What Happened To "Braig"

[Face My Fears]

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At the end of the game, we find out that Xigbar is actually Luxu who has been body jumping for years. Without a keyblade, how does Luxu do it and what is the process? As we saw with Master Xehanort and Terra, it's not exactly an easy or "complete" process, yet somehow it looks like Luxu was able to completely erase Braig from existence.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[Oracle Spockanort]

Likely when Luxu body-snatches, he completely takes over the body and forces the original heart out.

 

[Zettaflare]

Kind of crazy to realize that the "Braig" we knew since KH2 never actually existed. It was someone else the entire time. Makes me wonder what he was like before Luxu stole his body.

 

[Twilight Lumiair]

It's not something I really expect us to get a proper answer to, but I think it's like Oracle said in that he forced the original Braig's heart out completely (which would lead to that heart to either return to KH, or become a heartless) or he simply suppressed his heart down to complete silence (like Roxas, Ventus, and Xion were inside Sora according to Ienzo). As for how he did this, well.... Yeah, I honestly can't come up with a good answer. My best guess would be used some kind of hax ancient magic known only to people from the age of fairytales, or perhaps it was just some generic darkness ability?

 

[disney233]

OK, OKAY, FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THIS. Because this WHOLE thing reminds me of something in Phoenix Wright. Ima put a spoilers in case you guys don't want to hear this. Disregard this post if you know NOTHING about Ace Attorney.

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OK, So.....


This man...is Bobby Fulbright. Now, I haven't played any Ace Attorney games, but I've been following them, and Dual Destinies has been my all time favorite one....even though it's my only one that I've been consistently watching. Now, in the final case, there has been a Phantom throughout the game that has pulled in this 'Dark Age of the Law.' and the Phantom has done a cataclysm of things making an impact to the characters in the game. Soon enough near the end of the game we find out that Bobby Fulbright.....wasn't Bobby Fulbright. The Phantom, the government spy killed the real Bobby Fulbright and took on his entire identity. This WHOLE thing, the theory of Luxu body-snatching or even killing the real Braig to take on his identity reminded me...of this. (I know that I got most if not all of the storyplot in Dual Destinies wrong here...so...I tried. I felt this just really gave me this relation idea.)

 

[Face My Fears]

Kind of crazy to realize that the "Braig" we knew since KH2 never actually existed. It was someone else the entire time. Makes me wonder what he was like before Luxu stole his body.

I wonder what the real Braig was like as well.

What makes me even more curious about the method is that it would appear he knew Xehanort's method of body snatching wasn't effective. He asked Terranort if he was Terra or Xehanort to confirm.

How would Luxu go about snatching people's bodies so easily without a keyblade? Did the Master of Masters do it for him? He must have known Luxu couldn't have stayed alive until the next Keyblade War so many years into the future.

 

[okhi12]

Luxu could have used another keyblade to release his heart that he deliberately didn't use after becoming not-Braig, or he could have used the No Name whithout Xehanort noticing. Roxas and Sora used the same Keyblade at the same time for a good part of Chain of Memories and 358/2 Days and Sora wasn't aware that he was sharing it, so there's that. Same for Roxas and Xion. And by the end of KH3

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Xion has become her own person and she still uses the Kingdom Key, Roxas uses his dual keyblades and Sora and Ventus retain their keyblades. That means that Sora's keyblade is being used by three people (Sora, Xion and one of the two Roxas uses; and Ventus' is used by himself and Roxas. Unless the replica guys gained keyblades of their own (because why not?) of course. And Terranort uses Xehanort's keyblade before Terra is restored at the same time master Xehanort owns it, although he is technically half Terra half Xehanort

By this point the rules of how the keyblades work and how they can be owned make no sense, so Luxu using one despite having bequeathed his a long time ago is not that strange. The series make it clear that you can either bequeath a keyblade or the power to wield one (without explaining if these are different things or the same) but if you are still alive by then you can keep the possession of a keyblade and your chosen successor has one as well, like Terra and Riku.
That's the thing with keyblades, there are as many as people able to wield them and they have no problem with materializing anywere and anytime, which is why nowadays everyone wields one. I remember Nomura explaining the way to dawn's origins. ''You can not materialize a keyblade out of thin air, so in Riku's case the soul eater was used as an intermediary''. Yeah...suuuure you cannot materialize them out of thin air. And let's not forget about Yen Sid and his unlimited supply of keyblades to replace broken ones for Riku or fuse/reforge them for Mickey. How convenient, haha.

 

[maryadavies]

There may be even a method that originates in XIV he could do it too:

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The Echo, if "mastered" in a specific way, allows people to take over other people with ease by giving up their body and entering someone else's. What if Luxu had such a ability? (Naturally in XIV the Warrior of Light doesn't do this.)

If our fine director has been working on XIV, I wouldn't be surprised if he borrowed that idea.