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dominicsorel · 2 days

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the gift that keeps on giving

#dude was soooo close to getting it sigh #kingdom hearts #kh sora #sora #soriku #the necklace theory

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griffin-ktb · 12 days

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“If a shooting star comes this way, I will protect you” 💫🌴🌊✨

I want to extend a huge thank you to the Soriku community. 🫶 It’s been 4 years since I joined the KH fandom, and y’all have brought me so many moments of laughter, joy, and happiness that I will treasure forever. KH has gotten me through some of the most difficult times in my life. So, I wanted to celebrate by finishing a piece that I sketched but never finished 4 years ago. They mean everything to me ☝️

#love yall #the necklace theory #kingdom hearts #kh #kh sora #kh riku #soriku #my art <3

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dotted-clouds · 6 days

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blowingoffsteam2 · 5 months

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“Our most precious memories lie so deep within our hearts that they’re out of reach…”

#soriku #the necklace theory #kh makes me insane #the way kh uses visual clues CONSTANTLY #and IN YOUR FACE #COMPLETELY UNHIDDEN #no can I just. the fact that the crown is INSIDE the heart. instead of on top like it ALWAYS is #the fact that these cards are literally made from SORAS memories #like COME ON #from my twitter

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holleighgram · 6 months

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#kingdom hearts #kh manga #my edit #soriku #riku kh #riku #kh #kh riku #sora kh #kh com #chain of memories #the necklace theory #manga

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thefreshprinceofjunes · 1 year

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Naminé... It's you... It's really you. I've been through so much just to see you. --- Riku... It's Riku. Riku's here... I looked for you! I looked everywhere for you!

#kingdom hearts #sora #riku #naminé #namine #soriku #cough more proof riku is the person most precious to sora that namine is replacing cough #the necklace theory #kind of???#gifs #ali's gifs #ali's kh gifs #also shout out to these lines:#'He won't forget. No matter how much I change his memory [comma] Sora will never forget ****.'#'Memories of me— More false memories of me will just make his feelings for **** even stronger than before.'#this came from the realization that in both scenes sora holds one of their hands in both of his own btw #popular

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verathena14 · 1 month

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Namine: "Sora, some of your memories' links are deep in the shadows of your heart, and I won't be able to find them. But don't worry -- you made another promise to someone who you could never replace."

HMM I WONDER.

(i do actually wonder, in the original JP version of this scene, does namine still use feminine pronouns for the person she's talking about? or is it aitsu 👀)

#kh #soriku #athena rambles #the necklace theory

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kairithemang0 · 3 months

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I am absolutely fascinated about the necklace theory, because if it were to be confirmed the fandom would go absolutely ape shit over that. Do I think they’ll ever outright confirm it? I doubt it. Would it be awesome and would I be on board with it? Hell yeah

Also the art and fics people make for it are top tier if you make/have recommendations for necklace theory fics send me them bcs I gotta get back into reading soriku stuff

#kingdom hearts #kh #soriku #the necklace theory #sora #riku #send me fic recs pls

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inconsistentracoon · 5 months

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SoRiku week 2023 Day 1 - Meteor

Excerpt from Chapter 31 of my story Kintsugi. Sora gives Riku a gift that brings back an important memory he didn't know he'd lost. ----

"What do you mean?"

"This of course," Riku reached out and tapped the silver crown hanging around his neck. "I gave you this, what, 11? 12 years ago?"

"What?!"

"Yeah." Riku's smile faded as Sora stared at him, gobsmacked. "You don't remember?"

"I..." Sora looked down at his lap, mind reeling. "I don't remember where I got it..." He raised a hand to the necklace, only just now realising. "When did you give me it?"

"The meteor shower..." An uncomfortable feeling settled in Riku's stomach. "When you were scared that a falling star might hit the island." Had he really forgotten?

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They sat on the roof for at least another hour. Once the midnight fireworks were over and the streets below them emptied out, Sora turned to Riku, wondering if maybe it was time to head back to their room in Disney Castle, but Riku didn't notice. He was looking down and playing with his necklace, a contented smile on his face. Sora grinned again.

"You really like it then?"

"Yeah I do," Riku said softly. Then he turned and smirked at him. "I never would have guessed, after this long, that you'd give me one too."

"Huh?" Sora tilted his head at him, confused.

