( Player Name ) : Dawn ( Personal DW ) :symmetrophile ( Age ) : At least 21 ok :| ( Timezone ) : EST ( Other Characters ) : Death the Kid (symmetrophile) | Soul Eater
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( Character's Name ) : Riku ( Character's Age ) : 16? 17? What are specifics?! ( Series ) :Kingdom Hearts ( Canon Point ) :DREAMCEPTION End of Dream Drop Distance. ( Playability ) : N/A
( Personality ) : Riku works hard to give the impression of being a cool and collected, capable and level-headed young man and, for the most part, succeeds. However, like most other teenagers, he's not immune to the fears, uncertainties, insecurities and self-consciousness that plague his peers. More intelligent than his more earnestly simple-minded friend Sora, he is naturally curious, grappling with advanced existential questions even at a young age.
Prone to challenging himself and those around him, his competitive streak can come across like bravado. On the other hand, Riku demonstrates time and again the capacity and willingness to go above and beyond his own limits for the sake of what he deems important: usually his best friends, Kairi and Sora. Unlike his friends, Riku is more willing to embrace the gray areas of morality to accomplish a 'right' end, even if it means temporarily siding with more morally bankrupt individuals (such as DiZ and his inhumane exploitation of Nobodies like Namine and Roxas) or breaking rules for the sake of productivity.
He's pretty smug about this too, trying to come across as calm and arrogant, however usually in jest. And, unlike his earnest and trusting friends, he also is more inclined to distrust strangers, having been exposed to betrayal and subterfuge more significantly than the others.
His struggle continues to be with the balance of Light and Darkness within himself; having fallen into the sway of dark influences, he has gained both great power and great weakness, and the reminder of what wrongs he wrought while in this state has made him wary of falling again. Guilt weighs heavily on his conscience, but never to the point of paralyzing him from trying to do the right thing. In this regard, Kairi and Sora are his most valuable and significant influences in keeping him on a good path. However, that said, he will stop at nothing to assure their safety and well-being, up to and including (on numerous occasions) self-sacrifice. It would be doing Riku a disservice to fail to point out that he would do this for entirely selfish reasons; he is no saint by any stretch of the imagination.
It shouldn't go without mention that he is also prone to getting jealous, and in combination with his tendency to keep these thoughts to himself, can make mountains out of proverbial mole-hills, presuming faults for which he should be jealous of the attention of his friends when in fact they have never stopped enjoying his company.
Despite his best attempts to seem like one cool customer, he is less prone than Kairi and Sora to making a plethora of new friends, being more selective (and, particularly when it comes to attractive girls, rather awkward and shy) and wary of those he doesn't know. It probably doesn't help that his manner comes across as occasionally intimidating or stand-offish, that is, when his youth isn't making others question whether they can rely on him to accomplish a daunting task.
He has grown much over the course of the series of games, having come to terms with his mistakes and choosing to rise above them, but his self-doubts linger on, as demonstrated when he achieves the title of Keyblade Master after completing Yen Sid's trial and is stunned in disbelief.
At Vatheon, Riku will integrate gradually into society, picking and choosing his friends with care and being watchful of potential threats to his friends, but this doesn't mean he won't go making some new friends of his own. He demonstrates a readiness to forge lasting, significant friendships with characters from other worlds in his canon, including the wayward King of their universe, in whom he found a strong ally.
Riku | Kingdom Hearts
? Player - - -
( Player Name ) : Dawn
( Personal DW ) :
( Age ) : At least 21 ok :|
( Timezone ) : EST
( Other Characters ) : Death the Kid (symmetrophile) | Soul Eater
? Character - - -
( Character's Name ) : Riku
( Character's Age ) : 16? 17? What are specifics?!
( Series ) : Kingdom Hearts
( Canon Point ) :
DREAMCEPTIONEnd of Dream Drop Distance.( Playability ) : N/A
( History ) :
A summary on the Wiki.
( Personality ) :
Riku works hard to give the impression of being a cool and collected, capable and level-headed young man and, for the most part, succeeds. However, like most other teenagers, he's not immune to the fears, uncertainties, insecurities and self-consciousness that plague his peers. More intelligent than his more earnestly simple-minded friend Sora, he is naturally curious, grappling with advanced existential questions even at a young age.
Prone to challenging himself and those around him, his competitive streak can come across like bravado. On the other hand, Riku demonstrates time and again the capacity and willingness to go above and beyond his own limits for the sake of what he deems important: usually his best friends, Kairi and Sora. Unlike his friends, Riku is more willing to embrace the gray areas of morality to accomplish a 'right' end, even if it means temporarily siding with more morally bankrupt individuals (such as DiZ and his inhumane exploitation of Nobodies like Namine and Roxas) or breaking rules for the sake of productivity.
He's pretty smug about this too, trying to come across as calm and arrogant, however usually in jest. And, unlike his earnest and trusting friends, he also is more inclined to distrust strangers, having been exposed to betrayal and subterfuge more significantly than the others.
His struggle continues to be with the balance of Light and Darkness within himself; having fallen into the sway of dark influences, he has gained both great power and great weakness, and the reminder of what wrongs he wrought while in this state has made him wary of falling again. Guilt weighs heavily on his conscience, but never to the point of paralyzing him from trying to do the right thing. In this regard, Kairi and Sora are his most valuable and significant influences in keeping him on a good path. However, that said, he will stop at nothing to assure their safety and well-being, up to and including (on numerous occasions) self-sacrifice. It would be doing Riku a disservice to fail to point out that he would do this for entirely selfish reasons; he is no saint by any stretch of the imagination.
It shouldn't go without mention that he is also prone to getting jealous, and in combination with his tendency to keep these thoughts to himself, can make mountains out of proverbial mole-hills, presuming faults for which he should be jealous of the attention of his friends when in fact they have never stopped enjoying his company.
Despite his best attempts to seem like one cool customer, he is less prone than Kairi and Sora to making a plethora of new friends, being more selective (and, particularly when it comes to attractive girls, rather awkward and shy) and wary of those he doesn't know. It probably doesn't help that his manner comes across as occasionally intimidating or stand-offish, that is, when his youth isn't making others question whether they can rely on him to accomplish a daunting task.
He has grown much over the course of the series of games, having come to terms with his mistakes and choosing to rise above them, but his self-doubts linger on, as demonstrated when he achieves the title of Keyblade Master after completing Yen Sid's trial and is stunned in disbelief.
At Vatheon, Riku will integrate gradually into society, picking and choosing his friends with care and being watchful of potential threats to his friends, but this doesn't mean he won't go making some new friends of his own. He demonstrates a readiness to forge lasting, significant friendships with characters from other worlds in his canon, including the wayward King of their universe, in whom he found a strong ally.