KH General Chat

[phoenixmiko_1555111295 0]

I have seen people wishing Riku a happy birthday on Twitter. Does he have an official birthday? As far as I know, only Sora has one.

[inari_sune 0]

It's an unofficial birthday.

Its weird that they based it on com's original release date.

Something something he was reborn something something

[Snakeskin94 13]

Have one of those- it's out of leather tho, so, it's hot as firetruck lmao

[Sam N 10]

I want that. Looks cozy.

[phoenixmiko_1555111295 0]

Ah, that'd explain it. But reborn? That's news to me. Riku hasn't been confirmed as a reincarnation of anyone or as returning from the dead in CoM since he didn't perish then. Weird. CoM's release date makes sense as a fan birthday as it was the game he was first playable in and first had his own story that the player could experience through him.

[inari_sune 0]

Yeah, i think where the reborn part comes from is because of the title on re:com. Reverse/rebirth.

[Snakeskin94 13]

Yeah.

If it was an M rated game Riku would have been naked for part of the game.

They like employing metaphorically charged, tactful nudity, them Japanses story tellers.

[Sam N 10]

Meanwhile, in America, we have to bleach our eyes any time we see realistic human anatomy

[inari_sune 0]

If thats the case, BBS would be M rated because of that one Ventus part.

[Snakeskin94 13]

True.

Accurate autonomy- whats that?

[inari_sune 0]

Did riku techincally die in the end of kh1?

Cracked theory.

I have this one fanart at the ending of kh1 and how he feels, but I don't remember the artist and ive been searching for them.

Makes me sad because I really want to share it.

[HellboundOrc 2]

I’m not entirely sure why Riku didn’t end up with a Heartless and Nobody. He lost his heart to darkness and ended up in the Realm of Darkness after all.

[inari_sune 0]

Thats true.

Well

It can be the same instance like aqua

Kinda sorta

[kylvex#0 0]

I meann we could say that he and Aqua ended up the same way. Instead of Riku being corrupted by the darkness and becoming an Anti-Riku like Anti-Aqua, he had Ansem take his body. So he already dealt with that sort of darkness and kept his original form in the RoD??? I dunno, kinda not well put together 😂

[inari_sune 0]

Theres another thing too, how the hell did ansem the wise pull out riku frok the realm of darkness and put him in castle oblivion.

[kylvex#0 0]

I don't think he really did, I think it was mostly Mickey guiding Riku towards the castle, and Riku following Sora's connection as well

[inari_sune 0]

It's that and how Ansem the Wise saw the potiental in Riku to fix his darkness issue and fix his mistake with Xehanort.

Well not fix, but help.

[HellboundOrc 2]

In DiZ’s reports he reveals that after enough time in the RoD he gained powers like the use of Dark Corridors. He could’ve easily just pulled Riku through one of those.

[inari_sune 0]

Oh.

I'm laughing at myself.

[kylvex#0 0]

Also DiZ was using Riku for revenge at first.

[HellboundOrc 2]

Yeah he only saw Riku and Sora as instruments of his revenge against his former apprentices. It wasn’t until he saw Riku-Ansem that he started to slowly have a change of heart.

[inari_sune 0]

And Naminé

I object.

He asked of riku to dispose of Naminé and Axel.

[HellboundOrc 2]

At that point he still saw Nobodies as heartless monsters that shouldn’t exist.

[inari_sune 0]

It was towards the end of Kh2 ig.

[Sam N 10]

And if they weren't sentient (like Dusks), technically he wouldn't even be wrong