You know, I think the big problem is -- Sora's fifteen, and he's a Disney hero. The villains are Squaresoft, but Sora seems almost designed to suit those big clunky Mickey-Mouse shoes he wears. And the thing with heroes like Sora is that they don't question the word of their Wise Old Mentors. Sora would look at Yen Sid and DiZ/Ansem and think, "these people are ones that the King trusts, ergo, I will trust them too." He changes his opinions on CERTAIN Nobodies because of his interactions with them, but he sort of does that with Iago, even. Goofy is the one who says "hey, give him a chance!" whereas Sora's like ZOMG HIT HIM WITH BIG stick KEYBLAD TILL HE GO BOOM. >(
And, once again, he's an adolescent who's spent one year in a sort of cold stasis and at least another traveling around with a duck and a strangely anthromorphic dog-thing as companions, and never really settles; Sora, I think, is the sort of character who DOES think in black-and-white. He's a good person or else the Keyblade would not have chosen him, but he's not a particularly deep or self-reflective sort. I think he's sort of on the right track to it at the end, when he and Riku are on the beach -- but at that point, the story's wrapped up and he has no further actual interaction with the Nobodies.
I mean, I love Sora to pieces; he's my favorite character. But he's a Disney hero in a Squaresoft world, and that really kind of limits him in a lot of ways for the sorts of questions that the story wanted to bring up -- and I THINK he was starting to get it, but like I said, that development came too late for it to have impact on his interactions with the other Nobodies he might've met.
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stickKEYBLAD TILL HE GO BOOM. >(And, once again, he's an adolescent who's spent one year in a sort of cold stasis and at least another traveling around with a duck and a strangely anthromorphic dog-thing as companions, and never really settles; Sora, I think, is the sort of character who DOES think in black-and-white. He's a good person or else the Keyblade would not have chosen him, but he's not a particularly deep or self-reflective sort. I think he's sort of on the right track to it at the end, when he and Riku are on the beach -- but at that point, the story's wrapped up and he has no further actual interaction with the Nobodies.
Plus, I've seen folks arguing that the generic Nobodies are capable of speech, but the only time we see that happen is when you're in control of Roxas (also, I note, when you're playing as Roxas defeated Nobodies drop munny and health; as Sora, they only drop magic). It's probably easy, in that black-and-white view of Sora's, to NOT think of the Nobodies as human/close to human, because like the Heartless, they mill around, they attack him, and except for the Organization and Naminé, they don't talk to him.
I mean, I love Sora to pieces; he's my favorite character. But he's a Disney hero in a Squaresoft world, and that really kind of limits him in a lot of ways for the sorts of questions that the story wanted to bring up -- and I THINK he was starting to get it, but like I said, that development came too late for it to have impact on his interactions with the other Nobodies he might've met.