Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24934890-20181008004211/@comment-26018514-20181017164448

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

73.Anon.52 wrote:

UlrichSetera wrote: The point is they botched the ship by making both characters virtually worthless to the show, with Nora even lacking pretty much any characterization outside 'anime girl'........... I'm not really sure I understand what more you exactly want? Ren depends on Nora and Nora depends on Ren, they each have unique talents and temperament, neither is really important enough to waste much more focus on, so you want what? What Setera wants, is for Nora to stop being Sun. What Setera wants, is for Nora to actually have some character, motivation and depth that does not orbit entirely around Ren.

She's this energetic girl who talks like Stitch and is so mentally slow that some of the jokes are even based around how slow she is.

That's literally the only parts about Nora's character as a whole that have nothing to do with Ren. Everything else is based around how she's his childhood friend and how she loves him and wants to be together with him, platonically if not romantic. There's nothing about her beyond the basics of her personality that are not based entirely around Ren. You mean, besides her electric personality, love of Pancakes/Syrup, and her penchant for capital punishment of those who hurt her friends? It's still more than we really know about some of the main characters... and she and Ren aren't main characters in that way.

We know Nora is a true Orphan in ways Ren is not, she's unlikely to have any keepsakes from before Ren(or be materialistic at all, considering she probably hasn't had a truly stable home other than Ren since before they met), and she probably can't remember anything(or at least much) from before then. Pretty much the only other things to know about her would amount to political views she likely doesn't care about, religion(again likely doesn't have a preference), diseases or birth defects she might have... and there really isn't an appropriate spot in the narrative for that to have been given, as we don't really know that stuff for the others either. This is why I still wonder what more you could exactly want for her.