[ These aren't even bad people. This is a clinically depressed nerd and a jock with complicated grief and the both of them are socially awkward, they're not bad they're just a little bad at this.

So no, it's not a nice thing to say.

Neither was framing Riku's admittedly hands-on demonstration of how to hook a lantern in his belt as something sexual, let alone when no permission was granted let alone solicited, and Riku feels-

Bad about it. And bad about what he just said. ]

Sora. He was always helping people. Had this way about him, he'd find a way into anyone's heart. Made people want to be... better.

[ Riku's hands have balled up again. He makes the conscious effort to loosen them. ]

Because he believed in them.