This will be my last theory video for a little while, maybe for the rest of the year unless something substantial for Missing Link drops before 2023. I have too many other videos I want to do and not enough free time to get to all of them, but there's still a few more KH videos to come. Apologies for any audio issues in this video, but hopefully you can still enjoy it enough. I'll have it sorted for my next videos. -For anyone wondering, the Elysium video is still coming. It's up next. It's just a bigger video than I expected, and so it's taking a bit more time to get it together. But it'll be done soon- *EDIT: I've decided not to make the Valkyrie Elysium video for a few reasons. Primarily because it's negative and I don't want the first time I talk about my beloved Valkyrie series to be negatively. Instead I'll do a video about the originals at some point in the future.* Anyway as always, thanks for all your support.

"You could say that he's the anti-virus" legit gave me so many chills not gonna lie. You highlighted perfectly how the Master may have more or less turned Xehanort into the villain whose invincibility made him infamous, to the point that the only way to defeat him was by cheating. If we want to take this tech analogy a bit further, the power of waking seems to defy every established rule of the world, which makes it a sort of exploit or vulnerability. And what happens to vulnerabilities in the modern digital age (hopefully)? They *get patched out* . These kinds of vulnerabilities open the door to overriding the program's controls, like one that dictates that the world must have light and dark in an endless cycle of violence employing increasingly desperate tactics to get an edge in. And it seems like the Master is done playing fair.

Well, remember The Master of Masters made a truce Contract with Darkness, and that is why Darkness knows "decided things." He then created stable time loops with the Eye, and Xehanort. However, The Master doesn't actually want Darkness to win. So The Master scripts Traitors to the process. Luxu. Xehanort. Sora. (X on the chest in DDD) Because these people are not him himself, he uses them to trick Darkness without "Breaking the Contract". Remember based on what we know now, The Master has a Darkness in him. Therefore, he has to confuse them, as well as everyone else, so Darkness won't guess what he is actually doing. And the Darkness only cares about Darkness things. It doesn't get friendship or positive relationship. That is why the Master doesn't have to mess with Sora, because Darkness barely understands him(Sora). It is like the way Eraqus "cheats" in the chess Game with Young Xehanort. The Master is still following the Rules. His pieces aren't. It is also implied by Terra Xehanort in Re Mind he did take the "forbidden path" and that is how he knows what Sora is doing.

Oh man when you showed the clips of Xehanort and Eraqus' chess match and the "No fair!" it clicked for me, the whole theory, it just works. I love it. The chess match was put there specifically to mirror the conflict between Sora and Xehanort in the future and, yeah, Sora cheated. Just like Eraqus. And the stuff about the Master WANTING someone who would break the rules, and thus using Xehanort to force someone like that to rise? I love it. It makes sense. We'll see if it pans out that way in KH IV (who am I kidding, we're not getting the answers that soon lol), but it sure as heck makes a lot of sense. And it feels very true to the characters and story so far.

"I think we will see the grand outcome of their actions" *Shows Strelitzia* I see what you did 😉

Though at the same time, if it weren't for MoM then Xehanort would've just gone into darkness, removed his armor, passed out and then eventually die.

Before Dark Road, I felt that the Master of Masters getting involved in Xehanort life and playing a huge factor in his choice of becoming the Dark Seeker diminished his role as an antagonist as he was served as a bigger scrape goat and stepping stone in the Master’s overall plan. But after Dark Road and this video, it gladly help me appreciate the fact that Xehanort was ultimately a bigger threat to the Master’s plans as he had no choice but get involve into shaping Xehanort to take that Dark path and your video does a good example to why the Master did so.

Alternate theory: maybe ‘Nort being the COD would make light get saved too early, like maybe the MoM needed light to get un-expired in tandem with the completion of some Quadratum-based plan.(hence ‘nort being an anomaly because he’s an unpredicted element of reality)

I feel like we (the player) will encounter Brain and he will pass down the knowledge he has on the future and maybe “the child of prophecy” thus pushing the player to go out of their way to bring Xehanort to the islands. So let’s say Brain is the virus (singularity), he passed down the “virus” to the player (his ambitions) which would be passed to Xehanort, making him the next Singularity, which then leads to Sora.

