Thinking about how Sora's best and worst traits are so undeniably tied together. Or more, those flaws stemming from those best traits due to the twist of experiences that make him hold onto his strengths to the point they turn back around and break him bit by bit.
He's empathetic, he's optimistic, he isn't easily swayed by the darkness. Except, he's bottling up his negative emotions in the way he sometimes evades serious conversations about his own personal feelings. How he's told not to change and that, of course, he's strong enough to get through all the pain and fix things.
Both allies and enemies need him so they use him, and yet he's also put down. He's just a delivery boy, he's just a pawn, he's just a puppet, he's just the next name down the list, he's just a dull and ordinary boy.
Don't worry, he'll forgive.
Don't worry, he won't remember.
Don't worry, he'd be willing to have his heart crushed to pieces to protect his loved ones.
And don't worry, he's more than happy to sacrifice himself repeatedly if he feels that there's no other way.
Except, he's just a kid. He struggles and gets affected by those words, those titles, the weight of a role that demands everything out of him and yet tells him he isn't enough. He wins because of love and spite, but those never go without consequence. He isn't the kind of hero that gets a happily ever after without having to pay the price.
Just something about how while Sora's strengths are, clearly, his strengths, it sometimes gets used to a point that it creates or pushes out the issues that come from letting him go unchecked, and yet oftentimes we see how both his allies and enemies benefit from his best bringing out the worst in him.
I don't know if I'm making sense, I'm just putting the Sora angst in the microwave of my brain...
Making Kingdom Hearts Stuff Until KH4 Comes Out (Day 414)
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