The Reveal of Brain's Keyblade - Kingdom Hearts

The latest Kingdom Hearts Union X update had a HUGE revelation that could finally trace the connection between himself and Eraqus as well as set up Dark Road, Kingdom Hearts 3 ReMind, and Melody of Memory!
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[@HMK]

IT IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!! BRAIN'S KEYBLADE HAS BEEN REVEALED AND TONS OF JUICY LORE COMES WITH IT! Lets get past 1000 Likes!

[@jakeriese4862]

If darkness was weak to pure hearts of people why was it easy to take control of Ven, he is mentioned to have a very pure heart

[@durntfives8681]

@@jakeriese4862 wait remember what Vanitas said? "I am darkness." What if Vanitas is just one of The Darkness' avatars?

[@jakeriese4862]

@@durntfives8681 probably i think a separate unrelated darkness. Vanitas was created from Ven. Darkness already existed beforehand

[@durntfives8681]

@@jakeriese4862 I am curious cause of that smile he did at the end of kh3 when defeated him which means he might come back.

[@jakeriese4862]

@@durntfives8681 it said on wiki he was just at peace being on darkness side

[@tenebraequeene]

Luxu saved Subject X who is heavily hinted to be Skuld. So that means that Luxu still looked out for the "kids" throughout all that time... Talk about dedication!

[@alialatrach9788]

Remember how Xigbar is the one who crew out Marluxia for the original organization?

[@candyklutz483]

I still can't get over him be called a mother hen. lol

[@djdeaddeer]

@@alialatrach9788 YOOOOOO

[@davidrajaruzicka5546]

@@alialatrach9788 Makes you raise some eyebrows, huh?

[@yeyeye802]

Kind of confused about him. Seems like he's not that bad of a guy but he did possess Braig for who knows how long right? He's still doing it too, maybe he has to or something?

[@shadowmwape]

OMG! Eraqus's hate of darkness makes sense. Brain had to deal with the entity Darkness and Eraqus must have interpreted it as darkness in general.

[@firxanza5172]

Eraques mentioned he had a grandfather who may have lost his life fighting darkness maybe that grandfather was Brain so this means that this event won't be the first time Brain fights darkness

[@joetalks.]

@@firxanza5172 or the fight theyre in now is the one

[@soragranda]

@@joetalks. That makes no sense... He doesn't have a girlfriend nor a wife, nor any lover, he is pretty much the only that can't die here, skuld, marluxia and ven are going to the future so... Also kh3 spoils us the fate that's left for ephemer... :'/.

[@joetalks.]

@@soragranda good point. Then again, what babies have been made in KH?

[@Andy-wt6ym]

Luxu is defying the Master by meddling. He messed with Ventus in BBS, took Skuld, recruited Lauriam into OrgXIII, worked closely with Xehanort by joining OrgXIII and fought in the Keyblade War.

[@rileyduncan3927]

Luxu/Xigbar was always pulling the strings. Xehanort was merely a pawn in much greater plan.

[@bgallagrr]

And most likely exactly like the MoM designed it to happen.

[@rileyduncan3927]

@@yungbreezy36 how? If Luxu was a pawn in Xehanort’s plan how come he didn’t know Luxu was watching over the no name heck Xehanort didn’t know Xigbar was Luxu.

[@rileyduncan3927]

@@yungbreezy36 also your statement that Luxu was Xehanort’s pawn makes no sense whatsoever.

[@darkchancellor5030]

MoM set Xehanort up in Remind. WHY will no one get this. THE MOM IS EVIL

[@khonetruesky5074]

We all knew Brain was Eraqus' ancestor but MAN seeing him finally reveal his keyblade and it indeed being the Master's Defender is so satisfying

[@BlazerK1914]

The Master of Masters must be really powerful, possibly more powerful than Xehanort and Sora combined.

[@davidrajaruzicka5546]

Definitely smarter than Sora lol. But Sora is improving though.

[@firxanza5172]

of course he is powerful, he was the first known Keyblader in history and he probably orchestrated many Keyblade Wars throughout history

[@rileyduncan3927]

@@firxanza5172 actually no. MoM wasn’t the first keyblade weilder the master himself even said so. Though he had no master of his own he was self tought like sora he first got his keyblade.

