Rexia

Rexia is the het ship between Rex and Nia from the Xenoblade Chronicles fandom.

Canon
When Rex got hired by a Noppon named Bana. He meets a group of Blades and Drivers, one of the Drivers being Nia. The two did not get along very well at first, however, once they went on the ship to their destination, they got slightly closer. Jin, Malos, Rex, and Nia all go on the ship in order to see what’s on it. They find Pyra whose body is sealed away, and Rex goes to see the seal she’s in. Rex touches the seal and awakened Pyra, and Jin impales Rex in the heart, killing him. Nia gets very upset and starts yelling at Jin, asking him why he did that. Jin doesn’t respond and Malos tells her to shut up.

When Rex and Pyra both come back to life and fight Malos, Nia is surprised to see he is alive, Nia then aids rex in defeating Malos, Nia then nearly falls off the ship , when Azurda aids them, Nia, Rex, Pyra and Dromarch all successfully escape from Jin and Malos. Later Rex and Pyra find Nia In the forest that they were in, Rex asks Nia to join them, however she refuses because she did not want to betray Malos and Jin, however she agrees to travel to the Gormott province with him.

The two arrive to their destination and are attacked by Mòrag Ladir and Brighid. The duo try to fight them off with Pyra's power, but she wasn’t strong enough. Nia distracts the duo with her water based attacks, countering Brighid's fire attacks and gives Rex and Pyra enough time to escape. However, she gets captured. Later, Rex, Pyra, Tora and the others invade the ship she was captured in and rescue her. They escape from Mòrag and Brighid and go to a forest.

Rex asks Nia to join him in the quest to find Elssyuim. However, Nia is at first hesitant to join, due to her past, and ties to Malos and Jin. However, she agrees, and the two embark on their quest together.

Later, when Rex is defeated by Jin and Pyra is captured, Rex, Nia, Zeke, and Azurda go on a quest to find the third sword. They go in The Temple, in hopes that it can defeat Jin. Later, Rex notices that Nia is suffering from a lack of ether energy. This is when Nia opens up to him more. Later, when they are fighting shadow clones of Adamm, they aren’t strong enough to fight all of them and this is when Nia transforms into her blade form. After they are done defeating the clones, Nia holds Rexs hand and thanks him for setting her free. Nia then tells Rex that she loves him, Rex at first is confused and says "Huh", then he tells her that he loves Nia and all of his friends. The two then defeat the rest of the clones and go off to fight Malos.

Moments

 * When Rex uses Nia as a blade, if Rex faints in battle, Nia will apologize for not being able to keep him safe.
 * When Rex and Nia were defeating the clones, Nia tells Rex that she loves him, and then Rex says that he loves her and all of his friends.

Fanon
Although not as popular as Pyrex, the ship has gained a descent amount of attention. There is an entire sub-reddit for the pair.


 * Despite it being clear that Rex doesn’t have any romantic feelings for Nia, some people make Fanfictions of the two falling in love, once Rex got realizes his romantic feelings.
 * What they both share in common is that they are both orphans and grew up never knowing their family or never having one.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Rex/Nia tag on Fanfiction.net
 * Rex/Nia tag on Fanfiction.net

FORUMS
 * Rex/Nia tag on Reddit