The Great Convergence: ReMix

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The Great Convergence: ReMix

A remade video game crossover RP, based around the concepts of Kingdom Hearts


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    Riku - Keyblade Master

    Strider Hiryu
    Strider Hiryu


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    Post by Strider Hiryu Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:55 pm

    Appeared In: Kingdom Hearts series

    Name: Riku

    Age: 17

    Gender: Male

    Appearance: Riku

    Personality: Riku is a calm, cool, collected teenager who is not afraid to go beyond his limits. He shows little fear up front, willing to face down endless darkness and not show his fear of who he once was. While he uses the darkness, he refuses to give in to its intense emotions, instead channeling his inner shadow to positive ends. He is fiercely protective of his friends, willing to withstand grievous injury on their behalf. While he has moved past fear of his previous self, Riku does still harbor guilt over his past deeds, and as such has developed a habit of apologizing for quite a lot of things (within reason).

    Despite his apparent seriousness, Riku is not without his more fun-loving side. He is also prone to teasing his friends, such as making jokes about Sora's apparent lack of insight or poking fun at his clear attraction to Kairi. He is also prone to show some sides of arrogance, but mostly out of a joke, such as making fun of someone's lack of intelligence or calling a highly emotional person a "total sap" despite being close to them.

    However, one should not confuse his arrogant demeanor for overwhelming confidence, but rather for a bit of social difficulties. For instance, he's not really good at accepting thanks from others, and can be easily flustered to the point of stammering by someone flirting with him.

    While he is attuned to darkness, Riku recognizes its dangers and is somewhat wary about those who use it. Still, he refrains from judging anyone solely based on their affiliation with the dark, and may even try to help others find a way to use it toward positive ends or otherwise limit their usage to controllable levels.

    Riku also has an intrinsic connection to the Riku Replica and can even host him in his heart, allowing him to manifest as a spirit only he can see in extreme circumstances. This Replica has a similar personality to him, but is more focused on something he in particular needs to see through to the end.

    Powers: Riku has a plethora of different powers as part of his existence as a Keyblade Wielder (and later Master), mostly geared around his use of darkness. Here is a list of those powers as they are still in use as of Xehanort's Keyblade War.

    - Keyblade Use: As a Keyblade wielder, Riku is capable of summoning the weapon to hand, channeling magic through it, and using the weapon to unlock a variety of items, ranging from physical locks to metaphysical ones.

    - Power of Waking: Riku is able to travel into the hearts of others in order to awaken them from slumber, or travel to Sleeping Worlds to awaken them as well. This power can also be used to travel into the Realm of Darkness. He cannot use this power to draw others back to life or alter history, or he will suffer disastrous consequences.

    - Doubleflight: Riku can project a miniature platform under himself while in mid-air, allowing for a second jump after a first without hitting the ground.

    - Dark Sonic Dodge: The user transforms into a blur of pure darkness, dashing ahead to avoid damage or get closer to someone before reforming into a physical being, having moved at a speed approaching that of sound.

    - Dark Barrier: Summon a spherical barrier of dark light around the user, negating damage before dismissing it. The user cannot attack or move while the sphere is active until it is dismissed.

    - Dark Firaga: Riku's signature magical attack, this is a series of blasts of dark fire from the tip of the Keyblade, or even from the palm of his open hand. The latter is used for more precise, lower numbers of attacks, while the former releasing a single blasts that immediately erupts into a great many smaller ones that home in on a target. This spell can be made so powerful that it is akin to a strike of grand magic of the fourth level, rather than the third.

    - Dark Divide (Shotlock): An eruption of twenty-eight Dark Firaga blasts erupts from the tip of his Keyblade, all homing in on targets as designated. Immediately after, the user can slash several more times to let out more streams of darkness.

    - Curaga: Release a flower blooming overhead, letting loose a shower of healing power to all in the immediate area to help them a great deal.

    - Thundaga: Raise the Keyblade to the sky, causing a rain of lightning in front of him.

    Abilities:

    - Master Swordsman: Riku is a Keyblade Master, but his skill with his weapon mostly comes from his quick, precise one-handed style that makes use of both his strength and his agility.

    - Adept Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Capable with hand-to-hand combat, to the point of being able to knock others to the ground with his bare hands, but not enough to truly be a match for those who are deliberately trained in such combat.

    - High Agility: Very quick in combat, as well as capable of springing back in if knocked down rather efficiently unless seriously injured. He also can jump high into the air, much higher than normal for most people, and even appear to dash in one direction or another while still in mid-air due to his sheer agility.

    - Darkness Resistance: Due to his exposure to darkness, Riku has developed a heightened resistance against its effects, though this does not extend to actual attacks.

    Weapons: Formerly, Riku had access to the Soul Eater proto-Keyblade, which evolved into the Way to the Dawn after his turn toward the light. Following the latter breaking in half during his fight with a Demon Tide, he has instead taken up the differently-shaped Braveheart Keyblade. Way to the Dawn is still utilized, repaired, by his Replica if manifested as a separate entity in battle, though this is only possible in areas where reality is less solid, such as in the Realm of Darkness.

