What is with relina?

[windwraith]

Love her? hate her? Is she a visionary or a stalker? Why is Relina so eager to have heero come kill her? Anyone have any insights into her character? What motivates the pink prencess? How does she change through the series?

(probabally should have put this under characterization, sorry)

[Lunah]

Relena is fucking awesome.

Although the basic idea of her can easily be annoying. "HEERO COME KILL ME. HEERO I NEED A LIFE. HEERO END IT. HEERROOOOOO"

Yeah, that gets annoying quickly. And her fangirls are annoying as shit too. "Let's all be brave, for Relena! It's what she would want - "yeah shut the fuck up and get a life you stupid pompous little -

what was I saying?

Oh yeah, Relena. No, actually, Relena's a really good character, especially later in the series. After she shoots Une, actually, she becomes kickass. Before that, she's an annoying baby.

But Relena is amazing.

To answer your questions:

1. I love her.
2. She's a visionary stalker.
3. She just wants to see him again. Being dead is better than never seeing Hee-chan for her.
4. My insight is that she really likes the color pink.
5. Her motivation is peace and awesomeness. Also men who stuff guns down their pants to look more endowed.
6. She becomes kickass.

[nakitsura]

Relena is a ridiculously fun character to mess with. She does some of the stupidest crap imaginable. Such as chase Heero. Dude points a gun at me, I'm gone. Not Relena. She is persistent.

In all seriousness though, I don't hate Relena. I don't love her, but she is interesting. You can actually watch her grow up through the series. The whole gun business? Total proof that Relena secretly has major cojones.

That pink car makes me want to shrivel up and DIE though.

[aynessa]

Mar 7, 2010 0:50:06 GMT -5 Lunah said:

Relena is fucking awesome.

Although the basic idea of her can easily be annoying. "HEERO COME KILL ME. HEERO I NEED A LIFE. HEERO END IT. HEERROOOOOO"

Yeah, that gets annoying quickly. And her fangirls are annoying as shit too. "Let's all be brave, for Relena! It's what she would want - "yeah shut the fuck up and get a life you stupid pompous little -

what was I saying?

Oh yeah, Relena. No, actually, Relena's a really good character, especially later in the series. After she shoots Une, actually, she becomes kickass. Before that, she's an annoying baby.

But Relena is amazing.

To answer your questions:

1. I love her.
2. She's a visionary stalker.
3. She just wants to see him again. Being dead is better than never seeing Hee-chan for her.
4. My insight is that she really likes the color pink.
5. Her motivation is peace and awesomeness. Also men who stuff guns down their pants to look more endowed.
6. She becomes kickass.

^ What she said. Srsly.

[halogazer]

Relena, at the beginning, seems almost like she's spoiled. And she annoys the HELL out of me. But shedding that skin and turning to "writer-mode" where I start to analyze a character, I think there's just a part of her that finds him intriguing, not to mention she's probably just lonely and wants a true friend. She has admirers, but I wouldn't even really consider them "friends." They see her as the perfect celebrity role model, and aspire to be like her, blah blah blah. She's the ideal girlfriend, ideal friend, etc.

Except, of course, when she starts to cry out "HEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOO" like a banshee or something. That's when I want to slam a baseball bat across that pretty little head of hers. And that stupid PINK CAR. I hate it as much as I hate Dorothy's 24-karat gold car. What is up with that? Be standard and buy a white car! Effing god!

But anyway, Relena's presence and the insistence she has for pacifism, not to mention the fact that she symbolizes innocence and purity, is an integral part of the series. The whole thing is about war and whatever, and then there's Relena. She brings out the innocence in all the characters, especially Heero, who really knows nothing else but how to be a soldier. Under that tough exterior, he just wants to live a normal life. That's why Relena is so important to be around, mostly for Heero. While he is considered the perfect soldier, he really isn't because deep down, I don't think he cares much for war and just wants to be a regular 15-year-old boy.

Some of my friends would lynch me if they read this, but I think Relena is pretty cool... when she's not being annoying. By the end of the series, I respect her a great deal and she matures into a strong young woman. She undergoes her own transformation just like the boys do. I think she's awesome, and the series just wouldn't be the same without her.

[koschei]

Hey Relena, Penelope from Thunderbirds just called, she wants her car back.

[zethsaire]

Relena is...interesting. Before I finished the series, I hated her. She's so immature and spoiled in the beginning of the series, it's revolting. And her English voice actor is TERRIBLE. But after watching the series in Japanese, all the way through, I sort of changed my mind.

It's like she grows up. At first she proposes complete pacifism, and doesn't really understand people and politics, having been protected from most of it. Then, once war actually affects her, she becomes so much more awesome. She still advocated pacifism and works towards peace, but is not afraid to pull out a gun and shoot someone. Or sic Heero on them.

And in Endless Waltz when Marimeia is being a spoiled little brat and Relena puts her in her place, it's so awesome. I still never pair her with Heero, but I can agree that she was key to bringing him around, and maybe even keeping him alive during the war.

[windwraith]

What do you think was running through her head when she was yelling 'heero come killll me!?'

[Lunah]

Mar 11, 2010 12:36:20 GMT -5 koschei said:

Hey Relena, Penelope from Thunderbirds just called, she wants her car back.

I lol'd hard.



I think she might have been thinking 'Heero, come kill me.'

But that's just my two cents.

Nawww, jk. She was just flipping. Psycho.

[adhdinspired]

I adore Relena.

I hated her way back in the day, but I took my head out of my ass, so to speak. Yeah, she does have her annoying ways, but over all? She's a strong woman. Look how much she goes through and doesn't break down. Not really.

I have nothing but respect for that woman.

[Lunah]

^

also, the Trowa quote in your siggy. lol I always imagine it as being oddly sexual

I'M SORRY THERE I GO BEING A PERV AGAIN

[adhdinspired]

AHAHAH. Yeah. ;D I play a darkly sexual Trowa! It was... intentional.

[Lunah]

;D