#riku/naminé

[srapsodia]

some battle ready rikus 🤺

[w4y2dawn]

SORA!!!🗣️GET IN THE GUMMISHIP🗣️🗣️🗣️

[rabiesgiver]

tag urself im sora

[strayheartless]

If kingdom hearts characters could swear:

Sora: Can swear, does swear. Knows there’s a time and a place for swearing and the hundred acre wood is not the time nor the place.

Riku: can swear, chooses not to unless he’s mad and/or frustrated.

Kairi: swears A LOT. Like it’s impressive how many she knows.

Roxas: swears about as much as Sora but is more likely to drop an F bomb in front of Winnie the Pooh by accident.

Xion: she can but she doesn’t. Doesn’t really find it appealing to swear. She prefers yelling creative insults.

Axel: swears like punctuation. Tries to tone it down in polite company and fails.

Isa: deep, resounding, Geralt of Rivia style “fuck” when he’s inconvenienced.

Terra: doesn’t often swear but it’s not shocking to hear him mutter “gods fucking damn it” when something’s going wrong.

Aqua: dry sarcastic swearing that makes everyone else feel stupid.

Ventus: him? Swear?! He is a little lad! A child! No no, he could never! How does one even approach such a vulgar lexicon! “Fuuuuuuu…dge. No that’s not right. Shhhhhhhiiiiuuuuggger. Hm, nope. Basssssst friend! Ahhhhh” he cannot and does not swear. If Ventus is swearing, everything’s gone to shit and people need to start praying.

Vanitas: has said fuck in front of Winnie the Pooh many times. So many he is now banned from trips to 100AW.

Naminé: you’d think she can’t or wouldn’t, but both Xion and Riku have heard her mutter “what is this shit? Come on hand, play the fucking game” while she’s drawing.

[autumn-may]

lets skate together!

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more twitter side account doodles

[flummoxx]

these scenes have the same energy to me

[goldensunset]

to bloom under an artificial sun

[jaysosillyart]

stop hiding

[trashcantasch]

CoM posting :]

[luxustextbox]

couldn't decide so i narrowed it down to four (for now)

[originaldreamer06]

HAPPY MARCH CAPRICE AND HAPPY 23 ANNIVERSARY TO THE BEST GAME EVER (give us an update.)

Count it, year number 5 🗣️Here’s my piece! How I love participating each year in this event! MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE AND GIVE EVERYONE ALL THE LOVE THIS YEAR 🗣️🗣️🗣️

@marchcapricekh

Hella inspired by 358/2 days recently, mainly because I’ve been so deep into this super long fanfic I’m writing 🤭

[starfiresky]

What the kh characters would do on Christmas

Ventus: *searches frantically through the presents to find a stuffed animal to cuddle with*

Chirithy: *J E A L O U S Y I N T E S I F I E S*

Aqua: *proud mom watching over her children opening the presents which she bought entirely by herself*

Terra: *is one of the children 💀*

Axel: *lights the tree on fire* “Demyx told me this is how you light a Christmas tree”

Roxas: *FASCINATED by the fire*

Xion: *trying to put out the fire* 😱

Sora: *went broke buying gifts for all of his friends*

Kairi: *unknown activities* screen time issues 💔

Riku: *spending time with his dad* 🐭

Mickey: *spending time with his son* 🧍‍♂️

Xehanort: *spending time with himself*

Saïx: *doesn’t believe in Santa Claus*

Naminé: *is actually Santa Claus*

[mythicalartistx]

The Repliku Problem:

There is an issue of Riku Replica's portrayal in Kingdom Hearts and I mean how others see him in the community that goes against everything he stands for.

A part of me hates that he is called Repliku or Riku Replica because it goes back to Riku. But I'm still going to be referring to him as Repliku because there's no better name.

Repliku's story is all about him being someone else from Riku. He learns he actually is his own person and not just a copy. And this can also be applied that his emotions and feelings are different from Riku's. And Riku doesn't feel the same feeling or emotions and Repliku does. They can feel similar but it's obviously different for different people.

But there's a large misconception that whatever Repliku feels so does Riku. Whatever happens to Repliku also applies to Riku. But that's not the case at all??

Repliku doesn't get his own things in the fandom, no he has to share with Riku. Any shipname between Repliku and another is always mixed in in the simple Riku ship rather than using Repliku.

