Scherzo 🌠 Re:Mind to 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝒮𝑜𝓇𝒶さんのイラストまとめ

I think about creators who worked w/ Disney confirming they either held back from openly portraying LGBTQ+ material in their work or got in arguments w/ D over what they could show, even as late as 2017, and wonder what the KH team has been going thru for Soriku since 2002...

I felt this official Soriku song fit this part of Re:Mind quite nicely 🎶

Once finished with Riku's side of Chain of Memories, the player is greeted to illustrations featuring himself and Sora, side by side, back-to-back...

The End

For all Sora's confidence, Marluxia isn't swayed. He remind shim that his beliefs don't stand up to unfeeling reality:
"It seems you're forgetting," he counters. If Sora's memories are erased, he'll become an "empty shell," just like the Replica. Naminé looks down sadly, when—

Axel doesn't think much of this trick, until Marluxia reveals the ace up his sleeve: Sora.
Axel lays bare the irony that Sora is acting just as Marluxia wants him to, but Sora only retorts Marluxia won't have mastery over him in the end, not while he's a threat to Naminé, too.

Larxene's severity fades away in the final moments when she's fading away (but don't worry, Larxene, you'll get to reunite with all your besties in Organization Rehash soon enough...).
Sora and co. turn their attention to Naminé, seated on the floor next to the fallen Repliku.

Marluxia flatly invites Naminé to "rejoice" that she can soon meet her "hero," though she doesn't seem to have the "heart" to be happy. Reminding her of her prisoner status, Larxene warns her against doing anything that would break the illusion and reveal the lie to Sora.