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I guess I just wanted Sheryl to be as happy as possible during that time intervall. Also, it was nice to point out to Ranka fans that she was returning to a situtation where Sheryl and Alto already were living together.
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You Mean the Fact
means nothing?
Note though that Alto definitely spend
a lot of time with Sheryl, given that other NUNS pilots tease him about it
- and pilots are generally womanizers, so it
must be over the ordinary...
In fact, this may give even
more weight to AruSherry. Because if they were simply living together, it could very well be this happens simply because Sheryl is too ill to live on her own - some scenes in ep. 18 and 22 suggest that. But if she actually lives alone, and yet
Alto stays in her appartment for a night, (and we can assume, repeatedly), then, well...
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In regards to the girls, there are two ways to read Altos inaction until late in the series. One can say that he cannot decide, but that seems like the false point of view to me. A much more likely scenario seems to be that he doesn't want to hurt the other girl by deciding. That he kept on doing that a bit overlong is as much a result of circumstances ( Sheryl and Alto getting serially interrupted when they had a "moment" ) as Alto keeping up his pretense to not notice the girls feelings.
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And as I mentioned earlier, hurting Ranka's feeling is a
bad idea with Vajra still around...
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Because Alto seems to have become attracted to Sheryl due her personality which is similar to his own, except much more honest. We very well cannot say that Alto is attracted to Ranka's personality because he has never shown an interest in her romantically enough to say this, but that doesn't make her any less important to Alto's life and development.
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Anyway, my summary of 23:
- Sheryl must have regained some popularity by that point, or also possible, never lost it completely in the first place. In any case she is a known to the military pilots. One can only guess what they think about Ranka...
- Ranka meanwhile, is at her "best"
Damsel Scrappy (as its called) behaviour. Going out of cockpit at such moment is total idiocy.
One has to ask: can it be that part of Ranka's adjustment to the V-Infection was to reduce function of her brain? After all brain is the only organ affected by the toxin and Vajra's brain is very small, so something like this should be expected.
- The situation at Frontier is bad. The need to wear oxygen masks means the environment control is breaking down. Which means
the ship is breaking down. Compare ep.5 again, where both Frontier and Sheryl were bristling with life, and we get a huge downer there.
- Leons is not just good at machinations, nor is he simply an usurper. He actually manages to get elected.
- Clan's reasons to join SMS are very diffuse, and definitely not better than Alto's.
- Frontier DOES learn, however. They are much better at detecting Vajra now than they were in the beginning.
- Sheryl, in full contrast to Ranka, can perfectly distinquish between her desires and reality. She
desperately wants to live longer,
especially now that she has Alto all for herself
, but the lives of everybody at Frontier are at stake, so she basically sacrifices what little time she has to be a better weapon.
- Her charachter growth, but also her silent desperation become evident when she says they shouldn't have pity on her.
- She also realises perfectly she is being used - AND goes along with that. Partially because she truly wants to help all that people, something she couldn't do before, and partially because she desperately wants to leave a memory of herself. Though one might ask, does she consider herself a kind of sacrificial lamb?
- Alto's decision to kill Ranka if needed also shows he becomes more decisive than before, even if he is ultimately wrong here. Alto, unlike Sheryl, doesn't realise he is used
- Sheryl has no mercy for herself, but she definitely has some for Ranka, even though her current predicament is partially Ranka's fault. It must be at the point that Sheryl decides that after she dies, Alto should be happy with Ranka.
- Bilrer is not the only one wanting to use Vajra. Scientists are interested in them as well. Also, Bilrer's plan becomes more clear. However, it is clear Bilrer is used by Leon, not the other way around.