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I see you've read quite a range LoSH issues last year!
Always wondered, who are your favourite Legionnaires? (Aside from Supergirl and the other supers as I'm assuming them as a given)
There was a whole lotta Legion last year! XD I’m still making my way through the Post-Zero Hour stuff, I wanna say I’m on issue...102 for LoSH, and 57 for Legionnaires.
As for my favorites--mMMmmm, tough question! They change depending on the run/era, so if forced to (slightly) narrow it down (and yep, assuming the Supers are a given):
Great Darkness/The Curse: Brainy, Blok, Dawnstar
5YL: Brainy (again), Tenzil, Cham, Andromeda*
Post Zero Hour: Ferro, Sensor
*I figure Laurel is different enough from Kara to include her on the list.
Pairings/Characters: Neku Sakuraba. Beat. Shiki Misaki. Rhyme. Sota Honjo. Nao. Joshua Kiryu. Sota/Nao.
Warnings: Past Character Death mentions.
Summary: Neku and his new friends find that they’ve been brought back to life, time wound back as if the three weeks had never happened. It’s something that they don’t have time to adjust to though, as Neku realises that Sota and Nao are still alive, with no guarantee that the two won’t end up back in the UG. Even without a timer on his hand, time is ticking down - but Neku isn’t going to let Sota and Nao disappear without a fight. Not again.
Partner: @licobleps & HB Kit
Author’s Note: So, we’ve got our misson set and things are ready to kick off! Hope you enjoy this chapter too!
“Sota, I was wondering, like, how would you catch a star?”
Stars were pretty high up. Nao knew Sota wouldn’t actually be able to catch a real star. She totally wanted to hear what he would do, though. Like, he had to at least try.
He adjusted the white band around his elbow, something Nao knew he did when he was really trying to think hard.
“Maybe I’d shoot something at it. Fireworks or somethin’. Knock ‘em right outta the sky.” His mouth stretched into a boyish grin.
He looked younger when he did that.
“And then, what?”
“Hm, I dunno. You got any ideas?”
Nao thought about it for a moment.
“You could totes set up a net under it. To catch it when it falls!”
She knew it - they came up with the best things when they did so together.
Chapter 02 - Nuclear Crossing
The sensation of waking up, lying on his back and staring at the ceiling was something that Neku should be familiar with. Instead, he found his hands clawing below, searching for concrete and meeting with softness instead. Those were three long, long weeks in the game and he suspected that it would take longer than another three for him to stop expecting to wake up in the middle of the scramble crossing.
It was odd, yesterday when they had parted ways. Neku had met up with his friends for the first time but it was also the first time that he had said goodbye to them. At least, goodbye with a certainty of seeing them again soon.
So soon, that it seemed like no time at all before he had breakfast and his parents left for work. Then here they were, at his doorstep. He was glad that it was a Monday; he didn’t know if he could muster up an explanation on how he suddenly had friends that could come over during the summer break. Up until now, he had always gone out, left the house as fast as he could.
He felt a knot tie up in his stomach, as he watched Shiki, Beat and Rhyme take off their shoes. Is my place clean enough? Did I buy enough snacks? Do they even want to be here?
Normally with a mission, he wouldn’t have to think about these things. This time, though, there was no physical timer on their hands. The day wasn’t going to go by without them noticing.
There was no Pact that meant that they had to stick around him.
That was the reason Neku kept thinking of what he would have thought to be really trivial things in the past. He couldn’t help it.
Can I keep the friends that I’ve made?
Even with the reassurance that they would help him with this (of course they would, they were good people, better than Neku had been), outside of a life and death situation, would they still want to be around him?
What the hell is with me?
Neku didn’t understand. He wasn’t worried about this yesterday. He didn’t think he could be worried about this.
“Do we get to see your room?” Shiki grabbed his attention back with that question.
No, not yet, he thought. “Sure,” is what he said instead.
