#• ship || SoKai

[strawbyarts]

sora and kairi. arrested for breaking a nature taboo.

based on the barbie movie barbie and ken mugshots!

[sorikufeels]

thinking about how they went out of their way to show kairi being put to sleep to search her heart for answers to find sora and that ending in a complete dead end and then had riku’s dreams be the key to finding him. if kairi was truly sora’s love interest, then why wouldn’t they make her the key to find him? like i don’t see a reason not to do that. and they didn’t have to show her going through all the effort to find him and come up completely empty either. they didn’t have to do that all. it really feels like they’re trying to deliberately say something about who is actually sora’s love interest

edit: someone pointed out that kairi did find a clue in melody of memory and i forgot, sorry about that!

but i think my point still stands about riku’s dreams being the key since it’s through them that nameless star recognizes quadratum. it still points him out more as the love interest because a common trope is having a character brave the unknown and face trials to save the person they love. if kairi was sora’s love interest, it would more sense to have her go find him or at least go with riku, if they really want insist she’s too inexperienced (which they didn’t have to, it felt like they were grasping for any excuse to not let her go, which sucks!!) to go by herself. but she gets left behind and that in itself says a lot, in my opinion.

it was incorrect to say that it was a complete dead end and she came up totally empty, though, and I apologize for that!! i don’t want to belittle kairi anymore than the games already do 😭

[mylonelydreaming]

Sokai and Zelink are shown in the same spot on Kairi and Zelda's boxes:

Goodsmile also had both in a Valentine's day video:

I wonder what the implication is, framing them both as couples? Truly mysterious 🤔

[luckycharming]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you hate a character solely because of a ship/ships, you're a childish fuck who needs to log off the internet and go touch grass. It's so annoying to see some of my favorite characters either reduced to who they're paired with or demonized because of said pairing. Fans really do take the fun out of shipping, especially on Tumblr and TikTok. And what gets me is that y'all aren't only loud with that bullshit, but you're wrong with it too! Like, damn, so and so, which, let's be real, is usually a girl, being shipped with the main character really lodged a stick up your ass, huh? If you don't like him or her or whoever, that's fine! If you don't like them because of shipping, stop making that everyone else's problem because I'm sick of seeing my faves personalities twisted and diminished just because you take shipping way too seriously.

[lightwithinthedarknessu]

Like, is any of this for real or not?”

That one ship meme but make it SoKai!💙🗝️

I don’t usually do ship memes because I’m always late, but I could not resist this one! Kept thinking of that headcanon where Sora forgets his friends in Quadratum but sees reminders of them everywhere, feeling a sense of loss but not knowing why ;-;

Inspired by this Veil chapter cover by Ikumi Fukuda

[kwoojii]

happy valentine's day from sokai! 💝

[crystariumoath]

Tomorrow's fight will be our toughest yet. I want to be a part of your life no matter what.

[supernightboy08]

My favorite Video Game Couples:

1. Sonamy

2. Mareach

3. Bowuigi

4. Tailsmo

5. Silaze

6. SoKai

7. Clerith

[multishippers-paradise]

New server icon/pfp!

[holleighgram]

Wow, I forgot how brutal the shipper bullying is in the fandom. Really discouraging.

[kairithemang0]

Since it hasn't been asked yet, let's talk the big one: Sora x Kairi

Yknow I was waiting for this one just so that I could say I'm glad no one asked me this 2 years ago, because you'd get a very very long hate message if you did.

I was a Sokai HATER when I first joined the fandom. And of course, I was Soriku obsessed because you can't hate yin without loving yang (I don't think that's how that works). Since then, I've mellowed out a bit, a bit of my straight character hate has gone away. I made a whole post on what I'm calling "The Kairi Problem" a while back which discussed my opinions on Kairi and how she relates to Sora, which I dunno if any of yall are willing to go dig that up but go for it if you'd like.

Anyways, the ship. It's fine. I have no strong likes or dislikes towards it. What I do have a problem with is how Kairi is treated as a character because her whole "personality" is Sora. And I personally just think Sora deserves better, hell Kairi deserves better! Sora keeps leaving her and Sora longs for adventure and while Kairi does want to fight and be strong but I don't think she wants to go out on adventures. That's my own view of her though, we don't know much about her other than "Sora Sora Sora Sora Sora this Sora that" and that bugs me but whatever.

And I love Kairi, I stole her name for a reason (actually it was bcs of a roleplay but whatever I STOLE HER NAME FOR A REASON)

Sorry this has become sorta a "The Kairi Problem 2.0" but I think they're fine. I like the more fanon idea of them where they're both stupid but Sora is just slightly more stupid and Kairi is slightly more responsible but neither of them would be able to figure out how to unlock a door.

I mean it's better than when I first joined the fandom, I've also mellowed out on my soriku obsession, they just don't hit for me the same but I'll talk about that more if I get that as an ask. So yeah, the rating. Uhhhh 7.8/10 too much water

[mythicalartistx]

Kairi probably has Trauma and her reasoning why she is with Sora and Riku

Ansem the Wise is not a good person

He experimented on children and even fed them to the heartless.

Saïx/Isa often heard screams from the Ansen's study and when he and Axel/ Lea snuck in, it's no wonder they tried to find X after she went missing. No wonder why Saïx was so obsessed with finding her because Ansem the Wise does this stuff.

