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It establishes a general pattern for the Sekirei as a species:
*Sekirei came to our world to fight, to mate, and to produce strong offspring who can fight even better. They like one-on-one brawls and tests of strength, but without human intervention, they dislike killing. They tend to have an obsession/fascination with the idea of true love with the human they bond with.
But we also meet individual Sekirei who:
*Like to kill
*Hate to fight at all
*Have zero interest in fighting fair
*Will intervene in others’ fights that they think are unfair
*Bonded with someone they care about, but don’t love romantically
*Bonded with someone they don’t care about and are cynically using
*Bonded with a lover of the same sex who (presumably) can’t give them offspring
*Love someone who’s incapable of forming a mystical bond, but don’t care about that and refuse to bond with anyone else
The only “exception” it’s missing is a Sekirei who loves multiple people. Overall, this is a pretty good way of establishing an overall culture/mindset while still allowing for individual variation.
*Sekirei came to our world to fight, to mate, and to produce strong offspring who can fight even better. They like one-on-one brawls and tests of strength, but without human intervention, they dislike killing. They tend to have an obsession/fascination with the idea of true love with the human they bond with.
But we also meet individual Sekirei who:
*Like to kill
*Hate to fight at all
*Have zero interest in fighting fair
*Will intervene in others’ fights that they think are unfair
*Bonded with someone they care about, but don’t love romantically
*Bonded with someone they don’t care about and are cynically using
*Bonded with a lover of the same sex who (presumably) can’t give them offspring
*Love someone who’s incapable of forming a mystical bond, but don’t care about that and refuse to bond with anyone else
The only “exception” it’s missing is a Sekirei who loves multiple people. Overall, this is a pretty good way of establishing an overall culture/mindset while still allowing for individual variation.
I like Sekirei
Dec. 30th, 2018 02:57 amThe premise screams “one male human romantically bonded with many female nonhumans”—in other words, bog-standard harem romance. Then we meet a female human who bonds to a cute male nonhuman. Soon we have straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual humans bonding to male, female, and intersex nonhumans. Sometimes they’re monogamous, sometimes they’re polyamorous, and sometimes their bond isn’t romantic in nature. The story focus is still on the one guy with many girls, but I like the sense of a larger world in which all kinds of relationships can exist.