"A charm."

"What do you mean?"

"This of course," Riku reached out and tapped the silver crown hanging around his neck. "I gave you this, what, 11? 12 years ago?"

"What?!"

"Yeah." Riku's smile faded as Sora stared at him, gobsmacked. "You don't remember?"

"I..." Sora looked down at his lap, mind reeling. "I don't remember where I got it..." He raised a hand to the necklace, only just now realising. "When did you give me it?"

"The meteor shower..." An uncomfortable feeling settled in Riku's stomach. "When you were scared that a falling star might hit the island." Had he really forgotten?

"But wasn't- Wait, it can't have been her..." Sora frowned, staring at his knees again as the memories slipped in and out of focus.

"Her?"

"Naminè, I thought I was with her then... but that's not possible. Why did I think it was her?" He remembered Naminè crying, and then smiling at him as she held out a golden star on a chain. But that was wrong. The memory was wrong. He had been the one who was afraid, holding back tears and clutching someone's hand as he watched stars falling from the sky. "You gave it to me that night?"

"Yeah." Riku's voice had become small, mirroring the way he felt. "You were scared and I told you I'd keep you safe... I promised I'd protect you."

He'd always had this thought that part of why Sora wore the charm was it meant something to him, the fact that he had been the one who gave it to him. Even through that awful time when their friendly rivalry had become anything but, he'd thought maybe that promise had meant as much to Sora as it did to him, and that was why he never took it off. Even if he had been too young to remember that night, surely he'd remember he was the one who gave it to him?

"I promised I'd always protect you."

Sora was thinking hard, feeling the different flashes of memory slowly fitting together. That hazy image of Naminè beaming up at him and holding out a star charm began to swim, and an image he didn't know he'd forgotten glowed in his mind. A young Riku, only five or six years old, smiling down at him. There had been a hint of amusement on his face, but it was mostly an expression of affection. The face of someone who cared about him deeply. His eyes had been brimming with fearful tears, but Riku had taken his hand, held a sword to the sky, and made him a promise.

"I'm not sure where I got it," Riku went on. "I'd had it as long as I could remember and it was really precious to me, but you were scared... so I gave it to you. I told you something lame like it would keep you safe."

After Riku had promised he would protect him he'd clung to his hand, too afraid to let him go. Then Riku had dug into his pockets and pulled out a silver chain, with a crown-shaped pendant hanging from it. The one he had always carried with him. And he had given it to him.

A puzzle piece Sora hadn't known he was missing slotted back into place.

"I remember..."

From Riku's expression, it was clear he thought he was just saying this to make him feel better. "No, really! I remember now!" He grasped the crown tightly in his hand and a look of wonder came over his face. "It must have been one of my memories that got messed up, this is the first time I've thought about that night since she put my memories back together." He stared upwards, remembering the sight of meteors raining down. Hundreds of different colours painted across the sky, just like the lanterns floating above them now.

"If a shooting star comes this way, I will protect you. You swore it with a toy sword," and he raised his closed hand above him, just like Riku had pointed the wooden sword at the stars. "And then..." He lowered his hand slowly back to the necklace around his neck. "Then you gave me this, so I'd always remember that promise. That you'd always protect me."

He looked up at Riku again and, despite his enormous grin, his eyes were shining. He really did remember. Riku smiled back at him and nodded. "Yeah, I did."

Sora threw his arms around him, almost knocking him flat as he hugged him. Riku put an arm around him and gave a small laugh, but then stopped, as he realised Sora had started crying into his neck. "You sap," he said with a soft smile in his voice and pulled him on to his lap. But then he frowned as Sora began crying harder, clinging to him desperately. "Hey, what's going on?" he asked, voice suddenly worried, but Sora didn't reply.

He'd spent so much time wishing he had something, anything, of Riku's when they were separated, when he was trapped in that empty city. When he was more alone than ever before. When he was in so much pain. So angry. So miserable. So lost, and so, so alone. He'd wished for, needed, that connection so badly... and it had been there all along.

He'd been with him all along.

Riku began running his fingers back and forth through his hair, holding on to him as he cried, unable to explain how much this meant to him as he sobbed. His chest was burning in the most wonderful way, full of warmth and joy and wholeness. He was sure for a moment that those cracks in his heart must have healed, as he thought of that promise Riku had made him so long ago. A promise that had been woven throughout their lives.

