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Name: Ana
Journal: higenshi
Contact: anakhathesilver @ AIM


Character Name: Data Sora’s Heartless
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Gender: Assumed to be male
Age & Canon Point: Chronologically about a year, his Sora form is physically 14 as it’s based on Sora, but he’s mentally anywhere from 5 to his late twenties due to how he took in so much data; taken from just before he’s eliminated by Mickey and Data Sora
Requested Sponsor: Ruby, but will take whatever he can get
Entry position (Cadet, SeeD, Instructor, other): Cadet
History: Only the Coded section applies.
Abilities & Physical Abnormalities: Quite frankly, he’s entirely black with glowing yellow eyes, and his real form is a small Shadow.

As for abilities...

X Heartless abilities:

X Heart stealing – like all Heartless, he can steal hearts and through this create more Heartless.

X Corridors of darkness – he can use corridors of darkness to travel between locations.

X Unique abilities:

X Shapeshifting – he has three forms he can move between. His true form, which is that of a Shadow Heartless. His Darkside form, which is only used for battle. And his Sora form, which is his most advanced form.

X Keyblade spam – he can summon false Keyblades from hammerspace and pound his enemies with them, or summon three at a time so spin around him. Only used in Sora form.

X Duplication – he can create two copies of himself. The real one will glow. Only used in Sora form.

X Feeding – Unlike most Heartless, he is able to use another source for his feeding. He is canonly stated as able to devour bad data, translating to negative thoughts and feelings outside of the Journal.

X Speech – Also unlike most Heartless, in his Darkside and Sora forms he can speak. (Unsure if this actually qualifies as an ability.)

Power Limitations:

He pretty much self limits by not using most of his more noticeable abilities unless he needs to fight. He likes to lie low, after all.

Personality: First and foremost, Data Sora’s Heartless is actually quite intelligent. He is one of two Heartless in the series able to speak, and he also formulates a plan to escape the journal into the real world. This is something unique to him, and the only other Heartless that shows any form of intelligence beyond mindless consumption is Xehanort’s Heartless. Of course, that’s not to say he isn’t driven by hunger, but so is any Heartless. (“Ones born of the heart and darkness, hunger for every heart until the dark door opens.” and “RAGE… HATRED… GLITCHES TO FEED MY DARKNESS. AND SOON, HEARTS TO SATE MY HUNGER.”)

Adding to this, he figured out a way to become stronger—something no other Heartless in the journal tries to do. He proved to be resourceful, using the glitches and even the minds of the Heartless to feed his strength. (“Your Heartless has been gathering up, then devouring the dark intentions of the fallen Heartless. That’s where it gets its power: dark data!” and “Defeating Heartless here in the datascape, though--that wouldn't have set any real hearts free. Instead, you've releases the Heartless's minds.”) His speech patterns also demonstrate an intelligence that even Sora doesn’t seem to have, and he uses words much more similar in pattern to Ansem then Sora. (“LONG HAVE THE FALLEN WANDERED. NOW THEY SHALL SERVE THE WILL OF DARKNESS.”)

He also shows and extreme amount of patience. He quietly waits while Data Sora and Data Riku speak and figure things out. He also had the patience required to remain hidden while he devoured said glitches and minds, and Riku—the very avatar for the journal—had no idea he was even doing this. (“Wait...that's it! You're not the only one who evolved within the datascape!” combined with “I know where the bugs came from. All of them! It's your shadow--your Heartless!”)

It is later revealed, though, that while he is not the source of the bugs, he makes them worse. The source is Naminé (“Memories used to fill Jiminy's Journal, but when they were pulled apart and then stitched back together... bugs appeared.”), and Sora’s Heartless simply takes advantage of the bugs—again, demonstrating both intelligence and resourcefulness that only Xehanort’s Heartless shows. (“I know where the bugs came from. All of them!”)

It is suggested through his own words that he experiences at least some degree of emotion. His word choice carries a tone of smugness, and he even comes across as taunting. (“LONG HAVE THE FALLEN WANDERED. NOW THEY SHALL SERVE THE WILL OF DARKNESS.” and “RAGE... HATRED… AND NOW, GLITCHES TO FEED MY DARKNESS.”) At the very least, he is extremely confident of himself, both suggested by his own words and by how he allows Sora and Riku to converse when he could have simply initiated a battle right off. (“RAGE… HATRED… GLITCHES TO FEED MY DARKNESS. AND SOON, HEARTS TO SATE MY HUNGER!”)

He’s also very, very determined to achieve his goal of escaping the journal. This is evidenced by how he does not accept defeat, instead drawing on his data and evolving once more to a human shape. (“Why is it looking at me like that?” and “When is this gonna end!?”) In fact, he perseveres to the point that Sora is weakened and unable to defeat him alone and Mickey himself has to intervene to keep the Heartless within the journal.
What are your plans for the character in-game? Mostly seeing how he’d react to getting out of the journal, and thus exposed to the real world. He never thought that far, after all.

Anything else? He’s going to be faking that all people are like him where he’s from, and he’s going to be spending most of his time in his Sora shape. However, when weakened severely/KO’ed, he’ll revert to Shadow form.



i) Prose sample: Freedom. To live life beyond this restrictive atmosphere. It’s something just out of reach, but the more data he devours, the closer it becomes, until his fingers just barely brush against it. But it’s not to be his. He burns with anger toward the data boy, that one who’s been giving him the delicious glitches and negative thoughts to feed off of and grow. He’s going to take it all away. Every single byte that makes up his being can feel it. So he lashes out, tries to rip the boy apart.

In the end, he fails. He’s torn to pieces, his data reduced to nothing. Inside his own head, he screams his hate for the other, even as his data is being erased and reduced in size, back to a mere facsimile that sits there for display.
ii) Thread link: This entire thing.