    Equipment: N/A

    Awareness: Yes (Told by master Yen Sid)

    History: From a very young age, Riku played with his younger friend, Sora, on the smallest of the Destiny Islands with other children, training and pushing each other to be stronger. He has wanted to leave Destiny Islands, he home world, to see others since hearing of another person, a strange teenager with white hair, leaving very long ago to visit other worlds. In order to protect his friends and those he holds dear, the young Riku wants to also leave on his own journey. At the age of five. One day, a tall brown-haired man came to him, someone who he told of his reason to want to leave. That big man did not say why, but he called forth some kind of large golden blade with a light blue handguard, saying some strange words before allowing Riku to hold it for a few seconds. He asked for Riku not to tell anyone about what had happened, and was gone soon after, never seen again.

    A blue-haired woman came to the island some time later, who told the younger Sora to protect Riku if he ever lost his way. Though odder, this occurrence and the one with the other man proved to be important a decade later, one more directly than the other.

    On one night, there was a meteor shower, and a mysterious girl by the name of Kairi appeared on the islands. Apparently, Kairi was from another, far-off world, but became stuck on the Destiny Islands, with no way to return to her home. Over time, Kairi formed a powerful friendship with the two boys. Soon after her arrival, the two boys came to the island's secret place, a hidden cave they had discovered. While there, the two found a mysterious door, though neither could find any way to open it, though Riku caught a glimpse of a strange keyhole before they left. From that day forth, Riku became obsessed with learning what lay beyond the door, whether it could be a passageway to another world, such as Kairi's.

    At the age of fifteeen, Riku appeared to be a cool, collected teenager. He, along with Kairi and Sora, spent their days constructing a raft and gathering supplies to leave the Islands, hoping to see other worlds. He has frequent, good natured contests with Sora, though knowing his friend's habit to be a sore loser and teasing him about Kairi on many occasions.

    One night, everything changed. Unable to bring himself to leave the Islands without leaning the truth, Riku opened the door in the secret place, releasing beings of darkness known as the Heartless into the world to seek out the heart of Destiny Islands. He soon met with Sora, who was concerned for his friend's safety in the storm of darkness, but was too obsessed with finally leaving his "prison" to see other worlds to care about him very much at all. Darkness surrounded both of them, and the older boy disappeared into it, leaving Sora behind to receive the Kingdom Key. Eventually, Riku ended up in the world of Hollow Bastion through a Corridor of Darkness, separated from both of his friends. There he found a pale woman in black robes known as Maleficent who offered him shelter and protection.

    Although Riku welcomed a place to stay, the woman began to corrupt his mind, convincing him that Sora had replaced his two closest friends with the anthropomorphic animals Donald Duck and Goofy. Due to her deceitful words, he was convinced that the only way for him to save Kairi, who had lost her heart to the darkness on Destiny Islands, was to ally himself with her and her group of villains, abandoning Sora in the process. Riku later met with Sora in Traverse Town, where he briefly held the Kingdom Key Keyblade without it automatically transporting back to Sora. Following that reunion, he agreed with Maleficent, officially beginning his stay and alliance with her, though he doubted the nobility of her motives.

    While Sora and Aladdin fought against the villainous Jafar in Agrabah, Riku took the resident Princess of Heart, Jasmine, to Hollow Bastion under Maleficent's orders in exchange for information on the whereabouts of Kairi. However, he found nothing but her body, her heart gone and her form comatose.

    As days went by, the misled boy became more and more angry with Sora, convincing himself to hate his old friend. He received a Keyblade known as the Soul Eater and taught himself its use, believing that it would aid him in his search for the heard of his female friend in the wake of the "neglect" shown by Sora.

    His mind corrupted by the sorceress, Riku met Sora once again within the giant whale, Monstro, intending to somehow use Pinocchio in order to help him to save Kairi's heart. When the wooden boy was captured by a giant Heartless within the whale's innards called the Parasite Cage, he was forced (somewhat against his own wishes) to team up with Sora, Donald, and Goofy in order to save him. Shortly after, the older boy again kidnapped Pinocchio, and was pursued by Sora, Donald and Goofy to the whale's stomach. There, he asked Sora to join him in order to rescue Kairi, but his friend refused, not wanting any part of Riku's methods. As the Heartless returned, Riku vanished into a Corridor of Darkness.

    Later, he appeared at Neverland, traveling on Captain Hook's ship, where he kept Kairi's body. He shows that he has gained the ability to control the Heartless, as power given to him by Maleficent. He came to Sora, showing Kairi's comatose form in his possession. The younger boy warned against the use of the Heartless, saying that they will eventually turn on him to devour his heart. However, Riku, refusing to listen to his former friend, and retreated after the creation of multiple copies of "AntiSora," shadowy reflections of the Keyblader with fake Kingdom Keys, using his dark powers. However, before he returned to Hollow Bastion, he told the captain that Wendy is not one of the seven Princesses of Heart, before recklessly returning to the castle vessel-less with Kairi in tow. This move, straining even his powerful heart, drained him of energy, allowing Maleficent to unlock the last of Riku's power. With this, the boy's heart was plunged into nearly complete darkness.

