I'm a more positive person now than I was as a teenager, I think. Perhaps I had trouble connecting with Sora at first because he was incredibly trusting and friendly and I was incredibly paranoid and incapable of interacting with people. (I'd like to see how Sora would have got along with my teenage self. Probably quite well. Sora gets on well with everyone. I could have done with knowing him.)

I think positive characters generally had trouble holding my interest when I was younger, too. I was fascinated by characters who had horrible issues and more or less ignored everyone else. I still love characters with horrible issues, of course, but I've come to value characters even if they aren't necessarily prime Silent Hill bait. It took me a while to realise that well-adjusted characters aren't necessarily uninteresting characters.