[@BlazerK1914]

@yungbreezy36 Actually, I never watched Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover, and I rarely knew about the Master of Masters. I just finished Kingdom Hearts 3 and decided to check out more Kingdom Hearts content on KZbin.

[@rileyduncan3927]

@@yungbreezy36 and you are a tiresome Xehanort fanboy

[@ammonahwong9994]

My theory is that Brain uses the Master's Defender to lock away Daybreak Town like how Aqua locked away Land of Departure, but I dunno... we'll have to see...

[@firxanza5172]

Daybreak Town eventually gets destroyed and is rebuilt as Scala Ad Calem the land where most Keybladers are born and trained

[@ammonahwong9994]

@@firxanza5172 yeah that's why they call it the Break I get it :) but yeah that was my theory, but I'm still like hesitant about it ahaha that's why I'm like I dunno we'll have to see what happens

[@Okata150]

I can get behind this theory. Sorta like the origin story of how the Master Defender can change worlds. Also introduce the lore of certain keyblades locking away worlds and then changing them based on them being unlocked or locked. From a lore perspective it's something shown only once that can be really neat. From a game perspective, you could hide a lot of puzzles/chests/bosses by adding it as a game feature.

[@ammonahwong9994]

@@Okata150 having as a gameplay mechanic would be amazing

[@lesterwiggins229]

Honestly this new update both answered and raised a few new questions for me about Brain. Strap in, this may be a lengthy one. Sure, it heavily implied his relation to Eraqus because of the Master’s Defender and their similar physical features; but there is more. When asking his questions toward the dark figure, he seemed pretty calm, composed, and arguably even confident. It may just be me, but it seems like he knows more than he is letting on. And then there is his keyblade, the Master’s Defender. Among all the keyblades in Union Cross, his is unique for at least two reasons. The first is that the other Dandelion leaders wield keyblades that could be available to anyone, but Brain is the first to have a keyblade that was exclusive to him alone aside from the Foretellers, Luxu, and the MoM. Which brings me to my second point, the Foretellers had their keyblades forged by the MoM, each one having the Gazing Eye, which seems to be MoM’s motif. The Master’s Defender doesn’t have that, which could mean one of three possibilities. Brain was chosen by the Keyblade without directly being bequeathed one, like Sora. He inherited one from a master or someone of equal measure, like Riku. Or he stumbled upon the Master’s Defender somewhere and took it as his own, like Mickey with Kingdom Key D in the Realm of Darkness. Sorry for the lengthy post, but seeing Brain revealing the Master’s Defender got my own brain going. Overall, I’m excited to see where all this mystery goes.

[@t_g_gamerftw5075]

Also consider he was chosen by Master Ava, and potentially she learned how to forge key blades from other's hearts herself after having MOM do it for her or it was a skill passed on to all the foretellers, and she did so for Brain.

[@lesterwiggins229]

@@t_g_gamerftw5075 That would make sense, but all of the Dandelion leaders were chosen by Master Ava (except for Ventus), that was the role MoM gave her before he left. Even if that were the case, why would she choose Brain and forge for him his own keyblade and teach him that skill and not the other Dandelion leaders?

[@IiI_Gogeta_IiI]

See Ven and Lauriam and i auplose now Brain have unique keyblades so did they have a similar experience to what you described with them having been chosen without being bequeathed etc? Its not just for brain that those questions arise. It stands to reason many had "different" keyblade just look at the keyblade graveyard so many different worlds keyblade so what do the different keyblades really mean are there multiple copies of keyblades like fenrir? Which is a keyblade we only got throuvh defeating sephiroth in kh2

[@KingdomH342]

HMK, I'm pretty sure it was stated Eraqus's grandfather fought the forces of darkness, not the keyblade war. not sure how you could infer the war when Master Odin looks to be the age that he would know Eraqus's grandfather, and if the war is his favorite story then how could that line of thought make sense.

[@BrennySpain]

this is honestly just mind-boggling! Brian must somehow share some of connection to Eraqus if he's able to weird his Keyblade...

[@dominickjoseph9630]

Yeah Brain may have been their master; did Eraqus pass the keyblade on to Aqua? I don't exactly remember

[@BrennySpain]

@@dominickjoseph9630 not technically because Xehanort killed him but in the metaphorical sense I’m guessing yes?

