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Name: Kazu
Contact: plurk: mackens | aim: satellitehearted
Other Characters: n/a.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Sora
Age: 15
Canon: Kingdom Hearts / Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
Canon Point: Post-DDD, after he’s gone to see the Dream Eaters.
Character Information: sora’s entry on the kingdom hearts wiki.
Personality:
If there was ever a character who could so perfectly resemble the shounen protagonist archetype, Sora would be that character.
At heart, he’s a simple island boy, described by Master Xehanort to be “dull and ordinary”. Prior to the destruction of his home and being pushed into the role of savior of the worlds, Sora spent his days just hanging out with his friends on the play island near their home and dreaming of worlds away from his own tiny one. He seems to have been content living this way, as his goal for leaving the Destiny Islands seems to be more about seeing what is out there as opposed to Riku’s desire to get away from the place he feels he is trapped in, and Kairi’s desire to find where she came from.
In contrast to the brooding protagonists Square Enix is known for, Sora is one of the most upbeat, cheerful characters in Kingdom Hearts. In Dream Drop Distance, Riku describes him as someone who it’s hard not to smile around, and that he is able to find the “brightest part of anything”. Though he’s become less naïve and gullible as time has gone on, Sora has retained his cheer and optimism through everything he has faced. He tries to extend this happiness to the people around him, forever encouraging friends and strangers alike to try again or look on the bright side when things go south. DiZ tells Sora’s Nobody, Roxas, that he should share his hatred with Sora, who he calls “too nice” for his own good.
Even without him realizing, Sora’s positive attitude and ever-present happiness ends up having an effect on nearly everyone he meets. Ansem the Wise says that he has a love in his heart for others and the ties that bind them, that his heart is “uncorrupted” and he sees the good around him before the bad, and this is what allows to connect his heart with others and mend or save them in doing so.
Sora shows to be exceptionally resilient emotionally, bouncing back quickly from setbacks and disappointments. Though he knows that the keyblade never intended to choose him as its wielder, Sora isn’t brought down by this and doesn’t begin to doubt his own ability or purpose. Instead, he asserts that doesn’t care that he wasn’t the keyblade’s chosen, because he’s proud to be part of “something bigger”—the ones that it did choose. His reaction is the same to learning he failed his Mark of Mastery exam. He barely thinks on having failed and instead continues his trend of finding the bright side to things, eagerly hugging Riku as he congratulates him on having passed. The exception to this happens when Sora is questioned on whether he is truly himself, or just a copy of another person. Perhaps because he has so many different hearts residing in him (some of which have already faced these sort of thoughts), Sora dwells on this greatly, and continues to move further into the dream created for him. As he does so, it gave the darkness the in that it needed to begin corrupting him for Young Xehanort’s plan.
It’s this corruption that makes it clear that despite Sora’s optimism and idealistic outlook on things, he has his own darkness and while he has a resistance to it, he isn’t completely immune. Constant fighting and the darker emotions that have come with it have created this darkness inside of him, originally manifesting itself through the creation of his “anti-form”. It has also brought out a certain degree of ruthlessness against his enemies that he hadn’t previously had. Sora’s heart being “uncorrupted” means that he doesn’t know how to control the darkness inside of him, and though it is a strength, serves as a serious weakness that leads to him being nearly destroyed. He is only able to keep his heart from being destroyed completely because Ventus’s heart (which rests inside of him) served as a last barrier to darkness completely taking over him.
Despite the darkness he has, the cheerful simplicity of Sora’s personality puts him in contrast with Riku, his best friend, and can make him appear immature and irresponsible. And at times, he can be. Sora’s a very child-like person, still filled with awe at the things around him despite everything he’s been through up to this point. He gets excited about seeing Santa Clause when he gets to Christmas Town, despite having declared years before that he didn’t believe in him anymore. Once Riku has saved him from his darkness induced coma, he threw on some prank glasses and sat down for a tea party while he waited for Riku to wake up.
