Riku said it first: I couldn't protect them, like he could rob the words of their sting before Vanitas can try to surprise him with it, with mixed results. He can't really say it doesn't effect him, not when Vanitas amends it with anyone and he can see it all over again, Wanda's lips as she formed the words when she told him Kairi was dead.
The silence in the boat house he couldn't abide, so he went out again and again in search of his friends.
As if making a point, Riku doesn't lurch across the space between them in a lunge, he propels himself forward on the very power that Vanitas evokes, a smudgy purple-black ripple and then Riku's there, his fist leading. Riku shouldn't. He's worked hard at his own self control, but damn if it doesn't feel good to do something with all his hopeless anger.
"Wanna test that?!"
Immune to the way the Darkness could corrupt, could make him into a vessel suitable again for Xehanort, yes. But there's the thing about striking a balance between the light and dark parts of himself - all his light doesn't nullify the darkness. Neither does his immunity protect him from the influence of the everlasting night.
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The silence in the boat house he couldn't abide, so he went out again and again in search of his friends.
As if making a point, Riku doesn't lurch across the space between them in a lunge, he propels himself forward on the very power that Vanitas evokes, a smudgy purple-black ripple and then Riku's there, his fist leading. Riku shouldn't. He's worked hard at his own self control, but damn if it doesn't feel good to do something with all his hopeless anger.
"Wanna test that?!"
Immune to the way the Darkness could corrupt, could make him into a vessel suitable again for Xehanort, yes. But there's the thing about striking a balance between the light and dark parts of himself - all his light doesn't nullify the darkness. Neither does his immunity protect him from the influence of the everlasting night.
Are any of them truly prepared to deal with that?