[@TheDoremifan1]

@@dominickjoseph9630 odin was eraqus and xehanort's master

[@GabrielHello1]

Years after the launch of Birth by Sleep, now we why Eraqus wanted to kill Ven.

[@chanlaman2565]

Didn’t he want to do that because of Ven’s connection to the X-Blade and Xehanort’s plan to combine Ven and Vanitas during that point?

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

@@chanlaman2565 yep. He would kill ventus to stop xehanort from reaching kingdom hearts

[@GabrielHello1]

@@chanlaman2565 I think that's a reason too. But, if the major problem was Xehanorth he would've tried to take him down directly. He was too afraid of something.

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

@@GabrielHello1 i think that he couldn't resolve himself to kill the man he considered a brother.

[@KingNazaru]

I'm telling you. Darkness is a Lovecraftian entity!

[@demi-fiendoftime3825]

It is also one but many

[@JFairy189]

So Ansem The Seeker of Darkness' final form from KH1 basically?

[@gustavju4686]

The heartless are lovecraftian so wouldn't be anything new for KH xD

[@jaydo4545]

I never heard kh be compared with lovecraft and honestly i can see it now

[@Fragmentsinfractals488]

I think that Darkness wears anyone one who uses darkness, or has the Darkness Title. They mirrors the people it is in contact with, like Mirror Aqua and Anti Aqua. So Darkness "wants" what the people it is contact with want, but only with dark thoughts, emotions, and will.

[@mgbrad5018]

This would be a huge reach...but imagine if Keyblades could be reincarnated into those who have a strong connection to the light

[@PapaMidnite__]

So its sitting in the keyblade graveyard until its new owner calls it? Something like that would be awesome honestly

[@animenerd453]

That's not a stretch. Hearts reside inside people all the time. It is implied that "memories" are what allow hearts to form strong attachments to items. For example the Lingering Will.

[@knucklesskinner253]

You mean kinda how sora got his? Lmao

[@PapaMidnite__]

@@knucklesskinner253 yeah I would like more understanding of the link between Sora and Ephamir's hearts

[@willsword8100]

Hmm, Four people have been shown carrying that key, Eraqus, Aqua, Sora, and now Brain. Four... Quad, and Eraqus' name is Square which has Four Sides. Quadra... Quadratum? maybe there is a connection? then the question of who taught Brain still comes to mind. and which union he was from. that might lead to something down the road. Hmm I honestly wonder where this is going...

[@sakahiro221]

Quadratum means Square. As simple as that.

[@Luxstar13]

@@sakahiro221 lol quadratum is square it's just another name for it.

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

It's so weird to see Xigbar worried about the kids

[@pslayer8943]

Also keep in mind that in the secret reports, Luxu gave his keyblade to one of the dandelions, probably Brain.

[@fist-of-doom487]

It can be many years in the past and still be Eraqus’s grand father because of what happens with collapsed worlds. They can take centuries to reform but everything continues from where it left off when everything returns. If Brain gets left behind then he falls with Daybreak Town and comes back when it reforms

[@redx5605]

I’m not gonna lie this is just more confirmation that Sora’s parents had one of the BoPs cause they not once go looking for their kid. You wouldn’t go looking for them if ya already knew what was gonna happen

[@tigerfestivals5137]

What's a BoP? And do Sora's parents actually get mentioned in Union X?

[@redx5605]

@@tigerfestivals5137 Book Of Prophecy and no it’s just a theory I have

[@jorgemathiasbenitezsaldiva8131]

@@redx5605 well, it's a good explanation, and who knows, sora's father could even be one of xehanort's classmates in dark road, giving him another reason to choose him as his thirteenth vessel, i'm pointing my eyes at baldr, specially for his name being a reference of the "god of light"

[@t_g_gamerftw5075]

Well, for the entirety of Kh1 they were gone due to the world being destroyed. Once it's restored Sora falls asleep in castle oblivion after about a week causing everyone to forget about him for a year. When everyone regains their memories in Kh2, from the beginning till the end when Sora returns, how much time could have passed? Maybe a few months at most, and with the knowledge that time flows differently between worlds, possibly only a week or two. When the island was destroyed, Kairi reveals through in game dialog in Kh1 that it's hurricane season, and everyone still remembers a big storm hitting on the day Sora and Riku went missing along side their raft. Most likely the parents think they got lost at sea on the raft due to the storm, and went adrift to one of the other islands of their world. Thanks to the memory loss, Sora's been barely gone at all to them, and when he leaves for future journeys, he can just say he met friends while he was lost out at sea, and now goes to visit them every once and awhile.

