[u][b]Featured In:[/b][/u] In chronological order: Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories/Re:Chain of Memories (a remake), Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance


[u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Sora


[u][b]Age:[/b][/u] 15/16 (as of Dream Drop Distance)


[u][b]Gender:[/b][/u] Male


[u][b]Alignment:[/b][/u] Good


[u][b]Personality:[/b][/u] Sora is very friendly, always willing to help anyone out as long as they are not his enemies, regardless of how well he knows them. He is highly protective of his friends, especially Kairi, and is willing to forgive almost any villain as long as they show themselves to be repentant. Highly optimistic, Sora tries to get others to "think positive" if they are upset. His good natured attitude extends to the point that he considers anyone who is willing to help him a friend, regardless of how well he knows them, with the exception of if he finds out about unrepentant reactions for evil deeds. On the other hand, he has a very low tolerance for cowardice or selfishness, often calling villains out for behavior that amounts to such a conclusion.

Although he can sometimes appear to be simpleminded, even gullible or naïve in certain instances, Sora has a strong sense of justice. Sora can be childish at times, whether it is wanting to try out a pirate ship or wanting to meet Santa Claus, or even his highly competitive streak (such as for Olympus Coliseum tournaments). In spite of this behavior, he dislikes being called a kid, preferring to be known by his name.

Although he is a good pilot of Gummi ships, Sora is not technologically savvy, only really being able to use a computer as far as typing in names and pressing a key to send in the requests for a search. Past that, he's more likely to try bashing a keyboard until it does what he needs it to do.

Sora does not really know how to show proper respect to people of higher authority than himself, like the King and Queen of Disney Castle or Master Yen Sid, often speaking to them as if they are on similar levels of authority without meaning any disrespect. However, he is trying to overcome this problem, and does show respect to certain people regarding that, such as King Simba of the Pride Lands and Princess Jasmine of Agrabah.

However, although he does put on his front of optimism, he is hurt by the many things he has endured, a side that comes out in the form of anger during combat, or his occasional depression over the deaths of friends. However, the most violent of his representations of this behavior is Anti Form, which, as a representation of his time as a Heartless, attacks anyone within sight (tending toward enemies) and tries to steal the hearts of those who it kills.

He may sometimes lose track of the main mission, due to readily putting aside his own personal goals in order to help those in need, having to be reminded by his Nobody, Roxas, who lives, conscious, within his heart.

Said Nobody is somewhat sarcastic, but gradually trying to be less unnecessarily irritating to his other after experiences with an outright, unjustified, insulting counterpart. He can be seen as a "smarter side" of Sora, being more calm and willing to think things over, mostly due to not having a body of his own. However, he can be angry or impulsive when he is in combat. Roxas also shares his memories and emotions with Sora completely following their most recent "in the flesh" meeting in The World That Never Was during Sora's Realm of Sleep test, having followed the last request of Ansem the Wise as of then, to "give Sora his hatred". He acknowledges that in a sense, he [i]is[/i] Sora, but is willing to keep his own identity as per Sora's request. He also regularly communicates with Naminé, being a somewhat more abrasive counterpoint to her calmer suggestions for Sora and Kairi, not to mention Roxas being more prone to make jokes about Sora and Kairi in terms of romance at their expense in free time.


[u][b]Powers:[/b][/u]
(Replacing spells with DDD Deck Commands)

- Drive Forms: Due to his magical clothes granted by Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather in the Mysterious Tower and the fact that their magical source is connected to his heart, the "Key that connects everything", Sora is capable of transforming into various powerful forms. He has access to Valor Form (when incorporating a strength-associated ally), Wisdom Form (when incorporating a magic-associated ally), Limit Form (by himself), Master Form (when incorporating both a magic-associated ally and a strength-associated ally), and Final Form (when incorporating two allies and Roxas). He also has a customized Form given by Audrey Jones' magic in the Realm of Sleep, known as Sleep Form, which allows him to use the skills from that Realm (except Reality Shifts and Link Actions). However, he is afraid of using Final Form in many cases except where it is absolutely necessary due to previous violent incidents when he went into it, and every time he uses any other Form, the danger of turning to Anti Form (incorporating two random allies until its completion, and completely out of his control except for rage) increases. Also, when he uses Sleep Form, more attention is brought to him in the form of various enemies due to the Recursant's Sigil. All of his forms are listed in the Super Form Listing.

- Samurai Summon: An ability exclusive to Roxas within his heart, and therefore not accessible to Sora himself, this ability allows Roxas to summon several Samurai Nobodies to protect his "other", due to being their controller. Roxas has had this ability since his induction to the Organization XIII, though he has a degree of more difficulty with it since his defection.


[u][b]Abilities:[/b][/u]
- High Jump: Increases Sora's jumping height, combining it with a backward flip. It can be used in many ways to broaden Sora’s air combos and causes aerial battles to become swifter, in addition to making evading enemy attacks simple, as well as making platforming easier. Sora gained this skill from his use of Valor Form.

- Quick Run:  Sora's normal running speed is increased for a quick dash, blurring as he does so, but slowing down for a moment after the dash. Helpful for dodging enemy attacks, or just moving around quickly. Sora gained this skill from his use of Wisdom Form.

- Aerial Dodge: A double jump of sorts combined with a three hundred sixty degree twist, this technique allows Sora to reflect enemy attacks for its duration. Helps Sora to last longer in the air, as well as smoother air combos, and an easy way to escape a ground attack. Sora gained this skill from his use of Master Form.

- Synch Blade: Sora, being a Keyblade Wielder with an extra half of a heart, is capable of wielding two Keyblades simultaneously. Like his Nobody, Roxas, he could hypothetically dual-wield Keyblades at any time he has two free hands, but he is unaware of how to do this outside of certain Drive Forms as of yet.


[u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u] [url=http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091025225829/kingdomhearts/images/f/fb/Sora-3.jpg]This picture[/url], but with the only difference being several mostly-healed surgical scars under the shirt, only visible if it is lifted. However, a written description will also be written here for convenience. As of the end of his time in the Realm of Sleep, Sora still has his brown, spiked hair and blue eyes, as well as fair skin. He wears a baggy black and silver outfit. Said outfit includes black, fingerless gloves with white straps around them, a blue and red undershirt, a black jacket with gray shoulder pads, black shorts with a blueish crotch area, and two red pouches on his hips, secured there by yellow straps around his legs and waist. He has yellow and black sneakers on his feet, and a silver necklace with a crown emblem around his neck.


[u][b]Weapons:[/b][/u] The Keyblade, though his most commonly used one is the Kingdom Key. This is a Keyblade with a silver blade and golden handle, and looks like an oversized key. The keychain is silver, a mouse head with large, round ears. He received this weapon at the start of his first adventure as a result of having the light half of Ventus' heart kept within him.


[u][b]Equipment:[/b][/u]
- Keychains: Sora has all of the Keychains that are mandatory from the adventure of Kingdom Hearts II, as well as the Fenrir Keychain. He also has the majority of the materials for the Ultima Weapon, but for one or two remaining.

- Roxas' journal: Having found the journal in Ansem the Wise's study, Sora has kept it, the same one from Roxas' time in the Organization XIII. It still has mentions of Xion, but has any references to her being a Keyblade wielder, as well as any mentions of her name or gender erased as if they had never been, leaving some of the impact of her life, but not enough to be able to tell what is there without knowing what would have been said.


[u][b]Awareness:[/b][/u] Yes, thanks to Alexander Karsath during his first adventure.


[u][b]History:[/b][/u]
When Sora was young, his newly born heart encountered the injured one of Ventus, the boy having been left on Destiny Islands by the elderly Master Xehanort following the separation of Ventus from his dark half, Vanitas. Sora's heart offered to help Ventus restore his own until help was no longer needed, securing a bond between them that neither was aware of.

By the time Sora was five years old, he encountered a tall, dark haired young man (Terra) and a blue haired young woman (Aqua), two Keyblade wielders of the generation before him, on two separate occasions. Although he never spoke to Terra, only seeing him speak to Riku from afar, he did speak to Aqua. The young woman seemed to see a resemblance between her friendship with Terra and Ventus, and Sora's friendship with Riku. She told Sora to protect Riku if he ever fell into the hands of darkness, a request that Sora agreed to, but, being so young, did not fully understand, nor did he remember as he became older, simply following it regardless.

Some time later, Sora and Riku were resting on a beach. When they were preparing to go home, Sora suddenly felt sad, and shed a single tear. At Riku's comment about someone on another world possibly reaching out, sad, wanting to reach Sora due to a connection, Sora closed his eyes, reaching out with his heart and going into a Station of Awakening. Upon reaching Ventus' broken heart within, he conversed with it, agreeing to its request to become a part of Sora's in order to make it happy, and incorporating the heart into his own.

