Are those people she seems to know actually forbidden from talking to her or are they just sitting here in a small circle talking about how fucked up Mari must be after her first battle without anyone being willing to speak with her instead?
She'd stopped running simulations very shortly after her three friends arrived, but for some reason, she doesn't have the strength to unseal the mock-cockpit and go talk to any of them.
They're willing to talk to her. She isn't willing to talk to them.

[X] Fear
 
[X] Nothing at all

I can relate to being bothered by not being bothered by something
 
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It's good to remember that she was like, straight up going for cockpits in the last battle. Zero fucks given, she went in for the kill right away and double tapped downed mecha to make sure it stuck.

I don't know, maybe that could be explained as some quirk of the neural interface or something suppressing her inhibitions in battle or something, but you wouldn't expect a green pilot to be that brutal.

On a tactical level, "nothing at all" suggests she's less likely to get worked up and make mistakes borne from emotion rather than inexperience, but on the flip side she might not be as determined to slaughter us all.
 
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[X] Fear

Essentially, I'm voting for anything except nothing. Something drove her to make the choice to get into that flying death trap/murder machine,
 
[X] Excitement

...because the option reminds me of this:
'Morrigan in the Sunglare' said:
She made her first kill during the fall of Jupiter, covering Third Fleet's retreat. Sometimes rookies fall apart after their first, eaten up by guilt. Laporte's seen this. But the cry-scream-puke cycle never hits her, even though she's been afraid of her own compassion, even though her callsign was almost Flower Girl.

Instead she feels high.

There's an Ubuntu counselor waiting on the Solaris, prepared to debrief and support pilots with post-kill trauma. She waves him away. Twenty years of Ubuntu education, cherish all life hammered into the metal of her. All meaningless, all wasted.

That high says: born killer.
 
[X] Fear

For once I feel like we should avoid the stereotypes in anime in this situation and just make our opponent a normal ace instead of a Psycho. yes I know this is a game based in an Anime style mecha game world but it still would be a nice change of pace if our opponent was not crazy, or any of the other Anime stereotypes but is just a normal ace.
Adhoc vote count started by Thors_Alumni on Jun 7, 2020 at 3:01 AM, finished with 32 posts and 29 votes.
 
[X] Fear
I think it makes her more human, that her most prominent emotion in the face of killing others and being in danger is fear.
 
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