[ Riku had built a small boat - more accurately it's a raft, on which sits a cylindrical lantern. It's a few layers of paper, actually, with one of them having large five-pointed stars cut out of them, so that the glow is brighter through them. It's simple. He's not the arts-and-crafts one of the trio of his best friends.
He aimed to make sure that at least one of the three stars he cut out of the paper is visible even if the raft bobs and rotates on the water. There's one for each of them - Sora, Kairi, and himself, but the lantern itself is not in their honor.
It's for the other Riku, whose name became Dawn, not his first independent choice as his own person, but maybe one of the most significant. A sign. That marked him no longer a replica, a fake, a copy, but someone real and whole.
He's carrying it as Daylight finishes his song, and he approaches in the silence that follows, contemplative and quiet by his side.
He watches Daylight's boats drift away and, despite the disparity in their sizes, reaches up one hand to place it against his back. ]
i. this is so soft
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[ Riku had built a small boat - more accurately it's a raft, on which sits a cylindrical lantern. It's a few layers of paper, actually, with one of them having large five-pointed stars cut out of them, so that the glow is brighter through them. It's simple. He's not the arts-and-crafts one of the trio of his best friends.
He aimed to make sure that at least one of the three stars he cut out of the paper is visible even if the raft bobs and rotates on the water. There's one for each of them - Sora, Kairi, and himself, but the lantern itself is not in their honor.
It's for the other Riku, whose name became Dawn, not his first independent choice as his own person, but maybe one of the most significant. A sign. That marked him no longer a replica, a fake, a copy, but someone real and whole.
He's carrying it as Daylight finishes his song, and he approaches in the silence that follows, contemplative and quiet by his side.
He watches Daylight's boats drift away and, despite the disparity in their sizes, reaches up one hand to place it against his back. ]