@ anyone who says that Kairi should have defended herself when Xemnas grabbed her…

She physically couldn’t have.

Now I don’t claim to have much knowledge in terms of self defense, but I do know some of the limits of the human body as an artist, so let me break this down for you.

Xemnas was very deliberate in how he grabbed Kairi and how he positioned HIMSELF thereafter. For one, he was sure to grab the wrist of her dominant hand (which at this point was holding her keyblade). Now I don’t know how many of you have had your wrist grabbed like that, but I can say first-hand that your options of movement in that hand/arm are INCREDIBLY limited, and if they’re holding hard enough, it is nearly impossible.

To make matters worse, he was twisting her arm behind her head and back. This makes movement even more limited and also causes EXTREME pain. During the course of the cutscene, he continues to twist her arm TWICE, which we can see makes her whole body physically wince. It breaks my heart to see her like that because I know that pain and it is awful. Xemnas was 100% in a position to break her arm in some way and it SHOWS.

We can also see by how her toes seem to be the only thing touching the ground that he is holding her aloft. Even minimally, this adds distress to the arm socket. Accounting for everything else in this scene, I wouldn’t be surprised if he completely dislocated Kairi’s arm.

Moving on to how he was positioning himself, we can see that he seems to be standing a step behind Kairi, not IMMEDIATELY behind her. Based on her arm length, I don’t think she’d be able to reach him with her free hand for any sort of counter attack. If she summoned her keyblade to this non dominant hand, any reach she did have wouldn’t change the fact that her position would make it impossible for her to add enough strength for her attacks to do anything. She could try channeling magic maybe, but that feels like it still wouldn’t help much. Because of how he’s holding her up, any attempt at kicking would be wild and still wouldn’t have any real weight behind it.

Anything she could have done, I doubt it would have delayed the inevitable of her being taken to Xehanort. I’m sure she spat in that old coot’s face the second she got, but after that I have no doubt in my mind that Xehanort placed a sleep spell on her so she could make no other effort at defending herself or escaping until his plan came to fruition.

I wanted her to save herself just as much as the next person, but unfortunately no matter how I spin it while I look at the frame-by-frame, I can’t see how she feasibly could have, but hey! If I’m wrong about any of this, feel free to correct me.