No issue.
Not really, but what bothers me more is some people often overlooking the actual crap the Organisation was pulling by abducting countless hearts and messing up the worlds because they're too head over heels in giving them sympathy.
Yes, they aren't complete monsters like Xehanort, that's a no-brainer, but they're in no way as sympathetic as some fans make them out to be, especially not when compared to suffering characters who actually did nothing wrong at all.
Obvious exceptions are of course Roxas and Xion, they were just used as tools all the time and stand on the same level as the BBS-Trio regarding actual deserving pity and empathy.
I always thought that the Emblems can multiply just like the Purebloods can, only by capturing the hearts and turning them into a new Emblem instead of consuming it like Purebloods do.
That fits, as this bit from Xemnas
suggests that they were deliberately working towards people losing their own sense of self, and therefore the heart. Xehanort and Xemnas were looking into a way to "produce" vessels, as both ways would work to Xehanort's advantage:
If the heart in question is strong enough to endure, but can be influenced by the darkness, Xehanort could infect the original person, if it isn't the heart is lost and a Nobody may be born, which Xehanort can also try to infect.
Considering how long he prepared in both the original Organisation's case and Sora's case in DDD I tend to assume that Xehanort only plants a heart seed if he really sees some odds for success, so he won't assign a heart piece to every experiment he tries out.
It's the only indicator we have so far on the topic of how Emblems multiply though-
True, they only thing we do know is that they lost their hearts in an experiment and that they were (arguably) willingly tossing their hearts away FOR SCIENCE, lol.
It is of course only a chain of interpretation, as them being Emblems would fit several points neatly together:
1. Them being revived at the same time suggests their hearts were released at the same time, hinting at the artificial KH.
2. The Emblems were results of Apprentice Xehanort's experiments, the apprentices took part in those experiments
3. Purebloods don't release hearts, so if they were Purebloods and Sora/Roxas/Mickey/Riku didn't
coincidentally slew all their Heartless at the same time, why did they come back all at the same time despite their Nobodies being offed with several months of gap between them?
I think this explanation is actually pretty good, the only piece missing is how the heart the Emblem "eats" would result in another Emblem being born since that's the indicaton how the Emblems multiply.
Exactly.
I don't think the type of Heartless is important on the matter if a Nobody is born or not, that hinges solely on how strong the heart that is lost was.
Correct, that doesn't add up except if Xehanort is such a poser that he wanted to deliberately show off towards Braig and put his Keyblade away for a "wham effect".
Judging by Braig's reaction though it comes over to me more like they were in the middle of one of their experiments (Braig was also standing at the computer with his hands on the keyboard) and what happens to Even and Ienzo is a result of that.
Braig seems to be a tad surprised by the outcome, he turns around, sees Even and Ienzo fading and then turns towards Apprentice Xehanort, who was most likely standing aside overseeing the experiment, asking: "Is
this how you wanted it? Xehanort, wanna fill me in?"
Going by this Braig apparently does not know the full extent of what Xehanort actually wants to accomplish with the experiments, but then there's of course the question
why does Xehanort attack him if everything goes according to plan?
Braig already
had the golden eyes and pointed ears, he's a
willing vessel for Xehanort (and probably the only one he has, depending on what Isa's
real stance is), so why go the extra mile and extract Braig's heart (which should already have a Xehanort seed since BBS)?
The mark of heresy I assume is more like a symbol which Xehanort uses to mark
potential candidates, not those he already has infected.
That's a rather interesting thought, as I believe we never got clarification on
how Xemnas was able to direct the released hearts from slain Emblems together and force them to eventually form a KH.