Master Xehanort

Master Xehanort
Series	Kingdom Hearts
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Sex	Male
Species	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Alignment	Neutral Evil

is a Villain that is played as an antagonist in the Video Game: Kingdom Hearts.

Background

Born on Destiny Islands, Xehanort was always a curious young man, edging his scientific discoveries of the Darkness inherent in all worlds. The world of Destiny Islands was just too small for him, and when being met with a future version of himself, he saw an oppurtunity to satisfy his curiosity. After some time-travel shenanigans, he came back from the future and started his Keyblade training under the Master of Masters, alongside his brother-in-arms Eraqus.

Eventually, Xehanort and Eraqus were granted the title of Keyblade Masters, and Xehanort swapped out his old keyblade for the fabled No Name, which was passed down to him presumably by Luxu, the Master of Master’s apprentice. After some time, Xehanort and Eraqus both grew old and began training three new Keyblade warriors - Terra and Aqua. Xehanort found another boy with the ability to summon the Keyblade, Ventus, and broke his heart in two halves - a light and a dark. Sometime later, Xehanort did battle with these three as they caught wind of his plan to reopen Kingdom Hearts with the χ-Blade, and in turn he took over the body of Terra. This would lead to the creation of what we know as Terranort. Also, he has amnesia now.

Studying under Ansem the Wise, Xehanort’s curiosity never truly fell, and he began to research darkness in secret. In turn, he transformed his body into two halves in an experiment - his Heartless, Ansem (Seeker Of Darkness), and his Nobody, Xemnas. After a new Keyblade wielder, Sora, defeated both his Heartless and Nobody, Xehanort was reborn as the old man we know and love. Then, he enacted a new plan to open Kingdom Hearts after his old one failed - he would use 13 darknesses and 7 lights, and together they would clash in the Keyblade Graveyard, awakening the χ-Blade and awakening Kingdom Hearts, all to satisfy his curiosity.

