#and we can't forget skuld and ephemer

[fantasiallamarcia]

i am very normal about kingdom hearts union x :) you can trust me to talk about kingdom hearts union x in a very normal manner :) i definitely won't lose my absolute marbles if you give me an opening to talk about kingdom hearts union x :)

[valerian-e-song]

ask and ye shall receive. [disclaimer: this is not entirely accurate and i'm glossing over a bunch]

so starting all the way up at the begining of the timeline, you've got union χ. now, khux was a mobile game in which you made your own character and ran around with everyone else's ocs so for clarity's sake i'm not gonna be touching on the part of the game's story that focused on that.

now then. khux places us at a point in time known as the 'age of fairytales' where there are these keyblade masters known as the foretellers and their master, the master of masters (MoM for short <3)

one day, MoM decided to just kinda... leave, but only after pulling each of his students aside to give them a role and a book of prophecies. oh, and to warn them that there was a traitor in their midst and to keep an eye out for that while they trained their own students.

yadda yadda they distrust each other more and more, pit their unions of keyblade wielders against each other, fight each other 1v1 a little, and generally are very dramatic about the whole thing - enough so that it escalates to a full-blown war. this war is known as the 'keyblade war' (creative, i know) and is fought between all the unions and blah blah blah, long fight, everyone dies.

except nope! one of the foretellers, master ava, was gathering keyblade wielders she deemed special into a group, separate from the unions, called the dandelions. these dandelions were warned of the war ahead of time and when the fighting started, literally just said "nope" and left to go live in a digital copy of the world.

the dandelions forget that the war had ever happened and carry on doing their thing, except under new leadership this time. master ava picked out five of them to essentially become the new foretellers, gave one of them her copy of the book of prophecies, and told them to meet up at the keyblade graveyard at a certain point in time.

the five picked out were named ephemer, skuld, brain, larium, and ventus. except, oh no! that can't be right! because master ava also picked out a girl named strelitzia to be a leader and we saw her die! there's an impost- nope not finishing that sentence.

anyways, stuff starts getting... weird around daybreak town. things are glitching out, which is very concerning for the residents who don't actually know that they're in a data world.

the leaders (and you, the player, you're also there) start looking into what's causing the glitches, realize the world they're in isn't real, realize the world's falling apart, and, as a bonus, realize that strelitzia got murdered and that the personification of darkness itself has managed to worm its way into the data world. the data world that, by the way, is starting to shut down which will trap every dandelion that's inside it in it permanently unless someone was able to turn it back on and carefully pull their hearts back out to the real world.

this is a problem because, as previously mentioned, just about everyone who could've done that who isn't currently in the data world itself died in the keyblade war.

yadda yadda, stuff happens, it's revealed that ventus got himself possessed by the darkness and that's what killed strelitzia, the union leaders find a couple of escape pods called 'lifeboats' that could pull people out of the data world so long as they have a waypoint, but there's only 5 of them and it'd take much longer than they've got to get everyone out before the world shut down.

long story very very short (this game was running for over half a decade), ventus gets himself somewhat unpossessed(?) but subsequently falls very asleep, brain plans to get himself, laurium, laurium's friend elrena, and ventus all into lifeboats and out of data daybreak town and then to send the lifeboats back to pull out ephemer, skuld, and the player on the second round, and then let the world shut down so he can reactivate it and save everyone else later.

this plan. doesn't quite work. the first round goes smoothly enough. brain makes it to the real daybreak town, sends laurium, elrena, and ventus on their way to somewhere safer, then sends the remaining lifeboats back in to pick up our aforementioned trio.

except the darkness is still around and is threatening to either a. kill all three of us, or b. possess all three of us so it can get out, so player pretends to be possessed, fights ephemer and skuld till ephemer finally can bring himself to lock his best friend (you) away somewhere, and then kinda. lets themself get killed. (you then refuse the option of having your sleeping heart merge with your chirithy (long story) and instead get reincarnated into xehanort (we'll get back to him later))

ephemer drags skuld, who's mostly unconscious from the fight as the player wasn't exactly holding back, over to the lifeboats, helps her inside one, gets into his own, and makes the rookie mistake of caring and thinking about his best friend (player) while the lifeboat activates, making his waypoint still in daybreak town and thus so he never actually manages to escape.

