"Why....it's a dream come true!"

—Cinderella to the Fairy Godmother

Cinderella is one of the classic Disney characters who appears in Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts Union χ. The main character from Walt Disney's 1950 film Cinderella, she plays a small but important role in the game as one of the Princesses of Heart.

Story

Kingdom Hearts Union χ

Cinderella appears as a projection from the Book of Prophecies. Her power is utilized to form medals, while a parallel version of the events Cinderella will go through in the future is explored by Player and other Keyblade wielders from Daybreak Town.

In the projection, Cinderella is given an invitation to the royal ball, and decides to modify her mother's dress so she can attend. Her stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and stepsisters, Anastasia and Drizella, keep her too busy to work on it, but Jaq and Player fix it up in her stead. However, her stepfamily notice that components of the dress belong to them, and tear them off, ruining the dress. Her stepfamily leaves without her while she runs off in tears. As she despairs, the Fairy Godmother appears to comfort her. The Fairy Godmother uses magic to create a carriage, horses, and ballgown and glass slippers for Cinderella, and sends her to the ball with the warning that the magic will expire at midnight.

Cinderella arrives at the castle, only to find it overrun with Heartless. Player intervenes to vanquish them, and, at Cinderella's insistence, escorts her to the ballroom. Cinderella spends the night dancing with Prince Charming, though she is unaware of his identity, but is forced to run home when the clock strikes midnight, losing one of her glass slippers in the process.

Hearing that Prince Charming is searching for the owner of the glass slipper, Cinderella prepares to meet him, but Lady Tremaine locks her in her room and her darkness summons the Mean Maiden. Jaq and Player retrieve the key and defeat the Mean Maiden, allowing Cinderella to try the glass slipper on for the Grand Duke. Afterwards, Cinderella is reunited with Prince Charming.

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Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Cinderella thanks both Ventus and Jaq for creating her dress.

Cinderella lives with her stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and her stepsisters, Anastasia and Drizella, in Castle of Dreams, and is forced to work as their maid. Her only friends are the animals of the house, such as the mouse Jaq. One day, Cinderella hears word of a ball being held to find a bride for Prince Charming. Cinderella dreams of going to the ball.

Based on Jaq's intel, Cinderella finds a shrunken Ventus in a cage and, mistaking him for a mouse, frees him. Cinderella plans to repair a dress for the ball, but her stepmother and stepsisters load her with chores so she is unable to work on it. While Cinderella finishes her chores, Jaq and Ventus work to make the dress for her.

Cinderella is escorted by Terra.

After Cinderella's stepsisters tear apart her dress, Cinderella runs to the garden and stays there, crying. Terra finds her, and tells her that strength of heart will help her get through the hardest trials. Cinderella's sadness draws the attention of Unversed, which Terra fends off without her noticing. Cinderella's Fairy Godmother appears and makes Cinderella a beautiful gown with glass slippers and a carriage to take her to the ball.

Once at the castle, Cinderella is accosted by Unversed, but Terra arrives to defeat them, and escorts her to the ballroom. There, she meets Prince Charming and dances with him, and is noticed by Lady Tremaine and her stepsisters, who can't quite recognize her. The ball is suddenly interrupted by the Symphony Master until Terra again comes to their rescue. As Cinderella and Prince Charming talk after the Unversed is defeated, the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella is forced to leave the ball before the Fairy Godmother's magic runs out. As she runs through the Grand Hall, she loses a glass slipper.

Cinderella is invited by Aqua to try on the glass slipper.

Prince Charming declares that he will find the girl of his dreams by making every girl in the kingdom try the glass slipper on. Lady Tremaine, suspecting that Cinderella is the girl from the ball, locks her in her room before the Grand Duke arrives, and attempts to make one of her daughters Prince Charming's bride. However, Aqua and Jaq cooperate and manage to free Cinderella just before the Grand Duke is able to leave. Lady Tremaine trips him and the slipper breaks before she is able to try it on, but Cinderella pulls out the second glass slipper from her pocket and tries it on instead.

The Grand Duke is about to take Cinderella to the castle when Lady Tremaine's negativity summons the Cursed Coach Unversed to attack Cinderella, but Aqua manages to destroy it. Cinderella is taken safely to Prince Charming, and the two embrace. Some time after Xehanort's defeat, Cinderella dances around the ballroom with Prince Charming while Jaq and the Fairy Godmother look on.

Between Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep and Kingdom Hearts

Eventually, Castle of Dreams is consumed by the Heartless. Cinderella is captured and held in the Grand Hall deep within Hollow Bastion, alongside Snow White, Aurora, and Belle, three other Princesses of Light. Her heart is taken, and she is locked in sleep.

Kingdom Hearts

When Sora is in his Dive to the Heart, he sees a stained-glass likeness of her depicted on top of a blue pillar.

Ansem, Seeker of Darkness uses Cinderella's heart, along with the hearts of the five other Princesses of Heart that have been collected, the form an incomplete Keyblade of Heart. Sora takes the Keyblade of Heart and uses it to eventually free the hearts of Cinderella and the other Princesses of Heart, restoring them. Cinderella, Snow White, Aurora, Belle, Alice, and Jasmine stay behind in Hollow Bastion's castle to hold back the darkness leaking out of the Final Keyhole, until Sora returns and closes it. Though the Final Keyhole is sealed, Cinderella and the others feel another dark power approaching from the End of the World, and asks Sora to stop Ansem from fulfilling his evil plans while they remain behind to protect Hollow Bastion.