Powers & Abilities

• Heart: A Heart is one of the three parts which comprise a being in the Kingdom Hearts universe, the other two being body and soul. The heart is the essence of the being. The destruction of the body and soul will not kill a being, as the verse lacks a “proper concept of death”, and instead the being will return as a heartless or nobody. Only the complete destruction of a heart will definitely kill someone. A shattered heart can potentially restore itself, as shown with Sora. The heart is made of light and darkness. Xehanort can move his hearts into others, possessing them.
• Darkness: Darkness is half of what makes everything. Darkness creates and feeds off of primal emotions such as revenge, hate, greed, and fear. In the process, it makes those it affects experience and exhibits these feelings while constantly making those feelings stronger, eventually leading to the affected becoming a Heartless and (rarely) a Nobody. If one relies too heavily on the powers darkness gives them, it will swallow their hearts in a matter of time as Riku almost lost his heart from using Corridors of Darkness frequently. Xehanort has not only made darkness his own, it's heavily implied he has become a being of pure darkness. Darkness can be used to travel between realms, or banish beings into the realm of darkness. The realm of darkness is a realm that breaks down matter, and is divorced from the flow of time. Using darkness, Xehanort is able to send the souls and hearts of others (this example being terra) to a void beyond both light and darkness. Nothing exists here, leaving the target alone forever. He is also able to corrupt spells with darkness, turning them against the user. He can also remove all the darkness from a being, recreating into a being that serves him.
• Light: With the χ-Blade, Xehanort can begin to control and manipulate light as he pleases, since Kingdom Hearts is the source of all light throughout the worlds. He can even rip the light out of a person if he pleases, which can seriously hurt their chances at beating him since light is often a necessity to harm a user of darkness.
• Neverness:
• Time Space Portal: By the time of Kingdom Hearts 3, Xehanort’s repeated use of time travel has turned him into a living space-time portal, with Riku saying he “transcends space and time”. Nomura explains what this actually means, that Master Xehanort is immune to time stops now, and young Xehanort his time controlling abilities.These abilities include:
  • The ability to reverse time.
  • Summoning other versions of himself across time
  • Can slow down time
  • Resistant to time stops
  • Can completely reverse a battle to its beginning, healing and retaining prior knowledge in the processHe also gains the ability to time travel. By discarding his physical form (i.e. travelling as a heart), Xehanort can travel to any point in the past he has lived through himself. And, reminder, he’s really old. Young Xehanort is also able to time travel, doing so without sacrificing his physical body to fight Eraqus’ students in the past. This fight is canon, as confirmed by the BBS Ultimania. Young Xehanort has repeatedly traveled through time. In short bursts Xehanort can also use Time Reversal Magic to reverse time a few seconds backward without the need to charge up. If Xehanort wants to take it further back into the past, like the beginning of the fight itself, he needs to charge up the ability for a small duration, but leaves himself vulnerable in the process. The spell at that point however can only be broken by some specific means a la keyblade and reality shifting.
• Regeneration: Besides the ability to regenerate as a heartless over time (given to him by absorbing Ansem the heartless) and healing spells, Xehanort has one other option to restore himself. In Kingdom Hearts 3, he absorbs Vanitas’ into himself (alongside the remnants of the organization via his proxies). Vanitas himself was able to return back into physical form despite the complete destruction of his heart (essence), soul, and body. This new form is described as being his thoughts made flesh, which is stronger than his prior state. Terra was able to do a similar thing, albeit less impressive, by manifesting his thoughts into his armor despite Xehanort taking his body and sending his Heart into a distant void. The Vanitas Remnant is canon, as Nomura explicitly stated only No heart and Armor of the Master were the only non canon optional bosses in BBS. Furthermore, Vanitas Remnant is required to fight before you can fight young Xehanort, who was stated to be a canon fight by Nomura in the previous comment. Considering Xehanort possesses this ability, he should be able to regenerate in this state as well if need be. Maleficent could also achieve this, to a lesser degree.
• Control Over Laws: Keyblade users are unaffected by the “Laws” of different worlds, such as the curse within the world of Pirates. Young Xehanort is shown manipulating the laws of the Toy Box world, splitting it in two. He's even capable of sending Sora into a video game with the world. Another demonstration of this power is the “laws” of castle oblivion turning Sora’s friends into cards.
• Power of Waking: An extremely rare ability meant to awaken sleeping worlds and travel to them via Hearts. The ability, however, can be used to rewrite entire timelines, undoing death. The result leaves tears in time. Xehanort is fully knowledgeable on the ability, with Terranort practically confirming he has the ability. He chooses not to use it, as overusing the ability can lead to forced removal from the universe/multiverse. Yen Sid corroborates Keyblade Masters knowing the Power of Waking, as he basically says Riku knows it by the end of DDD. Also his name spelled backwards is Dis.
• Various Spells: Just like any other Kingdom Hearts character, Xehanort can use his Keyblade to use devastating elemental magic attacks. It’s worth noting that, the higher the spell skill (i.e. -ra, -ga, -za) the higher the toll on the caster’s body is. These include:
  • Fire Magic: Xehanort can manipulate the magical element of Fire in order to create large flaming pillars that can be used to shatter the buildings around Xehanort. He is also shown to be capable of casting Firaza which creates a huge surge of fire to be released from his Keyblade, but can be condensed to a single shot of fire or even a circle of fire surrounding him. He can also use Dark Firaga which is a combination of his Darkness/Fire Abilities. Unlike many of the other magic spell types, Xehanort has so many of this type that could be considered his best one.
  • Ice Magic: Xehanort can manipulate the element of ice in various ways as he is shown capable of completely freezing anything as shown when he froze Ventus. He is also shown capable of casting which creates an icy field around him to freeze his opponents solid, and should be able to use the tracks it makes to glide across like a graceful dancer. The best of these ice spells that he can use is Ultima Freeze, which can incapacitate opponents by freezing them as well as damaging them.
