Talk:Shulk vs Young Xehanort/@comment-25275196-20160323070512/@comment-27416494-20160324182643

That's a rather fascinating way of looking at time travel but it does happen to clash with the extremely specific (not to mention convoluted) rules of time travel that Kingdom Hearts presents. A specific rule I should bring up states that one cannot change/rewrite destined events. The timeline is already set and changing it is impossible. Young Xehanort himself is following a predestined ath his older self laid out for him, literally only travelling through time because it has already been decided that he would. Kingdom Hearts breaks the fundamentals of time travel by essentially saying that breaking off into separate timelines is imposssible, there can only be one set universe.

I also feel I should define the in battle uses more. Xehanort's little Combo Breaker maneuver is literally turning back the clock a few seconds to fix a mistake. But perhaps the most important aspect here is the large clock that appears near the end of the battle. Fail to destroy it in time (and it's very heavily guarded) and he restarts the entire battle. (Which is exactly what happened at the climax.) Perhaps I can see the situation as a nearly endless time loop that continues until Xehanort finally succeeds in one of his attempts.