By having Ventus simply add three lines to Sora's signature catchphrase, an entire world of character development was opened.
"My friends are my power, and I'm theirs."
Suddenly, the focus is not on Sora's light, which we all know well, but on the darkness he hides so well that it lurks even behind his strength. Because Sora is like Ven; he is his friends' power. Riku, Kairi, Donald, Goofy, the King, none of them can live without him. Why doesn't Sora understand that?
I'm thinking back to Dream Drop Distance, and how Sora said the line again to Xigbar before falling into the deepest abyss.
"I know the Keyblade didn't choose me, and I don't care. I'm proud to be a small part of something bigger-- the people it did choose. My friends: they are my power!"
Sora is dangerously imbalanced. He thinks far too highly of his friends, who are just normal people, and far too little of himself, the greatest hero the World has ever known. His light comes from the fact that he can connect with any heart, and his darkness comes from the fact that he's begun to doubt his own importance to that process. By believing he is insignificant to the big picture, Sora can drown his perceived inadequacies in the positive traits of the people he helps, never realizing that he's destroying his identity in the process until all is lost.
He was 100% wrong in DDD. The Keyblade did choose Sora. It abandoned Riku, the apparent child of destiny, to be with him. Pure light from the age of fairy tales traveled through time to rest in his heart, so he has actually been chosen by the Keyblade TWICE, and it would have been thrice if Aqua didn't notice Riku already had one.
He might be "a small part of something bigger", but only in the sense that a key is much smaller than the house it lets you into. Sora's friends are his power-- but he is EVERYONE'S friend, and he is everyone's power.
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