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dialogue I haven't seen anyone talk about

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Timeless River Kairi + Oswald!

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okay i lied i had one more cloud art in the tank

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Oh I'm done hidin',

Now I'm shinin'

Like I'm born to be

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sketch vs final + close-ups. lightning thief era percy in manhattan, suspicious monster in the background...🤨🤨🤺

this city bg almost killed me btw. hence, final. no more. never touching again. 🪦

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After all, light begets darkness, and darkness is drawn to light.

(Hear me out. Sora has a form of darkness right. So what if Riku- *sniper bullet pierces my brain killing me instantly*)

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hey man i see the projector in your mind's eye casting the image of a beautiful self indulgent fantasy over my silhouette so i just wanted to remind you before you try any funny business that when its battery dies it's just going to be me here

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Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - Failing Dive Mode

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Riku looking for Sora in KH4 and running into Tifa who is looking for Cloud in Unreality after he disappeared in KH2, please Nomura

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thinking abt how nomura said tifa represents clouds light again

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“There is someone I know who taught me that there is no option to give up.”

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@blowingoffsteam2 Surely, right? It visually calls back to the tutorial in KH3, which is a blatant callback to the op of KH1. It’s the antithesis of when Riku takes the keyblade and leaves Sora on his knees (crying) in KH1. It also parallels Sora’s pov outstretched hand reaching for Riku’s light in DDD. Riku tells Sora, “I believe in you,” which is a callback to what Kairi tells Sora in KH1 when the connection between their hearts is his light in the darkness. But okay, maybe I’m a casual fan and don’t remember/pay that close attention. Or maybe I’m only familiar with the botched ENG localization.

Riku’s stated character arc in KH3 is how he has finally found the strength to protect what matters most to him. His self-sacrifice for Sora, the ultimate act of faith and love, is the climax of this arc (and the game), which follows the pattern in this game of Sora witnessing climactic self-sacrifices in the Disney worlds. Sora’s stated character arc in KH3 is trying to regain his strength like Hercules did — by finding something that inspires him to fight with all his heart. In Disney stories, there’s nothing more powerful than an act of true love, especially a self-sacrifice. After everyone except Riku dies in the Keyblade Graveyard, Sora is at his lowest. He loses the will to fight, and he does not regain it until he sees Riku risk his life and then die to save him. Sora admits to Nameless Star in the Final World that he almost gave up until someone (Riku) said I believe in you, you won’t give up. The game shows Riku’s sacrifice twice. In the tunnel of light, Sora fights to reach Riku and when that doesn’t work, he calls out, “Riku! Answer me!” and the light in the tunnel answers him. It leads Sora to Riku’s heart in Olympus — the realm of the gods that Hercules can only reach after he risks his life to save Meg because she sacrifices herself for him when he’s at his lowest; ie after Hercules understands and demonstrates what it means to be a true hero — where Sora fights to save Riku. Sora wants to save all of his friends, but Riku is who inspires Sora to fight with all of his heart even when it seems impossible. (Which parallels Sora gaining the Power of Waking to save Riku in the Realm of Darkness earlier in this game, but again, maybe I’m a casual fan or just didn’t notice that.)

After Sora frees the hearts of his other friends, he keeps following the connection between his and Riku’s hearts (the light in the tunnel) back to the Keyblade Graveyard, where Riku’s heart has returned to his body/where he “fell” (died). Sora spots Kairi in the tunnel and thinks the light must be his connection to her heart, even though we were just shown it is Sora’s connection to Riku. Then, when Sora gazes into the light, he flashes back to the self-sacrifices he witnessed in the Disney worlds, and as he exits the tunnel he reaches for the source of the light ahead of him, looking thoroughly shook because it’s not coming from Kairi.

However, the game does not press the issue in this installment, so I assume what Sora said must be true despite all the evidence to the contrary I just experienced. Sora’s connection to Kairi is the light in the tunnel. Kairi saved Sora. Riku’s act of love was to show how much Kairi loves Sora. Riku’s sacrifice did nothing (I am an absolute buffoon).

rewatched Riku’s sacrifice. can’t believe there are people who walked away thinking it did nothing

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rewatched Riku’s sacrifice. can’t believe there are people who walked away thinking it did nothing

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they were right. it could be worse . those are official arts btw

the way Mira would put her hand in front of Zoey so as to protect her from Rumi 😭😭 OUCH MANN my girl would start bawling right then and there 😤😤 it would be soO much more emotional which is a plus considering how emotional it already is.

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Uh, how come you’re not upset? Oh, it’s no big deal. He’s a snowman. We’ll just…put him back together.

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Even in 358/2 Days, where it's said (by Riku himself actually) that Sora's 'most precious memories' are those of Kairi, Roxas's most extreme emotional reactions to his dreams of Sora's memories are when it's memories of Riku Like he remembers 'Giving up already? Come on, Sora, I thought you were stronger than that' and wakes up screaming Riku's name And he cries when he dreams of the time Riku took the Keyblade and Donald and Goofy left Sora

Roxas's reactions to the dreams of Kairi were always more like 'Huh, it happened again'