>>I know I've spoken before about this being the sobering moment for
>>Lucchini, and I'm very glad to see it begin to pan out this way. It
>>was definitely time.
>
>Lucchini's moments here were exceptionally interesting. A part of me
>is wondering if it's not so much the experience of Freiburg so much as
>the removed influence of her familiar. I'm not sure what the Eyrie
>idea of how a witch's familiars affects her personality if at all. But
>the other part is thinking along the same lines you are here, but with
>the twist that she has known for quite a while how to -be- mature and
>grown up and responsible; she just has never had to consider acting
>it.

I remember one snippet of dialogue in OWAW where someone asks her about growing up and she replies she's happy being a little sister. Soon as I read it, I was thinking -something- was going to happen to make her rethink that plan, and then Freiburg happened. And I was like, 'Yep!' Glad to see it.

>
>>And now the word about Neuroi-chan is...well, not getting around, so
>>to speak, but getting to the point where hopefully some real progress
>>can be made in finding out just what the Neuroi -are- and what is
>>going through their minds. (And, no, I have no idea what canon says so
>>far about it. And I largely don't care. This is precisely the kind of
>>issue where fanon is often better than canon, and Eyrie hasn't
>>disappointed me on that front yet.)
>
>Well, I don't know about the manga, but for the anime, the cannon
>is...well...entirely silent on the matter. As is mentioned several
>times, "Neuroi-chan" got vaporized during Operation Trajanus,
>and for the anime that appears to have been that. I think it was
>something like a plot arc that just got completely tossed.

Gryphon addresses this topic elsewhere on the boards in much greater detail than I'm qualified to discuss--I don't know a lot about it--but the gist was, 'the creators seem to have tossed it on purpose because they rethought the wisdom of making the Neuroi relatable to the audience'. I can't agree or disagree with finality, but they certainly started on that interesting story arc and threw it out with alarming speed. (Arpeggio went the other way--the Neuroi are quite relatable once they're not blindly following that silly Admiralty Code business--and it worked out quite well.)

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