my read on Nagisa and Honoka has been that Honoka is only interested in girls, knows it and has known it for a while even if she hasnt told anyone. and that she is awkward and scared and she knows what she feels for Nagisa but won't tell out of fear of ruining things.
whereas Nagisa is unaware she has feelings towards girls (maybe girls and boys, perhaps really only girls) and can't describe or fully understand what she feels about Honoka.
I agree totally, I feel Honoka realized very early that she didnt had an interest in boys the same way other girls do. Though she probably didnt know why until her early teens when she could look more into it and could put a name to it.
Honoka does have low self esteem, like yeah she can be naive at times about social queue, but when she realizes she screw up she tends to pull away, like the first time she fought with Nagisa she gets very down, quits being a precure and prefers to not talk to Nagisa, or when she fighted with Nagisa in the movie she quite literally says she hates herself
Where i'm going with this? Honoka is not telling Nagisa any time soon that she likes her. Like yeah she gives hints, like calling her cute just when Nagisa said that "someone will find her cute the way she Is" but theres so much in line if Nagisa rejects her. Is different to her pestering Nagisa to confess to FujiP, theyre magical warriors whose connection make them stronger to fight, their relationship breaking can cost the world lmao
I also feel that the stronger reason why she wouldnt confess anytime soon is that she doesnt want to lose Nagisa as a friend. Like yes, Honoka has Yuriko and FujiP but their bond isn't as strong as what she has with Nagisa, with the closest being Hikari and Mipple but theres a possibility of losing them if she confess to Nagisa.
Realistically I feel that even if Nagisa rejected her I dont think she would want to stop being friends with Honoka, but It would probably be very awkward for a while, but Honoka doesnt know that, she probably thinks that she would nuke their relationship and thats the last thing she wants.
Nagisa I feel is gonna take a long while to realize. Other girls seem to confess to Nagisa and she has never reciprocated to any of them or considered the idea of "oh i might like girls too" even too, lets be honest, she likes girls lmao (Her whole gay ass relationship with Honoka, wanting Yuka to like her and their whole "rivalry", even blushing with that captain of the other school team in the Lacrosse Finals)
I think the thing that holds her back (aside from the fact that she probably doesnt even think that liking girls romantically is an option (at least long term) is that Nagisa is afraid of that vulnerability that comes with having a crush, towards the series we see that she doesnt want to accept that she has one, she gets shy and bangs her head against things when thinking on anything love related with FujiP its not until the latter episodes of Max Heart that we saw her more calm about it to Hikari and Honoka
Her whole confession to the air in the Christmas episode was more for herself, to accept that she is in love and being fine with whatever the future holds her in that regard, as before she always had this "oh i dont have a crush, i'm focused more on other stuff to be in love" vibe, possibly out of embarassment over liking someone.
Nagisa, like Honoka, tends to have some self hating tendencies when things go wrong, as well to being kinda negative in general. So i cant imagine she would handle well the realization that she likes Honoka romantically and would probably think the same of "oh this Is gonna nuke our relationship i cannot tell her" which funnily enough i think her trying to hide It would pull them closer and end up with them starting to date.
In a world without the pressures of being a precure and possibly ruining their relationship due to homophobia i think they would get together sooner but right now im thinking its happening in early-mid 20's
Anyway thats my little rant because i like them
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