laurium wakes up in a flower field somewhere. elrena gets dumped on a story, lightning-y cliff. ventus manages to get his passed-out self to be left in the keyblade graveyard, now without his memories. we don't actually know what happens to skuld, but it's loosly implied she gets thrown in a dungeon and experimented on so there's that.

brain is confronted by luxu, an apprentice of the MoM's who kinda peaced out along with MoM, who tells him that when the data world shuts down it'll erase anything left inside it, no waking the hearts back up at all, steals his body(?), and sends him forward a good,, oh, several decades.

brain finds himself in a city that he's never heard of called 'scala ad caelum' where he's greeted by someone he's never met before (named sigurd) who greets him by name and gives him a replica of the hat he lost and tells brain to follow him. brain does and wanders across a statue of ephemer who we learn is the creator, founder, and original keyblade master of scala.

(we also learn, though it's never quite explicitly said, that scala used to be daybreak town. meaning ephemer built scala out of the literal rubble of his home, if you wanted something fun to think about)

and, yeah, that's union χ in a very loose, very long short summary. i don't know anything about dark road so next up would be birth by sleep, which i'll tell you about uh. later.

this ask is way too long already.

THIS ALL HAPPENS IN UNION CROSS??????????????

AREN'T THERE LIKE 10 OTHER GAMES

[goldenwitherphoenix13]

Its time for a probrably wrong union X theory!

Welcome to my first ever attempt at a theory.yall are here to watch ne be wrong. Lmoa.

Union X is coming to an end and its time share with you my big end game theories connecting the dots of kingdom hearts 3 and Re:Mind to Union X. And that is by using some solid evidence from the games and from the light novels. Yes. I'm going there.

This first bit is to do with the idea that Vanitas is the Darkness that possessed Ven in Union X. Now, this could easily be disproven right? Well I think I can actually bring validity to it.

Fist there's the obvious evidence that Vanitas claims that "what I am is Darkness" in Kingdom Hearts 3 and hes been a part of Ven longer than he thinks, he was only extracted is something he mentioned in Re:Mind. This can be written off by him being all the pure darkness in Vens heart, but could be taken as him being the entity darkness.

Ok. So, remember how I said I would talk about the light novels? Well, in said light novels, Vanitas is said to originally have no face/true corporeal form, having the form more like dark Rikus outfit thing, but thanks to Sora touching Vens heart, he gained a more humanish form.

Well.... darkness in Union X...

uhhhh....They have... no form. Just a cloud of purple and black with a figure resemblent of a human form in the center, if you look closely.

And if it were extracted from Vens heart by Xehanort to make Vanitas, that means darkness returns to lay within Ven dormant after the Union leaders defeat it, even when he travels to the time of Birth by Sleep! That or it has left remnents of itself within him to ensure darkness will follow into the future. Either way, it or part of it was in Ven until Xehanort took it away along with the natural darkness of his heart.

But if that's the case, then that would mean Vanitas wasn't technically a part of Ventus, but had resided there so long that that's what he believed. Because memories are stripped when they time travel. Does that effect darkness? Making it thinks its always been Vens darkness and Vens Darkness alone all this time.

Now for things to get a bit wonkey

There's still a big question lurking. What the hell is up with Dark inferno X? (chi pronounced key) its picture is below.

The bio from Re:Mind states "The darkness that erupted out of Ventus's heart and turned into an aggressive heartless. But the voice that was heard at the time intimated that it was "darkness" itself. What did that mean..."

INDEED WHAT! 

Well, let's not forget the basic rule of the Kingdom hearts universe. If your heart is lost or Overcome by darkness it becomes a heartless. 

Xehanorts heartless, Ansem, possessed Riku in Kingdom hearts 1 when it became a weak heart like spirit... who's to say other heartless who are strong enough can't do the same thing? And the design... who is one person with similar attributes like... a scarf, that Ventus at least encountered or knew?

Ephemer.

Quick point I'll refer to later, but remember, we see Ephemer help Sora with the light of the past later on in kingdom hearts 3. The keyblades all come to life with the hearts of the fallen weilders and stuff and Sora surfs them because video game. Now, this bit is a little confusing. What was Ephemer doing in the white void? Was that a ghostly form of his nobody or something? An appiration? Just his ghost? The moment he arrived in the future?

