#Soriku…kinda?

[ok4ru]

When you gonna deal with your little sibling's “relationship problems”

[silvykinesis]

4am no warm up soriku doodles huh??

I’ve got severe brain rot about them atm I’m sorry! ^~^;;;

[cloudcastor]

soriku week day 5: opposites attract

[nikutsuneart]

Day 1: Holy | Meteor

Two shooting stars return home, together this time.

[gulava]

The way the original Coded for mobile (the version without cutscenes) is lost media and because of the time it came out, it is not watchable even on Youtube without the cutscene version of scenes playing out...

I have often said both versions of dialogue in COM and Days are relevant. Same case here. Dialogue taken from khwiki.

"But, because of these bugs, I could not complete the restoration. Out of all available memories, I was selected to be a vessel to hold them all together."

In this version of Coded, Data Riku states he's responsible for restoring the journal as he is what holds the memories together. He is what holds Sora's memories together. Maybe it's a small difference to "shield them from corruption" but it's the wording that gives me pause.

Coded shows us that Riku is what holds Sora together. KH3 utilizes "show, don't tell" by telling us otherwise but then showing us the truth.

Sora is told to look for the light in the darkness. He finds Riku.

He is told to go to the person holding him together. He goes to Riku.

It's always been Riku.

[dizzybevvie]

You're the sunflower/I think your love would be too much

[dreamsy990]

some of the less nice thoughts about being aroace

extras below the cut

sketch

closeups on my favorite panels

bonus: adios

[kh-hyperfixation-blog]

Soriku drawing I made on Magma board ✨️

[xiiiwayfinders]

[matenr0u]

Riku: “Taisetsu na hito - Cherished person”

Throughout the series we’ve seen an escalation of Riku’s enduring journey to find the “strength to protect what matters”. It appears to peak in KHIII with “strength to protect someone precious”, but I’m gonna propose that they could some day take it a step further than that. 

I am once again slamming my tiny fistful of evidence and wish fulfilment on the KH meta table.

So as we know this line first appears in BBS when Baby Riku meets Terra and says he wants to protect his “daiji na mono”:

強くなりたいんだ

I want to become strong.

(…)

どうして強くなりたい?

Why do you want to be strong?

大事なものを守れるでしょ

So that I can protect important stuff

友達や みんなを

Like my friend, everyone…

He repeats this in DDD as he fights to save Sora, recalling twice the secret promise he made that day:

大事なものを守れる力

Power to protect important stuff

Finally this culminates in Riku’s KHIII sacrifice, following up from Mickey suggesting that he’s found the strength to protect someone he cherishes.

大切な人を守る強さか—

Strength to protect someone precious—

Which is cool. But there’s room for more, if Squisney decide it won’t hurt their profits to go down that path. Or even if they just feel like addressing at any point the absolute non reaction everyone had to being obliterated on the spot and then Riku dying for Sora. With that in mind, I began to wonder if we’ll see just one more callback later down the line. 

I think there are two possible options. First:

一番大切な人

Ichiban taisetsu na hito / Most precious person

In CoM for example Namine urged Sora to remember his “ichiban taisetsu na hito” — number one most precious person. This one has more of an obvious romantic air I feel. I choose to think Namine was talking about Kairi when she said that but I respect that other SR fans think it’s Riku so I’m including it. If we’re going to hear this one again and in reference to Sora & Riku, we’ll surely get it around the time the necklace theory is inevitably revealed. Either way, it’s already been used in the series, so it’s not a crazy implausible love declaration or anything. It can happen.

I mean, in DDD Riku all but says it when Ven asks:

“Kimi ni totte ichiban taisetsu na mono tte nani?”

“What’s the number one most important thing to you?”

And of course Riku replies:

“Taisetsu na shinyuu”

“My precious best friend”

As far as I’ve noticed, Riku only calls Sora his shinyuu. It’s cute.

Another possible route they could take is:

愛するもの

Aisuru mono / Beloved person

Which sounds far fetched at a glance, but it is what Terra says to Riku during the bequeathing, in response to Riku’s “daiji na mono”.

いずれ選ばれし者として この小さな世界を出て——

Some day, you will leave this tiny world as the chosen one—

俺のもとへたどり着くだろう

You will find me.