[@jorgemathiasbenitezsaldiva8131]

@@t_g_gamerftw5075 good idea, makes sense

[@Xav1298]

Looks like Brain will be the one who inherits the No Name keyblade from Luxu

[@blacksunday7205]

And then hangs it up on the wall because he refuses to use it.

[@RCDeschene]

Who said exactly that Eraqus' grandfather fought specifically in the Keyblade War? All Baldr said was that his grandfather fought the Darkness.

[@victorbasurto6592]

For some reason, I still can't get behind Luxu being good or even the Foretellers. From the new game that Eraqus and Xehanort are playing in the epilogue of KH3, they definitely seem like they are going to be villains. We still don't know too much of Luxus role yet but MoM definitely seems to be playing/manipulating them to do what he wants them to do. But I guess we shall see.

[@SuperSuperbrawler]

Could be that their action started out good but as time goes they got more dark and villainous as time went on.

[@Jetstreamsamdidnothingwrong]

I mean there pretty much puppets of the master of masters

[@victorbasurto6592]

@@SuperSuperbrawler Exactly what I was thinking too, it definitely seemed that Luxu throughout time, jumping vessel to vessel and seeing all that he has seen, it definitely seems his overall character has shifted to something dark.

[@victorbasurto6592]

@@Jetstreamsamdidnothingwrong Very true, they're just pawns for the Masters ultimate game haha

[@t_g_gamerftw5075]

My theory is that MOM's plan involves trying to use Sora as a sacrificial pawn against the darkness or turning them into a vessel for the darkness so they can destroy the darkness, thereby pitting Sora and friends against them, or something similar to that. This is why MOM shows up in Quadratum where Sora is, because his plan involves using him, instead of MOM showing up with the rest of the union leaders at the end of KH3. As for why they'll use Sora, it probably has something to do with Vanitas due to his connection with Sora, as Vanitas is currently still running around after being revived in Monstropolis as the Vanitas destroyed in the end game of KH3 has been revealed to be Vanitas's heart from the past possessing a replica during Re:Mind, something which I haven't seen anyone really talking about.

[@captainvalourous6668]

I know that this is a common knowledge to some of you but everytime the Darkness prefers himself as "WE" he makes me remind of that one story in the Bible when Christ spoke to a man who is infested by Demons and when those Demons spoke they said "I am Legion because "WE" are many".

[@xandardorf6365]

I do believe Brain will be there at the Break. He would be there to create Scala ad Caelum, while everyone else is sent forward in time. I also believe the other Union Leaders will appear in the future.

[@iancomtois9832]

That explains the hair! It's said that Eraqus is descended from a line of other Keyblade Masters...and here we have the first. But of course he's not hooking up with anyone onscreen to eventually have kids with; that would be far too bold for KH.

[@EternityinOurHearts316]

The master's defender must have been used to transform daybreak into Scala just like it was used to transform lod. Mickey will likely need aqua to transform the land back into daybreak town.

[@dstr001]

Daybreak wasnt really transformed though, Scala was literally built on top of the ruins of daybreak town.

[@EternityinOurHearts316]

@@dstr001 right

[@dstr001]

@@EternityinOurHearts316 I mean its a good theory, and something definitely happened there, but I think theres more to it.

[@t_g_gamerftw5075]

@@dstr001 Well, I mean, the ruins are flipped upside down so there might be some room to say it was transformed at least somewhat, as if it was just ruins built on top of, they wouldn't be upside down. Maybe a combination of both being transformed and built on top of, like the transformation didn't completely succeed throwing the world into near destruction and flipping the world upside down and flooding it with water, and when the world recovered it just rebuilt itself on top of it as a new world. This could also explain why Scala seems like a dead world that hasn't truly started moving forward in time as explained in dark road with all the other cities being empty. The world hasn't truly recovered to it's original state, so the world can't repopulate itself with people and advance forward like the other worlds, and instead only the people who have survived settled there and their descendants reside in that one city instead.

