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Originally Posted by houkoholic

The thing is Luna saw *video footage* as evidence for her sister's act of treason, not some random second hand information, Maylin was caught red-handed on tape. Again, the feed shows her sister willingly help Athrun escape. We humans are psychologically tuned to believe video footage very easily, so the setup in that scene is actually very well setup, considering how Destiny fumbles with most of its other parts of writing, this part, to me, was actually one of the less WTF moments in Destiny.

Also don't forget there's is the triple shock of her crush Athrun is a traitor, and on top of that it's not just any other girl but her little sister is the one that runs off with her crush (jealous mind fills in the gaps here), there are a LOT of betrayal on Luna's mind there that sets her up with Shinn. Plus also at that moment in time Durnadel had been doing mostly the "right" things and hasn't shown his evil side yet, whereas ORB (especially Kira) had shot at and heavily damaged Minvera and killed crews on her ship, from Luna's own POV it would be hard for her to actually believe Athrun can support Kira whom had killed their shipmates. Athrun's talk to Luna only comes across as genuine from the viewer's POV whom had all the information, but from the POV of a crew on the Minvera? ORB had shown themselves to be nothing more than enemies who disrupt Durnadel's just acts. Again it would make LESS sense if Luna believed Athrun here, especially considering Athrun himself had been pretty aimless previously thus making him very unconvincing.

I always thought Luna was dumb. She knew about the fake Lacus Clyne and still persisted in her beliefs.. that's why it would have made MORE sense if Luna believed Athrun...