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Kingdom Hearts, "All Wrong" (Riku/Roxas)
OHMIGOD WHAT! KAY ACTUALLY POSTED FIC ON HER FIC JOURNAL! Yes I'm still here.
Warnings: Some nonconsensual R-rated misleadingness ahead, so beware. I am so mean to Riku it's not even funny. Of course, Roxas probably deserves some pity here too. Spoilers for Riku in KH2.
.all wrong.
He didn't know how it had all gone so wrong.
The body under Ansem's twisted and kicked out, and eyes so blue as to make him feel like he was drowning were rendered utterly unfamiliar when narrowed in fury and fear. It was almost a relief, but he didn't let relief soften him. He held the boy down mercilessly, using his greater height and weight to its utmost advantage. The boy was strong, all lithe muscle along his slender frame visible now without his coat -- but no match for Ansem. In the end, he was bound to be defeated by his vulnerable position and raw youth.
He was going to be sick.
Ansem gasped as a knee nearly slammed into his side and he had to spare a hand to wrestle the boy's leg down; he held thin wrists in one hand, more than hard enough to bruise, hard enough to wring tears from a lesser person. But the boy never stopped bucking and trying to shake him off, never stopped cursing him, hissing, "Get off of me, you sick bastard--"
In this position, pinned to his back and and arms held rigidly high, summoning keyblades would not help him.
Sora would never forgive him if he knew. Never.
And in every choked, pained sound as the boy aggravated his own injuries -- in every frustrated whimper as another attempt to get loose was thwarted -- he could hear Sora.
Strangled, Ansem barked, "DiZ! Hurry!"
He was shuddering when the door to the chamber finally opened with a sickening screech; the boy's struggles increased, lifting his spine off the ground, and for his efforts Ansem shoved him back hard enough for his head to make a sickening crack. For a moment the boy slumped, dazed and moaning.
In that same heartbeat Ansem was up, backing away. DiZ crouched down next to the boy and stuck a needle into the bare skin of his arm. The boy noticed and tried to tear his arm away, but too late -- the powerful drug swept into his system, numbing his senses. Another heartbeat, three, four, and then the boy slumped to the ground, unconscious.
Even at rest, the accusing lines did not ease from his face.
"Troublesome creature," said DiZ, cold. "It seems we shouldn't have allowed him to be loose. The simulation is nearly fully-prepared, but perhaps I shall have to cut a few corners."
It must have been easy to be analytical, to sneer at the 'creature' on the floor as if it weren't a person, when DiZ wasn't the one who had to restrain it-- Felt the boy writhe and tremble and cry out in some horrible parody of intimacy under him, an unintended echo of the lust he had painted in his mind though he tried to fight it because it was wrong, wrong-- Known unshakably that the 'creature' was as human as he was.
Perhaps moreso.
He was the monster. It was him, had always been him.
Riku, not Ansem, went to sit on the floor in the room where Sora slept, and tried to remember the face of his best friend without looking -- the laughter, the grins, the way it brightened when he saw the older boy approach. But he only kept seeing the twisted rage in Roxas's face, until the odd warmth of the room made him forget about how stained with darkness he felt. He didn't hear her soft footsteps, but he slowly eased into sleep and dreamed memories.
Warnings: Some nonconsensual R-rated misleadingness ahead, so beware. I am so mean to Riku it's not even funny. Of course, Roxas probably deserves some pity here too. Spoilers for Riku in KH2.
.all wrong.
He didn't know how it had all gone so wrong.
The body under Ansem's twisted and kicked out, and eyes so blue as to make him feel like he was drowning were rendered utterly unfamiliar when narrowed in fury and fear. It was almost a relief, but he didn't let relief soften him. He held the boy down mercilessly, using his greater height and weight to its utmost advantage. The boy was strong, all lithe muscle along his slender frame visible now without his coat -- but no match for Ansem. In the end, he was bound to be defeated by his vulnerable position and raw youth.
He was going to be sick.
Ansem gasped as a knee nearly slammed into his side and he had to spare a hand to wrestle the boy's leg down; he held thin wrists in one hand, more than hard enough to bruise, hard enough to wring tears from a lesser person. But the boy never stopped bucking and trying to shake him off, never stopped cursing him, hissing, "Get off of me, you sick bastard--"
In this position, pinned to his back and and arms held rigidly high, summoning keyblades would not help him.
Sora would never forgive him if he knew. Never.
And in every choked, pained sound as the boy aggravated his own injuries -- in every frustrated whimper as another attempt to get loose was thwarted -- he could hear Sora.
Strangled, Ansem barked, "DiZ! Hurry!"
He was shuddering when the door to the chamber finally opened with a sickening screech; the boy's struggles increased, lifting his spine off the ground, and for his efforts Ansem shoved him back hard enough for his head to make a sickening crack. For a moment the boy slumped, dazed and moaning.
In that same heartbeat Ansem was up, backing away. DiZ crouched down next to the boy and stuck a needle into the bare skin of his arm. The boy noticed and tried to tear his arm away, but too late -- the powerful drug swept into his system, numbing his senses. Another heartbeat, three, four, and then the boy slumped to the ground, unconscious.
Even at rest, the accusing lines did not ease from his face.
