#a recent poll on favorite KH games had Chain of Memories as the second lowest ranked (next to Melody of Memory)

[catboygirljoker]

look i don't go here. but hum by clara c has always been my "person who knows the awful shape of the universe and tries to isolate themself from emotional attachment & yet finds themself fond of someone ultimately fleeting" song. attach that to a character for me please

ok listening to this song and reading the lyrics i immediately think about Naminé in Chain of Memories. she's effectively like...an interesting take on the Damsel in Distress, where she's a pretty blond girl locked away in a castle, but she has this terrifying ability to manipulate the memories of Sora and those close to him, causing him to forget his childhood best friend Kairi and remember Naminé in her place. So she is actively manipulating Sora's memory and making him believe she's more important to him than she is, thus driving him further through Castle Oblivion and making him lose more of his memories in an attempt to rescue her

...but Naminé is also being manipulated by Organization XIII into doing this. She is a Damsel in Distress in that she is being held captive in a castle by people who are probably going to dispose of her as soon as she outlives her usefulness to them. And part of the reason she uses her powers to make Sora believe he cares about her is because she only recently came into being (long story) and has no actual friends or people who care about her for real—she can only rely on this fake, manipulated affection she's planted in Sora as a hope of rescue and as a shadow of real love

in the end, Sora decides that he does care about her, even if she manipulated him into feeling this way, and when it becomes clear that he will have to forget her in order to restore his real memories, he promises that he will see her and befriend her again.

maybe doesnt fit the interpretation of the song you describe but thats what i thinka bout ....... especially with the bridge, thinking about her being burdened and trapped by her reliance on Sora's love for her when she knows it isn't real and that she's been doing something deeply harmful to him. idk if im even making sense lol