(The visions being Rapunzel reviving Eugene and Anna’s unfreezing)
Uh… because those are also instances of, specifically, the love of one of the New Seven Hearts being used to revive someone? Exactly what Kairi’s doing?
It’s not about the sacrifice. It’s about the fact that she’s a Pure Light. Otherwise Will sacrificing himself to save Elizabeth and being revived would have been in there. They only showed revival via a Princess’s power. You clued in on the wrong important element in those scenes
(Also, Kairi leapt in front of Lea to save him. It’s not self-sacrificial for Sora’s sake, but it is an act of self-sacrifice that got her killed)
The light isn’t “showing him visions.” Stop making it sound like Sora can’t figure shit out on his own. It was a visual representation of his mental process so that we, the players, could see the connection being made. And it’s not a look of confusion. It’s a look of realization
“Oh!”
Also, Riku never confirmed or denied that he was the light either. The light led Sora to both of them. Consider this: Kairi’s light is the end point of a chain. Sora starts at the Riku link and ends on the Kairi anchor point. She keeps him tethered to the Keyblade Graveyard as he works his way down the chain of hearts
This was honestly the prime moment that made me stop reading and laugh out loud at what was being written. I had held it in enough before getting there, but this is what took it for me. I just couldn’t believe it. I’m not even sure how anyone else could, and yet, the impression of “Riku is the Light” has surfaced around very noticeably. There are more than enough resources and materials that provide evidence (or in-game explanations) that in this scenario, Kairi is the “Light in the Darkness”, just as she has always been “Sora’s Light” in many different scenarios. It’s just not something that should be questionable outside of the idea that more than one person can be “a Light” to someone, which we’ve seen is true numerous times in fact. For her, however, it hits at the bigger theme of what the specific importance is for HOW/WHY Kairi is this to Sora, which has also been hit upon many times in the series (ironically enough, even by Riku himself).
Kairi “not confirming or denying” Sora’s proclamation of her being the Light by not saying “Yes [No], Sora, I was [am not] the Light in the Darkness.” is completely dishonest to the writing for that scene, not to mention, the SRT is completely bypassing that her way of responding is essentially her describing HOW she kept him from fading away: “All I did was believe that you wouldn’t./I just didn’t give up on you, that’s all.” The intention of Sora and her words here: this is confirmation you silly willies.
I would even go as far as to argue that in all scenarios that this “Light in the Darkness” imagery (i.e., this tunnel/rays of light—which the Darkness here has been referred to that of the Demon Tide) is specifically being used in correspondence to Kairi, just as it has been before to the correlating imagery. (KH1, CoM, KH3′s opening, and now this scene right here). That imagery is there to represent her, and just like in CoM, she isn’t “eclipsing” the light—it’s creating the imagery that she is the center of it and that the rays of light are coming from her (which still applies to KH3 as she slowly moves to the center of the light). I mean, wow, doesn’t it make more sense for Kairi, who represents Light, to, gee Idk, REPRESENT THE LIGHT? Or for her to “eclipse/block” it, as if she is meant to be a separate representation from it and not at all supposed to coincide with its meaning?
What.
The scene isn’t trying to deceive you. Everything that is literally saying (like Sora, the character, or the journal through Jiminy) that this scene is about Sora and Kairi isn’t a misdirection—it’s pretty on the nose just as most references are of Kairi being a Light to Sora. Just as the SRT is doing, one would have to actively go against this knowledge and understanding given throughout the whole series to not realize this, so I can only logically assume that this line of thinking here is completely and irrevocably biased and implausible.
What does even doing that have to do with shipping Sora/Riku? Why would one have to go this far in order to do so? What’s even the point of SRT making this if it’s going to stray so far from the truth? I know that this whole thing was a “Theory”, but really, wouldn’t a theory that works in tandem with the truth makes more sense than one that completely makes it an agenda to go against it or contort it? Isn’t fitting within the story and themes corresponding that makes a theory believable in the first place? Some of the SRT was actually quite interesting (you know, the actual SRT part), but once they started to go into this, I just couldn’t. I mean seriously.
Is it really trying to present an understanding of the story, or is it trying to configure it to their own desires and biases? The answer, really, is in the writing.
