1.) Roxas's two keyblades ARE Sora's. Let's break it down.
A keyblade has no specific shape of its own. It gets its shape and its name from the keychain equipped to it. The generic keyblade that Roxas wields in Twilight Town early on is using the Kingdom Key keychain. Oblivion and Oathkeeper are the names of two other keychains -- keychains given to Sora in the first game by Riku and Kairi.
(Nooooo, no significance in Roxas having those keychains specifically, NONE AT ALL.)
[Also, technically, just not to misinform you at all, Oblivion isn't given to Sora BY Riku so much as it's in the room where you fight him after you defeat him. But in KHII, you get it a secind time, and you do receive it after meeting up with Riku in The World That Never Was. Oblivion and Oathkeeper make a pretty awesome combination -- Oblivion is +6 to strength, +2 to magic, and has a Drive Boost; Oathkeeper is +3 to both strength and magic and has a Form Boost. They're very complementary.]
So. There aren't several keyblades, just many different keychains that you can equip to it.
Also, technically speaking, both Sora and Roxas only possess ONE keyblade, not two. The going theory is that, through concentration of will, a Keyblade Hero can split his keyblade into two separate blades and equip a keychain to each of them. (This goes along nicely with the "keyblade has no physical form of its own" theory.)
The only Keyblade Hero we haven't yet seen do this with his keyblade is Mickey. (Late in the game, Riku splits his keyblade, Way to the Dawn, into two blades and gives one to Kairi. The one he gives to Kairi is covered in flowers and just about the gayest thing I've ever seen in my life.)
Any way you look at it, though, Roxas really shouldn't have Oblivion and Oathkeeper; he doesn't have the keychains to make them. In an RP Kay-san and I are doing, we've sort of agreed, I think, that the keychains he has aren't real -- that they're shadows of Sora's keychains, and that if he de-equiped them, they'd vanish.
1.5) On Twilight Town: There is a REAL Twilight Town as well as a digital copy of it. The real Twilight Town is apparently where Nobodies usually show up when they're first born. (Roxas was born there; this is why, when Sora visits Twilight Town in Chain of Memories, and says he's never been here before, Vexen informs him that it's a memory from "the other side of [his] heart.") The real Twilght Town is also where DiZ and Namine and Riku all hung out, watching Roxas on monitors in the digital Twilight Town.
(We know this for a fact because, if you'll remember, Roxas breaks the computer display in the digital Twilight Town in a fit of rage; later in the game, when Sora visits the real Twilight Town, he finds an unbroken computer -- the one that DiZ was observing from.)
So, Kairi visits the REAL Twilight Town, not the virtual reality place where Roxas was brainwashed.
Axel's entering the digital Twilight Town is actually pretty interesting -- he basically hacked into DiZ's program. (In the novels, Riku and Namine also see him doing so, and sort of deliberately distract DiZ so that he doesn't notice.) This, as well as some scenes from the Chain of Memories manga, imply that Axel is pretty good with computers.
(In Chain of Memories, Axel was responsible for their security program, and, when he freed Namine, he first scrambled the system so that all of the monitors showed only a bunch of glitchy text instead of images of her and the rest of the Castle.)
This has led to theories on Kay-san's part (and now mine!) that Axel's Somebody was a computer programmer of some sort. Since he seems like he'd be pretty unlikely to invest time in learning how to program himself.
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1.) Roxas's two keyblades ARE Sora's. Let's break it down.
A keyblade has no specific shape of its own. It gets its shape and its name from the keychain equipped to it. The generic keyblade that Roxas wields in Twilight Town early on is using the Kingdom Key keychain. Oblivion and Oathkeeper are the names of two other keychains -- keychains given to Sora in the first game by Riku and Kairi.
(Nooooo, no significance in Roxas having those keychains specifically, NONE AT ALL.)
[Also, technically, just not to misinform you at all, Oblivion isn't given to Sora BY Riku so much as it's in the room where you fight him after you defeat him. But in KHII, you get it a secind time, and you do receive it after meeting up with Riku in The World That Never Was. Oblivion and Oathkeeper make a pretty awesome combination -- Oblivion is +6 to strength, +2 to magic, and has a Drive Boost; Oathkeeper is +3 to both strength and magic and has a Form Boost. They're very complementary.]
So. There aren't several keyblades, just many different keychains that you can equip to it.
Also, technically speaking, both Sora and Roxas only possess ONE keyblade, not two. The going theory is that, through concentration of will, a Keyblade Hero can split his keyblade into two separate blades and equip a keychain to each of them. (This goes along nicely with the "keyblade has no physical form of its own" theory.)
The only Keyblade Hero we haven't yet seen do this with his keyblade is Mickey. (Late in the game, Riku splits his keyblade, Way to the Dawn, into two blades and gives one to Kairi.
The one he gives to Kairi is covered in flowers and just about the gayest thing I've ever seen in my life.)Any way you look at it, though, Roxas really shouldn't have Oblivion and Oathkeeper; he doesn't have the keychains to make them. In an RP Kay-san and I are doing, we've sort of agreed, I think, that the keychains he has aren't real -- that they're shadows of Sora's keychains, and that if he de-equiped them, they'd vanish.
1.5) On Twilight Town: There is a REAL Twilight Town as well as a digital copy of it. The real Twilight Town is apparently where Nobodies usually show up when they're first born. (Roxas was born there; this is why, when Sora visits Twilight Town in Chain of Memories, and says he's never been here before, Vexen informs him that it's a memory from "the other side of [his] heart.") The real Twilght Town is also where DiZ and Namine and Riku all hung out, watching Roxas on monitors in the digital Twilight Town.
(We know this for a fact because, if you'll remember, Roxas breaks the computer display in the digital Twilight Town in a fit of rage; later in the game, when Sora visits the real Twilight Town, he finds an unbroken computer -- the one that DiZ was observing from.)
So, Kairi visits the REAL Twilight Town, not the virtual reality place where Roxas was brainwashed.
Axel's entering the digital Twilight Town is actually pretty interesting -- he basically hacked into DiZ's program. (In the novels, Riku and Namine also see him doing so, and sort of deliberately distract DiZ so that he doesn't notice.) This, as well as some scenes from the Chain of Memories manga, imply that Axel is pretty good with computers.
(In Chain of Memories, Axel was responsible for their security program, and, when he freed Namine, he first scrambled the system so that all of the monitors showed only a bunch of glitchy text instead of images of her and the rest of the Castle.)
This has led to theories on Kay-san's part (and now mine!) that Axel's Somebody was a computer programmer of some sort. Since he seems like he'd be pretty unlikely to invest time in learning how to program himself.
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