as much as i hate it. KH needs kairi or an equally annoying female character for sora to love.
Because Riku has a girl for him to love?
Sora
Because anyone else in the game really has a girl to 'love'?
KH is about
friendships.
FUH-REND-SHIPS.
Kairi so bluntly choosing Sora over Riku and all but disregard Riku as a result is what brought me from disliking how her character built to hating the kind of person they made her out to be. Them putting in the would be romance the way they did is
wrong.
Mars, I disagree. Yes, Sora needs a female character for the sake of Disney (and as a yaoi shield, but we have ways around that >D), but she does NOT have to be as annoying or as empty as Kairi. *cough*NAMINE*cough*
I agree. Naminé did a better job all around at anything Kairi failed at. She was important to the plot (76% of the plot for the game with the most plot in the series and 93% of the plot of KH2 seeing how it was overall plotless), overall adoring (imo at least), not only able to choose Sora over Riku romantically but also still accept Riku and be close to him (thus also serving as a yaoi shield for him *gasp* via NamiKu [RiKai wot?]) and to top it all - truly
yes come between Sora and Riku, and yet not in a way I can shrug off them fighting over
her as much as it was them fighting
period as was the case in KH1.
KH1: Riku shrugging Kairi's disappearance off until Maleficent showed him Sora didn't care about him anymore, so he decided to prove to himself he's better than Sora by being the stronger one and the better friend to Kairi - a girl it's easy to imagine Sora accidentally hurt Riku with by bringing her into
Sora and Riku's Secret Place.
It was Riku doing it all because of Sora as shown wonderfully by the second visit to Traverse Town, and then in Monstro where Riku seemed more concerned with Sora picking Pinnochio over Riku than Sora refusing to help Kairi.
CoM: Sora: She's mine, I promised her!
Repliku (Riku's Proxy): She's
mine, that promise was one
I made!
Sora: poppycock! What lies are you spewing?! Naminé's
my childhood sweetheart!
Repliku: stop it! you always tried to worm your way into my heart! Naminé's mine and she gave me this good luck charm I
@#%#%$ to hold tight at night!
Sora: no way, I have one too and I
#@$%*%^ to hold at night too!
Both: *draw weapons* SHE'S
MINE!!!
KH1 conclusion: Riku mocks Sora about being unable to save Kairi, being the rivalry between the two over who's better.
CoM conclusion: Naminé matters. They fight, but being the victor here isn't as important as it was in KH1 over Kairi. What's important here is the
prize being Naminé
and of course
CoM Sora said:
You were never anything...more than that, either...
Naminé said they were never friends. Sora took it that one step
forward.
Kairi never really got anything.
Riku got best friend.
Naminé got "too special" and Sora being absolutely sure they were meant to bes (because, unlike with Kairi, here he actually got a good relationship based with the girl)