New Page: “The Winx Fandom’s Most Common Arguments Against Aisha and Nex”
Posted On November 13, 2020
Since I hear the same arguments against Aisha and Nex over and over again, I decided I might as well have a page that addresses them. I’ll update it as I write more posts and think of past posts that belong on it. And if there’s an argument you think I should include, let me know!
LINK: https://yinyangcouple.com/winx-common-arguments-against-aisha-nex-layla/
I’m so glad that you’re still going with this. I think we all know that all these false accusations came up just because of Nabu’s death, which is SO TERRIBLE. Rainbow NEVER planned Nabu as a boyfriend forever for Aisha. I think they planned it from THE START, developing a fairy who loses her beloved one and has to learn how to mourn and move on with life, and eventually develops a second, more mature, relationship (Nex).
I mean, if Rainbow DID want to keep Nabu they would NOT do a Perfectly Arranged Marriage trope, making him a genderbend Aisha (THEY BASICALLY HAD THE SAME PAST AND THE SAME STRICTNESS OF PARENTS!!) and do a harlequin-like trope with Aisha SUDDENLY using sweet language in Season 4 (aka the Winx season I hate).
What IS sadder than anyone might think Nabu’s death was is that the fandom literally wants Aisha to mourn Nabu forever. Get it? Wanting her TO SUFFER MENTALLY. Awful. Imagine if she was a real person… ?
About Nex, I never had an opinion of him (same with Nabu) but since Sirenix S8 Arc I think he’s starting to be my REAL favourite Specialist. I’m serious.
Yeah, I don’t think Nabu was supposed to last. He wasn’t created to be a sustainable character. Looking back on it, he didn’t show up much in season three until the end, he didn’t show up in Secret of the Lost Kingdom until the last scene, and he only showed up physically in two comics, which made it look like Aisha was still single!
Also, I just realized about how biased the “copy of ________” accusations have been. The Winx fandom says Nex is a copy of Riven when he clearly isn’t. They have different personalities, different roles in the group, etc. We don’t know Nex’s backstory yet, but we can infer based on his personality that his life hasn’t been like Riven’s. (See this post and this post.) So the “copy of Riven” idea doesn’t hold water.
Not as many Winx fans have said Roxy is a copy of Bloom, but there’s a stronger argument for it. They both grew up in Gardenia without knowing they were fairies, and they were both lost princesses of lost kingdoms. Bloom even lampshaded how similar they were at least twice in season four! Yet the fandom didn’t reject Roxy as a Bloom clone.
But Nabu is the best example of a copy of another character. He and Aisha grew up on the same realm, had the same type of upbringing, were both rich, liked the same things (music, surfing moves, etc.), both had magic powers, and so on. And again, the show lampshaded how similar they were. But because Rainbow presented him as a love interest, they got away with it.
So the laziest copy of another character became beloved by the fandom, and a character who isn’t a copy is reviled for it, anyway, to the point where it’s a major reason people don’t like him. Logic.
I think they didn’t reject Roxy as unlike Nabu who never grew out of his gary sue
Roxy was given loads of character development and grew throughout the season and we actually got to know the character as she was given more screen time than Nabu in season 4 and we got to see her act as mission control for the winx and actually went on missions with them in season 7
I agree with you there. I think Rainbow did enough to differentiate Roxy from Bloom, especially through her character development. But Nabu didn’t have any development, and it was clear that his purpose was to be a Mary-Sue love interest.
So you’re right — there’s a difference. But Rainbow has also differentiated Nex from Riven in many ways (as I’ve laid out in my posts), yet the Winx fandom still calls him a copy of Riven. ?
cause they’re too deep in dillusion i’d say