Yozora

Not to be confused with the False Yozora, the final boss from Kingdom Hearts III ReMind.

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Yozora (夜空, Yozora) is the main protagonist of Verum Rex. He is a playable character in Verum Rex, as well as a cameo character in the Toy Box world of Kingdom Hearts III.

Yozora lives within Quadratum alongside his friends Magia and Aegis, and his girlfriend, the Nameless Star. Due to his role as the Commander of the Royal Army, +Yozora's goal is to prevent the oncoming war between Shibuya and his own hometown (details based off of Versus XIII)+. Sometime during his journey, he either died or disappeared, and his heart ended up becoming one with the false Yozora. In the very distant future, two Video Games would be made, based off of his story.

Development
Yozora's developmental history is very complex and full of mystery, due to the scarce amount of information given about Versus XIII, and his inception into the Kingdom Hearts series. Whatever information is known will be split into two separate categories.

Versus XIII
Yozora's original name was Noctis Lucis Caelum, and he was intended to be the main character of Final Fantasy Versus XIII before its unfortunate cancellation. Yozora's first appearance was in the first trailer for Versus, where, he is shown to be sitting on his throne, as various amounts of text explaining the plot of the game appear on-screen. He eventually stands and walks outside his castle to confront a group of Magitek Soldiers, before summoning his Phantom Swords to dispose of them.

Various other trailers and gameplay presentations would delve deeper into Yozora as a character, as well as the world of Versus XIII and Insomnia. The last trailer was in 2013, where it was announced Versus XIII would become Final Fantasy XV. Shortly after this announcement, Tetsuya Nomura was forced to be booted from working on the project.

Kingdom Hearts III


Sometime during the development of Kingdom Hearts III, Tetsuya Nomura began to develop Verum Rex unbeknownst to the knowledge of the public.

The first glimpse of Verum Rex's existence was during an old invitation-only demo, where Rex calls Sora "Yozora", and later refers to Donald and Goofy as "his super sidekicks, Magia and Aegis". Verum Rex itself was first shown off in the initial Big Hero 6 Trailer for KHIII shown in September of 2018, where it can be seen for a few seconds behind Sora.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Noctis Lucis Caelum is a prince, the last heir to a dynasty ruling over the last kingdom to control crystals. From his throne, he defends his kingdom of Insomnia from marauders and barbarians who seek to conquer the city and claim the crystals by force.

Toy Box
Yozora is an original character from Toy Story who exists within the video game Verum Rex. He is the main protagonist of said game, and Rex's favourite character. He protects his city from the evil Gigas robots. Somewhere along his journey he fights against Bahamut.

Riku's Dreams
Yozora appears within Riku's Dreams, sitting on top of a building in Quadratum.

Verum Rex
Information is currently unavailable.

Dissidia Final Fantasy
Yozora's very first in-game appearance was being featured on two unlockable player icons in the first Dissidia game, accessible by entering the passwords 4273120192 and 361855216. In the game's enhanced port/prequel, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, the player icons could be obtained by simply buying them from the PP Shop.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT
As advertisement for ReMind, Yozora's original outfit was added as DLC for Noctis. The three colours reference his original appearance, his modern appearance (as Yozora), and Sora. A new profile picture would later be added in an update.

Design
Yozora's age (as of the events of Verum Rex) is unknown, though it can be assumed he kept his age from Versus XIII, which would have been 20 years old.

Yozora's height is not accurately known, however, when compared to Sora's canon height of ~5'3", it can be assumed he is around 6 feet tall.

Yozora's original design is a young adult man with messy raven black hair, red eyes, pale skin, and a slim build. His original outfit consisted of a black coat with an overzealously huge collar, black pants, black boots with gray soles, and black gloves which were about half the size of his forearm. Later on in development, his outfit would change to look more realistic and modern, and was co-designed by Hiromu Takahara. This new outfit consisted of a black vest, black shirt with a flower pattern, black cargo pants, one black glove which reaches his elbow, and black boots with red soles. This design would stay with Yozora's Final Fantasy XV counterpart.

Yozora's current design is as a young adult man with spiky crystal coloured hair, red eyes (although due to his heterochromia, his left eye is gray), pale skin, and a slim fit build. His new, final outfit, is similar to the one designed by Hiromu Takahara. This new outfit consists of a gray vest with red shoulders and plaid fittings, which is accented by stitches of a skull that resembles Sora, alongside Kingdom Key crossbones, which strongly resembles the emblem used by the royal family in Versus XIII. Also, the zipper of the vest has a chocobo charm on it. Other than the vest, Yozora wears a dark gray v-neck which has the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMix checkered logo pattern, dark gray cargo shorts with tassels and plaid fittings, black gloves which almost reach his elbows, and black cargo boots with silver accents and dark gray soles.

Yozora's name is Japanese for "Night Sky" (夜空 Yozora). This is an intentional opposite to Sora's name, which is Japanese for "Sky" (空 Sora). Yozora's original name, Noctis Lucis Caelum, means "A light in the Night Sky" in Latin.

Versus XIII
Yozora's original personality was of a shy and caring boy, who tried to hide his insecurities by "acting cool". Nomura mentioned in an interview that Yozora's original personality could be seen as a "more clever version of Cloud".

Verum Rex
This information is currently unavailable.

Engine Blade
Yozora's main weapon is an engine blade which glows red. It has the ability to copy his target's weapon, as well as create a mini-vortex that traps foes.

Crossbow
Yozora's Crossbow is a magic-infused crossbow which has many different abilities, such as the ability to create laser beams, laser prisms, laser tornadoes, and harvesting data for the Engine Blade's copy ability.

Magic
Yozora can cast high level magic. The only spell shown so far was Waterza, although, it should be noted that spell was used by the false Yozora, and the true Yozora may not have access to this spell.