tuning out starlight

"But when I dream, I dream of you... maybe someday you will come true.."

"Sweet dreams I do not see 'cause darkness scares me Is it because I'm still fifteen, or the loneliness in me? Wish I may, I wish I might sleep soundly through the windy nights Just to dream of you tonight..."🎶🎧 -- Jyongri(Lullaby for You)

(I feel Riku is quite reserved and kept to himself most of the time. He seems so cool and mysterious on the outside, but I bet he is quite insecure and has many fears of being abandoned or loneliness on the inside)

“Sora? Funny… Just hearing that name kinda makes me wanna smile”

“Yeah, That’s how he is”

“Whaddaya know… Riku and Sora, The Sound Ideas you two set free joined together. And when they did, they made a great and powerful harmony”

“Sora can find the brightest part of anything, and pull off miracles like there’s nothing to it. It’s pretty hard to not smile around him”

i feel like its easy to forget or miss that the exact reason sora was so emotional here is bc his subconscious briefly came in contact with the memory of aqua telling sora to keep riku "safe". then sora is ripped away from this by the very person who took riku away from him. hes plunged deeper into sleep because his light (riku) was stolen. its not hard to see just why hed be feeling so emotional and delighted to see riku "safe" from harm. even outside of riku risking his life to wake sora up, i feel the fact that sora is near tears and throws his arms around riku was a bit of a nod to there being more at play here. and the reason they show riku waking up here and not sora is because it was more important for sora to see riku waking up this time. and narratively yknow "the world was freed from darkness but has yet to wake from it". at this point, riku is finally no longer trapped in a never ending nightmare of things never getting better for him and sora gets to be the one to personally greet him upon waking from that nightmare.

hes awake and hell be okay.

Follow up to last post. Leave Riku's boy alone. They both need a nap and PTO. Dream Eater Army, AKA, The Sora Defense Squad.

WIP