>Amusingly enough (and I'm sure I've said this before), Takao is
>probably the least daft member of the Fog we see in the anime.
>Hyūga is the crazy cat lady, Iona has that flat affect going on, her
>sisters' are even flatter, Haruna has a codependent relationship with
>a garment, Kirishima was pretty much a raving lunatic before
>she became a stuffed toy, and Kongō has the mother of all psychotic
>episodes. Compared to all of that, Takao is pretty much normal.
>She's just horny and confused, and really, who isn't at that age? :)

The manga's been hinting for awhile at what they finally admitted in the most recent chapter: Most of the Fog ships have no experience whatsoever with emotions and so don't know how to deal. Hence why they run the board from the creepy twins (I-400 & I-402) to the Iona-sexual (Hyuuga) to the "Red Queen" (Kongō). A little eccentricity when you've gone from being an unfeeling machine to a fully-realized sentient being is to be expected. Iona just seems the most well-balanced because she's constantly around humans who aren't utter dickheads or acting under their own agenda.

>I think that's my favorite episode, partly for the comedy but mostly
>because of how brilliant Chihaya's psywar strategy is. He spends that
>whole episode fucking with Kongō's head by making a point of not
>fucking with her head when she clearly expects him to. That's like
>the joke a friend of mine back in the WPI days made, that a
>masochist's fondest desire is to find a personal sadist, but a
>master sadist would turn around and not do anything. :)

Masochist: "Hurt me!"
Sadist: "No."