The apartment he and his parents lived in was comfortable enough. Nothing too big, nothing too small. His room was similar in that sense. If Neku were to describe it in one word, he’d say it was ‘practical’. He supposed that something that might stand out was his -
“Check out all this CAT merch, yo!” Yeah, that.
Embarrassingly enough, he had convinced his parents to get him a bookstand that, while it did host a humble few textbooks, was mostly taken up by works by CAT. As CAT ventured into many of the creative arts, there was an assortment there from small posters, to keychains, to handcrafted statues. Posters designed by CAT were hung around his bedroom, too.
“Didn’t know you were this into CAT, Neku.” Shiki sounded surprised.
Neku had to remind herself that she had only been around him when he was missing his memories. “Yeah, I wasn’t kidding. I really admire CAT’s - Mr. Hanekoma’s work.”
She took one more look at the displayed items, then a quick look over at the rest of his room. “I like your room,” she said, decidedly. “It’s very ‘you’.”
“Yeah, your crib’s cool, Phones.”
“Home is where the heart is, after all.”
“…Thanks.”
He could feel his shoulders relax and his mouth curve upwards. It wasn’t really that he wanted their approval about his room specifically but…perhaps he was actually more concerned about being liked by them than he realised. Something that he just hadn’t clocked in, since he hadn’t cared about what others thought of him before.
“I’ll be right back.” He left, for five minutes, before returning with a plastic bag full of chips, chocolates and other sweets that he had bought from the convenience store yesterday. He plopped them on the floor. “I thought we could eat while coming up with a game-plan.” They sometimes mulled over the next steps of a mission over a food break, so there was no reason for this to be any different.
Beat didn’t need to be told twice, as the boy dove for the snack bag and snagged the norishio flavoured chips, chucking konsome ones at Rhyme. Neku rolled his eyes, before taking out some rice crackers and passing them along to Shiki. They ended up sitting in a circle with the snacks in the middle.
This was what Neku thought it would be like if he were to have a study session with friends; although they were all there for more serious matters.
“So, from Joshua’s message, we have until Sunday before…the deadline.” Before they die. “If we want to help save them, I think we need to try and find out how they died the first time around.”
This was something that Neku had been thinking about.
Since he had gotten home last evening, after they all agreed that they needed to come up with an actual plan, it had been all that was on his mind.
“We know exactly when they died. Aside from the ‘how’ we’re also pretty much clueless on the ‘where’. What we do know is that it’s within Shibuya. Luckily for us, we’re all pretty much experts on running around everywhere in this town.”
“You’ve got that right,” Shiki said, only just barely audible. “So, we know they were hanging around at the Scramble on Saturday? Do we just wanna try and find them then?”
Neku shook his head. “I think that would be leaving it a bit late. And I don’t think we could follow them all day until Sunday. Even if that was going to be our plan, that’s if we can find them on Saturday.”
“Ain’t it the same thing if we found them sooner? Wouldn’t we still be tryna’ follow them ‘till Sunday?”
“I was…maybe planning to well…” He lowered his voice. “Maybe try and make friends with them.”
There was a slight pause, as all three of them stared at him.
He scratched the back of his head. “You know. If we made friends with them, maybe we could just…ask them where they planned to be on Sunday.” Still quiet. “We could just exchange numbers and maybe hang with them until the time passes.”
Shiki was the first one to break the silence - with a laugh. It wasn’t a cruel laugh, however. “You really have changed, haven’t you, Neku?” If anything, the tone she had laughed in and had spoken in had a soft quality to it. He might even call it affectionate.
“I guess.” He knew that. She didn’t have to say it out loud, though.
Beat and Rhyme jumped in to agree with her enthusiastically, all three breaking into big smiles.
Well.
Maybe having it said wasn’t too bad.
“Anyway,” he cleared his throat, “they were the ones who approached me and Joshua, so I think that it’d probably be easy to make friends with them.”
The way Sota and Nao selflessly offered the two their help, even if it might cost them the win - it was something that Neku appreciated all the more after coming back to life.
