#nami (fmp!)

[askfullmetalpanic]

┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ In this ┃╱╱╲╲ house ╱╱╭╮╲╲ we love ▔▏┗┛▕▔ & appreciate ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ Nami from FMP! ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

[askfullmetalpanic]

About the SouNami ask: I think it was one of the things which made the series more realistic and show us that Sousuke is just a "normal guy" with such interest and so on. To be honest, I don't like the pairing (cheers!), but I'm glad the story was there :) It's really a great series!

Yeah, it definitely was there to highlight that part of Sousuke, which I am so so glad for! But the question was about how Sousuke felt about her, not what her role was, so I just addressed that part :D

If we talk about her role, she was, disappointingly, really just a plot device, and she was fridged. That really really sucks. Nami deserved better than that.

But even so, she was well developed even for her short time in the story, and she’s very interesting and stands well on her own. It’s a damn shame she wasn’t put to better use.

[askfullmetalpanic]

Was Sousuke really in love with Nami? I know he admired her and all but I feel he will always be true to Kaname, that she will always be the one no matter what. I just can't imagine him having any sort of romantic feelings, even just the slightest, for someone else :,(

I don’t think he had full on romantic love for her, no.

But there was something.

She understood him and she soothed a hurt he felt. She did for him what Kaname usually did, and reminded him of his humanity. She let him be, she let him exist freely as himself, and to be expressive, and to be a part of something.

If he didn’t have such strong feelings for Kaname, I think he could have fallen in love with her. But what he had in their time together, it was a form of love. It was the beginning of it. He felt for her in a different way than he felt towards, say, Kurz and Mao. But not quite so strongly as he felt for Kaname.

It was, I guess, a puppy love of sorts. It didn’t develop beyond, but it was there.