#and then if Riku your paragon of masculinity is a girl. what then?
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i need to replay kh1 and also play the rest of the kh games so i can think thoughts about yuriverse!rikai
#like i think u can genderbend sora and she's pretty much the same#but like. i think riku would have turned out different if raised as a girl#particularly the way shes presented in kh1#bcos she starts out as the Cool Athletic Dude Everyone Looks Up To. which i feel is something u dont rlly see w girl characters#especially not outside of solely-female groups#and listen we learn fuck all abt destiny islands society. except for the paopu fruit and its whole amatonormativity deal#which makes me lean towards it being more conservative#but like. i do think that kairi (+ selphie to a lesser extent) being less involved in athletic stuff speaks to that being the norm#and then if Riku your paragon of masculinity is a girl. what then?#is she still sporty but weird for it? does she have a Cool Girl thing going on that entails different interests?#like i dont think his confidence would come off the same way if he were a female character#but then this could add to her motivation to leave the islands if its a more conservative place#plus i think having fem!riku around would impact kairi's character as well#because ill fight for her but at a certain point the doylist misogyny becomes watsonian#and like i reckon she is the way she is partially bcos shes The Girl in the friend group#that changes the way she interacts with sora for instance bcos of heteronormativity#like i reckon in the yuriverse where sora and riku are girls theres a way different dynamic at play
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