieth? A hundredth? A millionth? Doesn't really matter when you get past a certain point.
Geez...lol.
That was also not meant entirely serious.
That's all well and good, and we know that these heart-connections can influence appearance, but the problem is that they don't influence the appearance of the correct person as far as we've seen so far.
For instance, it's not as though the connection to Sora affected Ven's appearance. It did however affect Vanitas' appearance. But it's not as though, for example, Braig has some other half of his heart running around whose appearance would be affected through a heart-connection to Xehanort. It's Braig himself who is affected.
That can be quite easily explained though by the fact that newborn Sora's heart put its "hand" on Ven's heart to keep it stable exactly where the chunk was that now is the core of Vanitas's heart as there is still the connection between the two hearts that were once one.
If I recall correctly Vanitas could occassionally feel Ven's mood (makes one wonder though why it didn't work the other way around).
Yeah, in that case since Sora's heart was newborn it was actually the other way around to a degree: Ven affected Sora as Sora
clearly got those sapphire-eyes from Ven.
Goes along with the case of Braig or Isa.
Vanitas is however really a wildcard there in
any combination since he's practically a
third heart involved in the case.
Theorizing that thought further this would actually mean Sora is also connected to Xehanort, through/over Vanitas and Ven.
Actually, in the case of Vanitas, by this logic, wouldn't a heart-connection with MX actually affect Ven's appearance to look more like Xehanort in the same way that Ven's connection to Sora affects Vanitas? Yet that isn't the case.
And then, Ven's connection to Sora may have influenced Sora's appearance (possibly, we don't know), but the equivalent to that in the case of a Xehanort-Vanitas heart-connection would be Vanitas affecting Xehanort's appearance, which we also know isn't the case.
By this Logic, it
should affect Ven but doesn't because the Xehanort-connection to
Ven is an indirect one through Vanitas while Sora's is a direct one. So Sora's takes priority.
It also works the other way around with Vanitas: The indirect connection to Sora gives hairstyle and stuff, but the direct connection with Xehanort takes priority as seen in eye-color.
Another possibility would be that the connection between Xehanort and Vanitas was forged significantly later than Sora/Ven, thus leaving Ven without any Xehanort-trace.
Like said above, as in Ven influencing Sora, the exact same sapphire-eyes are the best indicator (Ven already has them when shown as a kid facing the neo-shadows).
Yeah, there is definitely something iffy though, either because Sora's heart being a newborn one factoring into the equation or because the connection between Vanitas and Xehanort really being another, different type.
I mean, it's possible that they could go in that direction, but I personally think having a piece of Xehanort actually inside of them makes a lot more sense for why they would be physically altered, in the same way (but on a smaller scale) as Terra was physically transformed into Terranort. I don't think it unnecessarily complicates things either because these pieces, as I theorize, come back together upon the death of the seed, so it's not as though Sora and Riku will have to go on a journey to destroy each "Horcrux."
The more I think of it the more sense that makes.
If the connections Xehanort makes are a tad different in nature than Sora's it would add again more into their "similar but not same abilities and total opposites in mentality"-theme they are apparently building up now.
Then Xehanort made a bad move though on keeping his seeds alive, lol, I thought these were made by him in case his possession of Terra fails...if they're "killed" (sent to sleep or whatever) wouldn't that contradict his plans?
All others except Vanitas of course, as having the dark "core" of the X-blade already ready at his hands is surely a boon for Xehanort's plans.
