Aisha/Nex Story: You’re NOT the Center of My World

One thing I didn’t like about Nabu is he was treated like the solution to all of Aisha’s problems. “Oh, Aisha, you had a rough childhood? Your first friend moved away? Your parents are too strict? You have trust issues and loner tendencies?

“Don’t worry! All you need is Wizard Fiancé Nabu, a guy who’s conveniently like you in every conceivable way! He’ll make your troubles magically disappear! Your life will be perfect!”

Now that he’s dead, the Winx fandom acts like she can only be happy again if he’s resurrected. Until that mythical day, she’s supposed to pine for him endlessly because Nabu was her life. It’s like her story became about him. He became the purpose of everything Rainbow built up about her.

(And Roy was just…there afterwards. Why did he like her in the first place? Even his biggest fan doesn’t know.)

Anyway, depending on your significant other for your happiness — especially to the point where you can’t be happy without them — is unhealthy. That’s not love. It’s obsession. The fandom’s ideal present-day Aisha needs therapy.

In my Aisha/Nex story, Nex will not be the center of her world or the sole source of her happiness. He won’t solve all her problems, and he won’t fix her flaws. The same is true for him. Aisha won’t be the only important thing in his life, and she won’t make everything better for him.

They’ll support and advise each other and help each other mature, but they’ll each have to make their own decisions and figure some things out for themselves. Becoming a couple is my goal for them, but it won’t be their goal for their lives. It’ll happen gradually as they’re trying to accomplish other things.

Their relationship will be similar to how it is in Winx Club right now: two independent people who don’t need each other to be happy, but who still love being together and don’t wanna be apart. It’ll be more romantic, of course. Unlike Rainbow, I’m not writing this story for four-year-olds. Aisha and Nex will show standard displays of affection like kissing.

I wanna portray them in a better light: not just as a couple, but also as individuals. Their personal development will be just as important as their relationship development. That means Aisha won’t act like a bargain-bin romance novel heroine whose only purpose is to be loved by the hero. She’ll still be the complex and determined character she’s meant to be (and Nex will be as well).

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NerdyPrincesses2 Mollz
NerdyPrincesses2 Mollz
July 24, 2019 9:55 am

Yes, literally all of this, please. We stan actual character development and mental stability, as opposed to plot convenience and obsessive limerence (I hope I spelled that right).

knight6831
Reply to  Tori
July 24, 2019 1:52 pm

is that what the fan world actually wants?

knight6831
Reply to  Tori
July 24, 2019 1:56 pm

that’s messed up to be honest

knight6831
Reply to  Tori
July 25, 2019 6:01 am

i’m pretty sure that Aisha would get over Nabu’s death and move on

knight6831
Reply to  Tori
July 25, 2019 2:48 pm

i think that her being able to grieve and move on form a painful loss is great moment of character development

knight6831
Reply to  Tori
July 26, 2019 9:22 am

yeah it matters to us but not the fanworld

WinxForever
WinxForever
July 24, 2019 2:05 pm

I have no doubt that you will write a wonderful story and I can’t wait to read it.

Will N.
Will N.
July 24, 2019 7:09 pm

Therapy for the ideal present day Aisha? Good grief. If anybody in Winx needs therapy it’s Riven. He needs enough therapy to learn to not be a sleaze for one, and two not abandon her when she starts to open up. That could really help if Rainbow tries to avert a fan-war…though I would rather Musa and Riven remained just friends.

knight6831
Reply to  Will N.
July 25, 2019 6:03 am

yeah Riven definitely needs therapy and i could see Musa and Riven being friends

Sirenix-winx
July 24, 2019 11:35 pm

To be honest: I’ve been there once in my life ? I had lost a best friend, who i was in love with, we couldn’t talk for years because he was so far away. But i was so in love with him, that nothing else could make me happy or heal my brokenheart ? It was really scary time. But my other friends made realise how unhealthy it was. Now i still have a difficulty with finding my own happiness, but i am doing better ?

NerdyPrincesses2 Mollz
NerdyPrincesses2 Mollz
July 25, 2019 7:42 am

I’m glad that you were able to move on from that. That seems like it would be a horrible thing to go through. <3

Sirenix-winx
Reply to  NerdyPrincesses2 Mollz
July 25, 2019 4:32 pm

But in the end it was all worth it because i got out of it stronger. Yeah. It was really horrible. I completely lost myself amd needed to find myself again and redefine myself. I got extremely jealous of the people who had luck in their lives, and thought why i couldn’t have it, because i thought the love of my life was my only luck. I didn’t dare to dream anymore, gave up all my goals and dreams, because i thought it could never do anything myself, without my lover. I couldn’t enjoy the little things anymore, because what he gave me was always big. But now he was gone. I literally got sort of addicted to him.

Lucrezia
Lucrezia
November 26, 2019 1:46 pm

Hi! I have discovered your blog a few months ago, and altought i’m not a fan of Aisha and Nex, I like it. Since you talked about Aisha and Nabu, I’d like to ask you a question: do you think their story justifies arranged marriage in some sort of way?

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January 22, 2020 12:06 pm

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June 15, 2021 8:01 am

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