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AU Infodump
Jul. 19th, 2018 12:44 pmThis is an abbreviated timeline highlighting the differences between Kingdom Hearts canon and this Riku's canon. The biggest change is that the events of KH1 take place over the span of a couple years rather than (what's implied, at least) several months.
Riku is currently almost 19.
HISTORY/TIMELINE
Kingdom Hearts 1
- KH 1 starts - islands destroyed, everyone separated, Sora ends up in Traverse Town and finds the Disney crew, Kairi ends up...wherever, and Riku ends up in Hollow Bastion and is recruited by Maleficent.
- Sora and co travel to various worlds, canon and AU still mostly match up.
- At one point, alternate canon takes a detour when Sora’s ship takes severe damage after a scuffle with a Heartless ship and his group has to backtrack to Traverse Town. Days are spent repairing the ship. The group is delayed once again when they encounter Monstro a second time and are forced avoid him to get to their next destination.
- More time is spent in Agrabah because Jasmine manages to elude capture longer
- More backtracking to Traverse Town is done for repairs and upgrades to the ship.
- AU proceeds pretty much the same after this, same worlds, not much change.
- Alternate canon diverges greatly from normal canon once Sora and co. reach Hollow Bastion. Riku encounters Ansem and in anger agrees to let himself be augmented with the powers of darkness. He does, but at the cost of Ansem passively possessing him, something he isn't actually aware of.
- Riku meets Sora again, challenging him to another fight. Sora wins once again, and Riku flees once again, confronting Ansem about his abilities.
- Sora and co. fight Maleficent, and win. Ansem finally assumes control over Riku’s body, to the latter's horror. Maleficent is turned into a dragon, they fight her again, and win again. Team Disney encounters Ansem-as-Riku and he and Sora fight. Sora wins this fight as well, commits suicide via keyblade, and Ansem appears as himself to terrorize everyone. Riku steals enough control to stop Ansem temporarily, but instead of Riku being kicked from his body, Ansem decides to keep him hostage instead.
- Instead of fleeing the Castle right away, Sora and co. attempt to free the other Princesses. It doesn’t work, and they’re forced to leave them.
- Sora and Kairi return to Traverse Town.
- Sora returns to Hollow Bastion, but finds it completely overrun with Heartless and difficult to get into. He finds the Princesses awake and trying to hold back the Heartless, barely succeeding. Leon’s group arrives andforces encourages the Princesses to leave the castle.
- A barrier goes up around Hollow Bastion that allows exit but no entry, and stays up for a number of months. Cid tries to work out a way to get through or around the barrier and Sora and co. decide to return the the Princesses whose worlds haven’t been destroyed to those worlds. (Jasmine and Alice)
- Barrier goes down. Sora and co. attempt to get inside, and manage to make a dent in the still-large Heartless population, but are forced to retreat.
- Upon returning to Traverse Town, Sora finds that Ansem has visited and attacked it. Part of the Third District is completely destroyed, and much of the second district is torn up as well. However, Ansem has left.
- More worlds are destroyed and several left in ruins. Sora's group manages catch the aftermath each time.
- Sora confronts Ansem at Hollow Bastion and they fight before Ansem tries to open Kingdom Hearts. He's destroyed by light, as in canon. Riku is given back his body, but this time when he helps close the door, he refuses to interact with Sora.
Chain of Memories
- Riku loses his last fight with Repliku. However, Repliku is severely weakened and instead of trying to kill Riku, flees instead.
- Ansem shows up to antagonize again and is defeated, after which Riku decides that while he's managed to conquer darkness for the time being, he's terrified to use it unless absolutely necessary and sets about learning light better.
Days
- [TBD]
Kingdom Hearts 2
- Riku manages to retain his normal form. However, his eyes have changed permanently to gold. Because of this, he still wears a blindfold whenever possible and becomes distressed when it's off for long stretches of time.
-Roxas and Sora never merge. Roxas manages to escape the simulated Twilight Town and goes on the warpath against DiZ and Riku, but Sora does manage to wake up. Sora is affected by this in minor ways, missing some skills and some memories here and there.
Personality changes
Personality wise, Riku's outwardly very similar to his canon self, but being trapped in his own body and exposure to darkness has taken a toll on him mentally. Most of the people he knows he's either fearful of or flat out doesn't trust, even though the logical part of him realizes his friends mean him no actual harm and he could probably hold his own against his enemies. Sora, the Radiant Garden/Hollow Bastion crew, and Princesses (aside from Kairi) especially tend to trigger his flight response.
