#like in kh2 when tron hugs sora and hes like what the fuck

[rolaplayor101]

on god you’re such a fucking homophobe lmao why are you erasing the fact that he’s in romantic love with riku

Because hes not in romantic love with Riku. Hes got queerplatonic love for Riku, as well as Kairi. And he confuses it for platonic love because he doesn't know what Queer platonic is. Its easy to tell in how he acts in the games. He calls them all his friends, he goes to incredible lengths for them, gets to his knees crying for them, and all in the name of friendship. He even calls Kairi his friend despite how Donald and Goofy tried to imply his feelings were romantic in the first few games.

Sora gets very attached to multiple people throughout the games. He befriends people easily and goes to great lengths to make sure they're ok (how he reacts to Will being stabbed, and Elsa being sad, Tron when he doesn't remember him, also Neku when he immediately calls him his friend and forgives him for betraying him). The same goes for Riku and Kairi, who he's more attached to than anyone else. Once he found out Riku was ok in kh1, he stopped worrying about him and focused on Kairi. In kh2, when he found Riku, he dropped to the ground crying because for the longest time he wasn't sure if Riku was even alive or not, and in kh3 he drops down crying again because Kairi is assumed dead, having been struck down right before his eyes(he also falls to the ground screaming when everyone besides Riku is taken in by the hoard).

Also, he says in kh3 that he "doesnt completely understand [romantic]love, but [he] know[s] about sharing [his] heart with others". He even worries himself into a frenzy about Roxas in kh3, a dude he never even knew, and yet sees as important anyway. None of these things are shown as romantic. In context, none of them are romantic. The only reason it seems romantic between Kairi and Sora to Donald and Goofy is because Kairi is a girl. In kh2, to Meg I believe it is, Donald and Goofy say "he always acts like this around girls" but..he didn't do anything in the scene? He was acting like he normally does?? Nothing changed?? So it's just plain old heteronormativity.

The characters themselves never once call their relationships anything but friendships(except maybe Kairi, but I cant remember her labeling anything)! And everytime romantic love is brought up, Sora immediately equates it with platonic love, because that's the only way he can relate! He sees it as just as important(because it is)! There's also the fact that he can recognize romantic love quite easily with others, such as Meg and Hercules, and Kristoff and Anna. If he felt rom attraction, he'd be able to tell if what he was feeling was it.

Also, he'd show it. He'd blush, have the stereotypical cartoonish "in love" face (lidded, eyes, goofy smile, hearts floating around head and/or thought bubble with hearts around said person, but the video game equivalent), he'd stutter when talking to them, show nervousness specific to romantic attraction and not because he feels ashamed or did something wrong or something. When he holds Kairi and Riku's hands or hugs Riku, he'd show physical signs of romantic/sexual attraction, and or he'd have dialogue thoughts like "I cant believe I get to hold them. My hearts gonna beat right out of my chest" or something to that affect. Sora is no more conscious of holding Kairi's hand than he is Pooh Bear's. And this is Disney, as well as Square Enix. Disney has a formula when displaying romantic attraction in their movies.

Sora's actions are always exclusively done in the name of his friends. "My friends are my power!" Kairi is his power. Riku is his power. Donald and Goofy and Mickey and Roxas and Lea are his power. He cares about his friends. He cries for them. He's an affectionate aroace who treats all his friends specially when he can, although he can't see them all the time(see Pooh Bear in kh3, the talk about being in peoples hearts even when you can't see them, which he has AGAIN with Hiro in Sanfransokyo. This is a direct reference to Kairi being in his heart in kh1 and not being able to see Riku in kh2 AND Roxas now being in his heart in kh3. All platonic scenes and comparisons). And because he was always thinking about Riku and Kairi in the first games, Donald and Goofy and you confused his feelings for Kairi and Riku as romantic, when he himself has always only ever said it was platonic. And he thinks out loud, too, so we hear his inner thoughts.

Queerplatonic attraction can be seen as desiring to be in a relationship just as committed as a romantic one, but platonically, or as desiring to do romantic coded things with someone platonically. Sora says in canon that he always wants to be with Riku and Kairi. He also holds hands with Kairi at the end of Remind and KH3 before he disappears, as well as when they're "coming back to life" after the Heartless Hoard attack. He daydreams in kh1 about holding hands with Kairi and swinging around in a circle after he's found her. That last one only happens once and even still he only ever refers to her as his friend-- not his crush, or anything similar. In the dozen games that have come out, he never takes a shot at it, despite there being plenty of time to after kh2 and before Dream Drop Distance. And since Queerplatonic relationships are often mistaken for being romantic by people outside of the qpr, while also in writing sounding completely like a regular friendship to some people, then it makes most sense for Sora's orientation to be this way. Again, out of the dozen games, he never shows strictly romantic attraction towards anyone(unless you count that one daydream in kh1, but cmon). (I don't even wanna talk about Riku and Kairi. Bi and het respectfully, Riku likes Kairi in kh1, likes Sora until kh3, and Kairi only seems interested in Sora the whole way around.)

