#THIS IS NOT KAIRI HATE

[depressedlochnessmess]

childhood guilt

sequel to this i started months ago and never finished til now

[w4y2dawn]

I love u platonic rikai

[shweshisketch]

Drawing Request: Kairi and Naminé getting to just have a chill hang out, they deserve it 😅

I wonder what they were watching?

[satoumafuyuss]

I felt a very intense need to draw my blorbo from my game so <3

[noctistrash]

This! All of this!!! Kairi is a wasted potential character as long as they keep pushing this "Sora is her only goal" narative.

We could have seen a new her in that rhythm game. She could have started as old Kairi, but as you progressed, she could have realized that "hey, this Sora is not who I remember being" and slowly reach the conclusion that she need something else than SORA, that is fine for her heart to still have feelings for him but to move on, especially at the end when it's shown that only Riku was still fully connected to Sora, that only HIS heart was locked with Sora.

But no, Nonura and Square reduse to go against the machine that is Disney and the het agenda and so, so much of Kairi as a character is lost.

God forbid Kairi have to find a new dream that isn’t being with Sora

[dizzybevvie]

obligatory kh1 Paopu tree scene redraw

og under cut <3

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

people pointing to one heart as proof s/k is canon is sooooo funny when it seems to be a light only attack

bc like

its been stated consistently throughout the series that you cant just have light. light and dark need to be in balance.

like they literally say 'light!' as the attack starts.

that doesnt seem very balanced to me.

but you know what team attack is?

also, i feel like it being called one heart points even further to it being another s/k red herring.

like, compare that to hearts in tune

love is not being one with someone, or someone else 'completing' you. love is just being with someone. by their side.

and theres also the fact that the attack literally cannot function without the two of them together. they need both wings to fly. whereas the two halves of the combined keyblade can be used on their own

or at least i think they can, anyway. in nightmares end/mirage split we see them used individually to cut the chains before they merge:

plus all the emphasis on the nobodies/replicas/etc being their own people, and growing their own hearts. even tho they were 'content' with being merged with their og selves.

idk, maybe im reading too much into the name. maybe its not that deep. but it still seems kinda weird, with all the emphasis post-kh2 on everyone having their own identities

[asexualautistic]

If you hate kairi sora hates you

[aitsuheart]

Just because you like Soriku doesn't mean you have to hate Kairi or bring her down just because there is another ship involving one of the characters and her.

It's a normal ship.

Hating on her for that is very stupid and childish.

If you want to say how your ship is valid stop being her into it

[blowingoffsteam2]

Truly I think I can count on a single hand the number of sorikus I’ve encountered that actually “hate Kairi because she gets in the way of the ship”. It’s an extremely uncharitable accusation that gets slung around at every soriku that doesn’t just absolutely love her though. I mean I understand wanting people to like the character you like, because maybe they have traits you relate to- so that when people dislike or just don’t care about them it can feel personal. But especially for a character who is almost universally agreed to have been written disappointingly, no one is obligated to love or enjoy them (and I think even if Kairi’s lack of development was intentional the execution has never been very good- that is a problem with writing).

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

unpopular opinion: the KH fandom really needs to check their misogyny.

i mean every fandom needs to check their misogyny

[autumn-may]

being a kh mobile fan is so funny because all the kh content i see is going off about motifs and parallels and the development within both the light/dark and interpersonal connection themes and dissecting how it affects the other events within the story… and then i go to the kh main tag and its ‘Top ten reasons sora and riku should make out on kairis grave (and this will make kairi a better character)’

[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 😭

[heyrvcksack]

Kairi + Frutiger Metro

[xiiiwayfinders]

I adore Kairi so much she deserves so much better I'm sending her hugs and kisses and appreciation and pants for kh4 and ice cream and seashells and all the power in the universe and kittens and puppies and moogles an

[t-u-i-t-c]

“Whoa, total coincidence!”