[@tobi86Gameplay]

Damn this why I love the series

[@carlosmoisesbenitezbarrera7405]

I knew it that brain was eraqus are related they are two way to get the keyblade the first his the ceremony inheritance and the families relations inheritance.

[@TheKira708]

Makes you Wonder if the Kingdom Key is also, passed down to Sora. Like my mabe it was the MOMS original Keyblade before No name. Or mabe the Kingdom key was the first keyblade to be made in existence. I always found it interesting how the X blade the counter part to Kingdom hearts was made by two kingdom Keys. So it be a cool twist if later on, we find out the Kingdom key is even more special then we all realize.

[@ZKDaniel]

“We are Venom” “We are Darkness” 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@firxanza5172]

and this Darkness that came out of Ventus will return to him once more until it is extracted and turns in to Vanitas

[@Robinx1985]

I think it was the Master of Master's plan to have Brain who could be Eraqus's great great ^x grandfather is the one who had to be one of the contingencies that was needed to keep the world's to exist.

[@Mnemoniforma9.00]

Darkness is like a tighter-lipped Kyubey

[@drakofox1362]

Madoka magica right? If so.......yeah I can agree but I wounder what Kyubey would think about Darkness would he try to use it

[@a.z.pantera5577]

So if the Darkness entities hate pure hearts more than anything, then the Princesses of Heart and thus Kairi must really make their skin crawl. That would also mean that Kairi being a Keyblade wielder on top of being pure will put a huge target on her back going forward. And she clearly has the potential to be on Sora's level of power if the parallel Xehanort fight is anything to go on. And Riku is a full fledged Keyblade Master who conquered his darkness in more ways than one, and now uses it as a tool to protect. Man wherever this arc, or series as a whole, chooses to end, it needs to end with how it began: With Sora, Riku, and Kairi.

[@alialatrach9788]

Now I look to Aqua in another way, he is now the last successor of Blain's keyblade so far, the last defender. (Spoilers): After melody of memory's ending, Kairi will be trained under Master Aqua, do you think that there is a possibility for Kairi to get the Master Defender keyblade?

[@Jetstreamsamdidnothingwrong]

Ali Alatrach isn't master defender a memorial for Eraqus at the end of 3

[@alialatrach9788]

@@Jetstreamsamdidnothingwrong Yeah, I did not forget. but I like to think of the possibility.

[@chapachuu]

Brain related to Eraqus confirmed. edit: Also, Vanitas is totally the Darkness that was in Ven. At this point, I will be shocked if that isn't the case.

[@franciscoadasilvajr4514]

Maybe was Luxu who made Larxene and Lauriam Nobodies, maybe in a way to save them, and I guess, yes, Luxu as Xigbar and Braig was always holding back. He didnt use his keyblade (I guess he has one) and he couldn't really interfere, showing all his strenght. And I wonder who will get Luxu's keyblade.

[@Laughlikeagoblin]

This just gives me more questions than answers to which also makes me think. this semi confirms as Brain being the sole creator of Scala Ad Caelum and continues to go on as a teacher/keyblade master but what about the others, Ventus specifically? Is he later captured by the darkness and held hostage in the realm of darkness until Xehanort arrives (would explain his lack of aging)? Another question is that is Scala Ad Caelum similar to time moving differently like the Dark Realm?

[@thequeernote]

Ok idk how to explain this but MoM is Sora but his original body was the one Yozora is using now. Yozora said he used to look different and also asks Sora why he looks like he does; he has a similar name; people confuse Sora for Yozora in the Toy Story world. Also Yozora has two different eyes, indicating that one eye might have gone missing / is in the no name keyblade = the eye that MoM put in there. The current body Sora is using idk where its from. Maybe Vanitas aka Darkness formed that one somehow and that's why they look alike. There is proof that Sora has memories that he has no access too and when you pull out the selfie camera in the data fight agains YXehanort Soras eyes turn into the MoMs eyes for a second (look it up). I know this sounds weird and farfetched but I know there's some truth to my theory.

[@kingsora7977]

Blake is related to eraqus. I call him blake because it sounds better.

[@Cri_Jackal]

It was probably supposed to be Blaine, but the translators for some reason decided to turn the Japanese L/R sound into an r instead of an l.

