Sora~!

[Sora]

♥JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL♥

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“My friends are my power!”

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Name: Sora
Age: 15
Which game are you from: Kingdom Hearts [Birth by Sleep, I, CoM, Days (sort of), II, Coded]
Weapons/Abilities: [/center]

Sora’s weapon is the Keyblade, a highly versatile weapon with the original form of a simple metal key with a yellow and blue handle. The grip is marked up for traction in battle, and a Keychain hangs from the end with three little circles meshed in a Mickey-shaped piece. Removing this Keychain and replacing it with another will change the Keyblade’s shape, but if Sora wants more than one he’s going to have to jump through some hoops first.

Abilities:
Firaga – Manifests in a slew of fireballs from the tip of Sora’s Keyblade and will follow an enemy within a limited range.
Blizzaga – Hurls a shattering blast of ice at a foe, and has a wide enough range on impact to hit more than one, but only gets a short distance away from Sora compared to Fire.
Thundaga – Calls down the wrath of the heavens in a broad radius around Sora, hitting all targets within it.
Curaga – Utilizes the power of plants to heal, appearing as a brief shower of light from a cluster of golden bells tied together by leafy greens.

Ars Arcanum – A round of furious attacks followed up by three varying slashes.
Ragnarok – Another series of furious attacks in the air and followed by a burst of Light-based magic.
Sonic Blade – A series of fast, powerful thrusts with a weapon enhanced with magic.
Strike Raid – A brief attack involving throwing the Keyblade like a boomerang to damage an enemy.
Glide – Enables Sora to essentially “fall with style,” coasting on air currents to the ground.

Canon or OC: Canon

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Personality: [/center]

Sora is a lively, easygoing person without much of a feel for the world and its evils despite his experience with it. His friends matter to him first and foremost--he places them before his own well-being without a thought, and makes friends as easily as greeting someone on the street. Sora doesn't actually see evil as a characteristic but a choice, and he'll try everything to get the person to see reason before he ever initiates a physical conflict--but Sora's still human and still a child so he'll obviously try harder if he knows the person and back off more if it's someone he's just meeting. For example, for Riku and Kairi he would walk over hot coals, and when Riku seemed to be completely beyond his reach that didn't keep him from trying to get his best friend to listen.

Sora's hatred is especially hard to earn, but when you get it he doesn't hold back. As usual, he can be swayed in favor of someone he dislikes if he sees them in danger, since Sora's first instinct is always to help. In his case, there will always be redemption if the person is willing to change. His heart would have to be marred by some very black emotions before he ignored a cry for help or snatched his hand back from another's reaching out.

History:

KHI
Sora grew up on Destiny Islands, a small, backwater world with not very much going on. His friends, Riku and Kairi, ultimately decided it was time to leave and find their way out in the great beyond. Sora seemed to go along with it more than actively seek adventure, but he ultimately had no choice when the Heartless attacked and devoured his world’s heart. Riku was swept off to another world and Kairi’s heart took root in Sora’s chest, while Sora himself was burdened with the Keyblade and blown all the way to Traverse Town.

There he met Donald and Goofy, who were looking for a boy with a Key, and joined them in their search for King Mickey in the hopes of finding his friends on the way. He saw Kairi a few times--mirages due to her heart so close to his--and encountered Riku when they returned to Traverse Town. But Donald wouldn’t let him come along, and so Riku returned to Maleficent and Sora moved off to continue locking the worlds’ hearts against the Heartless.

Sora encountered Riku again in Monstro, where Riku was stealing the puppet boy, Pinocchio, in order to wake Kairi with his heart. But Sora prevented him, insisting that what Riku was doing was wrong, and Riku ran off again before Sora could convince him otherwise. In Neverland, Riku revealed that he’d found Kairi’s limp, unresponsive body, and then escaped with it once Sora stormed the ship alongside Peter Pan. He left Sora to fight a shadow form of Sora that he had created out of darkness.

Sora chased his best friend all the way to Hollow Bastion, where Riku revealed that he was the true Keybearer and Sora had just been bringing the Keyblade to him all along. Donald and Goofy both abandoned their friend in order to find their King, but when Sora fought his way into the castle with the Beast at his side, the Keyblade and his friends both rejoined him and he defeated Riku. Riku ran farther into the castle and the three encountered Maleficent. Upon her defeat, the now darkness-tainted Riku unlocked her heart and created a dragon out of her, which Sora also eliminated.