“That still leaves us the problem of finding them,” Rhyme pointed out.
“Right, so I wanted to ask you guys. You did that…people-watching thing a lot, didn’t you? Back when we could scan.”
“You bet,” Beat laughed, “man, remembering some of the things people were thinking cracks me up.”
“Speak for yourself, Beat.” Shiki sighed. “I swear, I kept scanning people who were either complaining all the time or…well thinking things that probably should have been left unscanned.”
Neku was not going to ask Shiki to elaborate on that one. “Did you guys remember picking up on anything that first week? Anything that might be a clue? I think it’d be helpful if we scanned something related to them on the seventh day but obviously, we were all a little preoccupied.” As he said that, he gave a little apologetic nod to Rhyme, realising that she wasn’t really part of that, of course.
There was another lull, where each of them tried to remember something, anything that might be a clue. He wished he had paid more attention to people that first week. There was no guarantee that they would find anything concrete, but it sure as hell would useful.
“You know, actually.” Shiki scrunched up her face. “I think that I scanned some guy…I think he was a detective or something. He was looking for a blond ganguro girl. That would match the description of Nao.”
“Dunno ‘bout that, Shiki. There are a lotta blond ganguro girls in Shibuya.”
“That’s true,” said Shiki. “‘Sides, this guy was looking for a suspected criminal. Doubt it’s them since they were helping Neku out.”
“I can’t say I knew them well enough to say they’re not criminals but that’s definitely not the feeling I got from them.” No, he didn’t know them closely but what he did was enough. “I mean, we can’t be sure. Either way, it doesn’t really give us a clue on how to find them.”
Seemed like they would have to go with Plan B.
“In that case, the other thing that I wanted to ask you guys was - do you think you guys can ask around if anyone you know, knows anything about Sota and Nao? I’d do it myself, too, but I don’t really have…anyone to ask.”
At that, both Shiki and Beat stiffened up. Hm? That’s strange.
“Shiki, do we think you could ask Eri?”
“I - uh, I guess that would be okay.” Her eyes were suddenly indiscernible behind her glasses, as she shifted them.
Neku saw Shiki’s other hand curl up tightly.
“Hey.”
Shiki looked up at him.
“Don’t sweat it, we don’t have to.”
Her expression seemed to harden but Neku didn’t want to push. She told him to take his time yesterday if he needed it. He wanted her to feel the same.
“Sorry.”
He didn’t know what was bothering Shiki - he thought that she had resolved her troubles with Eri but it was beginning to seem like that wasn’t the case. He hadn’t asked. I should have asked. He could sense that now wasn’t the appropriate point to do so, though. She’d tell him when she was ready to.
Turning to Beat, he could see that his other friend was equally hesitant to say anything. Neku wondered if Beat had a reason too, why he didn’t want to ask anyone. Perhaps…he also didn’t have many friends? Neku just assumed that he did have some. When they first met, Beat seemed to want to get along fine. Until Neku showed off some of his old attitude, and Beat stormed off but that was Neku’s fault, he could admit to that. He didn’t want to push Beat either, but now they were kind of stuck.
“Neku, I think I have some friends I can ask,” Rhyme said.
Oh right, Rhyme.
“Thanks but…aren’t you a bit…young? I think Nao and Sota are a bit older than us so I don’t know if you’d know anyone who would hang around them.” He also doubted that with Beat as a brother, she would be hanging around with older kids a lot, if Beat wasn’t around others either.
“Yup but I’ve got a friend - he’s a classmate from school. He’s not afraid to talk to older people, though he could stand to, I think. He’s really into Tin Pin so he just challenges everyone he meets into the game,” she explained. “Even adults…including the nice grannies who live around our area.”
“Do the grannies play Tin Pin?” Shiki asked.
Neku shot her a look. Not the time.
She shot one right back at him that said ‘I know you were thinking the same thing’.
“Some of them do.”