[@kingsora7977]

@@Cri_Jackal I know right. I mean brain? Come on. I mean you gotta admit blake does sound more cooler.

[@servantbyday]

@@kingsora7977 Your name is probably Blake.

[@kingsora7977]

@@servantbyday no it's not.

[@KingRavo18]

If light can't comprehend darknesses intensions and vise versa, can one who has been abandened by both(a nobody) understand them both? If not then a nobody has to be considered a light, right? Even if they can there can right now only be no more than 2 nobody's remaining(Xigbar/Luxu and Demyx, all other nobody's have been returned to human form.

[@aimanmustaqim2141]

Roxas and xion

[@KingRavo18]

@@aimanmustaqim2141 I don't think they are true nobody's anymore. Sora returned both of their hearts to them inside replicas, and a nobody at the begining has no heart, but both of them after they were recreated had hearts and could feel emotion, like when they with Axel started crying at the end of Saix's fight, but true nobody's need time to regrow a heart, like malruxia only starting to feel in his final moments. But i might be wrong, so maybe.

[@Ultranineteen]

Does anyone know why Eraqus’s keyblade has different teeth than Brain’s? Eraqus’s has that little inner corner at the bottom of the teeth, while the same design is flipped to the top on Brain’s. Maybe it’s just an inconsistency, because the corner was also at the top when Sora finds the keyblade on Destiny Islands.

[@harrisapollon4713]

I think maybe the darkness are the enemies from Verum Rex?....crossing worlds?

[@Star-vw2qf]

Brain is probably a family friend of Eraques parents.

[@ZephyrLeafchaser]

I don't think Brain will be the one left behind, i think it's going to be Ephemer. That's why Ephemer was the one to appear before Sora at the keyblade graveyard along with the union members. I think Brain, Skuld, Larium, Elrena and Ventus all took the pods and wound up landing in different times. Brain landed the earliest and sired a line and helped found scalia ad calum, Laurium and Elrena landed around the same time together and wound up becoming nobodies, Skuld landed just after the events of BBS and became subject X, and Ventus landed before BBS and was carrying darkness within him so when Xehanort split the two darkness became Vanitas.

[@kimberlyklein8806]

Loved seeing the reveal of masters defender and brain's smug look. I am very curious if ven will be revived before getting loaded into the ark? Wasn't he originally found in bbs comatose? So eager for the next update.

[@xxGhostfreak11]

I swear after ux is done they need to remake every update and make it into a cgi movie

[@DemiTrusdale3]

It kinda reminded me of Young Xehanort’s perspectives.. About the weak becoming strong by taking power from the strong and believing they earned it...

[@dstr001]

Well, we know that Xehanort met the MoM at some point, and no one seems to know more about the darkness than him, so its possible MoM manipulated Xehanort from the start, planting these thoughts in his head.

[@AstralMuffin105]

@@dstr001 That's absolutely what he did. The Master of Masters has been playing everyone from the start. He set the Union Leaders against each other, kicking off the Keyblade War, convinced Xehanort that true strength lied in controlling the darkness, and everything that followed is by his design thanks to what he saw with the Gazing Eye and wrote in the Book of Prophecies. The only thing that remains to be known is why he's doing all this and what his actual endgame is.

[@OnezOgirdor]

Might be late to the train but The darkness as an entity possessed Ven. Ven travels into the future/different world. Ven gets the immens darkness in his heart extracted which shatters him till young sora helps him. This extracted darkness takes the form of vanitas. Is vanitas an entity of darkness? An entity that might have traveled through time and space via Ventus and might act as a gateway for more of its species?

[@Kyosukedono]

Not only that Darkness took the shape of master ava when he convinced ventus to take the book. Darkness did it and ventus had nothing to do with it

[@doomgodx99]

It also doesn't help that when the worlds are rebuilt the last things to be added are history(of said world) and people

[@saberbeast1]

Didn't eraqus get the masters defender from his master (odin) who was also in possession of no name as that was passed to xehanort so its possible that brain either passed masters defender on to Odin or passed it on to someone who trained Odin either way we know for certain that eraqus did not get it from brain directly

[@ViroVeteruscy]

Very interesting so far. Still waiting till the Light becomes the villain after trying to destroy the Darkness so often and lines started getting more blurred as Darkness becomes less seen as something that represents evil.

