Kingdom Hearts I would like to know your opinion on the "riku/sora debate"

Okay everyone i think the title says everything, but for those who didn't know I want your opinion on the "sora and riku are more than friends" debate. as some might know i love sora/riku, but if what im asking is if you look at all the "clues" you could say, so please no answering one way just because you don't like kairi or you hate yaoi or somthing like that. If you ask me i think that Sora does love/like Kairi BUT Riku at least likes sora more than friends (aka SoraxKairi KairixSora RikuxSora). so thats my opinion whats yours?:poketoungeb:



P.s.
NO BEING MEAN TO OTHER PEOPLE FOR THEIR OPINIONS.:yelling::guns3:

 

I personally like Riku/Sora just for the yaoi, I honestly never really gave a toss about the hints. I see it more as platonic if we're talking canon for reasons which we will see later on, but I can very well understand and imagine how one would overlook sexuality and instead, pair up any two people for the mounts of devotion they express towards another.
If either Riku or Sora were a girl, I'm sure we'd be hearing waves of cries that something romantic is lingering the air from all sides and this wouldn't be such a hateful controversy.
So, I say the relationship between Sora and Riku is mostly platonic because I felt that it was really Riku who had the "questionable character"; Sora on the other hand, does seem to care very much for Riku, but Kairi seems to be the one he's most interested in.

An interesting fact that I felt the need to point out is how Sora/Kairi is merely implemented every once and then while the relationship beetween Riku and Sora is actually carefully constructed and developped. It's so much more rich in elements and content than Sora and Kairi, which is merely just a first-stage skeleton.

All-in-all, it IS very probable.

 

I believe that RikuxSora isn't happening and won't happen. Not just because Square won't be that risky but because you can see that Sora and Riku are -best friends-. There is nothing that seems to show to me at all anything more than that.

People get on the silly thing where Sora grabs Riku's arm. If my best friend had been missing a year, and I'd gone to search for him because he's like a brother to me...and he's also gone out of his way to help in the background, I'm going to go stop him too. If I did not, I would not be a very good friend. There was nothing 'gay' about that scene as people go on about. Without being in the emotional duress, it's easy to laugh at and say they are 'so gay' etc. I saw nothing that was really leading to anything.

Riku also seemed to want Kairi and Sora to get together in KH even though he was a bit jealous of it because he liked Kairi too...not Sora. He knew that Sora and Kairi liked each other more and were closer to each other than he was to Kairi. Hence the paopu fruit joke and the race deal, which Sora really gets sore about even though Riku says he was joking. That's a friend exchange and Riku was already backing off liking Kairi so Sora could go out with her. She probably chewed off Riku's ear on how great Sora was or something. You never know. You can see though that Riku may have had a thing for Kairi but by KH2 he doesn't see her as anything more than a friend.

Sora however, cares for Kairi a lot. In CoM she is shown to be the person closest to his heart. He shares a lot with her that he won't share with others, even Riku. However, Riku was his second closest person to him. Kairi and Sora's hug, people call it one-sided, but I didn't see that. I also noted that when people were dancing etc and Sora was all *ssiiiiiiiigh* and wiping his eyes, that was because it was happy to him and also because he missed Kairi.

So no, I do not see any SoraxRiku no matter how people keep trying to say it exists. I sometimes wonder if people have had good friends or not because the displays between Sora and Riku are nothing more than the best of friends. Of course, I really don't think the Org members were all that into 'sex' thoughts either and it'd be rather empty for them and I don't see AxelxRoxas either. I'm not against yaoi but also not a fan of it, so that's probably why. Those who want to see lesbian or gay behavior are going to. I prefer to wait till I actually see something like a kiss exchange going on to actually say...yeah, they're gay. The yaoi is funny but I don't see it as 'real'.

 

Same, this just shows how much Fanboys/girls want to make pairings.

If there are a small amount of females around, then what the hell! Go make Same Sex pairings!

How Stupid! I can just about get my head around how people make MurluxiaXNamine or SoraXLarxene, but SoraXRiku?

 

if ur asking if i think Riku and Sora are gay then no i dont think so :P

 

One thing you have to consider is that they've been friends nearly all their lives, I think of it more as a brotherly like relationship, with them always trying to be better than the other but still close. It's kind of easy to see how emotional he was concerning Riku once you think of that.

 

It's like asking me if Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin feel that way about each other. I've never seen anything wrong with yaoi. It's a form of expression and when done with original plots it can be tastefully done. The point is that your trying to warp a reality that hasn't allowed enough development for such a thing. You only get good friends in the plot, anything you cook up from then on is a simple perversion of factual events. Why don't we just debate a Goku and Piccolo relationship, or a Tommy and Chucky relationship, or a Byakuya and Ichigo relationship? Because insofar that you do is nothing more than perverted facts. If you dig yaoi enjoy the naturalness of it, not the perversions of other universes.

 

I read somewhere that Riku was gay and he loved Sora. Also, Kairi was straight and she loved Sora. But Sora is Bisexual and he loves them both...He just can't make up his mind. Anyway...I read that. I didn't come up with it.
Personally, it's not likly for Sora and Riku to actually work out. It's obvious Sora has stronger feelings for Kairi then he does Riku. Sora has always and always will love Kairi but no matter how much those Sora/Riku fangirls and boys want it...Riku and Sora will not happen any time soon.

