The original seven Princesses of Heart.

TheSeven Princesses of Heart (セブンプリンセス, Sebun Purinsesu^?, lit. "Seven Princesses"), also refered to as the "true lights", are maidens withhearts of purelight, devoid ofdarkness. They appear to be the only people in the universe whose hearts are born naturally free of darkness. As such, Princesses who lose their hearts do not becomeHeartless; however, it is possible for the Princesses to createNobodies on special occasions, proven by the existence of Kairi's Nobody,Naminé.

Though not all are actual princesses, the Seven Princesses are referred by that name because the one who brings all of them together can open theDoor to Darkness and gain the power to reign over the worlds. The original Seven Princesses are eventually succeeded by theNew Seven Hearts.

Members[edit]

Original Princesses of Heart[edit]

• Kairi: Former resident of theRadiant Garden, adopted daughter of the mayor toDestiny Islands.
• Alice: A girl who became lost in the world ofWonderland.
• Snow White: Princess ofDwarf Woodlands.
• Jasmine: Princess ofAgrabah.
• Belle: Princess consort ofBeast's Castle.
• Cinderella: Princess consort ofCastle of Dreams.
• Aurora: Princess of theEnchanted Dominion.

New Seven Hearts[edit]

• Kairi: Former resident of theRadiant Garden, adopted daughter of the mayor toDestiny Islands.
• Rapunzel: Princess ofKingdom of Corona.
• Elsa: Queen ofArendelle.
• Anna: Princess ofArendelle.

Story[edit]

BeforeKingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep[edit]

The line ofKeyblade Masters fromScala ad Caelum (and later theLand of Departure) were tasked with protecting the seven lights should a threat arise; Eraqus informed his students of such.Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Should the vessels be aware that they hold a pure light, they can choose to release it, so it can be hidden again in a new maiden.Kingdom Hearts III

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep[edit]

Master Xehanort searches for the Princesses of Heart as part of his plan to find seven hearts of pure light for one of his schemes to reforge theχ-blade. To that end, Xehanort revealed the existence of the Princesses of Heart and the existence of other worlds toMaleficent. Having placed one of the princesses, Aurora in a cursed slumber within the highest tower of theEnchanted Dominion, Maleficent manipulatesTerra into getting her Aurora's heart. Eventually, her heart is freed byVentus and soon after the curse is lifted byPrince Phillip, allowing her to reunite with her family. However, with the information Xehanort gave her, Maleficent left her world to find the other six Princesses of Heart.

Cinderella meets a minimized Ventus whenJaq tells her of their new friend's appearance. While she goes to finish her chores, Ven and Jaq find materials needed to make a princess gown for Cinderella. Though her dress is finished, her stepsisters rip it apart to prevent her from attending the royal ball. While crying in the garden, theFairy Godmother helps her make a new dress and a carriage to escort her to the ball, with Terra as her bodyguard. Though she meetsPrince Charming, she is forced to leave the castle at midnight, by which the magic ends. When her stepmother finds out about her presence at the ball, she locks her in the tower before theGrand Duke arrives. But Jaq andAqua come together to release her, eventually aiding her in trying the glass slipper that she'd lost when she left the ball.Lady Tremaine then summons a powerfulUnversed to eliminate her, but Aqua manages to defeat it and bring the maiden to Prince Charming.

Snow White talks to Terra while picking flowers, but flees into the forest in fear when Terra summons hisKeyblade by the appearance of the Unversed. While frightened in the woods, she meets Ventus who takes her to theSeven Dwarfs's cottage for safety. After she bit the poison apple given bythe Queen, she is cursed into a deep slumber until thePrince kisses her on the lips and breaks the spell. Snow White then says her goodbyes to her friends and goes on a journey with her true love.

