Kingdom Hearts Theory: The Secret of The Keyblade's Chosen 

HMK, why is the x-blade have two kingdom keys? This makes me think that the kingdom key is a special key. And if this is true what makes it special, and why was Riku going to wield it? Same goes with Sora.

I like the "keyblades have hearts" idea. I've actually heard something similar that maybe their "hearts" are contained in their keychains. I noticed the keyblades in the keyblade graveyard all seem to be missing their keychains. Maybe that's where the keychains come into play where the chain allows another keyblade to take on the form of a fallen keyblade from the graveyard by replacing the "default" keychain with the heart of another.

Has anyone ever noticed how the kingdom key is similar in design to riku in kingdom hearts

HMK I like this Theory a lot and I praise you for having good prospective on things. not many people would have delved into the thought as far as you did. I myself had already came to the same conclusions you did years ago.

That was one hell of a Theory! Great video and explanation! Thank you HMK!

there is another mysterious fact tied in with the keyblade. in the story so far. there is a line saying this: after the world was cover in darkness the lights' in the children hearts reform the world as it is today. could the light have something to do?

Great Theory Video!

Interesting theory HMK. I have a theory that in kingdom hearts 3, kingdom hearts will be unlocked and all the deceased keyblade warriors will return from the grave. Also I think the keyblade changes shape based on the wielder's personality. #HMK #Kingdomhearts3

HMK, I would like you to think about a theory I have ever since I've seen what the "X-Blade" looks like. People have been saying "the Keyblade shapes itself into what the wielder's heart's condition. Riku, for example, is both dark and light because he chose the way to dawn. But Sora's Keyblade is just a Kingdom Key, or a Default. In my theory, it is actually half of the "X-Blade" and really Ventus' Keyblade, just in its true form. Since Sora holds Ventus' heart, making Sora a Keyblade wielder, he can wield one, but not his heart's form. In a short version: Sora's Keyblade is half of the X- Blade since Ventus is within Sora and holds Ventus' half of his true form. If you can't understand fully of what I am trying to say, I will try to word it correctly in another video or reply. Please consider this theory. In one of your theory videos.

I have a theory on why the heartless (or rather the heartless, nobodies, unversed, nightmare dream eaters, or any other dark amorphous beings of darkness) are hunting those with the keyblade. because dark forces hunt for hearts, they take hearts of every shape or form, whether it be a heart in a being, world, keyblade, etc. As for how one can obtain a keyblade, you can also create a man made keyblade and imbue it with some sort of spell that let's you have the capablilties of the keyblades we know today.

I always figured keyblades were similar to power rings like the green lanterns use. Maybe the keyblades that are used after the war came from thw Keyblade Graveyard and only activate and seek wielders with strong hearts, certain amount of control over the light and dark, and of course show their worth in the face of danger whether being threatened by the light or darkness. Which would explain why a person of the dark can use the keyblade for evil. Maybe the keyblades are the type of weapons that take no sides in the conflict between light and dark and only seek those with strong ties to either side.

I really agree with it, and I even use this theory in my fanfictions

Does anybody else notice the Kingdom Hey in the Keyblade Graveyard clip shown at around 1:50?

i would like to have a speculation video on the original 13 darkness, if the 7 lights from the X-blade became the princesses of heart then what happened to that 13 Xehanort is trying to recreate?

The thing about reincarnations might explain why the foretellers' voices sound like Riku, Ventus, Aqua, Terra, and Kairi

How would this theory explain keyblades changing shape? :o (Like Mickey's, Roxas' and Xion's keyblades)

One thing since you mentioned that keyblades have hearts, what if ....the fortellers hearts in a final effort to survive found their way into the keyblades of Terra,Aqua,Ventus,Riku and Kairi the supposed reincarnations of these fortellers possibly meaning that they are still trying to fighting against all the evil that is trying to conquer the light through their supposed reincarnations im not sure about Sora though.

Pretty good theory, man. Makes a lot of sense.

This is actually pretty interesting, and the sentience of the Keyblade is something I hadn't given a ton of thought. However, Concerning the veil of mystery over the keys of Xehanort and Eraqus, wasn't it said that those two were trained together by Yen Sid? Could they not have simply gotten their keys from him? Also, Xehanort gave up his body to time travel back to see his older self and tell him of the plans mentioned in 3D. Could he maybe have given it to himself in some weird time paradox thing? Hopefully, since KH3 will mark the end of Xehanort's saga, it delves deeper into his origin story, but there's a lot of ideas that might explain how he obtained the Keyblade.

