Kingdom Hearts Some Late Night Thoughts

Reason for thoughts: For the past couple of days, Ive been replaying KI+II (II on proud mode). Anyways, I was home sick today and pretty much been switching around all day. My files though, on one memory card, got deleted. Mostly just the one with khI. So, I had to restart. Pretty much, I stopped playing an hour ago, 3:15 am my time. So, I was playing the opening and some random thoughts crossed my mind.

Here thoughts are:

1. Sora had parents. Guessing by the simpler clothes on his floor, he went to school. He had a normal life, outside of the little playground island. The town he lived proven in Kairi cutscenes in KHII. Yet, he never ever thought about it, nor were they ever brought up after Riku's "We may never see our parents again." Which, I find very weird at the moment. I mean, I'm 18, and if I was going around worlds - not meaning to sound like a sap - I would at least get sad about it once. More so, I think, back when I was his age.

2. Sora had a life. If we go on the fact he went to school, had a family, and was normal enough. What the hell did everyone think for those months, leading to a year, or him being gone? I would have kind of liked to know that. Now, yes, for a year, no one had memories of him. But, we can look at Riku for the same, wth? Look at the cutscene in KHII where Kairi is talking to her friend. The friend is like "Yeah, I wonder what ever happened to Riku. I'm sure he will return one day." It was real causal and stuff. I mean, if a friend of mine went bye-bye so suddenly. I would be asking the parents and worried. Even after some time passed. She made it should like he was on some trip or something. Side thingie: God, are Sora and Riku going to have a lot of homework when they returned.

3. I am sure, Riku is son to a fisherman. It's not far-fetched. They lived/live on islands. Look, at Riku compared to everyone else. He is more built as a kid, and his pants screamed fisherman dad. I think Wakko may have also been to a more labor-working family.

4. How the hell did Kairi live life on the islands? I mean, she appeared on the islands from a different world and without parents. (I think, if I remember right). Did someone take her in? Did she start living on her own once older?


The End:

I'm sleepy, but cant sleep. So, there was a short ramble of thoughts that could be totally wrong or just don't matter. I didn't know if it belonged in KHI or KHII forum, but I did here...because it made sense in my mind. And even if these are random stuff from my tired mind, I think they are somewhat interesting questions/statements. Sorry, also, if someone brought this up before.

 

interesting thoughts... i think that people only forgot about sora, so that might explain why sora's parents were never mentioned... it would have been pointless to menion people who didnt remember the main character... and there is no mention of riku's parents at all... not once... kairi however (im not sayin this is rihgt) but i think she was adopted by the "mayor" or whoever...

 

I almost forgot I did this thread. Sora: Yeah, but at some point they would remember again. But, in that scene I was talking about, I understood why that friend only talked about Riku. Riku: You're right, the only time it is brought up though, is when he says "We may never see our parents again." Which mean he has some. The fisherman's son is totally of of his looks for me. XD Kairi: Hmm....I think you may be right.

 

yeah, that is a pretty good point. I think of that myself too...somehow I can replay it like this:

~End of KH2~
Sora: MOM IM HOME!
Mom: Where were you?
Sora:...out....
Mom: YOUR A YEAR PAST CURFEW!
Sora: but...but...my friends...and the heartless...
Mom: your grounded.

 

The mayor of Destiny Island took Kairi in. There's a flashback scene of Riku and Sora discovering the Secret Place then they're like "Hey, let's go see that new girl at the mayor's house"​

 

Totally forgot that, thansk for comfirming what O_R said right!

 

In the first game you hear Sora's mom's voice.

 

Thanks for restating that. But, I had already said 'Sora had parents' mostly from that scene. Riku had parents comfirmed by his own words. And kairi living comfirmed by a the poster above my last post. My main thing is the lak of mention and thought after these scene. A voice, A statement, A flashback. But never are they mention again.

 

this is highly unlikely, but as far as we know Sora can have a single mother. I doubt it, but no one mentioned sora's father anywhere

 

Good point, he could have one parent or two. We'd would never know! Would we.

 

Pretty interesting thoughts there...It's been established that all three of them have at least one caretaker, but they don't mention them at all. It could be possible that they don't have an extremely close relationship with their parents; after all, in the first game, they're almost always on that little island they play on. I'd find that unlikely though.

It's possible that Birth by Sleep could shed some new light on this, since apparently in one of the trailers they show Sora and Riku playing when they were younger. Their history and family might be explained more then.

 

Sora having parents crossed my mind after his mom yelled for him to go eat dinner and he was on the island. I wonder how he got to the island anyways. Dont you need a boat? If they had boats they wouldn't need to build a raft. XD and after he left, they never mentioned his parents again.

