Kingdom Hearts’ Most Heartbreaking Moments
9. The Life of Roxas
Poor, poor Roxas, even in his own dreams he’s not the star.
We’re introduced to Roxas at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts II, living out the last days of summer vacation hanging with his friends, solving mysteries and chowing down on the apparently delicious sea salt ice cream.
But things aren’t quite right, his dreams are filled with someone else and their friends, his waking days disjointed and weird, no one seems to notice or care.
In truth, Roxas is Sora’s Nobody, half a human being born when Sora became a Heartless.
Living in a digital world, contained so he can one day be thrown back into Sora, consciousness and all, he was a member of Organisation XIII and had his own life and friends, sitting atop the clock tower with Axel and Xion between missions. A trio that was quickly torn apart.
Roxas, unlike most Nobodies, has the capacity to feel real emotion as one linked to Sora’s heart and lived his own life whilst Sora slumbered.
He wants nothing more than to be his own person and live a normal life, something he got the illusion of, but never the reality. Battling one last time for dominance in Sora’s mind, he’s beaten and later willingly merges with Sora.
Watching his friend die, having to turn on his allies, later stripped of his happy little life, all to serve as a data transplant for the main protagonist. All the guy wanted was some ice cream.
