Black coat: Difference between revisions

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==Design==

All black coats share the same basic design, although a coat often has unique personal touches and is able to change shape with its wearer.<ref>In ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'', Xion and Riku's coats adjust with them when they take the shape of Sora and Ansem, respectively.</ref> In addition, despite being put on and taken off as if it was just a coat, the coat actually manifests a matching set of pants, shoes, and gloves to replace any that their wearer was previously clothed in.<ref>In ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'', the distinctive gloves, pants, and shoes appear on Riku and Mickey when they don the coats given to them by DiZ, and in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', their own personal outfits, complete with gloves, pants, and shoes, reappear when each of them discards their coat, despite the black gloves, pants, and shoes being present beforehand.</ref>

[[Saïx]] also has tracking devices planted in Demyx's cloaks, as the lazy [[Nobody]] tends to shirk away from his missions. When Axel steals one to replace his damaged coat, this allows Saïx to track him down.{{fact}}

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==Story==

===Between ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II''===

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 Birth by Sleep Ultimania]]''''', '''Interviewer:''' "Where did the Organization's coat and mark come from?" / '''Tetsuya Nomura:''' "One year after ''Birth by Sleep'', Xehanort as well as five other apprentices toss aside their hearts. Then the Nobody Xemnas was born, and the Organization which he creates take a lot of things from his memories as a human. But as Xemnas had two people who he was, Terra and Master Xehanort, he takes from both of their memories. [...] The coat used by the Organization was something that Master Xehanort originally wore." [https://www.khinsider.com/news/BBS-Ultimania-20-Mysteries-Solved-2546 Translation via Lissar].</ref> Each member wears their coat throughout their service, as does the moogle who purveys goods to Organization's castle.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days}}  

When Riku and King Mickey leave the Organization's former stronghold of [[Castle Oblivion]], they are gifted with personalized black coats by the former king of the [[Radiant Garden]], [[Ansem the Wise]], who has assumed the identity of "DiZ", so that they are able to safely pass through corridors of darkness and evade the Organization.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories}}

===''Kingdom Hearts II''===

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===''Kingdom Hearts coded''===

Shortly after the Organization's defeat, King Mickey digitizes [[Jiminy's Journal]] in order to determine the source of a mysterious message that had appeared within it. In the process, the Journal's collective memory comes to reside within [[Data-Riku]], who takes the form of Riku as he was after he left Castle Oblivion, wearing a black coat. Because of his black coat, [[Data-Sora]] confuses him with the mysterious figure who appeared in his [[Dive to the Heart]], but he eventually discovers that the figure was [[Data-Roxas]], who had manifested to protect Data-Sora from his own pain.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts Re:coded}}

File:Ansem, Seeker of Darkness KHIII.png|[[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]]

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

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

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