FAQ and SPOILERS
I firstly have no intention to write this, but after I kept receiving Reviews / PMs that says I played a love triangle with OC, Mai, and Natsuki, twists the HiME's dimension and etc, I decided to write in order to clear out something.
In the mean time, I take some wild guess from some paragraph / chapters that might be the one made you thought such way: CAUTIONS! SPOILERS AHEAD!
Q: When does this fiction take place?
A: This story starts from time before Mai gets her CHILD in animation, with slight changes.
Q: Is this a lovey-dovey / shoujo-ai story?
A: Geez. Are you reading this with a lovey-dovey / shoujo-ai mind? Mark my SUMMARY!
Q: Why do you make Natsuki fall in the love triangle?
A: If you guys talking about Natsuki is CO-OPERATING with OC because of she kind of LIKES him, it is wrong.
Let me remind something that Natsuki is searching for the responsible HiME / the name list of the HiME for some incident, which I don't remember much but it exists in animation, and OC knows her ability even without she tells him.
If you are in Natsuki's place, will you do something to get those 'precious information'? Don't you catch that she even points a gun at OC's head to get it?
But OC demands that he can't tell much information about the HiME to her, not even revealing Akane's name for her incident. Getting close and give him a hand is the only thing she can choose to know it.
If this still doesn't explain anything, then PM me which part you think is remind you of love triangle.
Q: I think you are wrong, Natsuki is a les!
A: If you guys saying that Natsuki is a les and it is impossible to love a guy. As I said, THIS FICTION TAKES PLACE BEFORE MAI GETS HER CHILD! May be I am wrong here, but I remember that she realizes her sex preference after the Spending-Nights-With-Shizuru incident, which is far ahead of the day Mai gets Kagutsuchi.
If I am right enough, Natsuki almost vomits and feel disgusting (am I right?) when Yukino (may be I miss out her name, she is the HiME whose CHILD can observe like surveillance camera) tells that truth at Shizuru's garden, rather than have a blushing face.
Q: How can the OC get Natsuki involve with this?
A: Come on, Natsuki happens to bump in by her curiosity, he does not want her to get involve, he angers her to go away for a final battle that he might not win. He knows the HiME's existence and history will change if they fall into the bad OC's hand.
Q: Why Mai feel different at OC?
A: May be my descriptions on the character is not good enough, I actually manage to let the OC have some similarity like Tate Yuichi (sorry for those who hates this pairing) like his sound (check out when Nagi said his sound like Tomokazu Seki, the CV for Tate Yuichi), yellow spiky hair, a kendo user (first few chapters) and his back that gives Mai a mirage of Tate's.
Q: Is the OC Mai's son?
A: Yes, OC is Mai's son. His real name is Tokiha Keiji, 'Akitoh' is the anagram of 'Tokiha'.
Q: He says he loves Mai!
A: Why not? I love my mother.
FAQs about P.R.I.N.C.E. system
- Obviously, it is an ARMOR; not a male-based HiME.
- Why I use P.R.I.N.C.E? Okay, lets make some thinking, If HiME means princess in Japanese, then what is the title for a princess' / queen's son? Prince, get it?
- P.R.I.N.C.E is actually not powerful until it is infused with a CHILD power from a HiME. Therefore HiME's power is still overwhelms a 'locked' P.R.I.N.C.E user. (check out when OC fight with another one who has CHILD power)
- Like I said, OC is Mai's son, which he represents Kagutsuchi. Therefore I manage to let him obtaining the weaker version of the reborn ability - the healing factor, almost like X-men's Wolverine. The ARMOR just made it faster with the infused CHILD's energy.
- If OC cannot get stronger after the P.R.I.N.C.E. is unlocked and infused with a CHILD, what's the point of using it?
Q: Your OCs are not original.
A: Okay, why don't you make a different one out from millions of animation, comics, novels and even dumped character designs?
Q: I think your OC are almost godly!
A: Really? Even after he asked help from the HiMEs? Even after he almost dead by the first battle? He just getting stronger with another assisted 'plug-in' like the device, then the unlocked system.
If these spoiler points I wrote here still not satisfying or it is something I HAVEN'T POINT OUT, your PM is still welcomed, other than that, I will trash it.
I am sorry if the words above hurt, but I, as an author who really worked this story out by almost three months of discussing, refining and grammar correcting, just cannot see my work been accused by something that it is not supposed to be for.
I hope you understand, to me, reading a story is like having a meal, you need to bite, chew, taste it before you swallow it, then you can get its real flavor, taste and the joy of having it. Will you get those feelings by just gulping it into your stomach?