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Author: DrakeClawfang

Mar 22nd 2013 at 8:23:50 PM

A bit wordy but inevitably given the franchise ;p

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', Kairi makes a star-shaped charm out of Thalassa shells due to a legend that sailors who carry them will have a safe voyage. She gives it to Sora near the end of the game, and he carries it with him until they reunite at the end of ''Kingdom Hearts II'', the charm acting as the Keychain for the Oathkeeper Keyblade that symbolizes their bond. TheStinger for ''Dream Drop Distance'' has her hand it back to him when he heads out on another adventure. The image of the Paopu Fruit acts as one as well, as its legend says that two people who share one are destined to forever have their lives entwined, and Kairi's charm is star-shaped like the fruit.
** The symbolism is revisited in ''Birth By Sleep'', when Aqua makes Wayfinders for herself, Terra and Ven, based on the legend of the Paopu Fruit and coincidentally looking like Kairi's charm, with the belief that as long as the three of them carry them, their bonds will never be broken.