In ff7 nobody likes Hojo and he's seen as a bad person. Ansem kind of does the same thing except people are supposed to feel bad for Ansem and are like he's good now because he regret it??

The thing is we don't see why he regrets it or anything. And we just see he feels bad about Roxas and Naminé. We also see that he only stopped because he took it too far?

But this is the stuff Ansem did and his apprentices continued, or at least Terra-Ansem.

And Terra Ansem was interested in Kairi because she was a princess of heart. He kidnapped her and then he probably did experiments on her.

She probably has trauma. Then he sent her with that pod to Destiny islands because that's where a key blade wielder is at and whenever a pod is used a meteor shower happens.

And then we get to the start of KH1 and there's some things I've noticed. When Sora asks Kairi what her old home was like, she says she cannot remember. Sora asks “nothing at all?” and she makes this interesting expression. Before answering she frowns before quickly changing to a smile when she says, nothing.

What if she does remember and could be lying here because the experience was so traumatic and does not want to share what happened. However, she barely remembers it and could repress what happens, so she could remember it being bad but says nothing because she truly can't remember because of trauma.

No wonder she seems content on the island. Everyone is nice and she has fun with Sora and Riku. Nobody is trying to experiment on her.

She then goes along with it because they want to. People say she doesn't want change and yes that is true because of the trauma she faced. She's scared to go out into the world because of what happened.

When she talks with Sora later she reveals that she was hesitant at first, but now she's not. She probably was hesitant because of the fear that people like Terra Ansem are out there and might experiment on her. Then knowing that Sora and Riku really want to and they all can go together, she wants to. She is with them and isn't alone. She relies on them when doing things and bases everything on them.

However, that doesn't happen and her heart goes inside of Sora's. Riku's darkness gets the best of him and he believes Sora doesn't care about him anymore and is getting left behind, something he always feared.

And during the games going forward she always focuses on Sora and Riku. She mentions how they left her behind in kh2. She has changed and tried growing as a person but she still relies on them.

When Sora and Riku get the letter from Mickey, Kairi seems sad because they will leave again.

Then in kh3, she is keyblade training. She cuts her hair like Riku did. In the novel she wonders if Sora likes short hair and does it because of Riku. She then grows close to Lea / Axel someone who once tried to kidnap her for his own gain. Then she realized he was hurt and was trying to see his friend again and that isn't something that bad. But above all, he is sorry about everything.

She is often left behind. Unless she is in immediate danger, she isn't really thought of. Sora's mind always goes to Riku and what Riku is doing.

In kh2, he keeps trying to find Rikuand only focus is on finding him. It isn't until someone mentions Kairi that he thinks of her. In kh3 he talks about wanting to call Riku and that he wants to show how cool the MH6 world is to Riku. When he sees Kairi in kh3 that's when he realizes oh, you're here too.

She constantly wants to be with them fuelled by both trauma and friendship, However they're constantly leaving her behind.

Tetsuya Nomura once said that Kingdom Hearts is about the friendships that change alluring to how destiny Trio dynamic changes where Sora and Riku aren't as close to her.

In re:mind / mom Kairi falls asleep, hoping to be useful and wake Sora up so things can be like they have always been between the three of them.

Then when she wakes, she and Riku go to try to find Sora and realizes she must stay behind as it is Riku's part not hers. Kairi must grow on her own and not with other people that constantly held her back and left her behind.

I don't think she should be friendless but I think she should grow without them because they hold her back and she is left behind a lot. She is constantly relying on Sora and Riku.

Also it would just be interesting to see her with other characters as it could be an interesting dynamic. I would have loved to see her with the sea salt trio + Twilight gang. Her interacting with Vanitas would also have been great (though not sure if it's possible since he went away).

[mathemon]

I don't know why but I have a tendency for doing a certain ship dynamic that is depressingly wholesome

They are effectively each others first friend, if not are each others first friend.

they also were best friends prior to the romantic relationship starting

They do have a repeated argument: Neither one feels worth of the other and they try to convince the other that's the case

Everyone considers at least one of them attractive, usually both

They are also cinnamon rolls who are too scared to have PDA, but will kill people for those they care about, especially for their significant other

They also are considered to be the best two in their field or something

They are dorks

(edit) Despite being to scared for PUBLIC displays of affection, this is not the case in private. You would never be able to tell this was the case in private.

[silverchainbee]

Growing up is revisiting Kingdom Hearts in my 20s and realising that Riku had the better character arc and was a much more complex and detailed character after being a serious Sora girl for years.

[fajitaposting]

I should not get involved in ship wars but the ONLY Kingdom Hearts tags showing up on my FYP are Soriku and I'm a Sokai shipper😭

[currantlee]

Something that I appreciate about SoKai above all else is that for all of their romantic moments, all the sparks between them - at the bottom of it all, they are friends. Really good ones at that. Their romance feels more like an add-on to that (at least to me), instead of a forced relationship that only happens because they have different genders.

And it is that base in a good friendship that makes me believe that those two might actually live happily ever after (that is, if Nomura lets them) and grow old together rather than separate after the story ends. Longterm romance, in my opinion, is always rooted in good friendship, both in fiction and in real life.