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The reason why I hate this ship so much is because of how ridiculous and unlikely it is. Sora and Kairi are childhood friends and they have a crush on each other.
There's only about a 10 out of 100 chance that childhood friends will fall in love with each other. Reasons are because they knew each other as children and are more likely to feel sisterly/brotherly towards each other. It would feel incestuous if they dated. Also there's no mystery, nothing more to learn about the person. So dating them would be very boring.
People not being attracted to those who they grew up with is an evolutionary safety mechanism to prevent a lack of genetic diversity.
Have you ever heard of the "Westermarck effect"? Here's the TV Tropes page that is about the Westermarck effect: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LikeBrotherAndSister
Here are a couple of a sentences from the "real life" section of the TV Tropes page about the Westermarck effect:
"A particularly nasty example of this trope occurred in 16th century France. At the time, marriages among royalty were arranged, and some of the unions were less than joyous. As a result, someone got the bright idea that if the young princes were raised with their respective fiancées from an early age, they would become accustomed to one another and grow up to form stable marriages. Unfortunately, since the couples weren't too closely related by blood or adoption, no one counted on the Westermarck effect described above. Thus, when it came time for the couples to grow up and get married, they saw each other as this trope, and the process of trying to produce heirs squicked them so much that they did so as little as possible, if at all. The nasty part comes in when, due to lack of heirs, the ruling Valois dynasty died out, and the resultant Succession Crisis led to civil war."
As I said, Sora and Kairi have been life-long friends, and usually life-long friends are seen as family, and most aren't attracted to those who are seen as family. Therefore, I highly doubt in real life that Sora would be attracted to Kairi just due to the fact that they have always been together.
Just to add another proof that childhood friends aren't usually romantically attracted to each other, here's this one guy's comment on YouTube that I found that said:
"in my experience, I am a heterosexual male, and there was several instances where I have seen my life-long best friend (female) completely nude and was not aroused at all. Since I have been around her for so long, and saw her more of as family than a possible mate. I felt more like when you walk into your parents room while they are getting it on rather than lets say, walking into a prostitute house."
So Sora and Kairi's relationship is very ridiculous and very unlikely. Also the whole childhood friends becoming lovers is a clichéd thing in fiction that needs to stop.
There's only about a 10 out of 100 chance that childhood friends will fall in love with each other. Reasons are because they knew each other as children and are more likely to feel sisterly/brotherly towards each other. It would feel incestuous if they dated. Also there's no mystery, nothing more to learn about the person. So dating them would be very boring.
People not being attracted to those who they grew up with is an evolutionary safety mechanism to prevent a lack of genetic diversity.
I've never had a crush on any of my childhood friends ever (because I thought of them as siblings), and I've never knew anyone else that ever had a crush on any of their childhood friends neither (because they probably thought of them as siblings too). So the idea of Sora and Kairi being together just sounds very ridiculous and very unlikely because of the reasons I stated.
Have you ever heard of the "Westermarck effect"? Here's the TV Tropes page that is about the Westermarck effect: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LikeBrotherAndSister
"A particularly nasty example of this trope occurred in 16th century France. At the time, marriages among royalty were arranged, and some of the unions were less than joyous. As a result, someone got the bright idea that if the young princes were raised with their respective fiancées from an early age, they would become accustomed to one another and grow up to form stable marriages. Unfortunately, since the couples weren't too closely related by blood or adoption, no one counted on the Westermarck effect described above. Thus, when it came time for the couples to grow up and get married, they saw each other as this trope, and the process of trying to produce heirs squicked them so much that they did so as little as possible, if at all. The nasty part comes in when, due to lack of heirs, the ruling Valois dynasty died out, and the resultant Succession Crisis led to civil war."
As I said, Sora and Kairi have been life-long friends, and usually life-long friends are seen as family, and most aren't attracted to those who are seen as family. Therefore, I highly doubt in real life that Sora would be attracted to Kairi just due to the fact that they have always been together.
Just to add another proof that childhood friends aren't usually romantically attracted to each other, here's this one guy's comment on YouTube that I found that said:
"in my experience, I am a heterosexual male, and there was several instances where I have seen my life-long best friend (female) completely nude and was not aroused at all. Since I have been around her for so long, and saw her more of as family than a possible mate. I felt more like when you walk into your parents room while they are getting it on rather than lets say, walking into a prostitute house."
So Sora and Kairi's relationship is very ridiculous and very unlikely. Also the whole childhood friends becoming lovers is a clichéd thing in fiction that needs to stop.