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

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He glances over at the Naminé in his memory.
She changes, too. A diff't girl, w/ red hair, smiles at Sora.
The scenery returns to a peaceful day. Sora ponders over this familiar/dear/nostalgic (懐かしい) person he doesn't remember. He realizes Naminé is gone, & calls out to her.

A while later, Sora runs into... Hold on, he's got this... Oh yeah! Riku!
RIGHT HERE. I've been bringing this up the whole time as I pointed out other hints earlier in the story: /Riku has ALSO slipped from Sora's mind./ Note that this isn't even that long after his most recent

Axel walks over to the dejected girl. W/ Sora being at odds w/ his friends, including even his best friend, Naminé is the only one who can save him now.
"It's too late," she despairs.
Is it? By inserting herself into that *promise,* was that the tipping point? Did she go too far?

"Riku" runs away—for the 3rd time—as Sora reaches helplessly after him and looks on sadly—for the 3rd time. Gosh, I thought Sora was mad at him? Guess he's still worried for him under all that anger he laid bare before. Maybe fighting jogged his memory of what's important to him?

Repliku’s memory-rewriting, and more observations about other signs his (and Sora’s) memory of the *promise* to protect Naminé was based on Riku’s memory of a *promise* to protect Sora:
(Excerpts of interest below)

Aaaaand now's a great time to talk some more about Repliku!
I'll repost here my thoughts about his protectiveness of Naminé I wrote about when analyzing hers and Marluxia's behavior regarding the *promise* just to keep the relevant things together.

He's back.
And it looks like this guy has been waiting for Sora, who rushes over to him.
"Riku" skips the formalities, straight to business: "You'll hurt Naminé if you go further."
Sora is perplexed—shouldn't Riku be back to normal with Vexen gone? Maybe it's not that simple…?

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.

I just found a neat parallel~
"Together, let's save Kairi!"
"Together, let's save Naminé!"
Sora rejects Riku's offer in KH1 b/c he doesn't want to hurt the puppet.
"Riku" reject's Sora's offer in CoM...but this time HE'S the puppet... Sora still doesn't want to hurt the puppet.🙃