Editing Power of waking

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{{Q|What do you think the power of waking is? It's for traversing hearts to reach worlds. Not for traversing worlds to reach hearts. There's a high price to pay for wielding such power foolishly.|[[Young Xehanort]], to Sora}}
The {{nihongo|'''power of waking'''|眠りし心を解放する力|Nemurishi Kokoro wo Kaihō-suru Chikara|lit. "Power to free a sleeping heart"}} is an ability introduced in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]'', and is a key plot element in ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''. It is described by [[Yen Sid]] as "the power to free a [[heart]] from its sleep".<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''''', '''Yen Sid''': "In your Mark of Mastery exam, you were to unlock seven Sleeping Keyholes. By doing so, you would awaken those worlds from their prison of slumber, and also acquire the power to free a heart from its sleep."</ref> 

Only [[Riku]] and [[King Mickey]] are known to currently possess the power of waking. [[Sora]] previously had the power, but his abuse of the power of waking to break the World's natural order caused him to lose it.<ref>'''''Kingdom Hearts III''''', '''Chirithy''': "A forbidden act. Break a taboo of nature, and you'll end up paying an extraordinary price. / You'll lose your powers. You won't be able to use the power of waking."</ref>

==Abilities==
True to its name, the power of waking is able to awaken a sleeping heart.

The power of waking can also use hearts as an intermediary to travel to certain worlds. It can additionally be used to reach the [[Realm of Darkness]], and is one of few ways to do so outside of using a [[Corridor of Darkness]], or a world becoming unstable.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''''', '''[[Glossary]]''': "The realm of darkness, however, exists in a space closed off from time. It is accessible only via dark corridors—pathways that open for agents of darkness, or when worlds become unstable—or by using the 'power of waking.'"</ref>

===Unintended uses and consequences===
However, the power of waking has unintended uses - since the states of sleep and death are connected<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''''', '''Chirithy:''' "The edges of sleep and death touch, and one can't help the occasional crossover."</ref>, it is possible to use the power to restore recently-deceased hearts. Furthermore, the ability to use hearts to reach worlds can be reversed, instead using worlds to reach hearts.

Abusing the power of waking in these ways is a "nature taboo", and incurs a high price for the offender - their power of waking will be revoked, as well as some of their other abilities, and they will vanish from the world where they originate. As a result, the offender will be unable to return to their original world without outside assistance.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind]]''''', '''Chirithy:''' "You'll lose your powers. You won't be able to use the power of waking. [...] You yourself... will vanish from this world. And without your powers, you can't return to the world you came from." </ref>

==Story==
===''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''===
Sora and Riku take a [[Mark of Mastery exam]] to not only be named [[Keyblade Master]]s, but also obtain the power of waking by awakening the Sleeping Worlds. However, Sora loses this power when Xehanort corrupts his heart with [[darkness]]. After passing the exam and defeating Xehanort, Riku uses the power of waking to dive into Sora's heart; there, he defeats the [[Armored Ventus Nightmare]] and awakens Sora by answering three questions in a vision of the [[Destiny Islands]].<!--

the purpose of sora and riku's exam is to gain the power of waking, and riku uses it to wake Sora:

Yen Sid: If we are ever to strike down Xehanort, we need the individuals 
King Mickey spoke of in his letter. We must lead them out of sorrow and 
slumber, and back to our world. To do so, seven Sleeping Keyholes must be 
found and unlocked, and a great power retrieved. As you know, every world 
is walled off from the next, preventing travel between them. In the past, 
you could bridge these gaps because the walls were broken, or because you 
could open special Lanes with your Keyblades. But your new goals, the 
"Sleeping Keyholes," are harder to reach. You'll recall, in your first 
journey, that you brought many worlds back from the darkness--but some 
never returned completely. They still sleep, cut off from all outside 
channels. Not even the Heartless can enter.

Yen Sid: You must understand, this examination is in no way how the Mark 
of Mastery is usually found. However, in light of what they must do next...
it was a necessity. If Sora and Riku complete their test, by finding the 
seven doors corresponding to the seven pure lights, they will return 
home with a new power.

