I feel a need to apologize to my followers over this being the thing that makes me come back to this blog. I sell myself as a positive place but feel a need to come here to be negative, but seeing as my personal has more reach and I try that much harder to be positive, and this blog hasn’t been active in months, I feel safer coming to this blog to post about this topic.
I also don’t remember leaving that theory thinking the writers and artists hated Kairi. I remember SRT working with what Square Enix actually gave us about Kairi, which is nothing because they hate Kairi.
Look I try to ignore SRT stuff because I hate the theory and am terrified normally to post any negativity about it whatsoever and I mostly just want to let the writers live because I’ve gotten shit for talking about how the fandom treats anything against the theory as homophobic shit and I just want to remind you that the SRT:
Insists that Kairi’s connection to Sora is leading him down into the darkness, towards destruction and death.
She is not in fact Sora’s light, but Riku is. They gave Kairi’s role to Riku.
Turned Kairi into a Darkside who remains behind in the Alpha timeline while Sora and Riku fuck off in the Sleeping Realm timeline.
Turned her into a Chirithy and removed her entire place in KH3.
Meaning they wrote her out of the story in KH3 and downplayed her significance to Sora.
I know the SRT has undergone edits since I read it when at the beginning, but the fact remains, when I first read the theory back when it dropped in March, these were important parts of the theory.
The theory’s fundamental values were about Riku being Sora’s light, which is Kairi’s primary role in the series.
Even if you can argue the theory has merit outside of So//////Riku. Even if you can argue the theory got things right. Even if you can argue it has some interesting insights. (You can on all three, I won’t take that away from the theory.) You CANNOT argue that this theory treats Kairi better than canon and Squeenix. It doesn’t. It can’t possibly when it literally argues that Kairi literally doesn’t exist at all in the biggest release the series ever will have.
But the fact that people try to certainly speaks volumes, that’s for sure.