    At Hollow Bastion, Riku was stopped from killing a wounded Beast by Sora, his true target. The older boy told Sora that he, too, was able to wield the Keyblade, telling him that he was only the "delivery boy" to the true Keyblade master. He then, mockingly, left Sora with a wooden toy sword that he used to use to practice fighting on Destiny Islands, departing with the regretful duo of Donald and Goofy, who had been ordered by King Mickey Mouse of Disney Castle to "follow the Key."

    The two rivals met again in the foyer of the castle due to Beast aiding Sora, where Riku had taken on a dark new outfit, with blue and black on most of it, a barbless Heartless symbol on his chest, and red arms. Riku almost killed Sora with a single Dark Firaga blast (later known as Dark Aura), but due to the returned aid of Donald and Goofy, Sora survived, his resolve and strength of heart allowing him to reclaim the Kingdom Key. The two fought, Riku escaping through a Corridor of Darkness.

    Riku was confused as to how Sora was able to regain his weapon. From the darkness, a mysterious voice contacted him, telling him that the Keyblade could only be claimed by one with a strong heart, Riku himself having a weaker one than that of Sora. The voice to a form, that of a man in a long brown cloak that's hood obscured his face from view, and presented Riku with an irresistible offer: a Keyblade to call his own. Due to his rage at and jealousy of Sora, he agreed to become one with the darkness, only for the voice itself to possess him.

    This new Riku presented himself to Maleficent, warning her of the dangers of unlocking the Final Keyhole in the castle. Although she claimed to be unafraid, he showed her a new, dark Keyblade, one known as the Keyblade of People's Hearts, made from hearts of six of the seven Princesses of Heart, all but that of Kairi. Maleficent, knowing whose heart was lacked, headed off to handle Sora and his friends, only to be defeated by them. The possessed Riku appeared with his Keyblade, explaining that, unlike that of Sora, his was capable of unlocking a person's heart, a fact he proved by piercing Maleficent's chest and allowing the immense amount of extracted darkness to overtake her heart, transforming her into an enormous black dragon with a green underbelly. He escaped again, the dragon, though far more powerful, being defeated and killed by the rightful wielder of the Kingdom Key.

    Later, Riku, calling himself "Ansem, Seeker of Darkness," confronted and battled Sora in a forced one-on-one duel at the Final Keyhole, hoping to release Kairi's heart from within the good Keyblader to complete his Keyblade and open the Keyhole itself. Though he fails, Sora willingly impales himself on the Keyblade anyway in order to save Kairi. With the absence of the hero, "Ansem" attacked Kairi, Donald, and Goofy, but was stopped by Riku, who used the last of his strength in order to hold back the possessing Heartless leader. Riku lost the ensuing internal struggle caused by the rejection of his possessor, causing Ansem, Seeker of Darkness to gain control of his body completely.

    Eventually, Sora, who had been restored from the form of a Shadow Heartless following his sacrifice by Kairi's internal strength, eventually made his way with Donald and Goofy to the End of the World, a world made up of those that had been destroyed by the Heartless, where Ansem, Seeker of Darkness was finally defeated by the combined efforts of themselves and the light at the edge of the Kingdom Hearts Door to Darkness within. With that defeat, Riku was restored, appearing on the dark side of the Door to Darkness to aid Sora in closing it. However, he was unable to pass it, only beings of pure darkness able to pass one way and the other. Thousands upon thousands of Heartless waited to enter the Realm of Light, only causing even further problems between the two friends. Luckily, the aforementioned King Mickey Mouse warded them off with the powerful Kingdom Key D Keyblade, of the Realm of Darkness. With that, the King worked together with Sora in closing the Door, Sora on one side, Mickey on the other with Riku. Before the door closed, Riku made a request for Sora to "take care of [Kairi]," which was met with a simple nod.

    Some time later, Riku awakened in the lowest basement of the world known as Castle Oblivion, the same world where Sora was on its ground floor. In the basement, a new disembodied voice presented itself alongside a dark card of some sort. This Voice offered Riku the chance to either sleep and forget both his troubles and the light, or to take the card, starting his part toward the truth. The confident Riku took the card, remarking that "This looks like a boring place to take a nap anyway."

    He traveled through a version of Hollow Bastion crafted from his memories upon awakening, as he remembered it, but without anyone within. As he searched, the Voice mocked him repeatedly. Eventually, Riku found Maleficent, who taunted him and his refusal of the darkness. However, he defeated this memory-born version of her, hoping to prove his status above the darkness within his heart.

    As he left that memory, Riku finally saw the true form of Castle Oblivion. Upon this revelation, he also learned the identity of the Voice: Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, who aims to control Riku once more. Though the Heartless is powerful, King Mickey manages to use his light from deep within the Realm of Darkness as a projection to aid him. Managing to fend off the possessor for the time being, Riku nonetheless is left with several world cards and the ability to wield his inner darkness as a weapon in his Dark Mode once more.

    It is not long after that Riku realized that he was capable of "smelling" darkness. Though he is discouraged by this skill, the King comforted him, giving him the internal strength necessary to ascend the basements of Castle Oblivion in order to rid himself of his corruptive darkness.