Yen Sid: In your Mark of Mastery exam, you were to unlock seven Sleeping 
Keyholes. By doing so, you would awaken those worlds from their prison of 
slumber, and also acquire the power to free a heart from its sleep. Riku, 
you unlocked those Keyholes within Sora's dreams. Therefore, it stands to 
reason that you now have the power to awaken Sora's heart.
Mickey: You want him to dive back into Sora's sleep? But Master, Sora's 
heart is down in the darkest abyss. If Riku's not careful, he might just 
get trapped down there with him. No... I'll go instead.
--note: "power to free a heart from its sleep" probably "power of waking" in original JP script

Yen Sid: More than anything, I am grateful to have you both back from 
Xehanort's deception unharmed. And I am grateful to Lea, whose spontaneous 
actions turned the tides. I am also deeply sorry, for failing to percieve 
the danger and throwing you headlong into a perilous test. This experience 
has revealed many hidden truths, and we must gird ourselves for the great 
clash with darkness that lies before us. I believe we need a new Keyblade 
Master, one with a new kind of power. Sora and Riku, you both deserve 
the honor. However, one of you braved the realm of sleep again to unlock 
the final Keyhole and save a friend. Riku, I name you our new true 
Keyblade Master.

Ansem the Wise: Yes. A clue, I hope, to finding yourselves or your lost 
friends in your hour of need. The heart has always been quick to grow. Each 
exposure to light, to the natural world, to other people, shapes this most 
malleable part inside of us. Nobodies are not different from us in that 
manner. Sora was the only one able to return to his human form without 
destroying his Nobody. That is a statement to the love in his heart for 
other people, and the bonds that tie them together. Perhaps...he has the 
power to bring back the hearts and existences of those connected to him--
to recreate people we thought were lost to us forever. Our most precious 
treasures--even an empty puppet--the trees of the forest, and the petals on 
the wind--there are hearts around us everywhere we look. And it does not 
take superhuman powers to see them. Surely we remember as children the way 
our hearts made everything seem so shiny, and perfect. Sora has a heart like 
that--uncorrupted, willing to see the good before the bad. When he sees the 
heart in something, it then becomes real. When a connection seems broken, 
he may have the power to mend it. He has touched countless hearts, he has 
accepted them, and he has saved them. And some of those hearts have never 
left him--whether they fell into darkness or were trapped there--whether 
they sleep in the darkness of Sora's heart, or were welcomed into its 
warmth--they can be saved. All Sora needs to do is be himself and follow 
wherever it is that his heart takes him. It is the best and the only way. 
The rest is in there.

Ansem the Wise: You see, by defeating the Nightmare imprisoning Sora, you freed him.

Riku: You mean...the Sora wrapped in that black phantom?

Ansem the Wise: Then, you came here, and you were questioned by three young people. That was the final key to awaken him.-->

===''Kingdom Hearts III''===
Sora travels through the worlds in an attempt to regain the power of waking. Upon facing [[Vanitas]] at [[The Land of Departure]], Sora realizes with [[Ventus]]'s help that the power of waking is still sleeping within him. He then uses the power of waking to free Ventus's heart from within his own and awaken him from his eleven-year coma.

After rebuilding his body in [[The Final World]], Sora uses the power of waking to travel between facsimiles of the worlds and track down his friends' hearts, in an attempt to save them from the [[Lich]]. He succeeds and sends them back in time to their arrival at the [[Keyblade Graveyard]]. As a result, Sora creates a tear in the fabric of time known as a singularity and changes history so that Sora's friends are saved by the [[Lingering Will]].<!--

the purpose of sora's journey is to regain the power of waking
ーWhen we leave the Final World, we are back to the point just before Sora and his friends were defeated. Why is that?
Nomura: The power of awakening is essentially "the power to put sleeping hearts back the way they were." But the impact of forcing his friends' fading hearts back the way they were rewrote reality, and created a singularity. The rewrite caused the chronology in which they were destroyed to have "never happened."
The power of awakening is not the power to bring people back to life, but Sora was using it to do just that to his friends. As a result, time was rewound - and Young Xehanort predicted that Sora would pay the price by disappearing. -->

===''Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind''===
After the final battle with Xehanort, Sora travels back in time to before his arrival at [[Scala ad Caelum]] to save [[Kairi]]'s heart. He succeeds, but having repeatedly used the power of waking to restore hearts that have been erased from existence, Sora vanishes into another world.

===''Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory''===
After a year of searching for Sora after he disappeared, the [[Fairy Godmother]] takes Riku and Kairi to the Final World, where they meet the [[Nameless Star]]. The Nameless Star opens a [[Portal]] to the world of [[Quadratum]], and Riku uses the power of waking to travel through it.

==Trivia==
*Ironically, the number of times the Power of Waking can be used incorrectly matches the number of pure lights from the [[X-blade]].
*The Power has only been used properly three times.
**Riku woke Sora's heart.
**Sora woke Ventus and Roxas's hearts.
==Notes and references==
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