NatNao, ShizNatNao, ShizNao... why it really doesn't make sense.

Amaya wrote:But since Sunrise also made HiME into a lovey-dovey anime where everything's fine at the end it is hard to tell what of the characters is real. To me it often seems they didn't think a lot about the interactions and just used them as they needed them.

This. I had that impression too. It's been a while since I watched the anime hence the only examples that come to my mind right now are about Natsuki. More precisely the karaoke scene, the underwear scene and the blushing-because-of-Takeda-scenes. Honestly, if Natsuki would be that tough solitary biker chick that Sunrise apparently wanted her to be at the beginning, but failed to do so, she wouldn't let herself dress up like that in the karaoke bar, she wouldn't cry about her underwear and she wouldn't blush because of Takeda. She would just don't give a damn to all of this, probably plant her fist in Takedas face without crying out and blushing furiously and go on with her business. So, some things are just there, because Sunrise went with the flow of a scene and wanted to make a good joke/drama out of it - no more, no less. But because we see these scenes it is canon no matter how contradictory the characteristics are. And that applies to a lot of characters in the series, not only to Natsuki.

That's why I find things like that

Twisted Eternal Wolvetta wrote:Yuuki – asexual
Kuga – pansexual
Fujino – raging lesbian
Mai – pansexual

a little irritating. Except for Shizuru and Mai there's no proof or hint what the sexuality of Natsuki and Nao could be, because it is neither shown nor mentioned in the series - I'm talking about Mai-HiME not Otome. They could be everything, if you want to label them so badly. Therefore fans should just stop labeling anything and everything and stop seeing their labeling as the ultimate canonly truth, when there's no clue about it.

With that said, if people like the idea of NatNao/ShizNatNao/ShizNao it's totally fine. Personally I can't see ShizNao happening and NatNao only if it's well written and developed. ShizNatNao is just good for smut, in my opinion. I just like good ol' ShizNat the best. And here comes the important thing and what everybody should keep in mind: You don't have to read stories where they are paired up with another character. As far as I'm concerned most of the authors mention the pairing either in the summary or in author notes. Don't like it? Don't read it.

Just my 2 cents to this whole topic.

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Moneypenny wrote:And here comes the important thing and what everybody should keep in mind: You don't have to read stories where they are paired up with another character. As far as I'm concerned most of the authors mention the pairing either in the summary or in author notes. Don't like it? Don't read it.

In the wise words of Dutch from Black Lagoon: Rah rah, hallelujah, peanut butter! XDD Truer words were never said; don't like it? Don't read it.

MissSoccerNinja wrote:How likely is it for somebody to be asexual? Even if she is very messed up psychologically, Nao doesn't appear to have any psychological problems which would prevent her from being a fairly typical person (she doesn't appear to have asocial personality disorder or anything of the sort), who is capable of being attracted to somebody.

.... Okay, I know you didn't mean that in an offensive way. I know, but I have a friend who's asexual and I can't help but feel a little miffed after reading that. I'm going to briefly explain what asexual is, as what my friend told me. Again, this is not an attack, but a "The more you know~ -rainbow-" thing.

Asexual means not being attracted to anyone physically. They can still feel love for someone and attracted to them, but not physically. Saying Nao is asexual means she could still love Natsuki with all her heart, but doesn't physically have sex. (That said, I'm more of a Nao/Mikoto shipper myself. XD) Being asexual isn't a psychological problem just like being homosexual isn't a psychological problem.

Again, this is not an attack, it just hurts a bit when someone calls asexual or homosexual something along the lines as a "mental illness." It's a trigger for me and I'm very protective of my friends.

SpiralDasher wrote:.... Okay, I know you didn't mean that in an offensive way. I know, but I have a friend who's asexual and I can't help but feel a little miffed after reading that. I'm going to briefly explain what asexual is, as what my friend told me. Again, this is not an attack, but a "The more you know~ -rainbow-" thing.

Asexual means not being attracted to anyone physically. They can still feel love for someone and attracted to them, but not physically. Saying Nao is asexual means she could still love Natsuki with all her heart, but doesn't physically have sex. (That said, I'm more of a Nao/Mikoto shipper myself. XD) Being asexual isn't a psychological problem just like being homosexual isn't a psychological problem.

Again, this is not an attack, it just hurts a bit when someone calls asexual or homosexual something along the lines as a "mental illness." It's a trigger for me and I'm very protective of my friends.

Sorry for offending you. I really didn't mean to sound so ignorant. My awkwardly, socialy-inept, scientific/inquisitive/clinical brain and view on life gets me in trouble sometimes (like this), because it comes off as judgemental rather than being curious and interested. As I've said before, I don't see any type of sexuality as wrong or bad in any way. I sincerely apologize for offending you with my question. It was merely inquisitive, not meaning to be judgemental in any way.

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