  • Electric Magic: Xehanort can manipulate the element of Thunder to summon Thunderbolts in the sky. Normally he uses Thunder Magic through the use of Thundaza which causes an area of effect spell that brings down lightning on his opponent, but can be condensed to a singular bolt. He is also able to combine his darkness magic and electric magic to cast Dark Thundaga which calls down a strike of dark lightning on his target. The best electric spell he can use is Thundaga, which has the chance of paralyzing his opponent as well as dealing damage.
  • Earth Magic: Xehanort is capable of manipulating the ground around him through Earth Magic. Xehanort is capable of creating of raising large pillars of earth in order to stop Terra from attacking. He can also use the spell known as Quake to make the earth erupt below his opponent - which launches them into the air.
  • Wind Magic: As shown during Xehanort’s fight against Ventus, Terra and Aqua - Xehanort is capable of manipulating the weather and creating wind tornadoes in order to lift hundreds of keyblades into the air. He should also be capable of using Aero Spells (due to his mastery of the other elemental spells)which creates a wind shield around the user. One of these wind spells includes Whirlwind, which can somehow shift the player’s command deck implying it manipulates metaphysics to some degree.
  • Time Stop Magic: Xehanort is shown to be capable of manipulating time through the use of Stopza. With this spell, Xehanort can cast a spell that stops time for everyone within his current vicinity: it does have a limit, however, and that is the area it affects. Anything outside of this area will not be stopped, and thus is free to counterattack afterwards.
  • Telekinesis: In birth by sleep, xehanort can move hundreds of keyblades with his mind, creating a storm of them.
  • Telepathy: Xehanort is capable of telepathically communicating with other people as shown with him contacting Terra. It is unknown if he can telepathically read into other people’s minds.
  • Teleportation: Using his inherent connection to the darkness within his heart, Xehanort is able to teleport anywhere and anytime he wants using Dark Portals. He can also bring people and objects with him when he travels, though that seems to be the limit of the portal’s capacity. He and his other versions can also teleport short distances without portals.
  • Doom: One of Xehanort’s most dangerous spells, this attack will have a time limit. Basically once the user casts it on an opponent they have a set time before the number runs out - automatically killing him.
  • Collision Magnet: A spell that uses energy to ensnare opponents and pull them in for attacks or whip them around.
  • Renewal Barrier: Xehanort can release a barrier that actually heals him when an opponent attacks him while using it.
  • Vanish: This spell makes Xehanort turn completely invisible for some amount of time.
  • Meteor: Eat your heart out Sephiroth. Basically summons a giant meteor down at his opponent
  • Sonic Attack: An attack that focuses on blitzing the opponent with charging faster than Xehanort is normally capable of, a la Quick Attack in Pokemon.
  • Whip Wave: Young Xehanort strikes Riku three times in rapid succession with his Keyblade
  • Sealing via Luxord: Can seal an opponent in a large card
  • Spatial Manipulation via Xigbar: Can teleport and alter the terrain, alongside making portals.
  • Light Manipulation via Xion: Xion can use light in combat
  • Lightning Manipulation via Larxene: She can control electricity
  • AOE Lasers via Xemnas: This infamous move
  • Berserk Mode via Siax: Saix can increase his power by going berserk
  • Power Null via Marluxia: Marluxia can remove Sora’s cards, which are his abilities in Chain of Memories
  • Can Summon more Heartless, Nobodies, and Unversed, via Young Xehanort, Ansem, Vanitas, Riku Replica, and Xemnas.
  • Sleep Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, and Power Nullification: Put Sora in a sleep so bad, that it entirely destroyed his powers, previous people connected to him, and induced a nightmare in the form of the Armored Ventus Nightmare.
  • Paralysis Inducement via Bind:
  • Mind Manipulation, and Confusion: Can confuse enemies with Confuse.
  • Size Manipulation: Minimizes enemies with Mini.
  • Information Analysis: Scan which allows him to view his opponents Health.
  • Location Manipulation;
  • Pocket Dimension Creation:
  • Existence Erasure via Warp Spell:
  • Resistance to Mind Hax, and Existence Erasure: can remain in the realm of darkness without armor. Realm of darkness corrupts and destroys the minds of those who remain in it, yet xehanort is unaffected. Can take numerous hits from keyblades which destroy essence, and is unaffected by the existence erasure of heartless or the realm of darkness.
• Creation:
  • Proxy/Xeharnort Replica Creation: These Xehanort copies are made from the pieces of Xehanort’s heart that went into the Real Organization XIII, after they were all defeated. They each carry the abilities, keyblades, and combat styles of each of the Real Organization XIII members.
  • Heartless Summoning: The Heartless are the hearts of people without the body or souls, willing to attack anyone in sight as long as they have light inside their heart. There is a gigantic variety of different types of Heartless with different abilities. Xehanort can summon up to thousands of them at once. Heartless have the unique ability to rip out your own heart, and they can do so without touching you. Unless killed with a keyblade, the heartless will simply reform overtime.
  • Nobody Summoning: The body and soul, without the heart, seeking out those who have hearts and attacking them out of longing to be complete. Nobodies are embodiments of nothingness, having nonexistent physiology.  Normally they are intangible, but keyblade wielders can attack them. Even regular dusk nobodies are quite powerful, being capable of overwhelming post kh1 Sora, and forcing Axel to commit suicide to kill a group of them. Like heartless, there’s a large variety of different types of nobodies with different abilities and varying power.
  • Unversed Summoning: The unversed are the emotions of Vanitas made physical. They continuously reflow into Vanitas even after destruction, allowing him to respawn them immediately. Here is a list of the different kinds of Unversed. The most dangerous unversed is the Mimic Master, which can create copies of the opponent, including exclusive abilities such as the keyblade, which is tied to one's essence.
  • Opponent Cloning: Using the darkness in someone’s heart, Xehanort can create a perfect clone of them, willing to do his bidding. He’s done this to Ventus to create Vanitas.

