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listen I love Soriku as much as the next person (as long as the next person is a huge Soriku fan) and I’m not trying to undermine the main point of this post, since I definitely agree that Riku is in love with Sora and is going to continue to be central to the story, but--

I keep seeing people reference Riku’s “no need, got my own”, and I really, really want someone more fluent in Japanese than me to check this line, because to me the JP scene sounds like it goes like this:

Aqua: I struggled my way to the far shore of this dark ocean, earnestly continuing to wait for rescue. But no rescue ever came. As I had lost my keyblade, I had no way to turn back and fight the heartless. Therefore, all I could do was earnestly wait. [the camera focuses on Riku] Can you understand this loneliness? [Riku gasps] Can you understand the anxiety and fear? I will share the despair of the one locked deep within [my] heart with you, too!　(心の奥底に閉じ込められた存在の悲しみをーおまえたちにも分けてやろう)

Riku: There’s no need. I have enough. (その必要はない　間に合っている)

The scene then immediately changes to Riku and Repliku.

The fact that Aqua specifically mentions “the one locked deep in [her] heart” and that the shot then cuts to the internal scene of Riku and Repliku makes me think that these lines might refer to the fact that Riku does, in fact, have someone locked away in his heart at this point, rather than to his emotional state. It could also be both - maybe Riku’s saying he’s at capacity on despair and heart-prisoners? This is why I’d like a second opinion, haha.

Literally just saw a gamerant article about how riku's character arc is done and he is probably going to take on a more mentor like role for yozora who is now going to act as sora's "rival" and Riku is gonna be a bit less relevant....why does literally everybody think Riku is done as a character??? Cannot wait for the next game announcement to confirm Riku is still the deuteragonist of kh lol

Lmao well that article certainly aged like sour milk after khmom came out...unless this is a new one in which case...even more yikes.

The reason people think Riku is done as a character is because they can’t see beyond his redemption/darkness arc- which is for the most part complete. But Riku has a whole other thread to his character that is far more fundamental to understanding him and is still unresolved. I think there are two main things about Riku that people miss and therefore can’t imagine a major role for him:

1. Riku is gay. He is in love with Sora. And this isn’t just something incidental that has no bearing on the story, it is actually arguably the most important thing to understand about Riku as a character because it makes sense of his actions and motivations from the very beginning. If you don’t understand this, you don’t understand Riku, period. Riku is keeping all these feelings locked up and hidden from Sora, and it’s /painful/ for him. “All that’s left in my heart is misery and despair, and now you can share it!” “There’s no need. Got my own.” This wasn’t just a throwaway line. Combined with the fact that Sora is simultaneously stating his own confusion about romantic love and also not being able to define what Riku is to him, not to mention Sora losing memories of his sacrifice, I think it’s clear that Riku’s feelings will not remain hidden forever. Not from the audience, and not from Sora. The failure to see that Riku is in love with Sora and/or not believing his feelings will actually be explored is why people can’t see where the story could possibly go for Riku.

2. Riku is the light. There is a reason Riku being “the light” is being so heavily hinted at through the entire series, reaching absurd levels of obvious in kh3, only to be seemingly ignored by the narrative (and consequently missed by the audience) This is a quintessential narrative set up, and I can almost guarantee it will have a major payoff. I don’t have the answer for what exactly this will be, but I strongly believe it will play a huge role in his upcoming arc, just as learning to accept the darkness was a fundamental part of his first arc. As Nomura said all the way back in CoM, the question of /what/ Riku is has yet to be revealed- but it will.

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do you ever just....

think about the fact that Kray burned down Galo’s childhood home, presumably(?) killing his family and almost definitely traumatizing him

...and then turned around and set Galo up in a profession where his main responsibility would be GOING INTO BURNING BUILDINGS

#promare #promare spoilers #galo thymos #kray foresight #man Kray was just.....a really bad dude #like............really bad

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Kray: Bring the prisoner his hair products. But make sure they are.....store brand.

Galo, deep within the bowels of the Foresight Foundation: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

okay but like

Galo’s hair didn’t go flat at all while he was in prison

and somehow I don’t think Mr. “I’ve always hated you and hoped you would die” was providing him with hair gel

so basically….his hair just grows that way?

#promare

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okay but like

Galo’s hair didn’t go flat at all while he was in prison

and somehow I don’t think Mr. “I’ve always hated you and hoped you would die” was providing him with hair gel

so basically....his hair just grows that way?

#promare #galo thymos #no wonder he shaves most of it #the anime protagonist curse

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people actually talking about Lio like he’s chill or tsundere or ANYTHING but absolutely gone on Galo baffle me

really?

really?

