Kairi

### Likes

Helping people in need, making sea shell charms, adventures, Sora, Riku, hanging out with Pluto, her grandmother's story, flowers

### Dislikes

Threats to the world's peace, being left behind, anyone who harms her friends, Axel (Formerly), Saïx (Formerly)

## Professional Status

### Affiliation

Princesses of Heart
The Realm of Light

### Powers and abilities

Purifying creatures of darkness
Opening Kingdom Hearts

## Relationships

### Parents

Mayor of Destiny Islands (Adoptive father)

## Voice Actors

### Japanese

Risa Uchida
Sumire Morohoshi (Young)

### English

Hayden Panettiere
Ariel Winter (Young)

**Kairi** (カイリ, *Kairi*) is Sora and Riku's best friend.

Kairi is also a Princess of Heart, one of seven maidens whose hearts hold no darkness but only pure light, and is needed to open the Final Keyhole to Kingdom Hearts.

## Description

### Appearance

Kairi is a beautiful young woman of average stature with brownish-auburn hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. She is always seen sporting a necklace with a silver bead, which contains a protective spell on it placed by Aqua. Kairi displays a fondness for pink, white and purple, wearing them in all of her casual clothing.

Kairi has short hair and wears a pink and black sleeveless dress with a hood in which the short skirt is split in two designs, with half all black, and the other half a plaid pattern of pink, white and black, and also wears black boots.

### Personality

Kairi is caring, kindhearted, wise, supportive and outspoken, although she quickly becomes determined and courageous when someone she cares about is in danger. Her sociable, charismatic nature enables her to be as good at quickly befriending others as Sora is. At fourteen years old, Kairi was somewhat brash and bold, but as she got older, she has become more mature, responsible and wise, although she still retains her tomboyish personality and bravery. She developed a strong connection with Pluto when she met him on the island.

Kairi is usually optimistic and upbeat, but she can be rather stubborn sometimes. When faced with a challenge and to protect her friends, Kairi becomes quite loyal and headstrong.

## Powers and Abilities

As a Princess of Heart, Kairi won't succumb to darkness so easily and her heart possesses none of such within it. If her heart is lost, her body will remain in a dormant state until the heart is returned, making her one of the few beings who cannot become a Heartless. Besides this primary trait, Kairi inherently possesses other abilities to some degree, such as being able to open the Final Keyhole when she and the other Princesses are gathered and the ability to sense darkness.

In combat, Kairi's abilities are limited. However, when she touched Aqua's Keyblade when she was younger, Kairi inherited the ability to wield the Keyblade. She demonstrates this when Riku hands her a Keyblade of her own, allowing her to protect herself from the Heartless without any help. She is shown to be fairly competent with it, and is later brought into training with Master Yen Sid to become stronger for the impending battle with Master Xehanort and his real Organization XIII.

## Etymology

* Kairi's name is derived from the Japanese word for "sea" (海), as part of the name theme she shares with Riku and Sora. Together, their names make up "Land, Sea, Sky".

## Trivia

* Kairi's English voice actress, Hayden Panettiere, has jokingly said that she wishes she had Kairi's body.