#Desty Nova

[morganhopesmith1996]

Alita/Yoko/Gally and Desty Nova

[drabblesfromthegraniteinn]

My 2 favourite examples of likeable irredeemable characters with a backstory that explains their actions without justifying them.

[bozemane]

[incorrectalitaquotes]

Nova: Are we soulmates in every universe?

Ido: We're not even soulmates in this one!

[cartoonscientist]

I keep tellin you dude this guy is like a snail, he can pick himself up, you gotta really grind his brains into the concrete and mix in some little rocks if you can if you wanna slow him down in any significant way

[slimejellomold]

[mechadeimos]

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Dr. Desty Nova fans.

[watchingbehindtheeyes]

Flantastic Mando

saw it and couldn't resist.

Sorry, need to be Alita: Battle Angel/Gunnm fan to understand

[morganhopesmith1996]

@watchingbehindtheeyes Desty Nova Without his Glasses

[drabblesfromthegraniteinn]

Nova × Eelai

[incorrectalitaquotes]

"You’re back! I didn’t miss you at all."

- Alita, whenever Nova comes back from the dead.

[drabblesfromthegraniteinn]

Sadly, there's almost no fan content for this ship. Generally, for most ships. It's a small fandom, not very ship oriented and what little shipping discourse you'll find is around Alita's love life, not side ships like NovIdo.

I ship this in the manga, but not the movie version. The characters are too different and so is the context of this relationship.

I still recommend watching the movie. (It's what got me to read the manga.) Kishiro himself liked it. But don't expect Nova to eat flan onscreen.

As much as I know that's not why, a part of me that genuinely ships this is trying to convince me they mostly gave Ido a wife in the movie to make him more straight.

Also, just imagine how funny this exact position would look if their relative heights were swapped (like in the manga where Ido's tall and Nova is short).

=_=

Надеюсь, я не один их шипперю...

[cartoonscientist]

idk I always thought it was a fun subversion of the gendered “female character is unable to hurt the protagonist because of her maternal instincts” trope that towards the end of Battle Angel Alita, Desty ends up fucking himself over when he tries to psychologically neutralize Gally in a life simulation by inadvertently conditioning himself to think of her as his daughter and thus can’t bring himself to kill her

[nap0fastar]

playing heavily modded stardew valley is crazy because while everyone is arguing about what vanilla bachelorette/bachelor is the best spouse i’m over here with my they/them, part troll, adventurer/guild master spouse who’s a giant fucking nerd

[titenoute]

*Starts Motorcity*

*Pauses immediately* H-Hmmm....

Nah. No way. I'm seeing things where they're not-

"Kane promised everyone the city of the future. He never told 'em it'd cost them their freedom. Most of them don't even realize what they've lost."

...Nooooo. No way. You didn't-

"Down here in Motorcity we've got a motto : Live fast and live free."

YOU DID. YOU ABSOLUTE MAD LADS DID IT... THAT'S FRIGGIN' JERU ZALEM