Hey guys, new member here.
With the announcement of 2.8 I decided to come back and research everything I could get my hands on to get caught up on the story so far and make sense of it.
I want to talk specifically here about the identity of the traitor, because I believe that we were given the information we need for that conclusion at the end of KHX.
I actually would like to call this The No Traitor Theory, as I explain below.
Here's the ending of KHX by Everglow that doesn't cut any scenes out: https://youtu.be/94M8NNNuEdc
I will be quoting the KHX ending almost exclusively.
I'll start with Ava confronting a Black Coat she calls by name. Luxu. [3:44]
Ava: What was written on the Lost Page? Luxu... did you make things this way? Are you the traitor?
*Luxu brandishes Xehablade* (Xehanort's Keyblade. It's a stupid name. I'm sorry.)
Now cut to Player, Chirithy, and Skuld speaking with Gula who is about to tell them about the The Lost Page that he's seen.
Gula: "The one unable to forgive this distastefulness, who thought of fate with pessimism and lost true strength. The one who will misread the truth and step into secrecy..."
I'll be to the point here, this is talking about Ava.
"The one unable to forgive this distastefulness"
Ava refused to knowingly lead her Union towards their deaths. She could not stomach the sacrifice. Even if it was part of the MoM's(Master of Masters) plan for the greater good or maybe just *their* greater good.
"who thought of fate with pessimism and lost true strength.
Ava put together the Dandelions to *unchain* them from their fate: to die in the Keyblade War.
"The one who will misread the truth and step into secrecy..."
Once again, Ava created the Dandelelions in secret from MoM. More on *the truth* in a second.
Jumping back to Ava and Luxu. Ava immediately recognizes Zehablade and Luxu's response is "Yep, that's the true identity of the traitor."
Before we talk about the traitor, there are a couple things we know about the Xehablade. 1) it's been around a long time 2) it gets passed down. We can safely assume here that Zehablade is *NOT* Luxu's keyblade due to Ava's surprise. It was passed down to him.
5 Foretellers were given Tomes, but Luxu got left out. Wanna guess what he was given instead? Maybe the Master's Xehablade? We'll have to wait and see on that one.
The scene goes on.
Ava: I can't believe it's true.
Luxu: So that's why you'll listen to destiny and your only option is to fight.
Rather than the future of the world, I wonder if the Master wants to know how we will be guided by the key?
Ava: Choosing us over the world? That can't be!
Luxu you're taking advantage of the Master's will! The Master would never wish for such a thing!
So here is where we start to diferentiate between who exactly has been betrayed. Besides, who the traitor is depends on who is being betrayed, eh?
Ava was fated to bring about the Keyblade War and unknowingly acted as the prophesied Traitor even after Luxu inferred that it was all part of MoM's plan to sacrifice the Keybearers in the Keyblade War. More on this below.
Put simply, Ava was the traitor, but she wasn't betraying other Foretellers. She was betraying MoM and the plan. Gula confirms this below.
Next we jump back to Player and crew with Gula. He says something important.
Gula: The traitor will be the one to end this world.
We have someone we suspect, but in the end we couldn't stop them.
Actually we may have missed the mark.
The Foretellers were trying to catch the traitor to stop the end of the world, but the end of the world and MoM's plan were one in the same. They had suspects, but he doesn't think they were even looking in the right place.
And he's right, because as we've said none of the Foretellers were actually betraying each other. It was MoM being betrayed by Ava who acted as the traitor and initiated the Keyblade War just according to plan.
That's pretty much where we're left until Back Cover.
Going into Back Cover, I think we can expect to get more details on how each Foreteller tried to stop the Keyblade War and how they found the Lost Page or maybe even a bunch of stuff that proves everything I said wrong!
But that's why I love reading into these theories.
Feel free to poke holes and point me in the right direction if anything is really off. I'd love to hear your theories!
I've been a lurker here for a long time and a Kingdom Hearts fan for longer!
