kh3 theory: luxu and the MoM are the same person

okay hear me out. i thought about this way more than i care to admit. luxu and the masters of masters are the same person from different timelines/periods of time and here’s why:

time travel in kh is possible only if you cast your body aside, and you can only travel to a time where another version of you is present. the kh3 secret ending confirms MoM is back and guess who else is? luxu/xigbar.

we know that luxu used many vessels to preserve his life, making him an expert on the separating your heart from your body thing. if MoM is future luxu it’s obvious he knows how to do this, so it’s entirely possible he time travelled to the past to teach this ability to his younger self.

it’s a paradox, but the book of prophecies is a paradox too. MoM was able to write it by observing events through his gazing eye and, as he told luxu, “the fact that it exists is proof of your success”. it doesn’t get any more paradoxical than this.

furthermore: according to khDDD travelling to the future wouldn’t work because if you did it and then went back to try and change events, you would lose all your memories of the future upon returning to your time.

but MoM gave luxu his eye in the past, he already knows what will happen.

he basically found a workaround for travelling to the future, and that would explain how he got in the present, in kh3’s secret video.

xigbar is the version of himself who will allow him to traverse time, and the gazing eye allows him to keep his memories. it’s the perfect plan.

to add to this, we also know that xigbar/luxu is the only one who knows what’s inside the black box… well, besides the MoM. if they’re the same person, what’s the best way to keep a secret than telling it… to yourself?

there’s another interesting thing to note. while the foretellers’ keyblades are said to having been forged by the MoM from their own hearts, no name is referred to as simply being “bestowed” upon luxu. it is safe to assume it is indeed the MoM’s own keyblade and, as we know, the foretellers’ keyblades all have their animals embedded in the handle.

what animal does the no name have on it? a goat

…….or so we believed. the goat has actually been confirmed as being a horned lion in the DDD ultimania ( 角のある獅子 “koku no aru shishi”).

we also know that the foretellers’ animal masks have been chosen according to the animals associated with their respective sins on the base of the Ancrene Wisse, and the animal traditionally associated with pride (the only sin left, aka the MoM) is none other than the lion.

but why not just a regular lion? why a lion with goat horns? luxu and the MoM being the same person seems the only logical explanation to me. i see no other reason for MoM’s heart to spawn a lion keyblade with goat horns otherwise.

also worth mentioning: the goat + lion hybrid is the most common form of chimera. from wikipedia: “it is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back”. “the sight of a chimera was an omen for disaster”.

it’s already been said about xehanort, but inhabiting several vessels, thus becoming “more than one person” is something that luxu has been doing for ages.

and it’s very chimera-like.