Heartless Ones

Heartless Ones (also called Soulless or Black Souls) are a new breed of heartless. They are cloned from a normal human being by forces of darkness by using dark magic to halve the soul of the victim, and placing it in a new body. This half of the soul is placed in a new body created by similar magic, corrupting it in the process.

The corrupted soul is forever linked to its orignal, conveniently called 'originals', with one's most powerful emotions registering with the other, making each a deadly foe to its counterpart because these emotions are able to be tracked like a faint light in a black sky.

In Kingdom Hearts: Recreation, Payne, a Nobody, uses the souls of James, Ronald, Kram, Anmol and Vicky to create Kahn, Staney, Mahfouz and Vivan respectively. He then uses the Heartless Ones to track down the originals.