Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-890307-20161205161301/@comment-25122992-20161219084135

Lorenzo VonMT wrote: That still isn't conclusive evidence to suggest the mangekyo are swapped. To me it makes much more sense that the transplanted eyes are merged with the originals because there are less assumptions regarding the reason why the eye patterns are merged and why the transplantee retains the abilities of the transplanted eyes and why the resulting EMS has stronger abilities than the MS. The whole "merging" theory is technically one big assumption, while it's kinda clear that user's eyes are just replaced by the eyes of a transplantee. The words of Itachi alone should be enough proof to this, he stated that Izuna's (MS) eyes were literally passed down to Madara as their new wielder, which made them stronger and caused the light to never fade. Yeah, Itachi didn't know that Izuna's eyes weren't stealed, but given willingly as a gift, yet Madara's story he told Sasuke was correct more or less.