Nah, other as in "not Coke-Zero." I'm just assuming that some such person exists. And is probably nicknamed Pepsi.

First name Max. As in 'Pepsi' Max.

Also, the Rade brothers, 'Power' and 'Gator'.

Dewey, who is a bit of an imposing fellow, callsign 'Mountain'.

And of course, the venerable Pepper, who has recently completed his PhD.
 
Uh...he's demonstrated that fairly well so far. As soon as he realizes something's making Anna uncomfortable, he changes the topic to one that she's better with.

And all signs are that he does things which make Setsuna beat him up because Setsuna enjoys beating him up.
I'm aware of that. Perhaps my wording was a bit too...decisive?

By "I wouldn't be as against Coke/Anna as I am right now" I mean I'm ambivalent about it.
 
I think she sees the protagonist like an annoying little brother that she has to protect. Even if they are the same age, she tends to see him as a child. The same goes for the only girl so far that has shown interest in the protagonist, she sees her as a younger sibling.

Also they keep making decisions without asking Anna first. They just tell them after the fact.

Has she been more human she would get annoyed that they never include her when making decisions.

First they make the idiot leader without consulting her and then the idiot does a merge without consulting anyone.

Next they chose a simulation that is traumatic for her when not even a year has passed.

Honestly, they are lucky Anna is broken, otherwise she would have ditched them.
Not only did they not know about her past, I find it hard to blame them for something we voted for.

That said, I agree that Koji needed more character development too. Hopefully he can acquire that via his increased screen-time.
Introverts are perfectly fine with hanging out or forming relationships with extroverts. Do not think otherwise. But what they do need is down-time, time to recuperate their energy from social interaction. .
Indeed, the chemical basis for the difference between introverts and extroverts is mostly that introverts are at a higher level of background mental stimulation, and are thus easier to burn out.
Avalanche/SV OTP.

SValanche?
Uh...he's demonstrated that fairly well so far. As soon as he realizes something's making Anna uncomfortable, he changes the topic to one that she's better with.

And all signs are that he does things which make Setsuna beat him up because Setsuna enjoys beating him up.
I think that's giving him a little too much credit when it comes to Setsuna. He is still a harem protag after all.
 
I think that's giving him a little too much credit when it comes to Setsuna. He is still a harem protag after all.
He comes to Setsuna's aid in our first interaction with them, when we tsun-block Setsuna.

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It had been quick, practised, instinctive. You stare her down, flickers of true angers starting to burn, "Do you regularly beat him?"

Setsuna gulps slightly and tries to pull away, she was afraid. Good.

"H-hey, it's alright. We used to do this all the time." says Koujirou from the side, reaching over and tugging at your arm.
 
Changing to something more reasonable.

[X] Afternoon: Self study. Continue as is. (Wave Force Manipulation. Requires you remain outside the Arcology)
[X] Dinner: Hang out with our flight.


...A few hours late, I see. At least it won.
 
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You know you love us. Also, we haven't made a secret of being not very good at this whole sanity thing.



I would've liked to talk to Sandra specifically, but frankly unless it was about something immediately relevant to the flight there's just no way that Anna would even consider it. Maybe in private, but that's a big maybe. She's been socially isolated for years at minimum, it's not something that's easily broken through, and Anna isn't even aware that she is.

Can we talk to Yukari in the future? I want to talk to Yukari.

No, seriously, talking to the others is like talking to socialites as a gamer except Shuri which is like league player talking to Dota player back before they reconciled.

But talking to Yukari is like talking to the casual girl gamer wearing the really nice dress. She's not as good at the Valk thing, but she's actually got SOME qualities that Anna shares. Also, maybe not as hot high rated as Shuri but easily 5x, 6x as high rating as other flight members I think? I thoughtYukari was 6k for some reason.

I'ma go bed now bye.
 
She's an Elite, considering that Aces are at the 10k+ range and there's one more grade between an Elite and an Ace, there's a good chance that she's somewhere between 5k-7k.
With the averages of Junior 3rd Valk seems to be at 1k.

Though it seems the power levels really differ on the Aces' end since the 'wall' seems to be set at 10k and the top is at 30k (maybe more because the top is Anna).
 
She's an Elite, considering that Aces are at the 10k+ range and there's one more grade between an Elite and an Ace, there's a good chance that she's somewhere between 5k-7k.
With the averages of Junior 3rd Valk seems to be at 1k.

Though it seems the power levels really differ on the Aces' end since the 'wall' seems to be set at 10k and the top is at 30k (maybe more because the top is Anna).
Yeah, it's one of those things. The scale breaks if you include Anna, but on the other hand, Anna's in the world with everyone else, so the desire is to put her on the scale. Nobody has gotten around to making a new scale (that we know of) because so far, there's only one Anna.
 
Bah, you handle that sort of thing the same way science does normally. You note it works at all times except that one. That one's off the scale.
 
Bah, you handle that sort of thing the same way science does normally. You note it works at all times except that one. That one's off the scale.
And I'm sure that some stat folks somewhere did exactly that, but that's not gonna prevent a bunch of teens from trying it, if they ever find out about her levels. Or from folks casually referring to her as Ace, veteran, Combat Goddess, what-have-you...

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Zomg. Something I just realized, unrelated:

The instructors, and the UN in general, basically took a look at Anna and decided that she's valuable enough that she can do whatever, while they have her in training. This includes writing off her flight in terms of their education. It's not exactly Kung Pow levels of 'we trained him wrong, as a joke', but rather, simply knowing that anyone in a flight with Anna is not going to get as good a training experience as if she wasn't there. And they're okay with that, because they need Anna, and her contributions to humanity almost certainly outweigh any potential that the recruits will lose by not getting enough gunnery practice when Anna kill steals, or whatever. Heck, for all I know they've got an unnamed remedial course already planned for her flight as their first 'assignment' for whenever everyone graduates.