Equipment

• No Name: Passed down through the Master of Masters, this Keyblade is unique in that the eye at the top of it is… an actual eye. It functions just as any other keyblade does, with the ability to cast magical spells and seal any door. Xehanort, through the Mark of Mastery exam, has shown to be a master of using his No Name, thus giving him the title “Keyblade Master”. Keyblades themselves are capable of causing conceptual damage. This is based on Xehanort conceptually killing Kairi with his base Keyblade, which he even states that isn't different from any other Keyblade, and Chirithy even explains that when Sora brings back the Guardians of Light, he restored them after their "hearts" were being erased from existence. Keyblades also demonstrate this function by destroying the “existence of darkness”. That being the heartless, who are embodiments of the primordial darkness that at the beginning of creation. This is also consistent with it being the only thing that harms and kills nobodies, who are embodiments of the conceptual nothingness that exists alongside the Light and Darkness.The Keyblade negates regeneration, because if a heartless is killed by anything beside the blade, they will return. They blade can also permanently kill the cursed crew in the Pirates world, completely overcoming their immortality given by the curse. All keyblades are exclusive to their owner, as they choose the wilder and are connected to their hearts The final main application they have is sealing, capable of opening and closing the “world heart”, the collective essence of a world.
• χ-Blade: After the 13 darknesses and 7 lights clashed, Xehanort was able to awaken the power of the χ-Blade. This weapon is what originally stopped the age of fairy tales, and split the Kingdom Hearts multiverse into separate worlds that manifested as your favorite Disney films. This weapon also has unique teleportation abilities, as it seems to be able to open portals from any point in space to aid Xehanort in combat. It can also affect the light and darkness of an individual, to the point where they are either pure light or pure darkness. Xehanort uses this weapon to control Kingdom Hearts, as it is linked with it. The weapon has “higher dimensional power”, and wielding it is said to give power beyond mortality. All other keyblades are merely inferior forgeries of it.
• Keyblade Armor: This is Master Xehanort’s Keyblade Armor. While it doesn’t increase the user’s strength, durability and speed - it protects the user from possession. It also protects the user from the darkness
• Xehanort Armor: Functionally identical to his Keyblade Armor, Xehanort has specific armor he wears in KH3 in his fight against Sora. This should function the same as his Keyblade Armor, shielding him from darkness. It also has an appearance reminiscent of his first keyblade, No Name.
• The Real Organization XIII: The Real Organization XIII are the thirteen darknesses Xehanort would use to bring out the χ-Blade by placing a piece of his heart in 12 vessels and having the 13 of them clash with 7 warriors of light. Imparting a piece of his heart into the members grants them his own abilities on top of their own and allowing them all to telepathically communicate, track each other across time and space, and meet up when necessary and possible. Many of the members are Xehanort himself, while some others are either his creations, people he’s controlling, or people he recruited to his cause. While it’s somewhat debatable as to whether Xehanort should be allowed them in a vs match, many of them are still Xehanort himself, they all have a piece of Master Xehanort’s heart in them, plus they can all access each other rather conveniently. The KH3 ultimania explains why the members became part xehanort, and the reasons why Xion and Terra were able to return.
• Kingdom Hearts: Xehanort has tapped into the power of Kingdom Hearts through the χ-Blade enough times that it’s acceptable to give him in a vs debate, much like giving Eggman the Chaos Emeralds. Kingdom Hearts’ power was responsible for the creation of the original world before the Keyblade War would cover the world in darkness and result in the shattering of Kingdom Hearts’ protector, the χ-Blade. The world was saved due to the light within the hearts of children, but the original world that once was, was scattered into multiple realms. When Xehanort absorbs the power of Kingdom Hearts, his power increases to an extreme level beyond that of which the likes of any other Keyblade Master could handle. Xehanort can also fill Kingdom Hearts with darkness in an attempt to destroy all worlds and return them to their very original state as one singular universe. Xehanort is implied to be able to survive this, so he can control those who would eventually rise to try and fill the world with darkness.

