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Young MX -rabbuio-

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Feedback would be nice! I'd like to write a fic for this.

This is all hypothetical. (But that's what fan art is truly for.)

What was MX like when he was, say, Terra's age?

If you read the Xehanort Reports which you collect in Birth by Sleep, you get the smallest of glimpses of his past life. He was trained with Eraqus and given all the same warnings about Darkness: that he should wear his armor to protect himself when travelling between worlds. Apparently, he didn't think he needed to. If Light could be controlled, so could Darkness... and he'd find a way to do it.

Xeh's expression in the picture is... mildly apprehensive, but also curious with a hint of wonder. It's hard to tell what he's thinking, but its almost more of a sadness than a fear. Why is he told to stay away from the Darkness? He doesn't know, but he's going to find out first hand.

As for my decision on making young Xehanort's hair like this... I wanted to reflect more on what a young 'Ansem/Xehanort's Heartless' would like. I'll reiterate: This is NOT apprentice!Xehanort/Terra!nort. This is supposed to be a young Master Xehanort, prior to, or just after, becoming a Master (probably just after, else he may not have been granted the title). He has hair, of course, and I wanted it to be less spiky than Terra's, which is how Xemnas turned out also. Subtracting Terra's qualities from apprentice!Xehanort, I decided that a young MX would look like something like this.

Guardando nel Buio (Italian for "Looking into Darkness") is 'Ansem's battle theme in KH1, and the title of the picture, Rabbuiò, is Italian and a very complicated third person singular historic past tense of "to darken". I think English that makes it something like "the darkening"?

edit: A legitimate render of young!MX has been ripped from the game now. It's no longer a mystery what he looked like, and this picture predates this knowledge. [link] to see it.
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Xehanort is a badass
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