Remember those SoKai/Namiku posts I made, like, four years ago? This is gonna be a little like that. And by that I just mean it'll have pictures, too. That's actually it. The similarities end there.
Here we gooooooo.
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| art by weissrabbit! |
FtPverse NamiKai dynamic
Kairi’s prone to doing either extremely reckless or
generally dumb things, either Because She Can or for laughs. Sora, most of the
time, is resident “oh my god Kairi no” voice. Namine still provides that,
sometimes (she had to learn how to, when Sora was gone) but for the most part
her protests are just an exasperated “Kairi……..”
Here’s the thing, though:
Kairi does half the stupid things she does just to make
Namine laugh, (because she and Riku will both agree: Namine’s laugh is a
brightness in a dark room, is a beautiful sound—and at least ftp Namine does it
naturally, frequently, but it doesn’t change the fact it feels good to see her
smile)
Here’s another thing:
Namine fuckin enjoys it
She knows when to stop Kairi from doing extremely dangerous
things but if Kairi says “I’m going to jump out of this tree and into the
fucking ocean” Namine just stops and looks up and watches. She doesn’t egg her
on but she doesn’t stop her either. She loves to watch it. And that’s why Kairi
keeps doing it.
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Namine is like the sister Kairi always kinda wished she had.
Being an only child has its perks, of course. She wouldn’t want a new mother that would theoretically have to come with the sister anyway. Sora’s a great friend, a close friend, of
course he is, and this isn’t even a sort of ~they can do girl things~ which
Kairi can’t do with Sora because, a) that’s dumb, b) Kairi had 14 years without
Namine, Sora got dragged into “girl things” alright
Namine is another person she can share dumb 3am thoughts
with, talk into eating an entire tub of icecream in one sitting, drag out of
the house at night just to appreciate the stars or the shape of the moon.
They don’t come up with wild fantastical stories like Kairi
and Sora do, but there are points in the week or the day where Namine just kinda
stops and looks at Kairi “oh my god I don’t know what to draw” and Kairi will
tell her to draw something (often borderline ridiculous, Kairi loves pushing
boundaries) and Namine will do it—most of the time, anyway
Often it’s just doodles in margins, or rough sketches, but
she does it
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Namine ends up hanging a lot of her drawings up in their
shared room, per Kairi’s request. A good portion of them end up getting taken
down after a month or so, some hardly last a week, but there’s one—framed by
paper stars and flowers plastered to the wall around it, each that Kairi drew
and cut out herself
It’s a drawing of the two of them, laughing and sitting on
the dock, feet dangling above the waves
(It’s not the best drawing Namine has ever done, but it’s
one Kairi will treasure forever)
Kairi, to Namine, is a steady source of comfort and
laughter, especially when Riku is not. (Of course, we can’t pretend Namine and
Sora didn’t know each other well, because, they did, just as Kairi and Riku did)
Kairi always knows what to say, always knows when to steer
the conversation away from a topic Namine doesn’t like, while Riku is as
fumbling and awkward as Namine herself is, even if he fakes cockiness well
Namine never dreamt of having a sister or really had any big
dreams at all at the start of her life, but if you think she is only grateful
to have Riku as a friend, then you are wrong (perhaps, not at fault, but still
wrong). She is grateful to know Sora, she is grateful to know Kairi.
Kairi’s there to talk to her about things Riku would never
think of or doesn’t know a damn thing about himself. Kairi helps her appreciate
the little things, the big things, everything in between. It was at Kairi’s
request she first stuck more than feet in the ocean. Kairi is someone she trusts
when she isn’t sure who else to, Kairi is a steadiness and a constant when she
is still finding her footing in her first months of life, and later on (being a
replica w/ no memories stolen from anyone else is good but does mean you need
to have a lot of silly things explained to you.)
She missed Kairi a lot in Dead Inside. I may not have
written it that way at first, but listen: she did. Sometimes things happened
and she went “man I wish I could ask Kairi for advice”, and when she wasn’t
sure what to do she honestly probably just thought to herself “what would Kairi
do?” which, yielded, well, results of varying success
(I’m losing it at the thought of “what would Kairi do if she
heard my memory meltdowns might be Riku’s fault and I can never see him again
if they are? sabotaging the experiment? doing so by forcing memory meltdowns?
probably” being Namine’s thought process for that portion of Dead Inside)
(Kairi probably wouldn’t have told her to force meltdowns, or at least would’ve
told her to stop after like three. don’t overkill it Namine)
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There’s three months where it’s just them on the islands, no
Sora, no Riku. They bond the most then. They are not just Love Interests but
that doesn’t mean they don’t miss their boys, doesn’t mean they don’t miss
their friends
They help each other fill in the gaps, sit and wait because
what else are we supposed to do
In those three months, there’s school, and there’s school
other times too, of course
Namine breezes through most of her subjects because Replica,
though does struggle in history. She spends most of every class doodling in the
margins of notes or just, flat out doodling instead of taking notes. She
probably gets in trouble for it.
Kairi asks her once for help on math homework. Namine looks
at the question and immediately spits out the answer. Kairi asks her why it
works and Namine stares. She doesn’t know. She’s a replica. This sort of thing
is just programmed in her, she probably has a calculator function buried in her
somewhere, right next to the internal clock
"guess I shouldn’t ask you, then” Kairi laughs “it’d be
cheating in the same way using a calculator is” and Namine smiles. Then Kairi
realizes, what she said, and she just “I’m sorry I called you calculator” and
Namine laughs “it’s fine.”
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