Yup, hello, here I am for the Main Five (Sora/Kairi/Riku/Namine/Kano) and their Hogwarts house sortings.
Except, this isn't a short thing, or an AU, it's a personality test/analysis of sorts.
See, there's this tumblr blog called sortinghatchats and they have this system of sorting that's incredibly in depth but also works. It's not just "you're brave so you're Gryffindor, you're smart so Ravenclaw, loyal/hardworking = Hufflepuff, selfish/cunning = Slytherin"
It's so much more than that.
They have a basics page but it's incredibly dense so, here's the short version. They break it down into two parts: your primary and your secondary. Primary is WHY you do things. Gryffindors value right and wrong, Ravenclaws value learning, Hufflepuffs people and community, Slytherins value them and theirs. Secondary is the HOW. Gryffindors charge, Ravenclaws study, Hufflepuffs work hard and gather favors, Slytherins adapt.
That's just, a really broken down version, but, YOU GET THE IDEA, PROBABLY?
They also have things called models which are like "I understand how Gryffindors think and am able to think like that myself, but I generally think more like a Hufflepuff" or "I know how a Gryffindor acts and really enjoy acting that way myself but when threatened that's not how I'm going to respond." Or, that's how I understand it, in short.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
This is another case of "it's just copy+pasted from tumblr, but I'm porting it here because it's big and kinda interesting and people who don't look at my tumblr might care."
And, since it's long, the rest is going under a cut.
Riku is a Slytherin
Primary, oh my god, fight me. The most important thing to him is him and
his. If it’s not about someone close to him, he couldn’t give a fuck.
“a Slytherin’s job, before
everything else, is taking care of them and theirs.” / “Loyalty and defense of
your own is an inherent part of the Slytherin morality.”
I considered Slytherin Secondary for him to, but eventually
settled on Gryffindor
Secondary.
There’s a lot of Gryff that doesn’t fit with him but he’s
not, a Slyth. There are some parts, there really are, that fit him, but here’s
the thing, he doesn’t change well, he doesn’t adapt, he’s as rigid as a
board and isn’t going to change himself to be silent in the situation he’ll
hold his tongue instead, they change their volume, not their content.
Gryff is why he snaps when provoked, why he lashes out in
anger so easily. I keep saying he’s quick to assess a situation and adapt to
it, like a Slyth, but a) that’s also a trait of Gryffs and b) no, he’s not??
not really??? he does thrive surprisingly well in new situations but he meets
his problems head on. He doesn’t like to negotiate them. His knee-jerk is to
rush in there, blade bared, and just get it over with.
He has a strong model of
a Slytherin
Secondary, though, partially taught to him by Larxene, partially learned so
that he could survive her abuse. He knows how to manipulate people and
situations, (and sometimes he really fucking enjoys it) and
sometimes his survival instincts kick in and while it’s a little contradictory
for him, a Gryff Secondary, to change who he is, but who he is also has to know
the right things to say and the right ways to act so he won’t get
hurt
(it may be the case then that he models Larxene’s twisting
and manipulative Slytherin Secondary, while knowing how to Perform the quieter
Slytherin Secondary which is change youreslf to be small to be quiet to
be someone who doesn’t step the fuck out of line. He hates doing it,
and only does it around other people—it’s a defense mechanism, but it’s a
Performance)
((Performances, btw, are like a model but are more likely something you do only when other people are watching, hence the name, though it is more complex than that. All of this is.))
Anyway, despite having aspects of a Slyth Secondary, his
kneejerk reaction when in danger isn’t to find a way out, it’s to lash out and
fight back. When something’s wrong or harming those he loves, he doesn’t talk
it through, he tries to strong arm it. He’s a Gryff Secondary who models Slyth
Secondary very well.
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Kairi is a Slyth/Slyth. “Excuse me, huh?”
you may say, especially considering you know I live and breathe
strong Kairi and brash Kairi and reckless Kairi and doesn’t that make her a
Gryffindor in at least ONE aspect
No, it doesn’t. I thought so, too, but looking at her
presentation in FtPverse, she is a Slytherin Secondary extremely comfortable in
her neutral state. She has a couple models, too, but we’ll get to those in a
sec.
