Sora is from the AU DWRP Brave New World, a post-apocalyptic Pokemon world. About 500 years before the game takes place, there was a huge calamity where the Pokemon, sick of humanity's hubris, rose up and destroyed most of human civilization. A few isolated pockets of humanity managed to survive, and among them a select few called the Enlightened inherited special powers much like Pokemon arose. Brave New World focus on these Enlightened, as well as humanity's effort to rejoin the world once more.
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Sora was born in Destiny Village, a small secluded fishing village located on Destiny Island, alongside his twin brother Roxas. He met Riku and became best friends before Sora was old enough to remember. Next to Roxas and Riku who were talented in many ways, Sora was often overlooked, which nutured his competitive streak.

Like so many places in the world, Destiny had remained cut off from the rest of the world since the calamity and had long forgotten what was beyond the horizon. But things changed when Sora was 6 years old, and two young girls named Kairi and Namine washed up onto their shores. The boys befriended them and even though the girls remembered little of their life before coming to Destiny, their arrival spark within the children. The burning desire to find out what was past their horizons.

The years passed peacefully. As the children got older, they continued to dream and plan ways to get off their island. When Sora was 14, they began to construct a raft. At the same time, Sora began to have troubling dreams, but they were always quickly forgotten in the daytime.

The night before they planned to set off on the raft, everything changed. A storm came, and Sora had gone off to secure the raft. But before he could reach it, the village was attacked by the local Zubat population that had been worked into a frenzy. Sora was nearly killed, but his latent Enlightened powers awoke and saved him. He ran and got onto a fishing boat with several villagers trying to escape the zubats. But the storm caused the boat to capsize, and Sora was knocked out.

He was found much later by two rangers, washed up on a beach near the city of Union. The rangers, Donald and Goofy, had no knowledge of Sora's village, and didn't even believe his story. They brought him to their city, and tried to help him look for any family. Eventually when they couldn't find anyone and they had to return to their duties, they left him at a local orphanage with what money they could spare and a Shinx to keep him company. Before they parted, they cautioned him to keep quiet about where he thought he came from.

A year passed, and Sora struggled to adjust living in Union. Cultural differences constantly caused trouble for Sora. His grades that had always been average back home, plummented in Union. He had trouble making friends as he was often perceived as strange. Even his powers, unrefined and unpredictable, were a regular source of problems. Sora spent most of the year miserable, and he quickly became obsessed with the idea of finding a way back home.

Unfortunately for him, before he could make any headway, he was kidnapped and brought to space. Sucks to be Sora.

When a person first meets Sora, it's normal for them to completely overlook him. He's young, short, skinny and all in all pretty average looking. Being average in intelligence and not particularly driven unless pushed, it's rather no surprise many people seem dismiss him right out of hand. Even his powers as a fledging Enlightened are pretty underwhelming, being neither flashy, powerful, nor even reliable.

But what Sora lacks in sheer awe factor, he makes up for in friendliness and an outgoing nature. Sora has an easy time interacting with new people and tries to make friends wherever he goes. Unless there's something about a person that puts him ill at ease, he seems to approach most new encounters as a chance to make another friend.

While this may sound like Sora is a gullible idiot that'll get himself killed one day, he's surprisingly perceptive about people's motives. A novel once described that when he meets a new person he spends some time mentally judging them into three different categories: good, bad and suspicious for those rare people that he has trouble pinpointing their true alignment. But aside from those rare cases, his perception and intuition works extremely well and it's hard for someone with malicious intent to pull the wool over his eyes.

Intelligence wise, Sora is best described as simple. Complicated concepts tend to go over his head, and he's nowhere near as philosophical as his friend Riku. Many remark that he can be slow on the uptake, and it's not without merit. However, he isn't without his clever moments. His simple way of thinking frequently benefits him too, allowing him to cut through to the heart of the matter of an issue instead of getting stuck on the smaller details.

All in all, when things are peaceful Sora is a boy at peace. While he enjoys adventure, he seems most content just spending a fun day with his friends. Riku originally wanted to leave the islands with zero intent or desire to return one day, Sora seems to hang onto the dream that one day he'll get to return home with his friends. Having that dream threatened or taken away often results in Sora getting depressed or more easily agitated.

While the past year of Sora's life have made him grow and mature in a lot of ways, he's still very much a kid. He gets easily excited about new things and just as quickly angry over little things that more mature people overlook. He can be competitive and do bratty things like stick out his tongue or being a complete smart-mouth. When something bothers him enough, he'll become extremely stubborn and not let it go. He also has a tendency to get stuck in the moment and forget the bigger picture- which sometimes lands him into serious trouble. He's a good kid, but very much a kid.