I think a keyblade is only a part of the welder's heart this might explain why you get a keyblade/chain after every world you complete. With Sora he has had so many adventures even ones that aren't him physically, he has touched so many people's hearts and helped them too but also helped his friend Riku who was lost in darkness Sora's heart is very strong but as he said his 'friends are his power' and every world he went to he has made a lot and it gives him more power to change the keyblade this happened to all the keybladers but one Riku who's only keyblade change is into 'way to dawn' we know Riku hasn't been to friendly either until KH2.

also there is an X sigil on master Eraques's chest the reminds me alot of the sigil that was on sora chest in dream drop distance any thought's on this?

i have a question. wasn't it said in the first kingdom hearts game that the keyblade was the only weapon that can hurt the heartless. if this was the case how can the final fantasy characters, disney characters, and virtually any character without a keyblade be able to fight the heartless. when on destiny islands when it was almost destroyed you couldn't do anything to the heartless with your wooden sword until you got the keyblade. but when you reach hollow bastion and had the keyblade taken away and was replaced with the same wooden sword you could then hurt even more advanced heartless only a little bit. even characters like beast and tifa and fight back against heartless with their bear hands. am i missing something. also magic can be used which bring a question if magic has a relation to the keyblades power or is it a separate entity all together since others use magic to yet can still hurt heartless regardless of it previously being said that the keyblade was the only weapon against the heartless (unless i am missing something).

Great theory, now here are my thoughts: the first keyblades were man made (after the X-blade), some "died" at the keyblade graveyard, the others lived on (since Nomura said "there are as many keyblades as there are strong hearts", maybe they found a way to duplicate themselves or something) and now they only lend their strength to those they deem worthy. I believe the keyblades link themselves to one's heart (this explains why they prefer strong hearts and keep changing shapes, why there's one keyblade per heart, and why they follow their master's heart even in another body). But this is just a theory ... whatever. And you're mistaken on something: young Xehanort has no keyblade of his own (he uses ethereal blades). He gained a keyblade at that time because being a vessel, Xehanort could possess him (the old man wasn't fully materialized yet) and the keyblade was different due to the heart being different (but somewhat the same). I believe his master (and Eraqus') was the one to perform the ritual on him and get him out of the islands.

1:12 You didn't mention how Terra wasn't a master, and Aqua didn't intentionally perform the ceremony.

Wait a second, does this mean that the characters of TWEWY could actually end up wielding Keyblades? Their world is now connected with Kingdom Hearts, and Neku/Joshua are similar to Riku, as Beat is similar to Sora/Terra, and Rhyme/Shiki are similar to Kairi/Aqua. Having the TWEWY cast team up with the KH cast would be more than freaking amazing, if I do say so myself.

This theory really makes sense. HMK I have a few questions. If there are keyblades of light & darkness, is it possible for there to be keyblades of in between for example nothingness, twilight ( dawn & dusk)? And also is the X-blade technically a keyblade of heart? Because it is the counter part of kingdom hearts? Lastly do you think the X-blade would work on the kingdom hearts in birth by sleep that xehanort created from the hearts of worlds & the kingdom hearts in kingdom hearts 2 that xemnas created from the hearts of people or not because they're both "artificial"?

What if the Foretellers have built the original keyblade? What if the Heartless were actually previous, long forgotten keyblade wielders actually seeking their proper use of their own keyblades and seeking for true bodies of their own? Think the message SOS from the Kingdom Hearts 3 announcement trailer shown at E3.

Let's do a drunk game. Every time when HMK says Keyblade we have to drink on shot :D

Just thought about this but I feel like in Kingdom Hearts 3 Mickey and Sora are going to fight one another to bring forth the X-blade as a kind of last resort to hopefully save the day. Because Kingdom Key which represents the light realm and Kingdom Key D which represents the realm of dark. So it makes sense that this is a possible thing. This is just a random thought I had though.

Guys at 1:54 in the bottom left you can see the kingdom key, any thoughts on what this could possibly mean?

Who's to say Sora can't just naturally use a keyblade? His dual wielding skill is because of Ventus but where does the ability to initially wield one come from. Two theories the heart fusion acted as an inheritance ceremony just not in the traditional sense. Or Sora can just wield keyblades after all the kingdom key as well as Ventus's keyblade as well as Riku's second keyblade can all be used by Sora naturally and just as good as the original wielder if not better. It also explains his ability to pick up the master seeker even though he isn't a master. The first one is more plausible because who is to say the inheritance thing can't be done multiple ways.

great theory !

