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Well, I was browsing around trying to figure out what Kairi's name actually meant when I came across this. I forget the site I got it from though. ^^;

"Sora, Riku, and Kairi are named after the three primary elements of nature. In Japanese, riku means 'land', kai means 'ocean', and sora means 'sky'. the name Kairi could originate from the Japanese word "hikari", which means light, because she is the only untainted main character."

I don't know if this holds any truth but it seems logical. I'm not sure about the untainted part though. She is a princess of heart and does save Sora when he was a heartless, but Kairi doesn't strike me as completely innocent.

If Kairi's name partly means the ocean I can see the seperation. Riku is the land, Sora is the sky, and Kairi, the ocean, seperates these two. In the game you always see Riku looking off into the horizon. Or perhaps he's looking out towards the sea?


Actually, it was Riku's idea to leave the islands. Kairi could've just been wound up in the two boys talk of leaving and just went along with it. However, it was because Kairi came there in the first place that Riku started to think of these thoughts of leaving. The seperation between Riku and Sora started when Kairi came to the islands.

Riku was always enthusiastic about leaving after that but Sora, in my opinion, was indifferent about the idea. In the beginning I got the feeling that Sora and Kairi thought this was another adventure where, in the end, they would return home again. When the door opened and when Sora finally realizes how determined Riku is to leave the islands he seemed shocked and confused to me. Think back to the part where Sora meets Riku for the last time on the islands.

Maybe one of the reasons Riku wanted to leave so bad was because of the islands themselves. They were small and surrounded by miles of ocean. Kairi=ocean. Therefore Riku hates Kairi. xDD My twisted logic.


Kairi seems to be the divider between the two boys but clearly isn't a "bump in the road" to get past. Kairi will always be there...the ocean will always be there if you want to look at it that way. But the ocean isn't everywhere, whereas the sky and land meet often. Now that Kairi is back on the islands and Sora is out looking for Riku there will be no "Kairi" to get in the way so to say. If any sort of "romantic" relationship is to form, it'll happen when there's an absense of ocean and when only the land meets the sky.

I hope I made the least bit of sense. :'D

Of course it is! heart Beaver... Serves her right.

I think it makes absolute sense, and I whole-heartly agree with it all. She HAS been dividing them, hasn't she...? cry

Yes...ever notice their name's meaning resonate with them? sora means sky, and usually the sky is blue...so are his eyes. And he has brown hair, a color associated with land, possibly meaning he is somehow connected to Riku. Rikumeans land of course most people view his eyes as green, what most land associates with...the color green. And his hair is white, the color of clouds. Get my meaning? Clouds are in the sky. TeeHee... *dirty thoughts*
Of course Kairis the ugly oddball so her eyes deserve to get gouged out...but she has blue ones none the less...DX Since someone here previously said it was because she was the ocean, thats why....unless it has dirty water....*thinks about it* Ewwww, Kairis a dirty person.... (BTW, I saw that Commercial on Channel one with the chick who voiced Kairi, for the skin problems....LOL)

There are many different positions Kairi could be when you think about it. In general, I prefer to remain neutral on Kairi's role in all this, because each idea has it's own points.

The idea that she's "seperation" makes a lot of sence, and seems to be the generally accepted theory.

The idea that she's the ocean is also good, but holds a bit less substance - what I mean is that though we see obvious conection with land and air with Riku and Sora, Kairi seems... She just doesn't make me think of the ocean. Also, remember Sora's whole "falling" thing/the tsunami? Maybe it means that he's decending to meet the earth - but get's caught in the ocean, and even though he tries to fight it, he is litterally torn away from Riku.

The Kairi-is-evil-and-that's-all-there-is-to-it theory doesn't seem very fair to me at all. As far as I can tell, Riku is using her as a sort of... anti-Sora, to ward off his emotions (I'm experienced with homo-denile situations, so this seems plausable - especially with Riku). The way Sora seems to feel towards her seems sister-brother like, though... though I do DEFFINITLY see a MUCH stronger connection between Sora and Riku, there is some vauge hints of a small, pinkish affection between the two. Then again, that happens all the time - girl meets unusually nice guy, goes out with him... and then it turns out that he's gay. Heh.

I may have left some theory's out... Yes, I know I did, but I can't remember which... neutral

It's really kinda sad, isn't it? sweatdrop