Re: new light on "let's take the raft and go! just the two of us!"trust me it makes her look 200x be
I have to wonder since while Darkness is something you can sense, no one else in the series seemed to be quite so repelled by it unless they associated it with evil like Eraqus and Aqua. Certainly none of the other Princesses who seemed more than concerned for Riku's well-being in KH2 once Sora came along and told them he was missing, it was only Kairi who displayed the debatable response of "we'll see him again some day".
Nobody else has really been pure of Heart in the same vein as Kairi. Ventus was very knowledgeable due to his surroundings, and the rest of the princesses seemed pretty aware of what they could do. Kairi's more or less the only one who started from scratch and had no idea what role she possessed. All she knew was that Riku was acting weird and he felt different. Which was not a good thing, and she didn't know what to make of it really.
On top of that, I take her words as a way to comfort Sora and make him feel better (ala what Axel did to Roxas in
Days word for word), including perhaps herself. You don't, obviously, that's been clear enough for me to know. Thus, we part here.
Then Riku's bound to get even more messed up than he already is, walking the middle road :\ And no one seems to care much for Sora who admitted the Darkness got to him but is still considered the hero of Light.
Yeah, but there are still the factors of the Darkness overcoming the Light and vice-versa. They can be balanced, but that more or less depends on the individual in question. Someone's who's utterly pure and feels something tainted isn't going to be okay with it, either by natural reaction due to it being the opposite or otherwise.
This reminds me of my old theory about why Kairi's a PoH. If Cinderella believes in Dreams, Kairi might believe in the Happy Ending and accepting anything left or right from that is something she's not quite capable of, at least without her Light dimming. "Riku can take care of himself", "we'll see him some day", even her "I won't let him go" about Sora, and hell - the stupid raft journey to begin with. And we did see occurrances of her Light possibly dimming too, mostly in KH2. Her comment about "Riku lost his-" if you believe she cares; When she remembered Sora and waiting wasn't good enough because her happy ending wasn't happening on its own; and then when she discovered that her being held captive was hurting Sora and pushing that happy ending away - something she needed Saix to tell her before it clicked in her mind that maybe being held captive was NOT a good thing!
Though I'd certainly hope that if this is it, that it'll reflect more on the other PoHs as well.
though to be fair at this point I wouldn't be surprised if her "torment" is Namine. But as I still stay away from most Re:Coded info... I'll be wiser in two weeks.
Hell it might even be related to Aqua's spell
Can't say much on theories. Don't know if I can put some belief on that either. But what I
can say for sure is that I see no reason why her "torment" would be Naminé. At all. That wasn't the case, but you'll witness it yourself soon enough.
No, even if this ends up being some source of development for Kairi, she still lacks depth until she gets some character insight and development retconned into the mess. Riku had Reverse-Rebirth; Sora even in KH1 got a lot of insight into how he works with moving from being a peppy, perky kid to someone who lost his world to someone who accepted the Keyblade and then towards the end, a broken kid who basically lost all hope and even shared those insecurities with Donald and Goofy, like Riku did with Mickey in R-R.
Kairi at present day is still an over-giggly, carefree girl and it's pretty damn sad we had to wait all this while for a possible explanation as to why she behaves like this.
Why use such a word like retcon? In the wrong context too. It's not like it's set in stone what Kairi's feeling, and it's not entirely impossible that she has been suppressing herself. There's no established fact to change or to add unto to that.
And she already has some basis in being troubled about her lack of use to her friends. Ever since
KH1, actually. It's been a recurring theme of hers. And with good reason. I don't think she's faking being carefree and spunky, but I do believe she's keeping certain things to herself as well. I don't see what's sad that she hasn't been explored yet to that extent. There's only, really, two games to the main storyline, and only one side game where Sora's the main character as well. Kairi's been in a coma for most of one game, stuck in an island the other until the very end, and not present on that other one. KH, it seems, isn't ending soon, so there's plenty of time and gigabytes for her to expand. Just because she's last doesn't make it the worst position.
I can settle for utterly tactless but that leaves her more stupid in my book. And the argument of "she's a regular, normal kid" is kind of hard to swallow when Sora and Riku don't seem to display such "normalities" overall, which reflects back on Kairi's overall detachment from reality and her main role as a faceless plot device.
Does Sora have a pure Heart? He seems completely ignorant on the changes that Riku's making, which is understandable considering he's not born with such intuitions. Tactless
is correct, but not mean-spirited. Like I said, she has no clue what she's feeling or why she's having this sort of rift with one of her best friends. Just that something's off, and that going to different worlds with Riku appears to be a bad omen with how things are going. She might have wanted to get this message across to Sora, but it came out the wrong way. Which, again, I find totally normal for someone to do in that sort of situation. It's like someone you know is acting weird, or
has been acting weird, and you get the sense that not everything's right. You'll get suspicious despite yourself, and you start acting out on those emotions either to keep it safe or to protect other people from it. Same thing here. I don't know why saying something randomly in a joke makes her stupid, though. People say things all the time without thinking about them, but that doesn't mean they are lacking intelligence for it.