NozomiFanAwards2020 happy (late) birthday to my best girl! i made this 10-frame animation to celebrate Non-tan's birthday, using her Magical Girl card, one of my favorites, depicting her magical transformation, but since gifs can't be posted here, only pics, i'll link my tweet with her animation here! hope you all like it! i made it with a lot of love! https://twitter.com/spidrgwxn/status/1270065437737394181?s=19 now, i really want to talk about Non-tan and this is for her! <3 along with Rin and Eli, Nozomi is my best girl and i must say she's the character i most relate to out of them 3. since i've started watching Love Live, Rin and Nozomi were the characters that most resonated with me, so i fell in love with them pretty quickly! at that time, i only saw Nozomi as the flirty, playful mom-friend of μ's but now i see she's much, much more. i didn't know she would take such a special place in my heart! on the second season of Love Live, we could understand more of this very special girl, showing more of her life. Nozomi likes to take care of everyone, because she wasn't really taken care of when younger. yes, she's the mom-friend because she can give all the love that she hadn't before. when μ's came to her house and saw their photo by her bed, she got flustered because she knew that they would find out how much they mean to her. they are her family. this is why i relate to her so much. i also am the mom-friend, caring type that likes to take care of everyone, but doesn't really take care of herself. just like Nozomi does. in the Mother's Day story on SIF, where the girls record videos to show their moms, Nozomi records a video where she says she loves μ's a lot and that she doesn't know if she deserves such great friends, because she doesn't think she deserves love, that she isn't worthy of love. when i read that story, i cried because it hit too close to home. you might think "how a person that doesn't love themselves could be so caring and loving?" and, to be honest, i don't know how to respond to that. we can see the love in everyone, but we can't be gentle and kind with ourselves. Nozomi isn't just a character, she's like my mirror and i could understand more of myself by loving her. she's really important! <3 she does everything for everyone, to ensure their wellbeing, to show them she's there when they need it. she's "touchy" and affectionate to show her love for them, she isn't afraid of saying "i love you" to everyone, but she's scared to say that to herself. she's scared of being taken care of, afraid of being vulnerable, because she's the one who takes care of others, not the other way around. that's why she got flustered in that episode, it's hard to accept people who want to take care of you, to love you, when you were always the one who was caring. Nozomi thinks very poorly of herself, thinks she isn't worthy of love and isn't worthy of her friends but μ's does everything in their power to prove her otherwise. whether planning a surprise party for her on SIF stories, or surprising her by showing up at her house, they want to show her she's loved and she deserves that. she devotes herself to others but she needs to take care of herself as well. while she doesn't believe them, her friends are there for her, by her side. that reminds me so much of my friends. so, i would like to finish this post by saying: we are loved, Non-tan! we have to accept that we ARE loved! we have people who love us and they want to take care of us! we have to let them! i hope we can both continue to be caring, loving, funny, affectionate, "touchy", flirty and spiritual, but also that we can believe that we are worthy of love. because we really are. thank you for being such a special character and teaching many important things to me! i love you so much, i'll never forget what you taught me by being a character i can relate to! i love you, Non-tan! you'll always be in my heart! <3