#riku/naminé

[rabiesgiver]

tag urself im sora

[w4y2dawn]

SORA!!!🗣️GET IN THE GUMMISHIP🗣️🗣️🗣️

[autumn-may]

lets skate together!

[dotted-clouds]

more twitter side account doodles

[flummoxx]

these scenes have the same energy to me

[jaysosillyart]

stop hiding

[trashcantasch]

CoM posting :]

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

kingdom hearts + holding hands

bonus:

[bernardisgross]

Terra Week 2023 !

that’s all i had the strength to pull out this year TOT

still i’m so grateful for the thoughts, head full of terra

[rahontheeevee]

"The eyes are the window to the heart."

(idk how music works on here but you should DEFINITELY play this in the background while looking at this.)

i've crawled out from my coffin once again! and in my nearly YEAR long absence, i've gotten procreate (which this piece was made on so yay first artwork made on procreate 🎉) AND got an apple pencil. (cuz procreate is DUMB and won't let me use my finger for the stylus mode in effects so i could choose WHERE the blur will be instead of just blurring the entire layer)

for this piece i wanted to take a new direction with my style, (you guys on here probably wouldn't be that familiar with my usual style sense i've only got 2 posts on here which i may rectify by reposting some of my older stuff on here) i wanted to try a more soft, somewhat painted style, and i quite like it I'm looking forward to using it for future artworks.

also shout out to that one namiku fanartist that always shows up in my feed and makes the cutest art of them for inspiring me to make my own namiku fanart, you won't know who you are but i will.

[ocegion]

The age-old question: do Kingdom Hearts characters know what sex is? (disregarding the fact that I do not believe sexuality is a thing that exists in this universe but anyway)

Sora: He has some vague awareness that there is a special sort of friendship that involves occasionally holding hands. He's been trying to figure it out for some years now.

Kairi: By virtue of having gone to high school, she knows kissing is a thing that exists, and so considers she knows all about romance. Her knowledge is otherwise the same as Sora's.

Riku: If Kairi or Sora asked him anything about it, he would just give a smug/knowing smile and change the subject. Then he will discreetly go google what 'sex' is supposed to be. The resulting shock will send him on another years-long reflective journey.

Roxas: He is, mentally speaking, like Sora but with even less lived experience. He has no idea what it is, but he does know that does exist because he once overheard it from other organization members.

Xion: She didn't overhear it, but Roxas did bring it up to her wondering if she had any idea. She then proceeded to find out the truth, but wisely decided to keep it to herself up to this day.

Naminé: She knows, in the way she simply Knows Things. One of the many secrets she has been carrying.

Axel: He knows what sex is, and even knows technical details. He won't share it with Roxas or Xion, though. He thinks icecream sounds neater anyway.

Aqua: She has extensive biological knowledge of the process and purpose of sexual intercourse. She only learned it for academic purposes, however, and thinks it is only an anecdotical event that sometimes happens.

Terra: Absolutely no idea whatsoever, and if he was presented with evidence, it would somehow slide right off his psyche.

Ven: In his current state of awareness? No, not at all. He does know about handholding, and suspects kissing might be a thing but has no concrete evidence.

Vanitas: He pretends to know more about sex than he actually does. To him, it's all a very elaborate joke to mock people with, with the vague unexplored awareness that there is actual truth to it all.

Xehanort: As a young man? Definitely and smugly knows what sex is, probably when poking around things he wasn't yet supposed to know. As an old man? He has had sex.

Eraqus: This is the man Xehanort has had sex with.

Ephemer: Strictly and canonically speaking, this man has had sex and produced offspring. The details of why and how are yet to be disclosed.

Skuld: I feel that she knows what it is from having heard about it somewhere. It doesn't bother her, but if asked, she will pretend absolute naivety on the matter.

Brain: Just like Naminé, sex is among the things he Just Knows. Maybe he read about it in the book of prophecies, but I suspect he had previous knowledge.

Lauriam: He gives the vibe of having knowledge of sex and maybe even having some technical experience. However, the truth is much less clear, as he has never actually discussed it.

Strelitzia: In Daybreak Town, she had no awareness of the concept even existing. In Quadratum, however, she has social media which she mostly uses for fandom, so she has detailed knowledge of sex as an exclusively fictional concept.

[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]

Really big fan of Riku’s fishing wader half-pants from kh1 it’s like the funniest hobby he could have

[dotted-clouds]

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

[yappyuffie]

"I hoped."

"I wasn't sure I'd see you again."

"You made me a promise."

"I remember."

᯽𝕪𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪𝕦𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕖᯽

[jaysosillyart]

:’)