Editing Sora

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{{InfoCharacter
|name     = Sora
|image    = [[File:SoraKH2.png|x400px]]
|kana     = ソラ
|romaji   = ''Sora''
|world    = [[Destiny Islands]]
|world2   = [[Castle Oblivion]] <small>(''COM'')</small><br>[[Twilight Town]] <small>(''Days, KHII'')</small>
|role     = Main protagonist<br>Keyblade wielder
|first    = ''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' 
|engvoice = [[wikipedia:Haley Joel Osment|Haley Joel Osment]]<br>Luke Manriquez <small>(Young Sora)</small>
|japvoice = [[wikipedia:Miyu Irino|Miyu Irino]]<br>Takuto Yoshinaga <small>(Young Sora)</small>}}
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{{Q|I don't need a weapon! My friends are my power!|Sora|''Kingdom Hearts''}}
'''Sora''' is the main protagonist of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, as well as a [[Keyblade]] wielder. He is an upbeat teenager who may seem simple-minded at times, but is very aware of the importance of his quest. He possesses a strong sense of justice and an unrelenting heart. At times he is impulsive and quick to anger when defending his friends, but he is always sincere about what he says and does. He has also been best friends with [[Riku]] and [[Kairi]] since he was a small boy.

Sora is four during ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', fourteen years old at the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'',  and fifteen during the events of ''Kingdom Hearts II''. He lives on [[Destiny Islands]] with his best friends Kairi and Riku, and all three of them dream to venture from Destiny Islands to find out what lies beyond. Sora is also the original persona of [[Sora's Heartless]] and [[Roxas]], the source of [[Xion]]'s memories, and the carrier of [[Ventus]]'s heart. Sora's name is derived from the Japanese word for "sky".

==Journal entries==
===''Kingdom Hearts''===
;First entry
''A spirited youth. He was cast into an unknown world when a swarm of Heartless raided his island. He battles the Heartless'' ''with a mysterious weapon called the Keyblade as he searches for his friends Kairi and Riku.

;Second entry
''The one who fights the Heartless. Upon reclaiming the Keyblade from his rival, Riku, Sora sacrificed his heart to free Kairi and became a Heartless. Kairi's deep feelings for Sora restored him. Now he must confront Ansem, the seeker of darkness.

===''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''===
;Sora's Story
''A bright and spirited boy chosen by the Keyblade to battle the Heartless. 

''It was Sora who defeated Ansem, ending his plan to shroud the world in darkness.''

''However, Sora continued his journey, seeking the friends he lost during the struggle.'' 

;Reverse/Rebirth
''Riku's childhood friend, and the hero of light chosen by the Keyblade to stand against the darkness.'' 

''Riku fought Sora while bridled by darkness, but their friendship proved stronger, and they ultimately worked together to close the door to darkness.''

===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
;First entry
''A boy chosen by the Keyblade, a mysterious weapon.''

''Not long ago, Sora journeyed with Donald and Goofy in search of his longtime friend Kairi, who had been spirited away into the darkness.''

''In the end, they saved the world of all worlds from the darkness that was closing in.''

''Then, somewhere along the way, Sora fell into a deep slumber.''

''Now that he is awake, he can't recall why he fell asleep to begin with.''

;Second entry
''A boy chosen by the Keyblade, a mysterious weapon.''

''Not long ago, Sora journeyed with Donald and Goofy in search of his longtime friend Kairi, who had been spirited away into the darkness.''

''In the end, they saved the world of all worlds from the darkness that was closing in. ''

''After that, Sora continued journeying in search of Riku, who was trapped on the other side of the door to darkness. And somewhere along the way, Sora fell into a deep slumber.''

''With a new outfit and strengthened resolve, Sora has set out once more on a search for his friend Riku.''

===''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
''A cheerful, energetic little boy.''

''He and his friend Riku always play together out on the island.''

===''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''===
''A boy chosen by a strange sword called a "Keyblade." After his island home was lost to the darkness, he joined forces with Donald, Goofy, and Mickey and saved all worlds. All these adventure were carefully recorded in Jiminy's Journals.''

''Inside the datascape generated within the computer, a digital version of the real Sora (Data-Sora) quests in our hero's stead.''

==Development==
[[File:Lion-Sora-Chainsaw.jpg|140px|thumb|right|Sora's early design]]
Although Square Enix originally wanted [[Mickey Mouse]] to be the main protagonist of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, and Disney wanted [[Donald Duck]] as the protagonist, the role was eventually set as Sora, because Tetsuya Nomura wanted a human protagonist. Early on, Sora was designed as a young lion/human hybrid, wielding a chainsaw-like weapon with a lion's head keychain. The merging of Sora's design with elements from Square's proposal is referenced by his original costume, which shares many elements with Mickey's.

==Story==
===''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep]]''===
[[File:KH BBS Young Sora and Riku Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sora and Riku in ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'']]
Sora and  Riku are shown as best friends and rivals as they grew up. They are often seen around the islands battling with wooden swords, racing, and doing anything else that is competitive.  

Some time prior to ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', Sora's newly born heart encounters the injured heart of Ventus and mends it, offering to help him restore his broken heart until help is not needed. This allows them to form a connection with one another, and causes [[Vanitas]]'s face to resemble Sora's.

By the time Sora is four years old, he encounters [[Terra]] and [[Aqua]], two Keyblade wielders of the generation before him, on separate occasions. He never spoke with Terra, but they have seen each other on Destiny Islands. Terra shows no interest in Sora because he is unable to sense his potential, and is instead attracted to Riku. Aqua recognizes their friendship as hers to Terra and Ventus and tells Sora to protect Riku if he were to fall into the hands of darkness, which he agrees. Ventus had visited the islands multiple times, but never met Sora face to face.

[[File:Ventus' Hearts Meging with Sora's.png|thumb|200px|Sora meets Ventus's heart]]
After the credits of ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', Sora and Riku rest on a beach. When they prepare to go home, Sora suddenly feels sad. Riku tells him that perhaps someone from another world connected to him is sad somewhere and tells him to try to reach him. Sora closes his eyes and reaches out, which results in him being sent to the [[Awakening]] and encountering Ventus's lost heart. It had lost its path and must return to slumber, though it is reluctant to do so and asks if it could become a part of Sora's heart. Sora accepts the request saying that as long as he can make it happy by doing so, he is willing to.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''===
One year after the events of ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', a mysterious little girl named Kairi came to their islands from a [[Radiant Garden|different place]]. She was adopted by the mayor, and Sora and Riku quickly became friends with her. Another day, Sora and Riku found a small, hidden cave on their islands. They search the "Secret Place" while discussing Kairi and the meteor shower that had recently fallen. They find a door with no handle at the back of the cave and, because they couldn't open it, they leave, but not before Riku sees the world's [[Keyhole]].

During their childhood, Sora, Riku, and Kairi often wonder about what lay beyond their small world. By the time they reach adolescence, they decide to build a raft, in the hopes of sailing to other worlds. The day when they start construction, Sora dozes off on the shore of the beach, and has an odd dream where he travels through an [[Awakening|odd, dark realm]] and battles a [[Darkside|massive dark creature]]. Sora is awakened by Kairi, and he goes to help get the provisions for the raft. However, the night before they set sail, a storm ravages the island along with a strange, dark force. Riku succumbs to the force, claiming he is not afraid of the darkness it so clearly embodied, while Sora tries and fails to save his friend from the darkness.

However, it is during the tempest that Sora first unlocks his potential as a Keyblade wielder, summoning the power of the [[Kingdom Key]] to battle the Heartless that now infested his home. He battles the massive Heartless that he had fought in his dream as he makes his way to the Secret Place where he finds Kairi, who disappears when their bodies meet, forcing Sora to battle the same dark creature from his dream. Sora defeats the monster, but he is swept off the island and thrown into a [[Universe of Kingdom Hearts|Corridor of Darkness]], which lands him in a world called [[Traverse Town]].

In Traverse Town, Sora meets [[Donald Duck]] and [[Goofy]], the respective Royal Court Magician and Captain of the Royal Guard of [[Disney Castle]]. Under orders from [[Mickey Mouse|The King]], the pair are searching for two things: a mysterious 'key' and a man called [[Leon]]. As the King has disappeared in his own quest, Donald and Goofy accompany Sora and they start searching for their respective friends. In addition to that, Sora finds that his Keyblade might perhaps be the mysterious key the King had asked them to find.

Sora discovers that Riku is also searching for Kairi, though neither of them can find her. [[Maleficent]] sees her chance and tells Riku that Sora had replaced him and Kairi for Donald, Goofy, and the Keyblade. With this false knowledge, he sets out to find Kairi on his own as Sora travels to a number of worlds to stop the [[Heartless]]. From there, Sora locks the Keyholes out from the reach of the Darkness to protect the worlds' hearts.

His quest allows him to make countless new friends while the power of his heart increases, which also improves his Keyblade's power.

Upon reaching [[Hollow Bastion]], Riku confronts Sora and reveals to him that Riku was the true Keyblade master, explaining that Sora "was just the delivery boy". Riku then claims the Keyblade for his own. Despite their guilt at doing so, Donald and Goofy are forced to abandon Sora because of the King's orders: to stay with whoever has the Keyblade. When [[Beast]] pulls himself up to continue to the castle, Sora tells him to be careful due to his injuries. However, Beast shrugs off Sora's worries, saying that he would not leave before he completed what he'd come there for; to find [[Belle]]. When asked what ''he'' came for, Sora realizes that he needs to show the same attitude as the Beast, and continues with him into the entrance hall of the castle. 

There Sora meets Riku, Goofy and Donald once more. Feeling guilty, Donald and Goofy return to Sora's side. Riku then asks Sora, "How do you intend to fight without a weapon?" to which Sora answers, "I don't need the Keyblade. I've got a better weapon. My heart!". Riku taunts Sora, calling his heart pathetic and weak. Sora proceeds to tell him that his friends strengthen his heart. At this, the Keyblade realizes that Riku has turned to darkness, and Sora's heart is far stronger than Riku's, so it returns to Sora. Enraged, Riku fights Sora and loses. Furious at his weakness, he makes the mistake of listening to [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness|a mysterious man]]. Opening his heart fully to darkness, he allows himself to be possessed by this man.

After this, the party encounter Maleficent and defeat her. Using a [[Keyblade of People's Hearts|Keyblade born of six of the Princesses of Hearts' hearts]], Riku unlocks the darkness in her heart before stepping away through a Corridor of Darkness. She transforms into a black, fire-breathing dragon from the proliferation of darkness in her heart, but is again defeated and the Heartless swallow her heart. Further into the depths of Hollow Bastion, Sora encounters Riku once more, and he calls himself "[[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]]", who intends to find [[Kingdom Hearts (world)|Kingdom Hearts]] itself. Although it is difficult fighting his best friend, Sora emerges victorious in the struggle.

Kairi is revealed to be one of the Seven [[Princesses of Heart]] who possess the power to open the [[Final Keyhole]] that leads to Kingdom Hearts, but because her heart laid within Sora, it cannot open, as explained by "Ansem". In order to return her heart and wake her up, Sora uses the Keyblade of People's Hearts to remove both their hearts, sacrificing his humanity and becoming a [[Sora's Heartless|Heartless]], unknowingly creating Roxas and [[Naminé]], the [[Nobody|Nobodies]] of Sora and Kairi respectively. When he manages to reunite with Kairi after a brief stint as a Heartless, Kairi uses her light to restore his human form. 

After regrouping in Traverse Town, Sora decides to return to Hollow Bastion to seal the Final Keyhole while he tries to reclaim Riku from the clutches of "Ansem". Kairi gives Sora her [[Wayfinder|lucky charm]] ([[Oathkeeper]]'s keychain) since he insists that she should stay behind, even joking that she would be in his way.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy set sail to Hollow Bastion and seal the Final Keyhole after a battle with a [[Behemoth|powerful Heartless]]. The six Princesses of Heart then inform him of a new darkness approaching, and the trio travel to [[End of the World]], the "Heartless world" of all the worlds that fell into darkness, where they confront and defeat "Ansem" once and for all. "Ansem", defeated, calls forth to Kingdom Hearts to fill him with the power of darkness, but Sora proclaims that Kingdom Hearts is not darkness, but light, and "Ansem" is destroyed by the said light. However, Heartless begin to swarm inside of the door and Sora, Donald, and Goofy rush forward to close it. As they attempt to close the Door to Darkness, Riku and King Mickey appear on the other side of the door and together, King Mickey and Sora seal it from both sides with Sora's Keyblade from the Realm of light and Mickey's Keyblade from the Realm of Darkness. However, Mickey and Riku become trapped behind the door as it closed shut. Riku's last words to Sora before it closed are "Take care of her", referring to Kairi.

As the worlds begin to restore themselves, Sora sees Kairi on a platform of sand that is drifting away. Kairi and Sora are separated with Kairi going back to Destiny Islands. Sora promises to return to her as soon as he finds Riku and King Mickey.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]''===
After being separated from his friends, Sora wanders down on a long, meandering path with Donald and Goofy searching for a way to find Riku and Mickey, encountering [[Pluto]] on the way. When they reach a crossroad and call it a night, a [[Marluxia|mysterious man]] in a long black hooded cloak appears and informs Sora, "Along the road ahead lies something you need. However in order to claim it you must lose something that is dear to you." The man disappears and only one path remains. The trio follow the path which leads them to a mysterious castle known as [[Castle Oblivion]]. They enter the castle hoping to pick up some clues as to the whereabouts of their friends only to discover, as they ascend the floors of the fortress, they are beginning to lose their memories and become more and more uncertain of what they are truly after. Even Jiminy's journal has been erased of its entries.

Little do they know, their memories are being manipulated by a mysterious organization that seek to capture and manipulate Sora. To do this, they use [[Naminé]], a young witch who could rearrange the chains of memories in a person's mind and create new links between them. In order to make Sora forget Kairi, Naminé begins to replace his memories of Kairi with herself, partly because she is Kairi's Nobody and so is unable to completely erase her from Sora's memories. Meanwhile, a conflict between the members of the Organization lead to several encounters between Sora and [[Riku Replica|Riku]], whose memories of Kairi have also been replaced with ones containing Naminé.

The trio's uncertainty builds up to a point where they end up in [[Twilight Town]], a place that Sora is fairly certain that he has never been in, and thus should not exist in his memory. Organization member IV, [[Vexen]], reveals that it is a place that exists on the other side of Sora's heart, but is eliminated by [[Axel]], another member of the Organization, before he can explain anything.

Axel ends up betraying [[Marluxia]], the lord of Castle Oblivion, revealing that Marluxia and [[Larxene]], the newest members of their group, intend to use Sora to overthrow the Organization. Axel manipulates Naminé into doing what she believes is right. Donald and Goofy try to reason with Sora about the whole situation later, but he is so stubborn that he separates from them to go on his own.

On Destiny Islands, Sora is touched to have finally found Naminé, who tries to make him remember who was truly important to him. After taking one look at the lucky charm, it returns to its original form and Naminé takes the temporary form of Kairi. Sora escapes the memory-based Destiny Islands and confronts Naminé, who reveals that she never existed in Sora's memory and that she has been replacing the person most important to him. Riku appears to them again and is again defeated by Sora. When Sora tries to help the injured Riku, he attacks Sora and gains the upper hand. Having left no choice, Naminé uses her power to break Riku's memories, and it causes him to collapse. Larxene comes forth to eliminate Sora and Riku, who is revealed to actually be a [[Riku Replica]], created by Vexen.

When Larxene is about to eliminate Sora, Donald and Goofy catch up to save him. Although Sora had been a jerk to go on his own, they quickly forgive him and state how they would always stay together. Together, they defeat Larxene and Sora forgives a regretful Naminé for her actions. She promises to restore the memories of the trio once they reach the 13th Floor of Castle Oblivion, where Marluxia is waiting for them. Axel attempts to destroy Marluxia himself, but then Marluxia uses Naminé as a human shield. Sora steps in and defeats Axel. After finally catching up to them, Marluxia orders Naminé to completely erase Sora's memory so he could make Sora his puppet; Naminé refuses, but Sora orders her to do so in order to protect her from Marluxia's wrath. Fortunately, the Riku Replica, its true memories returned after his false ones are broken, arrives and saves Naminé before she was able to do so.

Then Sora, Donald and Goofy step into the thirteenth floor's dimension where they fight Marluxia in an incredible battle.

Once Marluxia was defeated, Naminé asks that they step into [[Memory Pod|Memory Pods]] that would rearrange their memories back to the way they were at the cost of breaking the links she created. She also informs him that the process will take some time, during which Sora, Donald, and Goofy would sleep as their memories are slowly restored. While they know that they would forget Naminé, Sora promises her that while she was forgotten, she would remain somewhere in his heart, never lost. And when he wakes up, they would become friends for real.

Right before he went to sleep, Naminé informs him that some of his memories are unreachable and asks him to remember Kairi, because his memory of her is the light that would bring them all back. Sora then uses most of the power of his memories to remember Kairi before going to sleep for real.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]''===
[[Naminé]]'s powers are unable to do much to fix the problems, however, as they later discover the existence of Roxas, Sora's Nobody, and Xion, a replica of Roxas created from his leaked memories. As Roxas and Sora are connected and Xion is created from their intertwined memories, Sora's lost memory pieces found their way inside Xion through Roxas. This act causes Sora's memory restoration process to come to a complete stop.

[[File:Xion as sora nightmare.jpg|thumb|Xion turns into Sora for the first time during a nightmare]]
The Organization intends to have Xion absorb Roxas, forming a "new Sora" under their control, an act that would erase Roxas and make it impossible for the real Sora to ever awaken. When Xion discovers this truth, she is willing to instead return to Sora, saving him at the cost of her existence. But before she can, [[Axel]] comes to take her back to [[Organization XIII]], starting a fight which Xion loses. During her captivity, she is stored within machine-like devices and given new powers so she may be able to absorb Roxas when the time comes.

Eventually, Roxas and Xion meet on the Clock Tower of Twilight Town, where she removes her hood, revealing that she now completely resembles Sora through the effects of his memory flow. Although she fights with all her strength, Roxas defeats her in the end, and as she disappears and returns to her origin she asks Roxas to free Kingdom Hearts from [[Xemnas]]'s control. Although Sora's lost memories are back where they should be, Roxas, Sora's body and soul, is still on the loose, preventing Sora's complete restoration. Riku hunts Roxas down and finds him just as he arrives at Memory's Skyscraper to attack the Organization. After an intense battle, Riku captures Roxas, and brings him back to DiZ and Naminé.

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===''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''===
{{Q|A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up... yours and mine.|Sora in the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts II''}}
One year later, Sora, Donald and Goofy awake in the basement of the [[Old Mansion]] located in [[Twilight Town]] with their former memories restored, although they cannot remember what happened in Castle Oblivion. But before they awake in Twilight Town, Roxas comes to see Sora and eventually fuses with him. Continuing their journey to find Riku and King Mickey, they set out traveling across new worlds, meeting old friends and enemies from the original Kingdom Hearts game while also making new friends. They continue the battle against the Heartless and now a new threat, the remaining members of the Organization they encountered in ''Chain of Memories''.

Soon after exploring Twilight Town, Sora and company head off to the [[Mysterious Tower]] and Sora obtains new attire—on the advice of master sorcerer [[Yen Sid]] considering Sora's first game outfit to be "too small"—from [[Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather]]. The new outfit enables Sora to transform into his [[Drive Form]] and attain special powers for each of them. The source of the clothing's magic is linked to Sora's heart, which is connected to everyone Sora had befriended including Donald and Goofy. Sora was referred to as the "Key that connects everything" by Yen Sid which is how Naminé's memory manipulation works.

Sora expresses his determination to bring Riku back home with him to Destiny Islands, where Kairi is waiting for them. The quest gets more complicated when Kairi herself gets kidnapped by Axel. [[Pete]] (who works for the resurrected [[Maleficent]]) and [[Organization XIII]] are causing trouble in the other worlds, and King Mickey refuses to give information regarding Riku. Sora must also discover why some of the members of Organization XIII address him as Roxas even after he clearly states his name is Sora. Also, throughout the game Sora becomes rather intrigued and interested in the romances between his friends in other worlds, as well as one between Kairi and himself. He travels to other worlds to find Riku and the King, help the worlds and stop Organization XIII. His new journey brings him to meet up with some old friends and make new ones.

At one point in the storyline, Donald and Goofy's homeworld becomes infested with Heartless, which is rather unusual considering their world's protection, and Sora visits their castle for the first time. While Donald and Goofy set out to warn the castle's residents about the danger, Sora escorts [[Minnie Mouse|Queen Minnie]] to the audience chamber where the [[Cornerstone of Light]] is hidden under. He finds out that Pete and Maleficent have found a doorway to [[Timeless River]], a past timeline of their world before the castle was built. With some help from [[Merlin]], Sora, Donald and Goofy travel through time and manage to stop Pete from destroying the Cornerstone of Light in the past, which also saves the castle for good.

Sora, with the help of the [[Hayner]], [[Pence]], [[Olette]] (three friends of Roxas in [[Ansem the Wise|DiZ]]'s [[simulated Twilight Town]]) and Axel (who sacrifices his existence), manages to find the route to [[the World That Never Was]]: which is the stronghold of the Organization, where Kingdom Hearts, created by gathering the countless hearts from the Heartless slain by Sora's Keyblade, resides. Soon after entering the world however, in the area of Memory's Skyscraper, Sora's group is ambushed by [[Samurai]] Nobodies and Sora is forced into a showdown with an Organization member, who turns out to be Roxas (disguised in his former Organization XIII cloak) on a platform of [[Awakening]]. In ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', you can fight Roxas instead of watching the fight between Sora and Roxas as a cutscene. At the start of the fight Sora asks who Roxas is, and he answers "Someone from the dark.", then asks Sora; "Tell me...Tell me why he picked you!".

[[File:Sora Roxas.png|thumb|left|Sora meeting Roxas, physically, in the Awakening]]
As Roxas is above and Sora below, he sees the picture of Riku, Kairi, Donald and Goofy (as the platform's design). Roxas then says, "I see, that's why.", and continues the fight. Roxas knocks the Keyblade out of Sora's grasp, and as he goes to retrieve it, Roxas pins it down with his own Keyblade. It looks like defeat for Sora, but then he reaches out for his Keyblade, which disappears and reappears in Sora's hands, after which Sora quickly strikes while Roxas stands amazed, not knowing how that happened. Ultimately, Sora's control over his Keyblade gave him the edge over Roxas, who collapses and reveals his face. As he and the scenery disappear, Roxas says to Sora "You make a good other." Sora reappears next to Donald and Goofy, who tell him that while he disappeared, they had to fight some Nobodies, and they continue towards the massive Castle where Kairi awaits them.

Afterwards, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey storm the Castle in search of their friends. They meet [[Saïx]] at the Hall of Empty Melodies, who tells that Kingdom Hearts is near completion, and it only needed "one more dose from the Keyblade Bearer." He summons hordes of [[Shadow]]s and disappears to go after Maleficent and Pete who were also in the castle. The Heartless overpower Sora, but are destroyed by a rain of laser bullets. Sora has to fight [[Xigbar]], the Freeshooter and Organization's number II, and defeats him. He finds Kairi and Riku (looking like Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, which is the price he paid to help Sora wake up).

Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy make it to the Proof of Existence of the Organization, in which there are only two places to go. They enter one of the odd pathways only to encounter [[Luxord]], Organization XIII's Number X. Although Luxord traps everyone but Sora in cards, he is still defeated by the Keyblade master. Next they enter Addled Impasse where they find Saïx staring up at the moon. Saïx points out that only Roxas could have made it this far in one piece and Sora gets angry and prepares to attack him. Saïx blows Riku and Kairi away and uses the power of the moon to fight. After one of Sora's most difficult battles, Saïx is defeated and Riku finally reveals to Sora that Roxas is his Nobody.

With the mysteries of Roxas's identity finally solved, they continue on. Fighting their way up the winding paths of the [[Castle That Never Was]], Sora, Riku and the others encounter King Mickey and DiZ, now revealed to be the former ruler of Hollow Bastion, now called [[Radiant Garden]], Ansem the Wise, who was trying to absorb Kingdom Hearts into his machine and encode it as data. Xemnas appears to see who is tampering with Kingdom Hearts and finds his old teacher. Then Xemnas finally tells Sora and the others of his true plan, to make a Kingdom out of hearts. One that he would rule.

Unfortunately, Kingdom Hearts proved too strong for Ansem's machine, and with his final words, he tells Sora the rest is up to him and tells Roxas, "''Roxas, I doubt you can hear me but, I am sorry''", before the machine explodes, taking Ansem with it. The energy released in the explosion destroys a good deal of Kingdom Hearts and reverts Riku's appearance to the way it was.

Near the pinnacle of the castle, Heartless appear in vast hordes. Maleficent and Pete show up and stall them while the party heads toward their final battle. When they reach the Altar of Naught at the pinnacle of the castle, they confront Xemnas, the leader of Organization XIII. After a short conversation with the Nobody, Sora is taken by Xemnas to the front of [[Memory's Skyscraper]] for a one-on-one battle. After an intense fight, Sora defeats Xemnas and is transported back to his friends. However, Xemnas appears again and, despite the protests of the group, enters and absorbs Kingdom Hearts. The party was in luck though, and by the will of the worlds a door to Kingdom Hearts is made. Sora, Riku and the King open the door with their Keyblades, breaking the barrier separating them from Xemnas. The party enters but Sora, Riku, Donald and Goofy become separated from King Mickey and Kairi because of Xemnas.

Inside, they discover that Kingdom Hearts was made by the Superior to look like the World That Never Was. They charge through and quickly get to Xemnas and battle him, with Xemnas in armor using the tactics of the rest of the Organization. After they seemingly defeat the Organization leader and return to the Altar of Naught, Roxas emerges from Sora's body to speak with Naminé before she fuses with Kairi. Before this, Naminé opens a door to lead them out of the World That Never Was. He informs Sora that whenever he and Kairi are together, Roxas and Naminé will be together as well. Naminé then joins with Kairi to complete herself, while Roxas returns to Sora's body making Sora whole.

Unfortunately, before Sora and Riku can enter the Corridor, Xemnas attacks once again on the Captain's Seat of an enormous Dragon Nobody. In an epic air battle they manage to defeat this form of Xemnas as well. Riku is injured by Xemnas, who strikes at both with his Ethereal Blades. Falling through the air on the brink of defeat, Sora grabs Riku's Keyblade and batters Xemnas with both. Returning it to Riku, they use a bolt of light and dark energy to finish off Xemnas. Afterwards, Sora must help Riku walk, as he sustained a heavy injury from one of Xemnas's Ethereal Blades. They wander through the eternal abyss, and eventually come to a dark beach under a pale moon, the Dark Margin. Resting at the shoreline, they discuss their adventures and friendship, and come to the conclusion that they did what they set out to do, and agreed that "If worlds are made of light and darkness, we'll be the darkness." The Realm of Light was safe, and they could now sit and let peace envelop them.

[[File:Friends Together Forever.jpg|thumb|right|Sora, Donald and Goofy are reunited]]
As they listen to the waves, a bottle containing a letter that Kairi wrote washes onto the shore. Riku picks it up, and, after reading it, gives it to Sora, believing him to be the proper recipient. The letter reads;

<blockquote>"''Thinking of you, wherever you are.<br>We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend.''<br>''Now I will step forward to realize this wish.''<br>''And who knows:''<br>''Starting a new journey may not be so hard,''<br>''Or maybe it has already begun.''<br>''There are many worlds, but they share the same sky.''<br>''One sky,''<br>''One destiny.''

''-Kairi."''</blockquote>

After Sora reads it, the door to light appears, and both Sora and Riku use it to return to their home world: Destiny Islands.

Having brought Riku back home and reunited at last with all his friends in one piece, Sora returns Kairi's [[Wayfinder|lucky charm]] to her, saying "We-We're back!" and Kairi corrects him saying "You're home". Kairi extends her arm to Sora, and he grasps her hand while simultaneously returning the Oathkeeper keychain he kept for her all this time.

Some time later, Sora is walking around in the Secret Place. He smiles while looking at all the pictures he and Kairi had drawn over the years. He glances down at the picture of Kairi and himself. He sees that Kairi drew the other half of a [[Paopu Fruit]], and smiles to himself, mimicking Kairi's actions from a year ago. Sora asks Riku what he thinks the door to light was. Riku replies that it was Sora's heart; "It's always closer than you think". Kairi runs up to them breathlessly and gives them a bottle she found, containing a letter from King Mickey. The trio reads the letter.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts II}}

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[[File:Coded 06.jpg|thumb|left|190px|The message that started it all.]]
[[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]] digitizes Jiminy's Journal and creates a [[Data-Sora|digital copy of Sora]] in order to investigate the a strange message Jiminy found within it. The digital journal is corrupted by computer bugs in the form of [[Bug Blox|data blocks]], and the Data-Sora goes through and eliminates them all, eventually discovering that it was [[Sora-Heartless|Sora's own Heartless]] that had been corrupting the journal. 

After defeating the Heartless, the Data-Sora goes even deeper and discovers that Naminé and Ansem had hidden data about those who were in suffering (Roxas, Naminé, Xion, Axel, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus) within the real Sora's memories. With this knowledge, King Mickey writes a letter to Sora asking for him to go on a mission to save them. Later, Mickey meets with his old Master, Yen Sid, who reveals that with Ansem and Xemnas's defeat, Xehanort has returned, and that Sora and Riku must undergo the [[Mark of Mastery]] exam to properly combat him.

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[[File:Sora jumpfesta10.JPG|thumb|right|190px|Sora in ''Blank Points'']] 
Later, after Sora has received Mickey's newest letter, he sits on the Paopu tree while holding the message from King Mickey, staring off into the sunset. It is revealed that he has now read the contents of the message and must venture out on a new quest to find Terra, Aqua and Ven, as well as the others connected to him, and save them from their suffering. As he says goodbye to Kairi, she gives Sora her Wayfinder again, telling him, "See you soon."
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==Other appearances==
===''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''===
Sora appears in ''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance'', wearing his attire from the first ''Kingdom Hearts'' game. He is seen in the trailer for the game sitting with Riku near the Paopu Tree. Several unconscious Soras are then seen raining down from the sky in Traverse Town, one landing and summoning the Keyblade. This Sora fights off several Heartless. After this, Sora suddenly snaps awake to find himself sitting next to Kairi near the Paopu Tree.

In two of the few screenshots of the game revealed, Sora is seen with Riku on the beach at Destiny Islands, and is also seen in the Second District of Traverse Town fighting a [[Twilight Thorn]].

==Personality==
Sora has a typical brave and heroic personality, meaning he'll willingly risk his life, even for people he doesn't even know yet. He's extremely loyal to his friends, and has been shown to be extremely forgiving to Riku (even forgiving Riku for the times he has tried to kill him), and is highly protective of Kairi. He constantly thinks positive and is therefore highly optimistic.

Sora is an upbeat person, and although he is simple minded at times, he has a strong sense of justice. Sora has matured over a year's time, for instance, when battling enemies in the game, he seems to have a more serious expression on his face. Sora is more confident than before and takes charge of his group. He is also quite caring and reassuring to his other-world friends, such as when Beast quits after Xaldin steals his rose. Sora reassured him that they would get it back. 

Sora seems to have a remarkable capacity to forgive, even to his sworn enemies; when Maleficent loses control of the Heartless to Organization XIII and is overwhelmed by [[Dusk]]s in order to allow Sora's group to escape, Sora is clearly concerned for her and is only stopped from helping her by being restrained by Donald. Another prominent example is when he forgives Naminé for rewriting the majority of his memories, despite the severity of her doings. More examples would be when he shows gratefulness towards Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, despite all the harm he had caused, for saving Kairi's life, unaware that he is actually a disguised Riku, and when he forgives Axel for kidnapping Kairi and even remains by his side as he fades from existence.
[[File:Kh2intro sora kairi riku.jpg|thumb|left|Sora, Riku and Kairi]]

In ''Kingdom Hearts'', he puts Riku and Kairi above all else; when telling [[Tarzan]] which friends he is missing, he starts to mention Donald and Goofy, but stops himself and instead says he is looking for Kairi and Riku. However, another reason for this could be that he had an argument with Donald before crashing into the tree house in [[Deep Jungle]], which is further expanded on by the fact that he refers to Donald as "the loud one". However, he and Donald at first appear to be genuinely happy to see each other after they reunite at Jane Porter's campsite before turning their backs on each other, proving once more his capacity to forgive. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he puts all four of them on an equal level. A prominent example of this is when Goofy is apparently fatally injured after getting hit in the head by a rock during the Battle of Hollow Bastion; Sora is clearly traumatized by Goofy's apparent death, and utters, "This is ''not'' happening. It can't be happening. It can't."

On the other hand, Sora shows little tolerance for cowardice and selfishness, criticizing both Hades and Iago for being cowardly and selfish, though ultimately forgiving the latter when he proved genuinely sorry for his actions.

Like most children his age, Sora shows a highly competitive streak, as he often competes with Riku over numerous things, mostly for Kairi's affection and attention. Also, when he asks to fight Hercules alone in the [[Hercules Cup]], Donald calls him a show-off, and Goofy says in ''Chain of Memories'', "Whenever there's a contest, you're always rarin' to sign up." He doesn't like to be called a kid but prefers to be called Sora.

Though he is far from stupid, Sora has often seen to be highly gullible and oblivious to what should be obvious. For example, he fell for Mulan's attempt at passing for a man; proceeding this, [[Mushu]] stated that Sora "could fall for anything". Ironically, he doesn't let his enemies fool him as easily. An example would be when he didn't fall for Xemnas's attempt to play on Sora's sympathetic side, which was far more convincing than Mulan's attempt to appear as a man. Sora is often quick to anger whenever he's confused, and is quite childish at times. He can also be seen as quite impulsive, as he tends to jump into things without thinking them through beforehand. While simple-minded and naive at times, he has a strong sense of justice, like when he proves Alice's innocence by finding pieces of evidence around Wonderland.

Sora also shows somewhat of an admiration of sea pirates during their first visit to Port Royal, wherein he is excited to meet [[Jack Sparrow|Captain Jack Sparrow]] and even states that he hopes that they would be able to "take a pirate ship out for a spin" (though he tells Donald and Goofy that he was merely joking about it). Of course, he likely gets over this after [[Captain Barbossa|Barbossa]] double-crosses them. Strangely enough, he doesn't show this admiration for Captain Hook or his pirate ship, probably due to the fact that Hook was holding both Kairi and Wendy captive on the ship. He was also eager to meet [[Santa Claus]] during their first visit to Halloween Town in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' (and he also shows lots of disappointment when Santa told him about the time he announced to everybody that he did not believe in Santa Claus).

Also, Sora does not seem to have experience with computers, as evidenced in the episodes in Radiant Garden and [[Space Paranoids]]—he hits the computer keyboard hard while in Radiant Garden, and whilst he was in Space Paranoids, he did not understand a single word [[Tron]] said, as it all appeared to be tech jargon. However, he does at least seem to know how to use a computer, but with very little skill, as he is shown to type with only one finger each instead of using all five each, and a Journal page of the story calls him "hardly computer-savvy", and bangs the keyboard with his fists expecting it to do what he wants. This is most likely because he lived on Destiny Islands all his life and probably didn't have access to computers there.

On occasion in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Sora seems to unintentionally show somewhat of a disrespect towards people of higher authority than himself upon meeting them. For example, when meeting Yen Sid, Donald and Goofy respectfully bow to him, while Sora greets him by simply saying, "Hey there!". Goofy is clearly shocked by this, and Donald shouts at him to show some respect. When meeting [[Queen Minnie]], Sora simply asks, "Where's [[Mickey Mouse|the King]]?". This leads to Donald grabbing him by the ear and asking Minnie to excuse him. When Sora and King Mickey were disputing about Ansem's identity, Sora, thinking that he has forgotten who Ansem is, drags King Mickey by the arm in order to show him the portrait of [[Xehanort]] in [[Ansem's study]]. However, when meeting [[Jasmine|Princess Jasmine]] again in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he actually does bow to her, along with Donald and Goofy. He, Donald, and Goofy also bow in respect to [[Simba]] as the new king during their second visit to the [[Pride Lands]].

==Appearance==
Sora first starts off appearing tanner and somewhat lankier than his rival Riku. He seems to portray more of a typical teenage boy's looks. Sora has spiky brown hair (although in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' his hair does change from a dark brown to a more caramel color) along with blue eyes. Sora's appearance does not change that much throughout the series besides growing taller, a slightly different hair style, tanner skin, a slightly deeper voice, and having more matured looks. Sora goes through many costume changes throughout the series.

His original outfit consisted of a Mickey Mouse style outfit, containing large yellow shoes, a white and black overjacket as well as a red jumpsuit and a pair of white with yellow gloves with his signature crown necklace and crown chain. This outfit is the main outfit in ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''. Interestingly, after Sora uses the Keyblade of People's Hearts to free Kairi's heart, his hair appears to be lighter. Using Donald's magic, his appearance is changed to that of [[Vampire Form]] and [[Merman Form]] in certain worlds.

His outfit considerably changes in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' as it turns into a black and silver outfit that, while remaining baggy, is like his original outfit. It contains a darker style using many zippers and extra leggings but still retains his crown necklace. For a short while in [[Twilight Town]], he does wear his first outfit. With the institution of Drive Forms, his outfit can turn into different appearances for [[Valor Form]], [[Limit Form]], [[Anti Form]], [[Wisdom Form]], [[Master Form]], and [[Final Form]]. As he travels to certain worlds, his appearance changes to that of [[Data Form]], [[Lion Form]], [[Santa Form]], [[Vampire Form]], [[Merman Form]], and [[Retro Form]].

In ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and certain scenes in ''Kingdom Hearts'', a younger version of Sora appears. As a child, Sora's hair was lighter than it was in ''Kingdom Hearts'', more closely resembling his hair color in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', and it was not as spiky. Clothing-wise, Sora wore what looks like a white polo shirt with blue lining, albeit without the collar present on most polo shirts. He also wore red shorts with a maroon pocket on each leg, as well as brown sandals with yellow straps.

==Abilities==
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===Keyblade===
[[Sora]] gained the ability to wield the Keyblade when he reached out his heart to Ventus after sensing Ventus's shattered heart. By joining his heart with Ventus's he gained the ability to wield his own Keyblade, as well as Ventus's.

Sora's Keyblade is a Keyblade from the [[Realm of Light]], and it appears before him as his home world, [[Destiny Islands]], is consumed by the Heartless. Its default form is the [[Kingdom Key]], which uses a [[wikipedia:Hidden Mickey|Hidden Mickey]] as its token.

Sora is sometimes able to use other wielders' Keyblades; for example, when fighting [[Roxas]] he is able to steal Roxas's Oathkeeper and Oblivion, for a total of three Keyblades, and at one point during their final battle with [[Xemnas]], Riku lends his [[Way to the Dawn]] to Sora.

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With his [[Synch Blade]] ability, Sora can also wield two Keyblades at once, though he has yet to do so outside of his Drive Forms. Sora's Synch Blade ability stems from his possession of Ventus's heart within his own.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts Ultimania|Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania]]''''' "Sora can wield two Keyblades at once because he has Ventus's as well as his own."</ref> As Sora's Nobody, Roxas also possesses Synch Blade.

===Magic===
Sora is also very skilled in various basic magic spells (such as [[Fire]], [[Blizzard]], or [[Thunder]]), even more so after training with [[Merlin]]. These spells allow him to weaken Heartless that are more vulnerable to certain elements. He can also use [[Cure]] to heal himself and his allies from injuries as well as restore HP and revive a fallen party member. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', his basic combo is much stronger and he gains the [[Drive Form]] ability after obtaining new clothes, which give him more mastery over his strengths, speed, magic, and Keyblade. In addition to the abilities that each form grants him, Sora's speed and strength are also increased.

In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he learns to use [[Limit|Limits]] with party members to form a strong, special type of attack.

With a [[Summon Gem|summon gem]], [[Summon Card|card]] or [[Summon Charm|charm]] in hand, Sora learns to the ability to [[summon]] a specific character and temporarily aid him in combat. Each character has a special power that makes them helpful. He first learns summon in ''Kingdom Hearts'' when he finds Simba's gem after his world was destroyed and brings it to the [[Fairy Godmother]], who helps restore his spirit form; and then, he gathers five other summons, two of which did not start as summon gems. He loses all of the summon gems when their true forms are restored. In ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'', he learns to summon using cards instead of gems. In this game, he can use all previous summons, with one addition: [[Cloud]]. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Merlin gives him a summon charm that allows him to call for a specific character to aid him. Then, he locates three other summon charms that allow him to summon more powerful characters.

===Miscellaneous===
Sora has become very powerful over the length of the series: being able to slay over a thousand Heartless without rest but slightly tiring after, fight and defeat all but a few members, who Riku or Axel defeated, of the powerful Organization XIII (all thirteen if Absent Silhouettes are counted), go head-to-head against legendary swordsmen such as [[Cloud]], [[Leon]], and even [[Sephiroth]] (although, in their encounter in the second game, Sephiroth seems uninjured after the battle, even though he supposedly lost and admits that Sora is "very skilled"), and fight and defeat the countless Disney villains that have faced him (even gods like [[Hades]] and [[Chernabog]]). In the manga, Sora defeats Guard Armor and Cerberus in a single blow (though the latter had already been worn down by [[Hercules]] before Sora entered the fight). The Trick Master also faces the same fate in Wonderland. He becomes even more powerful if he uses his [[Drive Form]]s, which unlock some of his hidden power, though he requires the power of his party members to do this. After he defeats Roxas, he unlocks [[Final Form]], gaining his full power as the Keyblade master of the Realm of Light, also Roxas's awakening from his slumber inside Sora, which also awakens the other half of his power.

However, Sora is nearly helpless without his Keyblade. Even [[Shadow]] Heartless take a huge number of hits for him to kill without it. However, before he left Destiny Islands, he could not even damage the Heartless without the Keyblade. His supposed weakness may be caused by the weapon he wields. When Sora is not in possession of his Keyblade, his only available weapons are the sparring weapons, [[Wooden Sword]] and [[Struggle Bat]]. If he is given proper "normal" weapons (for example, a normal sword made of steel), he can probably still fight well, although he might not be able to fight as well as when he uses the Keyblade. However, he is not utterly useless in real combat without it; he is still able to cast magic with no major decrease in power, whether he has the Keyblade or not (as long as he knows how).

While not a necessary talent for battle, Sora, as seen during the ''Kingdom Hearts II'' visit to [[Atlantica]], is shown to be a talented singer, as he is frequently paired up with [[Ariel]], who is widely renowned in Atlantica for her singing voice, in [[Sebastian]]'s musical numbers. However, Sora is only heard singing in two songs, namely "[[Under the Sea]]" and "[[A New Day is Dawning]]", and even then, he only has a few lines for both. He also sings a few lines with Donald and Goofy after opening the Gate in Atlantica.

On many occasions, Sora demonstrates physical abilities that could be considered superhuman. This is probably the result of possessing the Keyblade. A few examples of of his superhuman abilities are listed here:
* In the [[Deep Jungle]], he has shown great durability when he falls a great distance and crashes headfirst through the roof of the treehouse, emerging alive and uninjured, but slightly dazed. Similarly, when [[Sabor]] slashes him with her claws and knocks him back into a wall, he quickly gets up and fights back.
* In the [[Olympus Coliseum]], he has shown to have incredible strength when he is able to lift up crates and boulders without showing any limits due to the possession of the Keyblade.
* He can either glide or actually fly, the latter of which only in [[Never Land]], the [[End of the World]], and the final battle with Ansem.
* He is capable of leaping incredible distances, such as jumping up to the ceiling of the ballroom in [[Beast's Castle]] and between buildings and Xemnas's two cannons in the final battle with him in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
* He can cut through solid concrete and other durable forms of matter, even whole buildings.
* He can either teleport or move too fast to be seen that he when using the "Warp Snipe" reaction command, the Teleport Sleight, or Final Form's Final Arts.

Sora also seems to be capable of bending the [[Universe of Kingdom Hearts|universe]]'s laws of nature to an extent:

*After coming into contact with Axel, the Nobody appears to have more emotion.
*His memories seem to bind every character in the story; connecting them to himself in some way.
*He is able to pour almost all of his power into Roxas's imperfect Replica, Xion, and his Nobody, Roxas, at the same time.
==Quotes==
*"''No! This huge, black THING swallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't... ow!''"
*"''It wasn't a dream! Or was it? I don't know. What was that place... so bizarre...''"
*"''Okay, why not? I'll go with you, guys.''"
*"''The darkness may destroy my body, but it can't touch my heart.''"
*"''Although my heart may be weak, it's not alone.''"
*"''That's not true! The heart may be weak, and sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!''"
*"''You're wrong. I know now, without a doubt, Kingdom Hearts is light!''"
*"''Roxas... I wish I could meet him too...''"
*"''I don't get it, why has everyone been calling me Roxas?''"
*"''C'mon, Riku! You've been hanging out in darkness too long. You gotta try and think positive!''"

==Changes in worlds==
While he retains his typical appearance in most worlds, in certain worlds Sora's appearance is altered, either by Donald's magic or his magical ''Kingdom Hearts II'' outfit, in order to allow himself to blend in with the inhabitants of those worlds. His appearance alterations are listed here:

*In '''[[Halloween Town]]''', Sora takes on the appearance of [[Vampire Form|a vampire with a pumpkin-like mask over one side of his face]], complete with fangs and bat-like wings. This form has no special abilities. When in [[Drive Form]], his mask changes rather than his clothes (a devilish Onion Knight-like Heartless for [[Valor Form]], a Black Mage-like Heartless hat for [[Wisdom Form]], a splicing of both for [[Master Form]], a gold-and-silver crown for [[Final Form]], a heart for [[Limit Form]], and a Shadow Heartless for [[Anti Form]]). In this form, the appearance of Sora's Keyblade also changes to grey-ish tones to match the surroundings of Halloween Town.

*In '''[[Christmas Town]]''' in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix]]'', his attire changes from a vampire to [[Santa Form|a black Santa Claus outfit]]. When in Drive Form, aside from his aura, movement and manner of Keyblade wielding, the color of the hat will slightly tint to match the corresponding Form. Additionally, the symbols of the corresponding Form will appear on the hat: a red fleur-de-lis for Valor, a blue flame for Wisdom, a gold cross for Master, a silver N-shaped rune for Final, a whitish crown for Limit, and a Heartless emblem for Anti Form. 