 

thanks for the opions and thank you for not being mean to others *HUGGLE*


Can I just ask one thing, you know that the whole falling on the knees thing is one that brings up the most questions. Mine is i know Riku was in danger and gone for like ever but so was Kairi and she doesnt even fight(well not like sora an riku can) but why would sora act so much more....."emotional" when he sees riku?

 

Maybe it's because he hugged Kairi and all. I'm guessing that ment so much more. But he just went on his knees for Riku. Sora looks up to Riku as his superior. But he looks at Kairi as a girl he's inlove with. I'm not sure...But that's just my guess.

 

I don't think that Sora and Riku are gay. Mainly because of the fact that Sora is in love with Kairi. I also agree with most of what Repliku said. Sora and Riku are best friends. And best friends care for each other a lot, but not in the same way as a romantic couple.

*Shrugs.* Mostly I think it's a product of yaoi fangirls and that scene towards the end of KH2 where Sora cries.

 

Well looking at other posts and OP's avvy I would say yaoi. And everybody knows they are. I mean Sora and Kairi could never happen.

 

In the scene, Kairi and Sora hug. Riku opens a portal and is ready to leave. Kairi tells Sora to stop Riku and Sora goes over and in a desperate move to stop Riku, knowing that words alone may not help, he grips his arm and falls to his knees hoping that Riku will stop and listen. He was desperate to have Riku hear his words and understand that he had been looking for him for so long and that if he left it would be terribly wrong. They are teens and in the end all 3 wanted to just go home and end the wrongs done and be back where they belonged.

Now, why did he not do the same with Kairi? Kairi was trying to 'get to' Sora and she was there. Kairi also was not missing for a year. She had been safe on Destiny Islands until recently when she was abducted. He was very happy to see her and over joyed. He didn't know what to say or do but he was not in despair as he was at the moment Riku was going to part and he found out he actually WAS Riku. The scene was intense as he discovered finally what the Nobodies had meant when they said Riku was lost to Darkness etc. He also had just found him and that had been his goal the whole time. He wanted them to go back home and for things to be set right.

As I said before, I think the scene was over the top for people that aren't seeing the desperation of the struggle Sora went through, Riku went through etc. And Kairi herself was not against Sora stopping Riku and making him understand either. Riku had a lot of guilt and Sora's method got him to stop and see he didn't have to carry that burden anymore and he had more than made up for any wrong doings. It was a powerful move of friendship and trust to do that and believe that his friend would not scoff at him for being that 'lame'. I still see no 'yaoi' at all in what was done.

Another thing I'll point out is that at times, both boys acted like they didn't want people all 'up on them'. Sora was not so that way as much as Riku was. I don't think Riku really liked being 'hugged' that much and when Sora was pinching Riku's cheeks etc in KH, he was like 'get off me' even though it was not said in a mean way. I don't see either as being gay and they have a brotherly love and trust for one another after having known each other since they were at least ages 4 and 5. That's a very good and long friendship and close friends act that way to each other.

 

Oh whatever........... I am not going to argue with you homos......
You guys say everybody in the game is gay..... You guys say kairi
likes Namine.... Xemnas likes Xigbar.... Riku likes Ansem....
Ansem likes Xehanort.....
Its no use fighting you guys because as soon as we destroy one gay
fanfic you guys will start another.......
So I really don't think arguing with you guys is gonna do anything....
So I believe everyone in the game is heterosexual....

 

Hm. Good point.


****Anyway...****

Before hand i will say that I have gone nuts before on openions... so send me a PM or something if you think i was too strong...

Okay. On RikuxSora.... I don't think so. Not just because of Anti-yaoi and anti boy/boy KH pairings, but because I just don't think it would happen. With their friendship there was also hardship, and reasons for them to be only friends. (This makes sense in my head, but i have a hard time putting my ideas into words.)

And with what Repliku said-- about how Sora got on his knees and cried for Riku? Well, think about it. This guy was locked in the dark realm, and Sora had no clue he was okay; he was Sora's best friend, and Riku was about to leave. Basically Sora just needed to make sure he would hear what he had to say. I don't think it has anything to do with Sora loving riku more than Kairi.

 

Hey. The only reason this exists is because of stupid lonely fangirls that could never get a real guy. Was I too harsh? D:

 

No, no. Not harsh.



XD Just a little.

 

I think that about explains it as well. There's nothing wrong with people liking yaoi or yuri or hetero relationship stuff and making up fun out of character/story scenarios but when it's actually believed because the perversion of the true story is so twisted, then there's a line. I can joke around etc, but really with all the evidence to support that Riku and Sora are not the least bit gay and obviously both had a thing for Kairi...then Sora liked Namine...then Sora gets his memory back and likes Kairi again...I'm not seeing this. Riku also doesn't appear to be anything more than a great friend and brother in a sense to Sora. They never do anything that shows them being infatuated with one another in any way at all. They were competitive and Kairi was often the center of their attention until Riku backed off and understood Kairi's choice.

It's fun to play around but if something is clearly not there, it's not. I kidded around about that scene with Sora and Riku, as well as a few others but I don't believe that was the goal at all. To change the story and insist they are going to be a yaoi pairing just does seem a bend of reality in the story itself.

 

Wow.

**speechless*

Yes. Riku is more a brother than anything. I totally agree with you Repliku...

You've said all I was trying to say.

Now i've got nothing to say.

XD

 

Perfectly stated. I couldn't have said it better myself. This really kinda ends it. :P