Lio “the mech isn’t cool enough for you? let me fix it!” Fotia? Lio “oh, you need your Matoi? I got you, babe” Fotia? Lio “I’m literally being crushed to death, but here, take my flames, you need them more” Fotia? Lio “you wanted the mech to be named Galo de Lion? Absolutely, anything you want” Fotia? Lio “Let’s burn the world together” Fotia?

this guy?

#promare #promare spoilers #I guess? #listen I'm not saying Galo isn't also completely gone on Lio #I'm just saying it is OBVIOUSLY MUTUAL #these idiots are Soft™

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Me (and every other Klance fan presented with single, half-alien Keith and Lance at the end of the show): OUR CITY NOW

#vld #voltron spoilers #voltron s8 spoilers #vld spoilers #klance #our ship is in better shape than most other people's tbh #RUN WITH IT #ALL THE FIX-IT FICS #WRITERS OUR TIME HAS COME

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They’re romantically coded don’t @ me

The last klance edit blew up so???

#vld #voltron: legendary defender #klance #this is beautiful and I can never find it when I want it #so now it's going on my blog

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whee whee my scanner ruins everything ever

#twewy #the world ends with you #beatneku #neku sakuraba #beat bito #i'm pretty sure you guys followed me for klance #but it is my lifelong mission to find every piece of BeatNeku art out there and PUT IT ON MY BLOG #sorry not sorry

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do you ever think about the fact that the music playing during The Bonding Moment™ was called “to go home” and then seven seasons later Lance and Keith form the wings of voltron

which allows them

to go home

#vld #klance #I think about this a lot #they really are a good team

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look

I’m not saying all Blue Paladins are attracted to Galra

but all Blue Paladins are attracted to Galra

#vld #klance #lotura #blaytz #blaytz's galra bf #voltron: legendary defender #look I'm just saying #there's a pattern here

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Me, on Friday, about to watch VLD season 7: [cracks knuckles] Let's see how much of canon I'm going to be ignoring.

#voltron: legendary defender #vld #voltron #voltron season 7

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YOU’RE WELCOME.

Our DM forgot that we have no Magnus Burnsides in our party, so they legit spent an hour trying to convince us to go down a path that is Clearly Dangerous.

I think we’re way too sensible to be adventurers XD

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Day 14

I think I gave myself a cavity with this

just give me all the fluffy klance forever please

#voltron: legendary defender #vld #klance #keith #lance #fluffy klance forever seconded

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Morning routines in the bathroom aka: sometimes you’ve just gotta tell your bro that he’s pretty  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bonus:

BONUS bonus:

#voltron: legendary defender #vld #klance #lance #keith #this is really adorable?? #omg

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Things I still can’t believe Keith did: THAT

#voltron: legendary defender #vld #keith #honestly I can't believe this either

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OKAY LISTEN UP FOLKS

I’ve seen people worrying about this and I am here to reassure you that there is no way Keith could be 21 if Lance is still 17

that’s right

I’m not leaving the math to Pidge

Things We Know: 

Keith’s birthday is October 23rd

Lance’s is July 28th.

They were in the same class at the Garrison. 

At the start of the series, if we’re going by guidebook ages, Keith is 18 and Lance is 17. 

The only way all these things can be true is if Keith was born in October of the calendar year preceding Lance’s birthday. This makes Keith nine months older than Lance when the Blue Lion was found and everyone went off to space. That’s right, there wasn’t even a full year between them before all this crazy time dilation business! (This also puts the start of the series somewhere between October and July, since any later than that would have had either both of them being 18, or Lance 18 and Keith 19, but that’s neither here nor there at the moment.)

I don’t have the source, but I’ve seen people claiming that someone(?) involved in the show has stated that Keith was 19 prior to the start of season 6. Okay, let’s take that into account! Given that Lance isn’t a full year younger than Keith, he must have turned 18 before Keith turned 19. Therefore (assuming that Keith and Krolia had some way of accurately measuring time in Earth years on the back of a space whale light-years from our solar system, which is a whole other question) if you assume that the two years put Keith at 21, that means he started at 19, and Lance would be 18 already. It’s even possible that Lance turned 19 already, too, depending on how much time passed after Keith’s birthday!

In conclusion, there is no way their current age gap can be four years. It is, if we take the series at its word, two years and nine months, and could in fact be less than that, given that Keith and Krolia’s equipment on that mission seemed to mostly consist of knives and a brand-new wolf friend, neither of which are known for their timekeeping skills.

#voltron: legendary defender #vld #klance #voltron season 6 spoilers #vld spoilers #keith (voltron) #lance (voltron) #I'm not here to tell you how to feel about the age gap #I'm just here to clarify the numbers #because a lot of people seem to be exaggerating them #please feel free to chime in if I've gotten anything factually wrong

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How to “insult” your “rival”

#klance #vld season 6 spoilers #voltron spoilers #voltron: legendary defender #vld