Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130809142349/@comment-4830106-20130809143015

BenRG wrote: So, we've finally been introduced to all of our heroic principals. I loved Ren's morning with Nora babbling away in the background. With all that verbage and he had only one thing to say to her when she finally asked the impossible (to make sloth noises).

So, what is the deal with them? Relationship-awaiting realisation? Long-term friendship?

Personally, I think that they're siblings-by-choice. They've spent so long around each other and have shared so many adventures through the years that they don't need words anymore. Nora talks because she's naturally a motor-mouth but Ren doesn't have to reply because she knows him well enough to know what he'd say in most cases.

It's that comfortable familiarity that siblings and old married couples tend to have. I'm pushing for the sibling thing, at least for now, because of Nora immediately nixing the suggestion of a romantic relationship when she inadvertantly mentioned it. I agree, I don't see any romance there either. My prediction is that Ren and Nora are basically going to be ANVL's odd couple; they are both pretty much complete opposites, but they are still very close friends. In terms of their relevance to the series, that first scene they had was just too ridiculous for me to see their relationship as anything other than comic relief.