She does. She wasn't very skilled yet when she was turned (for instance, she hadn't found a familiar), but she was magically active and her mother had started her fundamental training. Remilia the Elder always believed that was why her turning went so wrong (well, that and you're not supposed to turn relatives in the first place, though there's little real evidence that that part isn't just superstition).

The vampires of the Scarlet line have their own innate magical potential (hence, for instance, why Remilia the Younger can fly even though her wings are not, strictly speaking, aerodynamically useful), and their mother's theory was that this conflicted somehow with Flandre's own magic and broke the process. None of this was very well-understood in 1520, of course, and even less so now that vampires are nearly extinct, so we'll probably never know for sure.

>Anyway, I didn't read any of that as being mystically/cosmically/etc.
>important so much as personally important to Flandre.

For what it's worth, this was the intent...

>"Stranger things have happened, even within this
>storyline."

... although as Talar Kem, the Jedi Master who contributed to the founding of Katsujinkenryū, once put it, "The Force gets funny ideas sometimes." :)

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