Her Primary is short and easy, so we’ll get it out of the
way. 8/10 FtPcast are loyalists. Kairi’s loyalty is to her and hers. She doesn’t
leave her home because the worlds are in danger, she does it to find Sora. She
doesn’t help take out the Organization because it’s Right, but because they’re
between her and Namine (and, Sora).
Not to mention her grievances towards Kano—not because what
he does and who he is is Wrong and supposedly Evil, but because he betrayed her
trust. She hates him for betraying her, she hates him for hurting Sora. That
just screams Slyth Primary.
Slyth is also her Secondary. Like I said, you’d think Gryff
for her secondary, but when I looked into it, she’s more often portrayed as
someone who’s better at reacting than charging. She accidentally nearly
revealed the fact Kano loves Sora (nearly betraying Sora’s trust, which is
disgusting to her, Slyth Primary)? Better change the subject. Sora
and Riku are shouting at each other? Talking them down didn’t work, let’s try
physically pulling them apart.
She tries different angles. She knows how to lie without
thinking twice about it, and doesn’t feel guilty. She can weasel answers out of
anyone, knows how to talk people into not leaving her behind.
I think her decision to finally leave in Dead Inside isn’t,
well, a prime example, but, let’s look at it. A Gryff secondary would
decide this is what I want, let’s go take it. Kairi waits,
because she’s had nothing to react to. She waits, and it’s when Namine and
Joseph show up with a way off this world and the news that Sora might be in
trouble, she thinks ah, opportunity and takes it.
When Kano attempts to leave her on Destiny Islands at
endgame, she first tries to tell him why that’s stupid. When that doesn’t work,
she tackles him. She does not tackle first.
When Kano’s wolf arrives, she talks it into taking her back
to TWTNW. She tries to talk a Rewritten Namine down from attacking, refuses to
believe that fighting is the only way. (Her and Riku are both hesitant to hurt
Namine because it goes against their Slyth Primary. Riku, the Gryff secondary,
doesn’t think of another option outside of fighting. Kairi does, and that’s why
she’s a Slyth.)
A Gryff secondary has a strong sense of integrity and
honesty that FtP Kairi does not. She wiggles around the rules, she lies on the
fly when panicked or threatened, she quickly figures out the best way to change
the situation to fit her needs. She’s a Slyth.
Kairi does have a very real and incredibly
loud Gryff Secondary model, though. She thrills in brash
decisions and #yolo moments. She loves living in that model,
and it is still inherently her. Slyth is just how she’s bound
to react when in danger or making hard decisions.
Plus, there is the Slyth
Secondary neutral state, which I almost forgot to talk about. The neutral
state where a Slyth lives when they’re done shifting and changing to fit the
situation. Here’s a few quotes.
The neutral state is easy to
mistake for a Gryffindor Secondary because there is a similar sharp-edged,
unreserved honesty to it.
Even when the neutral state is
being confrontational, it is coming from a place of relative relaxation.
One of the best comparisons
between the Gryffindor Secondary bluntness and Slytherin Secondary neutral
state is this: a Gryffindor is an unstoppable force. A Slytherin in the
confidence of their neutral state is an immovable object. Slytherin Secondaries
do not charge. They stare at you and blink while you try to explain to them why
they should move anywhere they don’t want to.
They also have sorted Toph Beifong from ALTA as a Slyth Secondary.
Does that help?
Finally, Kairi has a quieter Puff Primary model, based on
Sora’s. She understands very well why Sora makes the decisions he does, and
knows how to mimic it, she will just choose her people above
all else in the end.
(She may also have a Puff Secondary model based on Sora’s,
but, I haven’t considered it until just now. It seems less likely.)
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Sora is a Hufflepuff/Hufflepuff.
But here’s the thing about Sora: in FtPverse and in KH canon
he toes a funny line between Gryff and Puff in both his Primaries and
Secondaries. You think this system would make it easy, put him in one of one
and then one of the other, but, nope!
my bottom line for Sora is Hufflepuff through and through,
though.
Hufflepuff
Pimary values people above all else, because they are people.
Sora values people he loves, and people’s lives in general, more than he will
ever value right and wrong, even if he does have a good sense for it. (Which is
why he’s not a Gryff Primary.)
