Mannimarco: *pulls a stool out of nowhere and sits on it, leg over knee, holding the lute ready*

He said all those hurtful things knowing that he was talking about her.

Here is the pic but it was my first since I started drawing again so its not as good as the other I posted.

why would you say this now my heart hurts

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I was so afraid of this happening.

What if I allow my feelings to affect my dream? After all, our submarine won’t hold many people. If I let my feelings affect my performance this much…

I jump when I feel Nemo’s bare hand on my forehead.

“Warm…”

Is he checking my temperature? Oh no, I can feel my skin flushing!

“Warm… warmerrrrr………. hrm.”

Nemo twists his mouth in contemplation.

Nearby, Impey’s doing all he can to hold back from saying something, and even Cardia is trying to stifle a laugh.

I can’t move…

“Aaaah, one moment, Polly-chan, hold stiillllll….”

Thump.

He rests his forehead to my own to get a more accurate temperature reading.

I can see his long eyelashes under the goggles, and my face heats up more.

He’s so close. If I tilted my head back, I could kiss him.

Both of us just ate, though, so that wouldn’t be very good for either of us– why am I thinking about this?!

I KNOW IT’S THE MOST OVERUSED ANIME TROPE BUT

I LOVE FOREHEAD BUMPING

A part of me is also wondering just how oblivious he is to this. I personally think he’s just in denial that this is going on so he’s trying to research alternative things. Like, of course she’s flushed, she has a fever!

I love your headcanons! I particularly love the idea of Nemo being a brat because, let’s get real, he’s pretty bratty in Code: Realize, too. :P

I also emphasize with the ‘fresh’ thing. I was struggling yesterday because I’m so inexperienced at writing a widower, but I love Jules Verne’s original character so– even if it isn’t canon for Code: Realize (which it very well might not be, Idea Factory never states it) I thought I’d try my hand at it.

and yea right? I don't even know how it came to this it was just like 

tbh I dont think he had wife and son as he is mUCH younger than the original Nemo from 20k leagues and the other c:r boys didn't have any wifes or children as well (except watson) even if their original counterparts had (original van hellsing had a child if I read that right on his wiki, lol)

I always thought Nemo was some arrogant brat when he was still with his family because he got born into royalty and was also goodlooking and of course rich that tends to lead to a snobby, bratty character xD and after he sees his family (and with that I mean parents, brothers, sisters whatever) getting murdered he COMPLETLY changes and goes opposite of his former personality. I think at that time he was also pretty young. It isn’t clearly stated in the game at what time the tragedy occured but I always thought it had to be when he was still in his teens, as it had such a heavy traumatizing impact on him and changed completely who he was.

He might always had a thing for science and inventing stuff as in the original story he also was a descendant of some guy who also invented some rocket technology or so but I think he was much more tame about that when he was still with his family and probably did that more as a hobby or as something he would want to do for a living when he “grows up”.

And after the tragedy his love for science just intensified to an abnormal level and overshadowed everything else for selfprotection so he doesn’t have think about the traumatizing event as such anymore but just as a “wonderfull firework of science” for him to explore.

That would also explain his lack of moral thinking when experimenting with science, as he would have to think “emotionally” about what bad science could do to society which would then lead to him thinking about the tragedy as such again and that would probably crush him mentally.

And of course not everything was bad. If he would ever recover from his trauma by the help of love and friendship I think he would still stay the way he is now, just a bit more tame and with more “moral thinking” (couldnt really came up with a better phrase but I think its clear what I mean). His bratty personality was more a puberty thing and he learns to cherrish life and the people he meets more after seeing how fast everything can get taken away from him.

Absolutely!! I love her so much!

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How I feel about this character: Like I said before, I love her so much! She goes through such fantastic character growth, and by the end of the common route she’s ready to kick butt! But I feel like we as a fandom focus on that a loooot (which, given the fact that otome games can often have doormat MCs, makes sense) and we need to also appreciate HOW SWEET THIS GIRL IS. HER SMILE LIGHTS UP MY LIFE.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: [cracks knuckles]Lupin, Van, Fran, Impey, and Saint. I wish we could get more interactions of her with girl characters, I would love for there to be a potential f/f romance! (and… maybe Nemo? But like I said, there would have to be a biiiiig scene with the whole ‘hey I’m a girl I’m not a thing or an object’ issue. @loturachan drew them so cutely together though!!)

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Sisi, Dela, Finis, NEEEEEEEEEEEEEMOOOOOOOOOOOO (please be his friend please I need Nemo friendship content /sobbing)

My unpopular opinion about this character: ? The fandom seems pretty set on loving this girl so I don’t really have an unpopular opinion.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:I wish we could see more of her interacting with Nemo post-Finis route. If he actually began to treat her like a human instead of as a science experiment, I think she could help him.

my het ship:Lupin, Van, Fran, Impey, and Saint. :P I don’t really have a favori… okay, that’s a lie. My favorite is that SHE’S DATING THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

my fem/slash ship:How many girls are there in C:R? SIGH. I don’t know enough about Shirley to really ship her, but maybe after I watch that route.

my OTP:Cardia x Lupin/Van/Fran/Impey/Saint. ALL OF THEM. AT THE SAME TIME.

my OT3:Cardia x uhhh… well, I do love the dynamic of Saint/Cardia/Impey in @siriusstarjd‘s fic so we’ll go with that!

Thanks for mentioning my CarNem/NemCar/HowDoWeEvenCallThisShipItSoundsLikeANewCarBrand-pic :D

I have to say I was completely crushed when I played Impeys route and saw poor Nemo suffering so much and as much as I like Impey I always thought “why cant we just switch midroad to Nemo he needs our love soo much more” while playing.

I mean Impey and Nemo they’ve gone through similar pasts and they both got rejected a lot but Impey actually managed to get a hold of himself even BEFORE Cardia arrived. In his route Cardias love sure has strenghten him a lot and made him feel even more comfortable with his life but he wouldnt go mad nuts even if Cardia wouldnt choose him because he had his friend Lupin and the others before who already helped him out of his misery.

But Nemo is alone. Sure, he doesn’t really let anyone near him besides those who he deems worthy and he also doesn’t really care about others if they can’t contribute to his scientific goals, but thats all just a cry for help (often literally, as we know how he tends to speak :>), that resulted out of his traumatic past where he had to witness his whole family getting slaughtered.

Thats why I think he really, REALLY NEEDS love. I mean I’m very happy that he got Impey as a friend in Finis’ route (which is also my fav route because of all the nemo content btw :P), but imagine what a lovely, calm, gentle, adorable person like Cardia could do to him. I think she might be the only person whom he could truly open up to and show all his REAL emotions to he has been hiding behind his crazy facade.

As for Cardia I think she could see a whole different perspective of life, when she spends time with Nemo, where one doesn’t have to be always “normal” and spent life the “boring” way, similar to Impey, where he shows her to smile even in the toughest moments of life, but a bit more on the crazy side.

Well, Tl;Dr: I see a lot of romantic potential between those two and I can’t believe that a guy with such a dramatic backstory (and such a pretty face :>) didn’t get his own route. I think they’re saving him for last to give him his OWN GAME AHAHAHA ok thats a bit too much I guess, lol.