The MOM's goal is so mysterious, but we at least know a part of it: Destroy the original strongest darknesses locked in his & the Foretellers' hearts. They way he explained this to Luxu sounded like they would have no choice but to sacrifice their lives to accomplish that goal, as darkness cannot be defeated without a vessel form. Something Luxu thought was cruel and helped spur on his decisions to create a virus. Enter Sora, who's grown into this loving protagonist who's willing to cheat the world's order for the sake of people, which Xehanort couldn't do. Sora at his current level could take on a Foreteller to destroy the darkness. But going off the MOM's backstory that we know, I genuinely don't think he wants more people he cares about to die, including basically his own kids he raised. So perhaps at least part of the MOM's goal, what he needs with Sora is (because I think there's much more) instead of the Foretellers and MOM having to be destroyed due to the darkness in their hearts, Sora can cheat the system, change their fate and save them somehow.

you never fail to hold my attention and work with the lore we have and how it connects more then focusing hard on vague things. awesome job every time. I want another trailer of KH4 where we get a small look at Yozora.

The sad of all this... is that all of the 7 even , Master and the 6...they are not bad. So, when each of the 7 Darknesses take control over of them, Sora will have to save them... Or may be not, may be there wont be a way.

Very great theory! This gets me excited to connect to the next saga. New sub. That sora blinking meme was too good 🤣

He's a time traveler and he's the one that initially sets out on his journey to become that time traveler. The singularity in physics is the point in space where all matter was condensed before the big bang. Young xehanort is just being called "the start"

A very well thought out and explained theory as always. I know I have said it before but it's cool how I always click onto your videos thinking I can guess what you'll say, but then I'm proven mostly wrong. I expected you to say he wasn't the child of destiny but you convinced me that maybe he actually really was, since you're correct, he couldn't have become the villian he did if the master didn't set him up for it. I thought the Singularity was something we wouldn't be able to make much out of until ML at the earliest, but you've managed to make sense of it in a way I wouldn't expect by explaining how it ties back to all these other events and characters. It's being suggested Xehanort is going to return in some way, so your conclusion about him and Sora has a very good chance of turning out to be true too.

I have read the term singularity, in the context of time travel as a closed circle. So someone who travel in time and modify something which enables the events in the first time travel to exist. I think this match Xehanort, as the reason he becomes the person he is, is himself etching the path, he has already taken in his heart. Hence becoming a singularly.

I definitely want to add onto this theory, in that, Xehanort was likely the perfect Vessel to capture the Darkness and have them destroyed for good. We'll definitely be getting those missing links soon and then I think this plays into Quadratum's storyline heavily. The Master must prefer a world where people have to be accountable, instead of Darkness latching onto the emotions. Breaking the Nature Taboo while Kingdom Hearts is summoned may help to rewrite the game, based on Quadratum's *fictional* rules.

Very interesting video...🤔 And the part where you talked about MoM making Xehanort force Sora to Unreality Miiight have some merit =.= But I can't wait for more KH news in the future!

My interpretation of the use of singularity is that Xehanort going and facing the darkness head on was a point of no return. Or a single instance that would be the start of the ball rolling. I saw it as The Master stating “this is it, this is where it starts to change and begin his plan”

Wow this is one of the most well fleshed out theories ive listened to in a while and i think you are SO beyond correct. Everything clicked for me with that chess clip you added. And the way Xehanort just knew he cheated but accepted it anyways so easily because he "never loses" could be another clue to xehanort and sora getting a chance to cross paths again and maybe work together like you said.

singularity generally refers to a consistency, not inconsistency. Xehanort may be a constant across various wordlines, for example. An easy read could be that he's a crucial point in the timeline, or a "key"

good video. not sure how much i agree with or understand it still lmao, but it helped to put a lot of little details into perspective. i've been wondering for a while how much of everything that goes down was -in line with- or -against- MoM's plans, and/or the future he saw and wrote down, basically ever since he said the words "traitor luxu".

One thing that i love is that we don't know anything about the MoM and yet he is the most important character in the story and (at least to me) the most interisting one. We don't know is objective(we can assume that he wants to defeat the darkness but we don't know if that's true or how he would do that) and so i ask: He is really an antagonist? a villain? the true hero? or an anti-hero? We literally have so little information that we can't even state if he's a good or a bad guy ( or a mix of both) and in a game like kh, where it's pretty clear to understand the sides of characters, it's incredible that exist a character like him. And for those who might read this comment, do u think (according to a common theory) that the MoM is actually Sora?

