Taochan and I have pretty serious conversations about Kingdom Hearts sometimes. Usually it ends with "THIS MAKES NO SENSE" because even though the series does make sense, sometimes you just have to give the finger to how information is delivered in all kinds of ways.
Anyways, we were talking about got onto the topic about Kairi's Keyblade and the fact Riku was the one who gave it to her. We know that it was Aqua who bequeathed a Keyblade to Kairi (as accidental as it was), but in Kingdom Hearts II it is Riku who quite literally pulls Destiny's Embrace out of the clear blue and hands it to her. Even today this makes no sense. Nomura doesn't even bother to explain it because he likes leaving things ambiguous for fans to mull over while we wait for Theatrhythm Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts III the next Kingdom Hearts title.
This is about as much as he says on the subject:
Of course, it isn't very helpful. Through the years, many people have tossed out theories about how that Keyblade got there in Riku's hands, if it was even Kairi's own Keyblade and instead was Xehanort's Keyblade transformed, or whatever.
Maybe we need to take a simple and clean approach to this. Let's look at how Sora was able to obtain Riku's Keyblade in KH1:
After Sora took the Keyblade from Riku, he quite literally spends most of KH1 borrowing the Keyblade. It isn't until the events of Hollow Bastion that Sora truly earns the right to wield the Kingdom Key. Why do I bring this up? Taochan and I believe that it is extremely possible that Riku probably ended up doing something similar with Kairi's Keyblade.
From the time that Kairi ran away from Axel to the point that Kairi yells "You leave Sora alone!" to a bunch of Shadows, Kairi has been proving her strength of heart. She's faced adversity, stood up against those who would harm her and her friends, and time-and-time again she remained strong in her beliefs that she'd find Sora and Riku. This steadfast determination could have possibly been strong enough to call upon the strength of the Keyblade, and thus why it comes to her when a horde of Shadows are about to attack Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi herself.
But where does Riku come into play? Well, he clearly pulled the Keyblade from wherever just as Kairi needed it to fight the Shadow Heartless. What if he just did what Sora did, and pretty much plucked it from hammerspace as it was coming to Kairi? During that scene, a light briefly flashes as Kairi is trapped under a Shadow pile and the Riku is there pulling her up with all of the Heartless destroyed. He doesn't have his own Keyblade out at this point in time, so what destroyed them?
We present the idea that the light that shone as Kairi was trapped was Kairi's Keyblade coming to her aid, and in that moment Riku grabbed it before giving it to Kairi.
It's so dumb, but so damn simple.
Pardon if the idea has been mentioned before, but I've seen many threads around here and nothing that mentioned this idea.
Anyways, we were talking about got onto the topic about Kairi's Keyblade and the fact Riku was the one who gave it to her. We know that it was Aqua who bequeathed a Keyblade to Kairi (as accidental as it was), but in Kingdom Hearts II it is Riku who quite literally pulls Destiny's Embrace out of the clear blue and hands it to her. Even today this makes no sense. Nomura doesn't even bother to explain it because he likes leaving things ambiguous for fans to mull over while we wait for Theatrhythm Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts III the next Kingdom Hearts title.
This is about as much as he says on the subject:
VI. Please explain Riku's newly obtained Way to the Dawn and the Keyblade Kairi wields, and tell us about the conditions of becoming a Keyblade Wielder.
There isn't just one Keyblade for the side of light and one for darkness. There are as many keyblades in existence as there are hearts qualified to wield them. At this stage, the only requirement that has been made clear is that someone must have a 'strong heart', but there are other requirements that haven't been spelled out yet which I plan to reveal another time when I have the chance. Riku's Way to the Dawn and the Keyblade Kairi wields are of the same nature as Sora's Keyblade. However, what with one having developed with the Soul Eater as intermediary and one having been handed to Kairi by Riku, I would like you to think that something not fully explained, outside the usual method of acquirement, is going on here.
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Of course, it isn't very helpful. Through the years, many people have tossed out theories about how that Keyblade got there in Riku's hands, if it was even Kairi's own Keyblade and instead was Xehanort's Keyblade transformed, or whatever.
Maybe we need to take a simple and clean approach to this. Let's look at how Sora was able to obtain Riku's Keyblade in KH1:
---Even though Riku was the rightful owner of the Keyblade, then why did Sora obtain the Keyblade in the beginning?
Nomura: Even though I would like to keep that obscure, there is a scene in Destiny islands where Riku is being swallowed by darkness, a light appears, and Sora first obtains the keyblade. With the setting I created, the darkness that surrounds them is Riku’s heart’s darkness. At that moment, Sora enters the darkness, and the light he sees inside is Riku’s heart’s light. Sora, who was squirming in the darkness to save Riku, touched the light and temporarily obtained the Keyblade from Riku.
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After Sora took the Keyblade from Riku, he quite literally spends most of KH1 borrowing the Keyblade. It isn't until the events of Hollow Bastion that Sora truly earns the right to wield the Kingdom Key. Why do I bring this up? Taochan and I believe that it is extremely possible that Riku probably ended up doing something similar with Kairi's Keyblade.
From the time that Kairi ran away from Axel to the point that Kairi yells "You leave Sora alone!" to a bunch of Shadows, Kairi has been proving her strength of heart. She's faced adversity, stood up against those who would harm her and her friends, and time-and-time again she remained strong in her beliefs that she'd find Sora and Riku. This steadfast determination could have possibly been strong enough to call upon the strength of the Keyblade, and thus why it comes to her when a horde of Shadows are about to attack Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi herself.
But where does Riku come into play? Well, he clearly pulled the Keyblade from wherever just as Kairi needed it to fight the Shadow Heartless. What if he just did what Sora did, and pretty much plucked it from hammerspace as it was coming to Kairi? During that scene, a light briefly flashes as Kairi is trapped under a Shadow pile and the Riku is there pulling her up with all of the Heartless destroyed. He doesn't have his own Keyblade out at this point in time, so what destroyed them?
We present the idea that the light that shone as Kairi was trapped was Kairi's Keyblade coming to her aid, and in that moment Riku grabbed it before giving it to Kairi.
It's so dumb, but so damn simple.
Pardon if the idea has been mentioned before, but I've seen many threads around here and nothing that mentioned this idea.
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