 | strrive-deactivated20140202 ; Give me a long ass spiel about exactly how long it’ll take Nam and Reeks to get together if Naminé becomes her own person again |
This extends into like—a really intense headcanon okay? So you’re going to have to bear with me through this entire thing if you want to know how long it will take them to get together, to me. Ready? Are you really ready?
In the event that Naminé becomes her own person—not saying that it will happen, it’s a legitimate if situation in my head—a lot of things would probably be going on. The entire battle wouldn’t be over, only a part of it conquered, and after brief explanations the action would start again. Just with Nobodies and a Replica in tow. (Nam, Roxas, and Xion by the by.)
And when everything is finally, finally, finally over—at least for that moment because of course more stuff is going to happen to everyone—there will be celebration and happiness. For the purpose of this particular headcanon, maybe Sora and Kairi will get together, maybe not, whatever happens happens. The celebration would stretch on and everyone would be happy to be whole and separate again and everything finally would have fallen into place.
Maybe Riku drops some hints to Naminé, maybe not. Maybe he flat out tells her that he might have some feelings for her, but probably not because he’s Riku and I can’t imagine him doing that in that moment. But somehow, some way, she has some sort of knowledge that he at least as the capacity to like her.
But.
When the celebrations are over and everyone is content and happy, Naminé will leave. It may be days later or even weeks, but eventually she will bid her goodbyes with a smile and a promise that she’ll return, and leave, because she needs to explore on her own. Because she, as her own person, with her own life fully ahead of her, needs to find herself in the mess of everything that had happened, find her own path and her own way.
For her entire existence she had simply been Naminé, Kairi’s Nobody, the girl who was never meant to exist. And suddenly she was Naminé, her own whole person whose existence only definitely ended with her own death, and no longer would she blink out of existence if she were even slightly close to the redhead. She was free, and she was finally able to do the things that she wanted, to absorb the information she desired to have and travel and laugh and run.
So she travels, by herself, for a long time. By no means does she expect Riku to wait for her, and she does not know how she feels about him to begin with, and she closes that old chapter of her life shut to begin her new one. Around the universe, meeting new people, experiencing new things, sometimes living in some places for brief times before moving on. Maybe getting into a relationship—though that’s intensely unlikely, as Naminé has never been very romantically inclined to begin with—and just living her own life separate from everything that had happened.
Occasionally she would return to Destiny Islands for brief visits, to share a story or two before continuing on, because she knows that she wasn’t content with staying in one place. Not at that point in her life, she wasn’t ready to call any place truly her home, wasn’t ready to say “This is where I will always return to” because she had had that before, and she was finally free of its clutches.
A year, two years, maybe even three years would pass before she would return to Destiny Islands for longer than a brief stay. She wouldn’t tell anyone, of course not, but she would be there and she would let others tell Kairi and Sora and Riku that she was back, Naminé was back, and she had bags with her and a new hair cut and she was back and it looked like to say. And there would be hugs and she would admit that she was there to stay, at least for a little while. Perhaps at this point Riku is in a relationship, maybe not, maybe he had been in one while she was gone, maybe not—but no, they still wouldn’t get together silly.
At this point Naminé would be somewhat sure, but not quite because in those years away she hadn’t thought about romance or about her feelings or potential feelings for him. For anyone, really, and she wasn’t quite to the point where she would think about them, but she was content to wait. After all, she had made Riku wait three years, and he could make her wait for him.
In my head it would probably happen slowly, a gradual and quiet thing that no one would really notice until it was right there in front of them because that’s what their relationship is. Subtle and quiet, never loud and passionate, just the two of them because their love wasn’t made for history books. Slowly they would start to spend time together again and maybe begin holding hands somewhere along the line, and everything would progress from there. Explosive fights about nothing and everything, quiet moments of happiness. One day it was like they were simply friends and the next in a relationship, but that’s exactly how I feel their relationship would go.
That may take months or it may take another year—maybe even multiple years. But finally it would get to the point where she could smile at him and maybe admit to herself that she has feelings for him and he would finally stop being a weenie and tell her how he feels, and they would be together. Happy, because it took them six or seven years from start to finish, but they finally got to that point.
And it would be marvelous.
Of course Naminé would never quite stop feeling the urge to go and travel but that’s another headcanon for another time.