Well, the moment of him arriving can be crossed of I think. Where did he go if that were the case? Ephemer appearing in that moment does throw a spaner in the world, but I might be able to pull it out and fix the theory prediction.

My theory for this part is that the Ephemer we see in KH3... is Ephemers nobody in a ghost like form waiting for his heartless, Dark Inferno X.

His heartless must of found a way to hide or travel through time and went to hide within Ven's heart like Ansem did to Riku, but it has to be after Vanitas was removed. Otherwise, Dark inferno X would of been extracted by Xehanort too. The entity of darkness or its remnents, however, was with Ven when he travelled through time.

I think the best answer is Ephemers nobody died in the travel or after, is now a spirit, and helped the heroes of light. He's just waiting for his heartless to be destroyed so he can return as his somebody. And now that Sora has defeated it... who's to say we won't see him soon.

Oh and I think the secret Dark Inferno X boss in 3 was just a test for the remind one and went through a minor design change. Image comparison below, pictures from Google.

Kh3 Re:Mind

The unversed floods did the same thing between birth by sleep, bbs final mix and 3 after all going blue to purple and back to blue (I like them purple).

I really don't want to believe that it was Strelitzias heartless and that she might be able to return. I'd rather her remain a permanent death like the keyblade wilders of Union X, Master Eraqus and Master Xehanort. Its nice having a concept of death in Kingdom Hearts.

Where was I? Oh yes. I think Dark inferno X is Ephemers Heartless.

Now for one more problem. How Dark inferno X got to Ventus.

From what I see, it has 2 routes.

1: use the Ark and escape into the future. This leaves only a broken pod in the Union X time so Blain can not join the other leaders. Ephemer just has to wait. The only problem here is how Dark inferno X located Ven and got into castle oblivion without a hitch. Though I guess it did have 10 years to look.

2: hide in someone's keyblade. We've seen hearts contained by keyblades so I don't see why it can't happen again. A curse to the masters defender. I think it atratches its heart to the keyblade and thats how it escaped into Ven. When Aqua left him in Castle oblivion, the heartless snook away and hid within him, waiting for Vens heart to arrive so it could hide better and we could get the scene in Remind.

Either way, thats where Ephemers heartless would reside until it was reawakened.

So, to summarise what we've discussed into a timeline.

The Union leaders battle and defeat Darkness. Maybe temporarily, maybe for good. We don't know until its too late. It probably starts talking about some cryptic stuff, quoting things yet to be heard, who knows. This is where I believe Darkness overtakes Ephemer and turns his heart into dark inferno X (hence why it introduced itself to Sora as Darkness in Re:Mind. In a panic, Skuld and Blaine probably carry their unconscious friends out and flee to the ark, the time travel pods, darknesses remnants inside Ventus's heart and stays dormant until they are brought out. After waking the other 2 up and healing them Skuld, Lauriam and Ven go though the Ark pods, possibly joined by Elrena, and Blaine then stays behind and searches for Ephemers nobody. Hoping to reunite and reconnect the dark inferno X to Ephemer. 

Dark inferno X then hides away or travels to the future. I mean, I don't expect it to fit in the ark pods, but it might hide away in there or something. If it does then heres the first scenario.

There is one broken pod left. Blaine does his best to fix it, but its not safe enough so Ephemers nobody dies going through and it ends up as a spirit thing, waiting and searching for its heartless. Oh! And Blaine doesn't figure out how to properly build the things so he decides to remain in this time.

Dark inferno X then searches attaches to Ven to hide away.

The other scenario is it hides away in masters defender and slips by then. Blain sends Ephemer through, but since he's a nobody, things don't go smoothly and Ephemers Nobody probably dies in travel.

The generations pass and everything happens.

Dark inferno X is defeated by Sora.

The end game is coning.

And that's it. That's the whole theory. Here's to hope the Union leaders come out on top in the Union X finale, Sora is saved in the next game and Ven finally gets therapy once he recovers these memories. Actually let's order therapy for everyone! 

Also speaking of Ven, Nomura, if you hurt my boy again, I'm gonna punch you.

Theres a reason I made this cringy meme! (art of Ventus by me its one of my older arts of him)

Phoenix out!

(Ps: reply or reblog with inaccuracies)