#Riku and Kairi

[luxmoogle]

Kairi climbing up Riku and using him as a stepladder ‘cause she can’t reach

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Two things that I adore about the Kingdom Hearts VR Experience, mainly because I just love Kairi way too much and will always eat up any "new" content I can get with her. I've been meaning to make this post for a while.

I love the different angles on the one Destiny Trio scene from KH1 (that really, of course, they had to do for this, because Sora's somewhat removed from the scene, as you are Sora, so to speak in this VR experience). It's just really cool and interesting to see, for a number of reasons. The Riku and Kairi moments in this scene in particular are really nice to get a new perspective on. I also wouldn't be surprised, if vidders could use this scene in an amv and pretend it's a different KH1 memory--to pretend and give us more KH1 scenes of the Destiny Trio's past--as opposed to one we already had from different angles:

2. In the one KHII scene, where Xemnas is somewhat trying to manipulate our heroes with his "what other choice might we (Nobodies) have had? We, who were turned away by both Light and Dark" speech, in the original scene, Kairi had fish face/default face, whatever fandom term you want to use refer to it. A.K.A., they left her face unanimated there:

But in the VR version of this scene, they've gone back in and animated it, so it's nice and expressive. Which, of course, you love to see:)

[aitsuheart]

Kairi is Riku's friend too, she's the person that everyone feels safe confiding in their deepest dark secrets and for Riku it's quite obvious what that is.

And she is on his side and knows all about his feelings for Sora. In fact, she is constantly hoping that one day they'll be together as both of them talk to her about their feelings.

Only in Sora's case, he's unaware of his own feelings towards Riku.

She is the person that helps tie the two of them together. Riku is recklessly in love and Kairi knows how to look after him to make sure he doesn't do anything too stupid.

When Riku goes to the quadratum to find Sora, it takes some time but he finds Sora. They hug and end up revealing their feelings for the other, but unfortunately for Riku he did not study about the Quadratum enough to find a way out.

So together they are lost in the quadratum until Kairi shows up to save both of them as she has gotten stronger through training with Aqua and knows how to get out of there.

I live for Riku Kairi friendship

[whyarewecalledtheshipname]

the thing, ever

two pretty best friends

[haido]

Listen to my story

(KH ver.)

[shweshisketch]

For request

Destiny Trio doing handstands...

One of them is still learning tho

(if 3 is too much just pick 2)

At this point in the story I think all of them could pull one off 🫣 but I imagine when they were younger Sora would fail the most trying to imitate Riku

[asteraws]

[passive-t-u-m-b-l-r-user]

Y'all make fun of the outfits from Kingdom Hearts (2002), but fail to realize that they were PULLED FROM THEIR HOMES on a day that they were playing at the beach.

They HAVE normal clothes. They were wearing beach attire. Imagine being pulled through a dimensional portal while you're swimming and building sandcastles. Congrats! Your only clothes are these now:

[w4y2dawn]

I love u platonic rikai

[strawbyarts]

at least they have each other

[kennycrows]

KINGDOM HEARTS 3 x FFBE

[soras-sillies]

destiny islands trio THE sillies

[oveliagirlhaditright]

So, basically what's happening here is that I've seen the theory that the sort of strange animation moment in the Kingdom Hearts cartoon is because it's supposed to be Kairi there for a second. I don't know if I really believe that, but I decided to make a post about it, anyway.

And then I decided to make a parallel post about when Kairi kind of calls Sora in the game like that, if it's true. The closest I could think of was when Kairi told Sora she believed in him, of course, because if she was there in the unaired Pilot, it was after that that Sora found his confidence and had his "I'm a hero" line. And also when Kairi saves Sora from Ansem Seeker of Darkness, since all three of our heroes are there at that time, like in the Cartoon That Never Was scene, allegedly (even if Riku's possessed in the KH1 scene:().

And then this last part is parallel shots of Sora and Kairi (and then an edited pic I made, showing how similar the shots are). Because if that rumor is true, it sounds like Sora was supposed to turn into Kairi for a second there. And we've never gotten anything like that in canon (though we did get the reverse in Melody of Memory), so I made one myself. -shrugs-

[jaysosillyart]

100 DAYS OF KINGDOM HEARTS DRAWINGS:

DAY 12

closing this chapter

[rabiesgiver]

tag urself im sora

[haido]

Destiny Islands 🌴⭐

(project time: 7 weeks)