[@DearSis]

“strelitzia rolled a 1” lmao, i died

[@Abs0lut3_ZER0]

The 5th dimension has opened

[@denishenriquedossantos1414]

They did Lauriam dirty.

[@SoapEmess]

Just realised strelitzia is the scientific name for bird of paradise

[@HouseofObiwan]

VANITAS! The darkness had an inside man in order to defeat Xehanort. He was helping Sora / Ventus the whole time.

[@phoenix221186]

this would explain why eraqus wanted to end him with no hesitation

[@melodyhynes9904]

13 darknesses 7 lights Not a symbol 13 Beings called darkness 1. Vanitas 2-13: ???? 7 beings called light 1. MoM 2-7: ???? I can't wait to learn the rest (the darknesses is emotion, the light is mind, the both together is kingdom hearts? My theory, agents of fate. They do based on destiny and have no will of its own)

[@nuruddinshah684]

Hearing what you said HMK..... Is this 40K? "Darkness NOT of this world/Universe"

[@kanekikingstorm2113]

When i saw the update, and so Master Defender, i was thinking "hmk is gonna go bonkers"

[@preciousloreen]

If darkness is not human, maybe light isn’t human either...

[@dominickjoseph9630]

Xehanort says that the world started in darkness and light came from the darkness and the people came from the light

[@firxanza5172]

well of course they aren't human, they're abstract beings

[@Randisim0]

Very nice video bro, great job!👌🏼

[@CaseyNoK]

What I'm trying to figure out is, after the recent story update, who is the true villain in all of this? Is it the Master or Masters? Or is it Luxu aka Braig aka Xigbar?

[@HeartlessSlayer3]

What if Brain IS Eraqus and just changed his name?

[@firxanza5172]

that would certainly be a plot twist

[@AstralMuffin105]

That'd be a twist, but it is very possible, given that other characters from that era somehow ended up in the current era.

I like this. Can't wait to see Yen Sid pop up in Dark Road though

[@soraxstacy1477]

MoM is Loki, and the seeing eye isnt his eye Its Odin's all seeing eye

[@soraxstacy1477]

@lionsasbirds Honestly I think that's the only logical thing, Scala Ad Caelum is looking more and more like Asgard. Scala's destruction will be the result of Ragnarok

[@puck1883]

It’s one of my favorite keyblades

[@WeebGamer101]

Poor brain he gonna be left behind with noone to keep him company and his friends all gone to the future. Man i feel bad for him. He honna die alone. Question is how will master eraqus get to where ventus and aqua and terra are if brain is left behind?

[@onlyacomentarynothingspeci2419]

We Still have to see who originally wielded the kingdom key

[@omariohenry2365]

He was xehnort and eraqueses teacher. My guess is that he died from old age or during a battle of some sort and bequeathed his key blade to eraques

[@HMK]

We already know Eraqus and Xehanort's teacher, its Odin not Brain

[@omariohenry2365]

@@HMK ah I see

[@corrinflakes9659]

This is big Brain stuff if you ask me.

[@crazyturkey1282]

What if He did the same thing Luxu did pass down his key blade

[@Joan-jq5ho]

Bruh, don't tell me that Ventus is as old as Master Eraqus

[@VetusXRoxy1202]

Ventus is older then master Eraqus

[@HyperDragonX]

... SOMEONE CALL THE GAMERJOINT!

[@RMK14]

I have a theory about the kingdom key original owner

[@ArtofGuilt]

The HE is refering to is MOM, not ventus.

[@Maxusdadream]

Ventus being hundreds of years old is mind bending. How long has he been the hyperbolic kingdom hearts chamber? Im convinced he stays young because he made a deal with darkness that he can stay young as long as he gives up control of body from time to time.

[@yoshsplatz8540]

WHAT IN THE HELL? THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING?!

[@axels3188]

This is a all very interesting so the Master’s Defender is as old as the No name Keyblade the thing that Luxu was worried about the kids could play apart of what Xigbar said to Sora In Olympus world about his Reward being around the Corner and it looks like the Darkness are Neutral in nature they don’t do things for reasons or opinions.

[@passionthevirgo]

Been doin' my boi Lauriam dirty.

