One Sore, One Destiny Analysis

"Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend. Now I will step forward to realize this wish. And who knows: starting a new journey may not be so hard, or maybe it has already begun. There are many worlds, but they share the same sky — one sky, one destiny”. Kairi says this to Sora in a letter that she bottles and sends out to sea. It just so happens that when the Japanese is translated to English, one of those words means something else. Sky; translates a little roughly to Sora, who is the main character, so it actually reads,” one sore, one destiny”. I will be arguing whether or not Sora is a good friend and if Riku is as well. The whole story is about how his world is swallowed by darkness, which happens to be a very physical presence, and his friends are gone. He wakes up in a strange world with a strange “key” blade. It is explained later that the “key” blade is none other than a chosen blade only wielded by those worthy of Kingdom Hearts, which is pure light, and is the resting place of the innocent souls of the worlds consumed by darkness. Sora is determined to find his friends. He teams up with two very well known …show more content…
He is selfless, even on his travels. He goes from world to world in search of his friends, but ends up stopping and waiting to help the inhabitants over finding Riku and Kiari. In the end, even after he finds Riku and Kairi he still comes back to help is other friends Donald and Goofy. Saying all this about Sora kind of puts Riku in the dark, right? Wrong. Riku is still selfless as well, but he goes about it the wrong way. When his world was swallowed by darkness he gave in to it. In the attempt to become stronger so he could protect his friends. He sacrificed himself in order to have the power to protect them. So even though I chose Sora as the better friend, Riku still has a pretty good