During your playthrough in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance ever wonder why Riku's abilities are always darkness based even though he specifically rejected the darkness? It's because his nature is darkness, his main attribute is the element of Darkness, just like Sora's is light and Axel is fire. Every character have their own unique attribute that are similar to others or even beyond different. Here's a list of elements that these characters are under. Some have more than one, others changed during an event.

 

Light

Sora

King Mickey

Ansem the wise

Eraqus

Ventus

Armor of the unknown

Armor of the Master

Cloud

 

Darkness

Riku

Maleficent

Ansem SOD

No Heart

Anti Coat

Rikunort

Sepheroth

DreameaterRiku

Terranort

Seitzer

Zack

 

Twilight

Xemnas

Diz

Roxas

Riku recom

Zexion

Braig

Vexen

Vivi

Luxord

 

Fire

Axel

Donald

Leon

Auron

Maleficent

 

Ice

Vexen

Young Xehanort

 

Lightning

Larxene

 

Wind

Xaldin

 

Earth

Leaxeus

Terra

Master Xehanort

Terranort

 

Particle

Xigbar

Xemnas

 

Life

Marluxia

Kairi

Aerith

 

Death

Vanitas

Xemnas

Sephiroth

 

Mystic

Aqua

Yen cid

Mickey

 

Force

Tifa

Yuffie

Goofy

 

Other demension

Young Xehanort

Vanitas

No Heart

 

Moon

Saiax

 

Water

Demyx

 

Stun/paralyzation

Zexion

Riku Replica

 

Dream

DreamEaterRiku

Anti Coat

Seeketnort

Nightmare Ventus

Riku???

Sora Mark of Mastery

Neku Sakurba

 

Others

Namine

Josh

Beat

 

Data Logic

Data Riku

Data Sora

Xion

Data Roxas

 

Shadow

Lingering Vanitas

 

Power categories

 

Enhancer

Riku

Terra

Master Xehanort

Leaxeus

Cloud

Tifa

Ansem SOD

Auron

Sora Mark of Mastery

Goofy

Zack

 

Emitter

Xemnas

Xigbar

King Mickey

Braig

Seekernort

Aerith

Donald

Pete

 

Transmuter

Roxas

Xion

Larxene

Terranort

Malificent

Axel

Sora

Riku Replica

Aqua

Yen cid

 

Manipulator

Luxord

Marluxia

Lingering Vanitas

Anti Coat

Kairi

 

Conjuror

No heart

Eraqus

Xaldin

Saiax

Demyx

Luxord

Yuffie

 

Specialist

Namine

Zexion

DreamEaterRiku

Vanitas

Young Xehanort

Josh

Data Riku

Data Sora

Ansem the wise

Edited November 29, 201410 yr by Kite

Sounds legit . Though if I were you , I'd put Zack in the darkness list cause , well at a time he was kinda "controlled" by darkness during the events in Olympus Coliseum on BBS .

Kairi is light

So is minne

So from this list, it's confirmed Xaldin is the last airbender.

 

Peace!

I'm gonna assume if Xion was on your list she would be under Twilight perhaps? Her fighting style was very similar to Roxas in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.

Uh... why are you making up completely arbitrary attributes when most characters already have one established for them?

you're just making up half of these

Some of these attributes are just completely made up. You had me at Light and Darkness, lost me at everything else.

Some of these attributes are just completely made up. You had me at Light and Darkness, lost me at everything else.

Uh... why are you making up completely arbitrary attributes when most characters already have one established for them?

They're not neccesarly made up, how else can you explain these character's fightinging styles and their abilities. Life is plants, plants are living. Plants such as flower pedals that Marluxia use is life. Death are attacks such as Heartless Angel, or the draining that Xemnas use. Vanitas is death because of the Unverse. They're not alive, they're not born. Also if characters have one element, then how can explain Xemnas using Sabers and shoots lasers as well as beams of light if he's twilight? The same goes for Xigbar and Saiax.

Example: Marluxia's attribute is "flower" because the Ultimania said so (and flowers are associated with the duality of life and death in Japan, so there's that). Yes, you can get all symbolic (like Roxas's light representing twilight/sunset/whatever, as opposed to Sora's sunlight/brightness), but at the end of it all, the Organization members' official attributes are whatever the Ultimania and Days say (and the other mains clearly use/are sided with light or darkness primarily with little room for ambiguity). That's it.

In Days the Organization members are all associated with a specific element (Nil for Xemnas, Fire for Axel, Light for Roxas and Xion, Flower for Marluxia, etc), but most of these are way out there. Force? Mystic? Emitter? This is Kingdom Hearts. Not every character can or needs to fit into a nice neat category. I don't categorize characters like Leon or Tifa into anything in particular, besides maybe swordsman (gunblade wielder?) and monk respectively. It takes more than casting a simple Fire spell to be set into the Fire category -- Leon isn't creating infernos like Axel. And I'm pretty sure Vanitas and Xehanort are more associated with just plain Darkness. You might be overthinking it with all those labels you came up with.

Example: Marluxia's attribute is "flower" because the Ultimania said so (and flowers are associated with the duality of life and death in Japan, so there's that). Yes, you can get all symbolic (like Roxas's light representing twilight/sunset/whatever, as opposed to Sora's sunlight/brightness), but at the end of it all, the Organization members' official attributes are whatever the Ultimania and Days say (and the other mains clearly use/are sided with light or darkness primarily with little room for ambiguity). That's it.

Well excuse me for not reading the Ultimania. I labeled these characters the way I saw it. Marlixia your right about, but I'm still sticking with my Xemnas argument.

They're in DS Days' intro.