Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts
Canon Information
Media Type	Video Game, Mangas
Country of Origin	United States
Genre(s)	Action Role-Play, Hack and Slash
Fanon Information
Popular Ships	SoKai Soriku
Related Fandoms	Disney Final Fantasy
Notable Links	Kingdom Hearts Wiki

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Kingdom Hearts is a video game series. It is a crossover series made by Square Enix and Disney.

Plot

The Kingdom Hearts games primarily follow a boy named Sora from a world known as Destiny Islands. He and his friends Kairi and Riku have an interest in traveling to other worlds. When the Heartless attack the island, Sora winds up in another world after finding that he received a mysterious weapon called the Keyblade. He joins up with Goofy and Donald Duck to find King Mickey and his friends while those aligned with the darkness are after his heart as well as the seven princesses of heart.

When somebody loses their heart, they are turned into a Heartless. If the being had a strong heart, then they would also leave behind a nobody. Thirteen of these nobodies retained their human forms and formed Organization XIII along with a fourteenth member who was a clone of the thirteenth member. Their goal was to collect hearts that were released from the Heartless by the Keyblade so that they may obtain Kingdom Hearts. In the end, it turns out that the actual goal is to allow Xehanort to spread his heart to create thirteen vessels.

Characters

Sora

Riku

Naminé

Aqua

Xion

Axel/Lea

Roxas

Ventus

Kairi

Terra

Player

Ephemer

Skuld

Brain

Lauriam/Marluxia

Elrena/Larxene

Strelitzia

Xehanort

Eraqus

Hermod

Bragi

Baldr

Vanitas

Ships

Het

AkuKai — the ship between Axel and Kairi

AkuNami — the ship between Axel and Naminé

AkuShi — the ship between Axel and Xion

Anti-SoKai — the ship between Anti-Sora and Kairi

AquAku — the ship between Axel and Aqua

Axelsa — the ship between Axel and Elsa

DemLar — the ship between Demyx and Larxene

Ephemer x Skuld — the ship between Ephemer and Skuld

Haynette — the ship between Hayner and Olette

Larxel — the ship between Axel and Larxene

MarLar — the ship between Marluxia and Larxene

MaruMine — the ship between Marluxia and Naminé

Pencette — the ship between Pence and Olette

RepliNami — the ship between Riku Replica and Naminé

RepliShi — the ship between Riku Replica and Xion

RiElsa — the ship between Riku and Elsa

RiKai — the ship between Riku and Kairi

Riku x Selphie — the ship between Riku and Selphie

RikuNami — the ship between Riku and Naminé

Rion — the ship between Riku and Xion

RokuKai — the ship between Roxas and Kairi

RokuNami — the ship between Roxas and Naminé

RokuShi — the ship between Roxas and Xion

Roxette — the ship between Roxas and Olette

Shiki x Riku — the ship between Shiki Misaki and Riku

Squaerith - the ship between Leon/Squall Leonhart and Aerith Gainsborough

Squaffie - the ship between Leon/Squall Leonhart and Yuffie Kisaragi

SoKai — the ship between Sora and Kairi

Sorah — the ship between Sora and Sarah Serenity

Sorapunzel — the ship between Sora and Rapunzel

Soranna — the ship between Sora and Anna

Sorariel — the ship between Sora and Ariel

SorBoo — the ship between Sora and Boo

Sorelsa — the ship between Sora and Elsa

SoNami — the ship between Sora and Naminé

SoXion — the ship between Sora and Xion

Terraqua — the ship between Terra and Aqua

Terrella — the ship between Terra and Cinderella

VanFuu — the ship between Vanitas and Fuu

VanNami — the ship between Vanitas and Naminé

Vanqua — the ship between Vanitas and Aqua

VanShion — the ship between Vanitas and Xion

VenFuu — the ship between Ventus and Fuu

VenKai — the ship between Ventus and Kairi

VenLyn — the ship between Ventus and Lyndsey

VenNami — the ship between Ventus and Naminé

Venqua — the ship between Ventus and Aqua

VenShiki — the ship between Ventus and Shiki Misaki

XemKai — the ship between Xemnas and Kairi

Xemqua — the ship between Xemnas and Aqua

Zaqua — the ship between Zack Fair and Aqua

Slash

AkuDemy — the ship between Axel and Demyx

AkuRoku — the ship between Axel and Roxas

AkuSai — the ship between Axel and Saïx

AkuSora — the ship between Axel and Sora

AkuVeku — the ship between Axel and Vexen

Blauriam — the ship between Brain and Lauriam

CLeon — the ship between Cloud Strife and Leon/Squall Leonhart

Clora — the ship between Cloud Strife and Sora

Data-Soriku — the ship between Data-Sora and Data-Riku

Epheven — the ship between Ephemer and Ventus

Hayrox — the ship between Hayner and Roxas

JoshRiku — the ship between Joshua Kiryu and Riku

LexZex — the ship between Lexaeus and Zexion

Riku x Riku Replica — the ship between Riku and Riku Replica

RikuRoku — the ship between Riku and Roxas

SoHiro — the ship between Sora and Hiro Hamada

Soriku — the ship between Sora and Riku

Sorneka — the ship between Sora and Neku Sakuraba

SoRoku — the ship between Sora and Roxas

SoVan — the ship between Sora and Vanitas