The defining question is “would you save someone regardless
because they are a person or are you willing to sacrifice them
for the greater good?” and while Sora does have a strong concept of the greater
good, and what is Right, he still really regrets having to, well, kill anyone
or sacrifice anyone. He understands Luxord and Xaldin and Xigbar were threats
and needed to be taken out, but it still fucks him up to have had to do
it. They were people too.Xehanort is evil but he is a
person, and like, Sora knows what he has to do, and he still does it,
but there’s a feeling inside him that it’s wrong.
(His opinions on Kano were never “you are Evil and
Wrong” but always “you are a person too, and you deserve a second
chance, deserve to live”)
Puff and Gryff are both felt houses, anyway. They do things
because it feelsRight. His Right just hinges more on people than bigger
picture.
Puff
Secondary was easy to pick for Sora, at least in FtPverse. There is
something about Gryff’s integrity and honesty that stuck out to me, but, Sora’s
strength lies elsewhere.
He works for it, he values building trust, relying on his
friends, his communities, and that’s where his strength lies. The
stereotypes for Puffs are kindness and hard work. The core of it is dedication, they
are dedicated to whatever it is they believe in, and they work for it.
He works to protect his friends. He works to fight the
darkness. He’s always there for his friends, they are always there for him.
He does not charge. He is incredibly wary of stepping on
toes. He’s horrible at improv and spur-of-the-moment things, gets through tough
times only with dedication and the help of his friends. He is not a
Gryff.
That makes him a Puff.
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Namine is hard to place. Like, really hard,
and I think that’s because she’s burned right now. (Who wouldn’t be, after
being Rewritten?)
((Burning, in short, is the concept of "I really believed in this one thing but then something happened to me and made me question everything I believed in and now I'm kinda just ???????"))
I think she is probably a Ravenclaw
Primary. She doesn’t give too much thought to Right and Wrong, and while
she may be a Puff who values all (or most) people, or a Slyth who values her
and hers…..
She feels like a Ravenclaw who is still trying to find their
system.
Let’s talk about that.
A Ravenclaw functions in a system, desires a system, things
that they believe are Right and True and will always be that way. Namine
lacking a really strong sense of what drives her (besides a love for her
friends, which may be unfair, considering it’s not like you have to be
a puff to love your friends) could just be a Ravenclaw who’s still,
largely, searching for a truth
But here’s what makes me lean the most towards it: a system
of truth she believes in is largely She Is Safe and Riku Will Protect Her—she
does have her own agency, but this is something she falls back on a lot
(perhaps: a fault of the story and my writing) and so this is challenged in Dead
Inside, challenged and proven wrong
She gets confident and cocky in the belief of this
(extremely undeveloped) system and that’s why it backfires on her (it’s not
quite her fault it’s undeveloped. She’s only been alive a year)
And so she is a Ravenclaw who’s fallen, a Ravenclaw who
hasn’t really built a good system, and the only system she knew is torn out
from under her. Plus she had her head fucked with.
((She is no longer safe because she is not safe to
be around, and riku can’t protect her because how can he
protect her if she is the threat))
Also, this: There can also be stagnant Ravenclaws—Ravenclaws
who don’t compulsively revamp their internal systems; these often latch onto an
external or taught system, and are more susceptible to falling.
((Her system of I Am Safe, Riku Will Protect Me is not
something she decided, it’s not something she built, it was something she was
taught and accepted as truth. Perhaps she has not fallen, she is just
struggling to learn what the Truth really is))
Another another point towards this: in
their post for sorting the cast of Gilmore Girls, they say Rory struggles with
Dean because she is a Claw idealist and he is a Slyth loyalist—Namine takes a
real hard look at Riku’s Slyth loyalty to her and realizes it unsettles her.
That happens a lot to non-Slyths, and the fact she goes from “yeah it’s
fine” to learning “no it’s not” points towards her being a Claw trying to
figure the world out. (Of course, Riku’s Slyth loyalty is unhealthy,
which is why even Kairi, another Slyth primary, looks at it and is also
unsettled.)
Her secondary I will never waver on. She is a Slytherin. She
forces meltdowns to disprove a theory she doesn’t like, even if the most
plausible one they have. She lies to Alpha, she weasels things out of Riku,
she’s flexible and she’s quick thinking. She adapts easily.
