Sora

Sora is the main character in the Kingdom Hearts series, wielder of the Keyblade as well as King Mickey. He is voiced by Haley Joel Osment.

Story
At the beginning of the game, Sora is fourteen years old and lives on Destiny Islands along with his two best friends, Riku and Kairi. The three friends origially planned to leave the islands to explore new worlds and have prepared a raft for this purpose. However their plans were destroyed when their world is attacked by a group of dark beings known as the Heartless, the three are separated. During the invasion, he obtains the Keyblade. After the invasion, Sora drifts off to a town known as Traverse Town where he meets Leon who explains to him the true nature of the keyblade and the power of the weapon against the Heartless. Soon after, Sora meets Donald Duck and Goofy Goof, who join forces in search of their friends with Sora looking for Riku and Kairi while helping Donald and Goofy look for Mickey Mouse. To blend in with the inhabitants of the various worlds they visit, the group is occasionally transformed by Donald's magic. They travel from world to world in search of Sora's friends in their Gummi Ship as well as sealing the keyholes of worlds along the way to protect them from being consumed by the darkness of the Heartless. However they are often opposed by an alliance of Disney Villains led by Maleficent who are seeking out the seven Princesses of Heart to unlock the final Keyhole that leads to "Kingdom Hearts", a repository of knowledge and power and the source of all hearts. Maleficent then sows discord into Riku, telling him that Sora has abandoned him and Kairi for new friends and the Keyblade. This causes the two to clash over saving Kairi when Sora later meets Riku on several occasions.

Sora and his friends eventually arrive at Hollow Bastion, headquarters to Maleficent, where he meets Riku as he takes the Keyblade. It is then revealed that Sora only received the keyblade in Riku's absence and that Riku was the true Keyblade master. However, stating that his heart derives strength from his friends which caused the keyblade to return to his possession, Sora regains the Keyblade and defeats Riku before fighting Maleficent. However, when he finds Kairi, Sora encounters Riku after he unknowningly allowed himself possessed by Ansem allowing him to wield a powerful keyblade that unlocks hearts. Ansem explains that Kairi is a Princess of Heart, and that her heart has been hiding within Sora's body since the Destiny Islands were destroyed.

In order to return Kairi's heart, Sora impales himself with Riku's dark Keyblade committing assited suicide and releasing his and Kairi's heart. Kairi's heart returns to her causing her to awaken from her catatonic state, she later saves Sora by leading him back into the light after turning into a Heartless due to losing his heart. In the process of becoming a Heartless, Sora created two Nobodies: his counterpart Roxas, and Kairi's nobody, Naminé. After taking her to safety before returning to Hollow Bastion, Kairi loans to Sora her lucky charm which she had made back on the Destiny Islands, having him promise to return the charm to her.

Shortly afterwards, Sora and company confront Ansem at End of the World which is the combined remnants of fallen worlds. Defeated, Ansem who opened the Door to Darkness, obliterated by overwhelming light inside it. Beyond the door are King Mickey and Riku who keep the Heartless inside from getting out as Mickey and Sora use their Keyblades to lock the door. The worlds lost to the Heartless reconstruct themselves; as the Destiny Islands reform, Kairi returns there while Sora is forced to part with her. The game concludes as Sora, Donald, and Goofy resolve to find Riku and Mickey, chasing after Pluto when they find him with a letter from Mickey.undefinedWhile on their search for Riku and Mickey, thanks to the action of Marluxia, the three stumble onto a fortress known as Castle Oblivion. Upon entering, Sora's mind is brainwashed by Naminé, who was held captive by the mysterious Organization XIII who use the castle as their second base of operations. Marluxia has Naminé use her powers to jumble up Sora's memories making him forget the past as well as replace knoledge of Kairi with herself. However as Sora travels upwards in the castle in begins to unravel the truth as he encounters and defeats many members of the Organization on the way. He finally meets up with Naminé who helps Sora, Donald, and Goofy to restore his memories to their state prior to entering Castle Oblivion, at the cost of losing their memories of the events in the castle. This requires them to sleep for at least one year for the restoration of memories to completed. Taking place a year after Chain of Memories, Sora reawakens along with Donald and Goofy in Twilight Town as a changed fifteen year old. As they explore the town they encounter Nobodies before being saved by King Mickey who quickly hurries them to board the train which brings them to visit his master, Yen Sid. Arriving to the tower, the trio confront Peg Leg Pete and the Heartless before meeting Yen Sid, who explains the existence of the Nobodies as well as reintroduce Sora's group to Organization XIII. Then, Sora (his old outfit having shrunk from the condensation effects of the memory restoration) gains a new outfit by the three fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, bestowing him new powers.

As Sora sets out to find Riku and King Mickey, they traverse new and unfamiliar worlds where they often encounter the remaining members of the Organization. During this new voyage, Sora and party encounter a resurrected Maleficent and her cohort, Pete the Cat, attempting to take over Disney Castle. Pete almost succeeds by travelling to 1928 to change the future 1933, but Sora, Donald and Goofy stop him and save Disney Castle.

Later returning to Twillight Town, Sora learns that Kairi was sighted there before being abducted by the rogue Organization member Axel. Sora later confronts Axel at Hollow Bastion, after finding out the truth behind "Ansem" and encountering his Nobody Xemnas, learning that the Organization now has Kairi captive to force Sora to gather more hearts for them. Eventually, with Mickey joining them, Sora's group finds a way to the Organization's main base in The World That Never Was with Axel sacrficing himself to give Sora safe passage. But Sora enters The World That Never Was, Roxas reawakens and fights Sora in an internal struggle to test Sora's worth before he and his friends enter the Organization's base. As Mickey takes his leave, the group soon reunites with Riku and Kairi as the Sora learns the truth behind Roxas after taking out the Organization members with only Xemnas left.