Ten years later, Sora was living happily with his friends, Riku and Kairi, on their home of Destiny Islands, having befriended Kairi after years being there with them from another world (Radiant Garden) from which she had been thrown. Then the Heartless invasion threw them all into an adventure that led to meting new friends and trying to find eachother once more. After defeating the leader of these Heartless, a man who called himself 'Ansem' and sending Kairi back home, Sora and his new friends Donald Duck, a court mage of Disney Castle, and Goofy, a captain of the same place, followed a dog named Pluto to a large castle. Castle Oblivion, as it was called, had roomed of pure white, but the trio completely forgot all that transpired within it, waking up in a mansion one year later.

They met a boy about Sora's age named Alexander Karsath, who told them that their adventures had been games in his universe. He knew all that happened, and helped them to defeat a group of bodies with minds of their own but not hearts called Nobodies, the group itself called Organization XIII. Most members were killed (save for Axel [who regained his heart] and Roxas [who incorporated into an audible presence within Sora's mind]), and Sora met up with Riku once more. The adventure Alexander called 'Kingdom Hearts II' has been completed, and Sora's Heartless and Nobody troubles are over. Or so it seemed.

When the Interference returned to Destiny Island asking for the help of Sora, Riku, and Kairi to protect his sister Erica Karsath, the three accepted his request, living through the game "Fullmetal Alchemist II: Curse of the Crimson Elixer" in the world of Amestris. Several of their experiences in that universe were kept mostly quiet by the new Internal Interferences, for very personal reasons, but the results amount to the destruction of Erica into a Heartless and Nobody (the former having been destroyed by Alex) and the defeat of the Heartless of the Apprentice of Ansem known as Dilan. After a short time resting in Amestris while Alexander took the Fullmetal Alchemist protagonists on another adventure, their "real world" friend returned the Destiny Islands natives to their world, explaining what had gone on during his journey through the world of Chrono Trigger, including the defeat of Aeleus' Heartless and acquiring new abilities of his own.

After some time on his homeworld, Sora met another Internal Interference, by the name of Gregory Zivaku. Together with him, another Internal Interference named Kynthia Usagi, and later Kairi, the Keyblader traveled worlds he had visited previously and ones he had not. He gained abilities and lost them, and received unwanted surgery from a crazed surgeon on one occasion, still having several still-healing scars to prove it. Following a very traumatic experience in an event commonly known to the people who remembered it as "the War of Heaven and Hell", an event that was erased from existence but not memory and included the death and eventual revival of Sora himself, Kairi returned to Destiny Islands to escape the trauma, and Greg and Kynthia, officially a couple and not afraid to show it a bit more publicly than some would have liked, separated from him to go out together. The Kingdom Hearts protagonist stayed with Greg's Gummi Ship, the Redemption, until he was informed by several sources that the ship's owner had killed three people, all Interferences and one of them his own younger brother. When the killer returned to his ship at last, alone and emotionally broken for reasons that neither of them would say directly, he agreed to drop his only remaining friend off at Destiny Islands once more, and told Sora that it was for the best that they ended contact with each other until he somehow managed to redeem himself. Leaving his only extra weapon he had gained, a Holy-infused Halo 3-era Magnum pistol, on the Gummi Ship and somehow losing his Fable Fireball spell upon departure, the Keyblade-wielder left his good friend, hoping that he would indeed find redemption.

Not so, as it turned out. Some time later, after a long time away with Kairi and Riku, looking over the letter he had received from King Mickey, Sora was found by two Interferences, both familiar. Isaac Zivaku, the atoned brother of Greg, was somewhat older, and looked different, but told of Greg's death, as well as the deaths of several other Interferences along the way. Alexander Karsath was older, with sharper ears, having been through the tortures of Haven City that Ephiram, his future from the War, had told Sora about. The Original Interference told his friend of the destruction of Joumae, Roxas' old friend, and of the destruction of the Heartless of Even, one more of the Apprentices alongside Aeleus and Dilan before them. In spite of the pain, the Keyblader went off, albeit forgetting to tell Riku or Kairi about his departure.

Going to Twilight Town, in the old mansion, Sora read various books there, trying to find anything he could to help with the letter he had received from the King. With the help of Alexander, he found Roxas' diary, a book that showed, with the help of some deleted files, the existence of Xion, the Replica who had once been a semi-member of the Organization XIII. Sora decided to keep the diary, however, at Roxas' request.

