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<p>[QUOTE="Drathnoxis, post: 13762, member: 212"]</p><p>Have another 1500 words.</p><p></p><p><u>The One True Ship: Reg/Nanachi.</u></p><p></p><p>A relationship between Reg and Nanachi makes the most sense out of any match in the series, both in the sense of a logical continuation of their interactions and as a good avenue of development for their characters. I haven't come to this conclusion lightly, early on I was rooting for a Reg/Riko ship, which was something that was seemingly even being endorsed by Nanachi herself. However, as events progressed and it became more and more obvious what the true ship should be, I just couldn't stand behind it.</p><p></p><p>So what do these two have going for them? Firstly, Reg and Nanachi have simply been through the most together. Nursing Riko back to health and euthanizing Mitty, these were two of the most emotional and personally traumatic events that any of the characters have experienced, and Reg and Nanachi went through them both together. After supporting each other during something like that, it's only natural for them to have a deeper bond to each other than any other character. Of course, this isn't the extent of my argument, this could result in a completely platonic bond of friendship, and actually that's how I felt at the time. When Nanachi was pushing Reg to get in the spring with Riko, I thought it was a cute scene, and the thought of Reg/Nanachi didn't even enter my head. However, things change later. The first thing that made me start to consider them as a ship was when we learn that Reg's fascination with petting Nanachi's fur isn't as innocent as it first appeared. That he actually gets sexually aroused caused pretty big paradigm shift in my perception of their relationship. Now we have an emotional bond and sexual attraction on Reg's side. That's great, that's a huge justification for a relationship, but Nanachi is, at least outwardly, opposed to this kind of contact, so that's a bit of a hitch (also, no means no, and Reg should really respect that).</p><p></p><p>Let's take a deeper look into Nanachi's action now. For starters, yes, Nanachi does complain, but she is rarely too aggressive in her refusal. To my recollection she has only ever struck him one time, and that was when she realized he had gotten a boner during the fight with Bondrewd. Completely understandable as that's about the most shockingly inappropriate time for it as is possible, and she seems a little offended that it was her fur rather than her words that brought him back. But we can still explain this lack of aggression as Nananchi just being too nice for violence, even in her own defense. However, when we look at their interactions beyond the fluffing we can begin to draw some new conclusions. Stated flatly, the person that shows the most concern for Reg's well being, out of anybody else, is Nanachi herself. Now to give some supporting examples. When Reg is getting his arm cut off in the torture chair, Nanachi is the one that races in pushes her way through the Umbra Hands to pull him out of it <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/01-jpg.189/">[1]</a><a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/02-jpg.190/">[2]</a>. Granted, Riko wasn't there in time, and is herself pretty affected by the scene, but first come first served. Riko then goes in to pull Prushka out while Nanachi supports Reg as he reels Riko back in (a small detail the anime left out)<a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/03-jpg.191/">[3]</a>. Afterward, Reg passes out and Nanachi carries him <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/04-jpg.192/">[4]</a>. These two aren't really proof of anything, just more moments of Nanachi supporting Reg. After Reg 6th-layers Bondrewd and starts crying at the thought of what he did, Nanachi comforts him and apologizes for making him do it <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/05-jpg.193/">[5]</a>. Then afterward, when they are figuring out Bondrewd's body swapping relic, Nanachi notices that his head is missing and says to look, but then considers Reg's sensitive nature and stops him <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/06-jpg.194/">[6]</a>. When Reg loses himself after charging up with Ido Front's power, Nanachi notices and seems concerned about what's happened to him, but Riko just thinks he seems 'fired up' <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/07-jpg.196/">[7]</a>. Then immediately afterwards, Riko notices Meinya and leaves Nanachi to watch over Reg's fight <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/08-jpg.197/">[8]</a>. Obviously from now on we get a lot of moments of Nanachi reacting to Reg in peril, because Riko is off being concerned with Prushka. When Reg is going to blow up Ido Front, Nanachi is the one to bring him back to his senses <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/09-jpg.198/">[9]</a><a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/10-jpg.199/">[10]</a> and comfort him afterwards <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/11-jpg.200/">[11]</a>. Then, after Riko blasts Bondrewd with the Incinerator, Nanachi is running to Reg <em>before the blast has even finished burning the air or Bondrewd's body has even touched the floor</em><a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/13-jpg.201/">[12]</a>. If that doesn't say a tremendous amount I don't know what does. Then after Reg passes out for the two hours after the fight she treats him and is still sitting by him stroking his hair as he wakes up <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/14-jpg.202/">[13]</a>. Meanwhile, Riko is just sitting on the floor crying over Prushka, a person she only met half a day earlier. Nanachi then supports Reg as they walk over to Riko (another detail missing from the anime)<a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/15-jpg.203/">[14]</a>.