Cinderella

Cinderella is one of the classic Disney characters who appears in Kingdom Hearts. The main character from the 1950 film Cinderella, she plays a small but important role in the game as one of the Princesses of Heart. Her world was destroyed by Maleficent, but she was taken into captivity.

Kingdom Hearts
''A hardworking young girl who's often bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters. She is one of the princesses needed to open the final Keyhole, and was captured by the Heartless. Her world has already been destroyed.''

Prince Charming first swept her way in "Cinderella" (1950).

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Cinderella was born a wealthy girl, but after her father passed away, her evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine, turned her into her own home's maid.

One day, the King of the Castle of Dreams held a ball for Prince Charming hoping to help him find a bride and invited all unmarried women from the kingdom. Instead of letting her join them, Lady Tremaine and her daughters give all her unfinished chores to prevent her from getting ready for the ball. When Ventus arrived, he assisted her mouse friend, Jaq, in making a dress for her while Cinderella finished her chores. On the night of the ball, however, Lady Tremaine caught on quickly as Cinderella's stepsisters tore her dress apart. Cinderella ran into the garden and bursted into tears, just as Terra arrived and encouraged her to continue to believe in her dreams for a better future. Eventually, her Fairy Godmother helped her make a beautiful princess gown and a carriage to take her to the ball, with Terra as her bodyguard as she was constantly cornered by Unversed. While at the ball, she met the Prince and they fell instantly in love with each other. However, by the struck of midnight, she was forced to leave the ball when the Fairy Godmother's magic begins to run out. As she runs through the Grand Hall, she loses her slipper.

Prince Charming then declares to look for the girl of his dreams with the glass slipper by letting every girl in the kingdom try it on. Lady Tremaine, having discovered Cinderella was the princess at the ball, locked her in her room when the Grand Duke arrived and attempted to turn one of her daughters into the Prince's wife. However, Aqua and Jaq cooperated and managed to free Cinderella just before the Grand Duke was able to leave. When she was about to try on the slipper, however, Lady Tremaine tripped him and the slipper broke to pieces. Cinderella however had a glass slipper of her own and used it as replacement for the broken one.

The Grand Duke was about to bring her to the castle when Lady Tremaine summoned a gigantic Unversed to attack the princess. Aqua manages to destroy and bring her safely to Prince Charming.

Kingdom Hearts
She was taken and held deep within Hollow Bastion until all seven Princesses were collected. It is unknown when she was captured but from scenes it can be assumed it was before Snow White and Alice placing her as either 2nd captured or 3rd either before or after Belle.

Once her heart was restored, she stayed behind in the castle of Hollow Bastion to hold back the darkness lurking out of the Final Keyhole, until Sora returned and closed it. Though the Final Keyhole was sealed, Cinderella and the others could feel another dark power approaching from somewhere else (End of the World where Kingdom Hearts was held), and asked Sora to stop Xehanort's Heartless from fulfilling his evil plans.

When Kingdom Hearts was sealed she was returned to her own world.

Kingdom Hearts II
Cinderella is absent in Kingdom Hearts II, though her name was part of the password that allowed access to the DTD dataspace in Space Paranoids.

As a Princess

 * Because Cinderella is a Princess of Heart, her heart holds part of the ability to open the Final Keyhole that leads to Kingdom Hearts, which can only be opened when she is joined with the other six princesses. Should her heart be lost, her body will remain in a dormant state until it returns.
 * She also has the power to hold back darkness using the light stored within her heart, a power which she and the other princesses can utilize alone (the exact way she fights off darkness is currently unclear).
 * In addition, her heart (along with that of the other princesses) can be used to create the Keyblade of People's Hearts, which allows the bearer to unlock anyone's heart.
 * Cinderella (along with the other princesses) can also upgrade other people's powers, as revealed when they upgraded Sora's Fire spell to Firaga.
 * She can also locate darkness, as shown when she and her fellow princesses tell Sora about a great darkness approaching nearby.

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
She will become a D-Link for Terra after the events of her world. Terra and Cinderella have an Finish move called “Dream Waltz”.

Origin
Cinderella is originally from the Disney movie titled Cinderella. She was born wealthy, but after her father passed away, her evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine, turned her into her own home's maid.

When the King of the Castle of Dreams held a ball for Prince Charming, she wished to go but her stepmother and stepsisters forbade it. Instead just forbidding her to go, they told her if she finishes all her chores and finds a dress to wear that she could go. Her mouse friends encouraged her by secretly stealing different accessories to make a dress for her while Cinderella finished her chores. On the night of the ball, however, Lady Tremaine caught on quickly as Cinderella's stepsisters tore apart her dress. As Cinderella cried in the garden, her Fairy Godmother and her mice friends helped her make a beautiful princess gown and a carriage to take her to the ball, where she would find a new future.

Trivia

 * It is highly possible that she is the second princess to be captured after Aurora.
 * Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is set ten years before the original Kingdom Hearts, yet Cinderella remains young and beautiful. It is possible that she is immortal because of her status as the Princess of Heart, or she could have been kept young by Maleficent's magic while she was held captive.
 * In Sora's Awakening Cinderella sports brown colored hair, while in all her other appearances, she has blonde hair. Also, her dress is colored light blue in the Awakening, but it is white in all her other appearances.
 * Cinderella is the sixth princess to be encountered by Sora.

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