Something something kh2 Sora's outfit being primarily dark colors despite being associated with light and Riku's outfit being primarily light colors despite being associated with darkness
Sora regularly gets hand-me-downs from Riku. Riku had a growth spurt just before KH1 and his favorite yellow shoes were too small, but they were also too big for Sora. Sora, defiantly wore then everyday, despite not fitting.
Once, my master, Ansem, found an old system and made a copy of its Master Control Program...and used it to serve his own ends. This is the original data of that system. Here, data can be copied. Memory can be changed and easily manipulated. Tron is a digital entity, so why would he be any different? He obeys the rules of this world.
Riku, one day, when he's maybe 12 or 13, decides to challenge Sora. He goes up to him, all snarky, and says to him, "Guess my favorite color."
And Sora just drops everything he's doing and beams this bright grin at him and excitedly shouts, "Yellow!!!"
And all the smugness fades from Riku that fucking instant. Because it wasn't yellow, no, it was blue.
But the way the rays of sunlight lit up Sora's excited face, the way the golden light made his eyes glitter was everything in that moment, and Riku never saw the color yellow the same way again.
A thingy i drew based off my Royal Soriku AU that i hella rambled about in the soriku discord server 😭, featuring Knight/Personal Guard Riku and Princess Sora
sora has no crown but he's royalty trust 😭
the reason sora's pouty tho is bc at first, he doesn't like having a personal guard, but you can guess how/why that changes LOL
So since my post of that video showing Riku's eyes when they were originally hidden got popular, I'll post another one showing another hidden Riku eyes moment from KH2FM. The video was from a playlist of the game from before 358/2 Days was released so it's in Japanese.
Okay so theory crafting time: as the source of the darkness, Baldr did not have an eye color change. Vessels for darkness have yellow/gold eyes. In KHDR, they discussed whether the Queen of Hearts was the source of the world’s darkness or simply a vessel and if she was a vessel, the Keyblade wielders could become vessels too. The QOH has always been a very clear Xehanort parallel to me. Using this knowledge, Xehanort had to become a vessel pre-BBS. His eyes were originally pure white, after all.