Reminds me of when people assumed Repliku was Riku's Heartless because they were going by screen caps off the japanese game. They didn't even wait for the subtitles from over there XD. Such impatience. Generally lines like that are from people who don't have enough mental strength to connect dots. They 'know' they hate Xion, and they need a justification.
The thing is the very foundation of memories and self identity in the end. Without memories, without the sense of 'self' that each person develops, how does a person grow? With Xion, surrounded by an Org that wanted to use her, and yet she was slowly able to craft her own identity and sense of self. While yes, it's sad how it came to an end, the point is that she died on her own terms.
And Sora's already shown a penchant for self sacrifice so Xion's death is kinda... eh... whatever.
Repliku didn't die anywhere near so well adjusted. He was grabbing at anything that would make him different from Riku, even if it meant just power for the sake of self identity. Looking exactly like someone else, unable to know himself, because all his memories are of someone else.
One could say that the mark of existence is the right to choose how we live our lives. Xion made her choice, right or wrong it's something she has to live with. But the point is that she was allowed to evolve into that point and make that choice. (After all that seems to be the whole point of Days)
Where as Repliku is never allowed to make that choice. Because he has no 'self' to rely on, only the faulty pride that Riku has, he just runs headlong into his death, wanting to be his own person.
... Perhaps that's why his death is more tragic... Because Riku watches and sees hands on what his blind obsession with being 'better' then others can cost him. Riku felt that by being better then anyone else, that they would always have to rely on him, thus that he would be needed. He didn't quite figure out at the time that friendship is not a 'need only' basis. IE he didn't have to be better then someone else, for people to want to be his friends. He just had to be himself. Repliku's mounted obsession with being better then Riku= being his own person, pushed the clone to his early death. Because he could never be his own person, having been forced to accept Riku's memories, he reacted to the world with blinders on.
... I'm just going to stop now before I write a thesis on Riku |D
Xion was still kiiiinda forced into a decision, though. It literally came down to: absorb Roxas or die. While she "chose" death, was it really a choice? Given that she is based on Sora's memories, I'd say not really. To Sora, there isn't really a choice--the good of the majority comes first.
They were both pretty much just copies of their respective person, they go the route that that person would have gone had they not changed (or had something else kept them from going down that path).
The thing is the very foundation of memories and self identity in the end. Without memories, without the sense of 'self' that each person develops, how does a person grow? With Xion, surrounded by an Org that wanted to use her, and yet she was slowly able to craft her own identity and sense of self. While yes, it's sad how it came to an end, the point is that she died on her own terms.
And Sora's already shown a penchant for self sacrifice so Xion's death is kinda... eh... whatever.
Repliku didn't die anywhere near so well adjusted. He was grabbing at anything that would make him different from Riku, even if it meant just power for the sake of self identity. Looking exactly like someone else, unable to know himself, because all his memories are of someone else.
One could say that the mark of existence is the right to choose how we live our lives. Xion made her choice, right or wrong it's something she has to live with. But the point is that she was allowed to evolve into that point and make that choice. (After all that seems to be the whole point of Days)
Where as Repliku is never allowed to make that choice. Because he has no 'self' to rely on, only the faulty pride that Riku has, he just runs headlong into his death, wanting to be his own person.
... Perhaps that's why his death is more tragic... Because Riku watches and sees hands on what his blind obsession with being 'better' then others can cost him. Riku felt that by being better then anyone else, that they would always have to rely on him, thus that he would be needed. He didn't quite figure out at the time that friendship is not a 'need only' basis. IE he didn't have to be better then someone else, for people to want to be his friends. He just had to be himself.
Repliku's mounted obsession with being better then Riku= being his own person, pushed the clone to his early death. Because he could never be his own person, having been forced to accept Riku's memories, he reacted to the world with blinders on.
... I'm just going to stop now before I write a thesis on Riku |D
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They were both pretty much just copies of their respective person, they go the route that that person would have gone had they not changed (or had something else kept them from going down that path).
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