Huh, you learn something new every day. “Hold up…Tin Pin.” Don’t tell me - “This guy’s name doesn’t happen to be Shooter, does it?”
xxxxx
“DO YOU GUYS PLAY TIN PIN?!” The boy’s voice sounded like someone had gotten hold of a tv remote, aimed it at him and turned the volume all the way up to maximum.
Neku debated whether to say yes or no.
“Didn’t you say you got pretty good at it, Neku?” Shiki had to open her big mouth
Right, maybe he shouldn’t have told her all about it on the way to meet Shooter. It was a bit of walk from his place to Tipsy Tose Hall and they were all asking about how he knew Shooter. He may have…embellished his skill in Tin Pin ever so slightly. Look, he did beat Shooter in their practice round, okay?
“Oh yeah?” There was a glint in his eyes that Neku wasn’t quite liking. Shooter moved to adjust the red bandanna around his head. Tugged at his jacket. Tightened the straps on his fingerless gloves. “Then I challenge you to a slam-off!”
Ah shit, Neku thought, here we go again.
…
Only a few minutes later, Neku had been completely humiliated in front of his friends.
“Oh, it’s okay, Neku.” Shiki patted his shoulder, reassuringly.
“Right on! You weren’t bad, but you need to put a little more POW into your attacks, if you know what I mean?”
“Uh yeah, ‘more pow’. Gotcha.” Was he disappointed? No! Of course, not.
…Fine, maybe a little bit.
“Hah, you suck!”
Neku glared at Beat. “I’m just a little out of practice!”
“Really? We can count it as a warm-up if you’d like, bro? Wanna go again?”
“No, I’m good,” Neku said, immediately.
Before Shooter could protest, Rhyme interrupted him. “Good job, Shooter! Nice play.” Rhyme and Shooter shared a very light fist-bump.
“Thanks, Rhyme. Gotta get some practise so I don’t lose again to you. Can’t keep letting my rivals get ahead of me all the time. Just you wait, the next one is gonna come in with a WHAM.”
There was so much that Neku wanted to ask after witnessing that exchange but they needed to keep focused on the task at hand.
“Shooter, all sorts of people come through the Stride, don’t they?”
“Yeah! I mean, everyone plays Tin Pin!” Shooter said this like it was obvious. “If there are people out there who don’t play Tin Pin they should play Tin Pin. I’ve been trying to get my gramps to play with me but he keeps saying he’s busy with his store!”
Looks like what Rhyme said about him challenging grannies must be true, then. Wonder if Tin Pin has specific categories for senior citizens…
Looking around the Stride right now, there were quite a few setups for several Tin Pin matches to go on at the same time. While the majority of players did seem to be around Rhyme and Shooter’s age-group, he did spot a lot of older kids and adults here too. Looked like anyone could get into Tin Pin.
“You know anyone named Sota Honjo? Or Nao Akahoshi? They’re usually together.”
Shooter thought for a moment and the longer he took, the more Neku started to believe they hit another dead end.
“Oh wait, is he the guy who wears shades on his head?”
Neku’s heart started to race. “Yeah, him!”
“Yeah I know him! He’s a bit of a rookie, started coming around here not long ago. He’s only a little worse than you though, bro.” Neku would not take offence to that. Nope. “Haha, though he totally wanted to take on the tournament next week. I dunno if it’s too early for him but you can’t gain experience without slamming! Oh hey, you wanna join the tourney?”
“No thanks, I’ve already done - uh, I mean - I’ve already got plans.”
That was close.
He avoided his friend’s eyes, knowing they were probably all going to hound him for it later.
“Do you know when he’s going to be here next?” Neku pushed through, determined to get the information he needed.
“Bro, I wish! I tried to challenge him when I saw him near Miyashita Park. He told me to go home, though. Saw him heading towards the Shibuya river side of the park. Think he hangs there a lot.”
It wasn’t anything concrete but it was a lead nevertheless.
“Guess that’s where we’re going then. Thanks Shooter. C’mon guys.”