I know this is a long shot but you know how HMK said keyblades had hearts? What if a character ended up turning into a keyblade by giving up their heart. For example master eraqus or Xion. Maybe Master Eraqus transfered his heart into his keyblade which Aqua carries so he could rest like Ventus. This is probably wrong but its just a theory :-D

I think you may forget that Master Yen Sid have the keyblade too.

I believe that A strong heart is required to hold a keyblade... BUT many people have strong hearts in kh universe. Perhaps the person WITH a strong heart needs some extra attributes, for example; a strong will (-to leave your homeworld? Like sora, kairi, riku & xehanort), believing that there are other worlds and the WILL to look after them. Maybe the keyblade watches over those that pass through worlds, to protect the person..... Just a theory that crossed my mind

actually Axel is the nobody of Ria. kingdom hearts, i believe at one point went on a speech about how hearts or even all hearts are connected. so it might also be possible for one to obtain a keyblade simply by having strong ties with a keyblade wielder and if keyblades where once people or they are some sort of fragment of one or many past wielders than surely in their history many keyblades would have served alongside one another. so when the ally of the wielder is in enough distress perhaps the blade could call out to a former ally or the past ally could sense the danger itself. kinda like a symbiotic hive mind.

Someone please link me to an Ultimania or Interview with Nomura if i'm wrong, but Wasn't it confirmed that Sora was granted the ability to wield the keyblade early in KH1 when Riku went into the Darkness, the light popped up, and Sora was holding the keyblade? Where was it said that Ventus grants Sora the ability to wield a keyblade? Certainly not in a game, so it'd have to be an Ultimania or Interview.

I think Sora's keyblade is the x-blade and that it was forged when ventus and vanitas fought. Xehanort only thought he failed. This was then passed to Sora through ventus. I also think its the only keyblade to choose its master. You'll notice its the only one we see rebel against its master and you'll notice that Terra's keyblade doesn't care when he chooses darkness. You'll also notice in the keyblade graveyard xehanort sends an entire typhoon of keyblades at terra, but those keyblades may simply be "dead" or something.

What game is that cutscene of Sora opening his heart to Ven?

I believe that keyblades are manifestations of the will of someone's heart, for example riku's keyblade the way to dawn is a manifestation of his will to find a path to light while accepting darkness, the forms of the keyblade can change because of the will of the weirder and focus for example sora can change his to many forms like oath keeper because of his memory and will to complete his promise to kiari which is pure thus making it's form stem of light because of the purity of this desire. Keyblades are united to the hearts of their master and may even have a heart themselves xehanort says they were United to the heart of their masters which would explain why those with hearts get them because a heart gives you the ability to have a will even roxas who was a nobody had a heart and a will strong enough to wield one. Vanitas explains the X-blade was forged of ventus' heart to and if he destroyed it be would lose his heart also, if the keyblades are forged in appearance of this grand key then they to are possibly bonded to the hearts of their master in this way.

+Hmk if there is so many similar key blade the doesn't that mean the ones who give it to them are old? I mean you see fenir in the keyblade grave yard then cloud would be dead already right? So all the people who gave the keyblade wielders the keyblades are immortal right?

I am pretty sure that the keyblade master's theories will be answered in kingdom hearts 3 or if not we will know more about the keyblade in kingdom hearts 3

I was wondering, in one of the cut scenes from Dream Drop Distance we see a flashback where wee see the cloaked Xehanort meeting with his younger self, what if THIS was when Xehanort acquired his keyblade? From his future self? of course this would also suggest that everything in the Dark Seekers Saga of Kingdom Hearts has been a huge time loop.

What about that castle we saw in the realm of darkness at the end of aqua story secret ending

nomura said once that light and dark keyblades only differ on the outside appearance; that their internal makeup is the exact same. so that got me thinking and i don't think having a darkness keyblade makes you "evil" or a light keyblade makes you "good" *cough* eraqus tried to kill ventus *cough*. if darkness were only evil, then how come riku and lea still use it and still fight for the "good guys"? and the way the story has played out for me is that darkness keyblades go to people with lots of self ambition, which isn't INHERENTLY bad at all. the whole reason darkness is viewed as bad right now is because of one out of probably a handful of darkness keyblade wielders. light keyblades, on the other hand, are for those who only care about helping the general populace, with little to no motivation other than helping people, like by balancing light and darkness or fighting heartless. in other words, darkness is for the emotional/ambitious and light is for the "protectors".

