Summary

• Characters like Eraqus, Xehanort, and Xion undergo significant growth and development throughout the Kingdom Hearts series.
• Eraqus originally has a positive outlook but grows to hate darkness; Xehanort's motivations stem from a tragic event.
• Characters like Namine and Xion evolve to live for themselves and embrace their own identity.

’ ongo𒈔ing story has meant that there’s been a lot of room for character growth and development. Even side characters who don’t have a central focus in the main series have had character arcs and changed quite a bit since we first saw them.

Of course, the main cha🔜racters꧅, like Sora and Riku, have changed a lot too, thanks to everything they’ve seen and been through over the course of the games. These are the characters who have changed the most throughout the entire series.

10 Eraqus

Dark Road showed what Eraqus was like in his youth before he became a Keyblad🌼e master and mentor to Terra, Aqua, and Ventus. When he was young, he was similar to Sora - he always had a positive outlook and strongly believed in the light, providing a stark contrast to his best friend, Xehanort.

After the tragic events of Dark Road, where nearly all of Eraqus’ classmates are killed, Eraqus learns to hate d😼arkness, wh꧋ich is what causes him to turn on Terra in Birth by Sleep. By the end of Kingdom Hearts 3, though, Eraqus is forgiven by his three students, so he’s able to pass on without guilt.

9 Xehanort

As Xehanort is 168澳洲幸运5开奖𝔍网:the main villain🔯 of the Dark Seeker Saga, you might think that he doesn’t change much. While it’s true that Xehanort rema🧜ins steadfast in his desire to use Kingdom Hearts for his own vision, Dark Road reveals that he wasn’t always this evil mastermind.

In the past, he was close to Eraqus and enjoyed traveling and investigating the other worlds. It🎃 was only when Xehanort saw how darkness possessed Baldr’s heart, causing him to murder their classmates, that Xehanort’s vision was formed and he bꦿecame consumed with the need to restore the balance of light and darkness.

8 Xion

Xion’s story in 358/2 Days is a tragedy. After bonding with Roxas and Axel, she learns that she was built to become a copy of Sora, which would destroy Roxas if the transformation were to complete. Rather than becoming 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a tool for Organization 13, she sacrifices hersel🍷f to ensure that Sora w𒊎akes up.

For a while, Xion’s fate was uncertain, but she makes a ꧑triumphant return in Kingdom Hearts 3 thanks to her friends. Now, instead of being forced to be someone she’s not and needing to put herself before others, 🐭Xion has her own identity and fights for the life she has made for herself.

7 Saix/Isa

In 358/2 Days, Saix’s main goal ♔is to find out more information about Subject X, his and Axel’s missing friend. When Saix notices Axel becoming closer with Roxas and Xion♊, he feels betrayed and thinks that Axel has forgotten about their mutual goal to find their missing friend.

As a result, Saix opposes Axel when he leaves🐻 the꧃ Organization. It’s not until Kingdom Hearts 3, when Saix is about to disappear in Axel’s arms, that Saix admits the jealousy he felt. When Saix returns as Isa, no longer a Nobody, he’s finally able to connect with Axel again.

6 Ventus

Ventus has changed quite a lot throughout his appearances in the series, but he doesn’t remem𓃲ber everything. He originally lived in the age of fairytales, where he was a Union leader and Keyblade wielder. Though he’s friends with both of them, Ventus admits that he’s jealous of Ephemer and Sku𓆉ld’s friendship and struggles to connect with others because he’s quiet.

In Birth by Sleep, mꩲany years into the future, Ventus has no 🐠memories of the past, but he becomes a Keyblade wielder once again. This time, he has two best friends - Aqua and Terra - and is much more outgoing in comparison to his past self.

5 Namine

In Chain of Memories, Namine is being forced by the Organization to 💙toy with Sora’s memories and make him go further deeper into Castle Oblivion. Despite her fear of the Or♈ganization members, she does her best to help Sora in the little ways that she can.

In Kingdom Hearts 2, Namine accepts that, as a Nobody, she must return to Kairi to make her whole🍸 again, and does so, along with Roxas to Sora. She doesn’t think of living her own life - only helping others and returning to Kairi. In 3, however, Namine is finally given her own body, and, like Xion, learns to live for herself, not others.

4 Axel/Lea

Axel initially joined Organization 13 alongside Saix with the intention of uncovering mor𝄹e about their missing friend Subject X. Instead, however, he became best friends with Roxas and Xion, which changed him completely.

Because of his connection to Roxas and Xion, Axel leaves the Organization and joins Sora’s side, hoping that, one day, he might be able to get his best friends back. He also learns to wield the Keyblade 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:instead of his chakrams, showing his commitment to the side ไof the light.

3 Roxas

As Sora’s Nobody, Roxas spent 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts 2 feeling like he was livinౠg in Sora’s shadow. Everyone wanted him to be Sora, but he just wanted to be Roxas, eating ice-cream on Twilight Town’s clock tower. As a result, Roxas had a lot of anger inside him.

One the most pivotal moments in Roxas’ 🌌arc is when he speaks to Sora in Dream Drop Distance. After Sora says that Roxas deserves to be his own person too, Roxas tells Sora, “That’s why it has to be you.” Roxas finally understands Sora - and as a result, he ꦗcan move on and be his own person, like Sora said he should be.

2 Sora

Sora begins the series as an ordinary boy who has dreams of exploring the worlds beyond his home of Destiny Islands. After gaining the Keyblade and befriending Donald and Goofy, he learns that connections are his power and utilizes them for theℱ majority of 🐻his journey.

In Kingdom Hearts 3, when almost all of his friends are lost in the Keyblade Graveyard, Sora realizes that he was relying on them for his strength, and breaks down without them. Though he was able ꧋to get most of them back and decides to pursue Kairi alone without help, this seems like the tip of the iceberg for Sora’s insecurity, and something that might still be explo🐟red more.

1 Riku

In the first Kingdom He♒arts game, Riku strays down a dark p൲ath because of his jealousy and need for Sora’s attention. He wields darkness and hurts his best friend as a result, and then he spends Chain of Memories, 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts 2 feeling a lot of guilt and shame.

Dream Drop Distance was a turning point for Riku. He instinctively becomes a Dream Eater to protect Sora from nightmares, and at the end of 💖the game, he’s asked a series of questions by the♚ people in Sora’s heart. The canon answers are as follows:

• What is it you are so afraid of? - Losing something that’s important.
• What is the one thing you care about more than anything else? - My close friends. (The original Japanese is more closely translated as “my precious best friend”.)
• What do you wish? - To recover something important.

Riku has learnt that, above anything else, he cares about Sora. In Kingdom Hearts 3, he proves himself by sacrificing himself🏅 to protect Sora in the Keyblade Graveyard. He lets go of his jealousy and uses these feelings as his strength.