However, when it comes time to stop goofing off and be serious, Sora steps up to the plate with no hesitation. He ventures out into a terrible storm just to try and save the raft he had built with his friends, even though it required manually rowing through dangerous waters in a small, one person boat. When Sora arrived at the island and realized that the boats of his friends were there as well, he immediately set out to find them. Even the appearance of the Heartless, creatures he had never encountered before, didn’t stop his search. He ran through and attempted to fight off swarms of them, all the while trying to find his friends.
It’s the same through all of his adventures so far. Sora doesn’t back down simply because something is dangerous or confusing, especially if someone is in trouble. It doesn’t matter to him whether someone is a friend or a stranger when it comes to helping them out. He’s all too happy to set aside his own problems and searches to assist someone, whether it’s someone in danger or who just needs a little assistance. He hops right to trying to help Neku find his Game Partner even though they’d only met minutes before, and he had his own Mark of Mastery trial to be completing. In almost every world he’s arrived in throughout the series, he’s joined in the fighting to protect people and homes of those he has no obligation to. However, his sense of justice is incredibly strong and to leave someone in need would be betraying it completely. It’s one of the things that enables him to make and keep so many friends.
And his ability to make friends is absolutely astounding. He’s even friends with people who don’t know they’re friends (but they are because Sora said so).
It’s these friends and his ties to them that are the ultimate driving force of Sora’s character, and his actions throughout the series as a whole. Sora’s friends are what motivate him, and give him the power to continue fighting even when the chips are down, so much so that he declares flat out that his friends are his power when he’s left weaponless. He’s fiercely loyal to them, and values the ties he has to the people he cares about more than anything. He happily impales himself on his own keyblade when he learns that he can return Kairi’s heart to her by doing so, even though it will likely turn him into a Heartless. He forgives Riku’s betrayal from the first game without question, and refuses to return to the islands until he’s found him and can bring him home. There’s simply no length Sora won’t go to for his friends, even if it means making a journey across every accessible world into clear danger for them.
Of course, being sixteen, Sora isn’t without the typical issues commonly associated with his age bracket. For all his friendliness and cheer, Sora can be short-tempered. He doesn’t like being tricked, mocked, or confused and is quick to snap at anyone responsible for it. His anger is much like a firecracker: quick to happen and just as quick to be done, and usually isn’t anything too serious. Unfortunately, this can push him into doing things without thinking them through first, and has been exploited by his enemies before to lead him into a trap. Or caused him to fight over Gummi Ship controls with Donald and crash the ship.
Along with the territory of being a teenager, Sora is at times prideful and stubborn. It can be hard to get him to listen to others when he is determined to do something, or thinks he’s right. Times like these usually end up with that excessive pride getting him knocked back down a notch. This pride can sometimes be built up from the fact that Sora is highly competitive, something that is shown to have been a part of his personality since he was very young. He’s all too eager to jump into contests or turn anything into a sort of race, which was how he and Riku would often settle things. As the series has progressed and Sora has aged, he seems to have reigned this in somewhat.
Of course, this doesn’t mean he’s not going to jump at the chance to take part in any sort of tournament that might pop up.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
+ Altruistic: Sora is incredibly loving and caring. He extends catch-free kindness to complete strangers with absolutely no hesitation. Much of the canon’s current events are put into motion simply because of his willingness to help anyone and everyone. He has like 4 hearts inside him, and he’s connected to nearly every other character in some way. Literally.
- Easily Manipulated: A running theme of the games is how easy it is to drag Sora around by his heart, the villain’s use of this to pull him into a trap, and how it steadily becomes more dangerous for him as time passes. He almost gets destroyed by darkness because he became so emotional he walked into obvious traps set by someone he knew meant him ill.
+ Moral: Sora’s sense of right and wrong is incredibly strong, and has set him firmly on the side of Light. Things like betrayal and using other people are beyond his capabilities and he’s shown complete disbelief at seeing his enemy do so. Sora firmly believes in justice and doing what is right.
