Sora

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*This article is about the Keyblade Wielder. For articles that share the same name, see Sora.*

## Sora

### Alias

The Keyblade's Chosen One
Keyboy
Roxas
Yozora
Captain Sora
Brother

## Profile

### Likes

Adventure, making friends, helping those in need, staying positive, light, his best friends Riku and Kairi, being a pirate, hanging out with Donald and Goofy

### Dislikes

Evil, being alone, Xehanort, being used or tricked, Donald's temper tantrums, being called "Roxas", losing his friends

## Professional Status

### Powers and abilities

Magical abilities
Character summoning
Small control over light
Acrobatics
Superhuman strength
Superhuman endurance
Flowmotion
Divine Powers
Drive Form
Limits
Link System
Reaction Command
Trinity
Leveling up

### Paraphernalia

Keyblade
Wooden Sword

## Relationships

### Parents

Cloud Strife (Father)
Aerith Gainsborough (Mother)

### Siblings

Ventus (Brother)
Roxas (Brother)

### Other relatives

Claudia Strife (Grandmother) †
Unnamed Grandfather †
Elmyra Gainsborough (Adoptive Grandmother)

### Partner(s)

Riku (Fiancé)
Ken Ichijouji (Boyfriend)

### Other relationships

Xion (Replica)
Naminé (Creation)

## Voice Actors

### Japanese

Miyu Irino
Takuto Yoshinaga (Young)

### English

Haley Joel Osment
Luke Manriquez (Young)

**Sora** (ソラ, *Sora*) is one of the deteuragonists of the series. He is a teenager who originates from the Destiny Islands but obtains the Keyblade, a weapon used to fight creatures known as the Heartless. In order to find their king Mickey Mouse, his allies Donald Duck and Goofy recruit him in their journey across various worlds to save them from darkness, as well as find Sora's friends. Throughout the games, Sora journeys throughout worlds, interacting with various Disney characters and gains experience with the Keyblade as well as his growth as its wielder.

He is the current holder of the element of **Honesty** and the tenth official member of the Crystal Prince line-up.

## Description

### Appearance

Sora is a slender teenager with spiky brown hair (later becoming a caramel color), peach skin, and blue eyes. When he was fourteen, Sora's attire was based around Mickey Mouse's: he had a red jumpsuit with puffy shorts with a long zipper, white gloves with blue, black and yellow straps, and large black-and-yellow shoes. In addition, he wore a black hoodie with white sleeves and a blue inside over his jumpsuit and a loose blue belt with a crown-chain hanging on the left side of his shorts. He wears the crown pendant around his neck.

At the age of fifteen, Sora undergoes a growth spurt, but his appearance does not change that much other than having more matured looks. Sora wears a new outfit that is a black edition of his previous clothing, with the exception of the undershirt; the hoodie is completely black with white lining but has silver patches on his shoulder. His black pants have yellow straps across them along with a patch of navy blue and silver edges. His undershirt is navy blue with a red patch in the center with a black belt under it. Red pockets appear on the sides of the pants with a black cross over them. His gloves, now black, have a white inside with a yellow line running around them. His shoes remain with a similar color scheme to his previous outfit, but with a few modifications: the black-and-yellow pattern is reversed and now has a zipper running across the top with white edges along the rim.

Sora has a red-and-black outfit that appears sleeker than any of his previous ones, with the sneakers and pants appearing slimmer than before. Similar to his outfit in *Dream Drop Distance*, he wears a black hoodie with gray pockets separated with white lining and a gray strip on each sleeve. The hood, sleeves, and jacket have a red lining, while the lapel has a black-and-red checkerboard pattern buttoned back by two of the six golden buttons on the front. Underneath, Sora wears a black tank top with a V-neck collar and white trimming. His gloves are replaced with elbow-length gray gauntlets with red-white lining and grey circles on the backs, with yellow buckled straps wrapped around Sora's wrists. Sora's shorts are dark gray, with several grey pockets forming a large strip on each side. A red band wraps around each leg. His shoes resemble those of his second outfit, but with the blue straps and zipper removed in favor of black collars around the heel and a single black strap around the arch.