A short time later, Sora came back to the Keyblade Graveyard, having been there once before to face off against the Lingering Sentiment of Terra. There, he fought with a being known as a "Ghost" called a Phantom, a kind of complete Somebody that had been corrupted by darkness following the shower of hearts caused by the destruction of the synthetic Kingdom Hearts. The Phantom in particular was a corruption of a Samurai Nobody, irritating Roxas. With the help of his friend, Kalas, Sora managed to fight it off, along with "Thetan" Ghosts caused by the corruption of completed Creepers. He followed this up by helping Kalas to seal the Keyhole of his own world, followed by going out on his own once more, forgiving Kalas for the rudeness they had between them upon the first time they had met.

Some time later, he found Naito Zivaku (the son of Greg from the future) and the Sneaselmorph known as Jasmine, as well as several others such as reuniting with Audrey Jones, seeing Isaac, and meeting Cheryl "Heather" Mason once more in the world of God of War, having helped Kratos of the same world defeat Lakhesis for training. He told Naito of Greg's death, and, upon seeing him run away in rage at Isaac and despair at his situation, followed him with Jasmine to the world of Aselia, Greg's homeworld.

After helping him to calm down, they brought him to the present day of Guardia, where they had a little fun at the Millennial Fair's remaining games before running into Kairi, who was not happy that Sora had left her behind. However, in order to calm her, Sora and Roxas both asked Naminé (within Kairi) about Xion, with her explaining a little, but not much, having accidentally kept some of the memory of her out of guilt. Not long after, they fought with a creature known as a "Preta", another of the Ghosts. In the fight, Sora ended up reaching Anti Form, destroying the Preta with extreme prejudice before managing to calm down, afraid of the Anti Form. Following a brief encounter with the Phantom again, Sora left the others, seeing them as being okay now, and Kairi wanting to develop her skills on her own.

Not long after, he came back to the Keyblade Graveyard, trying to find anything he could about why it was there. There he met a monochrome, armored individual who called himself "Vanitas", and fought him with a Keyblade of his own, using dirty tactics and mocking Sora for even thinking that he was a Keyblade Master. Being knocked out, Sora was brought to Traverse Town by Isaac after being saved by him. Meeting with Alex (who was borrowing the Stormfall Keyblade from the records in Radiant Garden) and Kairi again, Sora also saw Riku (who showed him a book called "Xehanort's Report" that Alex had given him about Master Xehanort) and Greg, who he was overjoyed to see was okay. With Alexander's help and the report, Sora found out the truth of Ventus and why Vanitas was seeking him out, apparently in vengeance for his own demise. When Vanitas struck again, however, the group still barely held him off, with him escaping and dragging a surprised Kairi through a portal with him. The group finally met up with him once more in Radiant Garden, with Naminé having been taken into Vanitas through an earlier battle, and the masked boy having gained a proto-X-blade in the process. Finally defeating him and freeing Naminé to go back to Kairi's mind, the group (along with the Radiant Garden Restoration Committee, who had come to help alongside Lea [the restored Axel]) destroyed him. However, Sora and the others did hear his last, laughing words before he fell apart, the destruction of the X-blade prototype opening the "Cavern of Remembrance" in the side of Hollow Bastion: "It never hurts to have a backup." After this fight, Alex went back and gave back the Stormfall (having seemed familiar to Vanitas, and caused false memories to pop up in his head), and Riku took the Keychain for the Void Gear, Vanitas' Keyblade.

[DDD fic]
Sora was soon called by Yen Sid, to take a Mark of Mastery exam: an ancient rite of passage that was used when there were other Keyblade wielders to prove themselves as full fledged Keyblade Masters.  He was accompanied by his friends Riku, Kairi, and Audrey Jones.  Together, they were tasked with entering the Realm of Sleep, and unlocking the seven Sleeping Keyholes to free the never before seen worlds within, and bring them back into the Realm of Light where they belonged.  However, the four were separated after unlocking Destiny Island's Sleeping Keyhole, leaving Sora with only Audrey.

Following that departure from the Mysterious Tower, Sora found out very distressing news, along with the others. Kynthia, Greg's girlfriend and Naito's mother, had been irrevocably killed in her world. Naito and his sister Nótt did exist now, cared for by Greg and his own mother, Kira, but it had hurt many people.

For now, however, Sora is trying to keep helping anyone he can, trying to keep himself in fighting condition for a new Mark of Mastery, or perhaps to fight the true Organization XIII without the status of a true Master.


[u][b]Sample Post:[/b][/u] (Roxas scene from DDD)