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Ladies. Gentlemen. I've come to a dead end in my research. I am so rediculously confused. I will explain as best as I can when KH3 (or at least the video) takes place.

To start things off, the video begins with a keyblade-wielding, armored figure who just finished slaying some sort of colossal creature. He walks to the crossroads (symbolizing those in CoM and signifying the paths to darkness, light, and twilight) between hundreds of keyblades. It is likely that the "Great Keyblade War" has taken place here. The armored figure is joined by two others, who each pick up a keyblade, one being the Way to the Dawn (Riku's keyblade), one being the Kingdom Key, and another possibly being the other Kingdom Key (the one that King Mickey had used). One of the figures that came was a girl, who herself already held an unseen keyblade, and the other was a guy. We currently know the three of them as the "Chasers," based on the messages spread throughout the first video.

Next we see a shadowy figure in the distance, who's identity (at least his appearance) was revealed in the second video. Now here's where it get confusing: the man we see looks almost exactly like Xehanort's heartless (if he were an old man). The eyes, the clothes, the hand movements--they're all like what you'd expect from Ansem. Not to mention, the being that splits out of him resembles Riku in his dark form (a power which Ansem gave to Riku).

The two groups then do battle, with the bad guys coming out victorious. The old man eventually grabs and crushes the helmet of the lead Chaser and freezes him, dropping him down a cliff. Up until now I was so sure that the leader was Roxas, but now it's so hard to know what's going on. I can say, however, that Elysium brought up some very good points that I am currently working into my theories.

The reason I started this thread was that I came across a HUGE clue that I can't believe I overlooked. There is a video of a hooded Xemnas walking through the hidden room at Hollow Bastion, walking down a long, spiraling flight of stairs and remembering the confrontation between Xehanort and Ansem the Wise when Mickey arrived. He finally gets to a hallway with several doors. He goes to the one at the end and sits down in a throne, illuminating the whole room. He then says hello to his "old friend." The camera starts to zoom out on an empty suit of armor for a female! And where have we seen it? It's the armor that the female Chaser wore along with the same keyblade!! Unbelievable! All my theories have been mixed around because of this.

This could mean several things, dealing with whether the videos take place in the past or present. First off, this could mean that Xemnas knew the girl from the video and that the event already happened. HOWEVER, you might have noticed that the helmet is still intact, unlike that in the video where it was destroyed. Although this could just have been something overlooked, it could possibly mean that the event has NOT happened yet. If the events had happened in the past (which appears highly likely), this creates several problems, such as the villain being Ansem. We do know that no one had sought Kingdom Hearts before Ansem, which must be true since we see King Mickey.

To hopefully help with all this I will be opening a new subforum dedicated to all the Ansem Reports and a thread for my own. I will post all of my theories and breakthroughs there. In the meantime, if you wish to see the 3rd video that I was speaking of before, here is a link: