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Originally Posted by wisteria233

Well the heat was on him and he might have wanted to difuse some of it. Who cares about logistics then?

Yeah, right, only if you assume Brera and Grace's lot were in on the lie with Alto seeing as they said the same thing he did. That's at ep 15 (9:45) btw.
This particular thread is just getting silly.

He can't produce fold waves the earring does not give the ability to produce fold waves it merely acts like a speaker. Alto never had the ability to communicate with fold waves.

Apart from the fact that complete Alto/Ranka/Sheryl visual and audio communication is actually shown on screen in ep 25 (12:00)? You can call it "Deus ex Machina" or whatever, but if it's on screen. it's canon in my book. Depart too far from the source, and any interpretation is valid.

Brera is Ranka's brother by blood and was most likely chosen by Grace (like Sheryl) for his abilities so your example fails right there. He didn't need a fold quartz item he already had the ability.

That is so non-canon it's not funny. The fold wave humans ONLY come from the v-type infection. But Grace built the prototype zero-time implant network using fold-quartz from Vajra, it's the voices you hear alongside Grace sometimes. This IS canon.

Except the earring is not his, it belongs to Sheryl, what part about that don't you understand? Or are you trying to say that Sheryl should throw away the only thing she has left of her family for the sake of love triangle, which she is leading in? And Alto would be a jerk for not returning the earring, knowing what it meant to her. Sheryl doesn't really care about its abilities but its symbolism to her. Alto won't keep the earring frankly he really has no reason to. and whose to say that Sheryl won't ask him to return her earring?

Other than to be able to fly around all day exploring while listening to his two BFFs beautiful singing? Even without the full connectivity which is shown on screen yet you say is impossible in the series, letting him hear their voices while riding the wind would be reason enough for Sheryl to want Alto to keep the earring

Alto accepting the earring has nothing with Kabuki, he already came to terms with his past when he decided to protect Frontier,

Yeah, the reformed crossdresser wearing a very girlie earring is so NOT symbolic. Pretty random connection there. Those Japanese HATE symbolism.

and when he go back home (for Sheryl). That's what his whole conversation with Klan Klan was about, him staying in Frontier was a symbol of that. By that time he had already developed, he didn't the earring to symbolize it. His presence in Frontier and his different opinion were proof enough. In other words nothing will be lost from Alto's character if he returns the earring, as is expected of him.

Nothing but flying free while your friends are singing.

It was a Dues ex Machina when it first used, it was an item (that was important to Sheryl) that was previously just a memento, until Alto needed to be saved.

Deus Ex Machina or not, it's in the series. And anything used the first time could be called Deus-ex-Machina

And Brera is Ranka's brother he already the ability to communicate with others because of his genes. Also where do you get the idea that Brera had fold quartz implants, he's a cyborg he has machinery in there.

Grace's implant tech was based on fold-quartz, plus he had fold-quartz on his harmonica.

Again Brera is Ranka's brother by blood so him being able to communicate through fold waves makes sense, however Alto does not have the ability, therefore your examples fail.

Being someones brother makes no difference in MacF with fold waves! That makes no sense! There's not a single line in the show to back up what you've just said, but we DO know Grace's implants had fold-quartz.

How can citing the event as shown on screen 'fail'? For the record it's ep 25 (12:00) clearly Alto is being received by the other two.