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  • Member: your_beautiful_dream
  • Title: Darkness/Light: Our Twilight
  • Premiered: 2006-05-18
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  • Song:
    • Kotoko Re-Sublimity
  • Anime:
  • Comments:
    Made Using: Windows Movie Maker 1
    Time Spent: 2 weeks
    Scenes From: Kingdom Hearts 1 + KH: Final Mix + Kingdom Hearts 2
    Clips From: Kingdom Hearts Ultimania + KH-Vids + KH Skies of Hope 01: Connected

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    -Riku x Sora

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    I do not own Kingdom Hearts. It is owned by Square Enix and Disney. This AMV was created solely by me!

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    The song Re-Sublimity by KOTOKO has connotations of homosexuality because it was the theme song of the GL/ shoujo-ai Kannazuki no Miko. The PV for this was femmeslashy as well. So turn a song for gay girls into a song for gay guys too, right? WRONG. Re-Sublimity is a love song which mentions no genders, therefore a song for both heterosexual and homosexual couples.

    The theme of this song is protecting the one you love, even to the point of dying for them; this is something anyone who loves someone can relate to.

    The song has a great sound but it was because of the lyrics that I chose this song over many others as Riku and Sora's song. One of my best friends, in an attempt to help me branch out into the other genres of anime other than BL and romantic/school comedies watched an episode with me. The animation was pretty but as for the actual anime, not my cup of tea. But the music was memorable so I searched up the catchy intro and found Re-Sublimity. I had been searching in vain for a song for a RikuSora AMV and this song was perfect for the image I wanted to express. The song talks about the antithesis of light and darkness, love and hate, protection and betrayal, and indescision and surety.

    Riku wanted Sora to join him in the darkness but Sora, knowing better due to his strong, pure heart, did not join him but searched for a way to save Riku who didn't know his path would lead him to his destruction. Riku and Sora encounter eachother numerous times after that but more as opposition due to their conflicting ideals.

    Riku failed to listen to Sora until it was too late, when the darkness, Xehanort's Heartless, had already taken over and the 'real' Riku was trapped inside of Kingdom Hearts. Through Chain of Memories to KH2, Riku and Sora make their way back to one another and it is not until Kingdom Hearts 2's near finish that they finally reunite, with Sora breaking down because of all they had been through just to see eachother again; Riku for a time believed to be dead. Riku and Sora's relationship was deeper in KH2 because of their gained maturity and understanding of themselves as well as each other during their time apart. I wanted to enthuse this in this AMV.

    The AMV opens with the notorious paopu fruit scene where Riku and Sora 'share' a paopu, and if the legend was true, intertwining their destinies in a cruel sense as Riku chose the darkness and Sora chose the light, just as the darkness and light balance and contrast with one another; Riku the warrior of the darkness, Sora the warrior of light, both destined to fight, incapable of being together.

    Zexion: Sora's fate is to battle the darkness. As the hero of light, he must oppose hosts of the dark--in other words, you.

    Riku ultimately chooses the road in between, the road to dawn, the way of the darkness and the light: twilight. This is where the AMV's title comes from.

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    I will no longer say one AMV is better than another, even if it is. I have a way of contradicting earlier said things which can only be broken by making them all equal. Heehee.

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    But I am very fond of this AMV!

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    http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/kannazuki/knmresub.htm

    Moving the slowly unfolding, distressing troubles from afar that were in the past
    Strongly closing the eyelids, the white screams have frozen

    The confusion of the setting moon
    Surely my existence is here now
    Waiting for me
    There's no more tears to cry
    When the moment comes when we embrace each other

    Unspoken, unheard, unseen, just an illusion
    Flowing towards the other side of time, becoming like a lost child, an unforgiven wish
    Only voice, only fingers, only the approaching warmth
    Unspoken thoughts get tainted by the shredded night wind

    I had realised that it was only a deception - an image, right there
    But even that, inside the deep bush my body longed for the sweet fruit inside

    The confusion of the rising sun
    Coincidence plotted silently
    Rather necessary
    Now it has unfolded in front of me
    A feeling that fails to be shaken

    Without tears, unbreached, incomprehensive, our ending and the like
    No matter where we will go you are the one who I betray, while wanting to protect
    Only inthe present, only in the past, only in the future I have to compensate for
    It's better if I vanish and disappear, if it is to save you

    Unspoken, unheard, unseen, just an illusion
    Flowing towards the other side of time, becoming like a lost child, an unforgiven wish
    Only voice, only fingers, only the approaching warmth
    Unspoken thoughts get tainted by the shredded night wind
    It's better if I vanish and disappear

    So that I will be your sole light


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  • Link Format Bitrate Codec Duration Filesize Link Check Information Comments
  • Local WMV 0/128 WMV3/Windows Media Audio 6:02 56.7 MiB
    Local File Darkness Light Our Twilight [your_beautiful_dream].wmv
    Duration 362 seconds
    Video Track 0 kb/s WMV3 [WMV3]
    640 x 480 @ 1000 fps
    Audio Track Windows Media Audio @ 128.04 kbps
    44.1 kHz, stereophonic sound