*In '''[[Atlantica]]''', Sora takes on the appearance of a [[Merman Form|merman]] with a blue dolphin tail rather than a fish tail. While in this form, Sora can breathe underwater and swim much faster than he can in his human form. Sora cannot Drive in this form; in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he is unable to attack at all, seeing as the world has been altered to progressing the story through musical numbers.

*In the '''[[Timeless River]]''', Sora's appearance changes to [[Retro Form|mirror the style of 1920s-era Disney cartoons]]. His skin and clothing are black-and-white, his arms and legs are long and scrawny, and he, like all other characters in this world, has taken on his very first appearance design (from the original ''Kingdom Hearts''). He has no special abilities in this form, and when Driving, the icon of Sora by the HP Bar tints color slightly on the outline to reflect the Form transformed into, apart from the aura, manner of movement and Keyblade wielding that each Form displays; red for Valor, blue for Wisdom, yellow for Master, and white for Final. For Anti Form, however, he merely turns into a black cartoonish shadow of himself. For Limit Form in ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', his icon is tinted purple.

*In '''[[Space Paranoids]]''', Sora is converted into a data form, wearing [[Data Form|robot-like armor with blue circuit patterns all over his body]]. In this form, the appearance of Sora's Keyblade also is changed to have glowing blue circuit lines as well. Sora has no special abilities in this form, and when Driving, Sora's circuit lines change color to reflect the Form transformed into (i.e. red for Valor Form, blue for Wisdom Form, yellow for Master form, white for Final Form and black with dark purple circuits for Anti Form. For Limit form, the circuits use Limit Form's colors and, unlike the other forms, are arranged as such, i.e. silver torso, red pants and yellow shoes).

*In the '''[[Pride Lands]]''', Sora is transformed into a [[Lion Form|brown-furred lion cub]]. His spiky hairstyle is now present as a mane, though he retains his crown-shaped necklace. He wields the Keyblade in his mouth. While Sora is unable to Drive or perform Summons in this form, he can move with greatly increased speed and agility. The [[Dash]] ability in this form is identical to the [[Mermaid Kick]] in Atlantica.

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==Forms/Costumes==
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File:Young Sora.png|Young Sora in ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''
File:Kh-sora-model.jpg|Sora in ''Kingdom Hearts'', ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'', and ''Kingdom Hearts coded''.
File:Sora (Atlantica) CG.jpg|Sora in [[Atlantica]].
File:HalloweenTownSora.png|Sora in [[Halloween Town]].
File:KH2-SantaSora.png|Sora in [[Christmas Town]].
File:TronSora.png|Sora in [[Space Paranoids]].
File:TimelessRiverSora.png|Sora in [[Timeless River]].
File:Lion Form CG.png|Sora in [[Pride Lands]].
File:Valor Form.png|Sora in [[Valor Form]].
File:Wisdom Form.png|Sora in [[Wisdom Form]].
File:Limit Form.png|Sora in [[Limit Form]].
File:Master Form.png|Sora in [[Master Form]].
File:Final Form.png|Sora in [[Final Form]].
File:Anti Form.jpg|Sora in [[Anti Form]].
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==Trivia==
*Although none of the parents of the characters on the Destiny Islands are shown on screen, Sora's mother can be heard calling him for dinner during the calamity in the first game. Also, in ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'', Sora mentions both his mother and father while reminiscing about Naminé, and Riku mentions Sora's father to Terra in ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''.
*In ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II'', during every cutscene involving a Keyblade, Sora wields the Keyblade the player has equipped. The only cutscenes where this doesn't apply are the scenes when Sora and King Mickey seal away Kingdom Hearts, when Riku temporarily takes the Keyblade from Sora in Hollow Bastion, and before the [[Battle of 1000 Heartless]] in which he has the [[Kingdom Key]]. In the scenes with Riku, the Keyblade retains Sora's Keychain while in Sora's possession but reverts to the Kingdom Key while in Riku's hands.

