It's fine.
A little backstory though, first!!
For the past year, I've been heading a movement on tumblr and twitter (but largely tumblr) known as #KairiNeedsLove2k15 - it's got an official tumblr here, and an official twitter here! (both run by me)
It started back in February, while I was replaying KH2. I started getting really worked up about Kairi and her subsequent lack in any KH game made after KH2 (I mean, alright, she was still in BBS, but that's only 1 of the 4 games released since 2006, while the other 3 had very heavy emphasis on Sora and Riku and their relationship).
You can see my initial posts about the matter here.
And if you want a good portion of the original posts I made for the movement, you can find them here!
I got really invested in this movement, blogging aggressively about Kairi, reblogging art, and other people's posts (if you want proof other people besides me want Kairi to have a larger role, check out this tag in particular). I made fanmixes, photosets, wrote a fic, (three, technically) along with hosted two major events and boy, I got this ball really rolling.
Kairi E3 Fest
This event was held around E3 of 2015, the basic concept being "E3 is when social media goes wild over video games, let's make some noise about Kairi during that time!"
You can find details about it here, along with see everyone's submissions for it! (We had somewhere around 70 posts made for this event.)
The E3 Fest was even mentioned in an article by Game Skinny! Pretty awesome.
Kairi Week
I'd seen other appreciation weeks on tumblr where you'd dedicate a whole week to making content about a character (or game, or series, or ship, whatever) and I decided to do one for Kairi! It didn't go quite as planned, but it was still a huuuuge success! It lasted July 6th - 11th, and had somewhere over 150 submissions.
You can see the details / everyone's posts here!
SO, as you have probably got the gist of by now, I've spent the past year running a largely successful Kairi movement!
Here's one of the Kairi mixes I made for it:
Art's by ramflega on tumblr - check her out, she's got some real good Kairi / KH art!
The biggest fic I wrote for the movement was Dream, Drop, Don't Leave me Behind! - a retelling of KHDDD where Kairi actually tagged along to watch Sora and Riku's Mark of Mastery exam, becuase Kairi's lack in KHDDD is probably the biggest sore spot for me.
You can read it here!
I also wrote a smaller set of Namine-centric Kairi fics for Kairi Week, exploring the ways I would really really like their relationship to pan out. You can read all three of them here!
The crowning moment -- or, the moment that really sets the stage for my reaction to the news we received on November 3rd, is a post I made the literal day before, about why I really hate KHDDD, followed by a post further detailing its shortcomings regarding Kairi. (In sum: I'm really bitter about the fact we don't have an explanation at all why she isn't in KHDDD, we're just supposed to be okay with the fact she isn't there.)
So, there's that post, and then kind of churning bitterness for a whole year about how "Yeah Kairi's PROBABLY gonna have a role in KH3 but that's only a PROBABILITY, not a definite thing I can count on, and she's been treated so awfully by the games for the past five years and I don't have my hopes high at all".
I wasn't expecting it, and I'm pretty sure, well, no one was.
When we heard there would be KH news at the D23 in Japan, basically everyone expected it to be a lot like America's D23 - a new world reveal, and that's it, no Kairi. No Kairi.
The clock hits 1 AM my time, where I have waited four hours for the embargo on information to be lifted, hoping to get a glimmer of news as to what happened at the panel (because there were no livestreams and no one was allowed to post any information about it.)
The first post I see when loading twitter up is this:
Kairi is real.
It's one picture and that's all we got because the trailer revealed at the showing has not be released online but, it's, Kairi.
Kairi is there.
Kairi is there.
Kairi is there.
I didn't cry like others reportedly did, but I was shaking so hard, and my heart was pounding, and then you get a string of incoherent tweets from me which largely consist of "HO LY FRIK, KAIRI" becuase!!! Oh my god!!!!
I'm getting pumped thinking about it even now!! Kairi is real!! Kairi is here!!!
I've spent the whole year working up to this moment and it's just one image and confirmation she'll be in the KH2.8 game - in the section called 0.2 which is about Aqua, reportedly she and Riku are learning about Aqua and the 7 Guardians of Light, etc - BUT ANYWAY, it's just one confirmation, but it is proof. They haven't forgotten her. Her chances for a Big Role in KH3 are even higher than ever, and I'm just!!
I'm hooting!! I'm hollering!! I'm so!!! excited!!!!
I mean, chances of this actually having to do with my efforts and continuous #Kairi4KH3 yelling are pretty slim but!! BUT!! THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT!! KAIRI IS HERE!!! AND REAL!!!
I'M SOOOO!! HAPPY!!!
KAIRI CONFIRMED FOR KH0.2 AND PROBABLY FOR KH3!!!
THIS IS SO GOOD.
It's so good.
Anyway if you want other coverage of the D23 event, KH13 has a masterlist of all the info they have here!
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS JUST, KAIRI, THOUGH.
Kairi is real.
