riku replica theories

[rikurep]

anyone wonder what happened to the riku replica after he was beat,
i always thought that it'd be cool if he got a nobody/heartless he does have a heart after all....a fake one.....it said in the manga(on wikipedia) that he survived the last fight and just left what do you think?.....

[Ansem The Heartless]

You know...in Reverse/Rebirth Replica said: "Riku Replica: What happens when someone who's not real dies? Where will my heart go? That is, if it doesn't disappear completely...". Riku answerd: "Riku: It'll go somewhere. Probably the same place my heart will go." In game it doesn't seems that Replica was survived. He's vanished. But maybe he's really survived, but hide somewhere. Good theory.

[rikurep]

i know but, if he has a fake heart he probably became this weird nobody thing

[Ansem The Heartless]

Yes...he's fake heart were strong at least, but maybe SE wanted to end his part of story in this moment.

[rikurep]

yeah........but it won't hurt to imagine what happened

anyone else wanna talk?

[Ansem The Heartless]

It's seems that we're alone. Imagine what happend...let's see...he "died". But, did he ever was a Heartless?

[rikurep]

welll....he faded, that could mean he drifted into darkness(dissapearing at end) and he could've had his heart taken and well....you kno:D

[Ansem The Heartless]

Ok...he've become Heartless and then his Nobody borned. But...does he looks like Riku in KH2?

[...::/final_falling\::...]

namine shattered the replicas heart....more like smashed it :P so he died,i read this in the manga(i have the two books)

[rikurep]

well he did absorb zexion, so i thought he'd look a little like him

[...::/final_falling\::...]

Riku(the REAL one) kille-er-destroyed Zexion in his memory of Destiny Islands.

[Ansem The Heartless]

Yeah...Zexion with...silver hair?

[rikurep]

Riku(the REAL one) kille-er-destroyed Zexion in his memory of Destiny Islands.

actually zex escaped and was killed by riku replica


from wikipediaAfter Marluxia is defeated, the Replica leaves Sora with Naminé to seek purpose to his existence. Axel finds the wandering Replica and convinces him that he would become his own person by destroying Zexion. He proceeds to do so, gaining the deceased Organization member's power.

[Lord Knight Xiron]

You know, I was thinking the other day....

If Zexion has the power of illusion, couldn't he have made hundreds of illusion Zexion, which could appear to have died? Couldn't Zex still be out there somewhere?

Off topic, I know. Sorry.

[Nol]

ichristian, this is about the game's story, not the manga where Riku kills Zexion and the Replica goes off with a bunch of Vexen clones. :p

Personally, I think that Riku Replica just died. His heart is strong, in my opinion, because he came back even after Namine broke it. But still, even if he had a Heartless or Nobody, that doesn't mean that it isn't a generic one. He probably just had a NeoShadow and a Dusk, or something.

[ZakuraRabbit]

The manga's story about the replica is very different from the game.

SPOILER ALERT
As far as I remember Riku met him once, and they never fought.
After Namine broke the replicas heart it woke up soon after. In the manga this happens after Marluxia is beaten, in an extra story at the end. The replica meets Riku and bothers him for a short while, then Riku gets annoyed and leaves.
The replica encounteres a bunch of failed Vexen replicas and they all decide to leave the castle and find an identity for himself (and getting sligtly annoyed by the Vexen replicas who follow him for some strange reason).
So he doesn't die in the manga.. he just left.

[clawtooth35]

I too think thAT Zexion is out there somewhere. How else could Noruma make the Lexicon significant enough to have Zexions Weapon pannel smashed to produce an air of mystery about it.

[X-thor]

namine shattered the replicas heart....more like smashed it :P so he died,i read this in the manga(i have the two books)

Hmm... Interesting I thought he just vanished

[RoxasXIIIX]

Yeah, but at the end of RE we see Axel ordering the replica to do something.

Wait! I had an idea. Everyone look at the BBS forum topic Riku's Replica for more info.

[Repliku]

This is one of the reasons I hate the manga. It took liberties that just do not seem canon to me and border on stupidity at times.

In the game, Riku Replica died, clear as day. He didn't just vanish. He died as the Nobodies had. He asked Riku where his heart would go and Riku said probably the same place as mine. He then said "How original" gazed upwards and his form dissipated and dispersed rising darkness and light upwards which pretty much to anyone who saw the scene would say he was gone for good.

That is the way I look at it and the silly manga ruined a very sad scene and twisted it. The only reason I can see for it is that they did not want to say he died because the manga seems so childish it can only be made for people who can't take death scenes well. I'm sorry if that sounds insulting but that scene and also the one with Vexen obsessing about pickles...and the Organization duty roster...there are just some things the manga did that just made the Org seem really dumb and watered down from how they were in the game. It also somehow made Sora look dumber and made Riku's dilemmas which were probably more serious than Sora's with his battles with Xehanort's Heartless and his own guilt seem so cheesy. If I offended anyone that likes the manga, I apologize.

Riku Replica though is dead. dead. dead. =:( Also, if Zexion could make illusions so well to trick someone who absorbed his soul to gain power, that would be mighty powerful for an illusion. Illusions are deceptions of vision and maybe touch and hearing. He couldn't do an illusion to mask a soul drain and then Riku Replica being made more powerful. Zexion died there. Pretty much the only survivor of the Org from that all was Axel.

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