</p><p>[SPOILER="Supporting images."]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="189"]189[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="190"]190[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="191"]191[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="192"]192[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="193"]193[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="194"]194[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="196"]196[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="197"]197[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="198"]198[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="199"]199[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="200"]200[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="204"]204[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="201"]201[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="202"]202[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH type="full" alt="203"]203[/ATTACH][/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>These are a lot of little moments that all add up to Nanachi giving a ton of support to Reg, more than Riko for sure. Maybe that's just because Nanachi is older and more mature than her, though (actually that's another point in Nanachi's favour as far as shipping goes). Of course after Ido Front we don't really get too many more of these moments as Nanachi spends most of the next arc asleep. But heck, as far as I remember, the last of Riko's ship material with Reg, even to the end of Iruburu, was the bath in layer 4. The moment that she realized how much of a real boy Reg is, is also pretty much the last moment that the series pushes their relationship. Where as we are always getting these moments of Reg wanting to pet Nanachi or sniff Nanachi, or just have him staring at Nanachi. Now, I know what people are going to say: what about Faputa? To that, I have say it's a bad ship, plain and simple. Our introduction to her has her impaling Reg in the (already injured) belly-button, and later on she pummels him from the <em>inside</em>, in what is probably the second most brutal assault we've seen Reg experience. She also has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old despite apparently being over a hundred. She's a bad person and it would not be a healthy relationship, it would be abusive and it's gross just thinking about it.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, back to Nanachi and Reg. So we can see that Nanachi and Reg at the least share a mutual concern and affection for one another, one that can at least be argued to be deeper and more persistently displayed than with the other characters. But why should this be developed into an actual relationship? Quite frankly, because it would be good for Nanachi's character. Nanachi's character arc has been partially about opening up and letting new people into her heart. When we meet her, she is distant, and almost apathetic. Her past traumas have hardened her to a degree, but they haven't made her unkind. She learns to trust Reg more and more as the series goes on, we get several reaction shots of surprise as Reg demonstrates that he has her best interest at heart, but we still see that she is a bit embarrassed about revealing her true thoughts and feelings to others. Now that Mitty is gone, the thing that Nanachi needs most is to move on and let something else fill the hole that she left behind. Reg is the most logical thing to fill that hole (not <em>that hole</em> you perverts!) A relationship with Reg would give Nanachi a reason to keep living, and would hopefully give her more reasons to be involved in the plot, since obviously Reg will be a prime mover. Nanachi and Reg are also just a great team, Nanachi is a good strategist and Reg is weak on quick decision making. Nanachi's ability to see the force-field and use this to predict enemy movement and guide Reg's actions was used to great effect with the Orb Piercer. After that fight I was hoping that they were going to become an effective combo team, but unfortunately this aspect has been left to languish since that fight. It's not necessarily a reason they need to be a ship, but just another of the many reasons that these two go well together.</p><p></p><p>But obviously this is all just wishful thinking. It's plain by now that Tsukushi is a plot based writer, and not character based. And Faputa screws a lot of this up and would make an unpleasant jealousy subplot inevitable. Not to mention that Tsukushi has made it abundantly clear that he has no interest in doing much with Nanachi anyway, but it's nice to think of what might have been.