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Old 2013-08-22, 17:55   Link #23878
azul120
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Originally Posted by Xander View Post
You seem to be assuming:

a) That she knows as much about this as the viewers.

Which is very questionable. Kallen barely knew anything about Villetta to begin with. She didn't really interact with the OSI (including Rolo, for that matter). The comments Kallen made after the first school festival in R2 seem to suggest she considers Villetta a past acquaintance of Ohgi who might have been a collaborator for him during S1. It doesn't seem she knows about her Britannian military record. There's no indication about what information, if any, she could actually bring up about her OSI connections.

b) That she cares as much about this as (some of) the viewers or would react the same way.

Kallen spent a lot of the season in jail. After getting out, her main concern was Lelouch himself, her relationship to him and what he did or didn't do to the world. It doesn't help that she didn't witness the betrayal herself, so one can't really tell what, if anything, Ohgi might have told Kallen beyond what little we saw both of them talk about. It's entirely possible that she's still mostly in the dark about Villetta's true role in this.

What's more, there's also the fact that Ohgi was a close friend of her brother. It's not like Kallen can ignore that. She did question him about how they turned against Zero, but her reaction was a desire to directly talk to Lelouch, hoping that he would explain himself, rather than trying to debate the subject to death.
She was one of the few BKs who were on the lam during the interim year, and had been looking at pictures of Lelouch, which meant she might have known something about Villetta's OSI role.

And unfortunately, Ohgi disrespected her brother's memory by, without telling her about what was going on with the meeting, using her to bait Lelouch into the betrayal and her on gunpoint with him without letting her have any say, especially since she had just been busted from Britannian imprisonment where she was about to be executed.

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Given her reaction post-Zero Requiem, it's also fair to say that Kallen appreciates what Lelouch did for her and for the world, rather than holding any petty grudge for whatever happened in the past. I don't really think she is in the mood to throw rocks at anyone, literally or figuratively speaking.
It was still highly implausible she would so easily forgive them. On a superficial level, they basically cockblocked any hopes she had of a life with Lelouch, and more critically, the end of the conflict was more destructive than what could have been. Not to mention Villetta, one of the people to get a happy ending instead, was part of the problem instead, not the solution.

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