Theory: On a literal level, there is no other Riku.



The fandom’s going to spend the better part of a year going around in circles speculating about this line, but in the end, it’s going to turn out that Riku’s actually just a really massive drama queen.

He’ll go on to explain that, somewhere deep inside, a part of him will always be that sad, scared little boy wandering the Realm of Darkness.



He’s always felt like a part of him never really made it out, and because of that, coming back now doesn’t even feel traumatic. It just feels…normal.

He “comes back” to the Realm of Darkness every time he closes his eyes, or every time he feels jealous or lost or insecure.

Sometimes, he wakes up in the morning, and he literally expects to be back in there. He expects all the progress he’s made, all the happy things that have happened lately, to turn out just to be a fleeting dream.



So he plants Way to the Dawn in the ground as a symbol of hope for that sad, hopeless part of himself, to remind himself that things do get better, that no matter how dark things get, there will always be a way to the dawn.

Because we’re talking about the boy who walked around wearing a blindfold for a year because of #feelz. He will let his emo poetry manifest in weird, literal ways and override all reason.



- Mod A.

