KH FANFIC STEREOTYPES

KH FANFIC STEREOTYPES is a Tumblr post by alltheickyjobs that describes and visually illustrates some of the common stereotypes associated with the fanon characterization of the popular characters Sora, Riku, Roxas, and Axel—especially in the context of SoRiku and AkuRoku fan fiction—during the Kingdom Hearts fandom's "golden age", a period that roughly stretched from 2006 to 2010. 
A number of KH fans responded that the post accurately depicted the fanon of that period.
==Contents==
Artist alltheickyjobs captioned the post as follows:
By "early 2000s", alltheickyjobs likely meant the latter half of the "Aughts",#i think by early 2000s mean late 2000s. 31 May 2016. following the release of Kingdom Hearts II (2006), which formally introduced Roxas and his friendship with Axel.
The post was published to Tumblr around 28 May 2016, the date of the earliest known reblog. 
Image:Alltheickyjobs KHficStereotypesSora.jpg
Image:Alltheickyjobs KHficStereotypesRiku.jpg
Image:Alltheickyjobs KHficStereotypesRoxas.jpg
Image:Alltheickyjobs KHficStereotypesAxel.jpg
SORA
*ROXAS’ TWIN
*IS BOTTLED SUNSHINE
*COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS
*EATS PAOPU WITH RIKU
*HE'S NOT GAY HE JUST LOVES RIKU OKAY??
*"GIRLS ARE GROSS"
*"LOL RANDOM!"
*HUGS EVERYONE
*SPARKLE EYES
*PURE HOLY VIRGIN
*CRIES A LOT
RIKU
*REFORMED BAD BOY
*COMES FROM A BROKEN HOME
*SEPHIROTH IS HIS DAD
*SORA'S KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR
*EATS A PAOPU WITH SORA
*DOESN'T COMMUNICATE HOW HE FEELS ABOUT SORA EVER
*DATES ROXAS FIRST BUT IT ENDS VERY POORLY
*JEALOUS OF KAIRI
*FRIENDS WITH AXEL
*QUIET AS HELL
ROXAS
*SORA'S TWIN 
*SO EMO
*"DAMAGED"
*PROBABLY A VIRGIN??
*EATS ICE CREAM ALWAYS 
*NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HIM
*MEETS AXEL AT A COLLEGE PARTY
*GETS INTO TROUBLE OFTEN
*STARTS DOING DRUGS
*HAS A TERMINAL ILLNESS
*DIES
AXEL
*BAD BOY
*SMOKES
*WEARS LEATHER EXCLUSIVELY
*LOTS OF TATTOOS/PIERCINGS
*OWNS A MOTORCYCLE
*IS A PYRO!!!11!!LOL
*"PEDO" JOKES
*THIS IS HIS "NEXT LIFE"
*FRIENDS WITH RIKU
*DATED EVERYONE
*RENO IS HIS BROTHER
*GOT IT MEMORIZED
A short time later—around 30 May 2016, the date of the earliest known reblog—Tumblr user jade-of-impala added a piece covering fanon tropes associated with Kairi, though this expanded version of the post has not been as widely circulated as the original— ignoring Kairi once again, funnily enough. The addition was endorsed by alltheickyjobs, who apparently had works-in-progress covering Organization XIII fanon,https://faithgrace.tumblr.com/post/145144407694/was-thinking-about-early-2000s-kingdom-hearts but those potential additions are not known to have ever been posted.
Kairi
*we don't talk about her
*enemy of soriku shippers
*mary sue, probably
*that one friend of Sora
*probably about as forgotten as Xion at the end of Days
==Responses and reflections==
Among the responses, there are recurring phrases, such as "accurate" and "(war) flashbacks". Many have testified that they've read and written fan fiction containing the very tropes as described in alltheickyjob's post, namely on sites such as FanFiction.Net (ff.net) and Quizilla; to date, it appears that no one has attempted to refute the post's representation of fanon tropes, though some users have chimed in with other common tropes omitted by the post.
==Related fan works==
==References==
Category:2016 Fanart
Category:Kingdom Hearts