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Because Ive been thinking about it and cause theres nothing left to really say right now I will explain to you the awesomeness that is the Kingdom Hearts antagonist, Xehonort.


Before you read on you need to know a bit of KH lore. When a heart (soul) is consumed by darkness that persons heart leaves the body and is manifested in physical form as a creature known as a Heartless. The body left behind still has a will but no memories or emotions (contained within the heart) and becomes a creature called a Nobody. The only weapon that can destroy the two creatures is a type of sword called a keyblade, which only chosen individuals can wield.


Now to begin...


There are two individuals, Master Eraqus, who embodies the light (good), and Master Xehonort, who embodies the darkness (evil). Xehonort has been obsessed with an ancient civil war and obtaining ultimate power but is growing old and is looking for a young body to possess. He is training a pupil, Venitas, who is the physical manifestation of dark power injected into one of Eraqus' pupils, Ventus, whose body rejected the power and made Venitas. Ventus is the embodiment of a pure heart (soul) and Venitas used that power to become real.


Xehonort is training Venitas to one day fuse with Ventus to create a body with perfect balance between light and dark, someone who could not be destroyed by either power and could wield the ultimate weapon, the "X" Blade. To prevent this from happening Eraqus tries to destroy Ventus but is stopped by another of his pupils, Terra, who sees Ventus as a little brother. Terra weakens Eraqus and Xehonort seizes the opportunity to destroy Eraqus.


Forseeing this, Eraqus' heart left his body and entered Terra's during their fight before Xehonort destroyed his body. In a final battle, Ventus defeats Venitas before taking him into his body and destroying him with his pure heart. His plan foiled, Xehonort chooses to instead possess Terra, who has been struggling to understand and balance the darkness in his heart which Xehonort has helped grow and make strong. In a fight between the two Xehonort enters Terra as his own body is destroyed, but because Terra is unknowingly carrying the heart of Eraqus, he is saved while Eraqus is destroyed. Terra takes the opportunity to leave his body and possess his armor before Xehonort can destroy him as well.


The two then have a contest of wills which leads Terra to be destroyed and Xehonort greatly weakened and with no memories. Xehonort wanders for a bit lost and unknowing before being found by Ansem the Wise, a traveling scholar. Taking him on as a pupil Ansem begins to train and instruct Xehonort but becomes wary of his obsession with the darkness and reclaiming his lost memories. Without Ansem's knowledge, Xehonort conducts an experiment to let darkness consume him where he thinks he will find his lost memories. But he is not strong enough to resist and his heart is consumed by darkness and he becomes a heartless.


He is so damaged by his experiment that he is unable to manifest into a physical form yet and looks to possess another body. He eventually comes across Riku (best friend of the protagonist and is capable of using a keyblade because Terra gave child-Riku the power during his travels) who is also struggling to understand the darkness in his heart and possesses him. Much time later, Xehonort has regained much of his lost powers but after a heated battle between possessed-Riku and the protagonist (Sora, who was given the power to wield keyblades by Ventus during his travels), Xehonort is expelled from his body but is now able to manifest into a physical body of his own. Riku does not become a nobody because his heart still resided in his body, just consumed by the darkness. Another tough battle and the Heartless Xehonort is defeated and eventually destroyed by the pure light of Kingdom Hearts (more on that later). A small piece of him recreates itself from what remains of the darkness in Riku's heart.

During this time the Nobody Xehonort has been massing power of his own in secret and brought together a group of powerful nobodies to create Organization XIII, a group that controls all nobodies in a desire to unlock Kingdom Hearts and recreate the hearts their bodies had lost. Becoming aware of this plot Sora moves to stop him and Riku is close behind while trying to figure out how to control the darkness. Through an almost unneeded game Sora defeats several of Organization XIII's members before being put to sleep for a year for plotline reasons. Riku comes to grips with the darkness inside of him and once again expels Xehonort from his body (Riku does this by accepting the darkness that is a part of him but in doing so it warps his body to look like Xehonort's heartless), only this time Xehonort is not strong enough to manifest a physical body.

A year later Sora awakens and continues his conquest to stop Organization XIII. Riku is moving by his own agenda. Nobody Xehonort is also moving on his own agenda. After several conflicts only Xehonort remains from the organization and he battles with Riku and Sora while using the power of an incomplete Kingdom Hearts. During the fight Xehonort is destroyed and completely eradicated. Riku and Sora return home.

Shortly after thier long-awaited homecoming Sora recieves a letter informing him that the Heartless Xehonort once again has a body of his own and that Sora is needed to help defeat him. (And thus I eagerly await Kingdom Hearts III)