    Little did he know, the Organization XIII was at work here as well, with numbers four, five, and six aiming to use Riku against number eleven's plans for Sora, pitting darkness against light. Number IV, Vexen, the Chilly Academic, independently appeared to Riku to further these plans, noting that he was following "another Ansem" (the Superior of the In-Between, Xemnas). The two fought, but Vexen, escaping, used the data from the battle to form a Replica of Riku.

    It was not long before said Replica attacked the true Riku, mocking him for his fear of his darkness, and suggesting that he embrace it instead. After the battle, the Replica ran off, defeated. Soon after, Ansem, Seeker of Darkness appeared to Riku once more, saying that the Replica was a model of what Riku should be. However, this notion only reaffirms the teen to conquer the darkness within his heart.

    After passing through a vast majority of the Castle, Riku finds Number V, Lexaeus, the Silent Hero. Like the others, Lexaeus implores Riku to accept his internal darkness, lest his journey end in their battle. Instead, Riku fights, managing only to wear him down. Before the boy could land the finishing blow, Lexaeus summoned his herculanean strength, knocking Riku unconscious with his "Skysplitter" axe sword. Deciding that he should be eliminated, Lexaeus believed that Riku was too much trouble to be of use. However, before he could follow through, Ansem, Seeker of Darkness possessed Riku. This caught Lexaeus off-guard, the possessed Riku taking the opportunity to kill him. However, though victorious, Riku ended up in a struggle with Ansem that he very nearly lost. Just before he did so, Mickey's light again saved him, managing to bring him out of the darkness.

    As Riku came ever closer to the ground floor, a rumbling occurred. Number VI, Zexion, the Cloaked Schemer, arrived on the scene, explaining the rumbling as the defeat of Number XI, Marluxia, the Graceful Assassin, high above to Sora. Riku is surprised by this news, not expecting Sora within the Castle. However, Zexion asked whether or not Riku is even capable of seeing Sora, due to shouldering the darkness for so long with "Ansem" still residing within his heart. Though Riku tries to resist his comments, he is given the world card to Destiny Islands.

    In this memory, Riku met all of his home friends, but every one, even Kairi, was silent, disappearing. Zexion threw all of Riku's fears at him simultaneously, telling him both that he is responsible for these disappearances and that he now belongs to the darkness. Finally, he transformed an illusion of himself into a form of the Darkside Heartless, telling Riku that this was what he had become. Though Riku defeated this form, Zexion disguised himself as Sora, telling the teenager that it was time to face the light.

    As Riku sank into the light, beginning to fade, the form of Kairi appeared to him, telling him that he cannot fade, since neither light nor darkness can destroy him. Therefore, she surmised, he should accept both in order to drive away his fears. The teen awakened his dark powers once more, admitting them to be part of him, though not evil in and of themselves. He defeated Zexion, who escaped, only to be killed by the Riku Replica elsewhere on order of Number VIII, Axel, the Flurry of the Dancing Flames.

    Riku very nearly made his way to the main floor as Ansem, Seeker of Darkness appeared to control him once more. Again, Mickey came to the boy's defense, finally appearing in the flesh. Riku, relieved to finally have a real friend to call his own with him, heard from the King that Mickey had found a card that showed him Riku's heart, a card that he followed back to the boy himself. Riku used the card, ending up in the world of Twilight Town, which he had never previously visited.

    Here, Ansem, Seeker of Darkness appeared once more. However, this time Riku told him that he was not "Ansem," as he recognized his scent as something other than darkness. The boy also realized that, rather than "Ansem," this man before him had been the Voice at the start of his journey. Finally revealing his red-wrapped form, the Voice identified itself as "DiZ," telling Riku that he wanted for him to choose between Light and Darkness, seeing as he lay between the two. The decision was to be decided along with someone named Naminé, who Riku begins the search for.

    On the way, the Riku Replica managed to find him once more, demanding one last fight for the Replica to prove himself "worthy." Though the Replica intended to kill Riku in order to become real, he failed. However, Riku comforted him in his last moments before vanishing from existence entirely, saying that the Replica's heart would go to the same place as that of the real one.

    Finally, Riku met with Naminé, who was with Sora at his memory pod. She explained the situation with his memory, how it was torn apart by and needed to be reconstructed by her. She offers to seal away Ansem and Riku's darkness so that he may forget them, but that he would have to sleep for her to do so. To her satisfaction, he declined, hoping to win out on his own. Before he departs, Riku noted that he knew that she was the "Kairi" who had helped him to defeat Zexion, noting that they smell the same.

    Following the meeting with Naminé, DiZ appeared to Riku and the King once more (the latter noting that he seemed familiar). Knowing what Riku's choice was, DiZ gave Riku a card to allow him to draw out Ansem, Seeker of Darkness. After DiZ left, Riku tried to tell King Mickey to destroy him if he failed to stop Ansem, but the King wouldn't have any of it. He said he would only help him to regain control of himself, never harm him, to which Riku conceded.