He's developed some illeism tendencies, most notably when he's particularly upset or stressed.
Magic: Dark Fira, Dark Aura, Holy (weakened), Cura, Reflega
Riku is currently almost 19.
HISTORY/TIMELINE
Kingdom Hearts 1
- KH 1 starts - islands destroyed, everyone separated, Sora ends up in Traverse Town and finds the Disney crew, Kairi ends up...wherever, and Riku ends up in Hollow Bastion and is recruited by Maleficent.
- Sora and co travel to various worlds, canon and AU still mostly match up.
- At one point, alternate canon takes a detour when Sora’s ship takes severe damage after a scuffle with a Heartless ship and his group has to backtrack to Traverse Town. Days are spent repairing the ship. The group is delayed once again when they encounter Monstro a second time and are forced avoid him to get to their next destination.
- More time is spent in Agrabah because Jasmine manages to elude capture longer
- More backtracking to Traverse Town is done for repairs and upgrades to the ship.
- AU proceeds pretty much the same after this, same worlds, not much change.
- Alternate canon diverges greatly from normal canon once Sora and co. reach Hollow Bastion. Riku encounters Ansem and in anger agrees to let himself be augmented with the powers of darkness. He does, but at the cost of Ansem passively possessing him, something he isn't actually aware of.
- Riku meets Sora again, challenging him to another fight. Sora wins once again, and Riku flees once again, confronting Ansem about his abilities.
- Sora and co. fight Maleficent, and win. Ansem finally assumes control over Riku’s body, to the latter's horror. Maleficent is turned into a dragon, they fight her again, and win again. Team Disney encounters Ansem-as-Riku and he and Sora fight. Sora wins this fight as well, commits suicide via keyblade, and Ansem appears as himself to terrorize everyone. Riku steals enough control to stop Ansem temporarily, but instead of Riku being kicked from his body, Ansem decides to keep him hostage instead.
- Instead of fleeing the Castle right away, Sora and co. attempt to free the other Princesses. It doesn’t work, and they’re forced to leave them.
- Sora and Kairi return to Traverse Town.
- Sora returns to Hollow Bastion, but finds it completely overrun with Heartless and difficult to get into. He finds the Princesses awake and trying to hold back the Heartless, barely succeeding. Leon’s group arrives and
- A barrier goes up around Hollow Bastion that allows exit but no entry, and stays up for a number of months. Cid tries to work out a way to get through or around the barrier and Sora and co. decide to return the the Princesses whose worlds haven’t been destroyed to those worlds. (Jasmine and Alice)
- Barrier goes down. Sora and co. attempt to get inside, and manage to make a dent in the still-large Heartless population, but are forced to retreat.
- Upon returning to Traverse Town, Sora finds that Ansem has visited and attacked it. Part of the Third District is completely destroyed, and much of the second district is torn up as well. However, Ansem has left.
- More worlds are destroyed and several left in ruins. Sora's group manages catch the aftermath each time.
- Sora confronts Ansem at Hollow Bastion and they fight before Ansem tries to open Kingdom Hearts. He's destroyed by light, as in canon. Riku is given back his body, but this time when he helps close the door, he refuses to interact with Sora.
Chain of Memories
- Riku loses his last fight with Repliku. However, Repliku is severely weakened and instead of trying to kill Riku, flees instead.
- Ansem shows up to antagonize again and is defeated, after which Riku decides that while he's managed to conquer darkness for the time being, he's terrified to use it unless absolutely necessary and sets about learning light better.
Days
- [TBD]
Kingdom Hearts 2
- Riku manages to retain his normal form. However, his eyes have changed permanently to gold. Because of this, he still wears a blindfold whenever possible and becomes distressed when it's off for long stretches of time.
-Roxas and Sora never merge. Roxas manages to escape the simulated Twilight Town and goes on the warpath against DiZ and Riku, but Sora does manage to wake up. Sora is affected by this in minor ways, missing some skills and some memories here and there.
Personality changes
Personality wise, Riku's outwardly very similar to his canon self, but being trapped in his own body and exposure to darkness has taken a toll on him mentally. Most of the people he knows he's either fearful of or flat out doesn't trust, even though the logical part of him realizes his friends mean him no actual harm and he could probably hold his own against his enemies. Sora, the Radiant Garden/Hollow Bastion crew, and Princesses (aside from Kairi) especially tend to trigger his flight response.
He's developed some illeism tendencies, most notably when he's particularly upset or stressed.
Magic: Dark Fira, Dark Aura, Holy (weakened), Cura, Reflega