</p><p></p><p>Edit: Uploaded images to Sanctuary.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Drathnoxis, post: 13762, member: 212"] Have another 1500 words. [U]The One True Ship: Reg/Nanachi.[/U] A relationship between Reg and Nanachi makes the most sense out of any match in the series, both in the sense of a logical continuation of their interactions and as a good avenue of development for their characters. I haven't come to this conclusion lightly, early on I was rooting for a Reg/Riko ship, which was something that was seemingly even being endorsed by Nanachi herself. However, as events progressed and it became more and more obvious what the true ship should be, I just couldn't stand behind it. So what do these two have going for them? Firstly, Reg and Nanachi have simply been through the most together. Nursing Riko back to health and euthanizing Mitty, these were two of the most emotional and personally traumatic events that any of the characters have experienced, and Reg and Nanachi went through them both together. After supporting each other during something like that, it's only natural for them to have a deeper bond to each other than any other character. Of course, this isn't the extent of my argument, this could result in a completely platonic bond of friendship, and actually that's how I felt at the time. When Nanachi was pushing Reg to get in the spring with Riko, I thought it was a cute scene, and the thought of Reg/Nanachi didn't even enter my head. However, things change later. The first thing that made me start to consider them as a ship was when we learn that Reg's fascination with petting Nanachi's fur isn't as innocent as it first appeared. That he actually gets sexually aroused caused pretty big paradigm shift in my perception of their relationship. Now we have an emotional bond and sexual attraction on Reg's side. That's great, that's a huge justification for a relationship, but Nanachi is, at least outwardly, opposed to this kind of contact, so that's a bit of a hitch (also, no means no, and Reg should really respect that). Let's take a deeper look into Nanachi's action now. For starters, yes, Nanachi does complain, but she is rarely too aggressive in her refusal. To my recollection she has only ever struck him one time, and that was when she realized he had gotten a boner during the fight with Bondrewd. Completely understandable as that's about the most shockingly inappropriate time for it as is possible, and she seems a little offended that it was her fur rather than her words that brought him back. But we can still explain this lack of aggression as Nananchi just being too nice for violence, even in her own defense. However, when we look at their interactions beyond the fluffing we can begin to draw some new conclusions. Stated flatly, the person that shows the most concern for Reg's well being, out of anybody else, is Nanachi herself. Now to give some supporting examples. When Reg is getting his arm cut off in the torture chair, Nanachi is the one that races in pushes her way through the Umbra Hands to pull him out of it [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/01-jpg.189/'][1][/URL][URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/02-jpg.190/'][2][/URL]. Granted, Riko wasn't there in time, and is herself pretty affected by the scene, but first come first served. Riko then goes in to pull Prushka out while Nanachi supports Reg as he reels Riko back in (a small detail the anime left out)[URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/03-jpg.191/'][3][/URL]. Afterward, Reg passes out and Nanachi carries him [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/04-jpg.192/'][4][/URL]. These two aren't really proof of anything, just more moments of Nanachi supporting Reg. After Reg 6th-layers Bondrewd and starts crying at the thought of what he did, Nanachi comforts him and apologizes for making him do it [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/05-jpg.193/'][5][/URL]. Then afterward, when they are figuring out Bondrewd's body swapping relic, Nanachi notices that his head is missing and says to look, but then considers Reg's sensitive nature and stops him [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/06-jpg.194/'][6][/URL]. When Reg loses himself after charging up with Ido Front's power, Nanachi notices and seems concerned about what's happened to him, but Riko just thinks he seems 'fired up' [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/07-jpg.196/'][7][/URL]. Then immediately afterwards, Riko notices Meinya and leaves Nanachi to watch over Reg's fight [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/08-jpg.197/'][8][/URL]. Obviously from now on we get a lot of moments of Nanachi reacting to Reg in peril, because Riko is off being concerned with Prushka. When Reg is going to blow up Ido Front, Nanachi is the one to bring him back to his senses [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/09-jpg.198/'][9][/URL][URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/10-jpg.199/'][10][/URL] and comfort him afterwards [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/11-jpg.200/'][11][/URL]. Then, after Riko blasts Bondrewd with the Incinerator, Nanachi is running to Reg [I]before the blast has even finished