Quasimodo

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"You helped me. Now I will help you."

—Quasimodo to Esmeralda

Quasimodo is a character who appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. He originates from the 1996 Disney film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Development

Quasimodo's first appearance is in the TGS 2011 trailer, in which he is shown holding an unconscious Esmeralda and offering to aid Riku against a massive Dream Eater inside Notre Dame. Further screenshots show him interacting with Esmeralda and Riku, and later with Sora, who orders him to flee from danger.

Appearance

Quasimodo is a deformed young man, with a large hunch on his back, along with a lump above his left eye. He also has a large nose and a massive central incisor. He is most frequently seen in a green shirt, black trousers and blue shoes.

Story

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Sora's Side

Upon the orders of his master, Claude Frollo, Quasimodo remained shut away in Notre Dame's bell tower for many years, wondering what the outside world was like. On the day of the festival (and coincidentally, the day that Sora arrives in the city), Quasimodo finally attempts to participate in the festival. Quasimodo dresses up in robes and a crown and rides on the back of a Zolephant while surrounded by Dream Eaters. Sora arrives on the scene and warns Quasimodo of the danger he is in, but he refuses to get off the Zolephant. The Nightmares suddenly turn violent and throw Quasimodo off. Esmerelda appears and leads Quasimodo to safety within the cathedral as Sora fights off the Nightmares.

Quasimodo, having recovered from the incident in the square, shows Esmerelda around the bell tower. He realizes that Frollo is hunting her down because of her ethnicity as a gypsy and offers her sanctuary within the walls of Notre Dame. Declining the offer, Quasimodo leads her out of the sanctuary and back to the inner city, later being separated midst the congested city streets. Before they are split apart, Esmerelda leaves Quasimodo with a necklace that contains the hidden location of the "Court of Miracles", a safe haven for gypsies within the city.

Later, he overhears Phoebus and Sora talking about how Frollo planned to attack the Court of Miracles. Realizing that the necklace that Esmerelda had given him was actually a map of the city, Quasi leads Phoebus and Sora to the Court of Miracles. However, it turned out to be a trick set by Frollo, who used them to lead him and his Nightmare army right to the gypsies.

He later rescues Esmerelda from being burned by Frollo, taking her to Sanctuary in Natre Dame. When Frollo follows him, Quasi learns the truth about his mother; she died trying to save him instead of abandoming him as Frollo lied. When both of them fell over the side, Quasi was luckily saved by the timely arrival of Phoebus. He then bless the relationship of his two friends.

He is later encouraged by Sora to go out and make more friends; Quasi agrees, having learned the real walls where the ones he built around his heart.

Riku's Side

Quasi meets Riku when he enters Notre Dame for answers about Frollo. Having been informed by Frollo himself that he was carrying out business on the outskirts of the city, Quasi infroms Riku where his master is and that the Archdecan is away. Riku questions him as to why doesn't go outside and Quasimodo explains its's because of his hideous appearance. However, Riku encourages him to find true friends who see him for who he is in his heart.

He is later seen by Riku, having saved Esmereleda from being burned. He infroms Riku that he followed his heart and learned the answers he was seeking. After the defeat of Wargoyle, Quasi thanks Riku for his advice, learning it came from his personal experience.

Origin

"All my life, you've told me the world was a dark, cruel place! But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!"

—Quasimodo to Frollo as he prepares to kill him.

Though Quasimodo's very first appearance was in 1831 in Victor Hugo's novel, Notre-Dame de Paris, this incarnation of the character first appears in the 1996 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which he is raised by Judge Claude Frollo inside the cathedral and forbidden from ever leaving, on the basis that such a heartless society would never accept him. Frollo's words almost come true when Quasimodo does sneak out to attend the Festival of Fools, where he is ridiculed and tortured by the cruel peasantry until a kindhearted gypsy girl, Esmeralda, defies Frollo and defends Quasimodo from the cruel crowd. Quasimodo begins to fall in love with Esmeralda, and it is this love that leads him to rebel against Frollo's tyranny, which ultimately leads to a showdown between Quasimodo and Frollo atop the balconies of Notre Dame. Following Frollo's demise, Quasimodo is hailed a hero and accepted into the society at last.

Other appearances

El Cetro y el Reino

Quasimodo in El Cetro y el Reino.

When Esmeralda hides Sora and Riku from Frollo's guards, she introduces the newcomers to Quasimodo in the bell tower of Notre Dame's cathedral. Afterward, she and Quasimodo offer to hide them until the guards leave.