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Sora's Heartless]]
*[[Roxas]]
*[[Xion]]
*[[Ventus]]
*[[Vanitas]]
*[[Data-Sora]]
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- |game8=Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-
- |game9=Kingdom Hearts III
- |game10=Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
- |enva=Haley Joel Osment
- |enva2=Bobby Edner
- |enva2n=([[Kingdom Hearts (2003 Pilot)|2003 Pilot]])<ref>[https://twitter.com/sethkearsley/status/1575150136287580160 Seth Kearsley on Twitter: "'''Cast list #kingdomhearts'''"]</ref>
- |enva3=Luke Manriquez
- |enva3n=(Young Sora)
- |java=Miyu Irino
- |java2=Takuto Yoshinaga
- |java2n=(Young Sora)
- |KH2normalname=Sora
- |KH2normalfile=Sora KHII.ogg
- |DDDnormalname=Sora
- |DDDnormalfile=Sora KH3D.ogg
- |s1=Roxas
- |s2=Sora's Heartless
- |s3=Xion
- |s4=Data-Sora
- |journalKH='''First entry'''<br>A spirited youth. He was cast into an unknown world when a swarm of Heartless raided his island. He battles the Heartless with a mysterious weapon called the Keyblade as he searches for his friends Kairi and Riku.<br><br>'''Second entry'''<br>The one who fights the Heartless. Upon reclaiming the Keyblade from his rival, Riku, Sora sacrificed his heart to free Kairi and became a Heartless. Kairi's deep feelings for Sora restored him. Now he must confront Ansem, the seeker of darkness.
- |journalSS=A bright and spirited boy chosen by the Keyblade to battle the Heartless.<br><br>It was Sora who defeated Ansem, ending his plan to shroud the world in darkness.<br><br>However, Sora continued his journey, seeking the friends he lost during the struggle.
- |journalRR=Riku's childhood friend, and the hero of light chosen by the Keyblade to stand against the darkness.<br><br>Riku fought Sora while bridled by darkness, but their friendship proved stronger, and they ultimately worked together to close the door to darkness.
- |journalKH2='''First entry'''<br>A boy chosen by the Keyblade, a mysterious weapon.<br><br>Not long ago, Sora journeyed with Donald and Goofy in search of his longtime friend Kairi, who had been spirited away into the darkness.<br><br>In the end, they saved the world of all worlds from the darkness that was closing in.<br><br>Then, somewhere along the way, Sora fell into a deep slumber.<br><br>Now that he is awake, he can't recall why he fell asleep to begin with.<br><br>'''Second entry'''<br>A boy chosen by the Keyblade, a mysterious weapon.<br><br>Not long ago, Sora journeyed with Donald and Goofy in search of his longtime friend Kairi, who had been spirited away into the darkness.<br><br>In the end, they saved the world of all worlds from the darkness that was closing in.<br><br>After that, Sora continued journeying in search of Riku, who was trapped on the other side of the door to darkness. And somewhere along the way, Sora fell into a deep slumber.<br><br>With a new outfit and strengthened resolve, Sora has set out once more on a search for his friend Riku.
- |journal358='''HD 1.5 ReMIX'''<br>A young boy who wields a Keyblade as a hero of light. He currently sleeps within Castle Oblivion to restore his memories after saving the world from darkness.
- |journalBBS=A cheerful, energetic little boy.<br><br>He and his friend Riku always play together out on the island.
- |journalCOD=A boy chosen by a strange sword called a "Keyblade". After his island home was lost to the darkness, he joined forces with Donald, Goofy, and Mickey and saved all worlds. All these adventure were carefully recorded in Jiminy's Journals.<br><br>Inside the datascape generated within the computer, a digital version of the real Sora (Data-Sora) quests in our hero's stead.
- |journalDDD= A boy who wields a Keyblade. He has used its power to save the worlds from crisis more than once.<br><br>Now, he has agreed to take the Mark of Mastery examination in order to retrieve a new power.
- |journalUX='''KH Sora A'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS (2002)<br>A cheerful, energetic little boy who grew up in Destiny Islands.<br><br>'''KH Sora B/Illustrated Sora/Atlantica Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS (2002)<br>A spirited boy chosen by the Keyblade to fight the Heartless.<br><br>'''KH II Sora A'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>A spirited boy who fights the darkness with help from his friends.<br><br>'''KH II Sora B'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>A boy who uses the power of friendship to brave the darkness.<br><br>'''Limit Form Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>This form allows Sora to use actions such as Dodge Roll.<br><br>'''Wisdom Form Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>This form lets Sora specialize in magic and glide quickly along the ground.<br><br>'''Valor Form Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>This form boosts Sora's strength and lets him wield two Keyblades.<br><br>'''Master Form Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>This form lets Sora wield two Keyblades and boosts his magic.<br><br>'''Final Form Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>This ultimate form increases all of Sora's attributes.<br><br>'''Antiform Sora/HD Antiform Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>A form tied to the powers of darkness. Sora gains agility, but has limited access to commands.<br><br>'''Illustrated Sora B'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS CoM (2004)<br>A spirited boy chosen by the Keyblade to fight the Heartless.<br><br>'''KH 3D Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS 3D (2012)<br>A Keyblade-wielding boy who takes on the Mark of Mastery exam.<br><br>'''Halloween Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>The Keyblade-wielding hero in a Halloween getup.<br><br>'''Christmas Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>A cheerful, energetic little boy from Destiny Islands.<br><br>'''Timeless River Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS II (2005)<br>A cheerful, energetic little boy from Destiny Islands in his Timeless River form.<br><br>'''HD Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS 3D (2012)<br>A young Keyblade wielder who attempts the Mark of Mastery exam to learn new powers.<br><br>'''WORLD OF FF Sora'''<br>WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY (2016)<br>A Medal celebrating the collaboration with WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY.<br><br>'''Sora & Donald & Goofy'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS (2002)<br>Three good friends setting out on their next adventure.<br><br>'''Sora & Riku & Kairi'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS (2002)<br>Three friends who live in Destiny Islands.<br><br>'''Sora & Riku & Meow Wow'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS 3D (2012)<br>A Medal celebrating KH 2.8.<br><br>'''Key Art #9'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS (2002)<br>Official art from the KINGDOM HEARTS manga series.<br><br>'''HD Sora & Kairi (EX)'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS (2002)<br>The Keyblade-wielding hero, and one of his childhood friends.<br><br>'''KH 0.2 Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS 0.2 (2017)<br>A spirited boy chosen by the Keyblade to fight the Heartless.<br><br>'''KH III Sora'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS III (2019)<br>The Keyblade-wielding hero who embarks on a new journey with Donald and Goofy.<br><br>'''Key Art #12'''<br>KINGDOM HEARTS (2002)<br>Official art of KINGDOM HEARTS.
- |journalKH3=A boy who wields a Keyblade. Having surmounted countless challenges, he was at last given a chance to complete the Mark of Mastery examination, but the attempt ended in failure. He was overtaken by the darkness, and lost nearly all of his powers and strength in the process.<br><br>Together with Donald and Goofy, he has set forth on a new adventure to reclaim that lost strength and acquire the power of waking in order to prepare for the looming battle with Master Xehanort.
-}}
-{{Q|I know the Keyblade didn't choose me, and I don't care. I'm proud to be a small part of something bigger...the people it did choose. My friends. They are my power!|Sora to Xemnas and Xigbar|''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''}}
-'''Sora''' is the main protagonist of the ''{{c|Kingdom Hearts|series}}'' series. He is a playable character in  ''{{c|Kingdom Hearts|game}}'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]'', and ''[[Kingdom Hearts III]]''. In ''[[Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]'', he is only playable in [[Mission Mode]]. In ''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]'', a [[Data-Sora|virtual version]] of him is the protagonist.
-Sora lives on the [[Destiny Islands]] with his best friends [[Riku]] and [[Kairi]], and all three of them dream of venturing from Destiny Islands to find out what lies beyond. His home was consumed by [[darkness]], sending him on a journey to many worlds across the [[Realm of Light]]. An upbeat youth, he travels with his new friends [[Goofy]] and [[Donald Duck]] in search of his missing friends, and uses his newly acquired weapon, the [[Keyblade]], to put an end to the threats that destroyed his world.
+Sora is four during ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', fourteen years old at the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'',  and fifteen during the events of ''Kingdom Hearts II''. He lives on [[Destiny Islands]] with his best friends Kairi and Riku, and all three of them dream to venture from Destiny Islands to find out what lies beyond. Sora is also the original persona of [[Sora's Heartless]] and [[Roxas]], the source of [[Xion]]'s memories, and the carrier of [[Ventus]]'s heart. Sora's name is derived from the Japanese word for "sky".
-Sora is the original persona of [[Sora's Heartless|his own Heartless]] and [[Roxas]], the source of [[Xion]]'s memories, the source of [[Naminé]]'s original [[body]], the former bearer of [[Ventus]]'s [[heart]], and the physical template of [[Vanitas]].
+==Journal entries==
+===''Kingdom Hearts''===
+;First entry
+''A spirited youth. He was cast into an unknown world when a swarm of Heartless raided his island. He battles the Heartless'' ''with a mysterious weapon called the Keyblade as he searches for his friends Kairi and Riku.
-==Development==
+;Second entry
-[[File:Sora (Early Concept) 1 (Art).png|140px|thumb|left|In early development, Sora was depicted as a half-lion chainsaw wielder.]]
+''The one who fights the Heartless. Upon reclaiming the Keyblade from his rival, Riku, Sora sacrificed his heart to free Kairi and became a Heartless. Kairi's deep feelings for Sora restored him. Now he must confront Ansem, the seeker of darkness.
-Although Square Enix originally wanted [[Mickey Mouse]] to be the main protagonist of the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, and Disney wanted Donald Duck as the protagonist, the role was eventually set as Sora, because [[Tetsuya Nomura]] wanted a human protagonist. Early on, Sora was designed as a young lion/human hybrid, wielding a chainsaw-like weapon with a lion's head Keychain. The merging of Sora's design with elements from Square's proposal is referenced by his original costume, which shares many elements with Mickey's. Sora's final design in the first ''Kingdom Hearts'' has a color scheme that evokes Mickey's, seen as their white gloves, red shorts, and yellow shoes.
-{{-}}
-==Story==
+===''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''===
-===Before ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
+;Sora's Story
-After Ventus's heart is damaged by the creation of [[Vanitas]], [[Master Xehanort]] brings the unconscious Ventus to the Destiny Islands. Here, Sora's newly born heart encounters Ventus in his [[Dive to the Heart]]. He offers to join hearts with Ventus to prevent his heart from deteriorating any further until Ventus's heart can heal on its own. This connection mends Ventus's damaged Station, and as a side effect, it causes Vanitas's face to resemble Sora's.
+''A bright and spirited boy chosen by the Keyblade to battle the Heartless.
-Sora and Riku grow up together on the Destiny Islands as best friends and rivals. They are often seen around the islands battling with wooden swords, racing, and competing in any other way they can think of.
+''It was Sora who defeated Ansem, ending his plan to shroud the world in darkness.''
-===''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
+''However, Sora continued his journey, seeking the friends he lost during the struggle.''
-[[File:Sora and Riku 01 KHBBS.png|thumb|left|Sora and Riku are visited by Aqua, who tells Sora to always be there for Riku.]]
-When Sora is four years old, he encounters [[Terra]] and [[Aqua]], two [[Keyblade wielders]], on separate occasions. He never speaks with Terra, but they see each other from a distance. Terra shows no interest in Sora because he is unable to sense his potential, and is instead drawn to Riku. When Aqua meets Sora and Riku, she senses that their friendship parallels that of Ventus and Terra, and she tells Sora to protect Riku if he ever falls into darkness. Sora, despite his confusion, agrees.
-[[File:Where the Heart Goes 01 KHBBS.png|thumb|Sora invites Ventus's heart to stay with him while it heals.]]
+;Reverse/Rebirth
-Later on, Sora and Riku rest on a beach. When they prepare to go home, Sora suddenly feels sad, sensing Ventus's pain thanks to their previous encounter. Riku tells him that maybe someone in another world is in pain and encourages him to reach out with his heart. Sora successfully calls to Ventus, whose heart has been lost after the destruction of Vanitas and the [[χ-blade]]. Ven's heart makes its way to Sora's Station in the Dive to the Heart, and Ven asks if it can stay with Sora while he sleeps. Sora, wanting to make Ven better, happily accepts, and Ven's heart is absorbed into his own.
+''Riku's childhood friend, and the hero of light chosen by the Keyblade to stand against the darkness.''
-{{-}}
-===Between ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and ''Kingdom Hearts''===
+''Riku fought Sora while bridled by darkness, but their friendship proved stronger, and they ultimately worked together to close the door to darkness.''
-Sometime later, a young girl named Kairi arrives at the Destiny Islands from [[Radiant Garden|another world]] during a nighttime meteor shower. Not long after that night, Sora and Riku explore a small, hidden cave on their islands, in search of a "howling monster". They are disappointed to find only a featureless door in the "Secret Place", and they decide to someday leave the island and have real adventures. As they leave, they decide to go see "the new girl", and Riku, unbeknownst to Sora, looks back at the door to see the [[Keyhole]] of the Destiny Islands.
-Sora and Riku befriend Kairi, and the three quickly become inseparable as they play together on the islands. Sora and Kairi draw pictures of themselves in the Secret Place. During the next several years, they often wonder about what lies beyond their small world, prompted by the mystery of Kairi's forgotten home.
+===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
+;First entry
+''A boy chosen by the Keyblade, a mysterious weapon.''
-===''Kingdom Hearts''===
+''Not long ago, Sora journeyed with Donald and Goofy in search of his longtime friend Kairi, who had been spirited away into the darkness.''
-{{Q|I've been having these weird thoughts lately, like is any of this for real or not?|Sora in the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts''}}
-[[File:The Outside World 03 KH.png|thumb|left|Sora, Riku, and Kairi watch the sunset after a day of work.]]
-Several years later, Sora, Riku, and Kairi start building a [[Highwind (raft)|raft]], in the hopes of sailing to other worlds. Sometime during construction, Sora dozes off on the beach, and has an odd, prescient dream, in which a mysterious voice guides him through a [[Dive to the Heart|dark realm]] where he fights strange [[Heartless|monsters]]. Sora is awakened by Kairi, and he resumes helping with the preparations for their voyage. Over the next couple days, he searches the island for building materials and provisions, while taking the time to play-fight with his friends and compete with Riku. Riku repeatedly teases Sora over his relationship with Kairi, and hints that he should share a [[paopu fruit]] with her. Sora enters the Secret Place while foraging, and draws himself giving a paopu fruit to Kairi on the wall. He suddenly encounters a [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness|shadowy figure]] who speaks of the world being consumed by darkness and taunts Sora about his ignorance of the outside world before disappearing.
-That night, a severe storm hits the small island. Sora comes to check on the raft, and he finds a strange, dark force hovering overhead, and the islands overrun with [[Shadow]]s. He finds Riku, who simply tells him that the door has been opened to the outside world and that he is not afraid of the darkness beyond it. As Sora tries to reach towards Riku, the two begin sinking into darkness. However, before Sora is swallowed by darkness, he receives the [[Kingdom Key]], which dispels the darkness around him. He uses it to fight his way to the Secret Place, where he finds Kairi in a daze. Before he can get to her, the mysterious door bursts open with a blast of dark wind. Kairi disappears and Sora is blown outside, where he faces a [[Darkside]] on the rapidly disintegrating island. The two are swept away into the darkness.
+''In the end, they saved the world of all worlds from the darkness that was closing in.''
-[[File:The Start of an Adventure 03 KH.png|thumb|Sora decides to travel the universe with Donald and Goofy in search of their friends.]]
+''Then, somewhere along the way, Sora fell into a deep slumber.''
-Sora falls through a [[Corridor of Darkness]] into [[Traverse Town]], where he finds more Heartless before meeting [[Leon]] and [[Yuffie]], who explain the nature of the Keyblade, the Heartless, and [[Ansem the Wise|Ansem]] to him. When they are attacked by Heartless, Sora is forced to part with Leon and Yuffie. He makes his way to the town's Third District where he meets Donald Duck and Goofy, and the three of them take down a swarm of Heartless and the [[Guard Armor]]. After introductions, Donald and Goofy ask Sora to come with them to other worlds, as per King Mickey's request, and Sora agrees, hoping to find Riku and Kairi.
-After traveling to numerous worlds, they find Riku on a return trip to Traverse Town. Sora discovers that Riku is also searching for Kairi. Riku shows a surprising affinity for the Keyblade, taking it from Sora right from under his nose, before returning it at will. Sora and Donald argue about whether Riku can travel with them, but Riku disappears. Satisfied with the knowledge that Riku is fine, Sora resumes his quest to find Kairi, unaware that Riku is slowly being turned against him by [[Maleficent]].
+''Now that he is awake, he can't recall why he fell asleep to begin with.''
-As his journey continues, Sora makes many new friends throughout many worlds, and he becomes much closer to Donald and Goofy as well. He also repeatedly crosses paths with an increasingly hostile Riku, and in [[Neverland]], Riku finally turns on Sora, revealing that he has been given the power of darkness and has found Kairi, before summoning [[AntiSora]] and throwing Sora into the hold of [[Captain Hook]]'s ship.
+;Second entry
+''A boy chosen by the Keyblade, a mysterious weapon.''
-Sora, undeterred, continues on to [[Hollow Bastion]], where he encounters Riku once again. Riku reveals that ''he'' is the true master of Sora's Keyblade, taking it for his own. Donald and Goofy reluctantly follow Riku, as per King Mickey's instructions, and Sora is left alone with the [[Beast]], armed with only a [[Wooden Sword]]. The two make their way into the [[Hollow Bastion#Entrance Hall|Entrance Hall]] of the castle, where they are temporarily separated. Riku confronts Sora again, accompanied by Donald and Goofy. When Sora refuses to back down, Donald and Goofy step in to defend him from Riku's attacks. With his heart strengthened by his bonds of friendship, Sora reclaims the Keyblade, and the three defeat Riku, who retreats. Continuing through the hordes of Heartless infesting the castle, they make their way to the [[Hollow Bastion#Castle Chapel|Chapel]], where they fight and defeat Maleficent.
+''Not long ago, Sora journeyed with Donald and Goofy in search of his longtime friend Kairi, who had been spirited away into the darkness.''
-[[File:Kairi Awakens 01 KH.png|thumb|left|Sora releases his heart with the Keyblade of heart to free Kairi's, becoming a Heartless in the process.]]
+''In the end, they saved the world of all worlds from the darkness that was closing in. ''
-When they reach the [[Hollow Bastion#Grand Hall|Grand Hall]], they find Kairi's supine [[body]]. Riku, now possessed by [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness|Ansem]], reveals that Kairi has lost her heart, and that it is inside Sora. Ansem attempts to extract Kairi's heart from Sora with the [[Keyblade of heart]], in order to complete the final Keyhole. Sora fights back and defeats Ansem, but in order to save Kairi, Sora stabs himself in the chest with Ansem's Keyblade, freeing Kairi's heart and turning Sora into a Heartless. While in his Heartless state, Sora follows Donald, Goofy, and Kairi as they leave the castle. Kairi is somehow able to recognize him and restore him to his body. The group flee the growing flood of Heartless and retreat to Traverse Town, where Sora prepares to return to Hollow Bastion and free Riku from Ansem. Kairi gives Sora her Lucky Charm, and tells him that she will be with him wherever he goes.
-Sora returns to Hollow Bastion and successfully seals the final Keyhole. He is then reunited with Leon, Yuffie, and [[Aerith]], who tell him that Hollow Bastion was their previous home. The newly revived [[Princesses of Heart]] tell Sora that Ansem has departed for another world. Sora and company track Ansem to the [[End of the World]], a Heartless world made of the remnants of all the worlds destroyed by the darkness. Sora, Donald, and Goofy find Ansem on the remains of Destiny Islands, where they fight with him. Their battle brings them to the endless abyss just outside the Door to [[Kingdom Hearts]], where they finally defeat Ansem and his [[World of Chaos]]. In desperation, Ansem tries to open Kingdom Hearts, but as Sora realizes that beyond the door is [[light]], that light bursts out and seemingly destroys Ansem.
+''After that, Sora continued journeying in search of Riku, who was trapped on the other side of the door to darkness. And somewhere along the way, Sora fell into a deep slumber.''
-[[File:Closing the Door 05 KH.png|thumb|Sora promises Kairi he will return to her.]]
+''With a new outfit and strengthened resolve, Sora has set out once more on a search for his friend Riku.''
-Sora, Donald, and Goofy attempt to close the door before the Heartless can come through from the [[Realm of Darkness]], and they are helped from the other side of the door by a freed Riku, as well as King Mickey, who holds back the Heartless. As the door closes, Riku asks Sora to take care of Kairi, and Sora and Mickey use their Keyblades to seal the [[Door to Darkness]], leaving Riku and Mickey on the other side. As the End of the World breaks apart, Sora finds Kairi and promises to return to her before they are separated once again, with Kairi returning to Destiny Islands. Sora, Donald, and Goofy end up on a path in a grassy field, thinking about how to find Riku and Mickey, when [[Pluto]] appears with a letter from Mickey, and they follow him into the distance with renewed hope.
-{{-}}
-===''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories''===
+===''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===
-[[File:Promise of a Reunion 02 KHRECOM.png|thumb|left|Sora and company are led to the mysterious Castle Oblivion, where they get a premonition that they will find their missing friends.]]
+''A cheerful, energetic little boy.''
-After following Pluto all day, Sora, Donald, and Goofy set camp on the path. During the night, Sora wakes up and follows the path to a crossroads. A [[Marluxia|mysterious man]] in a hooded [[black coat]] appears and tells him, "''Along the road ahead lies something you need. However in order to claim it you must lose something that is dear to you''". The man disappears down a path, and Sora, followed by Donald and Goofy, follows the path to [[Castle Oblivion]]. When they suddenly get the feeling that their missing friends are inside the castle, they enter, and the stranger reappears to introduce them to the castle's strange mechanics.
-The three travel from floor to floor, exploring memory-based facsimiles of worlds they have visited in the past, and learning lessons about memory from their residents. They eventually discover that their memories are disappearing as they continue, along with the contents of [[Jiminy's Journal]]. They also encounter other members of the mysterious [[Organization XIII]], who taunt and coax Sora along the way. Gradually, Sora begins to remember a girl he once knew on the Destiny Islands, [[Naminé]]. As his memories paradoxically become stronger, and upon discovering from [[Larxene]] that Naminé is being held in the castle, Sora becomes determined to find her.
+''He and his friend Riku always play together out on the island.''
-After Sora clears the seventh floor of Castle Oblivion, he encounters [[Riku Replica|Riku]], who declares that he will be the one to rescue Naminé and that she doesn't want to see Sora. The two fight multiple times in the castle's halls, with increasing ferocity. As Sora's memories of Naminé become stronger, and as his memories of Kairi fade away, Sora becomes obsessed with finding Naminé. [[Vexen]], hoping to undermine Marluxia's plans, warns Sora not to blindly trust his memory, after luring him into a memory-based [[Twilight Town]]; however, before Vexen can tell Sora about the memories from "the other side of [his] heart" and the existence of Roxas, he is eliminated by [[Axel]].
+===''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''===
+''A boy chosen by a strange sword called a "Keyblade." After his island home was lost to the darkness, he joined forces with Donald, Goofy, and Mickey and saved all worlds. All these adventure were carefully recorded in Jiminy's Journals.''
-Riku appears before Sora again, as he leaves the eleventh floor. They discover that they both have exactly the same memories of Naminé, as well as identical charms, supposedly given by Naminé. Riku angrily fights Sora, calling his charm fake, and runs off after being defeated. Sora becomes even more fixated on finding Naminé, and Donald and Goofy worriedly warn Sora to be careful. Sora accuses them of wanting him to abandon Naminé, and runs off in a fury and enters the next memory-world, Destiny Islands, alone. After defeating the Darkside, Sora finally meets Naminé, who has escaped Marluxia's custody at Axel's prompting. Naminé tries to remind Sora of Kairi, but Riku interrupts, challenging Sora again for the right to protect Naminé. In order to stop Riku, Naminé breaks the memories in his heart. Larxene arrives, and she reveals that Riku is a [[replica]] created by Vexen and that Naminé has been manipulating both his and Sora's memories as part of Marluxia's plot to take control of the Organization by controlling Sora. When Larxene attacks, Donald and Goofy arrive to support Sora, who manages to eliminate her.
+''Inside the datascape generated within the computer, a digital version of the real Sora (Data-Sora) quests in our hero's stead.''
-Naminé explains how she manipulated everyone's memories at Marluxia's command, but Sora forgives her, stating that his feelings are real, even if his memories aren't. Sora, Donald, and Goofy head for the thirteenth floor to face Marluxia, so that Naminé can restore their memories, while Naminé stays behind with the Riku Replica. Upon entering the thirteenth floor, the three promise to stick together, even if they lose the rest of their memories. They eventually come across a battle between Axel and Marluxia, arriving in time to see Axel preparing to attack Marluxia through his shield, Naminé. Sora challenges Axel, after saying that Marluxia will be next. Marluxia escapes during the battle, as does Axel upon his defeat.
+==Development==
+[[File:Lion-Sora-Chainsaw.jpg|140px|thumb|right|Sora's early design]]
+Although Square Enix originally wanted [[Mickey Mouse]] to be the main protagonist of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, and Disney wanted [[Donald Duck]] as the protagonist, the role was eventually set as Sora, because Tetsuya Nomura wanted a human protagonist. Early on, Sora was designed as a young lion/human hybrid, wielding a chainsaw-like weapon with a lion's head keychain. The merging of Sora's design with elements from Square's proposal is referenced by his original costume, which shares many elements with Mickey's.
-[[File:Promise in the Light 01 KHHD.png|thumb|Naminé prepares the pods for Sora and friends to reassemble their memories.]]
+==Story==
-Sora, Donald, and Goofy track down Marluxia, who commands Naminé to erase Sora's memory and destroy his heart. Naminé refuses, but Sora tells her to do so in order to protect herself. The Riku Replica arrives, having come to his senses, and he separates Naminé from Marluxia while Sora takes him on. Although Sora wins, Marluxia reveals that he was fighting a decoy. Sora leaves Naminé in the Riku Replica's protection while he, Donald, and Goofy enter Marluxia's room to face him. After a grueling battle, Marluxia is destroyed, and Sora locks the door to the room. The Riku Replica leaves, and Naminé has Sora, Donald, and Goofy enter [[pod]]s so that they can sleep while she reassembles their memories. Although the process will cause them to forget Naminé, Sora promises that the memory of her will stay in his heart and that he'll find her again. Right before he goes to sleep, Naminé tells Sora to focus on remembering Kairi, as the memory of her will illuminate his other memories, which are lost in shadow.
+===''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep]]''===
+[[File:KH BBS Young Sora and Riku Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sora and Riku in ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'']]
+Sora and  Riku are shown as best friends and rivals as they grew up. They are often seen around the islands battling with wooden swords, racing, and doing anything else that is competitive.
-In the meantime, the real Riku, who has appeared in the lowest basement of Castle Oblivion and made his way up to the second basement, meets Naminé, who brings him to where Sora's pod is. Riku refuses her offer to seal his darkness inside his heart, saying jokingly that he can't tell off Sora for sleeping if he himself is asleep. He leaves, telling Naminé to take care of Sora.
