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Originally Posted by SS13

No, the real question is what happened to Macross Galaxy? Was it destroyed? Or did it get away? Or is it in the conspiracy and now it's still out there, waiting for a chance for revenge?

As for implants, note this: if implants were mandatory, and if Grace (and some other) wanted to use Sheryl, she would be the last person to be allowed an exception, selling point or not. So implant-less people were not just an underground minority.

She was a puppet of Galaxy and one of her main selling points was the fact that she didn't have any implants. She says as much in the episode "Star Date". It is a fact though that there are very few people who don't have implants in Galaxy as Sheryl is considered exotic because of the fact that she doesn't have any implants. So yeah this was actually stated in series.

WHAT is ego, then? The opinion that you are the only one who matters? Sheryl never was like this (note she cares for Galaxy even though she wasn't really happy there. Also note she helps Ranka). The idea that you are very important, well this IS suipported by "hopes and dreams"... but this is even more true now that her voice really is their only hope.

And as for sexuality... Sheryl isn't that well-endowed, you know. Nanase isn't worse than her, and then there are micronized zentraedi (except Klan). So Sheryl was ultimately spot on: the most important reason for male gaze n her breasts is the voice of the owner - not the other way around, and Sheryl surely knew that. She ddn't realised her popularity was fabricated, but the effects - and limits - of it she knew pretty well.

e·go/ˈigoʊ, ˈɛgoʊ/ Show Spelled[ee-goh, eg-oh] Show IPA
–noun, plural e·gos.
1.
the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
2.
Psychoanalysis . the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment.
3.
egotism; conceit; self-importance: Her ego becomes more unbearable each day.

I think that your throwing the word ego around in the wrong areas.

Knowing that people find you attractive isn't a sign of being egotistical, as its merely you being aware of the fact that you are sexually attractive, and its effect on other people. And the last time I checked your boobs don't have to be big for them to be considered sexy (though Sheryl's boob size fluctuates between average and just big) or pleasing to look at or for other people to desire to look at them (ex: Halle Berry). Not every girl in the world isn't aware of the fact that she is in some way shape or form attractive.

It doesn't support anything, in fact none of the points you brought up support your belief.

I also can't say that Sheryl's career and popularity was fabricated either as we don't see Grace interfere with her too much if it isn't something that has to do with her managerial duties. Remember Sheryl is a singer of intergalactic fame but we only get to see her on Frontier and Galaxy. There is also the fact that if people didn't like her songs then they wouldn't listen to them. Sheryl's not borrowing anyone else's fame, but creating one for herself.