    Riku faced "Ansem" alone in one final battle. The Heartless asked why he still refused him if he accepted his darkness, asking if the boy was still afraid of his power. Riku denied this, merely stating that "I can't stand your foul stench." The last of this Heartless was destroyed, but not before he said that a part of him is still within Riku, as well as that he would eventually return.

    After the battle, Riku and Mickey waited at the crossroads. Riku told the mouse that he could not go home yet, since the shadow of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness still lingered within him. However, Mickey replied that the darkness is just a part of him, not inherently evil. Mickey stated that Riku had chosen a road that he himself had never before considered, one that used both the Light and the Darkness. Riku, having formed an equally strong bond to the King as Sora had to Donald and Goofy, called Mickey by his name at the monarch's own request.

    Together they left, taking the black Organization coats that DiZ had gifted upon them prior to the final confrontation with Ansem, and DiZ appeared for one final question to Riku: would he take the "road to light" or the "road to darkness". To his surprise, Riku chooses neither, saying that he would take the middle road, the "road to dawn". Teen and mouse made their way out of the plains, separating after Riku realized that he could not completely rid himself of the darkness festering within his heart. Deciding to return to DiZ to offer his help, Riku donned a gray blindfold so that "his eyes couldn't lie" about the darkness within him that he was prepared to use, wishing for Mickey not to witness it firsthand.

    Approximately one hundred days after allying himself with DiZ, Riku fought on the bridge of Beast's Castle with the fourteenth member of the Organization XIII, a teenaged girl known as Xion, soundly defeating her using only his Soul Eater. Taking a look at her face beneath the hood after beating her, he was shocked by her appearance, questioning her ability to use the Keyblade, calling it "a sham" and "worthless". Though she was angered by these insults, the number XIV demanded to know what right he had to say any such thing, attempting to attack him again, only to be knocked back down using one unarmed strike. He told her to "find a new crowd" because the Organization was "bad news." He could not forgive himself for stepping into the darkness, telling Xion that he was "the biggest nobody of them all."

    After Xion left the Organization, the two stayed away in Castle Oblivion. As Roxas, number XIII and the Nobody of Sora, and Axel, the pyrokinetic number VIII, continued to search for her around the worlds, they finally made contact in Twilight Town about one hundred twenty days after the duel between Riku and Xion. Xion quickly took her leave, Riku staying behind to distract them in a brief skirmish before leaving as well without ever removing his hood.

    On Destiny Islands, Riku found Xion writhing on the ground, in the grips of a terrible nightmare, and cradled her as she slept. During this time, he remembered what Naminé had told him about this "Nobody" (truly a Replica) in the Old Mansion's White Room about what needed to be done for Sora to awaken, that she needed to be reintegrated into Sora, to be destroyed and erased from the memories of all to reassemble the memories of Kairi that she had unknowingly taken upon herself, giving her form. He did not know that, in her nightmare, Xion was constantly changing form, and hearing the speech given by Zexion during Riku's time there. When she finally awoke, Xion expressed curiosity about Sora and "that girl he's always with," to which Riku explained that Kairi was someone who was very special to his best friend. He explained the situation as it had been told to him by the "memory witch," to which Xion was unsure as to what she should do, what the right choice was, as well as where she truly belonged at all. However, he decided to give her some time to think about it, leaving her for the time being. Soon after, he met with DiZ and Naminé in the Old Mansion's Pod Room, where the former told him that he knew what had to be done to awaken the comatose Keyblader, with the flow of his memories completely stopped.

    Riku met with King Mickey in the forest outside DiZ's Old Mansion in Twilight Town, where he was in his form as Ansem, Seeker of Darkness. The King nearly fought him, not knowing his true identity, but a transformation once Riku put on a gray blindfold returned him to normal form, to the King's surprise. The Dawn Walker told Mickey that he would soon fight a member of the Organization XIII (Roxas), and forced the King to promise to protect Sora if he did not survive.

    DiZ asked Riku to kidnap Roxas, who was having trouble regaining his memories due to the manipulation of Naminé and the destruction of Xion at his hand three days prior. If he and Roxas joined, Sora would likely have been able to reawaken. Entering the Realm of Darkness, Riku cornered Roxas in The World That Never Was at the Memory Skyscraper as he was on his way to attempt to destroy the synthetic Kingdom Hearts in the sky. In their battle, they seemed to reach a stalemate, but the Key of Destiny managed to cripple Riku's left hand. In a moment of tension, Riku heard the voice of Xion, by then a fading memory. "Riku, please! You have to stop him!"

    Riku then realized if he was to win in this world in the Realm of Darkness, he had to submerse himself in the same darkness, enhance his dark powers at the expense of a sizable amount of his light. As a result, Riku unleashed his internal darkness, taking on the form of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness as a side effect. Riku easily defeated Roxas, and returned him to DiZ's base underneath the abandoned mansion in Twilight Town, introducing himself as "Ansem". By this point, both he and Roxas had lost any and all memory of Xion, owing to her reintegration into Roxas following her defeat. The mental shout during their duel was instead attributed to a memory of Kairi, perhaps caused by Naminé's memory manipulation. While Riku remembers his last fight with Roxas, he assumes that it was solely to capture the Key of Destiny for Darkness in Zero, rather than as a result of the Organization's manipulation as well. As such, only Naminé herself remembered the true events as they had been.