A four-year-old Kairi, who is still living in theRadiant Garden withher grandmother at the time, gets chased by a group ofUnversed untilKing Mickey and Aqua come to her rescue. Kairi touches Aqua's Keyblade, unintentionally initiating theBequeathing, allowing her to later wield a Keyblade. After Mickey's leave, Kairi gives her flowers to Aqua as a token of gratitude, and Aqua in return puts a protective charm on her necklace. When she returns to her grandma, she asks her to tell her the story about the light and the darkness.

Kingdom Hearts[edit]

The Station representing the free Princesses of Heart at the beginning ofKingdom Hearts.

The Seven Princesses of Heart make their first appearance, duringSora'sDive to the Heart. There are four stained glass windows representing the three princesses from Ventus's memory and a fourth princess,Belle. There is also a fifth window with three stylized princess silhouettes on it representing the three free princesses,Alice,Jasmine, and Kairi.

Since leaving her home world, Maleficent used her allies and theHeartless to ravage the worlds and gathered four of the princesses prior to Sora's adventure beginning. At that time, Sora arrived to Wonderland where he met Alice who was abducted. Promising to helpRiku on the premise that she would restoreKairi's heart, unaware that she is a Princess, Maleficent used him to capture Jasmine. Though reaching a dead end withWendy, a false lead, Maleficent later learned of Kairi's identity. However, because Kairi had given her heart to Sora in the chaos of Destiny Island's destruction, access to theFinal Keyhole within Hollow Bastion was impossible. Having overseen Maleficent's activities and taking Riku'sbody for his own, Xehanort's HeartlessAnsem used the hearts of the remaining six princesses to create theKeyblade of heart to release Kairi's heart from inside Sora. When Sora realized the truth after driving off his attacker, he stabbed himself with the Keyblade to free Kairi's heart, an action that also revived the other six princesses and subsequently opened the Final Keyhole and enabled Ansem to proceed to theEnd of the World, whereKingdom Hearts was situated. Sora, now a Heartless because of his sacrifice, is eventually returned to human form by the light of Kairi's heart. While Kairi was brought toTraverse Town afterward, the other princesses remained in Hollow Bastion to stop the flow of darkness that had begun to seep from the still-open Keyhole until Sora could return. Once the Keyhole was sealed, the princesses patiently awaited his victory against Ansem so that they could return home, which finally happened when Kingdom Hearts was sealed and the worlds restored.

Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories[edit]

Alice, Jasmine, Belle and Kairi all appear as figments of Sora'smemories during his adventure inCastle Oblivion.

Alice is once again captured by theQueen of Hearts, accused of memory theft, but Sora manages to exonerate her.

Belle reappears inHollow Bastion, where the witch Maleficent attempts to force her to turn theBeast into a Heartless, but Belle refuses and eventually sacrifices herself to protect the Beast. She is later restored after Maleficent's defeat.

Jasmine is once again captured by the evil vizierJafar, butAladdin and Sora come to her rescue in time. Aladdin hopes to become a prince to become her equal, but later decides to be himself as to let Jasmine appreciate him for who he really is.

As Sora,Donald Duck,Goofy andJiminy Cricket journey through Castle Oblivion, Sora's memories of Kairi begin to alter and eventually replaced by her Nobody,Naminé. However, by remembering Kairi again, Sora started regaining his lost memories that had been torn away by Naminé. In Riku's story, Naminé appears as Kairi to tell Riku not to hide from the darkness in his heart.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days[edit]

Jasmine and Belle both appear in their home worlds. Kairi is mentioned various times byXion and Naminé, as well as reflected in Xion's appearance toRoxas.

Kingdom Hearts II[edit]

Belle and Jasmine once again make an appearance in their respective worlds, but not as Princesses of Heart. They are both worried about their loved ones.