+Some time prior to ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', Sora's newly born heart encounters the injured heart of Ventus and mends it, offering to help him restore his broken heart until help is not needed. This allows them to form a connection with one another, and causes [[Vanitas]]'s face to resemble Sora's.
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+By the time Sora is four years old, he encounters [[Terra]] and [[Aqua]], two Keyblade wielders of the generation before him, on separate occasions. He never spoke with Terra, but they have seen each other on Destiny Islands. Terra shows no interest in Sora because he is unable to sense his potential, and is instead attracted to Riku. Aqua recognizes their friendship as hers to Terra and Ventus and tells Sora to protect Riku if he were to fall into the hands of darkness, which he agrees. Ventus had visited the islands multiple times, but never met Sora face to face.
+[[File:Ventus' Hearts Meging with Sora's.png|thumb|200px|Sora meets Ventus's heart]]
+After the credits of ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', Sora and Riku rest on a beach. When they prepare to go home, Sora suddenly feels sad. Riku tells him that perhaps someone from another world connected to him is sad somewhere and tells him to try to reach him. Sora closes his eyes and reaches out, which results in him being sent to the [[Awakening]] and encountering Ventus's lost heart. It had lost its path and must return to slumber, though it is reluctant to do so and asks if it could become a part of Sora's heart. Sora accepts the request saying that as long as he can make it happy by doing so, he is willing to.
-===''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''===
+===''[[Kingdom Hearts (game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''===
-[[File:Snarl of Memories 02 KHD.png|thumb|left|Xion, having absorbed many of Sora's lost memories, takes his appearance during a nightmare.]]
+One year after the events of ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', a mysterious little girl named Kairi came to their islands from a [[Radiant Garden|different place]]. She was adopted by the mayor, and Sora and Riku quickly became friends with her. Another day, Sora and Riku found a small, hidden cave on their islands. They search the "Secret Place" while discussing Kairi and the meteor shower that had recently fallen. They find a door with no handle at the back of the cave and, because they couldn't open it, they leave, but not before Riku sees the world's [[Keyhole]].
-Several weeks after Sora goes to sleep, Naminé and [[DiZ]] move the pods to Twilight Town's [[Old Mansion]], making it their base of operations. During the course of restoring Sora's memories, Naminé discovers that some memories are not returning. She realizes that the cause is the existence of Roxas, Sora's [[Nobody]], and Xion, a replica created by Organization XIII. Xion, designed to become a duplicate of Sora, absorbs Sora's memories through Roxas, which causes her to dream, to collapse during missions, and, eventually, to take Sora's form. Eventually, the flow of memories slows to a stop, even after Xion is defeated and returns to Sora. In response, DiZ sends Riku to capture Roxas, with the intention of merging him with Sora.
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-===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
+During their childhood, Sora, Riku, and Kairi often wonder about what lay beyond their small world. By the time they reach adolescence, they decide to build a raft, in the hopes of sailing to other worlds. The day when they start construction, Sora dozes off on the shore of the beach, and has an odd dream where he travels through an [[Awakening|odd, dark realm]] and battles a [[Darkside|massive dark creature]]. Sora is awakened by Kairi, and he goes to help get the provisions for the raft. However, the night before they set sail, a storm ravages the island along with a strange, dark force. Riku succumbs to the force, claiming he is not afraid of the darkness it so clearly embodied, while Sora tries and fails to save his friend from the darkness.
-{{Q|A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up... yours and mine.|Sora in the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts II''}}
-[[File:An Awakening Voice 01 KHII.png|thumb|Sora, Donald, and Goofy awaken in the Old Mansion after sleeping for almost a year.]]
-During Roxas's six days in [[The Other Twilight Town]], Sora's restoration picks up dramatically, causing Roxas to dream every night and to black out randomly during the day. Late in the first day, Sora subconsciously reaches out to Roxas, and on the fourth day, he speaks to Kairi when Roxas accidentally connects with her. Roxas finally sees Sora on the sixth day, when he finds the pods in the simulated Mansion's basement.
-After sleeping for most of a year, Sora, Donald, and Goofy awaken in the basement of the real Old Mansion with their memories from before Castle Oblivion restored. They leave and explore Twilight Town, with Sora feeling a strange familiarity with the town. They meet [[Hayner]], [[Pence]], and [[Olette]], who claim to have seen Mickey near the Train Station. They are ambushed at the station by [[Dusk]]s, but they are saved by Mickey, who dispatches the creatures and directs them to board a specific train. Hayner, Pence, and Olette arrive to see Sora off, and Sora is briefly overcome by emotion.
+However, it is during the tempest that Sora first unlocks his potential as a Keyblade wielder, summoning the power of the [[Kingdom Key]] to battle the Heartless that now infested his home. He battles the massive Heartless that he had fought in his dream as he makes his way to the Secret Place where he finds Kairi, who disappears when their bodies meet, forcing Sora to battle the same dark creature from his dream. Sora defeats the monster, but he is swept off the island and thrown into a [[Universe of Kingdom Hearts|Corridor of Darkness]], which lands him in a world called [[Traverse Town]].
-[[File:Master Yen Sid 01 KHII.png|thumb|left|Sora meets Yen Sid, who describes the situation of the worlds, Heartless, Nobodies and Organization XIII.]]
+In Traverse Town, Sora meets [[Donald Duck]] and [[Goofy]], the respective Royal Court Magician and Captain of the Royal Guard of [[Disney Castle]]. Under orders from [[Mickey Mouse|The King]], the pair are searching for two things: a mysterious 'key' and a man called [[Leon]]. As the King has disappeared in his own quest, Donald and Goofy accompany Sora and they start searching for their respective friends. In addition to that, Sora finds that his Keyblade might perhaps be the mysterious key the King had asked them to find.
-The train takes them to the [[Mysterious Tower]], where they encounter [[Pete]], who has been working under Maleficent. After defeating Pete's squad of Heartless, they ascend the tower to meet the sorcerer [[Yen Sid]]. Yen Sid fills the trio in on the current state of the worlds, as well as introducing them to the [[Nobody|Nobodies]] and Organization XIII. Afterwards, [[Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather]] provide Sora with new clothes containing new powers, and Yen Sid sends them on their way in the [[Gummi Ship]].
-Their first stop is Hollow Bastion, currently being reconstructed by the [[Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee]], made up of Leon and company. Organization XIII sets a group of Nobodies on the town, but Sora and Leon drive off the attackers. The members of the Organization appear briefly to confront Sora before leaving, except for [[Xigbar]], who hangs back to comment cryptically about Sora's similarity to Ventus before exiting. Shortly after, the Keyblade opens the [[Gate]] to the next world, and Sora and company head out. They visit a number of worlds, defeating the Heartless unleashed upon them by the Organization and Pete, as well as meeting old and new friends.
+Sora discovers that Riku is also searching for Kairi, though neither of them can find her. [[Maleficent]] sees her chance and tells Riku that Sora had replaced him and Kairi for Donald, Goofy, and the Keyblade. With this false knowledge, he sets out to find Kairi on his own as Sora travels to a number of worlds to stop the [[Heartless]]. From there, Sora locks the Keyholes out from the reach of the Darkness to protect the worlds' hearts.
-Sora, Donald, and Goofy are summoned to [[Disney Castle]] which is under attack by the resurrected Maleficent, who has sent Pete into the past to destroy the castle's [[Cornerstone of Light]], which protects it from darkness. With [[Merlin]]'s help, Sora ventures into the past and manages to stop Pete, saving Disney Castle from being taken over by Maleficent.
+His quest allows him to make countless new friends while the power of his heart increases, which also improves his Keyblade's power.
-On a return trip to Twilight Town, they fight off a horde of Nobodies led by [[Saïx]]. Saïx expresses concern for Sora's safety, informing him that his fellow member, Axel, intends to turn him into a Heartless, and warning him not to be reckless, lest he end up like Riku. After Saïx leaves, Hayner, Pence, and Olette find Sora and tell him about Kairi appearing in Twilight Town before being taken away by Axel. Sora leaves for the next world, resolving to find Kairi and Riku.
+Upon reaching [[Hollow Bastion]], Riku confronts Sora and reveals to him that Riku was the true Keyblade master, explaining that Sora "was just the delivery boy". Riku then claims the Keyblade for his own. Despite their guilt at doing so, Donald and Goofy are forced to abandon Sora because of the King's orders: to stay with whoever has the Keyblade. When [[Beast]] pulls himself up to continue to the castle, Sora tells him to be careful due to his injuries. However, Beast shrugs off Sora's worries, saying that he would not leave before he completed what he'd come there for; to find [[Belle]]. When asked what ''he'' came for, Sora realizes that he needs to show the same attitude as the Beast, and continues with him into the entrance hall of the castle.
-After visiting several worlds, Sora returns to Hollow Bastion to find even more Heartless and Nobodies running rampant. He, Donald, and Goofy head to [[Radiant Garden#Ansem's Study|Ansem's study]], where Leon has discovered the computer of Ansem the Wise. When Sora and Donald are careless with the terminal, the [[Master Control Program]] digitizes the trio and sends them into [[Space Paranoids]], where they meet [[Tron]]. Tron helps Sora, Donald, and Goofy open a path back to the outside, and with the help of King Mickey, who has come to Ansem's study, they help Tron access Ansem's dataspace, the DTD. Along the way, they thwart the efforts of the MCP to hijack the dataspace and destroy Hollow Bastion, taking out the [[Hostile Program]] in the process. After exiting the system, Sora, Donald, and Goofy speak with Mickey, who reveals to them that the "Ansem" they defeated was a Heartless who had been impersonating Ansem the Wise, and that his Nobody counterpart heads Organization XIII.
+There Sora meets Riku, Goofy and Donald once more. Feeling guilty, Donald and Goofy return to Sora's side. Riku then asks Sora, "How do you intend to fight without a weapon?" to which Sora answers, "I don't need the Keyblade. I've got a better weapon. My heart!". Riku taunts Sora, calling his heart pathetic and weak. Sora proceeds to tell him that his friends strengthen his heart. At this, the Keyblade realizes that Riku has turned to darkness, and Sora's heart is far stronger than Riku's, so it returns to Sora. Enraged, Riku fights Sora and loses. Furious at his weakness, he makes the mistake of listening to [[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness|a mysterious man]]. Opening his heart fully to darkness, he allows himself to be possessed by this man.
-[[File:The One Who Rules Over Organization XIII 01 KHII.png|thumb|Sora and the group try to hold off the Heartless invasion at Hollow Bastion.]]
+After this, the party encounter Maleficent and defeat her. Using a [[Keyblade of People's Hearts|Keyblade born of six of the Princesses of Hearts' hearts]], Riku unlocks the darkness in her heart before stepping away through a Corridor of Darkness. She transforms into a black, fire-breathing dragon from the proliferation of darkness in her heart, but is again defeated and the Heartless swallow her heart. Further into the depths of Hollow Bastion, Sora encounters Riku once more, and he calls himself "[[Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]]", who intends to find [[Kingdom Hearts (world)|Kingdom Hearts]] itself. Although it is difficult fighting his best friend, Sora emerges victorious in the struggle.
-Organization XIII sets off a massive invasion of Hollow Bastion, and the residents start taking on waves of Heartless and Nobodies. Sora, Donald, and Goofy enter the battle, against King Mickey's orders, and they fight and defeat Organization member [[Demyx]]. However, while defending Mickey, Goofy is struck by a boulder sent flying by a Heartless, and he appears to have been killed. Enraged, the group forges on without him, fighting through swarms of Heartless, but Goofy soon comes to and rejoins them. After taking on a [[Battle of the 1000 Heartless|massive army of Heartless]], Sora confronts the Organization's leader, [[Xemnas]], who Mickey realizes is the Nobody of Ansem's apprentice, [[Terra-Xehanort|Xehanort]]. Xemnas retreats, with Mickey right behind, and Axel appears before Sora, and he reveals that Xemnas's plan is for Sora to release hearts by defeating Heartless. Before he can say more, he is interrupted by Saïx and flees. Saïx informs Sora that he has custody of Kairi and that the goal of the Organization is the formation of Kingdom Hearts. Sora is overwhelmed by despair, but Maleficent's intervention allows Sora, Donald, and Goofy to escape. Sora then resumes his quest, determined to find Riku and Kairi and stop Xemnas once and for all.
-The trio resume their travels across the worlds, hoping to find a way to Organization XIII's headquarters, and despite Sora's worries about using the Keyblade, they continue taking out the Heartless and Nobodies the Organization has released into the worlds. They also counter a number of Organization members' plots, eliminating [[Xaldin]] along the way. Eventually, they return to Twilight Town, where they find Hayner, Pence, and Olette at the Old Mansion, looking for clues leading to an alternate Twilight Town. They are ambushed by Nobodies, but Mickey arrives to assist. They enter the mansion and use the basement computer to enter The Other Twilight Town's mansion, where they find [[Twilight Town#Betwixt and Between|a passageway]]. They are ambushed within by a horde of Nobodies, but Axel arrives to help, and he sacrifices himself to wipe out the enemies. As he lays fading away, Axel apologizes for kidnapping Kairi and opens a portal to the Organization's world, [[The World That Never Was]].
+Kairi is revealed to be one of the Seven [[Princesses of Heart]] who possess the power to open the [[Final Keyhole]] that leads to Kingdom Hearts, but because her heart laid within Sora, it cannot open, as explained by "Ansem". In order to return her heart and wake her up, Sora uses the Keyblade of People's Hearts to remove both their hearts, sacrificing his humanity and becoming a [[Sora's Heartless|Heartless]], unknowingly creating Roxas and [[Naminé]], the [[Nobody|Nobodies]] of Sora and Kairi respectively. When he manages to reunite with Kairi after a brief stint as a Heartless, Kairi uses her light to restore his human form.
-[[File:While Roxas Was Sleeping 01 KHII.png|thumb|left|Sora is confronted by Roxas in the depths of his heart.]]
+After regrouping in Traverse Town, Sora decides to return to Hollow Bastion to seal the Final Keyhole while he tries to reclaim Riku from the clutches of "Ansem". Kairi gives Sora her [[Wayfinder|lucky charm]] ([[Oathkeeper]]'s keychain) since he insists that she should stay behind, even joking that she would be in his way.
-While traveling through the [[The World That Never Was#Dark City|Dark City]], Sora is confronted by Roxas, who transports them to his Station of Awakening. Roxas attacks Sora relentlessly out of anger, demanding to know why Axel chose to help Sora rather than transform Sora into a Heartless and revive Roxas as he originally planned. After Sora defeats Roxas, he returns to the real world to rejoin Donald, Goofy, and Mickey. They make their way to the Organization's castle, where Kingdom Hearts is nearly complete. Sora makes his way through the castle with Donald and Goofy while Mickey goes ahead. Saïx corners the three in the Hall of Empty Melodies and sets a massive swarm of Heartless on them, but the battle is joined on the upper level by Kairi, who was freed by Naminé, and Riku, in the form of Xehanort's Heartless, while Maleficent and Pete take the opportunity to infiltrate the castle. While Mickey reunites with DiZ, really Ansem the Wise, Xigbar takes out the remaining Heartless and challenges Sora, while calling him by Roxas's name and cryptically comparing him to his predecessors. Sora, Donald, and Goofy defeat him and work their way to the upper level, where Sora is reunited with his friends. Together, the group continue onward, and Sora encounters and destroys [[Luxord]] and Saïx. He then learns from Riku that Roxas is his Nobody and reveals how he fought him after leaving the Organization and wished he could've met him. They then reach Mickey and Ansem, who tries and fails to seal Kingdom Hearts by encoding it as data. The [[Kingdom Hearts Encoder|encoder]] explodes, severely damaging Kingdom Hearts, restoring Riku to his true form, and apparently killing Ansem. The damage to Kingdom Hearts causes an endless wave of Heartless to spawn, but Maleficent and Pete hold them off while everyone heads for Xemnas.
-[[File:Ending 03 KHII.png|thumb|Sora, Donald, and Goofy reunite on the Destiny Islands after the battle against Xemnas.]]
+Sora, Donald, and Goofy set sail to Hollow Bastion and seal the Final Keyhole after a battle with a [[Behemoth|powerful Heartless]]. The six Princesses of Heart then inform him of a new darkness approaching, and the trio travel to [[End of the World]], the "Heartless world" of all the worlds that fell into darkness, where they confront and defeat "Ansem" once and for all. "Ansem", defeated, calls forth to Kingdom Hearts to fill him with the power of darkness, but Sora proclaims that Kingdom Hearts is not darkness, but light, and "Ansem" is destroyed by the said light. However, Heartless begin to swarm inside of the door and Sora, Donald, and Goofy rush forward to close it. As they attempt to close the Door to Darkness, Riku and King Mickey appear on the other side of the door and together, King Mickey and Sora seal it from both sides with Sora's Keyblade from the Realm of light and Mickey's Keyblade from the Realm of Darkness. However, Mickey and Riku become trapped behind the door as it closed shut. Riku's last words to Sora before it closed are "Take care of her", referring to Kairi.
-At the Alter of Naught, at the top of the castle, the group confronts Xemnas as he contemplates the broken Kingdom Hearts. Sora fights Xemnas one on one in Memory's Contortion, and defeats him. Xemnas then merges with the remains of Kingdom Hearts, transforming the interior into a facsimile of the World that Never Was. Sora and company pursue him and manage to defeat him and his draconian fortress. While Xemnas apparently fades back into darkness, Roxas and Naminé appear before Sora and Kairi before merging with them. While everyone starts leaving through Naminé's Corridor of Darkness, the portal suddenly closes, stranding Sora and Riku. Xemnas reappears, but after a series of grueling battles, they finally destroy him. Sora and Riku wander until they reach the Dark Margin, where Sora reads a bottled letter from Kairi that has washed onto the shore. The [[Door to Light]] appears before them and sends them back to the Destiny Islands, where they are reunited with Kairi, Donald, Goofy, and Mickey. Sora happily returns Kairi's Lucky Charm to her. Sometime later, Sora returns to the Secret Place and sees Kairi's drawing giving him a paopu fruit.
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-===''Kingdom Hearts coded''===
+As the worlds begin to restore themselves, Sora sees Kairi on a platform of sand that is drifting away. Kairi and Sora are separated with Kairi going back to Destiny Islands. Sora promises to return to her as soon as he finds Riku and King Mickey.
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-{{Q|Sora, you are who you are because of those people, but they're hurting, and you're the only one who can end their sadness. They need you.|Mickey to Sora about Terra, Aqua and Ven}}
-{{Main|Data-Sora}}
-[[File:Opening 01 KHREC.png|thumb|left|Although the record of Sora's first journey hasn't reappeared in Jiminy's Journal, a new message appears.]]
-Mickey digitizes Jiminy's Journal in order to find the source of a mysterious message, and creates a Sora made of data in order to rid the journal of countless bugs. Eventually, Data-Sora and Mickey find a data version of Naminé, who reveals that she was responsible and the message is for the real Sora, who as the "Key that Connects Everything", must venture out on another quest to find and rescue those connected to his heart who are suffering, namely the real Naminé, Roxas, Xion, Axel, Terra, Aqua and Ventus. Mickey sends Sora a bottled letter to inform him.
-On Destiny Islands, Sora asks Riku what he thinks the door to light was. Riku replies that it was Sora's heart; "''It's always closer than you think''". Kairi runs up to them breathlessly with [[Mickey's letter]], which Sora reads with Riku and Kairi.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts II}}
+===''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]''===
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+After being separated from his friends, Sora wanders down on a long, meandering path with Donald and Goofy searching for a way to find Riku and Mickey, encountering [[Pluto]] on the way. When they reach a crossroad and call it a night, a [[Marluxia|mysterious man]] in a long black hooded cloak appears and informs Sora, "Along the road ahead lies something you need. However in order to claim it you must lose something that is dear to you." The man disappears and only one path remains. The trio follow the path which leads them to a mysterious castle known as [[Castle Oblivion]]. They enter the castle hoping to pick up some clues as to the whereabouts of their friends only to discover, as they ascend the floors of the fortress, they are beginning to lose their memories and become more and more uncertain of what they are truly after. Even Jiminy's journal has been erased of its entries.
-===''Blank Points''===
+Little do they know, their memories are being manipulated by a mysterious organization that seek to capture and manipulate Sora. To do this, they use [[Naminé]], a young witch who could rearrange the chains of memories in a person's mind and create new links between them. In order to make Sora forget Kairi, Naminé begins to replace his memories of Kairi with herself, partly because she is Kairi's Nobody and so is unable to completely erase her from Sora's memories. Meanwhile, a conflict between the members of the Organization lead to several encounters between Sora and [[Riku Replica|Riku]], whose memories of Kairi have also been replaced with ones containing Naminé.
-[[File:Blank Points 04 KHBBS.png|thumb|Having read the King's letter, Sora prepares for his new journey to save those connected to him.]]
-{{Q|I am who I am... because of them.|Sora about Terra, Aqua and Ven.}}
-Having read [[Mickey's Letters|Mickey's letter]], Sora decides to venture out to find Terra, Aqua and Ventus. Kairi loans him her [[Wayfinder]] once again.
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-===''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''===
+The trio's uncertainty builds up to a point where they end up in [[Twilight Town]], a place that Sora is fairly certain that he has never been in, and thus should not exist in his memory. Organization member IV, [[Vexen]], reveals that it is a place that exists on the other side of Sora's heart, but is eliminated by [[Axel]], another member of the Organization, before he can explain anything.
-[[File:Dream Eaters 01 KH3D.png|thumb|left|Sora and Riku preparing for their Mark of Mastery exam.]]
-In response to the imminent return of [[Master Xehanort]], Sora and Riku are summoned to the Mysterious Tower in order to take the [[Mark of Mastery exam]] and become [[Keyblade Master]]s. Despite having the enormity of Master Xehanort explained to him, Sora initially objects, convinced that he can already defeat Master Xehanort, but when Riku agrees to the exam as a way of proving that he has overcome his darkness, Sora also agrees. Yen Sid sets the pair the task of entering the [[Sleeping Worlds]] and awakening seven worlds which were left submerged in sleep following Ansem's defeat.
-Sora and Riku's journey begins on Destiny Islands, on the day it sunk into the Sleeping Worlds, but they soon move on and Sora finds himself in Traverse Town, where he discovers his new attire and abilities. After meeting up with [[Neku Sakuraba]], [[Joshua]] and [[Rhyme]] who tutor him, Sora leaves on his new journey, venturing across more sleeping worlds, meeting new friends, and battling new villains. However, several times along the way, Sora comes into contact with a [[Young Xehanort|mysterious young man]] with ties to Master Xehanort, who is accompanied by figures like Ansem and Xemnas, whom Sora believed to have been defeated long ago.
+Axel ends up betraying [[Marluxia]], the lord of Castle Oblivion, revealing that Marluxia and [[Larxene]], the newest members of their group, intend to use Sora to overthrow the Organization. Axel manipulates Naminé into doing what she believes is right. Donald and Goofy try to reason with Sora about the whole situation later, but he is so stubborn that he separates from them to go on his own.
-[[File:My Friends Are My Power! 02 KH3D.png|thumb|Supported by his allies, Sora stands up to Xigbar and Xemnas in the depths of his dreams.]]
+On Destiny Islands, Sora is touched to have finally found Naminé, who tries to make him remember who was truly important to him. After taking one look at the lucky charm, it returns to its original form and Naminé takes the temporary form of Kairi. Sora escapes the memory-based Destiny Islands and confronts Naminé, who reveals that she never existed in Sora's memory and that she has been replacing the person most important to him. Riku appears to them again and is again defeated by Sora. When Sora tries to help the injured Riku, he attacks Sora and gains the upper hand. Having left no choice, Naminé uses her power to break Riku's memories, and it causes him to collapse. Larxene comes forth to eliminate Sora and Riku, who is revealed to actually be a [[Riku Replica]], created by Vexen.
-After Sora seals all seven keyholes in the Sleeping Worlds, he finds himself in The World That Never Was instead of the Realm of Light, and he is confronted by Xigbar, who explains that he and his companions had been engineering Sora's arrival in their domain from the start. Placed within a dream version of the Dark City, Sora speaks with the mysterious young man, who reveals that he is actually the younger self of Master Xehanort, who was paid a visit long ago by the disembodied Ansem, via time travel. Ansem had then sent Young Xehanort through time to gather many different incarnations of Xehanort while arranging Sora's journey. As he travels through the dream city, Sora encounters illusions of Naminé, Xion, Roxas, Riku, Kairi, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus along the way, occasionally hearing Riku's voice encouraging him not to fall for the illusions and stay awake. Upon encountering Roxas, his Nobody passes on his memories and felt the pain he suffered. Eventually, Sora approaches the castle and encounters both Xemnas and Xigbar, who explain that the true purpose of Organization XIII was to create thirteen vessels to harbor the essence of Master Xehanort, and their intended thirteenth vessel is Sora himself. Sora refuses to allow it, and, spurred on by the thoughts of those connected to him, he fights and defeats Xemnas. However, Sora's heart is badly weakened, and he falls into a deep sleep, while Young Xehanort takes him to the Castle That Never Was. As he drops into the darkness, Ventus's heart envelops him in Ven's [[Keyblade Armor]].
-[[File:Armor Clad in Darkness 01 KH3D.png|thumb|left|Despite the protection of Ventus's Keyblade Armor, Sora is trapped and possessed by darkness.]]
+When Larxene is about to eliminate Sora, Donald and Goofy catch up to save him. Although Sora had been a jerk to go on his own, they quickly forgive him and state how they would always stay together. Together, they defeat Larxene and Sora forgives a regretful Naminé for her actions. She promises to restore the memories of the trio once they reach the 13th Floor of Castle Oblivion, where Marluxia is waiting for them. Axel attempts to destroy Marluxia himself, but then Marluxia uses Naminé as a human shield. Sora steps in and defeats Axel. After finally catching up to them, Marluxia orders Naminé to completely erase Sora's memory so he could make Sora his puppet; Naminé refuses, but Sora orders her to do so in order to protect her from Marluxia's wrath. Fortunately, the Riku Replica, its true memories returned after his false ones are broken, arrives and saves Naminé before she was able to do so.
-Riku tracks Sora to the castle and only barely manages to save Sora from the newly-revived Master Xehanort, with help from Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and [[Lea]]. Sora, still comatose, is brought back to the Mysterious Tower, where Yen Sid tells Riku he now has the power to wake Sora up. Riku dives into Sora's Dive to the Heart, where he captures the fragments of Sora's shattered heart and battles Sora in Ventus's armor, which has been possessed by the [[Armored Ventus Nightmare]]. Riku defeats the Nightmare, then meets projections of Roxas, Ventus, and Xion, deep inside Sora's heart. A data projection of Ansem the Wise informs Riku that Sora has awakened and tells him about [[Ansem's Code]], data hidden within Sora, and about Sora's power to connect with people's hearts. Riku returns to the real world and reunites with Sora.
-With the exam at an end, Yen Sid names Riku as a Keyblade Master, and, despite having failed, Sora congratulates Riku. Shortly afterwards, Sora leaves on a new journey, traveling to the sleeping Traverse Town, where he is reunited with the Spirit [[Dream Eaters]].
+Then Sora, Donald and Goofy step into the thirteenth floor's dimension where they fight Marluxia in an incredible battle.
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-===''Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-''===
