Ken Arromdee wrote:
One thing that hasn't really been explored:
Unless you want to say that Nabiki was a lesbian all along, she's just
had her sexual orientation changed (at least with respect to one
person) via programming. Assuming you're not gay, consider how you'd
feel if you just woke up gay one morning. Even if you're not
homophobic, sexual orientation is a part of one's identity and I'd
imagine that having it suddenly swapped around would be upsetting.
The story only seems to consider that Nabiki was forced to fall in
love, but not that she was forced to fall in love with a woman.
Not only do I agree with this, it would seem to me that Nabiki would be
much more likely to see Lorelei as kind of sister, or maybe even a
mother. To love someone does not imply to be in love with someone.
For example, in more than a few Eva fanfics, Shinji and Kaoru love each
other, but in many of them, they're not *in love with* each other, it's
more of a very close brothers type thing. Consider that in the Bible,
there are a few places where two males say they love each other, but
nowhere does it imply that there's anything sexual in this love.
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1) Make the code so straightforward that there are obviously no bugs.
2) Make the code so complicated that there are no obvious bugs.
3) Insist that any apparent bugs were really intentional features.