A Scorpion in the Sky

Disabled people deserve the same love and care that everybody else does. You are important and awesome. You deserve a good life and plenty of accessibility (which I'd love to see more of.)

君は僕に、こう見る方法を教えてくれる 何一つ完全なものはなく、 何一つ壊れているものもない、と…… HAPPY PRIDE MONTH！

Trans activist Jamison Green's passport photos before and after HRT. Left he's age 32 (1980) Right age 41 (1989) after being on testosterone for one year (x)

The arguments I've seen mostly boil down to 1. KHUX never showing what happened in that fight between Luxu and Darkness, leaving that one unaccounted for, 2. Luxu calling out Darkness for bodyhopping, 3. Darkness being the only one who could reasonably fake being Luxu knowledge wise, 4. Darkness also being smug and confident, 5. Darknesses with personalities like Vanitas existing and 6. Xigbar's bit about Ventus' angry look being better explained by him being a Darkness who shares hive-mind memories of possessing and fighting Ventus in KHUX than by Luxu watching Ventus from afar or their one interaction in BBS.

Other than that it's mostly your standard fare of "but Luxu and Xigbar have differences in personality", which like you said keeps getting treated as an impossible development as if we don't see MUCH more extreme cases of personality shift that no one's ever complained about, like young/old Eraqus, Lauriam/Marluxia and Elrena/Larxene. Saying he's a Darkness also leaves the issue of what happened to "actual" Luxu, of having to explain why he's seemingly more morally complex than e.g. Vanitas who explicitly can't go against his nature as an embodiment of negativity, and the question of how that adds anything more interesting to the narrative than him just being Luxu does.

Anyways, I've seen like four? five? posts about it on multiple platforms so I thought I'd ask, but I hope you're having fun talking about it, too, and that it doesn't feel like just rehashed discourse.!

yeeeeeeep thats what i figured. the Brain thing i have seen and also don't understand.... you already said all the most important points: these Xigbar Isn't Luxu theories raise more questions than they answer, those "answered" questions didn't really need answering in the first place, and the theories aren't more interesting than Xigbar just being Luxu.

frankly i think a lot of this is people speculating wildly and then getting attached to a headcanon/theory, or trying to Guess the Twist Before It Happens for internet points or what have you. it doesn't have anything to do with like...the themes, or the characters, or the things the game says, or even the games themselves, really.