Maaaan. I ship SoRiKai as hard as I do for a reason. :D The boys obviously have the bi for each other, but they both went through so much for Kairi too, and Sora is slayingly adorable in KH2 when he goes off into that fantasy of dancing with her and is so obviously in his Happy Place. ♥
Ha. XD Alright, well... we have the story with Laguna and Julia's unresolved love, and how Laguna is Squall's father while Julia is Rinoa's mother. The point of all this, apparently, is that Squall and Rinoa get to fall in love so they can carry out the romance their parents were denied.
... Which makes me angry. Because then it feels like they HAD to fall in love, like no matter what they did, they were going to fall in love because they were required to. This wouldn't rub me so much the wrong way if there'd been ANY sense of credibility to their romance. It might still have irked me, but I could at least have admitted they worked together. But no. They don't. So the "we're only in love because we have to be" is magnified and it upsets me. It's bad storytelling and it's a disservice to the characters. It would have been so much better if it had felt like they fell in love because they liked each other, with the "oh, and we're fulfilling the romance our parents couldn't have!" as a poetic afterthought.
I even kind of liked Rinoa, damn it, just not how she more or less existed to hang off Squall's arm. That weakens her for me significantly, which irks me further.
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Ha. XD Alright, well... we have the story with Laguna and Julia's unresolved love, and how Laguna is Squall's father while Julia is Rinoa's mother. The point of all this, apparently, is that Squall and Rinoa get to fall in love so they can carry out the romance their parents were denied.
... Which makes me angry. Because then it feels like they HAD to fall in love, like no matter what they did, they were going to fall in love because they were required to. This wouldn't rub me so much the wrong way if there'd been ANY sense of credibility to their romance. It might still have irked me, but I could at least have admitted they worked together. But no. They don't. So the "we're only in love because we have to be" is magnified and it upsets me. It's bad storytelling and it's a disservice to the characters. It would have been so much better if it had felt like they fell in love because they liked each other, with the "oh, and we're fulfilling the romance our parents couldn't have!" as a poetic afterthought.
I even kind of liked Rinoa, damn it, just not how she more or less existed to hang off Squall's arm. That weakens her for me significantly, which irks me further.