- Competitive: Sora is a teenage boy with a competitive streak and a best friend who egged it on growing up. It can get a little out of control, and distract him from what’s important. Or drag him into a bad situation. It also makes him over-confident about things, and at times, he’ll come across as arrogant instead of simply self-assured.
+ Forgiving: Tying in with how compassionate he is, Sora is incredibly forgiving. He forgives Riku for turning on him and trying to kill him repeatedly, forgives enemies, and even Namine, who he found out erased and rewrote all of his memories. The only person he’s shown holding a grudge against is Ansem Seeker of Darkness, and that was not for what he did to Sora himself, but for what happened to Riku and Kairi because of him.
- Quick-tempered: Probably because he’s still a teenager, Sora’s temper can be a little short. He reacts very quickly to insults and mockery, and even being confused can get him angry and frustrated. It also factors into what will get him running head first into trouble without thinking things through.
+ Optimistic: Sora is more cheerful and smiley than the most colorful kid’s cartoon you could find. He believes the best in people, in situations, and rarely lets anything truly get him down. He’s determined to keep his head up and cheer up anyone around him.
- Darkness: As good and kind as Sora is, he’s human. Sora carries darkness in his heart just like anyone else. Anger, fear, and other dark emotions plaguing him throughout his journey have caused them to develop in him, and DDD shows that –because of Sora’s good hearted nature—it has gone largely unchecked. This allowed it to be used against him, the darkness taking over him as he was too angry and focused on Xehanort to stop it.
+ Friendly: This one is self-explanatory. Sora is a giant friendship nerd. If he has no reason to dislike you, he'll consider you a friend. He's the power of friendship incarnate.
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Conflicts, please! Sora’s such a goody-goody, it’d be fun to play him becoming what he never thought he could be.
Opt-Outs: Naga, Arachne, troll, goblin, wendigo.
Roleplay Sample: 50+ comment thread with Riku in Riku’s IC inbox at Holly Heights
50+ comment thread w/ Vanitas in Sora’s IC inbox at Holly Heights
Name: Kazu
Contact: plurk: mackens | aim: satellitehearted
Other Characters: n/a.
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Sora
Age: 15
Canon: Kingdom Hearts / Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
Canon Point: Post-DDD, after he’s gone to see the Dream Eaters.
Character Information: sora’s entry on the kingdom hearts wiki.
Personality:
If there was ever a character who could so perfectly resemble the shounen protagonist archetype, Sora would be that character.
At heart, he’s a simple island boy, described by Master Xehanort to be “dull and ordinary”. Prior to the destruction of his home and being pushed into the role of savior of the worlds, Sora spent his days just hanging out with his friends on the play island near their home and dreaming of worlds away from his own tiny one. He seems to have been content living this way, as his goal for leaving the Destiny Islands seems to be more about seeing what is out there as opposed to Riku’s desire to get away from the place he feels he is trapped in, and Kairi’s desire to find where she came from.
In contrast to the brooding protagonists Square Enix is known for, Sora is one of the most upbeat, cheerful characters in Kingdom Hearts. In Dream Drop Distance, Riku describes him as someone who it’s hard not to smile around, and that he is able to find the “brightest part of anything”. Though he’s become less naïve and gullible as time has gone on, Sora has retained his cheer and optimism through everything he has faced. He tries to extend this happiness to the people around him, forever encouraging friends and strangers alike to try again or look on the bright side when things go south. DiZ tells Sora’s Nobody, Roxas, that he should share his hatred with Sora, who he calls “too nice” for his own good.
Even without him realizing, Sora’s positive attitude and ever-present happiness ends up having an effect on nearly everyone he meets. Ansem the Wise says that he has a love in his heart for others and the ties that bind them, that his heart is “uncorrupted” and he sees the good around him before the bad, and this is what allows to connect his heart with others and mend or save them in doing so.
