#nobodyriku

[daylighteclipsed]

Sora getting the Kingdom Key from Riku is a parallel to Ventus getting the BOP from Strelitzia and ever since I’ve been trying to get people to consider Sora might have a Darkness sleeping inside him because he was jealous of Riku’s strength 😭 Terra even attacks Sora over him wielding the key while asking where Riku is like Lauriam asks Ventus mortified

The more I think about it, the more it seems possible.

We don’t know what being possessed by a Darkness feels like. But it is weird that the first line we get from Sora, the opening line of the game, indicates he’s been feeling weird lately and doubting reality, questioning if anything’s real. The station of awakening is strange. The voice in the darkness guiding Sora (and the audience) through the process of gaining power, insisting he will open the door, is strange. Sora seeing heartless before the heartless enter Destiny Islands is strange. The darkness swallowing Sora up at the end of the awakening process is strange. Sora likes to sleep a lot, and sleep is deeply connected to darkness in this universe. Xehanort’s heartless literally speaking to Sora in the Secret Place by the door telling Sora that Destiny Islands has already been “connected, tied to the darkness, soon to be completely eclipsed” even though the door is not open yet supposedly, is strange. Like what is even happening at the start of this game lmao

The parallels to possessed Ventus killing Strelitzia for a BoP is so…. It is chilling when you consider Sora does get what he wants from Riku’s fall. He’s finally better than Riku at something and gets to be the one everyone turns to instead of Riku. He’s in the spotlight. He’s no longer in Riku’s shadow, so to speak. Now, of course, like Ventus, Sora would never consciously want something like this or do something like this. But the Darkness acts on unconscious thoughts and feelings… In CoM, Sora is really frightened by the idea that he has “true” memories he can’t recall and cannot trust what he thinks he knows about himself. On top of him feeling like he really did something wrong, hurt a friend, but doesn’t know or remember how and is scared it might make him a bad person… Well, I just don’t know. It’s not outside the realm of possibility. But man would that recontextualize the beginning of KH1 in such a horrific way.

[nosfelixculpa]

Finally another has experienced Paranormasight 😌

10/10 game i am manifesting a dlc which is just tsutsumi taking jun yakko and mio for the fancy sushi they were PROMISED i dont Care if they dont remember make it so they do

[wrightfamily]

I wish they'd given us a pre-Act 2 Serena traveling on her own story quest. ;-; They owed us for the Jade one...

i both agree and disagree? because on one hand serena is my second favorite character in the game (nearly tied with sylvando!) and i'd LOVE to have seen more of her, i feel like giving her a pre-act 2 arc would have made the reveal about veronica not have as big of an impact on the player? (dragon quest xi spoilers under the cut if you haven't played the game)

the scene between the twins on yggdrasil really gave me huge "oh god they're going to die" flags for both of them, so i feel like by giving only one of them a character intermission (that's what i like to call those little pre-act 2 story quests personally!) and not the other it makes the moment where we see that serena is okay a little less relieving, and also makes veronica's death feel less sudden. if i'm making sense?

BUT I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE ONE FOR HER TOO. i would have loved a serena side story about her being independent, especially because of the "you've always been a little slow" sentiment between the twins (which isn't veronica trying to insult her! or at least not to me, more of a "i need to watch out for you more"). i think a side story about her doing small acts to help others, or even finding herself in a position of leadership for a short while would have been AMAZING. especially since jade's quest is so god awful.

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 2, Poll 5

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Riku-Kingdom Hearts

Qualifications/Propaganda:

So Riku is neither canonically LGBTQ+ nor canonically disabled but there's quite a slew of subtextual evidence. And this subtext is considered basically canon due to the creator's (Tetsuya Nomura) stance on media, which is that he enjoys leaving clues for players to figure out. So while Riku is never explicitly said to be queer or disabled, there's clear evidence on both accounts.