+Once Marluxia was defeated, Naminé asks that they step into [[Memory Pod|Memory Pods]] that would rearrange their memories back to the way they were at the cost of breaking the links she created. She also informs him that the process will take some time, during which Sora, Donald, and Goofy would sleep as their memories are slowly restored. While they know that they would forget Naminé, Sora promises her that while she was forgotten, she would remain somewhere in his heart, never lost. And when he wakes up, they would become friends for real.
-[[File:2.9 - The First Volume 01 KH0.2.png|thumb|Sora, Donald, and Goofy head to Olympus Coliseum.]]
-After finishing thanking all the [[Dream Eaters|Spirits]] for their help in the [[Sleeping Worlds]], Sora returns to the [[Mysterious Tower]]. Donald and Goofy ask Sora what took him so long, but he decides to tease them and tell them it is a secret. Upon entering Yen Sid's study, Sora learns from [[Yen Sid]] that [[Lea]], [[Riku]], and [[Mickey]] had departed to fulfill their own tasks. Disappointed, Sora is scolded by Donald for taking too long to say good-bye to the Dream Eaters. Yen Sid then informs Sora that nearly being turned into a vessel for Xehanort has robbed him of most of his powers and strength and advises Sora to seek training with [[Hercules]], who had also lost and regained his strength.
-In the Gummi Ship, Sora contemplates on how to reach other worlds now that all the highways they used are closed, leaving them unable to travel anywhere except [[Disney Castle]] and [[Destiny Islands]]. While stumped as to what to do, Sora hears Goofy recall Yen Sid saying "let your heart be your guiding key". This inspires Sora to use his Keyblade to open a [[Gate]]. Excited to have finally made progress, Sora announces that their next destination is [[Olympus Coliseum]].
+Right before he went to sleep, Naminé informs him that some of his memories are unreachable and asks him to remember Kairi, because his memory of her is the light that would bring them all back. Sora then uses most of the power of his memories to remember Kairi before going to sleep for real.
-===''Kingdom Hearts III''===
+===''[[Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]''===
-{{Q|They can take your world. They can take your heart. Cut you loose from all you know. But if it's your fate... then every step forward will always be a step closer to home.|Sora in the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts III''}}
+[[Naminé]]'s powers are unable to do much to fix the problems, however, as they later discover the existence of Roxas, Sora's Nobody, and Xion, a replica of Roxas created from his leaked memories. As Roxas and Sora are connected and Xion is created from their intertwined memories, Sora's lost memory pieces found their way inside Xion through Roxas. This act causes Sora's memory restoration process to come to a complete stop.
-Sora awakens in the [[Dive to the Heart]], after looking through memories of his past he ends up at the edge of [[The Final World]] where he encounters and defeats a semi-transparent Darkside.<ref>''Kingdom Hearts III Ultimania''</ref>
-Per Master Yen Sid's instructions, Sora, Donald, and Goofy travel to [[Olympus]] to seek training from Hercules. As they reach the world, they encounter [[Hades]], who uses the titans to attack Thebes and claim his place in Olympus. As they form an alliance to save the civilians from the Heartless, Sora asked Hercules how he regains his strength to save the people he loves. Hercules replies that he regains his strength when [[Megara]] is in danger. After saving the civilians from the heartless, Megara returns with [[Pegasus]] to inform Hercules that Olympus is in danger and he heads back to Olympus to save [[Zeus]] and the rest of the Gods. When they reach Olympus, they see Hades and the rest of the Titans, who plan to confine Zeus and the rest of the Gods with ice and lava. After rescuing Zeus and the gods, Hercules punches Hades on the face before he leaves Olympus. As Hercules wanted to answer Sora's question, he realizes that he should figure out his own ways to regain his strength by fighting "with all his heart".
+[[File:Xion as sora nightmare.jpg|thumb|Xion turns into Sora for the first time during a nightmare]]
+The Organization intends to have Xion absorb Roxas, forming a "new Sora" under their control, an act that would erase Roxas and make it impossible for the real Sora to ever awaken. When Xion discovers this truth, she is willing to instead return to Sora, saving him at the cost of her existence. But before she can, [[Axel]] comes to take her back to [[Organization XIII]], starting a fight which Xion loses. During her captivity, she is stored within machine-like devices and given new powers so she may be able to absorb Roxas when the time comes.
-At the Mysterious Tower, Sora reported to Yen Sid that he might not be able to regain his strength at the time being. Despite the worries of acquiring the [[power of waking]], he remains optimistic and believes that he can relearn his powers and skills. They are greeted by Riku and Mickey, who is assigned to find Aqua in the Dark World but no avail. As they suspect that Aqua might have fallen into the great abyss of darkness, Sora volunteers to save Aqua from the Dark World. After receiving his new garments from Yen Sid and the fairies, he receives a [[heartbinder]] as a good luck charm before traveling to another world. In the Gummi Ship, [[Chip and Dale]] report to Sora, Donald, and Goofy, via [[Gummiphone]], with new instructions on using the Gummiphone and a brief conversation with [[Ienzo]]. As Donald and Goofy learn that Sora has another heart resided inside of him, which Sora believes is Roxas's, Ienzo decides to further study Sora's physical condition and the other heart that's resided in him since he was very young.
+Eventually, Roxas and Xion meet on the Clock Tower of Twilight Town, where she removes her hood, revealing that she now completely resembles Sora through the effects of his memory flow. Although she fights with all her strength, Roxas defeats her in the end, and as she disappears and returns to her origin she asks Roxas to free Kingdom Hearts from [[Xemnas]]'s control. Although Sora's lost memories are back where they should be, Roxas, Sora's body and soul, is still on the loose, preventing Sora's complete restoration. Riku hunts Roxas down and finds him just as he arrives at Memory's Skyscraper to attack the Organization. After an intense battle, Riku captures Roxas, and brings him back to DiZ and Naminé.
-Sora proceeds to Twilight Town to initially create data and a vessel for Roxas. As they are walking around the town, they recollect old memories of encountering Maleficent, Xigbar, and Pete as well as Sora's encounter with Roxas in the data Sleeping Worlds. Goofy explains the data Sleeping Worlds is part of the test to see whether Sora is able to face his fears and past hurts. Sora further explains that losing friends and "having no one to turn to was the worst kind of hurt" but it is a process to appreciate his friendships with Riku and Kairi.
+{{-}}
+===''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''===
+{{Q|A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory. A far-off memory that's like a scattered dream. I want to line the pieces up... yours and mine.|Sora in the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts II''}}
+One year later, Sora, Donald and Goofy awake in the basement of the [[Old Mansion]] located in [[Twilight Town]] with their former memories restored, although they cannot remember what happened in Castle Oblivion. But before they awake in Twilight Town, Roxas comes to see Sora and eventually fuses with him. Continuing their journey to find Riku and King Mickey, they set out traveling across new worlds, meeting old friends and enemies from the original Kingdom Hearts game while also making new friends. They continue the battle against the Heartless and now a new threat, the remaining members of the Organization they encountered in ''Chain of Memories''.
-As Sora is determined to find Roxas, his conversation is cut short by Nobodies and hordes of Heartless. After saving Hayner, Pence, and Olette, Sora and friends explain to them the digital version of Twilight Town, where the data versions of themselves befriended Roxas. In the Old Mansion, Sora initially plans to use The Other Twilight Town to bring back Roxas, however after being pressured by Xemnas and Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, Sora chooses to restore Roxas into the real Twilight Town. As he converses with Riku regarding the [[Replica|replica program]], Sora learns that Roxas can only be resurrected by making a vessel for him to live.
+Soon after exploring Twilight Town, Sora and company head off to the [[Mysterious Tower]] and Sora obtains new attire—on the advice of master sorcerer [[Yen Sid]] considering Sora's first game outfit to be "too small"—from [[Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather]]. The new outfit enables Sora to transform into his [[Drive Form]] and attain special powers for each of them. The source of the clothing's magic is linked to Sora's heart, which is connected to everyone Sora had befriended including Donald and Goofy. Sora was referred to as the "Key that connects everything" by Yen Sid which is how Naminé's memory manipulation works.
-[[File:A Guiding Key 01 KHIII.png|thumb|left|Sora returns to Destiny Islands and finds an abandoned Keyblade.]]
+Sora expresses his determination to bring Riku back home with him to Destiny Islands, where Kairi is waiting for them. The quest gets more complicated when Kairi herself gets kidnapped by Axel. [[Pete]] (who works for the resurrected [[Maleficent]]) and [[Organization XIII]] are causing trouble in the other worlds, and King Mickey refuses to give information regarding Riku. Sora must also discover why some of the members of Organization XIII address him as Roxas even after he clearly states his name is Sora. Also, throughout the game Sora becomes rather intrigued and interested in the romances between his friends in other worlds, as well as one between Kairi and himself. He travels to other worlds to find Riku and the King, help the worlds and stop Organization XIII. His new journey brings him to meet up with some old friends and make new ones.
-After adventuring through various worlds with Donald and Goofy, the trio proceed to Destiny Islands where Sora finds the [[Master's Defender]] lying abandoned in the sand. Sora proceeds to the Dark World via the Secret Place, only to see Riku and Mickey battle with [[Anti-Aqua]], who has succumbed to the Darkness. He helps both Riku and Mickey to save Aqua and bring her back to the Destiny Islands. Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Aqua then venture out to Castle Oblivion of which Sora, Donald, and Goofy have lost their memories. Aqua summons the Master Defender Keyblade and unlocks Castle Oblivion transforming it to its original form, the [[Land of Departure]].
-Together, they enter the main hall to find Ventus, still sleeping due to his heart residing inside Sora. Vanitas soon arrives, having used Aqua to track down Ventus's whereabouts. Aqua takes it upon herself to battle Vanitas while ensuring Sora, Donald and Goofy remain out of the battle. After the fight, Vanitas attempts to break the barrier to get to Ventus when Aqua shields Ventus with her body and is knocked out. Sora, in a desperate attempt to help Aqua, manages to unlock Ventus's heart from within himself and wakes Ventus from his comatose state, saving Aqua and forcing Vanitas to retreat.
+At one point in the storyline, Donald and Goofy's homeworld becomes infested with Heartless, which is rather unusual considering their world's protection, and Sora visits their castle for the first time. While Donald and Goofy set out to warn the castle's residents about the danger, Sora escorts [[Minnie Mouse|Queen Minnie]] to the audience chamber where the [[Cornerstone of Light]] is hidden under. He finds out that Pete and Maleficent have found a doorway to [[Timeless River]], a past timeline of their world before the castle was built. With some help from [[Merlin]], Sora, Donald and Goofy travel through time and manage to stop Pete from destroying the Cornerstone of Light in the past, which also saves the castle for good.
-[[File:The Paopu Fruit 01 KHIII.png|thumb|Sora exchanges paopu fruit with Kairi.]]
+Sora, with the help of the [[Hayner]], [[Pence]], [[Olette]] (three friends of Roxas in [[Ansem the Wise|DiZ]]'s [[simulated Twilight Town]]) and Axel (who sacrifices his existence), manages to find the route to [[the World That Never Was]]: which is the stronghold of the Organization, where Kingdom Hearts, created by gathering the countless hearts from the Heartless slain by Sora's Keyblade, resides. Soon after entering the world however, in the area of Memory's Skyscraper, Sora's group is ambushed by [[Samurai]] Nobodies and Sora is forced into a showdown with an Organization member, who turns out to be Roxas (disguised in his former Organization XIII cloak) on a platform of [[Awakening]]. In ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', you can fight Roxas instead of watching the fight between Sora and Roxas as a cutscene. At the start of the fight Sora asks who Roxas is, and he answers "Someone from the dark.", then asks Sora; "Tell me...Tell me why he picked you!".
-The group return to the Mysterious Tower to rendezvous with Riku, Mickey, Kairi and Lea. Aqua reminiscences over Sora, Riku, and Kairi having met them when they were children. Lea and Ventus also have a reunion with Ventus learning that Lea is now a Keyblade Wielder. Sora mentions to the group that he wishes that Terra, Roxas, and Naminé could be there with them while Aqua, Ventus, Lea, and Kairi taking responsibility for each missing person. Yen Sid tells the group to prepare for the final battle to come. Sora, Riku, and Kairi return to the Destiny Islands for one last moment of peace where Kairi asks Sora to exchange paopu fruit. They hope to keep each other safe in the battle.
-The [[seven Guardians of Light]] along with Donald and Goofy arrive at the [[Keyblade Graveyard]], ready to clash with the [[Real Organization XIII]]. They are greeted by Master Xehanort. Gradually, Xemnas, Ansem, Vanitas and Young Xehanort also arrive to taunt the seven guardians of their impending failure. The seekers of darkness then unleash a massive swarm of Heartless, Nobodies and [[Unversed]] for the Guardians to fight.
+[[File:Sora Roxas.png|thumb|left|Sora meeting Roxas, physically, in the Awakening]]
+As Roxas is above and Sora below, he sees the picture of Riku, Kairi, Donald and Goofy (as the platform's design). Roxas then says, "I see, that's why.", and continues the fight. Roxas knocks the Keyblade out of Sora's grasp, and as he goes to retrieve it, Roxas pins it down with his own Keyblade. It looks like defeat for Sora, but then he reaches out for his Keyblade, which disappears and reappears in Sora's hands, after which Sora quickly strikes while Roxas stands amazed, not knowing how that happened. Ultimately, Sora's control over his Keyblade gave him the edge over Roxas, who collapses and reveals his face. As he and the scenery disappear, Roxas says to Sora "You make a good other." Sora reappears next to Donald and Goofy, who tell him that while he disappeared, they had to fight some Nobodies, and they continue towards the massive Castle where Kairi awaits them.
-After defeating the swarm of enemies, Sora, Donald, and Goofy catch up to the other guardians of light. The guardians come across Terra-Xehanort, who then overpowers the guardians, critically injuring Lea and Ventus before being thwarted by Donald. While the guardians are incapacitated, a [[Demon Tide]] appears and consumes all the guardians except for Sora and Riku. After seeing this, Sora breaks down in tears, saying that his friends gave him strength and he's useless on his own. Riku says he doesn't believe that and makes a last stand to defend him before both are consumed by the Heartless.
+Afterwards, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey storm the Castle in search of their friends. They meet [[Saïx]] at the Hall of Empty Melodies, who tells that Kingdom Hearts is near completion, and it only needed "one more dose from the Keyblade Bearer." He summons hordes of [[Shadow]]s and disappears to go after Maleficent and Pete who were also in the castle. The Heartless overpower Sora, but are destroyed by a rain of laser bullets. Sora has to fight [[Xigbar]], the Freeshooter and Organization's number II, and defeats him. He finds Kairi and Riku (looking like Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, which is the price he paid to help Sora wake up).
-[[File:I'll Wait 01 KHIII.png|thumb|left|Sora and Chirithy in The Final World.]]
+Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy make it to the Proof of Existence of the Organization, in which there are only two places to go. They enter one of the odd pathways only to encounter [[Luxord]], Organization XIII's Number X. Although Luxord traps everyone but Sora in cards, he is still defeated by the Keyblade master. Next they enter Addled Impasse where they find Saïx staring up at the moon. Saïx points out that only Roxas could have made it this far in one piece and Sora gets angry and prepares to attack him. Saïx blows Riku and Kairi away and uses the power of the moon to fight. After one of Sora's most difficult battles, Saïx is defeated and Riku finally reveals to Sora that Roxas is his Nobody.
-Sora wakes up in The Final World where he encounters the [[Nameless Star]] as well as a bodiless Naminé. Sora is guided back to the realm of light with the help of Kairi and [[Chirithy]] and uses the power of waking to revive his friends. However, Young Xehanort warns that abusing this power will result in him losing his own heart again.
-{{-}}
-[[File:Kingdom Hearts 02 KHIII.png|thumb|Sora, Donald, and Goofy resolve to fight Master Xehanort together.]]
-Returning moments before their defeat, Sora helps the guardians of light eliminate most of the Organization's members; in the process, Terra regains control of his body and reunites with Aqua and Ventus, while Lea reunites with a restored Xion and Roxas, both of whom had their hearts freed from Sora's into new replica bodies.
-When only Xehanort remains, he provokes Sora into attacking him by destroying Kairi's body, allowing Xehanort to acquire the [[χ-blade]] and summon Kingdom Hearts. Using Xehanort's power of time travel against him, Sora, Donald, and Goofy transport him to his boyhood training grounds of [[Scala ad Caelum]], where they defeat him. After the other Keyblade wielders rejoin the trio, [[Eraqus]]'s spirit emerges from Terra's heart and convinces Xehanort to surrender. Xehanort and Eraqus depart together to Kingdom Hearts, while Sora and his friends use the χ-blade to close Kingdom Hearts and return to their own time.
+With the mysteries of Roxas's identity finally solved, they continue on. Fighting their way up the winding paths of the [[Castle That Never Was]], Sora, Riku and the others encounter King Mickey and DiZ, now revealed to be the former ruler of Hollow Bastion, now called [[Radiant Garden]], Ansem the Wise, who was trying to absorb Kingdom Hearts into his machine and encode it as data. Xemnas appears to see who is tampering with Kingdom Hearts and finds his old teacher. Then Xemnas finally tells Sora and the others of his true plan, to make a Kingdom out of hearts. One that he would rule.
-[[File:Ending 05 KHIII.png|left|thumb|Sora spends his last moments with Kairi before fading away.]]
+Unfortunately, Kingdom Hearts proved too strong for Ansem's machine, and with his final words, he tells Sora the rest is up to him and tells Roxas, "''Roxas, I doubt you can hear me but, I am sorry''", before the machine explodes, taking Ansem with it. The energy released in the explosion destroys a good deal of Kingdom Hearts and reverts Riku's appearance to the way it was.
-Trying to save Kairi, Sora uses the power of waking again to revive her; despite the risk of becoming lost forever, Sora promises to return.
-Sora appears in The Final World and explains his situation to Chirithy under the belief that using the Power of Waking to save Kairi shouldn't be that hard, considering he had already saved six hearts before. Chirithy explains to Sora what will happen if he saves Kairi, he will lose the power of waking and will vanish from the world and be unable to return. Sora throws caution to the wind and expresses his desire to save Kairi. Chirithy then explains what Sora must do. He must travel back in time and connect with the hearts of the Seven Guardians of Light during the final showdown at the Keyblade Graveyard.
+Near the pinnacle of the castle, Heartless appear in vast hordes. Maleficent and Pete show up and stall them while the party heads toward their final battle. When they reach the Altar of Naught at the pinnacle of the castle, they confront Xemnas, the leader of Organization XIII. After a short conversation with the Nobody, Sora is taken by Xemnas to the front of [[Memory's Skyscraper]] for a one-on-one battle. After an intense fight, Sora defeats Xemnas and is transported back to his friends. However, Xemnas appears again and, despite the protests of the group, enters and absorbs Kingdom Hearts. The party was in luck though, and by the will of the worlds a door to Kingdom Hearts is made. Sora, Riku and the King open the door with their Keyblades, breaking the barrier separating them from Xemnas. The party enters but Sora, Riku, Donald and Goofy become separated from King Mickey and Kairi because of Xemnas.
-Sora then proceeds to connect with Ventus, Aqua, Terra, Roxas, and himself. Needing only two more connections, Sora was forced to witness Xehanort slaying Kairi again but proceeds to Scala ad Caelum before his past self arrives with Donald and Goofy. Sora then chases an image of Kairi and collects five fragments of her heart. After collecting them Xehanort arrives and tells him he is too late while turning his attention to his past self who has just arrived in Scala. Sora quickly connects with himself again and traces his connection between himself and Riku while the latter was fighting off the [[Replica Xehanort]]s with the other guardians. Sora then connects with Mickey and aids him in finishing the battle. With seven connections, Sora finally re-completes Kairi to her original form.
+Inside, they discover that Kingdom Hearts was made by the Superior to look like the World That Never Was. They charge through and quickly get to Xemnas and battle him, with Xemnas in armor using the tactics of the rest of the Organization. After they seemingly defeat the Organization leader and return to the Altar of Naught, Roxas emerges from Sora's body to speak with Naminé before she fuses with Kairi. Before this, Naminé opens a door to lead them out of the World That Never Was. He informs Sora that whenever he and Kairi are together, Roxas and Naminé will be together as well. Naminé then joins with Kairi to complete herself, while Roxas returns to Sora's body making Sora whole.
-The two quickly embrace, but their reunion is cut short with the arrival of the Replica Xehanorts, now fused into Armored Xehanort. Kairi and Sora then proceed to battle Armored Xehanort and succeed. After the two assist the other guardians in closing Kingdom Hearts, they then leave for their own time. Sora takes Kairi to the final world and introduces her to Chrithy. He states he wants to bring Chrithy home to his friend, as waiting while you can do something is pointless. Sora and Kairi proceed to visit the various locations the other guardians left after Sora's initial departure, even releasing Naminé's heart from Kairi.
+Unfortunately, before Sora and Riku can enter the Corridor, Xemnas attacks once again on the Captain's Seat of an enormous Dragon Nobody. In an epic air battle they manage to defeat this form of Xemnas as well. Riku is injured by Xemnas, who strikes at both with his Ethereal Blades. Falling through the air on the brink of defeat, Sora grabs Riku's Keyblade and batters Xemnas with both. Returning it to Riku, they use a bolt of light and dark energy to finish off Xemnas. Afterwards, Sora must help Riku walk, as he sustained a heavy injury from one of Xemnas's Ethereal Blades. They wander through the eternal abyss, and eventually come to a dark beach under a pale moon, the Dark Margin. Resting at the shoreline, they discuss their adventures and friendship, and come to the conclusion that they did what they set out to do, and agreed that "If worlds are made of light and darkness, we'll be the darkness." The Realm of Light was safe, and they could now sit and let peace envelop them.
-Sora's friends gather at the Destiny Islands, where Kairi stays beside Sora before he fades away.
+[[File:Friends Together Forever.jpg|thumb|right|Sora, Donald and Goofy are reunited]]
+As they listen to the waves, a bottle containing a letter that Kairi wrote washes onto the shore. Riku picks it up, and, after reading it, gives it to Sora, believing him to be the proper recipient. The letter reads;
-Sora awakens in [[Quadratum]]. Disoriented, he walks the streets observing where he is, eventually finding himself at a {{w|Shibuya#Shibuya_Crossing|crosswalk}} staring at a {{w|109 (department store)|building with the number "104" displayed}}.{{storylink|Yozora (video)|Yozora}}
+<blockquote>"''Thinking of you, wherever you are.<br>We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend.''<br>''Now I will step forward to realize this wish.''<br>''And who knows:''<br>''Starting a new journey may not be so hard,''<br>''Or maybe it has already begun.''<br>''There are many worlds, but they share the same sky.''<br>''One sky,''<br>''One destiny.''
-Sora wakes up in a nighttime version of The Final World. He then calls out to anyone who can hear him. He soon hears a voice and runs towards it. When finding the source of the voice he recognizes the mysterious person as [[Yozora]]. Yozora asks Sora how he knows who he is while also making it clear Yozora knows who he is. Yozora states that he doesn't normally look the way he does now and tells Sora that they aren't in the real world right now. Yozora summons his weapons and the two youths soon teleport over to Quadratum on top of the 104 building. Yozora states after accidentally stumbling there and going through some trials he was asked to "save" Sora. Sora questions why he would summon his weapons. Yozora doesn't answer and the two proceed to fight.
+''-Kairi."''</blockquote>
-After Yozora is defeated, he states that his powers must not be needed yet. Sora asks him what he meant by that, but Yozora shrugs off the question and disappears while smiling. A flash of light appears and Sora then appears in The Final World. Sora then wonders if any of this is real and states nothing is making sense to him.
+After Sora reads it, the door to light appears, and both Sora and Riku use it to return to their home world: Destiny Islands.
-{{canon|If Sora is defeated, he wonders how could he lose. His body soon crystallizes while Yozora silently tells Sora he will "save" him. A flash of light appears and Sora then wonders if any of this is real or not.}}
+Having brought Riku back home and reunited at last with all his friends in one piece, Sora returns Kairi's [[Wayfinder|lucky charm]] to her, saying "We-We're back!" and Kairi corrects him saying "You're home". Kairi extends her arm to Sora, and he grasps her hand while simultaneously returning the Oathkeeper keychain he kept for her all this time.
-{{-}}
-===''Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory''===
+Some time later, Sora is walking around in the Secret Place. He smiles while looking at all the pictures he and Kairi had drawn over the years. He glances down at the picture of Kairi and himself. He sees that Kairi drew the other half of a [[Paopu Fruit]], and smiles to himself, mimicking Kairi's actions from a year ago. Sora asks Riku what he thinks the door to light was. Riku replies that it was Sora's heart; "It's always closer than you think". Kairi runs up to them breathlessly and gives them a bottle she found, containing a letter from King Mickey. The trio reads the letter.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts II}}
-While Kairi search for clues to Sora's whereabouts by looking over her memories of him and their friends, she finds herself in the Final World and is attacked by a memory of Master Xehanort. Before dealing a blow to Kairi, Sora's heart protects her and fights the memory of Xehanort, though his voice cannot reach them. After Xehanort is defeated, Sora's heart leaves Kairi's. Learning that Sora is in a different world of fiction, Riku leaves to search for him in Quadratum.
-==Other appearances==
+===''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]''===
-===''Kingdom Hearts IV''===
+<!--Do not add story information for the DATA SORA here. Story information for the Data Sora is to go on its article.-->
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+{{Main|Data-Sora}}
-In the ''[[Kingdom Hearts IV]]'' announcement trailer, Sora wakes up in Quadratum and is greeted by Strelitzia.
+[[File:Coded 06.jpg|thumb|left|190px|The message that started it all.]]
+[[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]] digitizes Jiminy's Journal and creates a [[Data-Sora|digital copy of Sora]] in order to investigate the a strange message Jiminy found within it. The digital journal is corrupted by computer bugs in the form of [[Bug Blox|data blocks]], and the Data-Sora goes through and eliminates them all, eventually discovering that it was [[Sora-Heartless|Sora's own Heartless]] that had been corrupting the journal.
-===''Disney Emoji Blitz''===
+After defeating the Heartless, the Data-Sora goes even deeper and discovers that Naminé and Ansem had hidden data about those who were in suffering (Roxas, Naminé, Xion, Axel, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus) within the real Sora's memories. With this knowledge, King Mickey writes a letter to Sora asking for him to go on a mission to save them. Later, Mickey meets with his old Master, Yen Sid, who reveals that with Ansem and Xemnas's defeat, Xehanort has returned, and that Sora and Riku must undergo the [[Mark of Mastery]] exam to properly combat him.
-Sora was added to Disney Emoji Blitz on January 17, 2019 via an in-game update and was added to the game to commemorate the release ''Kingdom Hearts III''. His special ability is "My Friends are my Power." After matching enough Sora emojis, Donald, himself, and Goofy will appear on-screen in descending order. One of them will then clear an entire section of the board. Donald will clear the top section, Sora the middle, and Goofy the bottom.
-===''World of Final Fantasy''===
-[[File:Sora (Champion Summon) WoFF.gif|thumb|Sora battles a Tonberry in ''World of Final Fantasy''.]]