HMK, do you have a theory on what exactly ARE the weapons the Organisation members possess?

Maybe Lea was able to get his keyblade due to Terra preforming the right of passage with ven's training wooden keyblade on ventus as a joke. If you remember there is a scene in BBS where Lea is holding the wooden keyblade before giving it back to Ventus. It is never stated that one on the level of master can only have one successor so this might be why. This is just an idea based off a really loose piece of information. No hate please

do on what the X blade war is and what the connection is it to the final chapter

HMK what do you think a keyblade would look like without a Keychain

i agree however xehanort in kingdom hearts 3 when he is young we see his keyblade on the wall not yet his so how does he have it if it has no master

Interesting.

Cool keyblade you gave yourself at the end

the Keyblade could hold the heart of the one who made them and that heart may pick people who it likes example KH1 where the Keyblade goes between sora and Riku because the one who made the Keyblade may have when "i like him" and went to Riku and then later it could have been like "no i like him more now see ya" and went back to sora

HMK I need you to answer something please! When Master Xehanort becomes Terranort there's a scene where he recites ill call it a poem. You see Ansem SoD. But the main point is he becomes Terra or he says the whole speech on how darkness grows on a heart consumes it and it returns to which it came from I know your familiar with the speech. After he recites it Master Xehanorts key blade becomes Terranort. Any theories?? Anybody?

You realize, young Xehanort only got that keyblade because he was momentarily possessed by old Xehanort. Thats why his eyes changed colour, and broke Mickey's spell...;)

But squall touched sora's keyblade in kh1 so does it means that he can use it too?

who is in the organization xiii i know lea is axel and berig is xigbar xaldin is dilan and siax is isa so who are the others?

3:34 MONKAW PEPELAUGH

I was wondering,if Riku and Kairi are the sucessors of Terra and Aqua,that means Terra and Aqua have no powers anymore???? or they still have???? because they are going to fight in KH3 right?????

my favorite keyblade is the ultimate and the kingdom key

"the key blade chooses its master and it chose you" -yuffie Kingdom Hearts 1

So has it been said if the Keyblade was made by the darkness or light? If it hasn't been said, what if the keyblade was a type of symbiote that actually want to get to Kingdom Hearts to corrupt it.

I'm not sure if anyone has answered this question yet, but why does Riku ask Sora why he (Sora) has the keyblade, when he (Riku) has one? "Why, why do YOU have the Keyblade?" Wasn't Soul Eater a Keyblade?

what about when vanitas was flinging around giant waves of keyblades?

Light and dark ARE THE SAME THING! You see as in there word, Even in the brightest light and the deepest dark, there is little, if not equal to both. + The masters are suppose to be In a Yin and Yang to Truly be THE master but yet, There not at there peak, but just another beginning which many don't under stand that Sora, Which not the master, should not care about a Rank, Because a rank is useless entirely in this battle since there is no physical perk to go with it.

okay i have a question. are you claiming we see young xehanort on destiny island because that was HIS homeworld? i am asking because you speculated here that it could be inherited by being a descendant of a keyblade wielder. i would then like to pose the idea that riku is a keyblade wielder for more than one reason. Yes he went through the ritual, the most official means of receiving a keyblade. But as you yourself have noted riku shares a lot of striking resemblances with xehanort and therefore tried to theorize he might be xehanort but i think it is more likely that he is a descendant of xehanort

Wait where did riku get his keyblade from I thought sora is using his keyblade so how did he get did he get it from using roxas's keyblade?

My question is what about the keyblade wielders who lie in between light and darkness

I came here to learn how to wield a keyblade it must be in THE SNAP OF THE WRIST OR SOMETHING

Hey HMK did u preorder Kingdom Hearts 2.5

SECOND! If that means anything..

Does anyone see kingdom key on the lower left at 1:53

hmk will sora need Mickey too help too go in or Donald and goffy

What about Mickey then? The Keyblade D is clearly a Keyblade of darkness. So why then does it willing allow Mickey's heart of light to wield it? If the Keyblades are drawn to hearts similar of their own then why is this own different? It would make more sense that Keyblads are drawn to power rather then light and darkness. It would make sense as to why Mickey a being with a heart of light intentions could wield a Keyblade of a dark past.