"Troublesome creature," said DiZ, cold. "It seems we shouldn't have allowed him to be loose. The simulation is nearly fully-prepared, but perhaps I shall have to cut a few corners."
It must have been easy to be analytical, to sneer at the 'creature' on the floor as if it weren't a person, when DiZ wasn't the one who had to restrain it-- Felt the boy writhe and tremble and cry out in some horrible parody of intimacy under him, an unintended echo of the lust he had painted in his mind though he tried to fight it because it was wrong, wrong-- Known unshakably that the 'creature' was as human as he was.
Perhaps moreso.
He was the monster. It was him, had always been him.
Riku, not Ansem, went to sit on the floor in the room where Sora slept, and tried to remember the face of his best friend without looking -- the laughter, the grins, the way it brightened when he saw the older boy approach. But he only kept seeing the twisted rage in Roxas's face, until the odd warmth of the room made him forget about how stained with darkness he felt. He didn't hear her soft footsteps, but he slowly eased into sleep and dreamed memories.
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However, in the last battle with Axel, he summoned TWO keyblades. He wasn't surprised to see them. If you watch a clip of the battle, he obviously knew how to fight with them -- not just as a fluke, but like a MASTER. I think Axel was surprised not because he didn't know Roxas could call two (Nomura has stated that this is Roxas's unique ability; all keyblade masters could THEORETICALLY do it, but it uses the power of the heart. it's very difficult for most, but easy for Roxas because HE doesn't feel the STRAIN on his being -- Sora feels it instead)... but rather, because Roxas calling two means that pieces of him are starting to come back.
Sora's keyblade is the Kingdom Key; Roxas's are Oblivion and Oathkeeper, both shapes that the Kingdom Key takes depending on what keychain is equipped. Oblivion is related to Riku, Oathkeeper is related to Kairi.
It's possible for a keyblade master to call more than one manifestation of his keyblade at a time, and to give it to someone else and allow them to use it, hence how Kairi acquires a keyblade -- it's not her own, it's a piece of Riku's that he made and gave to her.
2) It's very, very strongly suggested that Namine develops feelings for Sora. And they're not Kairi's, they don't exist at the beginning: at first she feels bad for what she's doing to him, but she doesn't seem to feel any attachment to him personally. It's what Sora does for her throughout the story that makes her fall in love with him -- the way he seems so passionately devoted to her, fights for her, saves her, wants to make her happy. I'm sure she knows that a lot of it is forced, but it's also a very Sora way to behave, and she wanted him to feel that way about her for real. If he had, I think she would have been able to be happy.
Take this dialogue.
Naminé: I'm sorry. It's the only way. You have to choose, Sora. You can lose
your memories of this castle and reclaim your old memories...or keep
your memories here and give up the memories that you've lost.
Sora: I have to choose?
Naminé: Yes.
...
Sora: Put me back the way I was.
Naminé: Okay, I understand! Who needs false memories, right? Especially when
you have real memories of people who are really important to you.
Anyone would say the same.
That babble may not admit it, but it SOUNDS like she KNEW logically there was NO REASON to choose her -- but she was still daring to hope. This is convincing herself as well as Sora that she doesn't blame him for his choice. But she WANTED him to choose her.
So see, on Namine's side, there's certainly nothing of Kairi in her feelings for him.
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But you essay Namine better than anyone. I am in such awe.
I can't wait until you essay her for Another Side, I really really can't eee geek.Also, I didn't know that about Nomura's statement. I WANT THESE INTERVIEWS. Where do you find them, gah. XD That's so nifty.
And also means we're possibly cheating pretty bad in AS -- Roxas shouldn't be dual-wielding so easily there. Um. D'oh.Not that Sora wouldn't totally lend him all the strength he could.no subject
I saw that clip on youtube. Also how hard it is for Sora, but even as Namine is able to admit, your real memories are what is most important. I do like his passionate promises to her though.
I think the next natural progression for me to ask is what is known of Kairi's feelings for Sora? I know she misses him and cares about him very much, but... From what I understand, she likes Sora more than Riku.
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Annnnd, I'd say more, but I really have to do some schoolwork. Kay-san is more eloquent than I am, anyway. ;)
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Li-san and I have actually talked about this quite a bit before. Riku and Kairi seem to not be terribly interested in one another romantically. The way Riku speaks about Kairi to Sora and to Kairi herself seems to indicate that they're just friends -- if anything, he's teasing Sora because he thinks Sora likes Kairi, maybe even trying to push them together. And Kairi doesn't seem to think much about Riku: it's Sora she wants to run away with, it's Sora she tells to stay the same no matter what.
I think Kairi may have liked Sora: maybe Riku was just older, or more mysterious, and Kairi appreciated Sora for being straightforward and honest and a hero at heart. Riku was never that sort of hero.
But Sora's grown and changed a lot over the course of the two or so years he's running around on his adventures -- he's very different from who he used to be. I think her reactions to him have changed too, and she's come to realize how important they both are... maybe more than her little girl crush on a little boy can have encompassed. And that doesn't mean it has to be romantic love or that they should all have a threesome. Maybe just that they're... family. Part of her life, forever.
Sora seems to also like Kairi, but when he shows signs of it in KH2, it's kind of... off. He may think of her romantically, but he's still thinking of a little girl, and Kairi has changed a lot, too. I think they're all happy to just be together again, in the end. XD