SoVen — the ship between Sora and Ventus

TerRiku — the ship between Terra and Riku

TerVen — the ship between Terra and Ventus

VanVen — the ship between Vanitas and Ventus

VekuZeku — the ship between Vexen and Zexion

Xehaqus — the ship between Xehanort and Eraqus

XemSai — the ship between Xemnas and Saïx

XemXig — the ship between Xemnas and Xigbar

Zackerra — the ship between Zack Fair and Terra

Zackven — the ship between Zack Fair and Ventus

YoSora - the ship between Yozora and Sora

Femslash

Aqua x Elsa — the ship between Aqua and Elsa

Aqua x Xion — the ship between Aqua and Xion

Aquarella — the ship between Aqua and Cinderella

KaiNami — the ship between Kairi and Naminé

Kairi x Aqua — the ship between Kairi and Aqua

Kairi x Selphie — the ship between Kairi and Selphie

KaiShi — the ship between Kairi and Xion

Larxion — the ship between Larxene and Xion

NamiShi — the ship between Naminé and Xion

Strelrena — the ship between Strelitzia and Elrena

Polyship

AkuRokuKai — the ship between Axel, Roxas and Kairi

AkuRokuNami — the ship between Axel, Roxas and Naminé

AkuRokuShi — the ship between Axel, Roxas and Xion

Kairi x Naminé x Xion x Aqua — the ship between Kairi, Naminé, Xion and Aqua

NamiKaiShi — the ship between Kairi, Naminé and Xion

Player x Ephemer x Skuld — the ship between Ephemer, the Player and Skuld

Sorelsanna — the ship between Sora, Elsa and Anna

SoRiKai — the ship between Sora, Riku and Kairi

Soroxion — the ship between Sora, Roxas and Xion

SoRokuNami — the ship between Sora, Roxas and Naminé

SoRokuVen — the ship between Sora, Roxas and Ventus

SoVenVan — the ship between Sora, Ventus and Vanitas

Twilight Town Gang — the ship between Hayner, Pence and Olette

Wayfinder Trio — the ship between Aqua, Ventus and Terra

Non-binary

Ephelayer — the ship between Player (avatar) and Ephemer

Friendship

Riku x Mickey — the ship between Riku and Mickey Mouse

Sora x Donald x Goofy — the ship between Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy

Twilight Town Gang — the ship between Hayner, Pence and Olette

Family

Masterdad — the ship between Terra and Eraqus

Cargo

Riku x Darkness — the ship between Riku and darkness

Terra x Darkness — the ship between Terra and darkness

Terra x Wayfinder — the ship between Terra and his wayfinder (good luck charm)

Fanon

Kingdom Hearts is a very popular series and has an extremely large fandom. While it is mainly geared towards children, it also has a large amount of older fans. Many love the fact that the series contains Final Fantasy characters that they know and love, as well as classic Disney characters from their childhoods. Fans love to speculate possible future worlds to be included in later games and eagerly awaited Kingdom Hearts III. Many fans became impatient because it had been over a decade since Kingdom Hearts II came out. The game finally came out in January 2019 but was leaked before its official release.

Kingdom Hearts also has a large shipping fanbase. There is a huge list of ships among the fandom, including many crack pairings. Just about any two characters that have interacted have the potential to be shipped together. The characters of Organization XIII are especially the targets for random ships. Just about every possible combination among the organization has been shipped, but some are more popular than others. Since twelve out of the fourteen members are males, most organization ships are slash ships. Slash ships are very popular in the Kingdom Hearts fandom with Soriku and AkuRoku being the most popular. However, a lot of fans also like the semi-canon SoKai and RokuNami.

Fandom

FAN FICTION

Kingdom Hearts tag on AO3

Kingdom Hearts on FanFiction.Net

DEVIANTART

KH-Romantic-Couples fanclub on DeviantArt

kh-pairings fanclub on DeviantArt

TUMBLR

Kingdom Hearts tag on Tumblr

Kingdom Hearts posts on Tumblr

KH posts on Tumblr

List

TOP 10 AO3 SHIPS

#	portmanteau	characters	type
2855	Soriku	Riku/Sora	slash
1877	AkuRoku	Axel/Roxas	slash
853	SoKai	Kairi/Sora	het
681	LeaIsa	Isa/Lea	slash
613	AkuSai	Axel/Saix	slash
606	SoRiKai	Riku/Kairi/Sora	poly
501	Terraqua	Aqua/Terra	het
417	CLeon	Cloud Strife/Leon	slash
398	?	Demyx/Zexion	?

Trivia

• Mickey Mouse was originally going to be the main protagonist of the game before it was changed to Sora instead.
• The original game was supposed to be the only Kingdom Hearts game to release. After the game grew so popular, Disney and Square Enix agreed to create a franchise.
• The idea for this game came about when producer Shinji Hashimoto met with a Disney executive in an elevator; Square and Disney had previously worked in the same building in Japan.
• Sora was originally a half-human/ half-lion anthropomorphic.
• The Kingdom Key was originally a chainsaw like weapon, but was scrapped after Disney employees agreed that the weapon didn't look child-friendly.
• The Final Fantasy VII/VIII ship, Strifehart, is known as CLeon in the Kingdom Hearts fandom. Due to Squall Leonhart going by "Leon" in the KH universe.