# 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨 !ㅤindependent, low-activity, mutuals only, headcanon-based 𝐤𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢 from kingdom hearts.ㅤ/ㅤa study in stagnancy and stillness in woe, the powerlessness to fight against a fate that protects you and punishes all else, to be suspended in the ocean of your grief. you're not allowed to save anyone. you're going to live and persist and rattle the stars because you are predetermined to bring ligth to the world, but the end is near and you will be painfully alone.
important first disclaimer is that i hc kairi to be 19-20 withn and post kh3!
general gist of the kairi lore(TM) is that as a princess of heart and a being of pure light, she is loved by fate and that it will do anything to protect her. posits how even destiny itself cannot afford for kairi to die because she is greater than most, if not worth the sacrifice of the universe itself. the princesses of heart are pieces that recrreated the broken universe after the keyblade war. without them, it would fall to darkness again. so of course kairi is important to maintain its axis.
her fortune isn't the mere luck of poker games or finding a dollar on the ground ( although she has had these incidents happen to her often ), it is a sort of unseen protection that ensures the safety of kairi — even if it means trampling on other lights and darknesses.
xehanort may have sent her off to a land where she will unite with wielders. but destiny ensure to bound her to sora and riku, her best friends and effigies. chose them because destiny knew that a time would come where kairi will be gravely harmed. fate saw the potential of good in the boys' hearts and were certain they'd scapegoat themselves for kairi to exist (and they did. more than once).
despite all things yes, kairi remains kind and bright and she has to stay strong if she wants to find sora. still brash, impulsiveness toned down, careful to step where she treads. stars, will the hurting within ever end?
i fully believe that kairi shared the paopu with sora and riku. by kh3 she's aware of the influence she's caused and even if it's against her will, she hopes that intertwining their destinies will keep them safe. and the cruel irony of the moment she was erased from existence, she tied them to an inevitable death for herself to survive in exchange. if kh3 was truly about how old friendships grow distant, then i call bullshit. it was poorly portrayed and i'd rather take an alternative route in portraying that.
probably only going to lean to soulmate-bound platonic sorikai. i think there's something special and without need of excessive prose about their relationship to turn it romantic. totally fine with romantic sokai and rikai, but there will never be someone who's more important than the other for kairi
headcanon heavily inspired by princess tsubasa of tsubasa chronicles. if i am not here, i'm likely on @13nth. you can also check my rules on roxas for my guidelines until i'm able to make a proper one for kairi.
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a little more withdrawn post kh3, although oddly eager to help someone in need if they asked. refuses to let herself grieve for sora because it was her fault he's gone. all these people are back because of him (and riku), and kairi took him away from that. she's going to do her best to help the returned wielders to adjust in normalcy, but kairi believes she doesn't deserve the companionship
related to above, i also believe that she does find out about her 'good fortune' (@ pinned, i need to work out a name for it) sometime before kh3 and it makes her all the more hesitant to get close to people because... well, she's seen what's happened to sora and riku in association with her. she doesn't want that to happen to anyone else.
her habit of holding her hands behind her back was a motion she started practicing as a kid because she used to bite her nails. her grandmother taught her this gesture to ease herself out of the bad habit. the nail biting does come back post kh3 as a nervous tic. it's why she paints her nails to try and condition herself out of the habit again. it hasn't worked yet and kairi's still anxious, but at least it looks nice.
i like to think kairi's light sustained the multiple people that were erased in the keyblade graveyard, with sora being her strongest connection to the point that she practically brought him back to existence. her light was familiar enough with sora (literally btw, in the sense that she brought him back as a whole being once already in the past) that it knew how to keep him from fading away, not so much the rest of the guardians. it's why her heart was found last: because she had to sustain everyone else first before herself
in turn, i don't think she could apply her light to riku in the sense that he was darkness more than light? but i do wanna say that ideally, after sora brought riku's heart back, he is able to solidify back into existence and help sora gather the other hearts. i want sorikai so bad okay
this is to say that kairi's light can only persevere in this world. the fictional world, she can't do anything about because her light (and the other princesses of hearts' lights') created This one. it's out of her reach, basically! so she can't do the same hullabaloo to sora while he's in quadratum
Riku, truthfully, wasn't sure if he should sit next to her. Would she still want him to be near her after he tells her what's on his mind right now? What's been on his mind since the moment she'd proposed they start building a second raft? On the flip side, he didn't want to deny her and end up hurting her so Riku sat himself down at her side with almost two feet of space between them.