-Sora appears in ''{{ff|World of Final Fantasy}}'' as a downloadable Summon, and was added to the game to commemorate the release of ''Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue.''<ref>[http://gematsu.com/2016/10/world-final-fantasy-add-sora-kingdom-hearts-via-free-dlc-winter '''''Gematsu:''''' ''World of Final Fantasy to add Sora from Kingdom Hearts via free DLC this winter'']</ref> He wears his ''KH3D'' outfit and wields the Kingdom Key, and when summoned, he fires [[Blizzard]] to freeze the enemies, strikes them with his Keyblade by performing [[Shock Dive]], then finishes them off with a fusillade of [[Ragnarok]]. Sora speaks during his summon sequence in the Japanese version, but is silent in the overseas release.
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-===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
+===''[[Blank Points]]''===
-{{main|Super Smash Bros. Ultimate#Sora}}
+[[File:Sora jumpfesta10.JPG|thumb|right|190px|Sora in ''Blank Points'']]
-[[File:Sora (KH) SSBU.png|thumb|200px|Sora as he appears in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''.]]
+Later, after Sora has received Mickey's newest letter, he sits on the Paopu tree while holding the message from King Mickey, staring off into the sunset. It is revealed that he has now read the contents of the message and must venture out on a new quest to find Terra, Aqua and Ven, as well as the others connected to him, and save them from their suffering. As he says goodbye to Kairi, she gives Sora her Wayfinder again, telling him, "See you soon."
-{{Ssb|Sora (SSBU)|Sora}} appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' as the final downloadable playable character as part of "Fighters Pass Volume 2". He wields the Kingdom Key and wears his outfit from ''Kingdom Hearts''. His ''Kingdom Hearts II'', ''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance'', and ''Kingdom Hearts III'' outfits, along with his [[Valor Form]], [[Wisdom Form]], [[Ultimate Form]], and [[Form:Sora#Timeless River version|Timeless River form]] appear as variations.
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-==Design==
+==Other appearances==
-{{main|Form:Sora}}
+===''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''===
-Sora's birthday can be considered to be March 28, which is the out-of-universe date when ''Kingdom Hearts'' was first released.<ref>[https://www.khinsider.com/news/New-KINGDOM-HEARTS-3-info-from-SE-Cafe-Osaka-Preview-Night-10468 '''''Square Enix Cafe Osaka Preview Night'''''], '''Tetsuya Nomura:''' "Like other Disney characters, you can consider Sora's birthday to be the day of his screen debut (March 28)."</ref> Sora is four years old during the events of ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'', fourteen during ''Kingdom Hearts'' through ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'', and fifteen during the events of ''Kingdom Hearts II'' and ''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''.<!--Kingdom Hearts Memorial Ultimania: https://imgur.com/Eivoae3--> A year after the events of ''Kingdom Hearts III'' and following his disappearance from the World, Sora is currently sixteen.
+Sora appears in ''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance'', wearing his attire from the first ''Kingdom Hearts'' game. He is seen in the trailer for the game sitting with Riku near the Paopu Tree. Several unconscious Soras are then seen raining down from the sky in Traverse Town, one landing and summoning the Keyblade. This Sora fights off several Heartless. After this, Sora suddenly snaps awake to find himself sitting next to Kairi near the Paopu Tree.
-According to Tetsuya Nomura, Sora is 160&nbsp;cm (5'3"), but he did not specify which game.<ref>[https://www.khinsider.com/news/New-KINGDOM-HEARTS-3-info-from-SE-Cafe-Osaka-Preview-Night-10468 '''''Square Enix Cafe Osaka Preview Night'''''], '''Tetsuya Nomura:''' "Sora's height is 160cm."</ref> However, Sora seems to be on the short side no matter the game, even around other teenagers and adults.
+In two of the few screenshots of the game revealed, Sora is seen with Riku on the beach at Destiny Islands, and is also seen in the Second District of Traverse Town fighting a [[Twilight Thorn]].
-Sora is a teenage boy with spiky brown hair (although in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' his hair does change from a dark brown to a more caramel color), blue eyes, tanned skin, and lanky build. Sora's general appearance does not change that much throughout the series, but he does grow taller, gained a slightly different hair style, tanner skin, a slightly deeper voice, and more matured looks. Sora goes through many costume changes throughout the series. In ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and certain scenes in ''Kingdom Hearts'', a younger version of Sora appears. As a child, Sora's hair was lighter than it was in ''Kingdom Hearts'', more closely resembling his hair color in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', and it was not as spiky.
+==Personality==
+Sora has a typical brave and heroic personality, meaning he'll willingly risk his life, even for people he doesn't even know yet. He's extremely loyal to his friends, and has been shown to be extremely forgiving to Riku (even forgiving Riku for the times he has tried to kill him), and is highly protective of Kairi. He constantly thinks positive and is therefore highly optimistic.
-Sora's name is Japanese for {{nihongo|"Sky"|空|Sora}}.
+Sora is an upbeat person, and although he is simple minded at times, he has a strong sense of justice. Sora has matured over a year's time, for instance, when battling enemies in the game, he seems to have a more serious expression on his face. Sora is more confident than before and takes charge of his group. He is also quite caring and reassuring to his other-world friends, such as when Beast quits after Xaldin steals his rose. Sora reassured him that they would get it back.
-==Personality==
+Sora seems to have a remarkable capacity to forgive, even to his sworn enemies; when Maleficent loses control of the Heartless to Organization XIII and is overwhelmed by [[Dusk]]s in order to allow Sora's group to escape, Sora is clearly concerned for her and is only stopped from helping her by being restrained by Donald. Another prominent example is when he forgives Naminé for rewriting the majority of his memories, despite the severity of her doings. More examples would be when he shows gratefulness towards Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, despite all the harm he had caused, for saving Kairi's life, unaware that he is actually a disguised Riku, and when he forgives Axel for kidnapping Kairi and even remains by his side as he fades from existence.
-Sora has a brave and heroic personality, meaning he will willingly risk his life even for people he barely knows. He is extremely loyal to his friends, and has been shown to be extremely forgiving to Riku for his misdeeds, as well as highly protective of both him and Kairi. Sora is an eternal optimist, always looking on the bright side of the situation at hand. Although he can be simple-minded at times, he has a strong sense of justice. Sora has matured greatly over a year's time, shown on the multiple opportunities when he takes charge of his group.
+[[File:Kh2intro sora kairi riku.jpg|thumb|left|Sora, Riku and Kairi]]
+In ''Kingdom Hearts'', he puts Riku and Kairi above all else; when telling [[Tarzan]] which friends he is missing, he starts to mention Donald and Goofy, but stops himself and instead says he is looking for Kairi and Riku. However, another reason for this could be that he had an argument with Donald before crashing into the tree house in [[Deep Jungle]], which is further expanded on by the fact that he refers to Donald as "the loud one". However, he and Donald at first appear to be genuinely happy to see each other after they reunite at Jane Porter's campsite before turning their backs on each other, proving once more his capacity to forgive. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he puts all four of them on an equal level. A prominent example of this is when Goofy is apparently fatally injured after getting hit in the head by a rock during the Battle of Hollow Bastion; Sora is clearly traumatized by Goofy's apparent death, and utters, "This is ''not'' happening. It can't be happening. It can't."
-Sora has a remarkable capacity to forgive, even to his sworn enemies; when Maleficent loses control of the Heartless to Organization XIII and is overwhelmed by Dusks in order to allow Sora's group to escape, Sora is clearly concerned for her and is only stopped from helping her by being restrained by Donald. Another prominent example is when he forgives Naminé for rewriting the majority of his memories, despite the severity of her doings. He also expressed a willingness to thank Xehanort's Heartless (who was actually Riku taking on his form) for saving Kairi, despite his past animosity towards the villain. On the other hand, Sora shows little tolerance for cowardice and selfishness, criticizing both Hades and Iago, though ultimately forgiving the latter when he proved genuinely sorry for his actions. Sora has even been shown to try and bring others to his side if he feels he can connect with them, such was the case with Vanitas after the latter explained the connection between himself, Sora, and Ventus.
+On the other hand, Sora shows little tolerance for cowardice and selfishness, criticizing both Hades and Iago for being cowardly and selfish, though ultimately forgiving the latter when he proved genuinely sorry for his actions.
-[[File:A Connecting Dream 01 KHII.png|thumb|left|Sora, Riku, and Kairi spend their free time gazing out over the ocean from the shores of their island.]]
+Like most children his age, Sora shows a highly competitive streak, as he often competes with Riku over numerous things, mostly for Kairi's affection and attention. Also, when he asks to fight Hercules alone in the [[Hercules Cup]], Donald calls him a show-off, and Goofy says in ''Chain of Memories'', "Whenever there's a contest, you're always rarin' to sign up." He doesn't like to be called a kid but prefers to be called Sora.
-In ''Kingdom Hearts'', he initially puts Riku and Kairi above all else; when telling [[Tarzan]] which friends he is missing, he starts to mention Donald and Goofy, but stops himself and instead says he is looking for Kairi and Riku. However, he starts to see the other friends he's made as just as important, eventually telling Hercules that the strength of his heart comes from Donald and Goofy. His initial mindset is seen again in ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'', as when his memories are altered during the ascent of [[Castle Oblivion]], he begins putting [[Naminé]] above all else and briefly argues with Donald and Goofy, leaving them behind before they save him from Larxene. By ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he puts Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy on an equal level. A prominent example of this is when Goofy is apparently fatally injured after getting hit in the head by a rock to protect King Mickey during the Battle of Hollow Bastion; Sora is clearly traumatized by Goofy's apparent death, refusing to believe that he is dead. He highly cherishes his friends and believes his friendships give him strength. In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', he breaks down in tears after his friends are taken by the [[Demon Tide]], declaring that he is worth nothing without his friends, though Riku provides him with encouragement to press forward to save them.
-Sora possesses a rather strong competitive streak, as he often competes with Riku over numerous things, like the race at the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts'' to share a paopu fruit with Kairi. Also, when he asks to fight Hercules alone in the [[Hercules Cup]], Donald calls him a show-off, and Goofy says in ''Chain of Memories'', "Whenever there's a contest, you're always rarin' to sign up". Sora also appears to have confidence in his abilities to the point of slight arrogance; in ''Dream Drop Distance'', Sora initially objects to taking the Mark of Mastery exam under Yen Sid, claiming that he is already unbeatable even after the threat of Master Xehanort has been explained to him. It is only after Master Xehanort damages Sora's heart and almost turns him into a vessel for his own heart when Sora realizes his shortcomings when compared to a Keyblade Master, and humbly accepts his failure of the exam, even after Riku saves him and becomes a Master himself, only being happy for him.
+Though he is far from stupid, Sora has often seen to be highly gullible and oblivious to what should be obvious. For example, he fell for Mulan's attempt at passing for a man; proceeding this, [[Mushu]] stated that Sora "could fall for anything". Ironically, he doesn't let his enemies fool him as easily. An example would be when he didn't fall for Xemnas's attempt to play on Sora's sympathetic side, which was far more convincing than Mulan's attempt to appear as a man. Sora is often quick to anger whenever he's confused, and is quite childish at times. He can also be seen as quite impulsive, as he tends to jump into things without thinking them through beforehand. While simple-minded and naive at times, he has a strong sense of justice, like when he proves Alice's innocence by finding pieces of evidence around Wonderland.
-Sora has often been seen to be highly gullible and oblivious to what should be obvious. For example, he fell for Mulan's attempt at passing for a man, to which [[Mushu]] stated that Sora "could fall for anything". However, he doesn't let his enemies fool him nearly as easily, as for example he doesn't fall for Xemnas's attempt to play on his sympathetic side. Sora is often quick to anger whenever he's confused or being deceived, like in ''Chain of Memories'', and can be somewhat immature at times. He is also quite impulsive, as he tends to jump into things without thinking them through beforehand.
+Sora also shows somewhat of an admiration of sea pirates during their first visit to Port Royal, wherein he is excited to meet [[Jack Sparrow|Captain Jack Sparrow]] and even states that he hopes that they would be able to "take a pirate ship out for a spin" (though he tells Donald and Goofy that he was merely joking about it). Of course, he likely gets over this after [[Captain Barbossa|Barbossa]] double-crosses them. Strangely enough, he doesn't show this admiration for Captain Hook or his pirate ship, probably due to the fact that Hook was holding both Kairi and Wendy captive on the ship. He was also eager to meet [[Santa Claus]] during their first visit to Halloween Town in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' (and he also shows lots of disappointment when Santa told him about the time he announced to everybody that he did not believe in Santa Claus).
-As a rustic islander, Sora is technologically illiterate. He is confounded by computer vernacular, does not know how to correctly make or receive calls on the Gummiphone, and relies on {{w|hunt and peck typing}} when using computers. Moreover, Sora was left completely confused and clueless when [[Hiro Hamada]] tried to explain his Micro-bot creation to him and Goofy. Despite this, he takes to piloting the Gummi Ship as well as the Gigas robots quite readily. Similarly, he is inexperienced in courtly etiquette, often coming off quite forward, casual and direct to people for whom Donald and Goofy rush to show obeisance.
+Also, Sora does not seem to have experience with computers, as evidenced in the episodes in Radiant Garden and [[Space Paranoids]]—he hits the computer keyboard hard while in Radiant Garden, and whilst he was in Space Paranoids, he did not understand a single word [[Tron]] said, as it all appeared to be tech jargon. However, he does at least seem to know how to use a computer, but with very little skill, as he is shown to type with only one finger each instead of using all five each, and a Journal page of the story calls him "hardly computer-savvy", and bangs the keyboard with his fists expecting it to do what he wants. This is most likely because he lived on Destiny Islands all his life and probably didn't have access to computers there.
-As a result of his islander lifestyle, Sora has a fondness for pirates. In ''Kingdom Hearts'', Sora has a toy ship in his room and wishes to be captain of the raft. When thinking about what to tell Kairi of his journey, Sora pinpoints flying and pirates as the best parts. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Sora is awed to meet [[Jack Sparrow]], a genuine pirate, whom respectfully calls "captain". In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', Sora is gifted a ship by Calypso while in [[The Caribbean]]; he is ecstatic to finally have his own ship, so he can "sail free as the wind". He shows interest in learning about the Pirate Code from Jack, in order to better act as a pirate. Also due to him, growing up as an islander, Sora is used to warm, sunny weather, and not cold and snowy weather as seen when arriving in Arendelle, but he gets used to it overtime.
+On occasion in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Sora seems to unintentionally show somewhat of a disrespect towards people of higher authority than himself upon meeting them. For example, when meeting Yen Sid, Donald and Goofy respectfully bow to him, while Sora greets him by simply saying, "Hey there!". Goofy is clearly shocked by this, and Donald shouts at him to show some respect. When meeting [[Queen Minnie]], Sora simply asks, "Where's [[Mickey Mouse|the King]]?". This leads to Donald grabbing him by the ear and asking Minnie to excuse him. When Sora and King Mickey were disputing about Ansem's identity, Sora, thinking that he has forgotten who Ansem is, drags King Mickey by the arm in order to show him the portrait of [[Xehanort]] in [[Ansem's study]]. However, when meeting [[Jasmine|Princess Jasmine]] again in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he actually does bow to her, along with Donald and Goofy. He, Donald, and Goofy also bow in respect to [[Simba]] as the new king during their second visit to the [[Pride Lands]].
-Throughout the series, Sora has been shown to harbor strong feelings for Kairi, and vice versa. This is first shown when Riku challenges him to a race where if Riku wins, he gets to share a paopu fruit with Kairi, which obviously makes Sora uncomfortable. He draws himself giving Kairi a paopu fruit on the wall of the Secret Place so they can stay connected. Throughout the series Sora's fondness for Kairi is hinted numerous times, notably when Sora sees other couples (such as [[Jack Skellington]] and [[Sally]], [[William Turner]] and [[Elizabeth Swann]]) interacting, as well as the fact that Donald and Goofy often point it out. Saïx refers to Kairi as "the fire that feeds Sora's anger", while Naminé refers to her as Sora's light. Xion resembles Kairi due to Sora's memories of her, and Roxas refers to Kairi as "the girl [Sora] likes". This culminates on the day before the final battle where they exchange paopu fruit.
+==Appearance==
+Sora first starts off appearing tanner and somewhat lankier than his rival Riku. He seems to portray more of a typical teenage boy's looks. Sora has spiky brown hair (although in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' his hair does change from a dark brown to a more caramel color) along with blue eyes. Sora's appearance does not change that much throughout the series besides growing taller, a slightly different hair style, tanner skin, a slightly deeper voice, and having more matured looks. Sora goes through many costume changes throughout the series.
-{{canon
+His original outfit consisted of a Mickey Mouse style outfit, containing large yellow shoes, a white and black overjacket as well as a red jumpsuit and a pair of white with yellow gloves with his signature crown necklace and crown chain. This outfit is the main outfit in ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories''. Interestingly, after Sora uses the Keyblade of People's Hearts to free Kairi's heart, his hair appears to be lighter. Using Donald's magic, his appearance is changed to that of [[Vampire Form]] and [[Merman Form]] in certain worlds.
-|The manga adaptions of the series show Sora's bashfulness as well. For example, in the ''Chain of Memories'' manga, Jiminy asked him if he "promised his girlfriend" that he'd return home and Sora immediately said Kairi wasn't his girlfriend.}}
-Sora also holds strong affection for his best friend, Riku. When Aqua meets the two boys in ''Birth by Sleep'' and asks if he likes Riku, he enthusiastically confirms this, declaring that they're best friends. Sora eventually makes good on his promise to her to look after Riku in the first ''Kingdom Hearts'', traveling to the End of the World to save him from Ansem, Seeker of Darkness. Sora is also shown to care deeply for the Riku Replica in ''Chain of Memories'', attempting to bring him home and becoming appalled when Naminé shatters his heart, as he believed he was the real Riku. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', when he realizes he's been reunited with Riku in The World That Never Was, he drops to his knees and breaks down crying in relief, sobbing as he holds Riku's hand in both of his own. Their [[Combined Keyblade]] in ''Dream Drop Distance'' bears a paopu fruit as the charm once the two halves are merged together. After Riku awakens from his dive into Sora's heart, the latter tackles him with a hug, overwhelmed with joy at Riku's safe return. He is also ecstatic to hear that Riku passed the Mark of Mastery exam and gives him a half-hug, even though Sora failed his own test. In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', when he arrives in San Fransokyo, Sora pulls out his Gummiphone and exclaims that he has to tell Riku how great it is, despite having not actually seen nor done much in the world thus far. When Chip and Dale inform Sora, Donald, and Goofy that they've lost contact with Riku and Mickey, Sora becomes immensely upset, immediately traveling to the Destiny Islands afterward and using Master's Defender to open an entrance to the Realm of Darkness so he can provide support in battle for Riku. Additionally, in a 2013 interview about ''Kingdom Hearts III'', series producer Shinji Hashimoto stated in an interview that the main focus of the series is Sora and Riku's relationship, and how it evolves over time.<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/25/how-kingdom-hearts-iii-will-grow-up-with-its-players '''''How Kingdom Hearts III Will Grow Up With Its Players'''''], '''Shinji Hashimoto''': "The fact is that the main focus of the series is Sora and Riku; how their friendship develops, but also how they grow up."</ref>
+His outfit considerably changes in ''Kingdom Hearts II'' as it turns into a black and silver outfit that, while remaining baggy, is like his original outfit. It contains a darker style using many zippers and extra leggings but still retains his crown necklace. For a short while in [[Twilight Town]], he does wear his first outfit. With the institution of Drive Forms, his outfit can turn into different appearances for [[Valor Form]], [[Limit Form]], [[Anti Form]], [[Wisdom Form]], [[Master Form]], and [[Final Form]]. As he travels to certain worlds, his appearance changes to that of [[Data Form]], [[Lion Form]], [[Santa Form]], [[Vampire Form]], [[Merman Form]], and [[Retro Form]].
-Sora is not as conscious about maintaining the world order as his comrades, so he is more open talking about the [[Heartless]] to victims in the worlds he visits. Additionally, Sora never ceases to be amazed about the different appearances he takes in worlds like [[Halloween Town]], [[Atlantica]], [[Timeless River]], the [[Pride Lands]], [[Toy Box]] and [[Monstropolis]] in order to blend in.
+In ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' and certain scenes in ''Kingdom Hearts'', a younger version of Sora appears. As a child, Sora's hair was lighter than it was in ''Kingdom Hearts'', more closely resembling his hair color in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', and it was not as spiky. Clothing-wise, Sora wore what looks like a white polo shirt with blue lining, albeit without the collar present on most polo shirts. He also wore red shorts with a maroon pocket on each leg, as well as brown sandals with yellow straps.
 ==Abilities==
-Sora gained the ability to temporarily wield the Keyblade intended for Riku, Terra's successor, when he reached out and touches the light of Riku's heart during the Heartless invasion of the Destiny Islands.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts Ultimania]]''''', p. 532; '''Interviewer:''' "Even though Riku was the rightful owner of the Keyblade, then why did Sora obtain the Keyblade in the beginning?" / '''Tetsuya Nomura''': "Even though I would like to keep that obscure, there is a scene in Destiny islands where Riku is being swallowed by darkness, a light appears, and Sora first obtains the Keyblade. With the setting I created, the darkness that surrounds them is Riku's heart's darkness. At that moment, Sora enters the darkness, and the light he sees inside is Riku's heart's light. Sora, who was squirming in the darkness to save Riku, touched the light and temporarily obtained the Keyblade from Riku." [https://www.khinsider.com/news/BBS-Ultimania-20-Mysteries-Solved-2546 Translation via Lissar].</ref> Although Riku takes the Keyblade from him in Hollow Bastion, the strength of Sora's heart allows him to reclaim the Keyblade, permanently.
+{{redirect|Explosion|Axel#Abilities|Axel's Limit Break}}
+===Keyblade===
+[[Sora]] gained the ability to wield the Keyblade when he reached out his heart to Ventus after sensing Ventus's shattered heart. By joining his heart with Ventus's he gained the ability to wield his own Keyblade, as well as Ventus's.
-The default form of Sora's Keyblade is the Kingdom Key, which uses a {{w|Hidden Mickey}} as its token.
+Sora's Keyblade is a Keyblade from the [[Realm of Light]], and it appears before him as his home world, [[Destiny Islands]], is consumed by the Heartless. Its default form is the [[Kingdom Key]], which uses a [[wikipedia:Hidden Mickey|Hidden Mickey]] as its token.
+Sora is sometimes able to use other wielders' Keyblades; for example, when fighting [[Roxas]] he is able to steal Roxas's Oathkeeper and Oblivion, for a total of three Keyblades, and at one point during their final battle with [[Xemnas]], Riku lends his [[Way to the Dawn]] to Sora.
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-Sora is capable of wielding two Keyblades at one time, through the [[Synch Blade]] ability, due to his possessing Ventus's heart within his own.<ref name=SoraDual>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania]]''''', p. 617; '''Interviewer:''' "Why can Roxas dual-wield?" / '''Tetsuya Nomura:''' "Sora can wield two Keyblades at once because he has Ventus's as well as his own. As Roxas is a part of Sora, he also can use two. In ''Days'', Roxas awakened his ability to dual wield after fighting Xion. In ''KHII'', once Sora absorbs him, he can also dual-wield." [https://www.khinsider.com/news/BBS-Ultimania-20-Mysteries-Solved-2546 Translation via Lissar].</ref> He temporarily loses this power when Roxas is born, as Ven's heart remains within his physical body.<ref>[[Kingdom Hearts Ultimania|'''''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep'' Ultimania''']], '''Interviewer:''' "Is it possible that Roxas has a heart?" / '''Tetsuya Nomura:''' "It is thought that it could be Ventus’ heart... As was said in Q1, he has taken a lot of himself from Ventus. But perhaps when Sora and Roxas were separated, Ventus’ heart stayed in Roxas?" [https://www.khinsider.com/news/BBS-Ultimania-20-Mysteries-Solved-2546 Translation via Lissar].</ref> The ability returns once Roxas is absorbed by Sora at the beginning of ''Kingdom Hearts II''.<ref name= SoraDual /> While using [[Drive Form]]s, he can summon the second Keyblade himself, but he can also wield someone else's Keyblade, such as when Riku lends Sora his [[Way to the Dawn]] during their final battle with Xemnas. During his fight with Roxas, Sora can steal Roxas's [[Oathkeeper & Oblivion|Keyblades]] and use them telekinetically, in conjunction with his own Keyblade.
+With his [[Synch Blade]] ability, Sora can also wield two Keyblades at once, though he has yet to do so outside of his Drive Forms. Sora's Synch Blade ability stems from his possession of Ventus's heart within his own.<ref>'''''[[Kingdom Hearts Ultimania|Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Ultimania]]''''' "Sora can wield two Keyblades at once because he has Ventus's as well as his own."</ref> As Sora's Nobody, Roxas also possesses Synch Blade.
-Sora is also very skilled in various basic magic spells (such as [[Fire]], [[Blizzard]], or [[Thunder]]), even more so after training with Merlin. These spells allow him to weaken Heartless that are more vulnerable to certain elements. He can also use [[Cure]] to heal himself and his allies from injuries as well as restore HP and revive a fallen party member.
+===Magic===
+Sora is also very skilled in various basic magic spells (such as [[Fire]], [[Blizzard]], or [[Thunder]]), even more so after training with [[Merlin]]. These spells allow him to weaken Heartless that are more vulnerable to certain elements. He can also use [[Cure]] to heal himself and his allies from injuries as well as restore HP and revive a fallen party member. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', his basic combo is much stronger and he gains the [[Drive Form]] ability after obtaining new clothes, which give him more mastery over his strengths, speed, magic, and Keyblade. In addition to the abilities that each form grants him, Sora's speed and strength are also increased.
-With a [[Summon Gem]], [[Summon card]], [[Summon Charm]], or [[Heartbinder]] in hand, Sora gains the ability to [[summon]] specific characters by calling out to them with his heart, at the temporary sacrifice of his party members, to aid him in combat. Each character has a unique set of skills and powers that prove useful to Sora in his quests. He first gains the ability to Summon in ''Kingdom Hearts'' when he is handed the Earthshine gem by Leon, and brings it to the [[Fairy Godmother]], who allows Simba to appear in spirit form at Sora's call and fight beside him. Throughout his quest, he finds and restores three more Summon Gems, and can even summon two other characters directly from other worlds, those being [[Tinker Bell]] and [[Genie]]. He loses all of the Summon Gems when the worlds are restored. In ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'', he Summons allies through Cards based on his memories of each character. In this game, he can use all his previous summons, with the addition of [[Cloud]]. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Merlin gives Sora a Summon Charm, being for [[Chicken Little]], that allows him to call on certain characters from other worlds to aid him in battle. He acquires three further Summon Charms as he traverses the worlds, including those of Genie and [[Peter Pan]]. In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', Yen Sid gives Sora a Heartbinder, the first being for [[Meow Wow]], that enhances his gift for connecting with others. Throughout his journey, he acquires four more Heartbinders for [[Wreck-It Ralph]], [[Stitch]], [[Ariel]], and [[Simba]].
