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Why Sora's friends are his power

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People do say a lot about how naive Sora can be, and why the reason he didn't pass the MoM was because of this. But many people seem to forget how much power his words have when he says "My friends are my power!"

 

Sora isn't an independent person. He's not a lone wolf, he works WITH Donald and Goofy (and his dream eaters) to help him achieve. Almost every waking hour of Sora's life is him going out and meeting new friends, searching for his own friends and bringing people together. Saving his friends whenever they need him and sticking with them to overcome any challenge. 

 

The moment Sora's world fell to darkness his first and only goal was finding his friends, whereas Riku eventually turned against Sora because of how easily he was giving in to the darkness and how quickly he forgot about his friendships. But Sora is a big doofus and had no idea where to start. Then he met Donald and Goofy and with their shared skills over the course of 1 and 2 they accomplished some crazy things. 

 

Meanwhile Riku is having intense internal struggles with his own darkness and nobody to help him through it. This is where Riku and Sora are different. They're both determined and strong, but Riku had to go through incredibly internal turmoil because he had no one else. He could have gone to Sora at the beggining of KH2 but he said himself that he was ashamed of what he'd become and didn't want his friends to see him that way. Whereas nearly every struggle Sora has gone through, he's never given in to darkness or given up, because he has his friends with him, be it physically or in spirit.

 

With his friends, Sora is more powerful than any KH character could hope to be, but on his own he struggles and can fumble. He's usually much less peppy and has not much of a clear direction on his own. Riku however is used to being alone, and has overcome his struggles against the darkness giving him unprecedented resistance against darkness which is a very strong thing to have in the coming battles. But Riku doesn't have the kind of power that Sora does, because he never opened his heart to anyone else. 

 

TL;DR Sora's naivety = almost unconditional kindness and the power to link everyone's hearts together through him and makes him incredibly strong as a person. Sora is capable of some downright incredible things when he has his friends to back him up.

Riku's independence and maturity make him very strong in his own right and are what earned him the right to be a Keyblade Master but don't give him any exceptional powers over light or compare to the scale of which Sora's heart has affected or helped others.   

Edited by Frikcha

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For the most part sora can do pretty well on his own honestly Donald and Goofy get in the way sometimes (in my view) like with the lingering will Sora practically has to fight them all by himself cause your team is going to be dead within seconds (or K.0 whatever) and sora can take sephiroth all by himself that is a HUGE feat it its ownself. What I'm trying to say is sora really doesn't rely heavily on Donald and goofy he's a self-taught and a extremely skilled Swordsman there's no questioning that. And he's going to be even more OP in Kingdom Hearts 3.

Sora has constantly depicted to be the strongest character in the KH universe. Stronger than all the afflicted, hardened warriors of XIII, all the heartless, King Mickey, any of the Disney villains, stronger even than Xehanort. And by a small margin, stronger than Riku. Yes I know, technically his powers were "stolen" from Riku, but that's not entirely true. His powers come from all of those he's met and touched, starting with Ventus. And what allowed Sora to grow like that? To have infinite potential? His heart. He has the biggest heart in the universe. He's not some overly optimistic cheesy protagonist, he's just as emo as anyone else in the series at times. But he believes in his friends, and even in his enemies. He doesn't have the strongest muscles, the fastest legs, the most unfathomable natural power, he's just some kid. But because of his inner strength and boundless compassion, there's no limits to what he can do.

Edited by RuDoe Ry

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Or simply put:It's a shonen troupe

 

You don't have to be a lone wolf or deny your friends in order to be independent and really independency doesn't mean you gotta work alone it just means you're capable of protecting\sustaining yourself and it can include protecting others

 

Now this troupe can be done right and it when it does so it's charming but most of the time it's used as a cheap deus ex machina to power the protagonist with the "power of friendship" to beat his\her enemy in a cheap fashion

 

It'd be really interesting to have a situation where Sora is challenged for once and not have everything handed to him like a gary stu(and before you say he didn't become a master......I'm sure an interview said he became a master off-screen in the time between BBS0.2 and KH3).Like have him be alone for a world or two and test his convictions and beliefs with different trials.Let us see the other side of Sora so that when the moment comes his power to connect with others' hearts would shine even in the bleakest of situations

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