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cardoperatedboy) wrote2006-12-02 06:54 am
cardoperatedboy) wrote2006-12-02 06:54 am
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Random canon question quibble ...curiousity.
The Riku Replica's Heart
One of the big points of canon haziness is about the Replica's heart. Mostly: what the heck happened to it. His heart was a synthetic heart created by Vexen; we know the original scientists were able to do this, so it's not really that big a deal. It was all enfused with darkness and generally a creepy place.
Then Bad Shit Happened -- in the game, Marluxia and Larxene politicked Vexen into a position where he agreed to rewrite the Replica (and then Larxene beat the Replica up); in the manga, he insulted Larxene, who dragged him off for a little fun and bent him over the table. Either way, he ended up being brought to Namine and have his heart altered -- his memories rewritten so that he believed he was the real Riku, with Namine in the place Kairi would have been for the real Riku.
All's well and good but essentially, one of the times the Replica fought Sora, Namine panicked and used her creepy witch powers to break this synthetic heart. Remember, in KH verse, the 'heart' -- essence -- is manifested in a physical, crystal-like form. Namine shatters this. The Replica collapses, dead. The manga leaves him there (except for the comedy 4-panel comics), dead for good. In the game, however, Namine stays by his side, then is kidnapped by Marluxia, and SOME TIME LATER, while Marluxia is busy telling Sora he shouldn't be inviting a broken heart, stupid kid, does he want to end up an empty shell like the Replica, the Replica shows up out of nowhere to be like "GUESS AGAIN" and attacks him.
...which is awesome really but HOW? From this time on, the Replica has his old memories alongside the new, and is aware that he's 'a fake'. Later, too, when talking to Riku, the Replica shows a fear of death and asks where his heart will go after he dies.
Which certainly implies he has one.
Sooooo there are alternate reads of this. Perhaps the altering has simply been undone -- but Namine said if she did that, the person would forget, and also that she couldn't do that for the Replica. And we know she shattered his heart. Or maybe he woke up without a heart, Nobody-esque (he does rant about feeling empty, later) and just didn't fully realize what happened. Or perhaps the adjustment we know happened involved replacing his synthetic one with a new one, an unpatterned one of some sort, and someone (Axel, perhaps?) stuck his old heart in while his corpse was left abandoned in the hall.
I'm playing it that he DOES have a heart now, but still has the fragments of his old one; I think that supports the awarenesses he has and the emotional wounding best, while still fitting everything everyone says. (Axel, if you want to be the one who replaced it instead of it, I dunno, magically returning, let me know.)
The Riku Replica's Heart
One of the big points of canon haziness is about the Replica's heart. Mostly: what the heck happened to it. His heart was a synthetic heart created by Vexen; we know the original scientists were able to do this, so it's not really that big a deal. It was all enfused with darkness and generally a creepy place.
Then Bad Shit Happened -- in the game, Marluxia and Larxene politicked Vexen into a position where he agreed to rewrite the Replica (and then Larxene beat the Replica up); in the manga, he insulted Larxene, who dragged him off for a little fun and bent him over the table. Either way, he ended up being brought to Namine and have his heart altered -- his memories rewritten so that he believed he was the real Riku, with Namine in the place Kairi would have been for the real Riku.
All's well and good but essentially, one of the times the Replica fought Sora, Namine panicked and used her creepy witch powers to break this synthetic heart. Remember, in KH verse, the 'heart' -- essence -- is manifested in a physical, crystal-like form. Namine shatters this. The Replica collapses, dead. The manga leaves him there (except for the comedy 4-panel comics), dead for good. In the game, however, Namine stays by his side, then is kidnapped by Marluxia, and SOME TIME LATER, while Marluxia is busy telling Sora he shouldn't be inviting a broken heart, stupid kid, does he want to end up an empty shell like the Replica, the Replica shows up out of nowhere to be like "GUESS AGAIN" and attacks him.
...which is awesome really but HOW? From this time on, the Replica has his old memories alongside the new, and is aware that he's 'a fake'. Later, too, when talking to Riku, the Replica shows a fear of death and asks where his heart will go after he dies.
Which certainly implies he has one.
Sooooo there are alternate reads of this. Perhaps the altering has simply been undone -- but Namine said if she did that, the person would forget, and also that she couldn't do that for the Replica. And we know she shattered his heart. Or maybe he woke up without a heart, Nobody-esque (he does rant about feeling empty, later) and just didn't fully realize what happened. Or perhaps the adjustment we know happened involved replacing his synthetic one with a new one, an unpatterned one of some sort, and someone (Axel, perhaps?) stuck his old heart in while his corpse was left abandoned in the hall.
I'm playing it that he DOES have a heart now, but still has the fragments of his old one; I think that supports the awarenesses he has and the emotional wounding best, while still fitting everything everyone says. (Axel, if you want to be the one who replaced it instead of it, I dunno, magically returning, let me know.)