    After the duel, Roxas' memory was erased by DiZ, and he was placed within a simulation of Twilight Town in order to live out his remaining six days until the time came for him to meet Sora. During this time, Riku watched over Roxas, periodically entering the town in order to keep him ignorant of the truth. This included keeping Naminé from saying anything important to Roxas. He also took some of Roxas' important keepsakes during his visits, including a blue marble, a bar of sea-salt ice cream, and a munny pouch that belonged to the data version of Olette. He also took some keepsakes of Roxas' during some of his visits. With all these deeds done, Riku finally demanded to know what DiZ's true objective is. Upon hearing that it was merely unspecified revenge, Riku clenched his fist, shocked and disgusted at how DiZ was merely using him and Sora for selfish reasons.

    Eventually, when the time came for Roxas, Riku made sure to prevent the Nobodies from flooding the town, fighting outside of the Old Mansion Simulation. Soon, the goal Riku had been searching for over an entire year was finally reached: Roxas joined with Sora. Though DiZ ordered him to eliminate Naminé, Riku wanted no part in DiZ's prejudice revenge and handed her to the now-renegade Axel before leaving DiZ. Not long after, Riku came into contact with King Mickey. He begged for the King not to reveal his whereabouts and condition to Sora, to which the mouse reluctantly agreed. He then left the King the digital versions of Olette's Munny Pouch and Roxas' crystal orb that he had pilfered from four days before Number XIII re-merged with his friend.

    Later, Riku rescued Kairi from Axel on Destiny Islands, opening a Corridor of Darkness that would lead her to Twilight Town. Though he saved her, she never revealed his identity to Hayner, Pence, or Olette. He later appeared in an empty realm that Sora and his friends assumed was the Realm of Darkness, though he immediately departed in a swirl of darkness, leaving only a box that contained sea-salt ice cream and a picture of Roxas, Hayner, Pence, and Olette in front of the haunted mansion of the Simulated Twilight Town.

    Riku also arrived at the Land of Dragons, trying to warn the Emperor of a Heartless dragon that Number II, Xigbar, the Freeshooter, created. However, he ended up meeting Sora and fought him with his Soul Eater amidst many hundreds of Rapid Thruster Heartless. Riku still went ahead with his mission, warning the Emperor after defeating Captain Li Shang in combat.

    Later, in The World That Never Was, Riku saved Kairi and the disappearing Naminé from Number VII, Saïx, the Luna Diviner, his Soul Eater having transformed into the Way to the Dawn. Naminé called him by name before fully integrating into Kairi after the Luna Diviner escaped. Riku tried to follow him through his Corridor of Darkness, but was stopped by Kairi and the King's dog, Pluto. When Kairi removed his hood and saw the face of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, she luckily just took it in stride, knowing who he truly was.

    Later, again in The World That Never Was as with the last appearance, Riku saved Kairi from a horde of Shadow Heartless on her way to see Sora, giving her the Destiny's Embrace Keyblade to help her fight. When Sora and Kairi reunited following the fight against Xigbar, Riku attempted to take his leave, but Kairi stopped him, revealing his identity to the game's protagonist. Though Sora was overjoyed to the point of tears, Riku explained that due to his appearance, he did not want to be found, though he had been aiding him. However, they continued onward, killing Number X, Luxord, the Gambler of Fate and Number VII, Saïx. These defeats left only Xemnas and Roxas as the surviving members, the second living on in Sora.

    Near the top of the Castle on Naught's Approach, the same place where Riku and Kairi had met up, Riku and his group reunited with King Mickey and DiZ (truly the real Ansem the Wise). Ansem was using a machine known as the Kingdom Hearts Encoder to attempt to turn the synthetic Kingdom Hearts created by Sora, Roxas, Kairi, and Xion into data and render Xemnas' plan completely halted. The Superior of the In-Between himself came, and he and Ansem traded bitter words. The Encoder detonated violently, unable to handle the process of encoding such a complex structure as this Kingdom Hearts. The explosion had a variety of effects. Ansem was no longer there when the light dissipated. A massive hole was visible in the Kingdom Hearts, many hearts raining from the heart-like moon and creating a vast multitude of Shadows.

    As for Riku, the explosion cleansed his heart of the influence of Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, restoring him to his normal form and taking away a large amount of his dark powers, though he was still remorseful. With some encouragement from his friends, Riku finally tore off his blindfold and discarded his black cloak, ready to finally fight for the Light and accept his place in the worlds without self-delusion. On the way up past Ruin and Creation's Passage, Riku and his friends came witness to the mass of Heartless that had come from the detonation of the Encoder. Here, a revived Maleficent, alongside her somewhat incompetent second-in-command Pete decided to hold off the hordes of Heartless and allow the heroes to reach the last loyal Organization member to destroy him, hoping to take this Castle for themselves.

