[Dark Wing]

Originally Posted by Arabesque

The entire thing is insane. Why is Kio allowed to do any of this?

Simple answer he's the main character of the last part of the story so we needs to be involved in the war somehow.

A more complicated answer may be that the Earth Federation is short on man power because of all the fight happening on Earth. Also Flint is pulling most of the strings here so may be he believe Kio will come around.

I still wish the series expanded on this a little more.

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

That's irrelevant. In his first sorties Kio was criticized by Shanuala in regards to how he was conducting himself during the fight. Then he was also dealt a blow when he found out she was a traitor yet after that nothing came out of it.

That still doesn't explain why his skills have degraded. And again he himself made that decision to continue fighting his own way and if its as bad as you say it is he shouldn't be there in the first place. What did most gundam pilots do when it came down to those things? They simply refused to fight or even get in the damn suit.

ANd he's still pulling the damn trigger which involves him disabling suits, he's simply not looking to kill them so he clearly doesn't have an issue with that part.

How is it irrelevant? All Flint thought Kio was how to point and shoot and he had to find out about the gray morality part of war himself and this is what led him down the path he's on now.

His skills haven't degraded he's just not using them to kill anymore which shows that his perspectives have changed since he started this journey. He is still fighting yes but doing it in a way that minimizes the amount of deaths because after all he's been given a billion dollar war machine and told do with it as he pleases.

So with no one of higher authority stepping in to stop him of course he's of course going to us it the way he wants. I do hope that some time soon he realizes you can't save everyone. If he keeps going blindly down this path he's set it will lead him to his own destruction.

Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness

We saw nothing of that sort. He met a sick girl and all of a sudden that justifies everything that the Vagans have done in the war? The fact that Ezcelant pointed out he thought Kio was his son doesn't help that either.

We didn't even see a single Vagan who was against the war to begin with or even question why they were fighting in the first place.

True we didn't get much of the Vagan but like Kio we didn't see a bunch of homicidal psychos like he was led to believe they were. He saw in Lu and her brother a poor people living in a desperate situation where you only had two options. Join in the fighting or sit back and die a slow death.