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In Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Syaoran is an archaeologist who is excavating ruins in the country of Clow and the adopted son of Fujitaka. In the anime, he is voiced by Miyu Irino in Japanese, and in English by Jason Liebrecht.
He and the princess of Clow (Princess Sakura) are very close childhood friends. One day, Sakura displays mystical powers, but in the process she loses her memories, which are scattered through different worlds in the form of feathers. The lost memories put her life at risk, forcing Syaoran to go on a journey across the many dimensions in order to find them and save her, the person who is most special to him. In order to travel from dimension to dimension, he must sacrifice his most valuable possession: his current relationship with Sakura. Even if Sakura were to get all her feathers back, she would never remember how she felt about Syaoran before. Syaoran himself was found without any memories and named by his adoptive father. Sakura gave him his birthday, April 1st, which is hers as well.
In the series, Syaoran is shown to be an excellent fighter, centered around his devastating kicks (taught to him by Seishirou Sakurazuka to compensate for his lack of reliable depth perception due to being blind in his right eye. He was later trained to sense attacks coming from the left by Kurogane). He is also an experienced archaeologist, with the attendant skills and experience of a hardened adventurer somewhat reminiscent of Indiana Jones. In Outo, he receives a sword named Hien ("scarlet flame"
wink , whose blade can be made to burst into flame, and is trained in swordsmanship by Kurogane.
A tattooed figure who appears identical to Syaoran can be seen floating in a tank in Fei Wong Reed and Xing Huo's headquarters (who, instead of being blind in the right eye, seems to be blind in the left). In the manga, the tattooed figure escapes and, with the assistance from Xing Huo, is sent to the Witch of Dimensions, Yūko Ichihara. This appearance becomes a cameo in Volume 9 of xxxHolic. It has been revealed that this Syaoran was actually the original Syaoran, but Fei Wong captured him and created a clone, who is the protagonist Syaoran. Fei Wong's intention was to use the copy to collect all of Sakura's feathers for him, but the original Syaoran gave half of his own heart to the clone (his left eye) and put a seal on the clone's right eye. At first Fei Wong did not care if the clone Syaoran had feelings, as long as he had the determination to get the feathers, and let the child go without removing the real Syaoran's alterations. Everything had been going as he had planned until he was met with interference by Yuko.
Once the original Syaoran broke free from Fei Wong's hands, the main protagonist's right eye seal also broke (which is the reason why the protagonist's right eye was blind), for the heart did not actually belong to him but the Syaoran who was trapped by Fei Wong. Although the original Syaoran had hoped the clone had developed feelings of his own after his long journey, the copy became a ruthless being apparently without any feelings or heart, hurting his friends mentally and physically (including Fay D. Flourite whose left eye was removed and consumed by the copy, since his eyes are the source of his magic) in order to eliminate anyone from interfering with the collection of feathers. Once he collected all of Sakura's feathers which he could detect in the current dimension, the copy left behind his companions, including his childhood friend and most important person, Sakura.
The original Syaoran continued the journey with Sakura and the others. Sakura was very distant with him though, and did not see him as Syaoran. She finally does call him "Syaoran-kun" (which she used to call the clone) at the end of the Infinity Arc, but left for the dream world shortly after, causing Syaoran to think she's leaving because of him. She denied this though. Then Fay, possessed by a curse, stabbed Sakura. It is later revealed by Fei Wong Reed (and Sakura, in xxxHolic), that Fay was supposed to stab the original Syaoran, but Sakura changed the future so that the curse was activated before this event.
Syaoran then traveled to the Celes country to retrieve Sakura's body, where he and the others met Ashura. Ashura used his magic to show Syaoran, Kurogane, and Mokona visions of Fay's dark past. Syaoran developed a severe headache when he arrived in Celes, and collapsed due to it. This headache has some connection with Watanuki, as shown in xxxHolic.
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