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Originally Posted by Forsaken_Infinity

Erm... how is Laura forward and upfront with her feelings? She is stupid and foolhardy which is much different from being upfront and forward towards building a good relationship.

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Laura is total newbie when it comes to building a relationship. That is indeed better than the tsuntsun crap with other girls (they all act basically the same derp) but in no way do I see her as being upfront and open about her feelings compared to Char. Being stupid and foolhardy isn't being upfront.

So far, even though this last episode was a bit of a letdown with regards to this, Char has acted just as a sensible girl would. She hasn't gone around vandalizing other girls, she hasn't forced her feelings onto Ichika and she hasn't acted totally in contradiction to what's in her head. Heck, she is the only one fine with letting Ichika be with other girls; she is the only one who acknowledges her rivals and is willing to work for her relationship than just wishing others away. She is also the only one who understands that Ichika is a blockhead and thus not much is to be expected of him (others get too emotional). Obviously, she is a girl in a crappy harem show and thus she will display stereotypical harem female traits here and there but at least she is a believable and sensible girl unlike every other girl in this show.

Regarding Laura, the fact that she is a total blob when it comes to interacting with men means I will let her off easy with a lot of stuff I won't let other girls with. But Char is far ahead of Laura both in terms of being a good person and in terms of feminine charm. She is willing to help this idiotic girl anyway.

I don't think it's fair to be knocking on Laura as an idiot. Going by what we've seen, it's not about low levels of male interaction, this girl just plain has no experience of any interaction of the sort outside of the job. And that's what needs to be looked at first; this girl is what I'd like to call a manufactured weapon, who grew up eating weapons for breakfast, and what happens when we first see her at the IS school? She treated every but Chifuyu with contempt, and she was out for blood. Most importantly against Ichika, who afterwards opened her eyes, and this part is important.

We can't be calling her an idiot because she isn't the one giving herself [most of] the orders. Look who's been advising this total noob on her first doki-doki: Clarissa. Laura the weapon doesn't know what to do, so like every soldier she looks up the chain of command. If I had a commander like Clarissa giving me orders, I'd sure as hell follow them. Heck, the only advice to Laura I bring into question would be Clarissa's reference to Ichika as "the bride". But can we call Laura an idiot for lack of common sense? So far she hasn't done anything stupid in the Sousuke Sagara'ish way, so simply put right now she's experiencing what other Anime would call "having friends."

And I think it's great Shirley is nice to her.