When the Door to Darkness is closed, Castle of Dreams is restored and Cinderella returns to her own world.

Kingdom Hearts II

The DTD dataspace in Space Paranoids is sealed with a password composed of the seven Princesses' names: "Belle, Snow White, Aurora, Alice, Jasmine, Cinderella, Kairi".

Between Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts III

Having fulfilled her time as a Princess of Heart, Cinderella's power passes on to a new Princess.

Design

Cinderella in her maid outfit.

Cinderella is a fair-skinned young woman with long, blonde hair and blue eyes. When dressed in her maid outfit, she wears a brown dress with a long-sleeved and pale blue undershirt, black ballerina flats, and a white apron. She also ties her hair into a ponytail.

Cinderella's ball attire is an elegant, flowing and silverish-white ball gown with white and disk-like caped sleeves and a matching puffy bustle. With the gown, she has her hair put in a bun and wears long and white gloves that reach halfway up her upper arms, along with a white headband, diamond earrings that cover her ears and a black choker. Though usually obscured by her dress, Cinderella wears her famous glass slippers on her feet. In the original Kingdom Hearts, Cinderella wears this outfit, albeit her hair and dress being brighter in color. In her Awakening emblem, Cinderella's hair is brown and her dress has a slight blue tint.

Despite Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep being set ten years before the original Kingdom Hearts, Cinderella appears unchanged.

Personality

Cinderella has been known to be a very hardworking and honest young woman, who is skillful in doing multiple house chores each day and cooking as she constantly serves her stepmother and two stepsisters.

She is not afraid to speak her mind and her dreams to her mouse friends, yet is completely passive and obedient to her step-family right until she goes to the ball. Cinderella is frightened by Lady Tremaine, concerned that if she does not follow Tremaine's orders or upsets Tremaine too much, she will be punished and potentially end up in a worse place.

She has shown kindness to everyone around her, including her mouse friends and even to her harsh stepmother and mean stepsisters.

Cinderella's dream is to leave Tremaine's residence and find a happier place to live, and does her best to cope with her unfortunate living circumstances. She is shown to have unwavering patience and perseverance that has helped her, even when her first dress was destroyed by her stepmother and stepsisters and she seemed to have lost all hope. It was her strong belief in her dreams that allowed the Fairy Godmother to come and help her get to the ball.

Abilities

Powers as a Princess of Heart

Because Cinderella is a Princess of Heart, her heart holds part of the ability to open the Final Keyhole that leads to Kingdom Hearts, which can only be opened when she is joined with the other six princesses. Should her heart be lost, her body will remain in a dormant state until it returns.

• She also has the power to hold back darkness using the light stored within her heart, a power which she and the other princesses can utilize alone (the exact way she fights off darkness is currently unclear).
• In addition, her heart (along with that of the other princesses) can be used to create the Keyblade of heart, which allows the bearer to unlock anyone's heart.
• Cinderella (along with the other princesses) can also upgrade other people's powers, as revealed when they upgraded Sora's Fira spell to Firaga.
• She can also locate darkness, as shown when she and her fellow princesses tell Sora about a great darkness approaching nearby.

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

D-Link

Cinderella becomes a D-Link for Terra, Ventus, and Aqua after clearing Castle of Dreams. While in link with Cinderella, they can use fairy magic to attack.

Cinerella's ability icons are her tiara and glass slipper.

	0 emblems	1 emblem	2 emblems	Command Gauge
Deck Commands	Wish Circle Enchanted Step Magic Mending	Wish Shot Wish Circle Enchanted Step Wish Circle Enchanted Step Magic Mending	Wish Shot Wish Circle Enchanted Step Wish Shot Wish Circle Enchanted Step Magic Mending Magic Mending
Finish Commands	Dream Sparkle	Dream Sparkle	Dream Sparkle Miracle Dance	Regular Sprite	Enhanced Sprite
Abilities	—	Auto-Remedy	Auto-Remedy Regen
Emblem Chance	10%	7%	5%
Command Gauge Fill Rate on Attack		x0.5
Command Gauge Bonus	Get inflicted with a status effect.		+100%

Origin

Cinderella in Lady Tremaine's room.

Inspired by the title character of the folk tale Cinderella, specifically, the French fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault, Cinderella first appeared in the tale's Disney animated adaptation. She was born wealthy, but after her father passed away, her evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine, turned her into her own home's maid. When the King of the Castle of Dreams announces a royal ball, Cinderella wishes to go, but her stepmother and stepsisters tell her that if she finishes her chores (of which there are many) and procures a dress, then she can go. Her mice friends fashion a dress while she does her chores, but her stepsisters, under Lady Tremaine's provoking, destroy it. In despair, Cinderella weeps, but is confronted by her Fairy Godmother, who provides her the means to go to the ball with magic, but not before warning her that the magic wears off at midnight.

At the ball, Cinderella attracts the attention of Prince Charming, but is forced to leave at midnight and leaves her slipper behind. The following day, Prince Charming leads a search throughout the kingdom for the maiden that fits the slipper. Back at home, Lady Tremaine realizes that Cinderella was the woman who danced with the prince and locks Cinderella in her room. Her mice companions break her out, and she goes to try on the slipper. Despite Lady Tremaine's efforts to destroy the slipper, Cinderella reveals that she has the other slipper, and afterwards lives happily ever after with Prince Charming.

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