They moved on and discovered the Princesses of Heart, which had been collected in order to open the Keyhole to the heart of all worlds. It was at this point that Kairi was revealed to be the seventh of these princesses, and Riku--who was being possessed by Ansem the Wise, a man who had experimented with darkness to create the Heartless--tried to unlock Sora’s heart with his dark Keyblade made from the six hearts of the other captive princesses. But Sora fought back and defeated him, and then willingly unlocked his heart and Kairi’s within it in order to stabilize the Keyhole and save the worlds from destruction. He disappeared, at which point his Nobody, Roxas, and Naminé were both born.

Sora was reduced to a Heartless that chased Kairi, Donald, and Goofy when they fled from Ansem, who had survived in spite of his defeat. Kairi recognized him and seized him, purifying his heart, and restored him to normal. They returned to Traverse Town, where Kairi pushed her lucky charm into Sora’s hand and extracted a promise to return from him, and he made for the End of the World to find Ansem and rescue Riku.

The final battle with Ansem ended with the great doors of Kingdom Hearts opening and destroying him with the light within, but there was darkness too and Sora and his friends had to close the doors. Just when things started to look bleak, they discovered that Riku and King Mickey were both on the other side of the door. Riku helped Sora pull it closed and told him to “Take care of her,” and King Mickey’s Keyblade along with Sora’s sealed Kingdom Hearts. As the worlds started returning, Kairi was transported to the End of the World to restore Destiny Islands. Sora, knowing he couldn’t go with her without Riku, renewed his promise to return. Then the trio of Sora, Donald, and Goofy then left to find their way back to civilization--and in search of Riku and the King.

KH:CoM
While looking for Riku and the King, Sora encountered a strange cloaked man who slightly resembled the one he’d seen in the cave the day before Destiny Islands was covered in darkness. The stranger warned him that he was looking for something, but he was going to have to lose something else to find it.

Eventually Sora’s steps brought him to Castle Oblivion, where he and Donald and Goofy discovered that the farther they went into the castle the more they forgot about who they were and what they’d done, climaxing when Jiminy Cricket discovered that the record he’d made of their journey had been wiped. Sora pressed on, though, first because he’d discovered Riku in the castle and then because he knew that a fourth girl had been on the islands and he had to remember, find, and save her from the Organization.

As they moved on up, Sora gradually forgot Kairi and remembered Naminé, an artist who had moved away from the islands when he was little. They encountered several Organization members, including the enigmatic Axel and very much heartless Larxene, who threatened to smash the charm that Sora discovered Naminé and not Kairi had given him. When they reached Twilight Town, born from a card that Vexen had given Sora, the ice-wielder faced them there, but Axel struck him down before he could tell them anything about Naminé or Roxas.

The next floor was Destiny Islands, where Sora encountered a fake memory of Naminé and the real one spoke to him urgently, telling him that she wasn’t the girl most important to him. By the time Sora got out of Destiny Islands, he was convinced of this--but before Naminé could finish explaining, Riku crashed the party and nearly took out Sora. Naminé screamed for him to stop and he collapsed, at which point Larxene took over the explanation game to tell Sora that Naminé had been tricking him this whole time and had just smashed Riku’s heart--except that it wasn’t even Riku, but a replication Vexen had made.

Overwhelmed by this change of events, Sora nonetheless defeated Larxene and was able to hear from Naminé the true story--that she had called him here and manipulated his memories from the very beginning, and there had never been a fourth girl there on the islands with Riku and Kairi. He left her to help Riku, even if it was a fake Riku, and moved on to challenge Marluxia, who kidnapped Naminé and used her as a hostage to put Sora’s focus on Axel. Once Axel was defeated, Sora moved on to challenge Marluxia, only for Marluxia to make the dismaying order to erase Sora’s memory completely. Naminé refused, but Sora urged her to cooperate instead of be destroyed. Then it was Riku Replica to the rescue, and he and Sora fought what turned out to be a shadow version of Marluxia. Sora moved on to challenge the real thing, leaving Naminé under the Replica’s protection, and returned triumphant. Despite Sora’s pleas, the Replica insisted on going off without them, and Sora was crushed when he discovered that he had to choose between Naminé and everything that had happened before her.

Ultimately, he chose to go to sleep and have his memories realigned, and made a promise to be friends for real when he awoke.