+In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he learns to use [[Limit|Limits]] with party members to form a strong, special type of attack.
-Originally lacking any formal training, Sora relies on a style developed from his play-fighting days, in which he rests his Keyblade pointing away from him towards his right side and attacks with sweeping, two-handed strikes, similar to a club, to beat his foes into submission. This style is also mimicked by Roxas and Xion. His offensive nature and raw determination make him an unstoppable powerhouse, and with the addition of a basic repertoire of techniques and spells, few are able to fight on his level. As he develops as a Keyblade wielder and eventually with proper training, he displays extra finesse and agility with his motions, and is more experienced in using the environment and his enemy's momentum to unleash more powerful techniques, in the form of [[Reaction Commands]] and [[Flowmotion]]. He also begins to incorporate his spells into his sword techniques, usually favoring light-based magic, to create a plethora of commands that attack on both a physical and magical level.
+With a [[Summon Gem|summon gem]], [[Summon Card|card]] or [[Summon Charm|charm]] in hand, Sora learns to the ability to [[summon]] a specific character and temporarily aid him in combat. Each character has a special power that makes them helpful. He first learns summon in ''Kingdom Hearts'' when he finds Simba's gem after his world was destroyed and brings it to the [[Fairy Godmother]], who helps restore his spirit form; and then, he gathers five other summons, two of which did not start as summon gems. He loses all of the summon gems when their true forms are restored. In ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'', he learns to summon using cards instead of gems. In this game, he can use all previous summons, with one addition: [[Cloud]]. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Merlin gives him a summon charm that allows him to call for a specific character to aid him. Then, he locates three other summon charms that allow him to summon more powerful characters.
-Outside of battle, Sora is shown to have some talent for singing and dancing, as he is frequently paired up in [[Sebastian]]'s musical numbers with [[Ariel]], who is renowned in Atlantica for her singing voice. He is skilled at dancing on dry land as well, as seen during the festival in The Kingdom of Corona. Sora becomes a skilled cook under Little Chef's guidance.
+===Miscellaneous===
+Sora has become very powerful over the length of the series: being able to slay over a thousand Heartless without rest but slightly tiring after, fight and defeat all but a few members, who Riku or Axel defeated, of the powerful Organization XIII (all thirteen if Absent Silhouettes are counted), go head-to-head against legendary swordsmen such as [[Cloud]], [[Leon]], and even [[Sephiroth]] (although, in their encounter in the second game, Sephiroth seems uninjured after the battle, even though he supposedly lost and admits that Sora is "very skilled"), and fight and defeat the countless Disney villains that have faced him (even gods like [[Hades]] and [[Chernabog]]). In the manga, Sora defeats Guard Armor and Cerberus in a single blow (though the latter had already been worn down by [[Hercules]] before Sora entered the fight). The Trick Master also faces the same fate in Wonderland. He becomes even more powerful if he uses his [[Drive Form]]s, which unlock some of his hidden power, though he requires the power of his party members to do this. After he defeats Roxas, he unlocks [[Final Form]], gaining his full power as the Keyblade master of the Realm of Light, also Roxas's awakening from his slumber inside Sora, which also awakens the other half of his power.
-Like all Keyblade wielders, Sora demonstrates physical abilities of a superhuman level. In the [[Deep Jungle]], he shows great durability when he falls a great distance and crashes headfirst through the roof of the treehouse, emerging alive and seemingly uninjured, but slightly dazed. Similarly, when [[Sabor]] slashes him with his claws and knocks him back into a wall, he quickly gets up and fights back—at one point, Sora is thrown hard enough that the impact demolishes a building, but Sora himself is mostly unharmed. He can glide and in some circumstances fly, usually when in an open void. He is capable of leaping incredible distances, such as jumping up to the ceiling of the ballroom in [[Beast's Castle]] and between buildings and Xemnas's two cannons in the final battle with him in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Sora is able to cut through solid concrete and other durable forms of matter, even whole buildings. He is also strong enough to spin and throw Jafar in his gargantuan Genie form by grabbing him by the tail. He can teleport when he uses the "Warp Snipe" Reaction Command, the Teleport Sleight, Final Form's Final Arts, sometimes when he Risk Dodges or the powers of Ultimate Form.
+However, Sora is nearly helpless without his Keyblade. Even [[Shadow]] Heartless take a huge number of hits for him to kill without it. However, before he left Destiny Islands, he could not even damage the Heartless without the Keyblade. His supposed weakness may be caused by the weapon he wields. When Sora is not in possession of his Keyblade, his only available weapons are the sparring weapons, [[Wooden Sword]] and [[Struggle Bat]]. If he is given proper "normal" weapons (for example, a normal sword made of steel), he can probably still fight well, although he might not be able to fight as well as when he uses the Keyblade. However, he is not utterly useless in real combat without it; he is still able to cast magic with no major decrease in power, whether he has the Keyblade or not (as long as he knows how).
-Sora's memories seem to bind every character in the story, connecting them to himself in some way. Ansem the Wise, after the plans he set up for the boy while in sleep go awry, theorized that Sora's selflessness and ability to connect with others' hearts may have been the reason how he returned to his human form after being turned into a Heartless without needing to destroy Roxas prior. Furthermore, Ansem believed that Sora may also have the power to bring back those that have been lost or no longer exist.
+While not a necessary talent for battle, Sora, as seen during the ''Kingdom Hearts II'' visit to [[Atlantica]], is shown to be a talented singer, as he is frequently paired up with [[Ariel]], who is widely renowned in Atlantica for her singing voice, in [[Sebastian]]'s musical numbers. However, Sora is only heard singing in two songs, namely "[[Under the Sea]]" and "[[A New Day is Dawning]]", and even then, he only has a few lines for both. He also sings a few lines with Donald and Goofy after opening the Gate in Atlantica.
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-==Trivia==
-*Although none of the parents of the characters on the Destiny Islands are shown on screen, Sora's mother can be heard calling him for dinner during the calamity in the first game. Also, in ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'', Sora mentions both his mother and father while reminiscing about Naminé, and Riku mentions Sora's father to Terra in ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''.
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+On many occasions, Sora demonstrates physical abilities that could be considered superhuman. This is probably the result of possessing the Keyblade. A few examples of of his superhuman abilities are listed here:
-*In ''Kingdom Hearts'', ''Kingdom Hearts II'', and ''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance'', during every cutscene involving a Keyblade, Sora wields the Keyblade the player has equipped. The only cutscenes where this doesn't apply are the scenes when Sora and King Mickey seal away Kingdom Hearts, when Riku temporarily takes the Keyblade from Sora in Hollow Bastion, before the Battle of 1000 Heartless in which he has the Kingdom Key, and when Sora returns to the sleeping version of Traverse Town. In the scenes with Riku, the Keyblade retains Sora's Keychain while in Sora's possession but reverts to the Kingdom Key while in Riku's hands.-->
+* In the [[Deep Jungle]], he has shown great durability when he falls a great distance and crashes headfirst through the roof of the treehouse, emerging alive and uninjured, but slightly dazed. Similarly, when [[Sabor]] slashes him with her claws and knocks him back into a wall, he quickly gets up and fights back.
+* In the [[Olympus Coliseum]], he has shown to have incredible strength when he is able to lift up crates and boulders without showing any limits due to the possession of the Keyblade.
+* He can either glide or actually fly, the latter of which only in [[Never Land]], the [[End of the World]], and the final battle with Ansem.
+* He is capable of leaping incredible distances, such as jumping up to the ceiling of the ballroom in [[Beast's Castle]] and between buildings and Xemnas's two cannons in the final battle with him in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
+* He can cut through solid concrete and other durable forms of matter, even whole buildings.
+* He can either teleport or move too fast to be seen that he when using the "Warp Snipe" reaction command, the Teleport Sleight, or Final Form's Final Arts.
-===''Kingdom Hearts''===
+Sora also seems to be capable of bending the [[Universe of Kingdom Hearts|universe]]'s laws of nature to an extent:
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-Sora is the player character of ''Kingdom Hearts''. Sora's initial stats and the levels at which he gains new skills are determined by what the player chose and gave up during the Dive to the Heart, with the [[Dream Sword]] determining the [[Strength]] stat and rate of gaining physical-based action abilities, the [[Dream Rod]] determining the starting [[MP]] and {{AP}} stats as well as rate of gaining magic-based abilities, and the [[Dream Shield]] determining Defense and the rate at which survivability-based abilities are learned. Likewise, the EXP required for Sora to level up at various stages in the game is determined by what choices the player makes to [[Tidus]], [[Wakka]], and [[Selphie]]. Regardless of what the player chose, Sora will always have base 18 HP at level 1 and cap out at 84 base HP at level 100<ref>87 base HP in ''Kingdom Hearts Final Mix''.</ref>
-Sora initially starts with almost no combat capabilities in the command menu, however he soon gains the Keyblade as his main weapon. Sora unlocks magic as the player progresses, with the available types of magic being Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, [[Cure]], [[Aero]], [[Gravity]] and [[Stop]]. Sora can also utilize the special abilities of a summon at the cost of both party members for as long as he has sufficient MP.
+*After coming into contact with Axel, the Nobody appears to have more emotion.
+*His memories seem to bind every character in the story; connecting them to himself in some way.
+*He is able to pour almost all of his power into Roxas's imperfect Replica, Xion, and his Nobody, Roxas, at the same time.
+==Quotes==
+*"''No! This huge, black THING swallowed me up! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't... ow!''"
+*"''It wasn't a dream! Or was it? I don't know. What was that place... so bizarre...''"
+*"''Okay, why not? I'll go with you, guys.''"
+*"''The darkness may destroy my body, but it can't touch my heart.''"
+*"''Although my heart may be weak, it's not alone.''"
+*"''That's not true! The heart may be weak, and sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!''"
+*"''You're wrong. I know now, without a doubt, Kingdom Hearts is light!''"
+*"''Roxas... I wish I could meet him too...''"
+*"''I don't get it, why has everyone been calling me Roxas?''"
+*"''C'mon, Riku! You've been hanging out in darkness too long. You gotta try and think positive!''"
-In certain conditions, Special Abilities such as [[Sonic Blade]] or [[Ars Arcanum]] can appear for Sora to use. These abilities take the form of highly powerful and typically extended attacks. Special Abilities often contain special effects such as invulnerability during their use, however come at a high MP cost.
+==Changes in worlds==
+While he retains his typical appearance in most worlds, in certain worlds Sora's appearance is altered, either by Donald's magic or his magical ''Kingdom Hearts II'' outfit, in order to allow himself to blend in with the inhabitants of those worlds. His appearance alterations are listed here:
-===''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories''===
+*In '''[[Halloween Town]]''', Sora takes on the appearance of [[Vampire Form|a vampire with a pumpkin-like mask over one side of his face]], complete with fangs and bat-like wings. This form has no special abilities. When in [[Drive Form]], his mask changes rather than his clothes (a devilish Onion Knight-like Heartless for [[Valor Form]], a Black Mage-like Heartless hat for [[Wisdom Form]], a splicing of both for [[Master Form]], a gold-and-silver crown for [[Final Form]], a heart for [[Limit Form]], and a Shadow Heartless for [[Anti Form]]). In this form, the appearance of Sora's Keyblade also changes to grey-ish tones to match the surroundings of Halloween Town.
-In ''Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories'', Sora wields many of his powers from ''Kingdom Hearts'', however this time relies on [[Battle Card]]s to execute them, with his Keyblade combos being used with subsequent uses of [[Attack Card]]s, spells being used with [[Magic Card]]s, and summons through [[Summon Card]]s. Sora has no ability to guard attacks, however he can still [[Dodge Roll]]. Sora can also call in party members using cards that occasionally appear in the arena.
-Many of Sora's abilities are used through combining three cards to create a [[Sleight]], which typically are more advanced and powerful than the use of a single card at a time, however permanently discard the first card used in the Sleight. Provided that the value of Sora's cards are higher than those used of his opponents, he can both break their cards and prevent his own from being broken.
+*In '''[[Christmas Town]]''' in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix]]'', his attire changes from a vampire to [[Santa Form|a black Santa Claus outfit]]. When in Drive Form, aside from his aura, movement and manner of Keyblade wielding, the color of the hat will slightly tint to match the corresponding Form. Additionally, the symbols of the corresponding Form will appear on the hat: a red fleur-de-lis for Valor, a blue flame for Wisdom, a gold cross for Master, a silver N-shaped rune for Final, a whitish crown for Limit, and a Heartless emblem for Anti Form.
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-During the tutorial battles against Marluxia and Leon, Sora uses a different, temporary deck.
-===''Kingdom Hearts II''===
+*In '''[[Atlantica]]''', Sora takes on the appearance of a [[Merman Form|merman]] with a blue dolphin tail rather than a fish tail. While in this form, Sora can breathe underwater and swim much faster than he can in his human form. Sora cannot Drive in this form; in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he is unable to attack at all, seeing as the world has been altered to progressing the story through musical numbers.
-{{Main|Abilities (KHII)}}
-In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Sora shares the same attacks, abilities, and stats as when the player was controlling Roxas. As in ''Kingdom Hearts'', what the player chose in the Dive to the Heart will influence the rate at which Sora learns certain abilities. His basic combo is much stronger than in previous games and he eventually gains the [[Drive Form]] ability, which utilizes the [[Drive Gauge]] to radically alter how Sora fights and is controlled, with special modifications to physical combat, magical capabilities, and even the use of a second Keyblade depending on which Form is used. Forms must be used cautiously however, as entering one can potentially cause Sora to enter [[Antiform]], which grants Sora tremendous physical power at the cost of all other commands.
-The types of magic available to Sora as the player progresses are Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, Cure, [[Reflect]], and [[Magnet]]. Sora can once again use Summons, with the length of which determined by the Drive Gauge rather than the MP Bar. Sora is also able to use [[Limit]]s, powerful multi-segmented attacks that provide him invulnerability while teaming up with a party member at the cost of all his MP.
+*In the '''[[Timeless River]]''', Sora's appearance changes to [[Retro Form|mirror the style of 1920s-era Disney cartoons]]. His skin and clothing are black-and-white, his arms and legs are long and scrawny, and he, like all other characters in this world, has taken on his very first appearance design (from the original ''Kingdom Hearts''). He has no special abilities in this form, and when Driving, the icon of Sora by the HP Bar tints color slightly on the outline to reflect the Form transformed into, apart from the aura, manner of movement and Keyblade wielding that each Form displays; red for Valor, blue for Wisdom, yellow for Master, and white for Final. For Anti Form, however, he merely turns into a black cartoonish shadow of himself. For Limit Form in ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'', his icon is tinted purple.
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-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Rotating V-Slash'''|地上縦回転振り|<br>Chijō Tate Kaiten Furi|lit. "Ground Vertical Spin Swing"}}|att|Physical|x2.0|4|O|O|11=Ground combo finisher.}}
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-====Pride Lands====
+*In '''[[Space Paranoids]]''', Sora is converted into a data form, wearing [[Data Form|robot-like armor with blue circuit patterns all over his body]]. In this form, the appearance of Sora's Keyblade also is changed to have glowing blue circuit lines as well. Sora has no special abilities in this form, and when Driving, Sora's circuit lines change color to reflect the Form transformed into (i.e. red for Valor Form, blue for Wisdom Form, yellow for Master form, white for Final Form and black with dark purple circuits for Anti Form. For Limit form, the circuits use Limit Form's colors and, unlike the other forms, are arranged as such, i.e. silver torso, red pants and yellow shoes).
-While in the [[Pride Lands]], Sora gains a new set of abilities to accommodate his [[Lion Form]]. Sora's [[Growth Abilities]] are unavailable in this form; instead Lion Form allows Sora to greatly increase his running speed with {{c|Dash|ability}}. While in Lion Form, Sora cannot hang from ledges or use Drive Forms and Summons, however his running and jumping speed is increased by x2.2 the speed of his normal form, his maximum ground and air combo length is increased by 2, and his magic is usable while moving.
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-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Charge Swing'''|ライオン地上突進振り|<br>Raion Chijō Tosshin Furi|lit. "Lion Ground Rush Swing"}}|att|Physical|x1.0|0|△|X|11=Used on the ground when the enemy is at a distance.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Drop Swing'''|ライオン地上落下振り|<br>Raion Chijō Rakka Furi|lit. "Lion Ground Drop Swing"}}|att|Physical|x2.0|0|△|O|11=Ground combo finisher.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Knockback'''|ライオン地上吹き飛ばし|<br>Raion Chijō Fukitobashi|lit. "Lion Ground Knockback"}}|att|Physical|Rush: x0.5<br>Upswing: x1.0|0|△|O|11=Ground combo finisher when the enemy is at a distance.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Upswing'''|ライオン空中振り上げ|<br>Raion Kūchū Furiage|lit. "Lion Aerial Upswing"}}|att|Physical|x1.0|0|△|X|11=Used while in the air or when attacking an enemy who is located up high.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Vertical Swing'''|ライオン空中縦振り|<br>Raion Kūchū Tate Furi|lit. "Lion Aerial Vertical Swing"}}|att|Physical|x1.0|0|△|X|11=Used while in the air.}}
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-===''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days''===
+*In the '''[[Pride Lands]]''', Sora is transformed into a [[Lion Form|brown-furred lion cub]]. His spiky hairstyle is now present as a mane, though he retains his crown-shaped necklace. He wields the Keyblade in his mouth. While Sora is unable to Drive or perform Summons in this form, he can move with greatly increased speed and agility. The [[Dash]] ability in this form is identical to the [[Mermaid Kick]] in Atlantica.
-In ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'', Sora is unlocked as a playable character through [[Sora's Awakening]], which can be purchased at the [[Moogle Shop]] for 2000 [[Heart Point]]s once all 93 Missions have been cleared with a full [[Mission Gauge]], all [[Treasure Chests]], all [[Unity Badge]], all [[Ordeal Badge]], and all [[Ordeal Blazon]]. Sora plays very similarly to Roxas and Xion, with balanced stats, the Keyblade as his weapon, and many of the same attack combos. Sora's [[Limit Break]] is [[Ragnarok]], which causes Sora to shoot bursts of projectiles from his Keyblade.
-===''Kingdom Hearts Re:coded''===
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-===''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance''===
+==Forms/Costumes==
-As opposed to Riku, the other main playable character of ''Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance'', Sora is able to utilize his Dream Eaters to perform [[Link Attack]]s and [[Dual Attack]]s, which call upon the Spirits to perform special and powerful attacks.
+<gallery>
+File:Young Sora.png|Young Sora in ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''
+File:Kh-sora-model.jpg|Sora in ''Kingdom Hearts'', ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'', and ''Kingdom Hearts coded''.
+File:Sora (Atlantica) CG.jpg|Sora in [[Atlantica]].
+File:HalloweenTownSora.png|Sora in [[Halloween Town]].
+File:KH2-SantaSora.png|Sora in [[Christmas Town]].
+File:TronSora.png|Sora in [[Space Paranoids]].
+File:TimelessRiverSora.png|Sora in [[Timeless River]].
+File:Lion Form CG.png|Sora in [[Pride Lands]].
+File:Valor Form.png|Sora in [[Valor Form]].
+File:Wisdom Form.png|Sora in [[Wisdom Form]].
+File:Limit Form.png|Sora in [[Limit Form]].
+File:Master Form.png|Sora in [[Master Form]].
+File:Final Form.png|Sora in [[Final Form]].
+File:Anti Form.jpg|Sora in [[Anti Form]].
+</gallery>
-Sora's exclusive {{c|Deck Command|KH3D}}s largely include {{c|Light|Element}}-type techniques such as [[Salvation]] and [[Spark]], as well as his Special Abilities from ''Kingdom Hearts'' such as Ars Arcanum and Sonic Blade.
+==Trivia==
+*Although none of the parents of the characters on the Destiny Islands are shown on screen, Sora's mother can be heard calling him for dinner during the calamity in the first game. Also, in ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'', Sora mentions both his mother and father while reminiscing about Naminé, and Riku mentions Sora's father to Terra in ''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''.
+*In ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II'', during every cutscene involving a Keyblade, Sora wields the Keyblade the player has equipped. The only cutscenes where this doesn't apply are the scenes when Sora and King Mickey seal away Kingdom Hearts, when Riku temporarily takes the Keyblade from Sora in Hollow Bastion, and before the [[Battle of 1000 Heartless]] in which he has the [[Kingdom Key]]. In the scenes with Riku, the Keyblade retains Sora's Keychain while in Sora's possession but reverts to the Kingdom Key while in Riku's hands.
-===''Kingdom Hearts III''===
+==References==
-====Playable character====
+{{Reflist|1}}
-{{Main|Abilities (KHIII)}}
-In ''Kingdom Hearts III'', Sora controls much lighter and faster than in previous games, and can easily maintain combat in the air for long periods of times. It is easier to prevent Sora from getting caught off guard as his attacks can now quickly be cancelled out of mid-animation with abilities such as [[Air Slide]], which is one of his greatest mobility assets. Sora gains the ability to [[Formchange]] his Keyblade into a variety of weapons, such as shields, hammers, and arrowguns. These Formchanges vary depending on the Keychain.
-Sora has many options in terms of magic, with the available spells being Fire, [[Water]], Blizzard, Cure, Thunder, and Aero. How Sora executes his magic depends on his current Formchange. Sora can also use [[Link Summon]]s to restore his HP and utilize special and powerful commands from the chosen Summon.
+==See also==
+*[[Sora's Heartless]]
+*[[Roxas]]
+*[[Xion]]
+*[[Ventus]]
+*[[Vanitas]]
+*[[Data-Sora]]
+{{-}}
-Building up the Situation Gauge grants many new opportunities for Sora in battle, such as [[Grand Magic]], Formchanges, and [[Team Attack]]s. Utilizing these properly can provide the edge for Sora at crucial moments. [[Shotlock]]s are also available to Sora for additional burst damage opportunities, as well as providing an easy way to close the gap between enemies using [[Airstep]].
-By default, Sora's maximum combo length is 4, however this can change if abilities such as [[Combo Plus]] are equipped. Furthermore, Sora can augment the attacks of his basic combo by equipping certain [[Abilities (KHIII)#Actions|Action Abilities]].
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-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Ground Downward Swing'''|地上振り下ろし|<br>Chijō Furi Oroshi}}|att|Physical|0.6|6|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|First ground combo. If the target is at mid-to-long range, Ground Thrust is used instead. If surrounded by multiple enemies, Ground Rightward Swing is used instead.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Ground Thrust'''|地上突き|<br>Chijō Tsuki}}|att|Physical|0.8|7|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|Second ground combo.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Ground Rightward Swing'''|地上右振り|<br>Chijō Migi Furi}}|att|Physical|0.8|7|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|Third ground combo.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Leaping Downward Swing'''|跳びこみ振り下ろし|<br>Tobi Komi Furi Oroshi}}|att|Physical|1.2|8|1|0.5|X|—|—|Ground combo finisher.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Downward Swing'''|空中振り下ろし|<br>Kūchū Furi Oroshi}}|att|Physical|0.6|6|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|First aerial combo. If the target is located up high, Air Upward Swing is used instead. If surrounded by multiple enemies, Air Rightward Swing is used instead.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Upward Swing'''|空中振り上げ|<br>Kūchū Furiage}}|att|Physical|0.8|7|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|Second aerial combo. Used in place of the first, second, and third ground combos if the target is located up high.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Rightward Swing'''|空中右振り|<br>Kūchū Migi Furi}}|att|Physical|0.8|7|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|Third aerial combo.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Vertical 3-Part Spin Swing'''|空中縦3回転振り|<br>Kūchū Tate 3 Kaiten Furi}}|att|Physical|0.2+0.2+0.8|1+1+7|0+0+1|0.1+0.1+0.5|X|—|—|Aerial combo finisher.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Upper Right Swing'''|空中右上振り|<br>Kūchū Migiue Furi}}|att|Physical|0.8|7|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|Used when the target is at mid-to-long range.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Air Spinning Downward Swing'''|空中回転振り下ろし|<br>Kūchū Kaiten Furi Oroshi}}|att|Physical|1.0|8|0|1|X|1<br>Part 2+: —|—|Used when the target is at a low altitude.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Wall Run Spinning Downward Swing'''|壁走り回転振り下ろし|<br>Kabebashiri Kaiten Furi Oroshi}}|att|Physical|1.5|8|1|1|X|—|—|Press {{Button|X}} when free running along a wall.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Wall Run Spinning Upward Swing'''|壁走回転振り上げ|<br>Kabebashiri Kaiten Furiage}}|att|Physical|1.5|8|1|1|X|—|—|Press {{Button|X}} when free running along a wall. Used in place of Wall Run Spinning Downward Swing if the target is nearby and low to the ground.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Keyblade Ride Charge'''|キーブレード乗り突進|<br>Kīburēdo-nori Tosshin}}|att|Physical|1.5|8|1|1|X|—|—|Press {{Button|X}} while sliding down a slope.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''[[Diving Strike]]'''|ダイフアタック|<br>Daifu Atakku|lit. "Dive Attack"}}|att|Physical|1.0+5.0|8+8|1+5|1+1|O|—|—|Press {{Button|X}} while falling from a height to strike a valid target.}}
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-=====Underwater=====
-While in [[The Caribbean]] and during the boss fight with Xehanort in Scala ad Caelum, Sora can become submerged underwater, wherein his movement and combat abilities are altered to suit the new environment. Sora can freely ascend and descend as well as performing dodges and increasing his swimming speed by propelling himself forward, and he gains a new combo set as well as new sea-based styles for his magic. While in The Caribbean, Sora can emerge from the underwater state by ascending to the surface, and likewise can enter the underwater state by using the "Dive" option while swimming. Sora cannot use Links while underwater.
-Sora's maximum combo length while underwater is fixed at 4.
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-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Vertical Wave'''|バーティカルウェーブ|<br>Bātikaru Wēbu}}|att|Physical|0.6 per hit|0|0|1 per hit|X|—|—|Sora performs a downwards flipping slash, unleashing a short-ranged shockwave.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Pulse Wave'''|パルスウェーブ|<br>Parusu Wēbu}}|att|Physical|0.2 per hit|0|0|0.2 per hit|X|—|—|Sora thrusts forwards three times, spawning bubbles that home in on targets.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Spiral Wave'''|スパイラルウェーブ |<br>Supairaru Wēbu}}|att|Physical|1.5|0|0|1|X|—|—|Sora performs a horizontal spinning attack.}}
-{{frm-atk|{{nihongo|'''Reverse Jet'''|リバースジェット|<br>Ribāsu Jetto}}|att|Physical|0.5 per hit|0|1 per hit|0.4 per hit|X|—|—|Combo finisher. Sora spins the Keyblade like a propeller, generating a burst of wind.}}
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-====Party member====
-In ''[[Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind]]'', Sora can appear as a party member if the player chooses to play as Riku, Aqua, Roxas, or Kairi during the Re Mind scenario. Sora retains much of his original moveset for his basic combo and can support the player character with [[Curaga]].
-==Notes and references==
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