#com screenshots

also for clarity’s sake, the reason belle rejected beast was bc maleficent wanted a pure heart, or a heart filled with pure love or something like that, so belle suppressed her feelings for beast to keep her heart safe from maleficent

also sora’s sprite here is a little interesting to me bc, i feel like, normally, sora would hear the villain’s monologue and have a moment of revelation, a realization that could help the disney character he’s currently helping.

so this for example might’ve had sora’s “surprised” sprite and been more like “she couldn’t hide how she truly felt!” bc he’s spelling it out for both the beast and for the audience/player. In a “so that’s what’s going on!” kinda vibe

or even his “angry” sprite bc he’d be all “righteous anger” at the villain’s schemes, and just had him state “she couldn’t hide how she truly felt.” just a grim realization.

but—he doesn’t. Instead of maybe being happy for beast now that we’ve gotten an explanation for belle’s rejection, he gets this sprite. the “sad introspection” sprite lmao. it isn’t always a deep thinking sprite, sometimes it’s just sad but either way, he gets this sprite, and he gets this dialogue.

he’s almost talking to himself. it’s like that one frame from the meteor shower memory where he says “I really let [Naminé] down…”

No one needs me to overexplain this scene honestly. Sora’s clearly making a connection between Belle and Beast’s situation and his and Repliku’s, whether the connection is actually there or not (it definitely is, bc these worlds and characters are literally forged from sora’s heart/memories).

but obviously it doesn’t actually reflect repliku’s real life reasons for rejecting sora. At least not according to the game logic. This reflects Sora’s feelings and HOPES, honestly, for why repliku fights him, and what could hopefully come from it. He hopes repliku is rejecting sora for sora’s sake, not bc he genuinely dislikes sora now. (“So it’s not that he doesn’t like me—he just forgot?”)

But the reason i rambled so much about this isn’t to fucking explain the soriku parallel bc we know this already. I hella love this scene bc it’s like one of the few significant times Sora himself translates the parallels in his memory worlds to his real life. Sora himself is making the connection where usually the audience would have to interpret it themselves, IF it even occurs to the player to do so (as easy as it is lmao). It gives so much more weight to the in-game concept of the worlds being not only projections but reflections of the state of sora’s heart and emotions and i can’t get enough of it! my gosh

sora’s trying so hard to rationalize why repliku rejects him poor kid 😭😭😭😭 like the three times we run into belle, i think at least two of them belle always reacts happily on instinct, and blatantly lol, only to turn around and reject beast right after—

(also oop gotta mention the shared dialogue between belle and repliku again bc-)

(also gonna clarify those last two belle dialogues were not consecutive, i imagine meleficent and beast spoke between the first and second, but the point still mostly stands)

like belle is very obvious in how she loves beast but rejects him anyway, and i think it’s hilarious bc this is literally sora’s heart putting on a play and this is the shit it comes up with lmao.

sora’s deadass tryna write fix-it fanfiction and it’s so opposite of subtle, i love it

again, the thing here is that sora isn’t consciously doing it? it really is his heart, his hearts deepest memories and desires/feelings, given form.

and finally, sora himself.

UGH now i have to REwrite the fact that i find sora’s face here hilarious cause like—he’s the one who probs cried that night. ur laughing at urself LMAO

I WANNA add the corresponding repliku screenshots but there’s a fucking image limit no one told me about?? the fuck

also lmao “namines” dry ass reaction:

i don’t remember if i ever put my hercules crack theory here but i like to think the detail about “having the charm since infancy” is intentional and some sort of reference to the hercules movie—bc, you know, baby hercules had his god medallion thing up in olympus (had it when he got kidnapped, had it when he was turned mortal, had it around his neck when his adoptive mortal parents found him, and his mortal parents gave it to him as proof that he was a demi god)

AND IT DRIVES ME INSANE ig that’s what crack does, anyway—

SAME donald SAME finally we’re on the same frickin wavelength. “WOW” EXACTLY, fuckin—WTF RIKU wHY Aare you so SWEET fUCK

riku 🥺🥺🥺

this is like, in regards to sora forgetting namine, but also like, it matches riku and his fuck up in kh1 😭 thIS GAME

Posted these on twert too. Bc listen to him. This guy.

here we go—

as y’all can imagine i don’t even process the english “her” when i watch this scene, head empty, only aitsu

like, WHY IS IT GENDER NEUTRAL? wh—like, objectively, if they intended to make this about kairi in the end (bc rn we’d be thinking of naminé), wHY not just MAKE it say “her”??? like? i get that pronouns in jpn aren’t exactly equivalent to eng but like? i also understand that there are other pronouns that would have been more appropriate for a GIRL?

but this fucking—this pixely ass 2004 gameboy game just, decides NOT to. like. aight. 👀

i also like how sora’s sprite changed stances like, he went from the arms-behind-his-head confident pose to the arms-up-in-surprise pose lmao

SELPHIE YOU ARE A GOD

he really doesn’t get it, poor kid. i mean, fair.

sora’s heart is really just here, telling him “it’s okay” like, he likes riku and that’s okay. at least that’s how i’m partially choosing to interpret this bc i think it’d be important that sora HEARS that at least once. (riku could def stand to hear it)

THEN THIS GUY—🤣🤣

bye i love y’all thx for wrecking my brain like it’s nbd

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meteor shower fallout

lmao me with all these posts. i get that this falls in like with the “namine sus” plot line but the fact that necklace theory is RIGHT there, waiting to be deciphered—UUF SO RICH, so so good. IMAGINE all the other shit waiting to be found like— my veins—

OOHHH THIS LINE IS SO DELICIOUS 😭

because they ARE both right omg and they’re basically just— “hinting” at it here sO STRONGLY like DUDDE

lmao me with soriku

THIS! idk, aside from things i’ve had explained to me im just forming opinions as i go so. like, what are they SAYING here?? “did you ever ask yourself why?” *fist clench

like, 👀👀👀 sora introspection?? sora examining his feelings? (i’m reminded of kh3 “i think i’m meant to figure it out for myself) AHHHH

like does this apply to more than just “namine is sus”???? 👀👀👀👀👀👀

i appreciate sora’s unflinching (blind) devotion to namine here bc whether it’s his feelings for riku or riku’s feelings for sora—their love for each other is always so intense when shit goes down and i LIVE for it

like yeah it’s also a shame sora’s being tricked but the fact that those feelings (again whether riku’s or sora’s) were already THERE, and naminé is just directing them toward herself?? man.

sora’s meteor shower memory

repliku’s meteor shower memory (1)

First. MY BOY. MY POOR BOY. BBY. Look at him he’s sufferingggg

ITS THEM.

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I AM HAVING. NECKLACE THEORY FEELS