I'm not sure if I like Luke well enough yet to be wanting to ship him with someone so obviously awesome as Natalia, but I'm going to defer to your judgment on this one. The Tales games seem to be pretty blatant with their canon pairings, don't they? It's like they feel the need to repeatedly beat you over the head with the Canon Stick at every possible opportunity just to remind you that OMG THIS PAIRING IS CANON. It was painfully obvious from just one episode of the anime that Luke/Tear was the way the series was going, but they're going to have to do better than that if they want to sell me on it.

I'll look forward to the Kira/Kiyone whenever you get the time to finish it. I was totally charmed by the snippet that you posted. And I'm such a sucker for both Ichigo/Orihime and Orihime/Rukia that if you ever manage to get on top of that one, I'll be filled with glee ♥