Belle is locked in the east wing by the Beast, who is affected byXaldin's influence. She meets Sora and co. when they arrive and asks them to free the Beast's servants, who are all locked in the castle dungeon and later goes off to follow Xaldin, only to be chased by a gigantic Heartless into the ballroom. The restored Beast runs into the rescue and manages to defeat the monster with Sora, Donald and Goofy. Sometime later, Belle and the Beast open a party, only to be interrupted by Xaldin once more, who steals the Beast's precious rose, thus depressing him to the point that he decides to push Belle and Sora out of the castle. Belle manages to take back the rose when she gets captured by Xaldin and runs to safety, allowing Sora and the Beast to defeat him. The Beast then asks Belle to stay with him, to which she happily agrees.

Jasmine greets Sora, Donald, and Goofy when they first arrive atAgrabah and tells them of her worry for Aladdin, who has been going to town to look for action. She asks them to find him and ask him what the problem is. Jasmine is one of the first to be persuaded by Iago's worth to join them. Sometime later, Jafar is released from his lamp and Agrabah is once again in chaos. WhileIago leads Sora and the others to a trap, Jafar captures Jasmine and prepares to reign over the kingdom. The four warriors, however, escape his trap and manage to return on time to stop Jafar's malice one last time.

InTron's world,Space Paranoids, the password to access the DTD in the dataspace, was the names of the seven princesses. However, once theMCP attempts to hack into it, Tron changes the password to the names Sora, Donald, and Goofy.

Kairi indirectly connects with Roxas and in turn remembers Sora, whom she almost completely forgot about due to Naminé's magic. She later gets captured byOrganization XIII in their attempt to raise Sora's anger, causing him to defeat more Heartless and release more hearts to fuel the construction ofKingdom Hearts. InThe World That Never Was, she is rescued by her Nobody, Naminé, and meets up with Riku, and later Sora. Kairi was given aDestiny's Embrace Keyblade from Riku. As they no longer have any place to go back to, they head toward the tower of the Castle That Never Was together to confrontXemnas and end the war once and for all. Once the war is over, she returns home with her friends; with Naminé and Roxas joined with her and Sora, respectively.

Kingdom Hearts coded[edit]

The data versions of Alice and Jasmine appear in their respective worlds, also data created fromJiminy's Journal. In this story, Alice has lost her memory and needs to remember her name; while Jasmine is simply captured by Data Jafar, waiting to be rescued.

A data-based Kairi was shown inNeverland on the Clock Tower withRiku in a lost memory flashback. Later on, the real Kairi appears alongside the real Sora and Riku.

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance[edit]

Upon his return, Master Xehanort reveals that the hearts of the Seven Princesses are actually fragments of pure light that was divided from theχ-blade during theKeyblade War. As a result, Xehanort intended to have his Organization XIII, composed of those who possess his fragments of his heart, to "thirteen darknesses" with the "seven lights" to recreate the χ-blade. Knowing this threat,Yen Sid has Riku bring Kairi to him, in order to train her to use her newly acquired Keyblade for self-defense. Prior to his return, Maleficent reveals Master Xehanort being the one who got her to invade the worlds. However, seeing that using the princesses is too complex, Maleficent refocuses her means of universal domination elsewhere.

Kingdom Hearts III[edit]

According toYen Sid, the pure lights in the princesses' hearts have moved on to new hosts, known as the New Seven Hearts,^[1] with the exception of Kairi who did not pass on her power.^[2] As Yen Sid further explains, this happened shortly after they were used to reveal the Final Keyhole, to hide the pure lights again. Thereal Organization XIII planned to use the New Seven Hearts as a backup, and would attack them in case theSeven Guardians of Light could not find all seven of their members. Sora and the Organization both identify Rapunzel, Elsa, and Anna as additional princesses.

Initially,Marluxia viewedMother Gothel as a crucial guardian of Rapunzel, one of the New Seven Hearts. After Rapunzel ran away from home, Marluxia conspired with Mother Gothel to persuade her to come back to her tower, where she would be locked away until the Organization found use for her. Eventually, Mother Gothel's abusive and manipulative personality posed a threat to Marluxia's ideal to protecting Rapunzel, prompting him to turn her into theGrim GuardianessHeartless before her lingering darkness could threaten Rapunzel further.

