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While Amy has been a fairly superficial construction so far - perfectly pleasant and likeable, but mostly a plot driver - it's in Ledo's interactions with Bevel that Gargantia has achieved its greatest emotional depth. For Ledo Bevel is a reminder of his old world in the most painful way, and also the reason he wants to exterminate the squid now - so that Amy will never have to experience the sacrifices he had to experience as a result of being a species under perpetual threat of extinction. It was quite powerful seeing Bevel not just lift himself from his bed, but to actually run to Ledo's side after he sees what the older boy's planned departure is doing to Amy - while Ledo struggles with being an alien on his own world, Bevel must deal with his inability to be a fully functioning member of society. Both of them, in their own way, feel useless - and because of that I think they understand each other in a way no one else understands either of them.
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