Board Thread:New on Pretty Cure Wiki/@comment-25034020-20181022151836/@comment-37117761-20181111222837

MetalLuigi64 wrote: In case somebody are going to suggest for the kind of character who should be in Star Twinkle, I'm going to say this, I don't, and I repeat, do not want a tsundere in the series. Tsundere are the worst, especially in a kids series. Whoever wants a girl like that are basically supporting the message "if a girl beats up a boy, that means she likes him." That is not true. What the girl did is still bullying, and many times that is not the reason why a girl would hit a boy. She can be saying she doesn't want to be someone's friend. Tsundere are the worst at hiding their feelings. If a girl were to torture a boy, then admits she is hiding her love or asks the boy if he loves her, there is a 100% chance he will say no after being abused for so long. You want to know why Iona was so harsh on Hime in the beginning, then became nice to her? That's because Iona thought Hime was responsible for opening axia, then Iona found out Hime was actually tricked into doing it, feeling more ashamed than Hime was and got over her hate for Hime. You can't do a tsundere right. Getting the girl to act tough to get her lover tough isn't going to work as much. If you're going to suggest a feeling-hiding character, shy girls are the best because they can learn to be brave and be capable of trying to be friends with someone and being nice to them. I agree! I hate it when females abusing males is portrayed as okay. It's incredibly harmful to actual male abuse victims. In fact, last I heard, 1 in 7 men are domestic abuse victims!

While a shy girl could definitely work as a character who has trouble expressing her love, it isn't the only possible option. We could also have somebody who is loudly embarrassed at the very idea of having a crush on a guy, or a Cure Sword-like person who refuses to even talk to the boy because she doesn't want him getting pulled into her life and getting hurt.