Sea colored eyes looked out towards the water as he pursed his lips, trying to work out how he wanted to say his next words. It felt like they were trying to clog in his throat now that he wanted to properly speak to her about the way he'd behaved in the few years leading up to the first raft and Riku... destroying the islands by opening that Door. Stars, every time he thinks about those years he wishes he could take back a lot of the things he did and said. He'd been such a poor friend.
"I wanted to apologize, Kairi. I owe you one for the way I started to act when I was thirteen..." He told her as he turned his head to look at her, a pained smile on his lips. "I'm sorry for the way I treated you and Sora then...and for the things I said. I wasn't a good friend in that time. I was an asshole, really, and you didn't deserve any of that from me."
Riku had no issues in calling himself out, he had been one in those years, going hot and cold with them, especially Sora. All because of his feelings for Sora and trying to be normal and thinking, foolishly, that if he forced himself to like Kairi in that way he'd be just that. But he'd just let his insecurities and jealousy dig their claws deeper into his heart, especially whenever he'd see Kairi and Sora alone together or saw that they wouldn't really need him around. That he'd be the one left behind.
a moment of stillness and serenity. stolen time like this are coming rarer by the day, if they had ever had it at all since—since. temporality has become intangible to kairi, the fickleness of it passing through like the sand her fingers sift through. perhaps the world is more akin to an hourglass than she thought. confined here while their best friend is in a beyond that toys with this split reality.
what a strange cycle they've found themselves in. riku and a reunion with his past. sora moving in a pace that drew him into this uncertain future. kairi is the last to claim she is in any period of time as her best friends continue on paths without her i the picture. she's never moved forward nor back, just stagnant water without even a ripple to disturb the sea.
"hmm." an acknowledgment of his apology as she finds her own words in muddled thoughts. she tucks crimson velvet locks behind her ear and clasps her hands to her lap. "we were thirteen forever ago, weren't we? i don't think you've ever needed to apologize for... well, growing." kairi remembers their youth, perhaps better than riku or sora ever will. there's more to reminisce when your years are spent anchored to nowhere. "but... i accept your apology. i accept you, riku. your strengths and your flaws."
she reaches and settles a palm on his own hand. the touch is more ghost-like than solid. hovering instead of grounding their point of contact. not because of a discomfort, but more of... awaiting permission to give that comfort at all. "i've always had trouble reading you. sora, he's an open book. but i wish i could've known you better."
kairi looks to him, curiosity in her eyes. "so then... hypothetically, if you were this 'asshole' you claim to be—which you aren't—" light-hearted teasing to put him at ease rather than a try at deflecting the subject "why?"
⌜☬⌟ ➡ Groan parted lips as he stared down to the woman blocking his path. Sure he could easily get around her and continue on his way without a care in the world but that would probably lead to more nagging. He was already not liking that idea so he let out a breath, "It's just a scratch anyway, not like it won't heal on its own." he stated glad for once his suit was darker in color to hide the free flowing crimson from the wound. "Fine, but after that no more." he stated giving her a piercing look with amber gaze.
"good enough." her smile is tight-lipped and stricter that one meant to express contentment with their... well, barely passable 'agreement'. kairi doesn't miss the hanging tension. both the rigidity to vanitas' body and the air between them suspended. not that it stops her from taking his arm gently and gentler still with his invisible injury. she leads him back within the tower's halls and into the infirmary. a familiar area with how often the tower's visitors found themselves injured.
she seats vanitas onto one of the beds first, takes a first aid kit from one of the drawers. kairi takes a stool to position herself comfortably beside him and places the kit on her lap. pausing. then a frown, this time expression unguarded and concern left open. "i know you're hurt. more badly that you let on." lips purse for a moment, then magenta gaze brave into amber eyes. "you don't have to hide it, y'know."
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ㅤㅤㅤ" ah-ah. you're not slipping away that easily. " bodyblocking someone who can dissolve into darkness is likely ineffective. still, she spreads her arms wide and stares him down. not quite stern, not a tone of worry, but rather—dutiful. as if kairi owes him this. a sigh, one of mild exasperation. " at least let me heal you up before you go. "ㅤ\ ♡ @kukyc.
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ㅤㅤㅤhands clasped together on her lap, thumb rubbing on top of the other and resisting to skin. lips pressed together in furtive contemplation. " do you think we can... escape destiny? can we leave it behind? " please, please cling to my flesh no longer.ㅤ\ ♡ @onegil.
