#VANITAS (BITES MY STEERING WHEEL)

[fisherrprince]

Did KHUX retcon what Vanitas is? because I thought he was the dark part of Ven but people have been telling me he isn't and I'm a bit confused on what Vanitas is now

hmmm, not necessarily. sorry for answering this ask before three others you know how brainworms work

youre going to get people who have different thoughts about this, and different conclusions drawn, but the important thing to remember is we do not have ANY conclusions that are solid. We are missing information. The… conclusions we think we’re drawing, the people making them are kinda in two categories? The ones who believe Nomura is retconning by nixing information, and the ones who think Nomura is retconning by mixing information together. I’m in the second category! A lot of people take Vanitas’ remind/khux? existence to mean he was never a part of Ven actually, and he’s just the piece of darkness ven absorbed. Therefore, upon reintegration into Ven’s heart, he remembers what he is and sets himself up to be hivemind goo darkness in the future. I would not blame them because that’s what it looks like

I like vanitas a lot though and I like to take as much information as I currently have and try to smash it into a coherent piece without destroying any of it, if possible. Idk if I’m right, but I pretend I am lol

so! My conclusion and the conclusion a lot of people aside from me have drawn first is that Vanitas is a darkness smoothie made out of khux darkness, ven’s darkness, and a piece of ven’s heart he’s made into his own. The khux Darkness that got absorbed was completely integrated into Ven, mingling with his own regular darkness but retaining that deep memory of being part of an ancient whole. Once Ven’s heart got broken, all of that darkness was bonded to the piece of his heart that broke off, creating A Person! A person who still feels like Ventus, but… definitely isn’t, and doesn’t have enough of a heart to stop this primordial piece of him from spawning monsters in reaction to the emotions it’s not supposed to have. this kind of sets him up to make a choice in the future, wether or not he’ll side with the Darkness he’s made of or the heart he’s harboring.

I take my sources from a couple places! Here’s one: Vanitas still thinks of Ven as part of him, even in Re:Mind (His death quote kills me its “I need… the rest of me…”). This could also point to the other interpretation where ven’s just been holding on to a little piece of that primordial darkness for funsies and that’s what Sora finds. He’s just finding this information out himself, he doesn’t KNOW much, he knows about as much as we do! I think he’s self-diagnosing as Darkness. Secondly the character files, which were written by a game scenario writer that Nomura works with and says This

And the KH3 novel which says This

and I’m pulling my hair out because THE MAJORITY OF INFORMATION ABOUT HIM IS NOT IN THE GAMES. and the information that isnt in the games stays consistent every time it’s written about, even from the bbs novel. I would LIKE to canonize them to everyone I WOULD but this is why people say that Vanitas is just that Darkness from khux it’s because the novels and character files wink at us and drive me up a wall

ITS BOTH IS WHAT IM SAYING.