burning the air or Bondrewd's body has even touched the floor[/I][URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/13-jpg.201/'][12][/URL]. If that doesn't say a tremendous amount I don't know what does. Then after Reg passes out for the two hours after the fight she treats him and is still sitting by him stroking his hair as he wakes up [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/14-jpg.202/'][13][/URL]. Meanwhile, Riko is just sitting on the floor crying over Prushka, a person she only met half a day earlier. Nanachi then supports Reg as they walk over to Riko (another detail missing from the anime)[URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?attachments/15-jpg.203/'][14][/URL]. [SPOILER="Supporting images."] [ATTACH type="full" alt="189"]189[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="190"]190[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="191"]191[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="192"]192[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="193"]193[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="194"]194[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="196"]196[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="197"]197[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="198"]198[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="199"]199[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="200"]200[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="204"]204[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="201"]201[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="202"]202[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="203"]203[/ATTACH][/SPOILER] These are a lot of little moments that all add up to Nanachi giving a ton of support to Reg, more than Riko for sure. Maybe that's just because Nanachi is older and more mature than her, though (actually that's another point in Nanachi's favour as far as shipping goes). Of course after Ido Front we don't really get too many more of these moments as Nanachi spends most of the next arc asleep. But heck, as far as I remember, the last of Riko's ship material with Reg, even to the end of Iruburu, was the bath in layer 4. The moment that she realized how much of a real boy Reg is, is also pretty much the last moment that the series pushes their relationship. Where as we are always getting these moments of Reg wanting to pet Nanachi or sniff Nanachi, or just have him staring at Nanachi. Now, I know what people are going to say: what about Faputa? To that, I have say it's a bad ship, plain and simple. Our introduction to her has her impaling Reg in the (already injured) belly-button, and later on she pummels him from the [I]inside[/I], in what is probably the second most brutal assault we've seen Reg experience. She also has the emotional maturity of a 5 year old despite apparently being over a hundred. She's a bad person and it would not be a healthy relationship, it would be abusive and it's gross just thinking about it. Anyway, back to Nanachi and Reg. So we can see that Nanachi and Reg at the least share a mutual concern and affection for one another, one that can at least be argued to be deeper and more persistently displayed than with the other characters. But why should this be developed into an actual relationship? Quite frankly, because it would be good for Nanachi's character. Nanachi's character arc has been partially about opening up and letting new people into her heart. When we meet her, she is distant, and almost apathetic. Her past traumas have hardened her to a degree, but they haven't made her unkind. She learns to trust Reg more and more as the series goes on, we get several reaction shots of surprise as Reg demonstrates that he has her best interest at heart, but we still see that she is a bit embarrassed about revealing her true thoughts and feelings to others. Now that Mitty is gone, the thing that Nanachi needs most is to move on and let something else fill the hole that she left behind. Reg is the most logical thing to fill that hole (not [I]that hole[/I] you perverts!) A relationship with Reg would give Nanachi a reason to keep living, and would hopefully give her more reasons to be involved in the plot, since obviously Reg will be a prime mover. Nanachi and Reg are also just a great team, Nanachi is a good strategist and Reg is weak on quick decision making. Nanachi's ability to see the force-field and use this to predict enemy movement and guide Reg's actions was used to great effect with the Orb Piercer. After that fight I was hoping that they were going to become an effective combo team, but unfortunately this aspect has been left to languish since that fight. It's not necessarily a reason they need to be a ship, but just another of the many reasons that these two go well together. But obviously this is all just wishful thinking. It's plain by now that Tsukushi is a plot based writer, and not character based. And Faputa screws a lot of this up and would make an unpleasant jealousy subplot inevitable. Not to mention that Tsukushi has made it abundantly clear that he has no interest in doing much with Nanachi anyway, but it's nice to think of what might have been. Edit: Uploaded images to Sanctuary. [/QUOTE]
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