Though it seemed that defeated him, Sora and Riku are separated from King Mickey, Goofy, Kairi and Donald as they fight Xemnas for the final time before they ended up in the dark beach with no means of return. As the two sit down and reflect on their friendship, they accepted their fate as long as the realm of light remains safe. Just at that moment a beam of light appeared in front of them revealing a passageway back to light, upon entering the two find themselves back on Destiny Islands where they reunite with all their friends. Sora finally keeps his promise that he made in Kingdom Hearts and returns to Kairi her lucky charm.. At an extra scene featured at the end of the credits, Sora is shown asking Riku what he thinks the door to light was. Riku replies that it was the light of Sora's pendant. Kairi runs up to them and give them a bottle she found, containing a letter from King Mickey. During the majority of events during Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Sora is in a state of sleep as his amnisia is being cured by Namine. Though Sora is not physically present in the story, he is constantly referenced to and is also playable in the game. In Kingdom Hearts coded Sora himself does not appear until the game's final scene, in which he receives King Mickey's letter and reads it with Riku and Kairi. A digital copy of Sora wearing his original Kingdom Hearts outfit serves as the primary protagonist of the game, finding out the truth behind a mysterious message found inside Jiminy's journal.

A 4 year-old Sora and Riku appear in the prequel to Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep which takes place ten years prior to Kingdom Hearts. After Ven's organs are damaged following a confrontation with his evil, scheming, half-brother Vanitas, his light finds its way into Sora, entering the boy's body. In the game's secret ending, set after the events of Kingdom Hearts II Ansem tells Aqua all about Sora's adventures, and Aqua utters Sora's name with renewed hope along with images of Ventus, Terra, and the others connected to Sora: Roxas, Xion, Naminé, Axel. The final scene shows Sora who decides to go help them.

Powers and Abilities
Sparring with his friends Tidus, Riku, Wakka, and others, Sora was an exceptional swordsman only to be rivaled by Riku. Using his knowledge of wooden swords, he naturally could use the Kingdom Key or the Keyblade of the Realm of Light. With the powers of the Keyblade at his side, he gains superhuman strength that even Jafar notes that "the child's strength is not his own". Yet even withouth the Keyblade, he is still effective in combat and had learned magic from the wizard, Merlin. He often is a user of both the powers of Light and Darkness that assist in his missions across the worlds. In fact, his power and skill is so profound as a Keyblade wielder without the assistance of Keyblade Master that even the great Organization XIII and the terrible League of Villains fear him, cautiously attempting to manipulate him to do their bidding before he discovered them and defeated them one by one.

The use of his Keyblade becomes more mature during the events of Kingdom Hearts as he uses numerous Keyblades in each world. Harboring the heart of Ventus, he is able to wield two Keyblades at once, a trait passed on to his Nobody, Roxas. But what makes even more unique is that he can also wield three Keyblades at once for he is the one to connect the worlds together.

Sora is a formidable foe, even holding his own against dark gods such as Hades and Chernabog and even against Maleficent, the Mistress of All Evil. Yet still, the true source of his power lies not only in his heart but everyone that he has affected. His power comes from his friends.

Physial Appearance
Sora first starts off appearing tanner and somewhat more lanky than his rival Riku. He seems to portray more of a typical teenage boy's looks. Sora has spiky brown hair (although in Kingdom Hearts II his hair does change from a dark brown to a more caramel color) along with blue eyes. Sora's appearance does not change that much throughout the series besides growing taller, a slightly different hair style, tanner skin, and having more matured looks. Surprisingly, with all the Heartless fought by Sora, he does not appear much more muscular than he did in the original game and still seems less muscular than Riku. Sora goes through many costume changes throughout the series.

His original outfit consisted of a Mickey Mouse style outfit, containing large yellow shoes, a white and black overjacket as well as a red jumpsuit and a pair of white with yellow gloves with his signature crown necklace and crown chain. This outfit is the main outfit in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. Interestingly, after Sora uses the Keyblade of People's Hearts to free Kairi's heart, his hair appears to be lighter. Using Donald's magic, his appearance is changed to that of Vampire Form and Merman Form in certain worlds.

His outfit considerably changes in Kingdom Hearts II as it turns into a black and silver outfit that, while remaining baggy, is like his original outfit. It contains a darker style using many zippers and extra leggings but still retains his crown necklace. For a short while in Twilight Town, he does wear his first outfit. With the institution of Drive Forms, his outfit can turn into different appearances for Valor Form, Limit Form, Anti Form, Wisdom Form, Master Form, and Final Form. As he travels to certain worlds, his appearance changes to that of Data Form, Lion Form, Santa Form, and Retro Form.

In Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep and certain scenes in Kingdom Hearts, a younger version of Sora appears. As a child, Sora's hair was lighter than it was in Kingdom Hearts, more closely resembling his hair color in Kingdom Hearts II, and it was not as spiky. Clothing-wise, Sora wore what looks like a white polo shirt with blue lining, albeit without the collar present on most polo shirts. He also wore red shorts with a maroon pocket on each leg, as well as brown sandals with yellow straps.

Links

 * http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Sora