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Originally Posted by Soul Assassin
- As how pushy she might be, she's not that rash and kicking him out from the team would be a very immature decision, she herself can realize that.
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oh i don't know, actually there's plenty of evidence of Nina being fairly rash and selfish when it comes to what she wants.
when the guy quit her squad, she was pretty much ready to attack an unarmed person. you want to talk about assaulting an "ally"? even after he pointed it out, she was still about to chase after him until Harley stopped her. even if she didn't intend to literally attack him, that's definitely a threatening gesture.
her history is pretty much of her doing whatever she wants without much concern for anyone else. that's pretty much why her old captain was pissed at her if you remember the flashback.
her big problem is she's logical only within the context of her limited view and she has no desire or inclination to expand her view, which is hardly a good trait for a commander. in fact it would appear she never changed until Layfon came along. her former captain noted she hadn't changed at all when they had their inter-platoon match. she never learned anything, she just left and formed her own platoon to suit herself.
really, its actually pretty doubtful that she's acknowledging, and simply disagrees, his idealogy at all. its more in line with her history that she's simply refusing to recognize it period, and its easier for her to just "run away" from it by removing him from her squad. she doesn't have to face the questions he posed her, she doesn't have to reflect on herself, she can just continue to do her own thing mindless of anyone else.
all that having been said, i don't actually dislike Nina, actually I like her a lot. she shows a lot of the same flaws you get in a lot of male protagonists, but she actually gets some reasons for it, some development for it.
it all falls in place, it all makes sense. She's plenty wrong (not that Layfon doesn't have his own issues), but who isn't in life.
more importantly her flaws make a good mirror for Layfon. He's a guy who did everything for other people (he fought, in theory, for grendan. he made money for his orphanage. its clear he didn't keep any of the money for himself) but did it in a fairly...solitary, self-serving fashion (for lack of a better way to put it). and she's a girl who spends her life living out this ideal of honor and service, but really does nothing for anyone but herself and maybe faeries.
the way i see it, she's not someone to dislike. its the clashes of characters like her and Layfon that make for a good story. well, clashes and resolutions, and since we haven't seen the resolution yet, we can't judge that.
as far as whether Layfon will really get kicked out, beyond the obvious fact that he's the central character, Nina's somewhat overlooking the fact that she needed him, he didn't need her. specifically, its her squad that lost a member in the beginning of the series, and implications were, was under the required member number. and to top it off, it sounded like her platoon had already developed somewhat of a reputation and was getting borderline blacklisted from any possibility of new members.
so in short she'd be pretty much dissolving her own squad by removing him.