Everyone seems to forgive Riku for his actions in KH1. I've always been confused by this. Is he really forgivable? He destroyed an island with the people in it, kidnapped a little boy and a princessess, and intended to kill Sora. Didn't Ansem (XH), Master Xehanort, and Xemnas do things like this? I know you'll say they still want to, but even if they turned good, would you forgive them then?
Do you forgive him?
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Aw come on. It was only a puppet.
Um, well with me it comes day by day. Some days I like Riku, other days I wanna punch him in his pretty boy face.
He was seduced by the darkness and I forgive him for that, it was ansem who did the bad stuff
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Maleficent and Ansem were manipulating Riku the entire time, playing on his fears and insecurities to leave him (in his mind) no choice but to do what they wanted him to do.
Riku's clearly a messed-up kid who did a lot of bad things, but he's not really a bad person -- he knows what he did was wrong, and did everything in his power to try to make up for it. And refusing to forgive someone who honestly and truly wants to change is pretty cold-hearted, IMO.
Well, he also helped close KH... Without him Sora wouldn't of been able to do it.
Okay then... well he sort of got Sora prepared for Ansem SoD.
I understand why Riku was drawn to the darkness and he did show signs of trying to save Sora when he was being controlled by Ansem and tried to save the rest of the gang when Sora turned heartless. Plus he helped protect Sora in KH Days from the Org.13 and in KH2. In days he also helped Xion without destroying her by force. All around I forgive him!
***Plus he's too sexy to NOT be forgiven** :3
***Plus he's too sexy to NOT be forgiven** :3
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I think after everything Riku has gone through from the end of KH1 to the end of KH2 he can be forgiven. I will never make him one of my favorite protagonists because of the deep hatred I had for him in KH1, but I still have a lot of respect for him.
Nah, you forgot that all the characters in KH seem to have a really sh*tty memory.
What makes someone a bad person then if doing bad things isn't?
If Ansem or Xemnas wanted to change, would you forgive them?
And some things are unforgivable, even if the person wanted to change. It depends on what they did.
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Something you seem to be forgetting: intention. Riku didn't mean to do bad things, but after listening to Maleficent and Ansem's enticing words, in his mind, he was doing the right thing. They made him think Sora didn't care about him and Kairi anymore. They made him they that Sora stole the Keyblade from him. They made him think that he was just off galavanting across the worlds, fooling around with his new best friends, regardless of everything that had been happening.
By your logic, Robin Hood was wrong for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, because he stole, and stealing is bad, even if the people were living a life of oppression and poverty while Prince John slept in the comfort of his own castle with everything he'd ever wanted.
-had just finished watching 1973 Disney Robin Hood-
Maybe keyblade wise, but Riku helped pull the door shut.
I never cared about his actions.
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