    The group confronted Xemnas, collectively refusing his demand to gather more hearts and repair Kingdom Hearts. At this refusal, Riku was shocked to see Xemnas and Sora disappear. Then both reappeared after a duel, Xemnas had reached Kingdom Hearts, and disappeared into it while trying to turn the worlds to nothingness. Following a tough battle with Donald, Goofy, Sora, and Riku against Xemnas, Naminé appeared as a ghostly form only visible to those with counterparts (Sora, and Kairi) or otherwise empty spaces in their hearts (Riku), creating a Corridor of Darkness when Riku failed to do so.

    Kairi, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, and Mickey all ran into the portal, but it closed shortly after Kairi made her way through it following a conversation between Sora, Kairi, Roxas, Naminé and Riku. Xemnas then attacked, riding on a gigantic, robotic dragon that flew across the Castle, slicing off the Altar of Naught that the remaining heroes had been standing on. However, they made their way to a small escape ship, likely made for Xemnas and possibly Xigbar given its make, and fought the dragon and the armored Xemnas at its head. After a long, difficult fight, the battlefield was transferred to a realm of nothingness, where Xemnas donned a new robe signifying both light and darkness. In the final stages of this battle, Xemnas used an extraordinarily powerful attack, summoning thousands upon thousands of red ethereal blades as the battlefield became drenched in shadows before sending every one of them at the Keyblade Wielders.

    After this final attack from Xemnas, Sora was left open, Riku taking a blow that was intended to finish off his friend. Their situation dire, Riku gave Sora his Keyblade and the latter proceeded to give Xemnas a beatdown then hit him with a beam of light together with Riku. After the fall of Xemnas, Sora and the injured Riku faced an onslaught of Dusks ready to fulfill their master's final order: eliminate the Keyblade wielders. However, the Dusks were finally defeated after some time, though not without exhaustion from all present.

    Having the time to finally talk, the two friends reconcile with each other. Riku then came across a letter in a bottle, written by Kairi, and gives it to Sora, knowing him to be the proper recipient. Sora then managed to open the Door to Light, as King Mickey predicted, and the two returned to Destiny Islands, reuniting with their friends. While Sora shared a hug with Donald and Goofy, Riku shares his own moment with King Mickey. Ironically, even though Riku was once jealous of Sora's friendship with Donald and Goofy, he ended up having a similar one with Mickey. Some time later, Sora and Riku observed the waves of Destiny Islands, saying that it's a small world but also part of a much bigger one. They knew they would likely play a part in the worlds, both of their series and beyond it, but would welcome that chance as a way to aid others.

    A year later, Sora received a letter from Mickey telling him to help stop the hurting of the others. Riku also read the letter alongside Kairi. A short while later, both he and Sora had been called by Yen Sid. Once he arrived at Yen Sid's tower, Yen Sid explained why the two Keyblade Wielders were there. They were to take the Mark of Mastery to prepare for the return of Master Xehanort. They were tasked with entering the Realm of Sleep, and unlocking the seven Sleeping Keyholes to free the never before seen worlds within, and bring them back into the Realm of Light where they belonged. However, the two were separated after unlocking Destiny Island's Sleeping Keyhole.

    Eventually, the endeavors across multiple Sleeping Worlds, including seeing a version of what appeared to be himself in a black coat, had brought him to return to the ruins of The World That Never Was through Sora's own dreams. He found Sora in a comatose state inside the Castle, his heart having been damaged by Xemnas and the mysterious young man himself. The young man turned out to be an incarnation of Master Xehanort in his youth, who has been traveling to different periods in time to recruit several other incarnations of Xehanort together. Riku attempted to awaken Sora, but the darkness from Sora's nightmare turned into a Nightmare known as the "Anti Black Coat" that engaged Riku. Riku managed to defeat the Anti Black Coat and carried on through the castle, eventually coming face to face with Ansem. Ansem revealed that Riku had actually taken on the role of a Dream Eater, and, over the course of the exam, was purifying Sora's dreams of Nightmares. Ansem attempted to possess Riku once more, but remembering his secret encounter with the man when he was a young boy that had been his first meeting with a Keyblade Wielder, Riku resolved to make his inner darkness his own power for good and incorporate Ansem to his light. Then the two battled each other once more, with Riku ultimately victorious.

    He went to Where Nothing Gathers in Sora's heart, finding the True Organization XIII, or at least twelve of them. With the help of King Mickey, he had battled the younger incarnation of Xehanort to a standstill, finding him to be far more powerful than anyone else they had faced due to his possession by his elder self to bypass an imposed "Stopza" spell from the King. After the fight, Riku met with the most ancient and elderly of the Xehanorts, Master Xehanort. After revealing his true plans with the X-blade, coupled with the arrival of Donald and Goofy as well, Lea, of all people, showed up and saved Sora's heart from total corruption, helping them to escape the world, but without unlocking it from sleep due to Sora's comatose form.