Theres a trailer of sora vs roxasmkingdom hearts hd 2.5 remix out

I have a random question... What would happen to the kingdom key sora took the Mickey Mouse chain off of it and it was keychain-less?!?! Lol

Since you only need a fragment of a keyblade wielder's heart to use a keyblade yourself, shouldn't Xigbar and Saix be able to use a keyblade since each have a piece of Xehanort's heart?

its has nothing to do this question with the video but AM I THE ONLY ONE THAH BELIVIES THAT BRAIG HAS A BIG PLAN FOR THE BEGIINING? AND HE BECOMES A TRAITOR ? i think braig is smart...and he want x-blade for himself

Hey hmk what if Fairy Tail was in Kingdom hearts how would you fell

Unlimited Keyblade Works

First off, to correct a mistake that you made, Young Xehanort in DDD was actually from before he had a Keyblade, the reason that he had a Keyblade in his fight was because he was being possessed by Master Xehanort. Also, I'm pretty sure that Lea got his Keyblade because either Yen Sid or Mikey preformed the inheritance ceremony on him. Other than that, great video.

Xigbar is a keyblader user thx to kingdom hearts 3

Keyblaydes are people too

Why is Ventas so special? When I say this I mean, why was he able to make the X-Blade on his own when now we need 7 lights and 13 darknesses?

Do you have a PSN, I gotta add you! @HMK

in the original Kingdom Hearts game, it was a pretty simple concept. Sora was chosen simply because his heart was strong and full of light. However, when a the other games came out especially BBS and DDD, it kind of watered down that original concept I liked. Hence DDD may be one of least favorite games because of that mark of mastery bull. It reminded me too much of stereotypical Japanese anime high school concepts (Naruto, Soul Eater, ext.). It just ruined it for me a tad bit.

My brain hurts. Why are there two of Roxas?

I have a question, why doesn't Xemnas have a keyblade? And before you say "He has no heart, which is required to wield a keyblade" let me remind you of this, Roxas can wield a keyblade due to the fact that he has a heart, most likely because his "somebody" had the hearts of two people within him, himself and Ventus. The same can be said for Xemnas, it might not have been under the same circumstances, but he is still the nobody of apprentice Xehanort, who had both the heart of Master Xehanort and Terra within him, two keyblade wielders, just like Roxas. So now that we know that the same circumstances for which Roxas despite being a nobody can wield a keyblade and have a heart, why doesn't the same apply for Xemnas? And if I'm correct, the reason why Braig agreed to house part of Xehanort's heart within him was because he desired to wield a keyblade, and if Xemnas, as one of the members of the 13 seekers of darkness also has a fragment of Xehanort's heart within him, shouldn't the same rule with obtaining a keyblade apply, I asked this question on a previous video, and one of the replies was that his ethereal blades are corrupted keyblades of some sort, this would make sense as there are two of them and Xemnas should have two keyblades, but I've debunked this theory due to the fact that in BBS Young Xehanort also uses the ethereal blades, so I again ask this question, where is Xemnas' keyblade? It could be some major thing of plot all leading up to KH3, or just really horribly planned storytelling. Someone also replied that he just refused to use it, why the hell would he do that? He needed hearts for Kingdom Hearts, didn't he? So why not speed it up by jumping into the fray of Roxas, Xion, and later Sora, in defeating emblem heartless with his own keyblade, which he would likely be more talented with than any of the above due to having possession of the weapon for a longer period of time. Now I ask that you please take the time to like this comment, but only for the purpose that this reaches HMK himself, who is likely much more knowledgeable on the series than I am, so we can get his input on the subject? HMK, if you're reading this could you please make a theory video on why Xemnas doesn't have a keyblade?

HMK, even if Xions an imperfect replica of Sora, do you still think she is coming back in Kingdom Hearts 3 along with the others who are lost?

This video is just full a wrong facts Nomura has confirmed that in order to wield the keyblade you must first undergo the Inheritance Ceremony which gives you the ability to wield the keyblade. From there the keyblades must deem you worthy and choose you as it's wielder. This is the only means to obtain a keyblades and the only exception is Sora who Nomura confirmed did not inherit anything from anyone. Ventus is not the reason Sora can wield a keyblade he is the reason he can dual wield.

El oh el. Ventus isn't the reason Sora can wield a keyblade..not anymore anyways. After the events of the first kingdom hearts, Sora prooves how strong his heart is and inherits a keyblade of his own as a result. The keyblade legitimately choses Sora as it's new master at this point. The only influence Ventus has on Sora's keyblade capabilities as of right now is Sora's dual wielding. When sora dual wields he possesses Ventus' keyblade along with his own. Once Ven awakens, Sora will lose his dual wielding abilities.