Alright Tumblr this hasn't left my head and I must alert the congregation. I've had a thought recently; Nori and Uzi are talked about A Lot as far as what their relationship post-canon would be. I feel like for the most part we all agree things would be awkward and tense for a hot minute but eventually they have The Talk and things start to feel kind of normal as they start spending more time together and catching up and bonding all mother-daughter style and I am 100% down for this, I agree full-send. The dynamic between N and Nori is also discussed since, inevitably (in terms of canon) N and Nori are gonna have a lot of contact since N is dating Uzi. I also feel like there's a general consensus on their dynamic, also hella awkward for a while but eventually shifts into maybe-not-QUITE mother-son but definitely mentor-"student" (not STUDENT, exactly, but you get it) roles. Y'know what we DON'T talk about, collectively, as a fandom enough (at least from what I've seen)? The potential dynamic between V and Nori. You know something? Call me crazy, but even if V doesn't engage with Uzi romantically (again, strictly in terms of canon) I feel like Nori may eventually take on a motherly/mentor role for V too.
HEAR ME OUT A SEC. They have a lot more in common than one would think at first glance. V was forcefully changed into something she never would have wanted if she had any say in the matter, made to commit heinous acts that she heavily regrets - even if she doesn't often outwardly express said regret - and ultimately made a choice to protect someone that means the world to her to keep them from being changed, and thus hurt, as deeply as she was (by acting cold and keeping herself closed off, in V's case) - which actually ended up hurting the one she wanted to protect more than just Being There would have. Sound familiar?
Nori had the Solver directly implanted into her code by the humans in the lab*, forcefully changing her into the main host. With this new forced title, there were two terrible incidents with Nori at the center - one being the complete massacre of a "scientific" team and NEAR catalyst of the end of C9, the second the exact same thing except this time she DID blow a hole through the center of C9 and wiped out the entire human race (on that planet, anyway). Eventually when she realized Uzi has the Solver in her systems, she decided to go back to the labs to look for the patch so that she could bring it back to Uzi and prevent the Solver from tormenting Uzi in the same way it tormented her her entire life from the labs onward. However, this was a bad choice in the sense that it basically caused all of the mental torment that caused Uzi to initially fall to the Solver in the first place (Nori "dies", Khan goes full work mode and basically abandons her in her own home, everyone thinks she's a freak because if the coping mechanism she chooses and bullies her which causes her to close herself off, que the unbearable loneliness and deep desire for connection that she could never find Uzi faced in the bunker up until the inciting incident of the pilot), completely defeating the purpose of going to look for the patch. But, Uzi ended up okay because she learned how to fight it back without the patch that saved Nori's life. I'm certain this outcome doesn't save Nori from Crippling Guilt for a while.
Much like how N and V eventually make up post-canon and become friends again, but it doesn't undo the fact that N was so, so very alone for Years while V kept herself at a distance. He felt below everything because for Some Reason, No One Would Even Look His Way. And this isn't a "please validate me" kind of desire, this is a "please god someone just remind me that I'm real" kind of loneliness. N has been having flashbacks to a life he doesn't remember, is killing for survival despite the fact that he hates every second of it, and knows Something Is Wrong but Goddamnit, No One Will Tell Him What. V could have helped with that, but she didn't - in the name of protecting him. Which he doesn't know until now that it's all over.
SO LIKE. DO YOU SEE THE VISION.
I ASK YOU, TUMBLR MURDER DRONES COMMUNITY, DO YOU SEE THE VISION?????
Both of these women were forced into something they hate, made to commit acts they hate(d) themselves for, and the choices they made to protect the people that meant EVERYTHING to them ended up doing THE MOST HARM IT COULD EVER DO. THERE IS SO MUCH BONDING POTENTIAL HERE. SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR HEALING.
*this is headcanon, I will admit, since the acts committed in the labs are largely unexplained. However, the little paper that comes with the JCJenson water bottle causes me to believe that the humans running CFL did in fact implant the Solver directly into the code of the drones they "housed."