After Elsa's ice palace was constructed,Larxene expressed an interest in Elsa being one of the New Seven Hearts. Larxene later questions if Elsa might possibly rely on darkness as well.

After saving Elsa from being killed byHans, Anna was frozen to solid ice due to Elsa's ice magic earlier. Because the sacrifice was an act of "true love", Anna recovered from the frozen curse and was able to reconcile with Elsa. Larxene considers this sacrificial act to be a discovery of two of the New Seven Hearts within the same world, as Elsa and Anna brim with sisterly love.

Powers and abilities[edit]

Joint powers[edit]

"O purest of hearts! Reveal to me, the keyhole!"

—Maleficent invoking the Princesses' hearts

The Final Keyhole is almost revealed by the six hearts.

The seven Princesses possess only light within their hearts. These hearts of pure light allow them to open the Final Keyhole in Hollow Bastion, which is supposed to hold absolute power over the universe. However, it can only be opened when they are all gathered, and their hearts are used in some form of ritual. Once the Keyhole is opened, the hearts return to the Princesses' bodies while the lights would move on to find new hosts to hide them from darkness once more, unless the current host wishes to keep her light.

The purity of their hearts also grants them abilities to keep darkness away or hold it back temporarily, an effect that occurs naturally from the Princesses' presence; the greater the number of Princesses gathered, the more effective this skill is. However, it is draining to the Princesses: Aurora notes that their strength was running out keeping Hollow Bastion from being swallowed by the Final Keyhole. In addition, they can sense darkness, as shown when five of the princesses tell Sora of a great darkness nearby.

They have also shown to have an ability to manipulate other people's powers; for instance, five of the Princesses grant Sora the power of fire, upgrading hisFire magic.

According to the manga, the Princesses of Heart are able to travel through theCorridors of Darkness without any negative effects, as without darkness in their hearts, they cannot be corrupted. Also, inKingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Maleficent explains that she cannot obtain Aurora's heart, because it is of pure light.

As demonstrated by Kairi, their pure hearts can hide themselves within the heart of someone they trust, should they be threatened by darkness. However, a Keyblade is required to remove the heart and return it to the Princess.

D-Links[edit]

Cinderella and Snow White becomeD-Links for Terra, Ventus, and Aqua inKingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep after the events of their respective worlds transpire. As D-Links, they can project their powers to the three Keyblade wielders while remaining in their home worlds.

Gallery[edit]

Original Princesses of Heart[edit]

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  Kairi

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  Alice

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  Snow White

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  Jasmine

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  Belle

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  Cinderella

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  Aurora

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  Card featuring Cinderella, Snow White, and Aurora inKingdom Hearts χ[chi].

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  Card featuring Jasmine, Alice, Belle, and Kairi inKingdom Hearts χ[chi].

New Seven Hearts[edit]

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  Kairi

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  Rapunzel

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  Elsa

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  Anna

Dive to the Heart[edit]

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  Snow White

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  Cinderella

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  Alice, Jasmine and Kairi

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  Aurora

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  Belle

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  An unused design for Alice's station.

Artwork[edit]

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  Artwork of Snow White's station.

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  Artwork of Cinderella's station.

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  Artwork of Aurora's station.

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  Artwork of Belle's station.

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  The original Princesses of Heart, featured in the center of an illustration for aKingdom HeartsTenyo jigsaw puzzle.

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  The original Princesses of Heart (minus Kairi) in theKingdom Hearts manga.

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  The original Princesses of Heart (minus Kairi) on the back cover of the second volume of theKingdom Hearts novel.

Notes and references[edit]

• Princesses of Heart
• Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep characters
• Kingdom Hearts characters
• Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories characters
• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days characters
• Kingdom Hearts II characters
• Kingdom Hearts coded characters
• Kingdom Hearts III characters
• Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory characters
• Plot elements
• Disney characters
• Original characters
• Allies
• Groups
• Entelechy

• Articles with non-canon sources