And! Since you've shown yourself that you've misread their relationships as romantic, you've proven the point that they all (Sora Riku and Kairi) are in a Queerplatonic relationship! Congratulations! Your fave is a bi oriented aroace with queerplatonic attraction that's also in a polyamorous QPR!

Sorry you have shipping brainrot and cant see how people can be passionate about and motivated by non-romantic causes and people in their lives!(you know, like, what the series is about) Hope you grow out of your amatonormative preteen-like way of thinking! Also, you don't have to be aroace to care about your friends obviously, but apparently you do have to be gay to???

[akingdomtheorist]

KH Catch Up: KH2FM Part Incredibly Sassy

So apparently I forgot about posting this before we played a bunch so here’s a long post about commentary! All the revisits, dubbed PART WHATEVER are short since that story section was quite short.

"What were we doing again? Right we were looking for the swirlies."

HOLLOW BASTION

"Oh hello wiggly bois."

"Oh, it's Advent Children Cloud. Oh god this is him in his edgy bastard game."

"Sephiroth? Sora, we got bodied by him."

"Aerith, you aren't dead in this timeline."

We detract to go visit our very good friend Pooh. He still does not remember the Sora.

"What is that? Who are you? Hmm, I wonder who they could have been talking about." "You really don't remember who those are?" "I genuinely don't. Gimme a name." "You gotta promise not to be made at me." "Okay."

And then I found out he's NEVER PLAYED FINAL FANTASY X OR X-2.

"Remember how KH1 was press X to win?" "Yeah?" "Well KH2 is press X AND Triangle to win." "Gotcha."

-suddenly Leon- "WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?"

"Why are we now in Aperture Science? Oh of course Ansem runs Aperture Science, of course he's Cave Johnson."

"Uh, hi Stitch? WAIT IS STITCH IN THIS GAME?"

"Hi GlaDOS." -at Master Control-

SPACE PARANOIDS

"This is Megaman!" "No it's not!" "It's Megaman Battle Network."

"Who the fuck are you?" I AM COMMANDER SARK.

"Oh this is I have No Mouth but I Must Scream. No wait this is like Ready Player One!"

"Tron." "FINALLY!"

"Sora.EXE. Donald.EXE. Goofy.EXE"

"No we're Digimon."

"THIS IS REBOOT!"

"Good thing we have a giant key. Wait do we still have our giant key? WE DO STILL HAVE OUR GIANT KEY!"

Finding out Tron's user was Ansem the Wise "He's out best friend! -cough-"

BACK TO HOLLOW BASTION

"But, if we go by my theory that Ansem the Wise is different from the Ans-hole we killed, we have hope."

"Door to Darkness?"

"Mickey!"

"Yeah like Ansem is super dead!"

BACK TO SPACE PARANOIDS

"I've played Deadline in GTA. I can do this."

"Yeah we'll be fine once we access the Door to Darkness, that's never gone wrong."

-at the mini boss- "You know you could have froze him, and then used your Set Up limit?" "Yeah well I didn't think of that so uhhhhhh..."

HOLLOW BASTION AGAIN AGAIN

Through various self pats on the back of being the best plot detective, he is very smug with himself.

"Sephiroth- wha, what are you compensating for?!"

"Uh bitch? Step away from my computer? Uh no- no..."

"Oh my god, have you heard of an elevator? That's a ramp, you could slide down that thing!"

I need to make an excuse me count for the amount of times he's said it about the plot.

"HOW MANY ANSEMS ARE THERE?!"

Demyx appears "Oh do we gotta kill a bitch?" He has no idea.

It only took him too tries.

"Good thing Goofy took that hit, he's got plot armor!"

"Oh nevermind, he's super fucking dead!"

"THEY KILLED GOOFY! BUT HE'S IN THREE, I KNOW THEY DIDN'T KILL HIM!"

"Goofy your husband is mad at you."

"Are we about to Dynasty Warriors this?" Thus the battle for 1000 Heartless began. He very much enjoyed himself.

"Mickey would rather jump through a door to darkness than answer the fucking question."

REVISITS

PORT ROYAL

"I like how they waited for us to have that little exchange before the fight."

"This really ruins the mood when you can see Donald, Goofy, and Anime-Sword-Boi in the background."

Gains a summon "Yay Peter Pan! He'll shank a bitch!"

LAND OF DRAGONS PT WHATEVER

"Oh no not this again."

"Wait, I know that sword. Riku how could you?"

