Pod

A Pod (ポッド) is a flower-shaped device. Naminé placed Sora, Donald, and Goofy in several Pods to sleep as she reassembled their memories.

Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
After defeating Marluxia, Sora meets with Naminé in a room within Castle Oblivion and she offers to reconstruct his memories. However, due to the extent of the damage, he, Donald, and Goofy would have to go into stasis within the Pods, in order to keep them safe and cared for while Naminé conducts her task.

After defeating the Riku-Replica within the castle's Twilight Town-styled basement, Riku meets with Naminé and is shown Sora sleeping in his Pod. Naminé offers to use her powers to seal away Riku's memories, permanently locking away Ansem, but Riku refuses, and instead asks her to promise to look after Sora.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
DiZ works with Naminé to restore Sora's memories as he slumbers in the Pod. He persuaded her to move the Pods to his secure laboratory in the basement of Twilight Town's Old Mansion, as Castle Oblivion was too at risk to intrusion by Organization XIII. During the reconstruction, he digitized himself and his research on Roxas, Axel, Naminé, Xion, Terra, Ventus, and Aqua, and hid them within Sora's memories, hoping they could eventually be used to find these lost friends.

Kingdom Hearts II
On the last day of Roxas's summer vacation within the simulated Twilight Town, the simulation is attacked in earnest by Axel and the Organization's Nobodies. DiZ calls him to the Old Mansion, so Roxas makes his way there. He fends off the Nobodies as he explores the building, and eventually discovers DiZ's basement laboratory. He passes by Donald and Goofy's Pods in the Basement Corridor, stirring recognition, before reaching the Pod Room presided over by Sora's Pod. DiZ sends a digital projection of himself into the simulation to confront Roxas, exhorting him to rejoin with Sora so that Sora will have the power to destroy the Organization. Roxas attempts to attack the projection, but it merely vanishes. With Roxas there and Naminé's work done, Sora's Pod opens and Roxas is absorbed back into him, as the boy accepts his fate.

At the same time, in the real Twilight Town, Sora and his friends awaken within their Pods and emerge, marking the start of a new journey.

Kingdom Hearts coded
Sora's Pod, watched over by Naminé, appears in the Journal's data reconstruction of Castle Oblivion just as it was when the original Sora met with Naminé.

Kingdom Hearts II opening FMV


When Sora reaches Naminé's room at the top of Castle Oblivion, she surprises him by sketching him inside of a Pod, which then sprouts around him and closes.

Design
The Pods are crystalline devices. When closed, they resemble a marble structure in the shape of an unbloomed. They open by "blooming", revealing a crystalline chamber within, covered by circuitry. The crystal is usually transparent when not in use. The interior of the pods is completely black and gives the illusion of a large, shadowy room. They can come in multiple sizes, as Donald and Goofy sleep within small Pods arranged in rows in the Basement Corridor, while Sora sleeps within a much larger Pod placed by itself in the Pod Room.

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