    All but Sora had awakened then. On Yen Sid's advice about how to enter a heart to free from sleep with the Keyblade, as learned through the journey and available in the waking world from then on, Riku entered the heart that he had spent the most time in the journey within. Sora's battle took place on his Station of Awakening, where his body had been encapsulated and possessed by the Keyblade Armor of Ventus, corrupted by a Nightmare after its attempt to protect his heart. Defeating this Keyblade Armor and releasing Sora from sleep, Riku appeared on Destiny Islands, or a segment of Sora's heart that looked like it. He had learned that Xion, Ventus, and Roxas were all still within Sora's heart, along with a data copy of Ansem the Wise, though unreachable, alongside the scientist's research data that he had hidden there. With Riku awakening Sora and getting the data, he had awakened after Sora, having a party in joy to be alive and awake. After this Riku discovered more of Master Xehanort's revelations.

    As Sora learned, Master Xehanort needed thirteen Seekers of Darkness and seven Guardians of Light to clash in order to make the X-blade, but the original light of the X-blade had been severed into seven pieces, one in each Princess of Heart, causing their purity of heart. Sora was to be the last darkness, but Lea had stopped that, in doing so revealing Isa or Saïx to be another Xehanort, explaining his cruelty, and Xigbar's evident information on previous Keyblade wielders came from his own connections to Xehanort. The Seekers would attack the Princesses to plunge the worlds into darkness, so the "Lights" had to fight the "Darknesses" in any case, making the Keyblade War that Xehanort had sought for so long seemingly inevitable.

    To the others' joy, Riku was named Keyblade Master for his efforts and nigh-incorruptibility by darkness, which Sora himself did not have, hence why he was not accepted at that time. Riku, like everyone else, was also surprised when Lea had revealed himself to be a Keyblade Wielder, though not knowing how to use one reliably yet. After that, he was sent to bring Kairi to the Mysterious Tower so she could begin her training in wielding the Keyblade, as well as a visitor of hers. There, he found her with a girl he had never seen before, who introduced herself as Audrey. Being told she had appeared out of nowhere, he realized this was the visitor Yen Sid told him about.

    After bringing Kairi to be trained as a Keyblade wielder, Riku listened to Yen Sid's plans to protect the other Princesses of Heart and to bring back Terra (the man who he had met so long ago), along with Terra's friends Aqua (the blue-haired woman) and Ventus He, Mickey and Kairi also learned from him of the Great Convergence, the actions of Xehanort causing a ripple effect that reached the Realm of Reality itself, displacing many people across worlds, with Audrey, and supposedly Lidia, being one of several of these 'Convergers.' Mickey revealed to Riku that Aqua was with him back when they sealed the Door to Darkness, but she stayed behind to stop a swarm of Heartless which were chasing Riku. As Riku was clearly outraged by this explanation and the secrets it implied, Yen Sid explained that because no one was capable of entering the Realm of Darkness and saving Aqua at the time, he forbade Mickey from ever telling anyone about Aqua as precaution against reckless rescue attempts; while Riku would have understood the danger of such an action, Sora would have cast caution to the wind and jumped at the chance to help.

    However, with their training having been undergone, both Riku and Mickey were both strong enough to mount a successful attempt, with Riku deciding to follow Sora's lead and follow what his heart is telling him. Reassuring Kairi with regards to her anxiety at the idea of training with Lea, the recompleted form of her former kidnapper, telling of his trustworthiness and how he had saved Sora from Master Xehanort, Riku went off to the Realm of Darkness with Mickey, aided by new clothing to fend off the darkness's taint.

    In the Realm of Darkness, while trying to find Aqua, Riku and Mickey lost her trail at the End of Sea. On the attack of a Demon Tower, Riku was overwhelmed, just barely saved by the emergent heart of his Replica in the darkness. Unfortunately, Way to the Dawn was broken in the battle, forcing him to regroup and resupply in the Realm of Light, leaving the Keyblade behind for said Replica. On returning to Yen Sid, he was given a new Keyblade, darkness-resistant clothing, and new outfits for Kairi and Lea. He was also told to search worlds that Aqua had visited for clues, as well as about the phenomenon of the Great Convergence, which was blamed on Xehanort's meddling for lack of any other information. That said, he went out to search amongst the worlds for any new information he could find.


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    Riku gave an experimental swing of his new Keyblade, having already changed into the new clothes Yen Sid gave him. "Feels different. A bit heavy but the blade's straighter. Less resistance when swinging too. I'll need to practice and get used to this new Keyblade." He dismissed Braveheart, the name having been given by both Yen Sid and Mickey when it was given to him.

    Right now, he was simply standing on his own while Mickey was checking something out in Radiant Garden. "The Convergence. Are there really people from another Realm coming here?" The Keyblade Master had to admit, it was hard to believe. But after the Mark of Mastery and the revelations involving Xehanort and his new Organization XIII, it wasn't that strange that something like this would happen. "Yen Sid said it's possible they would know about the Keyblade War Master Xehanort wants. Still..." He frowned, not having been happy about the other revelations involving the Convergence. But Riku shook those thoughts out.

    "Even if they know what I went through, saw it. It doesn't change my decision." He told himself resolutely. His own self monologue was interrupted as some Soldier and Shadow Heartless appeared. The Keyblade Master summoned Braveheart, getting into his usual stance, right arm, holding the Keyblade, bent back, weapon aimed forward, left arm extended and hand bent, the fingers looking like they would cover Braveheart but is kept at a distance. "Heartless! Looks like I get to try you out."
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