✩°｡ ⋆⸜ 20 Years old

✩°｡ ⋆⸜ Traveler (came from another universe to Earth-518

✩°｡ ⋆⸜ Have been being trained by Nanami since she arrived there 2 years ago

I did ajim already here

Nanavex:

(fair warning, this isn’t exactly positive - I’m sorry, I really am)

1. I thought the ship would be really cool the first time I saw it on screen.  I’ve been fond of the idea of Nana having a nonhuman significant other since I first joined the fandom.

2. However, the ship failed to capture my interest.  I didn’t like Vex’s fantasy sequences.  No other character had them, except for Toby (and that was only once).  I just didn’t get why we needed multiple with Vex after the first?

3. I disliked the plot thread with Phil that seemed only to exist to create drama and turn Nana into something for Vex to win.  I just, romance plots like that make me so tired.

4. How they overall wrote Nana in 3Below sort of killed my interest in the character too.  I used to love her, and arguably some of the things they do with her are on par with things I would have done.  But the execution of it all just really didn’t work for me in the slightest.

agh thank you!!!!!! (and you’re welcome, too c:)

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

Nanavex

I really really wanted to like this one.  The first thing I ever did in the fandom was give Nana a troll husband.  At the time, I knew it was kind of cracky, and accepted that nothing like it could ever happen in canon.  So, in 3Below Part 1, when I got my first glimpse of her possibly being with Vex, an Akiridion, I got so excited (sure I wasn’t getting a canon troll husband, but Vex isn’t human at least, so it counted, sort of).

However, I haven’t been able to get into it.  I don’t dislike it per se, but it also doesn’t spark the same itch in me to create that my OTPs do.  It’s just kind of okay?  Maybe less of those Vex fantasy sequences would have helped?  I mean, I don’t generally gel with ToA’s canon ships anyway (how the shows as a whole handle romance is not something I’m fond of), but still I was pretty attached to the whole give Nana a nonhuman SO thing so, out of all of them, this should have been the one I got attached to…except then I didn’t  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

Right now, I’m gonna go with Colonel Kubritz (honorary mention is Aja, but I’m thinking of writing a whole analysis for her so I’m going to hold off on stating more opinions on her for the time being).  Yesterday, I talked about her some in a liveblog of Part 2 Episode 4 I did and, because I’m lazy I’m just going to copy/paste it here:

Kubritz’s later working with Morando is foreshadowed by how she strikes a deal with Tronos.  I don’t think that comes out of the blue.  Kubritz has set her objective at protecting Earth.  She’s found out extraterrestrials have more advanced tech than mankind, so she’s focused on acquiring that tech because without it, she can’t complete her protection objective.

Her goal and the way she goes about it are contradictory (she wants to protect Earth from extraterrestrials, yet she works with extraterrestrials).  I don’t think she, as a character, has realized this yet.  She’s gotten so caught up in her objective that I don’t think it’s occurred to her that her actions betray her values. At least not until the very end of the season.

We the audience can see her contradiction for what it is because we’re not her, and we have an outside perspective.  We also have an emotional connection to Aja and Krel and, because Kubritz is antagonistic to them, we won’t agree with her.

Kubritz only has her own perspective.  She doesn’t have to listen to her subordinates if she doesn’t want to (I believe, later, she doesn’t really listen to Costas when he begins to point things out).  Until the final battle, where Arcadia is literally being destroyed and she has the evidence that she’s wrong in front of her, Kubritz doesn’t manage to get out of her own head.

I don’t think this makes her a bad character, but a character with flaws.  To me, that makes her fascinating.