Sora's appearance can vary on the world he visits. He becomes a Merman when visiting Atlantica, a classic black and white anime character in Timeless River, and more drastically, a brown-furred lion cub in the Pride Lands. He sometimes wears an appropriate outfit as well, such as a Data armor in Space Paranoids, and a Halloween and Christmas outfit in the Nightmare Before Christmas world.

### Personality

Sora is a brave and heroic boy who is extremely loyal to his friends, valuing his friendship with them above all else. He is an optimist and has a strong sense of justice, enabling him to take charge of his group when no one else can. However, he is rather oblivious and quite childish at times, and is often quick to anger whenever he's confused. He is also quite impulsive, as he tends to jump into things without thinking them through beforehand.

In addition, a recurring trait Sora possesses is competitiveness, which has often pitted him against fights with those stronger than him, to the point he developed a level of arrogance witnessed in Dream Drop Distance when Sora claims that he is already unbeatable even after the threat of Xehanort has been explained to him. When Sora is captured and nearly converted into a pawn of Xehanort, Sora remembers his humility, learns of his limits and humbly accepts his failure of the exam.

Despite his flaws, Sora is dedicated and kind, making up for his weaknesses with his benevolent and endearing personality. As such, his ability to forgive is incredible along with his ability to connect to others and quickly befriend them. As the series progresses, Sora learns from his past mistakes and becomes less selfish over time as he learns how powerful the heart can be and fights with this in mind.

## Powers and Abilities

Sora's primary strength lies in his ability to use the Keyblade, which not only allows him to vanquish the Heartless and other Darkness-based beings but also acts as his primary weapon against foes big and small. Unlike other Keyblade wielders, Sora did not inherit the ability to use the Keyblade from someone else. Instead, it chose him over Riku, its true owner, due to the darkness in Riku's heart when the two of them were being absorbed by the darkness engulfing Destiny Islands. Over the course of the series, Sora becomes a skilled fighter and has triumphed in various feats against the most dangerous of the game's enemies. He is extremely strong, as he can crush rocks and some extremely powerful Heartless with a strike of the Keyblade. (His strength affects the Keyblade's strength).

Sora is also knowledgeable with magic, which allows him to cast various spells to aid him or cause damage onto foes. He can also use spells to heal himself and his allies or revive them whenever they fall in battle. Applying magic with his fighting skill, Sora can access other magical abilities that affect his own physical prowess, such as Drive Forms. However, these abilities only last for short periods of time.

Sora is also able to fight in combined attacks with allies or other characters. With allies, Sora can perform special attacks known as Limits in combat. In cases when the character is not physically available, Sora has the ability to summon them via Summon Gem, card, or charm for a temporary time.

## Etymology

Sora's name is Japanese for "sky" (空), as part of the name theme he shares with Riku and Kairi. Together, their names mean "Land, Sea, Sky".

## Trivia

* According to Santa Claus, when Sora was eight, he told everyone that he did not believe in Santa Claus. However, Santa also stated that it was Riku who told Sora he did not exist.
* Sora holds the record for having the most hearts in a single body with a total of five: Ventus', Kairi's, Roxas', Xion's, and his own heart.
* Unlike his friends Riku and Kairi, Sora was not bequeathed a Keyblade, which is normally required to be able to wield one. Riku was bequeathed when Terra performed the succession on him, and Kairi was accidentally bequeathed when she touched Aqua's Keyblade upon meeting her for the first time in Radiant Garden. This makes Sora the only character known so far to obtain a Keyblade in this manner.
* In a way, Ventus was right about Sora becoming his second chance not once but twice: the first time happened when Sora merged his heart to save Ventus and through Sora, he was given another chance to protect the worlds from darkness.