"I'll always protect you too," he managed to choke through the tears. "I promise."

Riku smiled and kissed his temple. "I know."

Several minutes and many deep breaths later Sora lifted his head from Riku's shoulder, beaming at him with puffy red eyes. "I'm so glad I remember it now." He was bemused when Riku snickered at him.

"You're still a moron for forgetting, although you've never had the best memory."

"Hey, it's not my fault my brain got scrambled!" He pushed him away by the shoulders, crossing his arms and glaring grumpily, but smiled again as Riku laughed and pulled him back into his arms.

"I guess I can forgive you then."

#soriku #sorikuweek2023 #kh fanfiction #the necklace theory

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heartoftheblackswan · 5 months

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You know if KH4 has an Inside Out world I’d love for it to be Sora going into his OWN head and meeting his emotions

Sora could learn so much about his own feelings, it would be so cool if his fears and doubts manifested as Heartless so Sora would have to face them within his mind, literally and figuratively

It would also be amazing to see Sora’s core memories and his islands of personality!

Tho I will go crazy if this is where we see the meteor shower memory, especially if it a core memory (maybe it’s been lost to the void of the forgotten and Sora has to bring it back 👀)

#kingdom hearts #sora kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 4 #kh sora #sora #the necklace theory

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naughts-skyway · 3 months

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The vast difference of how Sora gains Oathkeeper vs Oblivion is pretty telling of Riku's feelings towards Sora during KH1. The lucky charm given to Sora as a gift vs him finding Oblivion abandoned after Riku is lost to the darkness. Nomura: Its (Oblivion's) development name was the "Riku Keyblade." In early stages we planned to have Riku give you a keychain, just like the lucky charm, which is why the keychain is a different colored version of Sora's necklace.

#kingdom hearts #sora #riku #soriku #oblivion #oathkeeper #going feral #probably shoulda included this #necklace theory #it was late im sorry

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melasy · 3 months

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#soriku #sora #riku #kingdom hearts #kh3 #kh #neklace theory #I just learned about the necklace theory.. I'm so late... what a shame..#is this really a theory anyway ?

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dotted-clouds · 6 months

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My Favorite Red Vox song with Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 3

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blowingoffsteam2 · 6 months

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"Is that you, Riku...?” Naminé murmured as she gazed up at the pod where Sora slept. With the memories leaking out bit by bit, pieces returned to Sora.

She could sense so many people in those memories. One-no, more...The shards came from several different sources.

Riku's were in the jumble, too. She remembered because she had tried to manipulate his memory, too, just once. She'd copied that memory into the Replica.

But why was the other girl absorbing Riku's memories, too?

-358/2 Days Novel

#soriku #the necklace theory #days novel #kh novels

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holleighgram · 8 months

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Feeling discouraged so have some wip I haven't had the motivation to finish.

Little brain worm of what happens if you put the necklace on riku and it accidentally opens kingdom hearts and threatens to start the world over like Xehenort intended 🤷🏻‍♂️

#kingdom hearts #soriku #riku #riku kh #kh #kh riku #sora kh #kh fanart #fanart #kh headcanons #the necklace theory #kh speculation #art wip

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thefreshprinceofjunes · 4 months

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(+ also herc/megara and esmeralda/phoebus)

‼️ CONTAINS KH3/RE:MIND SPOILERS ‼️

soriku week 2023 day 5, opposites attract (free day)

HAPPY BELATED SORIKU DAY (12/07)!!!!!!!!!!!

just over 35 minutes of soriku and disney princess couple parallels!!! 😎

this is basically a video compilation of a bunch of my kh metas/gifsets LOL

im aware it doesnt rly fit the theme of 'opposites attract' but w/e, princesses and princes are opposites. kind of. i mostly wanted to post this for soriku day bc its the content ive put the most work into for the week (even tho im posting it v late. damn u SAD)

#kingdom hearts #soriku week 2023 #sorikuweek2023 #soriku #sora kh #kh sora #riku kh #kh riku #kh3 spoilers #disney #disney princesses #the necklace theory #riku is the light #video #kh meta #ali's kh meta #it was way more of a pain in the ass than it should have been to put the riku sprite on cinderella for the gaff at the end #so PLS APPRECIATE IT

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