Of course all these above mentioned personality traits match how he acts in canon. And since this Sora is from an AU, a question is how does he differ?

Several ways. First of all, unlike canon Sora, BNW!Sora was never chosen to do anything. Sure, he had special powers awaken, but he is far from the only Enlightened in his world. There was no trumpeting call to duty, no universes to save. Sora never had to fight in a war, or make the hard choices. But on the other hand, he never had a chance to make all the friends he did, or have his horizons expand from his journeys. He is much more naive about what is out there in the world (much like Sora in the first Kingdom Hearts). He feels much less compelled to get in the middle of business that doesn't directly involve him. He still has the more typical viewpoint of a teenage civilian than any sort of hero, such as things like fighting crime is something for the cops, not him. Would he still step in if there was something going on right in front of him? Most likely. But this Sora isn't about to run a crusade against darkness anytime soon.

Due to him being feel compelled to hide his origins, Sora's had a harder time establishing strong bonds in his past year of life. He doesn't know anyone in Union, and while the other people at the orphanage and his school find him friendly enough- there's no shaking that there was just something odd about him. Union was a place that had been under extreme isolation for the past 500 years. As such, they had absolutely no frame of reference to recognize unfamiliarity to their customs due to being a foreigner. So Sora's different way of speaking, his gestures, his lack of basic Union cultural knowledge would often be interpreted as signs that Sora was either very odd or very stupid instead of being the telltale signs of being from elsewhere. Which would make many people a bit more reluctant to befriend him.

This has caused Sora to feel rather isolated and alone in his new city. Which for a kid that relies on his friends for strength? That's no small thing. It's made his desire to find a way home into a full blown fixation. He's convinced himself that all he has to do is get himself home and then everything would be just fine. At this point, he refuses to acknowledge the very definite possibility that there may be no home lef. In his goals of regain what he lost in his home and with no one to really keep him in check, he's also become rather reckless. Anything that might lead to finding his way back home is worth trying, even if it's absolutely dangerous.

Sora is an Enlightened. Think X-men mutants but with Pokemon stats. His stats are as followed:

STATS

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TYPE:
ABILITY: Kindred Spirit
FORM: 1st Evolution
RESISTANT:
IMMUNE:
WEAK:

STRENGTHS: Fast, Dexterous, Great at impromptu strategies, Great at teamwork
WEAKNESSES: Unreliable powers, fragile, young, impulsive, poor at long-term strategies, poor at working alone

MOVES

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KINDRED SPIRIT: Passive Ability. Allows him to understand and communicate with animals. Animals are quicker to warm up to him.
LOW EMPATH: Passive Ability. Able to pick on on whether or not someone has malicious intent or feelings. It has to be in person to work.
WINDSTEP: Sora can make himself move very quickly for bursts of time lasting 5-10 seconds.
AERO: Learned from Dezel. Can create and control small gusts of wind. Not harmful.
HIGH JUMP: Jumps much higher than a normal human and takes very little fall damage.
OFFENSE EMOTIONS: Does psychic attacks that are lashing out of his own emotions. It's powered based on how strongly he feels the emotion, but is in the low-to-mid power range.

• ANGER: Psycho Cut. Must be full anger/rage. Multiple use is extremely draining.
• BSOD: Amensia. Effects are temporary.
• CONFUSION: Confusion.
• DEFENSIVE: Barrier.
• ENVY: Skill Swap, effects are temporary.
• FEAR: Confusion or Splash, depending on severity of fear and amount of control. A very unreliable emotion.
• OVERWHELMED: Magic Room. Non-vital equipment/items inexplicably lose power or glitch. (Note: Augments and vital ship systems will still function).
• SADNESS: Gravity, Misery loves company, but its weight can be crushing. Creates vortex that draws enemies in and deals damage. More effective on smaller targets.
• WOOZY: Telekinesis, feeling light headed? Try floating!

AGE: 16
HEIGHT: 4'10"
BUILD: Scrawny
HAIR: Brown
EYES: Blue
APPEARANCE: Link
STATUS: Single
AUGMENT: Maintenance
SHIP: SS Huntress

BACKTAGGING: Yes!
4TH-WALLING: No.
THREADJACKING: Yes!
MIND READING: Yes, but there's not much there.
FIGHTING: Yes!
ROMANCE: Why?
INJURY: Yes, but check with me.
KILLING: No.