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[[File:Deep Dive 01 KHFM.png|thumb|200x200px|right|The black coat was originally used to conceal the faces of characters who had not been designed yet.]]

The first known use of the black coat is by the [[Master of Masters]] and his apprentice, [[Luxu]]. Generations later, Master Xehanort wears it when he travels from the [[Keyblade Graveyard]] in order to leave his comatose apprentice, Ventus, to expire at his boyhood home, the [[Destiny Islands]]. However, he frequently uses the corridors without wearing his coat. Years later, at the same time Master Xehanort attempts to reforge the [[χ-blade]] and take the Keyblade wielder [[Terra]] as his [[Terra-Xehanort|vessel]], his time-traveling younger self arrives at the [[Land of Departure]], wearing the black coat, on his quest to assemble Xehanort's true Organization XIII to replace the initial version that had failed in the future. He is found and fought by Terra, Ventus, and Aqua when each of them returns individually to his or her homeworld, but he vanishes further into the future upon defeat.<!--based on how Nomura and the game describe the time travel, is there any way to definitively say whether Young Xehanort received the coat before jumping to the future?-->{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep}}

Even later, after Terra-Xehanort becomes the Nobody Xemnas, his recollections of his past lead him to adapt the black coat as the uniform of his Organization XIII.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts Ultimania|Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania]]''''' "...the Nobody Xemnas was born, and the Organization which he creates take a lot of things from his memories as a human... The coat used by the Organization was something that Master Xehanort originally wore."</ref> Each member wears his or her coat throughout his or her service, as does the Moogle who purveys goods to Organization's castle.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days}} The coat is also mimicked by a group of Heartless named the [[Mushroom XIII]], who model themselves after the Organization, the Absent Silhouettes who manifest from the members' weapons after their destruction, and the Replica Data simulations housed at the [[Garden of Assemblage]].{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix}}

Mickey eventually discards his coat when he rejoins Sora's group during the [[Battle of the 1000 Heartless]], while Riku continues to wear his until shortly after he rejoins his friends at [[The World That Never Was]], when the explosion of Ansem the Wise's [[Kingdom Hearts Encoder]] returns him to his true form. When the group reaches Xemnas, the Superior replaces his black coat with his old Keyblade Armor, and finally with a modified version of the coat itself.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts II}}

At the same time, several of the former members of the Organization are revived as humans back in the [[Radiant Garden]], and while most of them are wearing the lab coats or uniforms they wore when Terra-Xehanort transformed them into Nobodies, the human who had once been [[Axel]], [[Lea]], continues to wear his black coat as he leaves to seek [[Isa]] and assist [[Sora]]. Meanwhile, Young Xehanort arrives from the past with several of the members of the new, true Organization XIII composed of Xehanort's various incarnations. As they interfere with [[Sora]] and [[Riku]]'s [[Mark of Mastery exam]] and maneuver Sora towards the gathering at [[Where Nothing Gathers]], each of the members (bar Master Xehanort and [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness|Ansem]]) wear the coats symbolizing their allegiance; Ansem finally dons his coat at the meeting itself. Even the [[Riku Replica]], who appears before Riku in the depths of Monstro, wears the coat. In the final stages of its plot, the Organization places Sora under the influence of a Nightmare in order to prepare him as its thirteenth member. When Riku attempts to free Sora, the Nightmare manifests as the [[Anti Black Coat]], a shadowy figure appropriately garbed in a black coat with a flesh-like violet tinge.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance}}

File:Young Xehanort KH3D.png|[[Young Xehanort]]

File:Xemnas KHD.png|[[Xemnas]]

File:Xigbar KHD.png|[[Xigbar]]

File:Vexen KHD.png|[[Vexen]]

File:Saïx KHD.png|[[Saïx]]

File:Demyx KHD.png|[[Demyx]]

File:Luxord KHD.png|[[Luxord]]

File:Marluxia KHD.png|[[Marluxia]]

File:Larxene KHD.png|[[Larxene]]

File:Roxas KHHD.png|[[Roxas]]

File:Xion KHHD.png|[[Xion]]

File:Lea KH3D.png|[[Lea]]