 

They got to the playground island via small row boats....you see them by the docks when sora arrives. ^_^

 

xjayn has got a point why did they need a raft if they already had boats, it doesnt make sence, much of there life doesnt really make sence, like the parents thing and the fact kiari goes to school and sora never did.

And do you remember when olette was talking about home work and idependent studies, he was real confused..........never gone to school?

 

well, they had small boats to get to the island, but they were building the raft cuz the boats were small. If there was a huge wave or current they could get seperated.

and he was probably freaked out by the 'homework' comment cuz:

1. He hadn't gone to school for a long time

2. He had no idea what world he as on so homework seemed............ idk......... not important......

3. It was completely out of the blue

 

I wonder if Sora's disappearance made it on tv or something and everybody thought he got kidnapped or
something.....

 

1. Sora had a mum - I don't know about a dad - but you can hear her call Sora for dinner - and it does seem obvious in the 2nd game that he went to school and had a good life... but he must of thought of it as boring.

2. I'm guessing that no - one really cared that Riku was gone is that he probably told his parents that he was going... since he was turning 17 in KH2 - he was old enough to travel by himself - but i don't understand that if everyone forgot Sora... how come Riku and the King don't?

3. true riku is very built... but we don't really know about anyones parents.. I can imagine selphies mum being a hairdresser though

4. Some one had to take her in... she may have come with her grandmother (scene in KH1) or the mayor adopted her since Sora and Riku said (she's at the mayors house)

 

yeah, her hair....

 

For all we know, Sora and Riku could've both been orphans or something. Yes, Riku said "parents," but that doesn't necessarily mean biological parents. A woman did call Sora down for dinner, but we're all assuming that she was his mom based on Riku's comment. She could have been one of their guardians. That might explain the seemingly casual concern from Selphie. If they were orphans, they would not only have no last name, but they could actually disappear and no one would really notice. Probably a missing person report or two, but other than that, it might have all been just another orphan running away incident.

Riku's memories WERE affected. DiZ said so himself when he asked about "the gaps in your memory starting to fill in."

As for Mickey, he didn't necessarily meet Sora face-to-face. Since that happened, he was saved from any memory modifications because Sora and Mickey's hearts didn't have that strong of a connection to affect anything.

 

1. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Sora had a mom as everyone else is. Whether the parents of the kids were their biological ones or not can be debated but hopefully we will learn more in BBS. I can see Sora as the kid of a working dad and stay at home mom, or both parents worked, but his mom was around more. I'd say he was middle class in how he was raised but probably lived near Riku as well since even though Riku is a grade ahead of him probably, they were friends since they were at least 4 and 5 years old.

2. You bring up a good point here. Kairi did not seem to recall Riku hardly well at all, just seeming to say that he was a boy she used to know and play with. I believe they both were forgotten, though Sora more than Riku. The memories of Riku were dampened enough to make it seem that he was just someone who was no one important to any of them even though a year before everyone knew him better and he seemed fairly popular. This is Namine's doing. Since Riku was important to Sora others seemed to not recall him so well. Probably once Sora was remembered, Riku once again was recalled more too as he was.

3. Riku was 15 when they left DI and 16 in KH2 since it is a year later. I actually do not see Riku's dad as a fisherman really and if he was a fisherman, he would have been a wealthy captain sort with a reputation. Riku himself though I could imagine working part time on the docks for some munny, which would keep him busy and well muscular. I've imagined that possibly one of his parents runs a potion shop though since he had 99 of the things on him. He was also very athletic, which would suggest to me that in school he was kind of a jock, but he was also someone who liked anyone who was 'real' to him. He did help others etc and his 'fear' really was to be alone actually, which to me suggested that he may have had parents go through a divorce or one of them die or something. I think for Riku I'd say he belonged to a family of upper middle class and had high expectations placed on him by demanding parents to excel, but he was kind of more simple and benevolent. We do know though he at least had one parent since he mentions to Sora they will leave their families behind.

4. Kairi was, after she was found, taken in by the Mayor, which is stated in KH in a back scene with the two boys in the Secret Cave. I'm pretty sure Kairi was probably adopted by the Mayor and raised there, as others have mentioned. Also, since it was Sora and Riku that found her, they probably were all playing for years together.

In the end, Sora and Riku could have been orphans too, as DF mentions, but we won't know that for sure. One thing I do wish they'd do for KH that they did for other FF games is to give the characters actual birthdays and ages and last names. It's kind of a let down they won't do that.