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- "Hypocrite. You are the one who has made your heart a prison...even if you are not the prisoner."
- —Young Xehanort to Sora
Young Xehanort is a boy that has the ability to travel through time and used it to manipulate events so that the True Organization XIII would be completed while harrassing Sora and Riku.
Story
Before Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Xehanort lives his early years on the Destiny Islands. Xehanort is paid a visit by his future self's Heartless Ansem, who grants him the power to traverse time and tasks him with gathering twelve other incarnations of himself from across time.
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
When Terra, Aqua and Ventus travel to the Land of Departure again, they meet the time-displaced Young Xehanort, who hides his identity by keeping his hood up. After defeating him, he leaves through time.
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Young Xehanort continues to travel through time, eventually appearing in the Sleeping Worlds during Sora and Riku's Mark of Mastery exam. He appears before them in several worlds, confronting each youth with a respective version of Terra-Xehanort they defeated in the past: Ansem for Riku and Xemnas for Sora. Through his encounters with Riku, Xehanort attempted to have him open his heart to darkness before realizing the youth devised a means to resist his inner darkness. This forces Xehanort to refocus his attentions on Sora, and he works to place the boy into doubt as to whether he is truly acting of his own free will. Eventually, he traps Sora inside an illusion at The World That Never Was, then reveals his true identity and purpose in order to fill Sora's heart with despair. As Sora falls into the darkness, Xehanort reveals that he and the rest of the second Organization XIII intend to make Sora their final vessel for Xehanort. He takes Sora's comatose body to the Castle That Never Was, where he is found by Riku.
In the midst of Master Xehanort's revival, Mickey manages to freeze the area with a Stopza spell, but Young Xehanort engages Riku in battle. Although Riku defeats Young Xehanort, the fight succeeds in holding off Riku long enough for the elderly Xehanort's body to finish reviving atop the lead throne while his youngest self takes seat on another.
When Master Xehanort tries to convert Sora into his Organization's final vessel, the arrival of Lea, Donald and Goofy forces the incomplete Organization to retreat, with Young Xehanort sharing off with Riku.
Another Guardian of Light
- "This world is just too small."
- —Xehanort muses the Destiny Islands
After his time-traveling from the future, Young Xehanort returns to his original time and relinquishes his memories of the future, but having a desire to travel to other worlds.
Other appearances
A fragmentary passage
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Xehanort's elderly and youngest selves along with Ansem and Xemnas appear as images on the beach on Destiny Islands. Template:Canonend
Appearance
In his youth, Xehanort had mildly tanned skin, golden eyes, and silver hair which both slightly spikes and falls past his shoulders in the back; it is styled similar to Terra-Xehanort's, albeit with four bangs framing his face, the back two thicker than the front two, and the two backwards spikes on the sides are absent, the topmost one slicked back. He wore the same style of white shirt, which only reaches to his thighs, a black vest with a high collar, long armbands which cover his forearms, and dark grey pants stuffed into his boots, similar to those worn by Organization XIII but without the silver lining on top, much like those worn by the guards of Radiant Garden. While traveling through time, he wears the Black Coat his eventually Nobody Xemnas will pass on to the Organization XIII.
Young Xehanort's body model in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is a copy of Saïx's, though it is likely that this is simply due to data recycling rather than any deeper significance.
Personality
Abilities
Young Xehanort has the ability to control time with enough precision to manipulate the flow of battle, either by slowing the opponent while unleashing a multitude of swift, powerful strikes, or reversing the flow of time to recover from damage. He is also an extremely skilled magic user, and is able to cast powerful spells based on the elements of Fire and Blizzard, fire magical shots similar to those fired by Sora in Wisdom Form, or teleport himself around the battlefield.
Weapon
Young Xehanort wields two weapons that bear a striking resemblance to Xemnas's Ethereal Blades. Unlike many of Xemnas's weapons, however, Xehanort's appear to have hilts. The blades are made of light blue energy, and the black handles are somewhat reminiscent of the Terminus and Ruination Ethereal Blades. The blades can be combined into a dual-blade or can extend to be lashed like a whip. Xehanort wields these weapons with a reverse grip. In his final battle with Riku at Where Nothing Gathers, Xehanort wields a Keyblade that incorporates elements of the No Name and Master Xehanort's Keyblade.
One of Young Xehanort's Ethereal Blades
Young Xehanort's combined Ethereal Blades
- Young Xehanort's Keyblade (Art) KH3D.png
Forms
Young Xehanort prior to meeting Ansem
Young Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
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