Xion and Roxas' Keyblades

[Face My Fears]

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So after Xion and Roxas are revived, we see them both with keyblades in battle. Roxas is dual-wielding (Oblivion and Oathkeeper) and Xion is using the Kingdom Key.

Is there any explanation HOW they can use those keyblades? Roxas' keyblades were originally Sora's and Ven's. Xion's keyblade was also Sora's. With both Sora and Ven fully formed at the time of that battle, how can they use those keyblades? Did Roxas get two keyblades and Xion get her own?

 

[Divine Past]

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Maybe Roxas only has 1 keyblade but due to a special keyblade transformation he can wield 2/

 

[Zettaflare]

Honestly I think Nomura may have just forgotten that little detail
Either that or he retconned it so that Roxas kept the ability to dual wield with just one heart

 

[Squood!]

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Dumb Headcanon: Roxas's heart is so strong that he's worthy of two keyblades.

 

[alexis.anagram]

I'm pretty sure Roxas has another heart inside of him (Mystery Girl X) and that'll become a plot point in the next game. Could be wrong, could just be Nomura BS, but it lines up with Nomura's statement that Roxas is a "big secret" and stuff-- I don't think he necessarily meant the circumstances of Roxas's revival, but something about Roxas himself.

As for how and why these Keyblades can be wielded even though they "belong" to others, it's been an established trend throughout the series that the same Keyblade can be wielded by multiple users at the same time because ~magic~. Sora and Roxas wield the same Key for a period of time prior to Sora going to sleep at the end of CoM, and then obviously Roxas and Xion share the same Key during the events of Days, and there's no clear limit given on how many and under what circumstances one Keyblade can be wielded by multiple people. Roxas could very well have Sora's Keyblade for one of his, Xion could also have Sora's, and Sora could have Sora's, and then Roxas's other Keyblade could be Ven's while Ven is also wielding his own. The Keyblade is not physical, it's metaphysical, so asking how it can be in more than one place at the same time is kind of like asking where it goes when Sora doesn't have it summoned into his hand. It's ethereal...~magic~

Given how unclear it is what was going on with Xion's return, though, I do find that case pretty iffy. Unless the Org. just used the exact same data to do a perfect recreation of her replica, which is possible but then it makes the entire foreshadowing plot about investigating methods of placing hearts into different kinds of vessels, which is generally assumed to play into Xion's reconstruction, totally pointless. But, there's your KH3 for you. Dig in.

 

[Ballad of Caius]

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Why would Subject X's heart be inside Roxas', though? Last we read, she was kidnapped by Xigbar/Luxu.

 

[Sakuraba Neku]

Speaking of Xion,

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Was it ever confirmed Xion was the third heart inside Sora's?! Because we only see Ventus' and Roxas' hearts coming out.

 

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Speaking of Xion,

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Was it ever confirmed Xion was the third heart inside Sora's?! Because we only see Ventus' and Roxas' hearts coming out.

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I mean, I think it is. Seeing as how it's stated that Roxas' heart is inside Sora, another one that has been the same time as Roxas', and then the other one that's been for quite some time now.

 

[rac7d]

Honestly I think Nomura may have just forgotten that little detail
Either that or he retconned it so that Roxas kept the ability to dual wield with just one heart

Without that ability roxas becomes sora/xion its his unique edgy offensive combat that make him popular

 

[Ballad of Caius]

I wonder what would happen if Roxas fused Oathkeeper and Oblivion AND transformed them! rools:

 

[AdrianXXII]

Speaking of Xion,

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Was it ever confirmed Xion was the third heart inside Sora's?! Because we only see Ventus' and Roxas' hearts coming out.

that is weird but i think we can be pretty certain it is.

She talked about returning to Sora in Days and was one of the three people Riku encountered in Sora's heart that weren't just data implants like AtW.

It'd be weird for them to say there were three people there and for Xion to be hinted at being there and shown along with Ven and Roxas in 3D, if she wasnt one of them.

 

[Hirokey123]

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Unless I missed it did no one here bring up that Roxas and Xion are in replica bodies and their blades are almost certainly just replications? Like lowkey I'm pretty certain that was a big reason to revive them as replicas, so they could still essentially have keyblades without imposing on Sora and Ventus.

 

[ROXAS_32]

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Roxas is god with oatherkeeper and oblivion lol...
He took out Saix by himself while xion sat there lifeless and I glided around waiting for my magic to regenerate so i can heal myself. On top of that he received little to no damage...
All of the other battles at the keyblade graveyard i had to do something or my party members would be knocked out.