Sora shows to be exceptionally resilient emotionally, bouncing back quickly from setbacks and disappointments. Though he knows that the keyblade never intended to choose him as its wielder, Sora isn’t brought down by this and doesn’t begin to doubt his own ability or purpose. Instead, he asserts that doesn’t care that he wasn’t the keyblade’s chosen, because he’s proud to be part of “something bigger”—the ones that it did choose. His reaction is the same to learning he failed his Mark of Mastery exam. He barely thinks on having failed and instead continues his trend of finding the bright side to things, eagerly hugging Riku as he congratulates him on having passed. The exception to this happens when Sora is questioned on whether he is truly himself, or just a copy of another person. Perhaps because he has so many different hearts residing in him (some of which have already faced these sort of thoughts), Sora dwells on this greatly, and continues to move further into the dream created for him. As he does so, it gave the darkness the in that it needed to begin corrupting him for Young Xehanort’s plan.
It’s this corruption that makes it clear that despite Sora’s optimism and idealistic outlook on things, he has his own darkness and while he has a resistance to it, he isn’t completely immune. Constant fighting and the darker emotions that have come with it have created this darkness inside of him, originally manifesting itself through the creation of his “anti-form”. It has also brought out a certain degree of ruthlessness against his enemies that he hadn’t previously had. Sora’s heart being “uncorrupted” means that he doesn’t know how to control the darkness inside of him, and though it is a strength, serves as a serious weakness that leads to him being nearly destroyed. He is only able to keep his heart from being destroyed completely because Ventus’s heart (which rests inside of him) served as a last barrier to darkness completely taking over him.
Despite the darkness he has, the cheerful simplicity of Sora’s personality puts him in contrast with Riku, his best friend, and can make him appear immature and irresponsible. And at times, he can be. Sora’s a very child-like person, still filled with awe at the things around him despite everything he’s been through up to this point. He gets excited about seeing Santa Clause when he gets to Christmas Town, despite having declared years before that he didn’t believe in him anymore. Once Riku has saved him from his darkness induced coma, he threw on some prank glasses and sat down for a tea party while he waited for Riku to wake up.
However, when it comes time to stop goofing off and be serious, Sora steps up to the plate with no hesitation. He ventures out into a terrible storm just to try and save the raft he had built with his friends, even though it required manually rowing through dangerous waters in a small, one person boat. When Sora arrived at the island and realized that the boats of his friends were there as well, he immediately set out to find them. Even the appearance of the Heartless, creatures he had never encountered before, didn’t stop his search. He ran through and attempted to fight off swarms of them, all the while trying to find his friends.
It’s the same through all of his adventures so far. Sora doesn’t back down simply because something is dangerous or confusing, especially if someone is in trouble. It doesn’t matter to him whether someone is a friend or a stranger when it comes to helping them out. He’s all too happy to set aside his own problems and searches to assist someone, whether it’s someone in danger or who just needs a little assistance. He hops right to trying to help Neku find his Game Partner even though they’d only met minutes before, and he had his own Mark of Mastery trial to be completing. In almost every world he’s arrived in throughout the series, he’s joined in the fighting to protect people and homes of those he has no obligation to. However, his sense of justice is incredibly strong and to leave someone in need would be betraying it completely. It’s one of the things that enables him to make and keep so many friends.
And his ability to make friends is absolutely astounding. He’s even friends with people who don’t know they’re friends (but they are because Sora said so).
It’s these friends and his ties to them that are the ultimate driving force of Sora’s character, and his actions throughout the series as a whole. Sora’s friends are what motivate him, and give him the power to continue fighting even when the chips are down, so much so that he declares flat out that his friends are his power when he’s left weaponless. He’s fiercely loyal to them, and values the ties he has to the people he cares about more than anything. He happily impales himself on his own keyblade when he learns that he can return Kairi’s heart to her by doing so, even though it will likely turn him into a Heartless. He forgives Riku’s betrayal from the first game without question, and refuses to return to the islands until he’s found him and can bring him home. There’s simply no length Sora won’t go to for his friends, even if it means making a journey across every accessible world into clear danger for them.
