KH2 Why did Sora react like this?

[HikariYami 354]

 Vs

Come on Sora.

But it doesn't explain this:

If he really liked Kairi like everyone says he would have reacted different than he did with Kairi.

 

I don't even know what to think of SoKai.

Does Sora love Kairi like a friend or a love intrest?

Edited December 28, 2012 by HikariYami

[Weiss 8,279]

He luvs Riku

[Sakuraba Neku 660]

He loves riku as a bro and kairi as a girlfirend, its not that hard.

[HikariYami 354]

He loves riku as a bro and kairi as a girlfirend, its not that hard.

You don't react like that with your girlfriend.

[coolwings 1,546]

Well KH2 was about Sora finding Riku, Kairi just got mixed up in the middle. It hasn't been confirmed that Sora actually likes Kairi but a lot of people think so. KH2 was mostly focusing on Sora's friendship with Riku instead of his and Kairi's, because remember Sora and Riku had only last spoke together as friends at the beginning of KH1. 

[Nweintraub 630]

You don't react like that with your girlfriend.

What do you know? You've never seen him in real life. You don't know anything about him!

Edited December 28, 2012 by Nweintraub

[Xian Cano 78]

To his knowledge Kairi was safely back home at destiny islands the whole time, however he hasn't seen riku in over a year. (oh wait he did, but then he got locked in a realm of darkness with countless enemies so... yeah)

[HarLea Quinn 26,501]

Sora is a complete innocent when it comes to how to handle crushes or love .However , it's pretty obvious when he wanted to give kairi the damn paopu fruit that he feels love.  Whenever he would encounter romance in various Disney worlds he was shown thinking of Kairi . In KH2 , he was searching for Riku and  even thought he was dead . If you thought your childhood best friend was dead and you finally found him you would prolly be emotional too.He knew Kairi was alive.When he did find out she was kidnapped again he got on his knees to beg Saix for her return ..He just doesn't have any experience romantically on how to react , just like many young teenagers .

Edited December 29, 2012 by Flaming Lea

[OkashiraKenrex 251]

Well he knew kairi was safe but riku and his friendship and loyalty was tested and they're back again together.

Sora is a complete innocent when it comes to how to handle crushes or love .However , it's pretty obvious when he wanted to give kairi the damn paopu fruit that he feels love.  Whenever he would encounter romance in various Disney worlds he was shown thinking of Kairi . In KH2 , he was searching for Riku and  even thought he was dead . If you thought your childhood best friend was dead and you finally found him you would prolly be emotional too.He knew Kairi was alive.When he did find out she was kidnapped again he got on his knees to begg Saix for her return ..He just doesn't have any experience romantically on how to react , just like many young teenagers .

AAWW!!!SENPAI UR SO WISE!!!!!!!

[Vanille Oerba 9]

Well how i think of it is when Sora last saw Kairi she was safe on the Island so he figured he would find Riku and go back to the Islands where Kairi was waiting for them.And the last time he saw Riku he was on the other side of a door with heartless.Plus for two years(I believe)he had tried to look for his friend.So when he found Kairi sure he was worried and missed her,and he was glad to see her,but when he found Riku he was happy he found his best friend again after two years of searching which is why he cried.

[I♥KH 1,280]

He loves JUST Yen Sid/Lea/his mom

[Dracozombie 4,554]

You're hardly the only one who thought the game dropped the ball on that scene, but go with what the others are saying--as far as Sora knew, Kairi was safe and Riku could've been Heartless food.  He spent CoM and KH2 looking for him, so when he finally confirms his other best friend in the whole wide world is alive, of course he'd get emotional.  Of course, the ball was dropped because the reunion was more emotional than his reunion with what's the closest to a canonical pairing (no matter what the yaoi fans say).  It's mishandled scenes like that that give the yaoi fans even more fuel, sheesh.

[Rob 5,571]

BROS OVER H***!

[Grotesquery 603]

In the Kingdom Hearts universe, friendship is more important than love. Clearly.

[KeybladeWielder_ 161]

Sora and Kairi will get together. Just you wait.

[Cyber Shaman 990]

Oh god kh Fan service.

[Caity 3,946]

The only hinted interest of love between any of the original characters in this game is Sora and Kairi. Riku noticed it, and bet sharing the fruit with Kairi. Sora tries to find both his friends in kh1, and in kh2 he's focusing on Riku because his memories were erased, and even regaining those she's safe back on an island and Riku still at battles with the darkness.

 

Kairi and Sora drew each other exchanging those (can't spell papou) fruit, hinting at their forever entwining destiny together, also said by selphie that you share it with someone you love I think.

And Kairi hugs Sora in kh2.

