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#kh1 #kairi #graphics

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long time no see!!

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Honestly I really didn't like the sleeping realm theory. I mean saying that Riku is Soras "light" is just really funny considering the game literally tells you KAIRI is Soras light but I guess whatever floats their boats right.

What I find kind of insulting about it is the way Sora is depicted as this completely thick-headed kid who’s slow on “figuring out” his or the feelings of others—that his narrative isn’t…reliable.

It practically narrows down his character and becomes inconsistent when we have a premise game like Re:Coded—that centers him finding out and understanding pain and feelings from the people he’s connected to. Sora isn’t ignorant to his connections with other people. It’s why we’re shown scenes of him making connections of flashbacks like these

acts of love to Kairi. They’re there to infer Kairi’s strength to keep Sora’s heart from becoming extinguished through her light, will, & love for him. Sora stumbles on this realization for himself when being guided back by her (beside her).

They’re not acts of love through sacrificial tenedicies either. Why else would those flashbacks scenes only display the joyous resultant and reunion of said act of love. Even if you were to interpret them as sacrificial, Sora and Kairi would still undoubtedly apply that form of love as they have indeed sacrificed themselves for another in the past and in KH3.

If nothing else, Sora’s final speech is proof that he’s “figured out” what his heart and mind say what’s true. Sadly enough, it’s a scene that’s overlooked primarily because the focus is on Kairi and his act of love for her.

Another thing I have to point out here is how the theory illustrates Kairi not being the light is because 1) She’s shown “eclipsing” the light in the tunnel

If that’s the case, we see this similar “eclipse” in CoM where Kairi is indisputably the light in the dark for Sora to retain his memories. It’s a very weak point to make when only it strengthens the fact the light illuminating the darkness is Kairi. If anything, her “eclipsing” the light shown in KH3 is a visual parallel to that of CoM.

2) “She can’t be following her own light”

I have to say that’s really argumentable. KH1 has this scene where Sora falls in doubt with himself at the start of his journey only to have Kairi (in his heart) remind him that she hasn’t given him up.

This promptly triggers this scene.

Sora dives into this light tunnel. We see later that it’s a past memory from Kairi that he winds to. If it’s not possible for someone to follow their own light, how does Kairi agil that here (present in Sora’s heart), even moreso sending him a flashback of her past?

The idea the theory tries to…reason it’s in actuality Riku that sends images to Sora in the light tunnel scene has almost little to no follow up, because again, those depictions were to heavily infer Kairi’s promising aid. So whether the paopu scene is seen as romantic or not is irrelevant because the focus is the promise.

#kh3 #discourse #analysis #my thoughts exactly #i never got why this theory felt the need to dismiss kairi in a scene meant to focus on sora and kairi's reunion and their promise #there is plenty of evidence showing that riku is also sora's light #why not focus on that rather than strip away evidence that kairi's sora's light?#anyway #i wrote about this before and it's been awhile but it does still rub me the wrong way #i haven't read the theory since it's first public release so i really don't know if the writers took into consideration people's criticism #this treatment of shifting the focus to sora and riku in kairi-centric scenes is not new in the fandom #it reminds me of when people tried to make kairi and soras hug in kh2 all about sora realizing that he doesn't care about kairi as much as #caring about riku #at the end of the day it's a disservice to both kairi and sora individually as characters

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