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masteraqua · 4 years

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Does anybody know why do the nobodies and unversed have emblems. Like heartless have them to, but if we're going the reports in 2. The pure heartless dont them, while the artificial ones do and listen to those with strong dark hearts. Does that mean the lesser nobodies/ unversed are artificial too does that mean there are more powerful versions of nobodies and universes we haven't seen. Or just Nomura was fuck it team logos for everyone

so i think the simple answer to your question is that the emblems in kingdom hearts generally serve a more symbolic purpose than a literal one.

with that said, nomura did try to give more of an in-universe explanation for the nobody emblem, though honestly it just makes things confusing:

Where did the Organization’s coat and mark come from?

Nomura: Xemnas remembering his human years. One year after BbS, Xehanort as well as five other apprentices toss aside their hearts. Then the Nobody Xemnas was born, and the Organization which he creates take a lot of things from his memories as a human. But as Xemnas had two people who he was, Terra and Master Xehanort, he takes from both of their memories.

—BBS Ultimania

this answer makes it seem like xemnas himself created the mark, which would be fine if it only represented org. xiii. but it doesn’t. it appears on all the lesser nobodies, which xemnas definitely did not create. so, personally, i would just continue to look at the emblem as a symbolic icon representing the broader concept of the “in-between.”

the same basically goes for the unversed, except the emblem is meant to be viewed more as a thematic reflection of the heartless emblem, just as the unversed themselves are reflections of the heartless:

Are the Unversed of a similar nature to the Heartless?

Nomura: That's right. The Heartless are born from the darkness of the heart, and Unversed are born from negative emotions, so you can call them relatives (laughs). To make them fundamentally similar, we made the designs similar. However there's one difference in that the Heartless are seeking hearts, whereas the Unversed behave according to Vanitas' will, and emotionally. For example, the Flood portray feelings of irritation.

—BBS Ultimania

There was a new enemy this time called the Unversed, how did you think them up?

Nomura: Since they couldn't be around during KH, we needed to have an enemy that could no longer exist during that time. So we connected them to Vanitas, so that when he disappeared they will have disappeared as well. Their design concept was "emotions", so we see them with smiling faces, angry faces, crying faces... they were designed with many different expressions. The Unversed mark is also meant to be a heart that expresses emotions.

—BBS Ultimania

also just as a side note, all heartless tend to flock to those with power, regardless of their classification as Purebred or Emblem. it’s one of the things that sets them apart from nobodies, who are able to think for themselves, and the unversed, who answer only to vanitas. the characteristics that distinguish Purebred from Emblem heartless are that the former come into existence through natural means and don’t release captive hearts upon being defeated while the latter are artificially created and do release hearts.

#Anonymous #sorry this response is so late lmao

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