Kairi: Difference between revisions

==Story==

===''Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep''===

Kairi was born in Radiant Garden, where she lives with her [[Kairi's Grandma|grandmother]]. One day, she is chased by a group of [[Unversed]] and encounters [[Aqua]], who senses a pure light in her heart, since she is a [[Princess of Heart]]. Frightened, Kairi touches Aqua's Keyblade, unintentionally performing a [[Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony]]. As she and Aqua are about to be attacked, [[Mickey Mouse|King Mickey]] arrives and Aqua evacuates Kairi before returning to fight alongside Mickey.

Kairi later becomes very close friends with Sora and Riku who playfully compete for her attention. She often supports these competitions, although she does not know they were contests for her affection and not just innocent rivalry. She bears no memory of her life before the Islands, and her mysterious past sparks curiosity in Sora and Riku, who are anxious to leave Destiny Islands and see other worlds. This leads the trio to build a raft in the hopes of traveling to other worlds. However, before they can leave, their islands are attacked by the [[Heartless]], and Sora finds Kairi in their Secret Place. She turns towards him, looking sad and a little ill, and then a huge gust of wind sweeps through a door in the back of the cave and Kairi flies towards him. Sora opens his arms to catch her, but she vanishes right as she is about to be swept into his embrace.

Throughout Sora's journey, he encounters multiple images of Kairi without knowing about Kairi's heart being a part of his. First, when he wakes up in a motel room after his fight with [[Leon]], and sees [[Yuffie]] in Kairi's form and mistakes her to be Kairi until she tells him who she is. Later when he visits the Magician's Study behind the door of the Third District, Kairi appears to him and tells him how much the study reminds her of their Secret Place, but she disappears when [[Goofy]] calls to him. When Sora crash lands into [[Deep Jungle]], she reappears again for a short moment, right behind [[Tarzan]], then disappears again. Finally, before setting off to [[Hollow Bastion]], Goofy and Donald encourage Sora to believe in himself, then Kairi says from within "I believe in you." before pulling him into one of her lost memories about her grandmother telling her younger self a story about the light. These encounters speculate that Kairi was experiencing Sora's journey from within his heart, including befriending Donald and Goofy.

Kairi, now fifteen years old, lives her life normally on Destiny Islands. She attends school alongside Selphie, and has noticeably matured, sporting longer hair and more defined features. With both Riku and Sora gone, she seems to have become less spunky, often pondering the fate of Sora, whom she can barely remember.

She misses Sora, but most of her memories of him have faded away because of Naminé's interfering with his own memories. One day, while walking home from school with Selphie, her heart is put into contact with a young boy named Roxas, later revealed to be Sora's [[Nobody]]. It appeared that Roxas was trying to contact Naminé, Kairi's Nobody, and ended up reaching her instead. During this conversation, Roxas brings up Sora, and, when Kairi inquires about his name, Sora himself, despite being in stasis, somehow uses Roxas as a conduit to talk to her, chastises her for forgetting his name, and jokingly gives her a hint ("Starts with an 'S'!"). Soon afterwards, Kairi sends [[Kairi's Letter|a letter in a bottle]] out to sea in hopes that it would reach Sora one day, and immediately remembers his name and possibly everything else about him. (''"Starts with an 'S'... Right, Sora?"'')  

{{Q|Maybe... waiting isn't good enough.|Kairi}}

Unfortunately, she is found again by Axel and forcibly taken by him, Olette, Hayner, and Pence's attempts doing nothing to prolong it. However [[Saïx]] finds Axel with Kairi and takes her to [[The World That Never Was]] as a prisoner, stating that she is the "fire that feeds Sora's anger." Kairi is devastated, thinking all hope is lost until she is freed by her Nobody, Naminé. Naminé uses a Corridor of Darkness to allow them to escape the cell, telling Kairi to believe in herself.

{{Q|This is real.|Kairi to Sora as she embraces him}}

The two's attempt to escape is stopped by Saïx and two [[Berserker]] Nobodies who offer to take Kairi to Sora. Once she refuses, Saïx gets ready to send the Nobodies to attack the two girls only to be saved by a cloaked figure. Naminé hints at who the cloaked figure is, causing him to pause as Kairi strides towards him to remove the hood. Her guess is correct and it is indeed Riku even though his appearance has changed to that of Xehanort's Heartless, though she takes this in stride and is just happy to be reunited with Riku. Riku leads her to Sora and is attacked by a group of Heartless. He hands Kairi a [[Destiny's Embrace|Keyblade]], and they successfully fend off the remaining Heartless. She is then reunited with Sora with a touching hug between these two. She stops Ansem (Riku) from leaving and shows Sora that Ansem is really Riku.  

{{Q|You're home.|Kairi to Sora after he returns to Destiny Islands with Riku}}

After they defeat Xemnas, they arrive at the shore of [[Dark Meridian]]. Kairi's letter washes up on shore and Sora reads it. The Door To Light appears and the two boys go through it and arrive at Destiny Islands shores as Kairi shouts for them. Sora excitedly swims towards her but Donald and Goofy jump at Sora first and Mickey jumps at Riku. They hug Sora, then Sora shows her the lucky charm and replies to Kairi "W-We're back!" while Kairi corrects him, saying "You're home" and extends her hand. As Sora takes her hand,he simultaneously returns the lucky charm to her.  

For a brief moment, Roxas and Naminé are shown smiling back at each other, just as Sora and Kairi are.

===''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance]]''===

In The World That Never Was, Xemnas and Xigbar plague Sora with illusions of those connected to his heart in order to trick him into falling asleep and leaving his heart vulnerable to damage. One of these illusions takes the form of Kairi, and it later appears behind Sora along with all of his friends when Sora refuses to succumb to Xemnas and Xigbar's lies.

Kairi's appearance shows the most growth with aging of the trio of main characters. Typically Kairi has dark red hair, violet-blue eyes, a pale complexion, and a necklace with a silver bead that is only absent when she wears her school uniform.

In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Kairi is taller, her hair is longer and has become a darker shade of red, her bangs part to the opposite side, and her body has developed into that of a young woman.  

She dons two outfits in ''Kingdom Hearts II'': her school uniform which features a white shirt of which she has rolled up the sleeves, a sky blue striped tie which she has slightly loosen up, a matching skirt with navy knee-high stockings and black shoes; and then her main outfit which mainly contains a pink strapless mini-dress made up of three zippers (two appear to be just decorative) as well as a white halter top underneath her mini-dress with a black hood. She also sports three bracelets on her left wrist, a black belt reminiscent of suspenders with a note book shaped bag attachment, and lilac sneakers.

==Abilities==