Feats

Strength:

• Matched Terra’s strength with one hand
• As Young Xehanort, held back Sora, Donald, and Goofy with one hand
• Far stronger than Zeus, who created a constellation (4.22 FOE)
• Comparable in power to Kingdom Hearts, which is capable of creating and maintaining the universe, even after it was split into multiple realms
• An incomplete Kingdom heralds can restore destroyed worlds at the end of the first game. (At least 1 Foe)
• Overpowered Sora with the power of the χ-Blade and Kingdom Hearts..at first
• Destroyed the Land of Departure with a pseudo black hole
• Capable of creating multiple pocket dimensions of varying sizes
• Was able to cover all of Kingdom Hearts in darkness, which was going to destroy all the worlds and bring them back to their original state as they were when they were originally created as one universe
• Far above Aqua, who can damage the χ-Blade wielded by Vanitas
• Scales above Sora’s Heartless, which can destroy the Data Realm. The Data Realm is an entire universe. This also spilled out into the real universe as well.
• Scales to Sora, who can toss buildings like nothing.

Speed:

• Blitzed Ventus (GIF above), who can react to Stitch’s cruiser while it was in hyperdrive, which can travel through a solar system (1640076.12c)
• Comparable to Sora and Riku, who were able to completely dodge an onslaught of lasers courtesy of Xemnas
• Comparable to Roxas, who traveled from Radiant Garden to the Keyblade Graveyard (66,000,000c). This could also be much higher given how worlds in Kingdom Hearts are potentially universe sized.
• Comparable to Sora, who can pilot the Gummi Ship, which can fly to other worlds in seconds (Over 1,000,000c). Once again, this could get much higher with how worlds in Kingdom Hearts are interpreted.
• Comparable to Terra,Aqua and Ven who fought Monstro. Monstro was capable of keeping up with the Gummi Ships
• Comparable to KH3 Sora who dodged this industrial laser. Considering the nature of this laser, it is likely moving at light speed.
• Kingdom Hearts 3 Sora also shoot a beam at a keyhole far away (101,927,454c)

Durability:

• Believed himself to be capable of surviving Kingdom Hearts wiping every world
• Terranort was completely unharmed by Sora
• Tanked attacks from Rage Sora
• Was hit by an combined attack from Sora, Donald, and Goofy (while he was kinda killed by this, he survived long enough to have an entire conversation afterward)
• Scales to Lingering Will, who survived an explosion caused by the destruction of the False X-Blade
• As Terranort, tanked hits from Lingering Will (physical strikes as well as his most powerful attack, Ultima Canon)
• Xehanort’s Nobody, Xemnas, tanked attacks from KH2 Sora (KH2 Sora should be stronger then Sora’s Heartless in Coded, who can destroy the Data Realm)
• Xemnas also tanked attacks from both Sora and Riku's keyblades
• Comparable to Sora, who has:
  • Survived attacks from the Titans, who are capable of restraining Zeus.
  • Took hits from Hercules. Hercules once lifted the sun.
  • Survived a water twister created by Ursula. (283 Megatons)
  • Sora can cut through buildings like butter, and Xehanort tanks that like nothing

Skill:

• Studied under the Master of Masters
• Is a Keyblade Master
• Caused the second Keyblade War
• Has opened Kingdom Hearts twice
• Successfully created both his Heartless and Nobody voluntarily
• Both his Heartless and Nobody were able to open faux Kingdom Hearts’
• Assembled both the original and true Organization 13
• Was able to brainwash at least half of the original organization into become Xehanort puppets
• Was able to release the power of the χ-Blade, which reshaped the Kingdom Hearts multiverse
• Beat Terra and Ventus
• Was a brilliant scientist
• Nearly beat Sora, if it weren’t for the power of friendship
• Magically gained elf ears
• Has been playing a game of 4th dimensional chess with Eraqus for the past 70 years, even after getting him murdered

Weaknesses

• Arrogant to a fault and doesn’t care about the lives of the other Organization 13 Members which led to a few members ultimately betraying him and contributing in some ways to his downfall
• While his time travelling abilities are impressive - he needs to give up his physical body in order to do so.