KHII
Sora awoke with no Naminé in sight, a year older and lost with no idea how he’d gotten to the strange mansion in Twilight Town. Donald and Goofy were there, though, and so the three of them wandered around until they encountered the King, who told them to get on the train to what they didn’t realize yet was Yen Sid’s Tower. They learned that from Pete, who was lurking outside and waiting for his Heartless to return successfully with a Heartless Yen Sid. But Sora and the others rushed into the tower and put an end to this.

Yen Sid supplied them with important information to use on their journey and the three fairies with him supplied Sora with new clothes that had new powers. From there, they went to Hollow Bastion, where Leon and the rest of the group from Traverse Town were trying to restore their former home. They also encountered the Organization in masse for the first time, but didn’t actually fight them.

Instead, Sora discovered he had to leave and eventually went to Twilight Town. He discovered there that Kairi had been there, but that a stranger matching Axel’s description had kidnapped her. When he returned to Hollow Bastion, it was because Leon had found an additional section to Ansem’s old workplace, and they discovered the world of Space Paranoids inside the computer there. That’s when they finally encountered King Mickey, who explained to them that the man they defeated wasn’t Ansem, but the Heartless of his former apprentice, Xehanort.

It was at this point that Hollow Bastion was attacked and the four of them rushed off to stop it. King Mickey ordered Sora to leave the battle, but Donald and Goofy both disobeyed along with him and they took out Demyx. Mickey caught up with them, but gave in and they were about to move on when Goofy noticed a sizable rock headed for Mickey’s cranium. In pushing the King out of the way, he was struck himself, and the three all presumed him dead and mourned him before tearing off into battle with vengeance in their eyes.

But a little ways into battling they discovered that Goofy had just been knocked out and was totally fine.

Mickey pointed out Xemnas, the leader of Organization XIII, and they confronted him--Sora to ask where Riku and Kairi were. But Xemnas escaped and Mickey followed, and Sora, in an unusual display of helpless frustration, had a breakdown. But then Axel showed and explained to them that Sora was doing what the Organization wanted by slaughtering Heartless. He also happened to mention that Kairi had fallen into the Organization’s hands. Saix chased him off and Sora begged Saix to let him see Kairi, at least, but Saix refused and Maleficent got involved, having returned with the help of her pet crow.

Sora and the others only barely escaped with Maleficent’s help as she duked it out with Saix. Then they found out from Queen Minnie that Disney Castle was in danger and something was threatening the Cornerstone of Light hidden in its basement. They went through a door to the past to discover that Pete had gotten in through another door and was altering history--but Sora and the others stopped him and resolved the issue.

They then started practically hunting down the Organization, or maybe it was just that the Organization got in their way time and time again (opinions differ). Either way, Xaldin went down and they encountered Xigbar (who Sora thought was Riku) and then Luxord, but it wasn’t until Hayner, Pence, and Olette back in Twilight Town discovered there was a data Twilight Town that Sora was able to find a way into the Organization’s world. He also found what he knew was Roxas’s Twilight Town, and encountered Axel in the space between that world and the World That Never Was. But Axel fought alongside him and gave his life so Sora could move on, explaining that he’d wanted to see Roxas. With his last bit of strength, he opened the portal to the World That Never Was and the three of them moved on to encounter Mickey. But the King went off on his own and Sora encountered his Nobody, Roxas, in battle. He defeated Roxas, who said that Sora “made a good Other,” and then assaulted the Castle That Never Was in search of Kairi.

He found her when she called to him from above, but was unable to reach her at the time and had to defeat Xigbar before he could get up to see her. Ansem was there with her--Ansem who was actually Xehanort’s Heartless--and Sora thanked him in spite of what he’d done. The Heartless started to leave, but Kairi wouldn’t let it, insisting it was Riku. Sora discovered that this was true and was absolutely overwhelmed by emotion, finally able to grip his best friend’s hand and know that things were going to be all right.

Moving on, they encountered the real Ansem the Wise and also the man who had led Riku and manipulated Roxas, along with King Mickey. Ansem had created a machine to destroy the Kingdom Hearts that the Organization was making, and Xemnas taunted him from the sidelines when the thing exploded in his face. The explosion turned Riku back to his normal form, and they moved on to challenge Saix and Luxord and finally Xemnas. Sora fought Xemnas alone on and around a wavering Memory Skyscraper, and defeated him, only for him to fuse with Kingdom Hearts and create the same doors they’d seen at the End of the World. They proceeded through, leaving Mickey and Kairi behind, and defeated Kingdom Hearts and Xemnas both from the inside out.

