[August138]

Originally Posted by Shinji103

That all just means that the personality talking at the time was learning about Yuria; it doesn't mean the personality is taking over entirely or overwriting her. It would make perfect sense that the other personality is in control at the moment, since I doubt Yuria knows how to work the Wave Engine the way "she" did at the end of 14.

Now, you're arguing semantics; whatever the alien presence is, it has submerged Yuria. Period. Yuria is not "overwritten", and I never implied that. This is not something new to Japanese sci-fi, and was part of the symbiotic relationship between host and alien in ULTRAMAN. In the last episode of the 1966 series, the human host and the alien separate, and the host says, "What happened? The last thing I remember was crashing" (an incident from the first episode). What I'm saying is that both the alien and Yuria are not conscious at the same time. It's called "possession", which is also an old trope of American sci-fi. Also, since we won't know more until the next coming episodes, it's kind of a moot point to argue about it. The Episode 15 is only a month away and will be far more telling.

Originally Posted by macdawson

I don't think she felt her sister's presence. Rather, being fully "awaken" for the first time and seeing there was a fully functioning WM Engine on the Yamato, she must have assumed Sasha was somewhere on the ship, given she's the one that brought the Core to Earth. She's probably unaware her sister died on Mars.

Spoiler for Why Misaki instead of Yuki:

A probable explanation for her taking over Misaki now, intead of Yuki, as she seemed to previously... Misaki is sensitive to "spirits", as described in her character description and by herself in episode 9. From episode 12 we may assume she came in contact with Yurisha still on Earth and has felt her presence for several episodes (the first of these feelings would have happened as early as episode 3 but the scene was cut and passed further down the line). With her "assigned" companion out of the ship when Mirenel attacks, she reaches out to Misaki, probably thanks to the same devices used by Celestra to project Mirenel's mind to the Yamato, and takes over her. After Mirenel recognizes her imprint in Yuki's mind, and since that information was sent back to Balun, in order to avoid future detection, she now uses Misaki. (safe house was compromised so she gets another XD )Or it's just that Misaki is more open to her influence.

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