I know as a kid I fucking loved Sora and hated Riku’s parachute pants wearing ass, but I had no idea why for the longest time because I haven’t been able to replay KH1 since the days of the PS2. I couldn’t even really remember if there even was a specific, valid reason why I didn’t like him. Fast forward from 2002 to 2017, with the 1.5+2.5 game release and I finally got to replay it…within like two minutes of listening to Riku talk I was like “No, yeah, right. Total dickhole. Now I get it.”
And then now he’s our angsty angel sweet boy who just wants reparation and a blanket and some hugs? That’s how you do character development.
I love riku so much, he’s just so wildly gay, so completely moonstruck, he goes around saying the absolute sappiest shit to every single person he meets and is not brave enough to say a fraction of it to sora’s face