Ships that I Ship: Day 75: Nina/Ryu (Breath of Fire III)

Canon: Breath of Fire III
Pairing: Nina/Ryu
Canon Level: Interested in Each Other

I will probably ship every version of Nina and Ryu, but right now the only Breath of Fire's I'm familiar with are I and III. And while this is still Nina and Ryu, they're a different Nina and Ryu than the first game. This Nina has more sense and spends a good portion of the game chafing at the restraints put on her by her role as a princess and trying to figure out who she is beyond that role, and this Ryu gets to have his entire life be a big philosophical question on self-determination and what it means to live and exist. Nina is a steadfast friend of Ryu's, standing by and believing in him wholeheartedly since the beginning. But she's also not Ryu's sidekick, as she spends a lot of time also figuring out who she is. I like them because they clearly care for each other and they've both questioned who they are and what their place in the world is. I think post-game, Wyndia could serve as a good home for Ryu. He'd still wander, I think, exploring the world and making new friends and visiting old ones, but Wyndia and Nina would be a good place for him to rest and recoup. And sometimes Nina would go with him! Because even if she's comfortable with herself and her role leading Wyndia, I bet she would still sometimes long for an adventure and go with Ryu to see what sort of trouble they could find.

Suggested reading:
I got nothing. This is not a series of games that has produced a lot of fannish output in the form of fic.