[KH3] Do you think Sora and Kairi would finally kiss at the end of kingdom hearts 3

I don't want to start an Internet debate, but I actually have to say that I disagree with this. I wouldn't argue about Kairi's perspective at all because even the paopu stuff is easily debatable (although considering:

  • it's been specifically used to connect Sora and Kairi,

  • Riku used it as a way to tease Sora about his feelings for Kairi,

  • and it has not been used to connect Sora and any other character,

I think that it is making it clear that Kairi has a unique relationship with him that no one else in the series has. Whether that is a romantic relationship or not is what's debatable).

I think it is very hard to debate that Sora has romantic feelings for Kairi, however. KH1 made that clear in a completely cliched but undeniable way in the beginning, once again this was when Riku was teasing Sora.

I think KH2 worked a lot harder to show Sora's romantic feelings for Kairi, however. They even threw in a scene in which he watches Jack and Sally realize their feelings and have a romantic moonlight dance. He then actually fantasizes about himself and Kairi dancing. It doesn't matter if he imagined younger Kairi (the only one he knew up till that point), what matters was the context of his fantasy, and it was absolutely a romantic context.

You can argue up and down that they won't kiss, but to say the games have made it clear they are not romantic is, I think, a misinterpretation of the games so far. They haven't worked very hard to push the SoKai romance in my opinion (which I appreciate), but it is definitely there from Sora's perspective, at the very least.

If their feelings change over time, then so be it, but as of mid-KH2 (which wasn't that long ago canonically) Sora was having romantic fantasies about Kairi.

Crud, did I start an Internet debate???

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