Comments | divineduckling: The Shadow and Her Light

divineduckling

The Shadow and Her Light

Jun 26, 2008 21:44

Well, hopefully you know why you're here.

If not - you might wanna check out the rest of the essay. This is the fourth part.
As it stands - this is the part about Sora and Namine - and why their relationship is one of my favorites.

Introduction
Kairi
Namine
Sora/Kairi
Sora/Namine (You are Here)

sonami, sora, namine, kingdom hearts

Comments 17

leaute June 27 2008, 14:39:45 UTC

I think by now, since I've tried to leave honest remarks on each of these essays, that you'll know what my only gripe with this is. So, we won't go into it!

I'll just say that, despite playing CoM a while ago, I never gave Sora/Naminé much thought. Though it's sad that they'll never be able to end up together, this essay has managed to make me think of them together as a couple in a more favorable light. Before I found their interaction sweet and sad but nowhere near plausible romance. I can totally see where you're coming from with them, and it's very sweet. ^^

divineduckling June 27 2008, 15:55:55 UTC

Opinion, opinion, opinion. I think we both understand though that had it truly been just "LOL I HATE KAIRI SHE SUCKS" that I hardly would've taken the time to write this down.
This took me a length of over three months to write. I think this is more than childish resentment "that she took my Namine's Sora" :)

Thank you very much for taking the time to comment :) It means a lot, and I hope that - while resuming being biased in a way (;P) you'll continue reading the parts I have planned.

divineduckling June 27 2008, 16:01:03 UTC

Ok, just to clarify - the rest of my essay will be "biased" XD though I guess that goes without saying :)

leaute June 27 2008, 16:24:32 UTC

Haha, I kind of explained the similar factor in most of my comments in another post, so I won't respond to the well-deserved digs at my repetitiveness (I have no idea if that's a word - btw :3) here lest I get... more repetitive. XD

I really do appreciate the time spent on the essay, and I did read all of them! Please continue to post them, and I'll certainly continue to read them. ^^

Thread 8

gabzillaz July 2 2009, 22:46:49 UTC

A little late, but I wanted to tell you I liked this essay, even if I don't agree with everything in it.

I'm posting my comment in this entry because I'm really happy to find a fellow SoraNami fan :3

divineduckling July 3 2009, 05:39:33 UTC

Now I am curious as to what you disagreed with. Would like to hear it, especially since I'm well aware that some things are kind of out of line here.

SoNami is such an underrated couple. They're true, canon romance thanks to Sora's slip of the tongue in Re:CoM, far based than KH1's SoKai, and canonly are why Sora cares about Kairi post Re:CoM, if he cares about her at all judging by KH2.

gabzillaz July 3 2009, 18:40:04 UTC

XD

Not much, to be honest. Part of the SoKai/Kairi entries. Specially the part abou Kairi being mean to Sora back in the Islands. I hate Kairi with a passion and even I saw it as light teasing.

I think Kairi has no personality and is partly a Mary Sue. But I didn't see her as cruel back then. I blame the rest on shoddy characterization.

SoNami had so much potential and is so underrated :( KH fanart is difficult to find, SoNami in particular. I would draw fanart of it if Sora's hair wasn't such a bitch

divineduckling July 3 2009, 21:53:41 UTC

Ah. Yes. That. That's what I meant by saying I knew I was out of line there. I still hold that's hardly the way to act in if you wanna get on Sora's good side though. Riku teases him, sure, but we've seen enough where Riku believes in Sora, trusts him, and goes the distance for him in return to what Sora does for him, and then we have all the Final Mix flashbacks showing us the teasing is forgivable.
With Kairi we have none of that :v We get only her teasing Sora constantly (because Sora can't do a thing without her, lol? Nice going, showing us how up-to-date you are with the world, Kairi) and being mean to Riku aside from being Sora-obsessed, so all things considered, I can't really think her 'light teasing' is acceptable - especially since Sora himself didn't seem too happy about it. He was disgruntled and going by his expression - which are valuable for the most part - showed he found it to be rather uncalled for. Can't blame him.

I blame the rest on shoddy characterization.See, the thing is... it's not like Kairi didn't get any ( ... )

Thread 5

Just...wow... anonymous December 11 2013, 20:54:06 UTC

I had at first liked SoKai because it was blatantly there for me. After a while and my maturity kicked in, I started stepping back and looking at the big picture, which allowed me to see SoRiku which is now my most favorite pairing in KH ( ... )

Re: Just...wow... divineduckling December 11 2013, 21:05:55 UTC

1. Thank you so much for reading and leaving your feedback :) If you do see this reply, would you mind telling me how you even stumbled upon this? This is ancient and I'm no longer in the fandom, so I'd like to hear how this keeps getting around ( ... )

Just...wow... ext_2309015 December 11 2013, 20:55:54 UTC

Re: Just...wow... divineduckling December 11 2013, 21:07:00 UTC

I'm going to take advantage of the double post and reply to this because you actually logged in here, so you might actually get notification for this ( ... )