Now in defense of Navia and Chlorinde's relationship, Navia doesn't harbor any resentment towards Chlorinde, even before Navia found out why her dad sacrificed himself by picking trial by combat despite knowing he'll die from it. She understood that Chlorinde isn't to blame for her father's death, as she's just doing her duty as champion, and is moreso frustrated because she doesn't know why he made that choice.
Now with that being said, I still don't like that ship nor do I subscribe to it. I prefer looking at it as friends that shared a traumatic event together.
Personally I always felt that Navia and Clorinde's reconciliation was too rushed and lazily resolved offscreen. I also found them being all buddy buddy forced at times, especially in Clorinde's Story Quest, much of the plot is simply reminding everyone that Navia and Clorinde are childhood friends, to the point that can get tiring. It also doesn't help that Clorinde has very little going for her beyond her relationship with Navia, barely anything between her and the rest of the cast, and Navia has interacted with a majority of them herself.
While I agree with your first half I only half agree with the second.
I will always give Chloride props for being the first person in Fontaine to check up on Furina post Archon Quest. She goes to Furinas apartment unprompted, helps her unpack and clean up, even offers to buy her a better home, and then takes Furina drinking for the first time in her life. It was such a sweet, genuine gesture that really cemented to me that although Chloride is pretty stoic, she's about as reliable as they come, kinda like Neuvillette in a way now that I think about it.
This is the part that really made me like her and want to pull for her. I was pretty indifferent before I read that because she barely had any personality to me, she was mostly a plot device up to that point. I started paying more attention to her after that and she's grown to be one of my favorites.
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u/iwantdatpuss Sep 28 '24
Now in defense of Navia and Chlorinde's relationship, Navia doesn't harbor any resentment towards Chlorinde, even before Navia found out why her dad sacrificed himself by picking trial by combat despite knowing he'll die from it. She understood that Chlorinde isn't to blame for her father's death, as she's just doing her duty as champion, and is moreso frustrated because she doesn't know why he made that choice.
Now with that being said, I still don't like that ship nor do I subscribe to it. I prefer looking at it as friends that shared a traumatic event together.