So first: Riku is gay. There's no doubt about it (despite what the dudebros insist...) Riku is gay for Sora, his childhood best friend/former rival. Long story short, Riku was afraid of Sora's friendship with this girl Kairi, didn't realize those feelings were gay jealousy, and he got gaslighted by the Mistress of All Evil, MALEFICENT HERSELF, into believing that Sora didn't care for him anymore. He went Dark Mode, destroyed their home, and antagonized Sora for most of the first game. But then he gets trapped in the Realm of Darkness after Sora kicked his ass for the millionth time and he realized how *sora voice* stUpid he was being and helps Sora stop the apocalypse (saved the world counter: 1) Then Riku goes through a whole arc of "wow i was an idiot. sora will never forgive me and i have Darkness in my heart and i need to protect sora while he's in a year-long medically-induced coma to undo his amnesia" and. idk. theres a Lot of stuff. So much so that someone made a 6-HOUR video essay about it! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll17V9DJr7g)

Riku is also likely suffering from chronic pain. Throughout the year that Sora is in a coma, he fights Sora's Nobody, Roxas, to get Sora's memories back. During the fight, Roxas breaks Riku's wrist, and it never heals correctly. Throughout the finale of Kingdom Hearts 2, the next game chronologically, Riku wears a wrist brace that goes largely unexplained. During the final boss fight, Riku throws himself in the way of Xemnas (the Big Bad) to protect Sora, getting hurt twice in the process; being struck so hard in the shoulder that he's flung halfway across the battlefield, and then hit in the side so badly that it causes him to collapse as soon as the adrenaline from the fight fades. It's likely that none of these injuries healed properly, as even in Kingdom Hearts 3 (which is like 5 games later. dont ask) he has some interesting tells; his walk is incredibly stiff and his battle stance changes, likely because of the strain put on his wrist for the old stance. (https://www.tumblr.com/nobodyriku/706960754548604929 shows this pretty well, though i can't find the other post i had in mind but whatever)

Anything Else?:

soriku endgame actually <3

Darth Maul-Star Wars

Qualifications:

Maul is canonically disabled; he was bisected at the waist by one Obi-Wan Kenobi, but SOMEHOW did not die, and was in fact teleported into a garbage dump, where he proceeded to live as a spider cyborg for the next 12 years, when he was found and rescued by his long-lost brother. He has used prosthetic legs of one kind or another ever since, and in Rebels, he uses a cane. He is also definitely gay. In The Clone Wars cartoon, he is OBSESSED with Obi-Wan, to the point that Obi-Wan is his entire personality and the entirety of his life goals. All he wants is to kill him and cause him suffering in revenge for being cut in half and subsequently abandoned by his master. However, this obsession is. Definitely homoerotic. Dude fights Obi-Wan naked at one point (the animators forgot that people with prosthetic legs still have to wear pants). He literally builds a hate shrine to Obi-Wan's dead ex-girlfriend, who he killed, AFTER he kills her. In Rebels, once he is able to merge the two holocrons and ask any question he wants, he asks where Obi-Wan is. The answer is Tatooine, of course. He goes there, has one final fight with Obi-Wan, and is fatally wounded. HOWEVER. He dies in Obi-Wan's arms. He dies being HELD GENTLY by Obi-Wan. I cannot adequately explain how insane that is. Makes me froth at the mouth. Anyway.

Propaganda:

I love this severely fucked-up dude so much. He dedicated almost 20 years of his life to a single-minded obsession with Obi-Wan Kenobi, an obsession which literally kept him alive when he was chopped in half in a garbage pit, stuck in a hole on Planet Sith, and just generally attempting to live after being raised for nothing but violence as a child. He is missing half his bones, many vital organs, and got his two biggest blood vessels sliced right open, and yet REFUSED to die. He then became a spider cyborg. The first thing he did when coming onboard the Ghost was critique the interior design. He took over an entire planet just to get a guy to notice him. He was kidnapped as a child and tortured nonstop for the first 20 years of his life, resulting in an attachment style where he can only conceptualize relationships as a hierarchy (master/apprentice), so he searches constantly for an apprentice, and even treats his brother as one; despite how he very clearly just wanted a brother, he didn't know how to be in an equal relationship. He does absolutely nothing but cause problems for people-- be they Jedi or Sith. Ahsoka once released him from a magic strait-jacket as a "distraction" and he immediately began tearing panels off of the walls and decapitating people with them. He has a death grip on my brain.