While they were celebrating their victory, Naminé, who had rescued and fused with Kairi, called a portal. Mickey and Pluto and Donald and Goofy all proceeded through it, while Sora and Kairi hesitated to speak to Naminé, whom only they and Riku seemed to see. She spoke to Roxas, telling him they’d kept their promise, and united briefly before both of them made the final surrender into their original selves. Kairi moved on through the portal, but Sora and Riku were left behind.

Xemnas, astoundingly enough, was not dead and challenged them yet again with an even more powerful form of Kingdom Hearts. After a grueling battle, during which Riku was grievously injured, they defeated him once and for all and Sora helped Riku out of the void and onto a dead, blackened beach. There they got a chance to talk about their rivalry, memories, friendship, and decided that if they were trapped here then it was fine. Kairi was back at the islands, likely, and they had one another for company, desolate as it was.

That’s when a bottle with a note bumped Riku’s foot, and he showed it to Sora. It proved to be a note from Kairi that opened the door back, and both of them went through it and found themselves back at Destiny Islands, home at last.

Likes: Dozing, sparring, meeting new people, hanging out back home, flying, Santa Claus
Dislikes: the Heartless, Xehanort, the Organization, Xehanort, getting lost, fighting with his friends, Xehanort, being duped, and also Xehanort

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RP Sample (taken from an alternate reality where Xehanort's Heartless won at Kingdom Hearts): [/center]

The shout of denial had torn his lungs apart and Sora couldn’t breathe.

It just had never seemed real until now. Everything before this moment felt like fun and games, running around wielding the Keyblade because it made sense at the time and because Riku and Kairi were always just out of reach. There’d been danger—obviously. Always. But it was like Sora had never understood that this might…that one of them could…

This can’t be happening.

He felt numb, repeating the scene in his mind’s eye over and over and over…Ansem’s crazed laughter at a single mistake, the realization that everything was about to end—and then Goofy’s yell, the lurching confusion of being pushed to one side and pain blooming in his side like fire…

It can’t be happening.

The faint smile he’d seen on both of their faces when they turned to look back at him. “It’s alright. Thanks for everything. Live for us.”

It can’t…

He couldn’t go back to the moment before it happened and he couldn’t move on to the moment after, trapped between somewhere in some awful cycle of constantly forgetting and constantly remembering. Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew that a part of him would always be right here, trembling just like this and staring at a living nightmare. It just couldn’t be real, the sight of both of them crumpled like that…like broken, cast aside puppets. Goofy’s shield had cracked in two right down the middle, but he still had an arm flung over Donald, as though in a last ditch effort to protect him—and Donald’s hand was outstretched limply towards the staff that had lodged in the ground just behind his reach.

Sora waited for them to get up.

He was dimly aware of Riku saying something, pulling on his arm until he was standing, the king rushing over to Donald and Goofy and just breaking right there, adding another crushed doll to the heap. He started shaking his head without knowing why, maybe in response to Riku, or maybe just at the world—saying no to a world where something like this could take place, where this much hurt could exist at one time.

Unconscious of everything Riku and Mickey and Donald and Goofy, he turned on legs made out of lead to fix eyes that felt like cold, damp glass on Ansem. If anything the man looked even more insane, distorted and enchanted by his new power, but he, too, seemed to realize that the moment of shock was over. Sora inhaled sharply, making a noise that would have sounded strong if not for the imminent sob behind it, and screamed, conveying all the hatred in his heart in one earsplitting sound as he tore the Keyblade from thin air and took off. It didn’t matter that he was hurt, he couldn’t feel it. It didn’t matter that Riku and the King were finally there. Nothing mattered anymore, and if he died right now he didn’t care. He’d take Ansem with him.

Except Riku was moving, and before Sora knew it his best friend was in front of him and pain was exploding in his navel. The already blurry world wobbled in front of his eyes and grew hazy at the edges. Wide blue eyes blinked dazedly where he was bent nearly double over Riku’s fist, and it grew apparent to him that there wouldn’t be vengeance today. There wouldn’t be the chance to throw everything away and stop this moment from hurting, make everything go back to normal somehow even if that took his own life—there would be escaping, heading home, and trying to deal with a simple fact that had destroyed his mind.

Making a small, broken sound that was a combination of I can’t and You hit me and Why is this happening, Sora crumpled.

How did you find us: C’MON, IT’S ME.
Custom Title: The Keyblade’s Chosen One
Anything else you want to shout out: FOR PONY.
Password: You don't need a reason to help someone.
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Lyrics© Journey
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