Haven't posted in a while. I've been playing Kingdom Hearts for the first time in about 4 years. I just finished the 1st game the other day and wanted to draw Sora. His hair is a pain for me to draw, but I'm pretty happy with it given how much I struggled.
I attempted to play Chain of Memories as well but I got maybe 20 minutes in and hated any time I wasn't in a cutscene, so I'm just gonna watch the cutscenes, then Days, then I'll play 2. I usually just play the numbered games, so I never had the full story, this time I'm trying to fix that since I was confused over quite a few things when 3 came out lol.
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You know what I genuinely love? So in KH1 when Sora loses everything, his entire world is gone. Kairi is in a coma and can barely respond, and Riku has ditched him out of jealousy and because of Maleficent's manipulation. For all he knows, he'll never see his other island friends (Tidus, Wakka, Selphie) or family again. They could even be dead. He's fourteen and doesn't know what's going on. He's fourteen and completely out of his element even if he has had small sparring sessions with his friends on the island. He's fourteen and his sparring sessions don't prepare him in the least for what he's about to face. He's fourteen.
And he's alone.
Then come along Donald and Goofy with their, "Our ship runs on happy smiles," or whatever the line is. Sora is most likely in a huge depression right then, but he still musters up the courage to smile.
(This can also be detrimental to his character with him saying he can take on everyone's pain in later games, of course.)
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Something we don’t talk enough about is the fact that the folklaw of the paopu fruit isn’t inherently romantic (And before I go any further I want to make clear that this is not trying to discredit ships or claim kairi and sora are not in love. You ship what you ship and I’ll ship what I ship and never the two shall interfere.).
The fact of the matter is, that what we hear about the folk law of the fruit is this:
“If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They’ll remain a part of each others lives no matter what.” - Riku, KH1
NOW! I am aware that within the context of the scene rRku is teasing sora over his crush on Kairi - anyone with eyes could see that. However, despite the obvious romantic ideal of having a shared destiny, it is not a wholly romance based idea.
You could share the fruit with just about anyone you knew if you wanted to be in their lives forever. Say, a best friend or a family member, or a particularly precious family pet.
Anyone you wanted to stay with, you could share one with.
Which raises a question about this mystical fruit. Is it’s sharing symbolic in KH law or is Namora really out here basing the entirety of sora’s connection to his friends on the basis of -what essentially boils down to- a magical star shaped mango?
The way I see it is that Sora’s intention to share the Paopu with Kairi can absolutely be read as romantic. The narrative clues are there, we can see them. However, arguably Sora has just as much reason to share the paopu with all of his friends as he does with her.
His fate is so intrinsically intertwined with that of ventus, Roxas and Xion, That he could share one with them. He has deep connections with Donald and Goofy, that he holds incredibly dear to him. After all his friends are his power, his strength to carry on. So he could share one with them.
He spent so long looking for, finding, loosing, and looking all over again for Riku, that he has every reason to share one with his best friend, even if it simply means never loosing sight of him again.
Sora’s motivations to share one with kairi may stem from romance, but that doesn’t make the law of the fruit specifically romantic.
In a way the paopu fruit is a bit like a pinky swear. It’s a promise to never loose sight of the other person and to share their destiny with the other person.
Perhaps the magic goes simply as deep as the intention of sharing one or the visualisation. Perhaps in simply handing a person the fruit with the intent to share is enough to bind one another.
The only three people that we ever see holding the fruit are Kairi, Sora and Riku. Perhaps that is where the bond starts.
In KH 1 Riku throws the fruit to Sora, who catches it. That is, in itself an act of sharing. In the cave sora draws himself feeding kairi and she then draws herself feeding him. That is an intent to share.
Therefore, by this logic, Sora is inextricably linked to both of them. Because they, all three, passed the fruit/ visualised passing the fruit to another.
And I can hear you say, ah yes, but flo, Riku and Kairi never shared a paopu in any capacity. And, dear reader you’d be right. However, they both shared one in different capacities with Sora, and thus are both linked to him, and by extension each other.
Now, Riku and Kairi are a odd little conundrum that has often bothered me. They are friends, they obviously care for one and other. And in KH1 it’s clear that there’s a little bit of show boating going on between the boys as to who can impress Kairi more.
Its something Naminé plays on in CoM, and it’s obvious that at one point or another, Riku’s priorities were the same as Sora’s. Protect Kairi. Yet, there is an extremely noticeable point at which that changes.
That place being Rikus journey in CoM. It is here that Riku shifts his focus from protecting Kairi to protecting Sora.
There are many reasons and possible theories for this. If your are on this app as frequently as I think you are then you probably know about most of them. So I’m not going to delve too deep into that one.
The point remains though, that Kairi and Riku’s destinies both diverge/ and converge at the same time. On the one hand, they diverge as Riku moves his focus from protecting her and making up for his actions as Ansam’s puppet; while simultaneously converging on one single fixed point that is their only meaningful connection to each other for the entire story.
Sora.
He is what binds them together, he is their destiny and he is what intertwined their destiny’s with each other.
Sora -as mushy as it sounds- is their star shaped fruit. They chose to share the paopu with him and thus inadvertently shared him between them. They both hold a piece of his destiny and his heart. Regardless of what you ship that can’t be denied.
Because the folk law of the paopu fruit is not an inherently romantic.
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