Your not a dork, its somewhat cool to know all this. Leading on from that, why did Sora turn into a heartless then. His heart wasn't consumed by darkness but released by the keyblade. Also, his heart was connected to Kairi's so in a sense, there situation was switched.

Even if you ignore that bit, Sora has a very strong heart, he shouldn't have turned into a pathetic shadow heartless. He would have turned into a heartless version of himself or at least a very strong heartless. Or doesn't it work like that?