The Riku version is always used more for Repliku even if it doesn't shows Riku at all. For anyone that ships Repliku and Sora specifically, it is still referred to as soriku. It could also be Repliku and Naminé for example, but the Replinami ship is significantly less seen than the Riku and Naminé one. That's also an entirely different ship but it's treated as one and the same.

While it's more in canon that Repliku cares for Naminé people treat it as they both do when this isn't the case at all.

It's not that Riku doesn't it's just that people think he must because of the same reasons Repliku cares for Naminé

Repliku's entire arc is that he is different, as the novel Sora says this to him,

"Fake or not, that doesn't matter anymore! You're here now, and you have a heart that belongs to you and no one else. Your memories belong to you and you only, so treasure them!"

These words help Repliku feel better about himself and realize he can be his own person. He feels glad to hear these words by Sora. He is glad that he met and knows Sora. He treats him as his own person which he is thankful for. And that's good enough for him.

His own arc is that he is his own person separate from Riku. I also want to point out that the other Replica that is in the real organization in kh3 is someone entirely separate as well.

Repliku after everything decides to keep one of the fake memories because it's not something Riku has. He internally struggles after knowing he's a replica. He is jealous of the other Riku who is "the real thing" and was able to manage his own darkness. He was jealous of him because he is his own person and longs to be his own person and be different too. That's why when Axel manipulates him to absorb and kill Zexion he does without a second thought and is able to use something separate from Riku.

It's why he ends up inedibly fading away. Repliku desperately wants to have something Riku doesn't have. He wants to be a person separate from Riku with his individual own thoughts and feelings. Sora reassured his own were unique. Riku isn't controlling him or making him have those feelings, those are his individual ones.

He wants to be his own person so badly and even though Sora and Riku had reassured his was his own, Repliku still doesn't believe he can. He compares himself too much to Riku. He doesn't see how he can live because he believes he was created to be a copy created from Riku to lure Sora further down that path to be controlled. He doesn't know who he is and everything he ever knew turned out to be a lie.

He clings on to the one memory that was fabricated, but it was also a memory Riku doesn't have. He decides to keep the promise to protect Naminé. It's what makes him himself. It's what becomes important to him.

Still Repliku has trouble believing in himself or that he can make it as someone. He still was created by Vexen. Repliku tells Riku, "I'm me, he says. It must be nice being real. A fake like me could never get away saying that." He believes he can't be someone, but his arc was to show that he is actually separate from Riku. However, for him to believe it himself is hard. Sora's words made him feel better because he believes he is his own person.

Repliku fights Riku so he can feel like a real person and be someone that isn't connected to Riku. However, Riku wins not because Repliku isn't his own person but because Riku has gone through his own growth too.

Repliku ends up fading away and we don't see him until KH3.

In the dark world Riku was swallowed by the heartless and he hears the voice of Repliku. That's when he realizes Repliku has been with him the entire time and he even leaves his keyblade for the other him, most likely referring to Repliku in that scene.

Back when everyone has regrouped before the final battle, Repliku has a conversation with Riku. He and Riku both have someone they cherish. He reveals he cherish Naminé and wants to bring her back before he goes completely.

He continues to keep the masqueraded promise because even though it's not real, he chooses to keep it as something unique and special to him.

During the final battle, Repliku has the opportunity to do the one thing he has been wanting to have and be a person. He could finally be a person separate from Riku. Riku tells him to take the body.

However, Repliku shakes his head and that's when Riku realizes he is wanting it for Naminé. Repliku sacrifices his own ability to have a body so she can instead. He sacrificed the one thing that can make him have a body and become real. She is one of the few things that is special and unique to him and it the reason he does it. Riku then finally promised to be there for when she wakes up to make sure she is okay.

That's a favor he does for Repliku because afterwards he moved on and went to look for Sora. However, this causes misconception that they are the same. Sure, Riku could care for her but it's definitely not the same as how Repliku does.

Repliku is his own person. His arc is finding himself which is separate from Riku. He ends up cherishing people separate from Riku. His own thoughts and feelings are his own. Nobody is controlling him. However people somehow got into the idea that Riku = Repliku when that's not the case at all.

Repliku is his own being and person because he cannot replicate Riku he failed to do that because he is someone separate. He deserves more and he deserves better and I hope KH3 isn't the last we ever see of him...

[autumn-may]

Skirts

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My Favorite Red Vox song with Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 3