This theory is so well thought out! I learned a lot, because the chess board and game that's played between Eraqus and Xehanort makes much more sense now! I'm hoping this comes into fruition in some way.

This whole video was like hearing all my scattered thoughts and theories in an actual form. Thank you for this, this is exactly what I think MoM is trying to go at. And it plays into the "there are multiple children of destiny"

That "The master's intent" part hyped me up so much. I can't WAIT for the next KH game!!!

Damn. I've been trying to piece together what the master might be up to. I really dig this theory! Him corrupting Xehanort, a tool built to solve a problem against the master's wishes, so that another tool could be made to his liking would be genius!

Great theory! Xehanort still has so much mysteries though man. I thought after we got a whole story about him it'd finally be done but we're still going because things like this got thrown in outta nowhere lol. Good job tackling this child of destiny and this singularity thing. The thing is too this theory makes a lot of sense cos it ties a lot of the "missing links" together and still relates to kh4 which I'm pretty sure is what Nomura is going for with these new terms/details

"I mean I checked" 💀 Xehanort isn't going to ever stop being important is he? Singularity, child of destiny, probably got a 14th life now just to hang out in Quadratum and get up to who knows what.. I won't lie it'd be funny to see him for once not talking about the x-blade and keyblade war. Btw I really liked your ideas in this but now I'm wondering was Xehanort the actual virus or do you mean he was just a byproduct of the virus if that makes sense? 😅

Haven't finished the video yet, Alot of people seem to be under the misconception that Luxu doesn't know that the master wanted him to go against his role and meddle in affairs, luxu absolutely knows what the master wants him to do and he understands the gamble the master is taking

Rewatching this once again in anticipation of ML and something I didn't even think about before is in your master's intent section you explain how you believe the virus/rewriting of destiny that got Sora kicked into Quadratum was part of the Master's plan. I don't know if you recall or not since you didn't mention it, but in Secret Reports 11 from Luxu it says: "One of the Five is an imposter, someone the Master did not choose. They represent a virus in the program he so carefully wrote." So that's gotta be Brain right? That's why he bothered to speak with him and, as you're suggesting, plot with him against fate/the Master. Here's the key part: "The whole Union leader thing was supposed to be by the books. Are these new events just another phase in the Master's grand plan?" This is alluding to exactly the same thing you've said in this video. Luxu is specifically talking about the virus but he's considering the possibility that even that is part of the Master's grand plan. Which I bet it probably is for very similar reasons to what you suggested. If the Master is counting on Luxu to follow his feelings and then betray him, then he MUST be counting on him to aid in the virus, just as Luxu eventually suspects. I just wanted to share that since I haven't seen anyone else mention it and it adds a lot of weight to this great theory I think.

Finally a new video! I'm waiting for the Valkyrie one so this was unexpected but I'm glad to see it. I didn't put a bunch of thought into the Singularity, so I didn't know what to expect really, but everything you're saying here makes a lot of sense and how you tied it into Brain's virus links up too well. Such interesting and different takes as usual. Like Xehanort told Sora, very well done!

Amazing video as always :)

Nice video - you make some really interesting points

A little late to this video but wow you did amazing with this theory. I also believe we aren’t finished seeing young Xehanort. Missing-Link will explain a lot more of Xehanort and I hope to see how Sora fits in this grand scheme.

Also I genuinely believe that the 12 years Xehanort was on Destiny Islands, Decades passed on Scala, which is why it changed a lot. If Xehanort did not get sent to Scala by Ansem he would have been farther in the "future" Like if he remained there till he was 17 or something.

THIS THEORY BLEW MY MIND WHAAAAT

Ok This Theory Is Absolutely Incredible, The Fact That Xahanort Was The Chosen One & Eventually Left That Mantel Is Such A Cool Thought. He Was The 1% That Did The Impossible.

Great theory! 👍💯 I already suspected that the "virus" Brain was talking about is related to MoM's "singularity". Was the name circled by MoM in the note for the Book of Prophecy supposed to be Ephemer? I thought it was Strelitzia, thus that's why Brain and Ephemer knew Ventus was a fake (and she's in KH4 for some reason). Didn't Ava pointed it out, because she gave the Book to Brain? If it was Ephemer, Ava would have gave the Book directly to him instead of Brain. I thought Brain gave the Book to Ephemer because Brain saw Ephemer as the rightful leader instead? 🤔 Ooo I'm confused and missing the bus. I think two things were certain: Luxu and Ventus names were probably in the Book. MoM did mentioned "a traitor" written in it (Luxu) and MoM let Darkness read the Book (Ventus). So I believed you're right about Luxu being the key somehow. 👍💯 Since singularity also meant being unpredictable and growing out of control, maybe Xehanort does grow to change MoM's plans permanently. No Name was his CCTV in the classroom, so he found out about Xehanort's personality from there and how to tempt him. MoM injected Darkness into Xehanort just like he did with the Foretellers, and used him as test ground? Idk lol I'm messing around 🤣 Idk why MoM didn't bother Sora 🤔 I felt like MoM wanted Sora to end up being in Quadratum, maybe all of MoM's plan was to make sure this happened. 🤔 Hmm...

Always loved your videos! As a fellow creator, I see the work you have put in and mate, you worded it so well and carefully. Thanks for the content!

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I agree with you that Brain, Ava, and Luxu are all playing a role in acting against MoM… Also, I love that you pointed out how MoM ensured Daybreak Town fell to darkness and twisted Xehanort. I’m starting to think that Luxu protecting/saving Brain is how he was the traitor. So far it’s all going according to MoM’s plan, but we’ll see how things play out. I think his plan hinges on Sora, and possibly Riku, ending up in Quadratum. MoM said the BoP and Luxu’s memories were his waypoint to any point in time the book talked about. That explains how he talked to Young Xehanort.

Still don't understand why Ava isn't also classified as a traitor.

When Sora stops Skoll from destroying Arendelle with an Ice Moon using time magic. The Ice moon shatters into the same shards that appear in the sky while Sora is connecting light, or connecting hearts. He's using "all of his heart" to stop it.

The MoM already hás 4 Unchained Beings to fight the formless darknesses, Sora the one who brakes the rules, Ephemer the one who is conected to the old story and defeated 4 darknesses, Strelitzia the one who started the conflictis in data daybreak with her death and Ava the traitor who didnt was possessed by darkness

MoM did reverse psychology on Luxu lol

I can't wait to play missing link and link some pieces of the puzzle. I believe that we will play the second lifetime of the player until he passed away at destiny island

I think now that it is possible the Master of Master actually did use the power of Waking the same way Sora did after the "the Chess Game" in KH3 ended. I believe the ghost of the Master is following his own Timeline ( the whole timeline(s) so far) and inserting himself in the places he needs to be to change timelines. For Example, The Master appears in Dark Road when Xehanort is about to die to the Darkness in the Dark Corridor. So if MOM didn't appear, Sora's main antagonist (and hidden teacher) wouldn't exist. So he is there because he needs to be there. And now, Xehanort owes him. After The Master of Masters and Young Xehanort's second conversation that sets Xehanort up to become all the other versions of himself (especially Ansem, SOD the time traveler), the Master basically walks away and into thin air. He "dims away". Sora does something similar during Re: Mind especially when he has those conversation with Terra Xehanort/ Master Xehanort. Sora shouldn't be there but he is. And we know The Master's Eye follows the whole Timeline, so he could follow it and have access to all the possible timelines that thing could be on.

I'll be honest, I want the Master to be 100% irredeemable, and I want him to win. I want him to break Sora and the group while cackling and joking all the while.

Okay so Ephemer and Brain are gonna become grandfathers Xahanort and Eraqus are their descendants so cool

When he called xehanort “the singularity, I think he meant the singularity to the kingdom hearts series as a whole. If xehanort didn’t exist, neither would the kingdom hearts franchise. I wonder if real life works like that as well..😅.. Before xehanort’s incarnation, there was the custom character, that basically has no name(not the keyblade) so before the custom character’s time, was there a main ‘hero’ or ‘villain’? Maybe the master was the first incarnation??? In which, the custom character is the very reason why he disappears, except it was by complete accident..

