Sharing a Paopu - Third Edition

by Sanchay

Sora, Kairi, and Riku are flung into an unexpected adventure when they meet Hiromi, a girl claiming to remember their first adventure despite never having met them. While mainly a pure adventure story, it is also meant to be silly when it's able. SoraxKairi is evident from the get-go, but romance is not a focus here.

1. Forword - A Note on the OC

~*Foreword~

This story has had seven years of being broken, eviscerated, and psychologically abused, but I've used this tale as a creative writing tool of which I have grown extremely fond. With all the new Kingdom Hearts games coming out, I keep having to revise most of the facts, but for easy reference, consider all games after Kingdom Hearts II only slightly relevant. While I may mention some technical references as new information regarding the nature of hearts and such is revealed, I will not take canon story directly from any of the games past 358/2 Days for simplicity's sake. Also to note, I took the creative liberty of creating my own mentality on how hearts work in certain situations, such as unconsciously storing one's heart in a capable container, and, as will become relevant later on, one's Heartless embodying their personality and not necessarily their appearance, which technically is what it's supposed to be anyway. There's been a lot of focus on the fact that Sora's Nobody is the only one that looks different than he does, on top of the fact that he was still able to function as a normal person while Roxas was busy doing his own thing. (At the time of writing this, I'm still working on beating DDD so I have no idea how it all ends aside from a vague Wiki answer. I'll get around to it, but there's no need to rush even for the purpose of this story)

While the original character in this fan fiction was originally a self-insert to a certain extent, and even the current version of her echoes my own personality quite heavily, I consider her to be closer to a sister or a close friend than a Mary Sue at this point. Yes, there is a difference. I tend to form a familiar bond with a lot of characters in my original stories as well that look and act nothing like me, sometimes even to a pseudo-conversational level. In my eyes, she just happens to be the version of me that I never had the confidence to display outwardly by pure coincidence. And even the things she does internalize, as well as her "shadow", are all related to personal truths. "Mary Sue", for all intents and purposes, is not the word I hope anyone will use to describe her.

I wish to use this story to breach my social barriers, as well as my physical ones, in the form of a lighthearted – yet hopefully sympathetic – story of a group of friends and their adventures, as they discover things about themselves, along with learning of their true enemies.

~San