Don't Even Get Me STARTED On His Habit Of Hiding Negative Emotions - Blog Posts

so i'm not entirely sure how to articulate this well but i was thinking about the ending of kingdom hearts 3 (as you do) and remembered something

okay so, this scene

chirithy is talking about losing powers, specifically the power of waking, which sora brushes off until he's told he'll disappear,

only to be himself and keep going to save kairi despite the (multiple) warnings

he's truly selfless to a fault for his friends

but he considers himself worthless without them, and is willing to sacrifice his very being for their sake, and even seems okay with it if it means they'll be okay

he so dependent on his friends and the people around him he can't see himself in a good light and seems to truly believe what he says in those screenshots

this mindset can even be seen beginning in kingdom hearts 1, when riku takes the keyblade and sora falls to his hands and knees, despondent. only to then be abandoned by donald and goofy, the two constants in his journey

and when sora does get the keyblade back, it's after his speech on all the people he's met and how his friends are his power

it's super cheesy and i love it and in the context of the first game it's perfectly fine, but taking in the context of the rest of the series, this seems to be the beginning of his unhealthy dependency on his friends

anyways i love sora so much but i also hope he has a segment in kingdom hearts 4 where he's completely alone, even away from strelitzia, so we can explore this part of his character more.