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Old 2012-09-21, 16:16   Link #2347
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So have presumably thousands and thousands of children throughout history. Under your theory, there are thousands of adults with altered brain chemistry that are able to pilot IFOs that exist in Ao's world.
Thousands and thousands of children with no opportunity to be pilots, and brain abnormalities would only be observed with modern technology. Moreover, even assuming there are adults out there that could be great pilots, they have lives already and little incentive to take another job.

Plus, given the reports of missing children, it's fairly safe to assume that most in close enough proximity to need rescuing like Elena don't survive the event. At the time, Scub Coral appearing was shorthand for "run like hell". Anyone close enough to be caught in the explosion likely wouldn't survive, and the trapar would have dissipated by the time people came back.

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So why are they using child pilots? The original answer the series gave was that the permanent presence of Scub Coral led to areas with continuing high levels of trapar as young children developed. Since this only occurred 10 years ago, there are no IFO pilots over the age of 16 or so. Your suggestion that all it takes is exposure to a Scub Burst that annihilates Scub Coral undermines this whole explanation.
There weren't any IFOs up until 10 years ago, and if we take Generation Bleu's current roster into account, then there weren't even any IFO teams for at least another five after that. By the time such statistics are being tracked, they'd be most evident in children who would be immediately affected.

See also the above point. It's only with the ability to stop Scub Bursts and thus creating areas with persistent concentrations of trapar that these abnormalities begin to occur. So you have a case where Elena not only gets one or two major doses of trapar exposure, but ends up in a time where trapar levels are much higher than her own timeline.

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Tanaka explicitly states in Episode 18 that Okinawa was the "largest Scub Burst in history."
And the series has a bad habit of misusing that term. They often use it interchangeably with "Scub appearing". The Okinawan Scub Coral is the largest one to appear. The devastation of a Scub Burst (which would have wiped out Okinawa) did not happen (though it was certainly cost numerous lives regardless).

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This is untrue. Brain plasticity continues throughout adulthood, though not in the same rate as childhood. It would make more sense if only those fetuses in utero at the time of the Scub Burst were effected, since regionalization and neural migration occurs then. But taking your point that Ivica is an adult, well, from a brain development standpoint, a 10 year old girl (Elena) is pretty far along the brain development curve herself, so effects on her should be fairly minimal.
She wasn't ten when Eureka grabbed her. I'd guess closer to eight, nine at the most. Either way, she'd still be more susceptible than Ivica.

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Except of course, there was no Scub Coral in that explosion at Gen Blue. It was purely quartz and secret. No trapar should have been generated since trapar occurs as a metabolic byproduct of Scub Coral.
Yet it is there. This isn't something I'm just making up. It's a fact in the episode that Ao comments on. Also, there is Scub down there. That's what TheEnd is embedded in.

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Every other character spanning 71 episodes of Eureka Seven and AO that has had pastel-colored hair is in some way/fashion a Coralian. It's damned unusual and it means a great deal that Elena has pastel hair, or at least it should.
Anemone is human and had that hair color before her transformation if we take the flashback at the Great Wall as true.
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