(The visions being Rapunzel reviving Eugene and Annaβs unfreezing)
Uhβ¦ because those are also instances of, specifically, the love of one of the New Seven Hearts being used to revive someone? Exactly what Kairiβs doing?
Itβs not about the sacrifice. Itβs about the fact that sheβs a Pure Light. Otherwise Will sacrificing himself to save Elizabeth and being revived would have been in there. They only showed revival via a Princessβs power. You clued in on the wrong important element in those scenes
(Also, Kairi leapt in front of Lea to save him. Itβs not self-sacrificial for Soraβs sake, but it is an act of self-sacrifice that got her killed)
The light isnβt βshowing him visions.β Stop making it sound like Sora canβt 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 itβs not a look of confusion. Itβs a look of realization
βOh!β
Also, Riku never confirmed or denied that he was the light either. The light led Sora to both of them. Consider this: Kairiβs 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 couldnβt believe it. Iβm not even sure how anyone else could, and yet, the impression of βRiku is the Lightβ 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 βLight in the Darknessβ, just as she has always been βSoraβs Lightβ in many different scenarios. Itβs just not something that should be questionable outside of the idea that more than one person can be βa Lightβ to someone, which weβve 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).
KairiΒ βnot confirming or denyingβ Soraβs proclamation of her being the Light by not sayingΒ βYes [No], Sora, I was [am not] the Light in the Darkness.β 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:Β βAll I did was believe that you wouldnβt./I just didnβt give up on you, thatβs all.β The intention of Sora and her words here: this is confirmation you silly willies.Β
I would even go as far as to argue that in all scenarios that this βLight in the Darknessβ imagery (i.e., this tunnel/rays of lightβwhich 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, KH3β²s opening, and now this scene right here). That imagery is there to represent her, and just like in CoM, she isnβtΒ βeclipsingβ the lightβitβs 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, doesnβt it make more sense for Kairi, who represents Light, to, gee Idk, REPRESENT THE LIGHT? Or for her toΒ βeclipse/blockβ 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 isnβt 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 isnβt a misdirectionβitβs 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? Whatβs even the point of SRT making this if itβs going to stray so far from the truth? I know that this whole thing was aΒ βTheoryβ, but really, wouldnβt 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? Isnβt 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 couldnβt. 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.
