Uploaded April 2010 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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I did videos for both characters at once! 8D

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Riku:
It was my fault, I knew that.
Sora tried to tell me, but I wouldn't listen. I was just so overwhelmed by all the power, I refused to acknowledge that it was eating away at my heart. I was cocky, I was ignorant, and I shut him away over and over.
I destroyed my home, just to escape. It was like a prison to me, and I was, at first, honestly just naively trying to get to other worlds. Just to have some time away from those damned islands. I was so sick of them, I didn't care when they were destroyed.
I stopped caring about what the other worlds were like, too obsessed with the darkness and all the power it held for me. I didn't want freedom, just wanted power. Even when Sora desperately tried to stop me, I sent him away, beliveing he was weak and stupid. And yet, all along, I was the stupid one. The weak one.
My heart turned on me, and the darkness was making me steadily more and more unstable. I couldn't control it, so I let it control me instead.
Even when she came, when she offered to help... I was stupid enough to think it all would just stop, and be the way it used to be. Of course it couldn't- I'd ruined it all beyond repair, and I wasn't just going to reverse it, no problem.
I'm struggling, but I think...
I'm getting a little better at controlling it.
But I still can't trust myself.

Snow:
I was like a brother to her. Sure, I wanted to be more, but it was never gonna happen. For one thing, Light would have killed me with her bare hands, had anything happened to Serah.
I wanted to protect her, of course I did. That was always at the root of my behaviour. she became a l'Cie, and there was nothing I could do to save her. I offered to help, but I think we all knew that I wouldn't be any use.
I want my life back. I want it all back how it used to be.
Sure, I'm blunt about it.
But I want it more than anything, and I'm going to fight for it.
That kid, the darkling Namine picked up? I don't think he likes me, hell, I think he probably doesn't even have feelings anymore, he's that far gone. But I'm never going to end up like him.
You can fight dirty, even if you're light and not dark.

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Uhm, yeahhhh...
Why did I pick Snow? I HATE Snow. xDDD
I just couldn't think of any other character who I wouldn't picture in a relationship with Riku and taint the whole thing. Other than Wakka, but I was NOT using WAKKA.