Take care.
With the announcement of 2.8 I decided to come back and research everything I could get my hands on to get caught up on the story so far and make sense of it.
I want to talk specifically here about the identity of the traitor, because I believe that we were given the information we need for that conclusion at the end of KHX.
I actually would like to call this The No Traitor Theory, as I explain below.
Here's the ending of KHX by Everglow that doesn't cut any scenes out: https://youtu.be/94M8NNNuEdc
I will be quoting the KHX ending almost exclusively.
I'll start with Ava confronting a Black Coat she calls by name. Luxu. [3:44]
Ava: What was written on the Lost Page? Luxu... did you make things this way? Are you the traitor?
*Luxu brandishes Xehablade* (Xehanort's Keyblade. It's a stupid name. I'm sorry.)
Now cut to Player, Chirithy, and Skuld speaking with Gula who is about to tell them about the The Lost Page that he's seen.
Gula: "The one unable to forgive this distastefulness, who thought of fate with pessimism and lost true strength. The one who will misread the truth and step into secrecy..."
I'll be to the point here, this is talking about Ava.
"The one unable to forgive this distastefulness"
Ava refused to knowingly lead her Union towards their deaths. She could not stomach the sacrifice. Even if it was part of the MoM's(Master of Masters) plan for the greater good or maybe just *their* greater good.
"who thought of fate with pessimism and lost true strength.
Ava put together the Dandelions to *unchain* them from their fate: to die in the Keyblade War.
"The one who will misread the truth and step into secrecy..."
Once again, Ava created the Dandelelions in secret from MoM. More on *the truth* in a second.
Jumping back to Ava and Luxu. Ava immediately recognizes Zehablade and Luxu's response is "Yep, that's the true identity of the traitor."
Before we talk about the traitor, there are a couple things we know about the Xehablade. 1) it's been around a long time 2) it gets passed down. We can safely assume here that Zehablade is *NOT* Luxu's keyblade due to Ava's surprise. It was passed down to him.
5 Foretellers were given Tomes, but Luxu got left out. Wanna guess what he was given instead? Maybe the Master's Xehablade? We'll have to wait and see on that one.
The scene goes on.
Ava: I can't believe it's true.
Luxu: So that's why you'll listen to destiny and your only option is to fight.
Rather than the future of the world, I wonder if the Master wants to know how we will be guided by the key?
Ava: Choosing us over the world? That can't be!
Luxu you're taking advantage of the Master's will! The Master would never wish for such a thing!
So here is where we start to diferentiate between who exactly has been betrayed. Besides, who the traitor is depends on who is being betrayed, eh?
Ava was fated to bring about the Keyblade War and unknowingly acted as the prophesied Traitor even after Luxu inferred that it was all part of MoM's plan to sacrifice the Keybearers in the Keyblade War. More on this below.
Put simply, Ava was the traitor, but she wasn't betraying other Foretellers. She was betraying MoM and the plan. Gula confirms this below.
Next we jump back to Player and crew with Gula. He says something important.
Gula: The traitor will be the one to end this world.
We have someone we suspect, but in the end we couldn't stop them.
Actually we may have missed the mark.
The Foretellers were trying to catch the traitor to stop the end of the world, but the end of the world and MoM's plan were one in the same. They had suspects, but he doesn't think they were even looking in the right place.
And he's right, because as we've said none of the Foretellers were actually betraying each other. It was MoM being betrayed by Ava who acted as the traitor and initiated the Keyblade War just according to plan.
That's pretty much where we're left until Back Cover.
Going into Back Cover, I think we can expect to get more details on how each Foreteller tried to stop the Keyblade War and how they found the Lost Page or maybe even a bunch of stuff that proves everything I said wrong!
But that's why I love reading into these theories.
Feel free to poke holes and point me in the right direction if anything is really off. I'd love to hear your theories!
I've been a lurker here for a long time and a Kingdom Hearts fan for longer!
Take care.