What if Xehanort Was just a Red hearing FOR THE MASTER as the child of Destiny, to protect Sora from Manipulation

Singularity - (1) Something that is singular: such as (1a) a separate unit or (1b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior. (2) The quality or state of being singular. (3) A point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative does exist. (4) Or a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. I'd say Xehanort is a singularity because he is a single being, singular. That exhibits unusual behavior due to being an empath and taking on aspects of Darkness to the point of siding with it. To where he creates 13 versions of himself to create enough darkness that consumes all light.

The next kingdom hearts saga is going to focus on spiritual and religious teachings. It’s going to be insane.

The Master wants to feed the Kingdom Hearts

MoM is literally Aizen from Bleach

And I thought jojo's definition of fate and destiny was out there.

AYO WHAT IF LUXU-BRAIN WAS BRAIN'S NOBODY POSESSED BY LUXU. Following that, missing link Brain is his recompleted form!

wow the master is a genius if thats true

I feel as though I'm the only one that isn't convinced the Master is the true antagonist of the series.

I'm still not sold on MoM being a "good guy" I wouldn't be surprised if he turned out to be true darkness.

Sora might of saw through xehanort. But only kairi can see sora. Only kairi notice soras heart when he had none. And saved him. Turning him from a heartless back to sora. If anything kairi is child of destiny. A child who can save nothing with anything.

Very good video!

This some real multidimensional chess

I think you misunderstand the Master. If he wants Darkness to be destroyed at all costs then I believe that would mean even going so far as destroying the light. I think the master wanted Xehanort to follow threw with his plan to wipe out the world and thus destroying darkness and light!

You mention MoM being the author of the book of prophecies. This is a common assumption, but I don't believe it's explicitly claimed in the source material. MoM tells Luxu "it's a pretty long read, so I skipped over the details of each individual person's fate." In context, it means he hasn't read all of it, which implies he didn't write it in the first place. As far as I understand MoM only claims that his eye is why the book exists.

Xehanort is a singularity. Sora is also a singularity. Basically stating that they are the Avatars of each side. But what about the Master? Is he a singularity? But he’s not a counterpart o Xehanort or Sora. He’s a counterpart to YOU, the player of the game.. picture him being played by someone else in a different universe. He’s Real. I think the Master actually knows that he’s a character inside of a videogame, and he knows how to get out of it.

MoM turning on malwarebytes on Xehanorts arse. 🤣

So in KH4 will be basically master of masters manipulating Sora to kill his apprentice?

Heavy counter argument, Sora doesn't need a connection to the MoM, to Xehanort he was "That dull ordinary boy a keyblade wielder so unlike anything i have a ever seen", here, in a line regarding DDD, around the time all of this topics begun to be born in Nomura's head. Xehanort makes it clear, Sora is so unlike anything i have ever seen. Meaning Sora doesn't have any kind of ability Xehanort has, making him not a Child of Destiny. His ability to connect with others comes more from his social ongoing skills and personality, not so much mystical powers. Aqua also has a moment where she is power up by the power of friendship in BbS, is she also the Child of Destiny? No. The power of friendship is a common power up on the franchise. And Sora has also never had problems with darkness by itself, he has to be force a certain path to have problems with it, but Xehanort has it naturally, he naturally struggles with it. But who also naturally has problems with that... Who also ends up giving Sora the strength to believe in himself and own abilities, and not just the power he gains from others... Why Riku, someone who's whole character arc is his struggle with darkness, and pretty quickly can begin to understand other people properly and guide them since the ending of KHCoM... Someone who says "Consume the darkness, turn it to light", it's his power. Not only that, Riku fits the archetype of the Hero of Destiny, from every story element you can think.

Lore of The Significance of The Singularity momentum 100

Is MoM darkness itself?

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No he means Xehanort is literally a singularity within a black hole. Xehanort's Star cannot be destroyed. Xehanort can control the Sun, and black holes. Black holes absorb light. It's real bruh.... Xehanort literally summons planetary asteroids to attack Sora and Kairi in Remind. He means a literal black hole. Black holes consume all matter, eventually. Xehanort has Sephiroth's powers to summon Asteroids. Think a bit more.

Bro.. lmao please stop trying to give any credit to this terribly written story. Stop wasting time and play ff XIV: Endwalker literally a masterpiece of creation. Unbelievable writing, so cracked!!