Wizmo's Files: Ness and Paula
Ness and Paula seem to be the topic of much discussion between EarthBounders, so I decided to add my two point five cents.
Many people think that they can't be boyfriend and girlfriend because they're only thirteen. Now, if thirteen year olds can't be "going out" then I should get my glasses SERIOUSLY cleaned, because forty-nine percent of my school is "going out" (presumably with the other forty nine percent, leaving me.) They don't necessarily feel love (If you want to think early teens can't feel love, I'll still be mad at you, but at least I've gotten that out) but no one said Ness and Paula feel love either! Just that they're "going out", not necessarily in love.
Now we've figured, Yes! Ness and Paula CAN be connected by love, even if it is possibly shallow. So, ARE THEY? That's an easy question. What happens to most video game boy/girl pairs (when there's one girl.)? Well, they become a pair.
Hey you! I want more evidence!! is something someone is bound to say. Well, based on a game "rule" that seems to carry from RPG to Action/Adventure to even shoot em up, is that when you save a girl, she becomes your lifelong love, until you save another girl (preferably in the next game). Now, how many times did Ness save Paula? Twice, if you don't count going to the hospital to get her soul reconnected to her body over and over again. Paula will probably like a guy who saves her from certain doom twice.
And then there's what happens specifically in the game. Paula asks Ness to escort her home, then is about to tell him something, but "forgot." If you, the skeptic, for a second or two, assume that they do like each other, you will, in all likelihood, assume she was going to tell him she loved him. (A case of classic main character's love interest shyness.)
So they are in love. I suppose you're going to prove me wrong (See title) but that's what I'm for, wishing I was right.
Ness and Paula seem to be the topic of much discussion between EarthBounders, so I decided to add my two point five cents.
Many people think that they can't be boyfriend and girlfriend because they're only thirteen. Now, if thirteen year olds can't be "going out" then I should get my glasses SERIOUSLY cleaned, because forty-nine percent of my school is "going out" (presumably with the other forty nine percent, leaving me.) They don't necessarily feel love (If you want to think early teens can't feel love, I'll still be mad at you, but at least I've gotten that out) but no one said Ness and Paula feel love either! Just that they're "going out", not necessarily in love.
Now we've figured, Yes! Ness and Paula CAN be connected by love, even if it is possibly shallow. So, ARE THEY? That's an easy question. What happens to most video game boy/girl pairs (when there's one girl.)? Well, they become a pair.
Hey you! I want more evidence!! is something someone is bound to say. Well, based on a game "rule" that seems to carry from RPG to Action/Adventure to even shoot em up, is that when you save a girl, she becomes your lifelong love, until you save another girl (preferably in the next game). Now, how many times did Ness save Paula? Twice, if you don't count going to the hospital to get her soul reconnected to her body over and over again. Paula will probably like a guy who saves her from certain doom twice.
And then there's what happens specifically in the game. Paula asks Ness to escort her home, then is about to tell him something, but "forgot." If you, the skeptic, for a second or two, assume that they do like each other, you will, in all likelihood, assume she was going to tell him she loved him. (A case of classic main character's love interest shyness.)
So they are in love. I suppose you're going to prove me wrong (See title) but that's what I'm for, wishing I was right.
