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I was thinking about this in another thread but how would a potential scenario where Sora chose not to restore his memories would work?
Consider that and the end of COM, before eating the bugs and sleeping in the pod, Sora DID remember Kairi just before he was put to sleep, so those """""""'chain of memories"""'""""""" are still there, so what if Sora decided not to sleep in the pod? Here is my TL;DR fanfic of a premise
>Sora decides not to sleep in the pod, but Donald and Goofy still do to get back their memories of the King AT THE RISK OF FORGETTING SORA(although given their relationship theyd pull a shonen and still be able to remember him)
>Sora now choosing this path has the option to go back to Destiny Islands and meet Kairi, but knowing the consequences of his choice, would have to rekindle their relationship with Kairi by either remembering their bond with Riku and going from there or just having a fresh start completely
>Riku would still choose to walk the path he chose, but instead of protecting Sora it would solely on building his character and resistance/growth to the darkness
>Roxas now not having the issue of memories leaking from Sora to him, he is allowed to grow simply as his own person, with most of his motivations staying largely the same. In this case either Riku still decides to stop Roxas from attacking the organization due to Diz's orders cause Diz hates fucking Nobodies(leading to roughly the same start of KH2) or Riku is more level headed cause he doesnt need to protect Sora from regaining memories, and they are allowed to be mutuals and team up at a later date
>If we want Days to still exist in my scenario, Xion either actually stays as a fucking husk, or through sheer willpower from Roxas(cause canonically he has a heart) projects his own energy and she becomes her own person, and the whole killing her thing can still happen but possibly under different means