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Sora's Heartless

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Sora's Heartless

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Sora's Heartless - Neo Darkside

Sora's Heartless

Japanese ソラ・ハートレス
Rōmaji Sora-Hātoresu
Translation Sora-Heartless

Type Pureblood Heartless
Homeworld Hollow Bastion
Datascape
Games Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts coded
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KHREC tracks
Battle theme - Destiny's Force
Battle theme - Guardando nel buio
Sora's Heartless

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
Neo Darkside
Sora's Heartless, who has gained incredible power with the confines of the datascape. He can dive underground and then reemerge for a brutal attack, so stay on your toes and be ready to dodge.

True Form
Sora's Heartless, empowered further within the datascape. Faced with countless Keyblades and ruthless attacks, Sora had to struggle just to stay in the fight.
"Rage... Hatred...Glitches to feed my darkness...And soon, hearts to sate my hunger!"
—Sora's Heartless

In Kingdom Hearts, Sora becomes a Heartless for a short time, before being restored to his human form. In Kingdom Hearts coded, Sora's Heartless becomes a separate character, a digital entity created from the journal record of Sora's time as a Heartless. This Heartless serves as the main antagonist of the game and the source of the Bug Blox. Unlike other Heartless, Sora's Heartless held onto its feelings, memories, and selfhood, and this unique trait is commented on by others.

Ansem the Wise noted that Sora was unique for being able to regain his human form without first having to destroy his Nobody counterpart Roxas; he theorized it was because of the immense love Sora had for others that allowed this normally impossible occurrence.[1]

Story

Kingdom Hearts

After Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy track Riku, now possessed by Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, down to the Great Hall, they learn that he has used the incomplete Keyblade of Heart to summon the Final Keyhole of Hollow Bastion. He reveals that Kairi's lost heart has been within Sora all along, and that it must be released in order to complete the Keyhole.[2] He attempts to release Kairi's heart by using the Keyblade on Sora, but Sora parries at the last second, and he eventually defeats the possessed Riku.

Despite this, Kairi is still catatonic, and Sora is unable to seal the incomplete Keyhole. In order to save Kairi, Sora turns Riku's Keyblade on himself. This releases Kairi's heart from within Sora, reviving her, but this also completes the Keyhole and casts Sora into darkness, transforming him into a Heartless, and also producing his Nobody, Roxas, as well as Kairi's Nobody, Naminé. Sora himself, meanwhile, transforms into a Shadow, as he does not have that much darkness in his heart, just as Kairi awakens. Ansem reappears, intent on finishing her off, only for Riku's heart to resist and stopping him in his tracks. However, with the Heartless rapidly emerging from the Keyhole, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy are forced to flee.

As a Shadow, Sora follows his friends through the Lift Stop to the Entrance Hall, where he sees them being overrun by other Shadows. He rushes to help his friends, and though Donald tries to attack him, Kairi recognizes him and embraces him. Her light and heart return Sora to his human form,[3] and Sora later states that while he was a Shadow, he nearly forgot everything.

This information is based on alternate scenes or materials and is not considered canon within the overall plot of the series.
In the manga, Kairi jokes that she recognized Sora's Heartless by the shape of its calves.

Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories

When they first enter Castle Oblivion and learn of its alleged power over memories, Goofy reassures Sora by reminding him that he did not lose his memories when he became a Heartless. Axel later explains to Larxene that this strange trait is what interests him about Sora.

At the end of Sora's journey through Castle Oblivion, the witch Naminé puts him to sleep so that she can reconstruct his memory, which she had tampered with under coercion from Organization XIII. All of the contents of Jiminy's Journal are removed, a side-effect of the record of Sora's Heartless beginning to assert itself.

Kingdom Hearts II

One year later, Roxas dreams of when Sora was turned into a Heartless, as well as when Kairi restored his body. Not long afterward, Roxas reunites with Sora, and Sora reawakens as a complete being. Although he is whole, his time as a Heartless and the magic of his new clothes allow him to periodically assume the Heartless-based Antiform.[4]

Kingdom Hearts coded

As a symptom of the secrets that were hidden within Jiminy's Journal, a digital version of Sora's Heartless comes to be and, like Data-Sora, it evolves into something more than a simple facsimile. To that end, the Heartless absorbs both the Bug Blox, which spread throughout the Data Worlds, and the minds of the slain digital Heartless, increasing its power exponentially. Unlike its real counterpart, this digital version is malevolent and ravenous for hearts.