その時こそ――

That’s the time—

本当の広い世界——

The real wide world—

愛する者を守る力を教えよう

Will teach you the power to protect the people you love.

“Love” being such a diluted word in EN means it doesn’t convey the gravity of it well at all, but “aisuru mono” is one of the strongest ways you can say you love someone in JP. It can be singular or plural, platonic or romantic, and I’ve seen KH’s fandom war cousins cloti/clerith argue over the use of this term— so it highkey wouldn’t surprise me to see this one used by Riku or someone else in reference to his feelings for Sora. Like, in a ‘vague enough to not offend the unwashed dudebros but can also be read as incredibly romantic’ kind of way.

(By the way, I’ve seen “aisuru mono” or “aisuru hito” translated as “dearly beloved” in some places before, too. So naturally I’m gunning hard for this one. Shoot that probably unintentional symbolic double meaning shit straight into my veins.)

For the reasons above, I personally can envision a realistic pipeline of:

Daiji na mono / Important stuff ->

Taisetsu na mono / Precious thing ->

Taisetsu na shinyuu / Precious best friend ->

Taisetsu na hito / Precious person ->

Aisuru mono, Aisuru hito / Beloved person

or

Ichiban taisetsu na hito / Most precious person

Not to say it will happen in any capacity, but there’s space for it. A ton of weird stuff happened around That Moment, and even if that’s just down to KHIII bunk….. the whole ass Fairy Godmother herself has come to set Riku on a solo mission to make his dreams come true.

The setup is right there if they ever want to take that opportunity to clarify the depth and nature of Riku’s feelings for Sora specifically. 

Riku already promised Terra he’d find the strength to protect someone he loves, which he has now found, and in the case of ‘Aisuru’, I think it would round off that callback to the bequeathing perfectly.

[nathalielpzart]

Finally!! I have something share ajdjjdjd!

Ahahahha, yeah... sorry for going MIA again. I swear when I finally able to post properly, I'm suddenly gone. I also got promoted from my job, so... I was left more busy than usual. Although yay for me! 🎉🥳💕🌻🎉

I was experimenting with my Ohuhu alcohol markers again (great art supplies btw!!!), and Luka and Adrien have become my go to in experimenting with skin tones. So I was suddenly in a Lukadrien mood that I slowly worked on this sketch.

This small sketchbook's first pages are full of incomplete sketches lmao (；^∀^). Which, really, I bought this mostly for experimented ideas, but.... Ahahhaa, sometimes I come up with a good drawing within these experimented sketchbooks. Makes me scream in disbelief with myself!!

Anyways!! Enough with my rambles!! Hopefully I come back to this next week!

Also! Also! Also! Kagurabachi is GREAT!! I found another good ⚫️⚪️ duo I'm becoming VERY attached to. This found family in this manga is great, but!!!! Chihiro and Hakuri keeps grabbing me by the neck!!!!

Sjjdjdjd until next week (I hope!!) everyone! ﾟ.+:｡∩(・ω・)∩ﾟ.+:｡

[silvykinesis]

Some Kingdom Hearts sketchbook stuff!!!

(Don’t mind all the soriku I have brain rot and they’re so in love)

[taylaedraws]

Dreaming together 🌙⭐

Commission me tainah.larissaferreira@gmail.com

[blowingoffsteam2]

Still sitting here stewing in the fact that the manga skipped Riku’s sacrifice

[dizzybevvie]

Bonus Riku doodle

[kingdomhearts-and-soriku-trash]

Past idea: Sora falling into his own darkness in KH 4, and Riku has to save him.

Better idea: Sora falls into darkness and instead of Riku saving him, he helps him save himself. The character development happens, Sora confronts his trauma with Riku by his side (or at least in his mind if Riku cannot be with him), he actually begins to care for himself and just not others when he controls his darkness.

And Riku is by his side the entire time, ready to catch him if he falls, but not holding him. He’ll let him save himself, he’s only there if he falls. To pick him back up and help him stand tall to face what lies ahead.

EDIT: YOO. THAT PART OF KH 2 ENDING WHEN SORA’S HOLDING RIKU AND RIKU SAYS, “Sora, you lead.” IT HAPPENS AGAIN.

Riku helps Sora, but he’s not taking over. Sora leads and he follows.