Promises

[divineduckling]

    I would like to take this chance and thank the people who have read this far, and particularly those who have taken the time to comment. I especially appreciate the ones who disagree with my views or find this to be overly biased and yet remain calm and composed as I try to be.
    We're all entitled to our own opinions and it brings joy to my

Comments

[moonrise]

This essay was absolutely fabulous. I always hated how people would say they disliked Kairi but couldnt explain it. You explained it much better than I ever could have. I have to say, Im rather anxious to see the next part you have listed there. Will the "Riku, Sora, and the Girls" part ever be written/released?

Fabulous job on this.

[divineduckling]

Oh, you'd be amazed at the satisfaction levels it brings, to have Kairi lovers forced to write your opinion off as trash because you hate Kairi, and not because they can't disprove anything you say. It's "you hate her, so you're biased and thus your opinion doesn't count", never "you're wrong" anymore. If only for that, I explain myself - and I'm nothing if not thorough XD

I can keep on going about why I dislike her for hours.
...then again, I wrote this essay. I think it spared me the trouble.
The truly worst part is yet to come though, and it's what you're so interested in.
It needs a serious re-write from what I had made up at the time, but it will be written and uploaded, and thus the essay will come upon completion.

Thank you for both input and for sticking around. I'll do my best to upload the next parts shortly.

[moonrise]

Im so glad to hear it is still in the works. This is truely a work of art. ♥

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[gildragon]

So I did it. good job.

one thing I noticed you didn't cover though is when in RE:COM Sora is supposed to think of the person that's most important to him KAIRI is the one that appears.

I'd be interested in putting any doubts regarding that to rest.

but really great job.

And I can call myself an official Kari Hater

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[divineduckling]

To a fault, no, I didn't explain it, though I might as well go along and add it in

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[gildragon]

But still.

The point remains that Kairi is most important.

If it comes down to a question of SoKai Vs. SoNami wouldn't that almost certainly point to SoKai?

but then again you did say that even if SoKai happened. (ZOMG) that it would still be SoNami in a way so...

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[divineduckling]

You missed out my point. Kairi is only important because Namine said so, and Namine has an ulterior motif in saying so - she needs Sora's attention away from her.
Having been just about brainwashed about how much Kairi means to Sora - and what would Organization Nobodies know about that sort of thing, especially when they were playing more on Namine's lack of self worth in light of being Kairi's Nobody - Namine would naturally aim Sora at Kairi, whom she believes to be important to Sora.
Many would argue she saw how important Kairi was in his Memories, but then - why didn't we ever get to see that? Why did we only get to see everything I brought up in the essay?

Kairi's only important because Namine said so.
Sora says otherwise.

And seeing how Sora ended up remembering Namine to a debatable degree, I doubt SoKai'll happen even more, beyond Nomura seemingly not rushing in to canonize any couple.

[anonymous]

"Seeing, however, how in KH2 Kairi comes to the conclusion that Waiting isn't Good Enough, she actually breaks the Promise of trusting Sora to live up to his part of the Promise. As befitting a Princess she should've waited patiently, loyally for her Knight to return - yet Kairi doesn't show confidence Sora would live up to that role."
So you'd rather kairi be a damsel in distress? At the very least i have to commend her for going off in search of Sora. Plus you say that Namine gets the short end of the stick cause shes a shadow, how about Roxas? wasnt he forgotten as well?

[divineduckling]

"So you'd rather kairi be a damsel in distress? "

I fail to see how her wanting to uphold her promise to Sora would've made her a Damsel in Distress. Her wanting off the islands in search of him (and not Riku, mind, since Riku will be fine, as she herself stated, ugh) isn't what got her to be a damsel in distress. That happened on its own, regardless of whether or not Kairi was to uphold her side of the promise.

And I'm not really discussing Roxas himself in this essay, now am I?

:D

[anonymous]

Oooooh, it was so much fun to re-read your essay after all these years xD I'm so glad this essay is still up. Please, DON'T EVER DELETE IT

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[divineduckling]

This blog is still up, so that means that I still see it :)
And I doubt I'll ever take it down. It's been getting traffic lately, actually, which is mind blowing @_@ like, WHY? And stuff.

Yeah Kairi is actually really easy to ignore thanks to being mostly a plot device. And omfg SoNami @~@

I know what you mean, Rix *heavy sigh* Those WERE good times, and a pretty long time, too. I miss the gang, but I can't really say I regret leaving. Falling out of touch, though... that's a different thing. Well, at least you know where to find me if you miss me :3

[ashkiryn]

It seems that you've mostly fallen out of this, but I am curious as to whether you'll ever end up finishing this. But regardless, please know that this essay is fabulous, and really helped me pinpoint and define the things about Kairi and her character that bugged me, and being a giant fan of SoNami, I always love seeing other people love them together as well. :) Also, your Days reactions give me life. XD Anyway, if you ever do come to write more analyses about KH, know that I'll definitely be interested in reading them! Stay awesome! :)