Thinking it best to leave before Shooter could demand another slam-off, Neku tilted his head towards the exit and began walking towards it. Rhyme and Shiki started heading out, but Beat did not move.
That’s weird. He was usually first out the door.
His back was towards Neku and he couldn’t see Beat’s expression but he suspected that it was similar to the one he had on back at Neku’s place.
“Beat? You coming?”
“Yeah…les’ go.”
xxxxx
This really was strange.
Beat wasn’t saying a word as they made their way to the park. He wouldn’t stop talking when they were going to the Stride but now? Nothing. He was also lagging behind even Shiki.
If Neku noticed it and Shiki noticed it, judging by the way she kept looking behind her and then back to Neku, then Rhyme must have noticed it. She didn’t give any indication of it, though. Was that on purpose?
This was another thing that Neku had to ask about. Later, after they had found Sota and Nao.
They didn’t exactly run to the park but it hadn’t been a gentle walk either. Finding his breathing to be slightly laboured he gestured for them to stop by the entrance of the park. He looked around the area. It was one of Shibuya’s more run-down locations.
While it wasn’t such a large area, they still needed somewhere to begin. He asked if they should split up to cover more ground. He would need to give a bit more detail, he suspected. Since Shiki and Rhyme agreed to it fairly quickly he started to give them a bit more description of what they looked like.
“Like I said to Shooter, Sota had shades. I don’t know if he’d be wearing the same thing but he also had ripped jeans. Some kind of black vest. Think he had a watch and a few necklaces. White armband. Think he had some piercings too.” He actually surprised himself with how much detail he remembered. Briefly, he wondered if having memory loss once meant that your memory was better once you got them back. Another question to ask, someday.
“Alright, so should we split up into two groups?” Shiki nodded at him. “Neku and I one way and you two in another?”
“Wait, Shiki.”
Beat had finally spoken up.
“It ain’t…it ain’t a good idea to split up.”
“Hm? This place is a little shady but it isn’t that bad.” As far as Neku knew, at least. “Beat?”
“…I think I know where they’re at.”
“You what?”
This time, Beat did start sprinting off. It was all they could do to keep up with him. They were heading deeper into the park and past any area Neku had visited before, or heck even known about. They were heading towards the side, near the Shibuya river as Shooter had mentioned, but down a path leading to the junction to the housing areas.
“Who’s there?”
Oh no.
Beat had led them to the edge of the park, with stairs dipping down from the raised ground. Several people were sat on these steps and they did not look like the friendliest bunch. Or at least, most of them didn’t.
“Oh hey! Beat, that you, man?”
Two of them got up.
Shit.
He had been looking for them. He had wanted to find them.
But -
Sota, sorry… I can’t…
Nao! Stay with me! We’re finishing this thing together!
I’d…love to…but it…doesn’t look like I can. Sorry…Sota…
- he found himself staggering backwards.
He would have fallen over if Shiki hadn’t jumped to his side to steady him.
“Wow, is your friend, like, okay there?”
Neku wanted to answer on his own but couldn’t. He could open his mouth to speak.
They don’t know me.
He knew they wouldn’t.
They’re alive.
He was so relieved they were.
And they…know Beat?
“Well, well, well. Lookie who showed up here?”
This didn’t come from either Sota or Nao but from one of the other people sat on the stairs. He wasn’t standing up but somehow his gaze managed to seem as if he was looking down on them.
“Did ya change your mind?”
The man tapped at his white arm-band. All of them were wearing white arm-bands.
“Beat, what’s going on?” Neku was suddenly aware that Shiki’s grip on him had tightened.
“Yeah, c’mon. What’s going on that you had the balls to come back here, huh ‘Beat’?”
This time the man did stand up and he towered above them all.
“Or should I still be calling you -
Beat didn’t flinch and met this man’s gaze head-on.
Heya Winter! :'D Casey and Parker trying to set-up Kara and Kate together! I would think maybe they need a few tries to get it right so specifically: their first attempt, in which things do not go according to plan.
