Namine: Lost Friend or Kairi's Shadow

[:::A Hex Torn:::]

I'd still love to see, after all the torment is fixed and the sleeping worlds restored, Naminé sitting on the beach of Destiny Islands with everyone, sketching in her sketchbook. Maybe those disconnected memories in Sora's heart, the ones Naminé made, are needed to mend her torment. I'm going to be disappointed if she always just remains a piece of Kairi.

These games develop characters like Naminé and Roxas as completely separate persons from their former selves. Their personalities are so different, so them being in the bodies of Kairi and Sora/Ven or whatever ends up happening just seems like they're trapped in another person's body.

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I'd still love to see, after all the torment is fixed and the sleeping worlds restored, Naminé sitting on the beach of Destiny Islands with everyone, sketching in her sketchbook. Maybe those disconnected memories in Sora's heart, the ones Naminé made, are needed to mend her torment. I'm going to be disappointed if she always just remains a piece of Kairi.

These games develop characters like Naminé and Roxas as completely separate persons from their former selves. Their personalities are so different, so them being in the bodies of Kairi and Sora/Ven or whatever ends up happening just seems like they're trapped in another person's body.

I completely agree with that notion, bravo.
People labeling Naminé, Roxas, yes, even Xion only as mere parts of Sora/Kairi are oversimplifying things as they all three have distinct personalities, wills and minds of their own independent from their original selves. It was even noted in-game several times.

The comparison of being trapped in their original selves bodies I also don't find that off. I never quite understood why they portrayed Roxas suddenly so ickily content, almost happy at the end of KH2 when his overall goal was always to be his own existence. He never wanted to join with Sora so I got more the impression he only got content with it at the end because there wasn't any choice for him anyways, thanks to DiZ and Riku.

I somehow imagined that for Naminé as well, sitting on the bent palm-tree at the island and working on a painting that incorporates the whole main cast with Sora, Ven, Riku and Roxas in the middle *ggg*.