After being killed at the end of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, the Riku Replica finds himself on Destiny Islands, somehow alive. But how exactly did he get here? Why isn't he dead? And, more importantly, why can't he remember anything?
Backstory/plotting:
After finishing Chain of Memories I felt really really really bad for the Riku Replica and I... I wanted him to have a happy ending. So I came up with this idea, and I ran with it.
It was initially supposed to be a simple hurt/comfort story just focusing on Riku finding new life in a new universe, and the Organization was a non-issue, and Namine didn't even exist to begin with. In her place was an OC named Natalie, and Riku spent most of the book with her, and not Sora and Kairi.
And I was all prepared to go with that up until the moment when I sat down to start writing and Natalie just didn't... click. So I had Kairi find Riku on the Islands instead, and just... went from there.
To be honest, I'm really really really grateful I did scrap her, just as I'm grateful for everything that brought FtPverse to be what it is today.
Fun Plotting Notes/stories:
Nothing incredibly interesting, but we all remember my famous summary I sent to my friend grace:
Riku, really the Riku Replica from KH canon who had a freaking terrible life (treated like crap and had his memories screwed with, but I'll leave it at that because it gets revisited in Dead Inside) was brought to a parallel universe by Edd. Hi Edd! Anyway, he spends the first month not being able to remember anything, trying to remember everything, and being angsty and depressed about it. Then he remembers everything, storms Castle Oblivion and kills three, no, four Organization Members (Vexen, Larxene, Zexion, and Marluxia, all of whom have multiple Replicas). Then he finds Namine, and they go home and live happily ever after...for about three months until Falling to Pieces happens xD
ALSO! ABOUT MAGIK! She wasn't on board with me from the very beginning--she sent me a message one day (I was probably halfway through it? About the time Riku was leaving for CO.) and was like "so I've started reading your fic" and I went !?!??!???? ?? ? ? because I was surprised
Memorable moments:
- I will probably always remember the Riku panicking scene with the whole "I'M NOT RIKU" bit very clearly
- the only other thing that popped out to me is Sora's fascination over the Dark Aura attack.
One thing I'm grateful for:
Flightfoot
I would not have gotten this far without them. The semi-constant reviews were enough to let me know that someone was reading and someone cared and someone was incredibly interested in what I was putting out, despite it's faults. I had other readers then, too, but Flightfoot is the one that stuck with me throughout the entire series--and I would very much like to thank you for that.
So thank you, Flightfoot.
And the rest of you readers should probably thank them, too, because if they hadn't left regular reviews on the Truth Hurts, I likely never would've finished it--and certainly never would've continued past it. I needed a push to keep me going, and Flightfoot was that push.
ALSO OVER ALL I'm really grateful for how this series in general brought me closer to magik. We already had a lot in common at the time (7th grade was the time we started talking more, thanks to going to the same school), but I feel like a shared love for KH along with a shared love for writing really clinched the whole thing.
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