“Are you sure this is going to work?”
“It’ll be fine,” Parker says dismissively. “Trust me, I’ve got this handled.”
“I just feel like they’re going to see through it,” Casey counters. “I mean, it’s not that subtle.”
“Think about our moms for a second, and then tell me with a straight face that subtlety will work.”
“…Fair point.”
“This will work,” Parker declares. “It’ll be perfect.”
It is not perfect.
“Are you kidding me?” Parker demands as she and Casey hide behind an overturned table. “The one restaurant that we pick for our moms to go on a date, and it gets attacked by aliens?”
“Yeah, that happens a lot in National City,” Casey replies. “But on the bright side, it did look like they were enjoying dinner together up until the aliens attacked.”
“Of course they were,” Parker groans. “Honestly, I’m not sure if that makes me feel better or not, because that means maybe we could have actually gotten them together if it weren’t for these stupid aliens!”
“We could try it again,” Casey suggests. “Although even our moms may not be quite that dense. Honestly, I’m still surprised they didn’t see through it this time.”
Considering that their plan was to organize a dinner for all four of them, both beg off so it would end up being Kara and Kate alone, and then tell the restaurant owner that it was their anniversary so the dinner would be especially romantic, it was probably fair that Casey was shocked their moms hadn’t figured out something was up. On the other hand, it was also probably fair that Parker didn’t expect anything subtle to work at all.
“We should make a new plan this time,” Parker replies. “One less likely to be interrupted by aliens. But we should probably deal with the alien attack first.”
Casey peeks over the top of their table/shield. “Ready to jump back into the fray?”
“Ready if you are,” Parker replies. “Three, two, one…”
They both burst out from behind the table and attack the aliens, joining their moms in the fight. And if both Casey and Parker use a little bit more force than necessary, to get out their frustration at their plans being ruined…
Well, neither Kara nor Kate seems to notice, so they won’t see anything coming when Casey and Parker try again.
Brainysupes - something very fluffy! With perhaps cuddling :'D
There weren’t many days when nobody needed them.
The Legion had been stretched thin since Clark had arrived- it was the reason they needed him- but since then, too, Clark had also seen the Legion growing, and seen more Legionnaires who were once far away from Earth come home.
(“It’s because of you.” Brainy says. “Superman is… he’s an inspiration to all of us. Stronger than any Legionnaire- you make us stronger, whether you’re actually present or not.”
Clark smiles, and accepts the compliment- even though he knows he’s far from the ideal of Superman that Brainy holds in his mind. Definitely far from the version he’s seen for himself in the museum.
I can’t even fill out my suit, he thinks. How can I possibly live up to my own legacy?)
But being in the Legion has been a freeing experience for him, too. He’s made real friends, especially as the Legion has expanded, and he’s allowed to be himself, without a secret identity or fear of being found out and targeted.
And while that means, sometimes, never getting a break- always being available to save the day, or do whatever people need Superman for- it also means that sometimes he can get a day off.
So when he does, he’s inclined to spend those days much like he would back home- relaxing, with those he cares about the most.
“Thanks for taking the day off with me.” Clark says, as he wraps an arm around Brainy, and Brainy arranges the blanket over him. “I know you’re busy, but… I figured you deserved a break, too.”
Brainy snuggles closer to him, closing his eyes and wrapping his arms around him in turn.
“I do. Thank you, for helping me to realize it.”
He knew neither of them would be able to stay there forever. Within an hour, generously, there would probably be some kind of emergency that required their help, or maybe they’d just wake up to Garth having doodled something on their foreheads, having taken advantage of their falling asleep together and once again teasing them about their possible romantic relationship.
(or anyone, really. He wasn’t going to single out one person who could possibly do that)
But that was the price of being here, of being a hero, and as Clark fell asleep, with he and Brainy holding one another, he knew it was well worth paying.