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[thefreshprinceofjunes]

So then, if something happens, and Riku is about to get lost— or, say, he starts wandering down a dark path alone— you make sure to stay with him and keep him safe. That's your job, Sora, and I'm counting on you to do it, okay?

companion piece to this gifset, inspired by @nobodyriku​s tag on it:

[dominicsorel]

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[legendofzeldas]

@ahaura @nobodyriku @tchia @calficer @wrightfamily

thank you loves! 💗💗💗

[supahsaucemann]

BlackBlaze Dirk’s/Terra-Xehanort’s End = Joran’s/Terra’s Resolve

Xenoblade 3/KH3 Spoiler Warning

I was inspired by @nobodyriku to do this collage to fill my KH/Xenoblade needs

[daylighteclipsed]

I don’t have an explanation either but I feel it in my SOUL 😩😩😩

“The truth isn’t what you hear but what you see” Well I am perceiving the TRUTH. My third eye is wide open. Namine and Riku are too similar and paralleled too often to not be connected. I can’t explain how Riku joined the Sora-Ventus-Kairi mix in Namine’s creation, but he did. I just Know it.

[wrightfamily]

You saw it you expected it Trucy fan~

SOMEONE MUST BE

[nosfelixculpa]

The tangled show is not perfect but the character development is really fucking good and surprisingly emotionally mature at times and also the songs are really really amazing I hold it very dear to me I’d definitely give it a try if you like Rapunzel as a character bc it does her soooo much justice

i am Looking At It the animation is so pretty my eyes r open 👁👁

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

that soriku and the little mermaid gifset is killing me bc like

we have parallels between all the disney princess couples in the games and soriku???? i think??????? not just one but ALL?????????

like

snow white: probably weakest, but snow white ‘dead’ (asleep) and the prince saving her with love (ddd)

cinderella: also weaker but uhhhhh at the very least theres fairy godmother sending cinderella off to the ball to fufill her dream (MoM). and prince charming desperately looking for her is kinda?? soras journey in the first few games?????

sleeping beauty: ditto only true loves kiss breaking the spell (ddd) and also, aurora having a connection to prince phillip through her dreams (ddd/re:mind)

the little mermaid: ariel wants to leave the ocean and go explore another world. followed by eric looking for her, but shes been rEPLACED BY SOMEONE ELSE (VANESSA AKA NAMINE) WHOS USING SOMETHING OF HERS TO DISGUISE THEMSELF (ARIELS VOICE AKA THE METEOR SHOWER MEMORY) OH SHIT I JUST REALIZED THIS RIGHT AS IM TYPING THIS OUT WAIT WAIT HHOLD ON oOKAY okay im good im good now.  and then heres the gifset that started this all of course (kh2/re:coded)

beauty and the beast: right here babey! (kh1/kh2/ddd/com) + also this (chi)

aladdin: jasmine rebelling and sneaking out of the palace to go see the world. and this is from tvtropes but, ‘When Sora calls out for Riku after the second battle with the Parasite Cage, the staging of the scene is identical to when Aladdin called out for Jasmine after defeating Jafar in Agrabah: the Hero frantically calling out for their Love Interest as the room collapses around them while their allies drag them to safety.’ theres probably more with them but idk and its 4:30 am as i type this (kh1) ETA: aladdin and jasmine are directly compared to sora and riku in recom!

mulan: here + here >:^) (kh2 novel/ddd)

tangled: rapunzel wanting to leave her tower to see the world (kh3 novel) + this, after eugene is brought back to life with the power of true love (ddd)

and then frozen world doesnt even HAVE a couple BUT it does have anna and elsa! who are DIRECTLY compared to sora and riku!!! using the word love in english!!!! and the word used previously to describe rikus precious person in japanese (taisetsu)!!!!!!  here + here + multiple taisetsu links here

also uh???? anna frozen in ice??? sora frozen if you lose the yozora fight in re:mind???? hello???????????

ETA: okay wait there are some kristoff and anna parellels i forgot about/didnt think about IRT soriku LOL

(thank you @nobodyriku​)

literally the only disney princess couples (from the official disney princess lineup) that arent paralleled with soriku are pocahontas and (blech) john smith, and tiana and naveen. and thats bc those worlds arent in the games.

and HONORABLE MENTION goes to herc and megara. like even besides the taisetsu parallels, in the original movie theres herc diving into the river styx to save megaras soul. 

you know. like sora literally breaking time and space to save his friends, which starts with him following rikus light through the tunnel. where it kind of looks like hes swimming through water?????

and riku is the first one he finds

in. olympus.

like. do you see this. are we all seeing this. because holy moley, when you put it all together, its a lot

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

what would i give to live where you are? what would i pay to stay here beside you? what would i do to see you smiling at me?

inspired by this gifset from @nobodyriku ♡

[dominicsorel]

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