Dear KH Fandom:

[cp_jacksparrow]

I know this will matter much to you, as you've spent a decade ignoring it, but

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[crown_of_guilt]

Oh gods, the people who display Kairi as hating Riku. And all they have to go off of? One fucking line in the entire canon. One line, at the beginning of KH1 where she has no idea how to deal with Riku and his seeming obsession with getting away and overly-competitive nature with Sora over her. I sure as fuck wouldn't be comfortable on a boat with him, and it was like she was testing the waters with Sora over broaching the Riku subject.

Newsflash: she doesn't hate Riku. The games go out of their way to show how much of a friend he is.

[cp_jacksparrow]

It's not only the "hating Riku" characterization that drives me fucking nuts, but the "being obsessively in love with Sora" one too.

You don't need to ship Sora/Kairi to still see that in the games, SORA acts a helluva lot more obsessively about Kairi than she does about him (Kairi's not the one who has visions of slowdancing with Sora now, is she?) Does this mean that SORA is a Yandere then? No, it does not; he just really, really cares about her. So saying Kairi is one even though her love for Sora is shown LESS obsessively (though still equally strong) is not fair at all.

[modernrurouni]

pfffffffffttttt.... ok they are being ridiculous... I mean in KHII who is the first friend that Ansem/Riku meets in the Castle That Never Was.... it's Kairi who is instantly able to see him for what he was.... It took Sora a tiny bit of prodding (by Kairi none the less) to see him...

If anything I think in the beginning of KHI she is a little put off by two boys 'fighting' over her... I would be given their ages (everyone seems to forget how young they are and just how insecure kids at that age are)

[crown_of_guilt]

no, Riku wanted to compete for her. Sora was confused about it all and kind of went, "Wait, WHAT?"

[cp_jacksparrow]

OK, I'm not making this up: remember the scene where Riku, in the form of Ansem, is going to walk away, and Kairi grabs him and pleads "Riku, don't go!" and tells Sora "Say something to him!" to stop him from leaving? These fangirl idiots ACTUALLY sincerely think that Kairi's motive here was: "She wanted Riku to leave but if Sora ever found out it was Riku somehow, he'd hate her forever and she'd lose her precious Sora, so she didn't want to risk that and thus reunited Sora with Riku."

Seriously. SERIOUSLY. The kind of mental gymnastics to lead to seeing that kind of logic astounds me.

[pig_catapult]

. . . wat.

[yui_hime]

Kairi-bashing Soriku shippers scare me because I remember that I used to be one of them. D:

[cp_jacksparrow]

While not with KH, I too have done things in fan communities in the past that I now feel horribly ashamed of, so I certainly feel your pain.

[mzminola]

That is some distressing character-warping going on there, gotta agree with ya.

...

Was that final analogy there really necessary?

+1

[whitepawn_alice]

That's a terribly unclassy analogy. Pot calling kettle black fits well enough imho

Re: +1

[cp_jacksparrow]

Hey, at least the analogy was to an anti-semite saying nazism is bad. It's unflatteringly hypocritical, but better than if I used an analogy to an actual Nazi (even in a bad mood, I don't want to cross into Godwin territory.)

[mzminola]

I though you already had crossed into Godwin territory with that analogy.

I'm not saying it's the worst thing you could have said. Just...why? Why did you need to go there? Why couldn't you have stuck with pot and kettle? Or come up with an analogy that didn't involve Nazis?

[emthejedichic]

Dude, Kairi's a Princess of Heart. She has no darkness in her heart. Is she even ABLE to hate people?