Would you be willing to talk about why you like Nepeta? I just don't hear much in terms of character analysis or anything about her like I see a lot for more prominent characters and am curious about your thoughts. Er, just cause I said "character analysis" don't feel like this has to be super deep or anything, I'm just curious on your thoughts in general on a character that seems under appreciated.
Sure!
I like her personally because I have such an attachment to the innocent “did nothing wrong” characters in almost every media thing I watch, ever since Steins;Gate and Mayuri happened ;_;
my boyfriend makes a joke about i have a room full of “Mayuri” characters who need to be taken away from their canon like child services and come join my nice happy safe little tea party in my happy little room
and Nepeta I would consider one of those lol a bunch of innocent little cinnamon rolls too pure for this world
But then also theres like amazing canon stuff about Nepeta that can be expanded into like tons of headcanons if you sit and think about her for more than a second
like shes great at acting and writing (all seasoned roleplayers naturally develop those gifts lol) shes caring and not a jealous or vengeful bone in her body as weve seen only a sort of longing and no hatefulness on her part because she loved Karkat and he didnt reciprocate, and yet remained wonderful friends with Terezi like Karkat crushing on TZ had no repurcussions on their friendship, and she must have known about the ship because theres no she of all people wouldnt
and yet she stands up in the face of death probably knowing she has no chance of living against a person who killed someone as strong as equius because shes also infinitely loyal to fault and driven by her passions
Like yes she’s a bit passive as a character and maybe isnt super comfortable in the spotlight and maybe doesnt know how to react when stuff gets super heavy and dramatic and full of death, unlike other characters, but I’ve never thought that made her boring, if anything it made her more personal, not everyone is an extrovert afterall and i can relate personally to the not knowing how to react appropriately in dramatic or tense situations, i prefer to make things lighthearted and jokey, even when it might be a bit inappropriate for the atmosphere and then i bite my tongue as soon as its out my mouth like d’oh
She has a wonderfully creative mind if her art and shipping and roleplaying is any indication
also shes strong as fuck, she canonically goes on hunts for the huge fauna on her planet, with her bare hands no less, and she sometimes carries around her own twice as big as her guardian lusus when it gets too tired on a hunt
like shes just overall a really wonderful character to me, characters dont have to be dark and brooding and have tragedy upon tragedy happen to them to make them interesting, and just because we dont see her talk to people other than Equius or Terezi a lot doesnt mean she never had anything to say in the first place (insert cat got your tongue introvert joke here)
which is when tragedy constantly strikes her in canon it makes me sad and feels just as unnecessary as stepping on a happy little sunflower minding its own business, since we don’t see what she’s like from soemthing like that. She’s just one of those characters that doesn’t grow in sadness, she grows in happiness! Put her in a happy situation and you see what she’s all about and what her character is like, that’s what she always felt like to me anyway
