#kh1 riku

[luxmoogle]

ᵂʰᵃᵗᵉᵛᵉʳ ˡⁱᵉˢ ᵇᵉʸᵒⁿᵈ ᵗʰⁱˢ ᵐᵒʳⁿⁱⁿᵍ ᴵˢ ᵃ ˡⁱᵗᵗˡᵉ ˡᵃᵗᵉʳ ᵒⁿ ᴿᵉᵍᵃʳᵈˡᵉˢˢ ᵒᶠ ʷᵃʳⁿⁱⁿᵍˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘᵗᵘʳᵉ ᵈᵒᵉˢⁿ'ᵗ ˢᶜᵃʳᵉ ᵐᵉ ᵃᵗ ᵃˡˡ ᴺᵒᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ'ˢ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᵇᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ

[dizzybevvie]

You're the sunflower/I think your love would be too much

[invidiatechdemo]

"Back then, you didn't think too hard about how convenient it was that there was a room already perfect for you, did you."

"... It's not your fault. Thinking about that would only have been worse. You had your own problems at the time, right? So don't feel guilty for not considering it."

[strayheartless]

Maybe it’s cause I listen to a lot of apocalyptica. Maybe I should blame DDD, but I have this headcanon that Riku plays the Cello…

Don’t ask me give you evidence as to why.

I just, I dunno, I have this image of post CoM/ pre KH2 Riku relearning how to play an instrument he’s played since he was six whilst he’s wearing his blindfold. Just him, in the middle of a big empty room in the twilight town mansion, feeling out the notes and relying only on his ears and fingers to guide his muscles.

Perhaps he’d do it in the quiet moments when he has nothing to do but wait for DiZ to make some headway. Maybe Naminé sneaks into the room to watch him play, and he knows she’s there but he lets it be.

Maybe, after a while it’s his go to therapy when he feels like he’s going to scream or crawl out of his skin.

It’s something Ansem/Zehanort couldn’t do. Something that tied him to who he was. And in a way it became his focus.

Maybe Riku falls back on it while he’s searching for Sora after KH3. He’s so lost and worried and angry that he feels out of control, so he reaches for the blindfold -the one he shoved to the back of his draws and swore he’d never wear again- and wraps it around his eyes.

When he sits down to play, its like sinking into painless sleep after hours of agony. Just the low vibrations of the strings, as he plays out how he feels.

What comes out of the instrument is dark and a little bit broody, and afterwards he feels like an idiot for falling back on that melodramatic feeling to help him cope. But in the moment it helps him purge what he’s feeling so that he can continue the fight.

Maybe Kairi hears. Maybe Leon and the rest of the restoration committee hear it too.

Maybe it reverberates around the castle when he plays and let’s them all know that he needs support.

I dunno man, it’s such a melodramatic headcanon. It’s so emo, that I hate it, but also love it.

I just like the idea of it.

[pureangels22]

I decided to do Riku's outfits as well in GL2. I had a tough time with him if I'm being honest, lol. Riku is very manly in my eyes, and when trying to convey *that* in a chibi format, he kept coming out looking a bit girly to me. But regardless, I tried my best, and I like how the finished project came out.

I'll more than likely will be doing Kairi next (considering she is one of my favorite characters from KH). Enjoy! 🤍

[griffin-ktb]

Forever thinking about him ☝️✨

[ok4ru]

I love this guy so much…

[nebulousbren]

Using Riku to test a new color workflow! Very pleased with it so far, wanted to show it off ^^

[oliverbluebug]

the sleeping light in Riku's heart that gifts Sora the keyblade: a sticker design

I want to open an etsy shop soon, but pls be patient bc art school rlly do have homework

[zixixibi]

IT'S FANART FRIDAY. My favorite dark boi, Dark Riku! There is a detail about this that bothers me, but I'm going to be dark and mysterious and not point it out

[rxcketwip]

Now the score's 12 to 0

based on this fuckin dude I saw on twitter LMAO

immediately made me think of Riku

[mythicalartistx]

I drew this Riku sketch back in March in KH1 in that opening scene

My Instagram

[whyarewecalledtheshipname]

yall i miss pilot riku so bad

[whyarewecalledtheshipname]

ugh so amazing 😩💜

complicated emotions

[strayheartless]

Do you ever think about the fact that Terra technically has a little bit of responsibility to take for what happened to Riku in KH1? Cause I do.

Like I’m not saying that Terra is terrible or that he’s completely to blame, because he’s not. I love Terra as a character. He’s great! However I am saying that one of the many mistakes Terra made in BBS was bequeathing his Keyblade to Riku the way he did.

And I think Aqua knew it too.

Maybe I’m stating the obvious here, but something that becomes pretty apparent to me from that scene is that Terra didn’t actually think about the logistics of giving his keyblade to a seven year old kid. Nor did he really think of the responsibility that placed on him, to teach Riku how to be a keyblade barer.

When Terra helps Riku make the oath, he doesn’t really explain the weight of it to Riku, and quite honestly even if he had, Riku was still only seven. Yes okay, he was a seven year old who thought protecting his best friend was the most important thing, but he’s still only seven. Terra could t really expect Riku to comprehend what taking on the role of a keyblade barer meant, especially since Riku didn’t even know what one was!

And then Terra leaves, and it’s not made clear whether or not he plans to come back and teach Riku. He leaves this kid to simply figure this stuff out by himself, when Riku doesn’t even know where to start.

By comparison Aqua makes a purposeful decision not to bequeath her keyblade to sora. And I think that was less to do with the fact that Terra had already given one of the boys a keyblade, and more to do with the fact that she recognised that unless she was sure she could come back, then giving the keyblade to sora would be a bad idea. Because she couldn’t come back to teach him the way Terra, Ven and herself were taught. She knew better then to place that pressure on a child, to simply do it themselves.

Personally I believe that part of Riku’s desperation to be the best. To be the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, the wisest; came from an expectation that Terra placed on him to “have the strength to protect what matters”.

Riku had no idea that what he needed was a teacher. He had no idea the amount of training and practice it took to become a keyblade master, because he didn’t have a teacher! Because Terra left, and he never came back.

And I know that’s not Terras fault. But part of the reason I think that it was such a bad idea to gift Riku the keyblade, was because -technically- Terra didn’t have the right. He wasn’t a master, he failed his exam and was made to go away and re-evaluate his relationship to the darkness.

To me thats the first sign that you shouldn’t be handing out keyblades to kids on beaches.

Riku had the same priorities as Terra, and that was both of their downfalls in the end. It’s becoming Sora’s weakness in real time as we play the games. The difference is, Riku became a master because -unlike Terra he stared long and hard at his relationship to the darkness and learned that it wasn’t about using it to protect his friends, it was about allowing it to consume him.

But Riku could only learn that because he was pushed to the brink of destruction, that was caused by his fear of failing to become a Keyblade barer.

And who placed that weight of expectation on him?

Terra.

I dunno man, I have a lot of thinking thoughts. Most of them incoherent.

Tell me what you think???

[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: