@hridar said:💞 ok but obviously in the platonic parental way... I just want some Thoughts on Them ok thanks......
ship headcanons.
get ready for some fucked up thoughts !
xehanort views elsa as a bird in a cage. whether the cage is his own creation or the castle, he doesn’t think she’ll ever truly be free, from herself or from fear.
the first time she refers to him as father, xehanort has to pause. mind you, he’s found her in the midst of his own downward spiral, and it forces a moment of clarity. it’s the first time someone has had a good opinion of him in so long, it gives him whiplash. that, unfortunately, probably won’t last long.
the older she gets, the more xehanort turns her against her parents. he uses her anger towards agnarr to lure her into using the powers of darkness, until she begins to use them willingly.
if that formerly mentioned moment of clarity had been enough, xehanort likely.....might’ve grown to actually care about elsa. if it could’ve brought the real xehanort back, the one he left at scala ad caelum, he may have been decently fit to care for her, he could’ve helped her control her powers, minus the disgusting emotional manipulation
in reality, though, he’s an absolute monster, who’s good at putting up a farce to manipulate a helpless, vulnerable child. it gets worse the older he grows, as he gets colder. he doesn’t ever physically hurt her, he views it as cowardice and beneath him to hurt a child.
anytime elsa refers to him as her father, he gets painful glimpses of what could’ve been if he hadn’t left, maybe in another life.