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Hiya! Thanks for doing the analysis on the Sora finding Kairi in the darkness scene, very interesting to see the different lines! (and my sokai heart sang). haha but also it reminded me about that moment he was like 'i can't do anything without them' and I bet Riku was like 'true but also okay thanks dude, not like im still here or anything' lol (feels like the kind of thing that would be commented on if kh3 had a Shiro Amano manga)
Of course! Glad you enjoyed it!
And lol yes, poor Riku in that scene.
I’m gonna take a moment to brag on him though because LOOK AT HIM GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY, DAMN RIKU WHAT A WAY TO GO
And that’s when Sora realizes he really is alone…
“Sorry, Riku, you were my strength, too! Come back, please!”
My horrible jokes aside to help me deal with the trauma, I still can’t watch this scene without getting emotional, and even just looking back at my screenshots of it… a;asghlkdagjsalsfdk. But I want to do a translation post about this scene too, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT BOOKENDS THE SCENE WITH SORA AND RIKU IN HOLLOW BASTION WHERE RIKU LEAVES HIM ALONE AND DESPAIRING BUT IN KH3 RUSHES TO COMFORT AND PROTECT HIM EVEN IF HE’S AN AWKWARD TURTLE ABOUT IT, so I will have to force my heart through Sora’s despair again (Miyu and Haley both kill it, by the way, and both of them will break your heart with Sora’s heartbreak).
Seriously, though, I’m sure Riku knows Sora doesn’t really mean it… he knows Sora isn’t speaking logically in that moment, he’s speaking from his grief and anguish and despair. Sora seems to have a closer than normal connection to people, too, so I wonder if he could actually feel his friends dying? Feel their heartbreak and pain as they were separated from their loved ones, from him?
We have evidence of this being the case from earlier in the game, when Sora reacts to Anna’s heart getting hurt:
This continues the pattern we saw in DDD when he was able to feel Roxas’s pain… though that was because Roxas willingly shared it with him.
Here, it isn’t a voluntary thing. It just happens. He seems to have become so empathetic that he can feel when his friends’ hearts are hurting and share their pain while they are still feeling it. And not to throw Anna under the bus or anything, but Sora just met her, and while he did form a connection with her and would consider her his friend, he hasn’t known her nearly as long as his other friends.
How much more deeply would he hurt, then, over the pain of someone he’s really close to?
Well, the scene at the Keyblade Graveyard potentially gives us our answer.
Look at the way he reacts to losing all of his friends (except Riku), culminating in Kairi being torn away from him as he reaches out to her:
That anguished scream he lets out makes a chilling amount of sense, because it’s possible he wasn’t just feeling his own pain in that moment, but Kairi’s pain, too, on top of everyone else’s.
So yeah, I’d say his anguish and despair is justified in this scene. Riku, the one who usually tells him to pull it together, is at a loss for words, even:
“How am I supposed to comfort my despairing friend who’s normally the one cheering me up? Uh…”
“Nope, still got nothing.”
But then he does a very Riku thing in that he tells Sora exactly what he needs to hear and goes out in a blaze of glory.
Yep, this scene’s definitely getting a closer look later on. It deserves it.
And a Shiro Amano take on KH3 would be lovely! Who knows, maybe he’ll decide to return to the series someday.
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While it’s funny to think that they don’t know Kara’s history…The fact that they gave us 3x10 which had such an intimate setting for Brainy’s introduction to Kara and that they put in Streaky in there, tells me they definitely are informed about it. They just choose to ignore some of it. (Not to say they *have* to stick 100% to the comics but it’s a weird choice *not* to do the karadox part).
Yeah, they do at least know about it. They’ve been asked about the relationship before after all:
Though by that answer you can see how much they actually care about/respect the relationship (and Kara’s history, by extension), given that Rovner’s “we already did that a little bit” answer just sounds to me like “yeah we teased the ship for one (1) episode as a ~homage~ to 60 years worth of comics but now it’s Over and Done With and we’re gonna pair Brainy with Nia instead even though you’re right, he still clearly loves Kara... we just don’t give a shit about that.”
