Sora

Sora is the protagonist of the Kingdom Hearts series. He is an upbeat teenager and though he may seem simple minded and naive at times, he possesses a strong sense of justice and an unwavering heart. At times, he is impulsive and quick to anger, but he is always sincere about what he says and does. He comes from Destiny Islands and is close friends with Riku and Kairi. Sora is derived from the Japanese word for sky, in comparison with sea and land.

Sora is fourteen years old at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts and lives on the Destiny Islands with his best friends Riku and Kairi. Sora and his two close friends seek to see the world beyond the islands and begin to build a raft. However, a strange dark force storms the islands and Sora is swept away from his home and separated from his friends. He drifted though the corridors of darkness, an inter dimensional pathway, and ended up at a place known as Traverse Town.

Here he meets Donald Duck and Goofy, the respective Royal Court Magician and Captain of the Royal Guard of Disney Castle. They are under direct orders found in a letter left behind by their king, Mickey, who has mysteriously disappeared and is on his own mission conducing an investigation into the darkness that is slowly swallowing world after world, to find Leon and a mysterious "key". The three of them decide to look for their friends together, especially since Donald and Goofy believe Sora will be the one to defeat the dark force because he bears a weapon known as the Keyblade.

After reaching Hollow Bastion, Sora loses the keyblade to Riku after he was revealed to be the rightful keyblade master. This in turn causes Donald & Goofy to abandon him for Riku as per their orders but loyalty soon brings them back to Sora. Riku loses the keyblade to Sora after he choses darkness over light of his own free will. Enraged he fights Sora but is defeated. When Kairi is revealed to be one of the Seven Princess of Heart, Sora discovers that Riku believes that her heart has been stolen by the Heartless. In reality, Sora has held Kairi's heart within him since she passed through him in the very beginning. In order to return her heart Sora uses a dark Keyblade to remove his heart and hers, becoming a Heartless himself for a short period before being restored to normal. As Sora investigates the door to darkness, Riku and King Mickey appear on the other side of the door and together they seal it from both sides. As the worlds begin to restore themselves, Kairi and Sora are separated. Sora promises to return to her as soon as he finds Riku and the doorway to light.