After clearing the Bug Blox from the data Hollow Bastion, the Journal alerts Data-Sora to the source of the Bugs: Sora's Heartless. Upon defeating Maleficent and Pete, the origins of Sora's Heartless are revealed, along with its intent to enter the real world to feed on hearts. Data-Sora attacks the real Sora's digitized Heartless, causing it to evolve into AntiSora before resuming its Darkside-like form. Data-Sora grows weary from this battle; just as Sora's Heartless is about to claim victory, King Mickey appears. Mickey's aid gives Data-Sora the means of destroying the Shadow that serves as his opponent's true form. Episode 7

Design

Sora's Heartless is physically identical to the common Shadow; its digital incarnation within Jiminy's Journal first appears in the form of a Darkside with multicolored circuitry on its shoulders and chest, then as an AntiSora, then finally as the Shadow that serves as its true form.

Abilities

As a Shadow, Sora can only jump and run. He can no longer activate lift nodes, and unlike other Shadows, he cannot perform lunge attacks. However, if Sora falls too far in the Lift Stop, a lift node will automatically activate to bring him back up to the correct floor.

The digital version of Sora's Heartless showed the ability to absorb all the data of fallen Heartless along with the Bug Blox, growing in power and transforming into forms to suit said power.[5]

Gallery

  • Sprite of Sora's Heartless in Kingdom Hearts Tamagotchi.
    Sprite of Sora's Heartless in Kingdom Hearts Tamagotchi.
  • Sora's Heartless in the Kingdom Hearts manga.
    Sora's Heartless in the Kingdom Hearts manga.
  • Sora's Heartless in a flashback from the Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories manga.
    Sora's Heartless in a flashback from the Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories manga.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Ansem the Wise: "The heart has always been quick to grow. Each exposure to light, to the natural world, to other people, shapes this most malleable part inside of us. Nobodies are not different from us in that manner. Sora was the only one able to return to his human form without destroying his Nobody. That is a statement to the love in his heart for other people, and the bonds that tie them together. Perhaps...he has the power to bring back the hearts and existences of those connected to him—to recreate people we thought were lost to us forever."
  2. ^ Kingdom Hearts, Riku: "It's no use. That girl has lost her heart. She cannot wake up...The Keyhole cannot be completed so as long as the last princess of heart still sleeps...Yes, and without her power, the Keyhole will remain incomplete. It is time she awakened...But first, you must give the princess back her heart...Don't you see yet? The princess's heart is responding. It has been there all along. Kairi's heart rests within you!...So, I shall release you now, Princess. Complete the Keyhole with your power. Open the door, and lead me into everlasting darkness!"
  3. ^ Secret Ansem Report 12: "Apart from Naminé, Nobodies retain their memories of their time as humans, but Sora's Nobody, Roxas, has lost Sora's memories. This is likely because Sora's time as a Heartless was short, having recovered his heart and returned to his human form soon after leaving behind Roxas, his Nobody. It would seem Roxas is much like Naminé. Naminé is Kairi's Nobody, but came into being via Sora's body and soul. Likewise, Roxas is Sora's Nobody, but was left behind because Sora's Heartless regained human form using Kairi's heart instead of his own."
  4. ^ Famitsu Interview; Interviewer: "Is AntiForm originated from when Sora got turned into a Heartless?" / Tetsuya Nomura: "Story-wise, yes. Drives are very strong so AntiForm exists as a side-effect of using too much power. System-wise, I wanted to create something strong but troublesome." Translation by KHInsider.
  5. ^ Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, Data-Riku: "I should have known. Normally when you defeat a Heartless, the heart it's holding would be released. But in the Datascape, no hearts are released. Instead, what I think you released were their minds " / Data-Sora: "Where do the minds end up?" / Data-Riku: "Right in front of you. Your Heartless has been devouring and absorbing the dark intentions of those Heartless."
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