"How many times do i gotta teach you this lesson old man?"

He does not approve of Xigbar running away.

"Man Shang's gonna kick our asses if Mulan dies."

"I know the city's in danger but there are chests here can you guys handle a little burning for five minutes?"

That must be Riku! "Only he's that much of an asshole to us!"

BEASTS CASTLE PART WHATEVER

"I just realized Belle is a furry."

"This room gives me PTSD. I just remembered bitch face."

"Hello bitch. We never learn when to quit!"

He then tried the Marluxia fight.

"WHAT IS THAT? WHY DO I HAVE A TIMER? WHY IS THERE A HIT COUNTER! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? HEAL IS POINTLESS IN THIS WHY DID I HEAR I DIDN'T MEAN TO HEAL- NONONONONO STAY AWAY YOU JUST STAY OVER THERE- NO NO NO FUCK GOD DAMN- WHY IS MY MAGIC TAKING SO DAMN LONG TO RECOVER NOOOO!!"

He died.

"We are coming back when we are much higher level."

"Now where has the asshole gone?"

"Worry not! I've defeated the monters-OH NO MORE MONSTERS."

"Mr.Steal-Yo-Girl, literally!"

"Technically he is out of your castle."

"Alright, let's fuckin' do this you Noctis wannabe."

"Wow this guys sucks."

He had to be saved by Mickey. The silence of concentration is strong with this one.

"Aww, nothing like a little murder to start a romance."

OLYMPUS COLISEUM AGAIN

"Have we tried this one yet? Was he a bitch? He's not gonna be as bad as Marluxia right? Right?" "I'm not saying anything." "Oh, he doesn't have that many health bar, comparatively."

He got meteored in the nerd realm, had to play guess who with the colours. Some commentary consisted of:

"What the fuck?"

"Shitshitshitshit."

"What is that?!"

"I'M TRYING TO HEAL."

"You think Hades would learn to stop hiring anime swordsmen by now."

"Hades, I kicked your ass before and I'll do it again."

"You're gonna fall into your well of souls and die, or get a powerup. Okay it's the later."

"Hey Auron we need protection, we do. -raises hand-  We need protection."

"Did we get a constellation. BITCH WE GOT CONSTELLATIONS! FUCK YEAH! We're the best!"

HALLOWEEN TOWN PART WHATEVER

"What, have you had Lock, Shock and Barrel be your assistaants?" "Yes, actually." "You IDIOT."

"Why do you still have that costume?"

"There it is, theres Goth Santa."

"These three are everything awful about children."

"THEY GET EACH OTHER OUT?! Oh I fffff..."

"Wait, we can beat up the children?"

"We're being invaded by hell monsters, I thought you should know."

"No, Jack it's what's inside- oh Santa's gonna be mad at you..."

"Did the Organization really konk Dr. Finklestien on the head and steal his thing?"

"Why is there a face on his crotch?"

"That ending was tooth-rottingly sweet."

AGRABAH PART WHATEVER

"Didn't we buy Jafar from that shady merchant?"

"He learned Misty Step- no, Dimension Door."

"WE WENT THOUGH SO MUCH EFFORT TO PUT HIM IN THE LAMP!"

Vexen Absent Silhouette

"Are you ready for Panic Episode 12?"

"Who dis bitch? I recognize him but I don't remember his name."

"Does he make clones of me?"

"He's doable."

To Jafar. "Maybe adjust your tactic? You've tried the same thing twice now and it hasn't worked."

"Did Organization XIII steal the lamp?"

PRIDE LANDS PART WHATEVER

"We're going back to the Pride Lands?" "Yeah." "You know what that means?"

"Yeah....."

"I really want a member of the Organization to show up just to be the only human in this world."

"Simba has literally no training on how to be a king. He doesn't know what people need! Do you think when he was out there for like ten years he was learning resource management? Macro economics?"

Deja Vu joke count has broken the number counter, and he moves exclusively by drifting now.

"Simba that's not a very kingly answer. Yes, you say yes, not 'I don't think so."

He then put the entire Hyena fight on hold to get that one hovering puzzle piece. It was only through a final act of self depreciation he finally jumped to it.

"Boss fight! He's very large."

HOLLOW BASTION PART WHATEVER

"Yuffie were you hiding? You're a ninja, you're supposed to hide to win!"

NOW IT TIME FOR POOHBEAR

The medicine is now whiskey and everyone is underage to drink it. How dare he.

"Is-Pooh's Astral Projecting!"

"That's me! Younger me! Past me! Previous me! Me in a past tense!"

"YAY AWW I like it. We're holding his hand. WE GOT A KEYBLADE!"

He got a Cosmic Ring. He then proceeded to act as if someone had given him a thousand dollars and hugged me.

"THIS IS SO WHOLESOME!"