Editing Sora's Heartless

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Late in ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', [[Sora]] becomes a [[Heartless]] for a short time, before being restored to his human form. In ''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]'', '''Sora's Heartless''' becomes a separate character, a digital entity created from the journal record of Sora's time as a Heartless. This Heartless serves as the main antagonist of the game and the source of the [[Bug Blox]]. Unlike other Heartless, Sora's Heartless held onto its feelings, memories, and selfhood, and this unique trait is commented on by others.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''===

After Sora, Donald, and Goofy track Riku down in the Great Hall, they learn that he has used the incomplete [[Keyblade of heart]] to summon the Keyhole of Hollow Bastion. He reveals that Kairi's lost heart has been within Sora all along, and that it must be released in order to complete the Keyhole.<ref>'''Riku''': "It’s no use. That girl has lost her heart. She cannot wake up...The Keyhole cannot be completed so as long as the last princess of heart still sleeps...Yes, and without her power, the Keyhole will remain incomplete. It is time she awakened...But first, you must give the princess back her heart...Don’t you see yet? The princess’s heart is responding. It has been there all along. Kairi’s heart rests within you!...So, I shall release you now, Princess. Complete the Keyhole with your power. Open the door, and lead me into everlasting darkness!"</ref> He attempts to release Kairi's heart by using the Keyblade on Sora, but Sora parries at the last second, and he eventually defeats [[Game:Riku#Riku (Keyblade)|the possessed Riku]].

Despite this, Kairi is still catatonic, and Sora is unable to seal the incomplete Keyhole. In order to save Kairi, Sora turns Riku's Keyblade on himself. This releases Kairi's heart from within Sora, reviving her, but this also completes the Keyhole and casts Sora into darkness, transforming him into a Heartless, and also producing his Nobody, [[Roxas]], as well as Kairi's Nobody, Naminé. Sora transforms into a [[Shadow]], as he does not have that much darkness in his heart, just as Kairi awakens, and the Heartless rapidly emerging from the Keyhole force Kairi, [[Donald Duck|Donald]], and [[Goofy]] to flee.  

As a Shadow, Sora follows his friends through the Lift Stop to the [[Entrance Hall]], where he sees them being overrun by other Shadow Heartless. He rushes to help his friends, and though Donald tries to attack him, Kairi recognizes him and embraces him. Her light and heart return Sora to his human form, and Sora later states that while he was a Shadow, he nearly forgot everything. Although restored to human form, Sora remains a pseudo-Heartless throughout his battle with [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]].

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In the manga, Kairi jokes that she recognized Sora's Heartless by the shape of its calves.

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===''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]''===

At the end of Sora's journey through Castle Oblivion, the witch Naminé puts him to sleep so that she can reconstruct his memory, which she had tampered with in the first place. All of the contents of [[Jiminy's Journal]] are removed, a side-effect of the record of Sora's Heartless beginning to assert itself.  

===''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''===

One year later, [[Roxas]] dreams of when Sora was turned into a Heartless, as well as when Kairi restored his body. Not long afterward, Roxas reunites with Sora, and Sora reawakens as a complete being, no longer a Heartless. Although he is whole, his time as a Heartless and the magic of his new clothes allow him to periodically assume the Heartless-based [[AntiForm]].<ref name="Famitsu">'''''Famitsu'' Interview'''; '''Interviewer''': "Is AntiForm originated from when Sora got turned into a Heartless?" / '''Nomura''': "Story-wise, yes. Drives are very strong so AntiForm exists as a side-effect of using too much power. System-wise, I wanted to create something strong but troublesome."</ref>

===''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]''===

As a symptom of the secrets that were hidden within Jiminy's Journal, a digital version of Sora's Heartless comes to be and, like Data-Sora, it evolves into something more than a simple facsimile. To that end, the Heartless absorbs both the [[Bug Blox]], which spread throughout the Data Worlds, and the minds of the slain digital Heartless, increasing its power exponentially.

After clearing the Bug Blox from the data [[Hollow Bastion]], the [[Jiminy's Journal|Journal]] alerts [[Data-Sora]] to the source of the Bugs: Sora's Heartless. Upon defeating Maleficent and Pete, Sora's Heartless's origins are revealed, along with its intent to enter the real world to feed on hearts. Data-Sora attacks the real Sora's digitized Heartless, causing it to evolve into [[AntiSora]] before resuming its Darkside-like form. Data-Sora grows weary from this battle; just as Sora's Heartless is about to claim victory, [[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]] appears. Mickey's aid gives Data-Sora the means of destroying the Shadow that serves as his opponent's true form.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts coded#Episode 7|Episode 7}}

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File:Sora's Heartless - Neo Darkside KHREC.png|Sora's Heartless in its Darkside-like form.

File:Sora's Heartless - True Form KHREC.png|Sora's Heartless in its AntiSora-like form.

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