When watching Jack and sally dance he pictures him and Kairi together.

These are the only hinting of romance outside of Disney couples in the whole series.

 

Every other couple is just hopeful fans taking the most trivial things and shipping them. Like, "oh my god he looked at him for like more than 3 seconds get the wedding rings!"

 

also, I don't think they're that good at developing love interests properly. Like even aqua and terra who were older in their time didn't have a single date, mention of first kiss or crush. These little things between Sora and Kairi are seen with significance in Japan where small actions speak many words, but in the western world its not love til there's a kiss. Sora and Kairis first kiss Will probably be their wedding in the 34th installment of the game: kingdom hearts entwining destiny 2.7 and 3 quarters

[Cyber Shaman 990]

The only hinted interest of love between any of the original characters in this game is Sora and Kairi. Riku noticed it, and bet sharing the fruit with Kairi. Sora tries to find both his friends in kh1, and in kh2 he's focusing on Riku because his memories were erased, and even regaining those she's safe back on an island and Riku still at battles with the darkness.Kairi and Sora drew each other exchanging those (can't spell papou) fruit, hinting at their forever entwining destiny together, also said by selphie that you share it with someone you love I think. And Kairi hugs Sora in kh2.When watching Jack and sally dance he pictures him and Kairi together.These are the only hinting of romance outside of Disney couples in the whole series.Every other couple is just hopeful fans taking the most trivial things and shipping them. Like, "oh my god he looked at him for like more than 3 seconds get the wedding rings!"also, I don't think they're that good at developing love interests properly. Like even aqua and terra who were older in their time didn't have a single date, mention of first kiss or crush. These little things between Sora and Kairi are seen with significance in Japan where small actions speak many words, but in the western world its not love til there's a kiss. Sora and Kairis first kiss Will probably be their wedding in the 34th installment of the game: kingdom hearts entwining destiny 2.7 and 3 quarters

Significantly, this. It's not only that but Square and Disney are horrible when or comes to love. Well......the both of them combined yeah.

[khoathkeeper13 429]

How would you react if your best friend got possessed, then trapped in the Realm of Darkness, and then you don't see them for a year, and then some guy in a black coat with a Keyblade appears claiming he defeated your said friend, and then you see the guy that possessed your friend and then find out that is your friend?

I don't know about you but I would get a little emotional

Besides this was how Sora reacted to Kairi:

 

 

I believe its around 7:34 ...I failed to find a gif D:

 

 

[Oishii 3,987]

What if it happened the other way around? If Sora gave Riku a hug and knelt crying for Kairi? I don't know about you, but for me it makes a hilarious mental image

[HikariYami 354]

What do you know? You've never seen him in real life. You don't know anything about him!

I was saying in general not directly to him.

Sora is a complete innocent when it comes to how to handle crushes or love .However , it's pretty obvious when he wanted to give kairi the damn paopu fruit that he feels love.  Whenever he would encounter romance in various Disney worlds he was shown thinking of Kairi . In KH2 , he was searching for Riku and  even thought he was dead . If you thought your childhood best friend was dead and you finally found him you would prolly be emotional too.He knew Kairi was alive.When he did find out she was kidnapped again he got on his knees to beg Saix for her return ..He just doesn't have any experience romantically on how to react , just like many young teenagers .

Thank you! Maybe I should ask you all the questions that I have.

[Sakuraba Neku 660]

BROS OVER H***!

my thoughts exactly.

Besides kairi was already saved back then, riku was still missing, its normal i guess

 

@Nweintraub

He wasnt talking directly to me man but thanks for this protection.

*brofist*

Edited December 29, 2012 by Sakuraba Neku

[Ruran 481]

Because bros before hoes. 

 

This is the way I look at it; besides the whole "Kairi was safe on the Islands and Sora didn't know where Riku was" thing I think it has to be looked at a bit deeper than that. When Kairi hugs Sora and he looks reluctant while he's bawling his eyes out at the sight of Riku, it's not because he secretly dislikes Kairi but wants Riku's schlong. It's because he feels like an ass. Let me explain.

 

Promises are very important in KH and are especially important to Sora. When he can't keep them or something gets in the way in keeping them like in CoM where he thought he made a promise to keep Namine safe he's beside him self. This is especially true when it involves his friends because he's so protective of them and when he can't keep a promise he feels like he's failed them so it really hits him in the heart.

 

At the end of KH1 Sora promised that he'd return home to Kairi, then in CoM he deepened it because he promised himself that he wouldn't go back empty handed and would bring Riku back home, back to Kairi, as well. Sora effectively promised that he didn't want to see Kairi again until he at least found Riku. Other wise he'd think that he failed her.  