Of course, being sixteen, Sora isn’t without the typical issues commonly associated with his age bracket. For all his friendliness and cheer, Sora can be short-tempered. He doesn’t like being tricked, mocked, or confused and is quick to snap at anyone responsible for it. His anger is much like a firecracker: quick to happen and just as quick to be done, and usually isn’t anything too serious. Unfortunately, this can push him into doing things without thinking them through first, and has been exploited by his enemies before to lead him into a trap. Or caused him to fight over Gummi Ship controls with Donald and crash the ship.
Along with the territory of being a teenager, Sora is at times prideful and stubborn. It can be hard to get him to listen to others when he is determined to do something, or thinks he’s right. Times like these usually end up with that excessive pride getting him knocked back down a notch. This pride can sometimes be built up from the fact that Sora is highly competitive, something that is shown to have been a part of his personality since he was very young. He’s all too eager to jump into contests or turn anything into a sort of race, which was how he and Riku would often settle things. As the series has progressed and Sora has aged, he seems to have reigned this in somewhat.
Of course, this doesn’t mean he’s not going to jump at the chance to take part in any sort of tournament that might pop up.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
+ Altruistic: Sora is incredibly loving and caring. He extends catch-free kindness to complete strangers with absolutely no hesitation. Much of the canon’s current events are put into motion simply because of his willingness to help anyone and everyone. He has like 4 hearts inside him, and he’s connected to nearly every other character in some way. Literally.
- Easily Manipulated: A running theme of the games is how easy it is to drag Sora around by his heart, the villain’s use of this to pull him into a trap, and how it steadily becomes more dangerous for him as time passes. He almost gets destroyed by darkness because he became so emotional he walked into obvious traps set by someone he knew meant him ill.
+ Moral: Sora’s sense of right and wrong is incredibly strong, and has set him firmly on the side of Light. Things like betrayal and using other people are beyond his capabilities and he’s shown complete disbelief at seeing his enemy do so. Sora firmly believes in justice and doing what is right.
- Competitive: Sora is a teenage boy with a competitive streak and a best friend who egged it on growing up. It can get a little out of control, and distract him from what’s important. Or drag him into a bad situation. It also makes him over-confident about things, and at times, he’ll come across as arrogant instead of simply self-assured.
+ Forgiving: Tying in with how compassionate he is, Sora is incredibly forgiving. He forgives Riku for turning on him and trying to kill him repeatedly, forgives enemies, and even Namine, who he found out erased and rewrote all of his memories. The only person he’s shown holding a grudge against is Ansem Seeker of Darkness, and that was not for what he did to Sora himself, but for what happened to Riku and Kairi because of him.
- Quick-tempered: Probably because he’s still a teenager, Sora’s temper can be a little short. He reacts very quickly to insults and mockery, and even being confused can get him angry and frustrated. It also factors into what will get him running head first into trouble without thinking things through.
+ Optimistic: Sora is more cheerful and smiley than the most colorful kid’s cartoon you could find. He believes the best in people, in situations, and rarely lets anything truly get him down. He’s determined to keep his head up and cheer up anyone around him.
- Darkness: As good and kind as Sora is, he’s human. Sora carries darkness in his heart just like anyone else. Anger, fear, and other dark emotions plaguing him throughout his journey have caused them to develop in him, and DDD shows that –because of Sora’s good hearted nature—it has gone largely unchecked. This allowed it to be used against him, the darkness taking over him as he was too angry and focused on Xehanort to stop it.
+ Friendly: This one is self-explanatory. Sora is a giant friendship nerd. If he has no reason to dislike you, he'll consider you a friend. He's the power of friendship incarnate.
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? Conflicts, please! Sora’s such a goody-goody, it’d be fun to play him becoming what he never thought he could be.
Opt-Outs: Naga, Arachne, troll, goblin, wendigo.
Roleplay Sample: 50+ comment thread with Riku in Riku’s IC inbox at Holly Heights
50+ comment thread w/ Vanitas in Sora’s IC inbox at Holly Heights