>>3888697To make the point of my post a little more clear, I guess I just personally find it hard to ship them, because there's so much more going on with Char as a character, than their potential mutual attraction. It gets a little more difficult too, when you realize Char is in some ways Tomino's mouthpiece, and that Tomino is genuinely concerned about the course humanity is taking *in real life* with industrialization, the way we're treating the planet, the profit motivations of the "federation" (which is not just the US) and the suffering it causes, and so on...
I guess my taste for shipping is just more cuter lighter relationships. Quatre and Trowa is still probably my favorite if I had to pick a Gundam ship.
>yet he won't allow himself to be vulnerable and actually express how he feels! So even when he HAS people trying to understand him(poor Nanai) he'll continue to push them away by being emotionally unavailableSee this is the thing about Char: I think he was completely open with Nanai. He overtly tells her he is trying to save the Earth and the human species. She basically tells him he'll be "worse than Hitler" if he pulls his plan off, but she accepts him anyway because she believes in what he's doing.
He's also very vulnerable with her, physically, and we see this in the movie. He lets her caress him and he snuggles up to her in that scene towards the end when they discuss battle plans.
And then with Lalah, he couldn't get over her death because she was as deeply compassionate as he was for the state of humanity AND a powerful psychic. She was the ideal he wanted humans to be like: hoped that if we were all like her we'd start caring about how we treat each other and the planet.
(also hard for me to ship, because he genuinely loved these women)
I guess what I mean to say is I find the "I can fix him" shipping impulse to be something I just can't get into.
There is passion in Charmuro, but I guess I don't think Char was broken.