 

On the other end though we have Kairi and promises are also important to her. Because of the events of CoM she doesn't remember Sora well but she remembers he existed and that they had made some sort of promise but unsure of what it is, much like Sora, she adds on to it by saying that she promised herself that she'd find him someday, a promise that somewhat clashes with the one she made with Sora because he already promised to come back to her (on the islands). So we have Sora who promised that he'd come back to Kairi on DI someday but he wasn't coming back until he had Riku in tow and Kairi who doesn't really remember the promise and wasn't told about the Riku detail makes her own promise to find Sora herself. Are you starting to see where there's a bit of conflict here?

 

To add to it Kairi eventually does remember Sora's promise but it conflicts with the new one she made to herself so she contemplates over what's the better route: waiting at home or going out to find Sora? But for better or for worse that decision gets made for her so yaaaaaaay for abolished internal conflict!

 

Cut forward to when Sora and Kairi reunite at TWTNW, virtually nothing has been going Sora's way. He still can't find Riku, Mickey's hiding things from him, he learned that the Hearts he was freeing were going to Organization XIII's make shift KH and being imprisoned and he couldn't do anything about it, he still didn't know who the Hell Roxas was and was being taunted by it, and then to hit the nail in the coffin Kairi was in trouble. Again. Kairi, who he didn't want to see yet, was put on his "to due" list but it was something he couldn't put off. God knows what they were doing to her (stuffed her in a boring room with out t.v. or toiletries! D:) so he rushes off to save her.

 

When he gets to her for all intensive purposes she's fine. Which of course he's happy about but there's still the issue of the promise he made to her. He spent all of KH1 fighting tooth and nail to see Kairi safe and sound back home on the islands that he also worked his ass off to get back so Kairi could have a home to go back to, and Riku once he was found, but Riku wasn't found. Sora didn't find Riku and bring him back to the islands where Kairi would be waiting safely with open arms to greet them. Instead she gets kidnapped from the place he thought she was safe, gets put on the battle field in the way of the enemy, and he STILL can't find Riku. The nail was already hammered in but then it gets roughly twisted and shoved in even more when Kairi essentially lies to him and says that she went looking for them because they took too long. 

 

Sora now feels like a jerk ass. Whether it's the truth or the lie from Sora's perspective their both bad and the lie is probably worse if he believes it. If it's the former Sora took too long to find Riku and wasn't there for Kairi when she got in trouble back home, if it's the latter Sora took so long that Kairi got fed up with waiting and put herself in danger to find him. It's also sinking in how long it's really been. I don't think Sora ever learned, at least though out the course of KH2, that a year had passed. It's not until he sees Kairi and how different she became that it sank in that it must've been a really freakn' long time. How ever long it'd been Kairi was waiting for him all that time and Sora knows she must've been extremely worried, and at worst, dissapointed. He couldn't keep his promise and Kairi was put in danger because of him.

 

The last thing he expects is for the girl he thinks he dissapointed and hurt to hug and seek comfort from him. As far as Sora's concerned he did nothing right by Kairi so the hug and her words of relief only make him feel worse. It just keeps sinking in further that he hurt her and he probably shouldn't be comforting her but that's what she wants so he reluctantly hugs her back. The kicker in all this is that all this time Kairi's making him feel worse about himself but she never realizes this and relishes in finally finding Sora while he's emotionally wrecked but not showing it. 

 

Then he finds Riku and explodes. Considering everything Sora went through throughout KH2; all of his emotional buttons being pushed, Kairi must've brought him to the brink and then finding Riku made his emotional lid blow. Something was FINALLY going right. He wasn't a complete failure to his friends.  Granted, Kairi still found Riku first but- (looks at Sora breakdown) let's not fret over it. Riku was there looking like a well sculpted, tall, dark, and handsome stud of a man with muscles that Sora can only dream to ever achieve. Then Riku was already better well endowed before so firetruck! Ansem for some reason but who cares? RIKU! RIKU I FOUND YOU AND I DON'T SUCK AS MUCH AS I THOUGHT!

 

TL;DR

Sora wasn't happy to see Kairi but not for the usual reasons one might think. After everything was said and done Sora felt that everything was his fault and felt like an ass hole so he shouldn't be the one comforting Kairi. He couldn't keep most of his promises and a lot of bad shit was happening at the time so finding Riku was a huge relief because something was going right. And he wasn't, you know, dead.

 

*looks at huge post*

 

 

brb, I'm going to go in a corner and die now. 

Edited December 29, 2012 by Ruran

[Nweintraub 630]

I was saying in general not directly to him.

Oh.

[moogleman 66]

In the Kingdom Hearts universe, friendship is more important than love. Clearly.

what if love is an advanced form of friendship?