But there, too, she is petrified. For one thing: she
realizes how similar her adaptation is to Larxene’s manipulation, and she
petrifies, because that’s the last thing she wants to be, these methods
are wrong and disgusting and like Aaron Burr, she stops
acting, because she is afraid to act
Maybe Slyth secondary is just a model, but, I dunno. It
feels right for her. She is flexible she doesn’t mind change she is quick on
her feet and adapts easily, manipulates things easily, it seems correct even
if not all the parts fit and there is, obviously, more facets to her. But she
does not charge into things like a Gryff does. Maybe she works hard for things,
but I don’t think she thrives in building trust or in communities, so a Puff is
questionable at best. A Claw secondary, maybe, maybe, but I
still feel like she’s more likely to think on her feet (and better at it) than
thinking things through in advance and planning—it’s not something she really
enjoys doing
And, there is this: Slyth secondary means models of other
houses are second nature, because it’s just how they change and shift and adapt
and survive. And, there’s no reason to say she doesn’t later change her
secondary. That’s easily a thing you can do.
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Finally, Kano.
It may be best to start with what he’s not
Primary wise: he is not a Ravenclaw, there is no Truth he
seeks. He definitely doesn’t work for all things Right and Good, and he
couldn’t give a damn about innocents or people not close to him. He is a
Slytherin.
And there is this that made me pause: he does, like a
Ravenclaw, stick to a rigid structure of What Shadows Are and What They Should
Do, but also: he is a Slytherin. When push comes to shove he will choose
himself, he will choose what he loves.
He’s a Slyth who thinks he should be a Claw.
A Slyth who thinks what really should matter is his Job and
his Duty as a Shadow, he’s a Slyth trying to be a Claw because that’s what he’s
Supposed To Be but it’s, not, what he is. He’s never petrified—but a
fallen fake Ravenclaw, maybe. What happens is his true primary shines through
and it conflicts with what he thinks he should be and it causes
problems.
For a while I thought he was a Slytherin Secondary, as well,
but, um, no? There are parts that fit, but, here’s what keeps coming up for
Gryff as a secondary.
“They have to always be themselves or they
will break, or they will wither” and that is so??? Kano.
And then, this: lies are slippery footing, and
Kano by definition should thrive on lies, but—he lies to Kairi about Sora’s
wellbeing, and, well, it hurts because it’s an act of betrayal to her (a
blow to his Slyth primary). Kano lies to Sora and then realizes lmao he
realizes he messed up and he can’t, heckin, GOD, he can’t actually quickly
react to it, so he lashes out instead
This is like Riku. you think he should adapt well but the
reality is when he’s attacked when he’s threatened he doesn’t manipulate his
way out of it, he screams in protest.
He’s attacked my Maleficent? Sucking up to her and sweet
talking her would best get him out of it. He doesn’t. He yells and complains
and spits in her face, stammers in fear, he doesn’t use ““cunning”” to
get the fuck outta it
If he was a Slytherin, he would have, without thinking about
it, just tricked Sora into killing him, but as a Gryff, he demand it be done
instead.
His kneejerk reaction isn’t to manipulate and better the
situation. It’s to lash out. he’s just like Riku except with some different
nuances.
That’s not to say he doesn’t put up a very good performance
of being a Slytherin Secondary, though. He knows how to be a
Slytherin, he just, isn’t at his core, really, a Slytherin (secondary).
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TL;DR ver
Riku is a Slyth/Gryff with a strong model of the Slytherin
Secondary, learned from Larxene. He cares most about those closest to him, and
will most likely throw himself headlong into danger to keep them safe.
Kairi is a Slyth/Slyth – her people are most important, and
it’s her quick thinking and adaptability in any situation that lets her thrive.
She has a strong Gryff Secondary model and loves being #yolo about everything
but how she generally responds to things is entirely Slyth.
Sora is a Puff/Puff. He will choose People over the Right
Thing every time, and he relies on trust and his friends to get him through
tough times.
Namine is a Ravenclaw/Slyth. She’s a stagnant Claw who
doesn’t trust what she’s been taught and accepted as Truth anymore, and she’s
wary of her secondary because now it makes her feel dirty. All-in-all she’s
largely just Burned and hasn’t healed yet.
Kano is a Slyth/Gryff who thought he should be a Claw. He
tried to act like the system of Shadows that was in place was really most
important to him (Claw) but in reality he cares most about his loved ones
(Slyth). His secondary is extremely Gryff, because he doesn’t bend, he breaks.
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