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Riku isn't initially to blame for Xion and Roxas' deaths

I've seen people blame him for the deaths of these two to point they even hate him but they don't take some things into account.

And I see the opposite where people say Oh it's okay because Sora is important and must come back, but that's not it either.

They don't take into account the state of mind that Riku is in.

Imagine this, you are not doing well mentally. All the events of KH1 happened, Riku hates himself and feels miserable. His best friend is sleeping to get his memories back and he's at his lowest point. He faced off with his darkness and has accepted that part of himself.

Riku has the knowledge that something has prevented Naminé from restoring Sora's memories completely. His own nobody and a replica to copy and absorb the nobody's abilities.

Riku studies them and watches what they do. He finds out the only way to bring Sora back is for Xion to go back into Sora. This is a tragic fate. He fights with Xion, he isn't doing well because of his best friend sleeping. He says things, I am the biggest nobody of them all; meaning he doesn't believe in himself, he doesn't like himself, and is just at a very low point.

Then DiZ or Ansem comes into the picture. He's a bad person. He doesn't care about nobodies. He thinks they all are bad people who can't feel. They shouldn't exist as he puts it. And it's just awful. He stated to Roxas that a nobody doesn't have a right to know. He believes they have no rights, no feelings, nor even human. He has a grudge against them.

And DiZ influences Riku. Riku isn't doing well and he tells him the ONLY way is for Roxas and Xion to go back to Sora and initially die. Riku and him made an alliance to help each other until Sora wakes up. So he keeps going to Xion but he doesn't kill her.

He doesn't tell her it's better if she's gone. He tells her what would happen. Riku gives her the option, come with me and I'll show you Sora and you can go back into him. He tells her she can stay with her friends and see where she really belongs and if it's right.

Riku sympathizes with her wanting to be with her friends as they need her.

Xion even asks him if he's mad she took his friend away. Riku tells her he's not mad at her but sad. And this shows he doesn't blame Xion or Roxas. He just misses his friend and relates to how Xion views her friends.

They keep running into each other and they talk. After Xion goes back she realizes her being there isn't right because it endangers Roxas. She realizes the Organization goal is not what she wants and that they using her and Roxas to kill the other.

And then when she and Roxas fight, she goes back into Sora when she dies.

Then Ansem/DiZ tells Riku he must kill Roxas too and fight him so believing it's the ONLY thing that can be done. Riku believes him. It's been almost a year since Sora was last awake, and he fights him.

However Riku didn't know Roxas wanted to meet Sora. He didn't know he was willing to go and could probably help him awaken without having to die.

The first fight he fails and hurts his wrist, the second fight he gives into the darkness because it's the only way he believes can awaken Sora.

In the intro of Kh2 DiZ speaks harshly of nobodies like Naminé and Axel. And asks Riku to destroy them as well. But Sora soons awakens and he decides not to. Riku feels compassion and remorse for the nobodies.

Riku being Riku someone who has found he can use darkness for good questions the words of DiZ. He sees that they deserve humanity and sympathizes with them. He doesn't think they should just get hurt for no reason.

In the novels, he expressed how he feels bad and wonders if there would have been a way to save Sora without Roxas (and Xion but he doesn't remember her 😢💔) dying.

Naminé Axel and Riku ends up working together to do things. And they express themselves questioning if they truly do have feelings and hearts or not.

And if anyone blame DiZ

But the point here is made, Riku feels bad for them and expresses guilt after he does that. His mind wasn't in the right place and was given advice by DiZ a scientist dude who done experiments on CHILDREN to study the heart. They did things to Experiment χ. Riku only believed it was the ONLY way and that's why he did it.

Riku did it, but within reason he felt remorse for them and is shown to feel more compassion and guilt towards nobodies.

Even Sora was being a bit.... Judgmental towards them but that's due to Yen Sid 's influence as well— which is then changed through the end where he realizes they do care, have hearts, and seem to feel things. And in KH3, the organization deaths in that game he takes more seriously. He feels more for them.

The novels and manga show great details for these moments and Riku even calls Axel and Naminé his friends. Riku Axel and Naminé is a trio that I absolutely love.

But he still questions DiZ words if there could have been other alternative ways to awaken Sora and doesn't see that it's wrong they exist.

And because of all of this, no Riku isn't really to blame. He did do it, but there's meaning behind it. Riku let them have a choice and even afterwards he questions was it right and could there have been an alternate way. In general It's just bad circumstances and in all honesty DiZ is the one who kept saying how they shouldn't exist or feel anything.

Hot take: Ansem the Wise/Diz is forgivable, just not written in the best way.

Context: after taking Terranort in in BBS, his apprentices turned into Nobodies by experimenting/as test subjects and basically kicked him out of Radient Garden/his Castle/home. This caused him to become prejudiced towards Nobodies, poorly treating Naminé, Xion, and Roxas during CoM, Days, and KH2. During KH2, he uses a machine to destroy Xemnas’s KH and apologizes to Roxas through Sora for giving him a fake/simulated life but gets blown up due to the machine failing. He gets teleported to Dark Margin, meets Aqua, and is brought back for KH3. In KH3, he works with the good/revived Org members who want to atone for being evil, bringing back Roxas and Naminé via Replicas. He didn’t do anything for Xion because no one (except Roxas) remembered her. He also forgives/is forgiven by his apprentices.

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