[@akiriith]

while Ephemer has that cameo in KH3, I do still wonder if he wasnt the one left behind. Like, it was mentioned to be the light of the PAST. idk. assuming each keykid was yeeted at different points in the timelime, assuming he IS Eraqus' grandpa, Brain could have been spat out prior to the other dandelions, followed by Ventus, then Skuld, then Marley and Elrena. Maybe he did find his way back to Daybreak, but it was Scala by then, and he didnt keep a secret about his past? it'd still match the timeline. Just throwing ideas out there, I dont have solid theories anyway xD Just seeing where Nomura takes me! Either way, I'm super curious to see what happens next tho I'm really sad at the idea of khux ending soon. I didnt enjoy DR a lot and I started playing khux less than a year ago, I'm not ready to say goodbye yet ;;

[@TheFixer_1]

I think Luxu hid Subject X (Skuld?) In Quadratum

[@goldensuperiorking3701]

Eraqus and xehanort are there but aren’t “meddling”

[@ericortega8195]

9:25 peep that mickey emblem on bottom left monitor

[@alfredhinton8792]

I now think that ephemer had the no name keyblade. If he did he hadn’t gotten it yet from luxu

[@taylorkrane329]

I havent been getting story cutscenes in the latest chapters!

[@AubreyTheKing]

I wonder if the Master of Masters is even stronger than Yozora. That's a scary thought. Especially considering how freaking OP Yozora was. If the Master of Masters is way stronger than Yozora was, then.....Holy shit....

[@AstralMuffin105]

He most likely is. He's the first known Keyblader in existence, and has lived for thousands of years, as evidenced by his presence in the cutscene with Young Xehanort in ReMind. That much experience, plus all the knowledge he's obtained via the Seeing Eye more than likely makes him the most powerful being in KH.

[@unskillfullymasterful]

master of masters is just future sora, and his apprentice is future riku

[@thundagathejolteon4076]

Yo who the fuck does the Xemnas impression for the outro

[@kavya1638]

3 generations is not enough. master eraqus referenced "past masters" passing down the knowledge of locking lands away, which means it had to have been done before. there should be a crapload of story left to tell from the time between.

[@mulduls]

Me when I first saw the Keyblade on the video: ... ... ... ... ... ... ...WTAF.

[@bbyglo300]

Wait. What. I thought the latest game was KHIII?! What am I missing 🥺

[@zaqareemalcolm]

KH Melody of Memory - Rhthym game that's like a KH version of Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, the story is mostly recap being that Kairi was in her deep sleep trying to find clues of Sora's wherabouts after KH3's ending. The end reveals more a little more about where exactly Sora ended up, and what Riku and Kairi are going to do. KH Union X - The second version of KHX and X[Back Cover], an episodic gacha mobile game. As that entry was about the events of the Keyblade War, Union X is what happened to the Dandelions, a group of Keybladers who were specifically chosen to stay out of it to ensure the survival of Light, as well as possibly what happened to the Old Masters. KH Dark Road - Part of Union X but plays as it's own game with it's own gameplay. Also episodic, it details Xehanort's training with Eraqus, and the story is about them and their fellow pupils investigating the sudden disappearance of their senior apprentices under the orders of their Master.

[@GrindingGearsTV]

in before brain is eraqis ...time travel and leaving with your heart is a thing...and hoping world lines is a thing..its not impossible

[@Chori0nicmirror]

Master of masters could be yensid. Something about the not meddling part makes me think mofm is gonna be someoene we already know.

[@aidinexmachina4232]

With Wreck-it-Ralph being the end of UX, I think it's pretty obvious that SquareEnix/KH & Nintendo are crossing over.

[@strohhuttv8848]

Is funny that most people assume the power of darkness is equal to = evil. That's not the case in Kingdom Hearts just for the people who put darkness and evil in one pot.

[@Chori0nicmirror]

Brain ephimir and skuld could be riku kairi and sora, just like luxu became braig only they didny retain their memories. Or they are just descendants who knows.

[@yangustavo2177]

I never thought about that, but that would explain why xion has black hair

[@Mono-dk4cr]

brain is eraqus from the past

[@TheNateRule]

Time traveling Vanitus with memory lose?

[@cesislas8504]

We're in the soup 🍲 now guys