I mean, I don't think it's absolutely terrible, what she's doing, and they clearly know it, and are working with her to ameliorate the effects because she's generally willing and compliant.

But what I mean is, they were willing to take the risk that it would be that bad.
 
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That would be true if it wasn't for the instructors telling her to tone things down a bit so her flight can learn as well, rather than depending on her as a crutch. Mind, they have lucked out a little by getting her on the protagonist squad.
 
And I'm sure that some stat folks somewhere did exactly that, but that's not gonna prevent a bunch of teens from trying it, if they ever find out about her levels. Or from folks casually referring to her as Ace, veteran, Combat Goddess, what-have-you...

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Zomg. Something I just realized, unrelated:

The instructors, and the UN in general, basically took a look at Anna and decided that she's valuable enough that she can do whatever, while they have her in training. This includes writing off her flight in terms of their education. It's not exactly Kung Pow levels of 'we trained him wrong, as a joke', but rather, simply knowing that anyone in a flight with Anna is not going to get as good a training experience as if she wasn't there. And they're okay with that, because they need Anna, and her contributions to humanity almost certainly outweigh any potential that the recruits will lose by not getting enough gunnery practice when Anna kill steals, or whatever. Heck, for all I know they've got an unnamed remedial course already planned for her flight as their first 'assignment' for whenever everyone graduates.

I mean, I don't think it's absolutely terrible, what she's doing, and they clearly know it, and are working with her to ameliorate the effects because she's generally willing and compliant.

But what I mean is, they were willing to take the risk that it would be that bad.

I think the decision was that any chance a flight had of acting as an emotional support for Anna was worth the risk that the other valks wouldn't come out as strong. That said, we don't have a handler, and Anna would if we weren't playing her, so clearly this area of interest has been meta-nuked from quest start.
 
That would be true if it wasn't for the instructors telling her to tone things down a bit so her flight can learn as well, rather than depending on her as a crutch. Mind, they have lucked out a little by getting her on the protagonist squad.
Right, but she still does it, by virtue of not making mistakes her flight can learn from. The sort of mistakes she's going to make will be things like "Don't use the wave motion gun in sims" as opposed to, "Okay class, can anyone tell me what Anna should have done differently in Scenario X"
And sometimes she forgets to tone things down when the instructors aren't around to prompt her, because she zones out or goes into her highly dangerous fugue state. The disastrous sim being an example; there's nothing her flightmates can really learn from that except "OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD"

It was less that she's doing terrible things, and more that the UN, the scientists, and the instructors are aware that terrible things are definitely a possibility here, and that her flight's an acceptable sacrifice in that possible case. Basically, they weighed the possibility of a resocialized Anna as being more valuable than a properly trained flight.

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I think the decision was that any chance a flight had of acting as an emotional support for Anna was worth the risk that the other valks wouldn't come out as strong. That said, we don't have a handler, and Anna would if we weren't playing her, so clearly this area of interest has been meta-nuked from quest start.
What he said :)
 
@Avalanche-senpai, what's the difference between Yukari's Vambrace-mounted Particle Projector and an HPP? I mean, they should be divergent technologies unless it's the Valk Cores' fault for causing convergent weapons tech. But presumably they were originally vastly different base materials...

*is definitely not doing research for omake*

If I write enough Yukari, maybe I can manipulate the fandom into liking her more! /evilplan
 
Right, but she still does it, by virtue of not making mistakes her flight can learn from. The sort of mistakes she's going to make will be things like "Don't use the wave motion gun in sims" as opposed to, "Okay class, can anyone tell me what Anna should have done differently in Scenario X"
I don't think one of the members of the flight not being prone to fucking up is going to significantly impact the training of the rest of the flight. Especially since Kojirou and Setsuna are easily capable of fucking up enough for three people between them. If the non-Anna members of the team make mistakes, they're as capable of learning from them as if Anna did. Probably more capable in the case of the people who actually made the mistakes, since ones own screwups tend to be more memorable. And if they're not making mistakes...then they're not making mistakes, good job. The only real risk is the crutch thing, which as noted the instructors and Anna herself are keeping an eye out for.

Besides, it's not like Sandra's Seraphim have a choice between Anna and someone who'll be properly providing learning experiences for them. It's Anna or there's just one less Valk in their class, and an absence of teammate isn't likely to produce a lot of teaching moments either.
 
Right, but she still does it, by virtue of not making mistakes her flight can learn from. The sort of mistakes she's going to make will be things like "Don't use the wave motion gun in sims" as opposed to, "Okay class, can anyone tell me what Anna should have done differently in Scenario X"
And sometimes she forgets to tone things down when the instructors aren't around to prompt her, because she zones out or goes into her highly dangerous fugue state. The disastrous sim being an example; there's nothing her flightmates can really learn from that except "OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD"

It was less that she's doing terrible things, and more that the UN, the scientists, and the instructors are aware that terrible things are definitely a possibility here, and that her flight's an acceptable sacrifice in that possible case. Basically, they weighed the possibility of a resocialized Anna as being more valuable than a properly trained flight.

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What he said :)

Could be both.

You ever seen Inside Man? After the bank robbery is over with nothing seemingly missing? The head detective tells Denzel Washington's character that no one is breathing down his neck about this case. Good job and get out. That doesn't stop him from seeing it through.

The UN could very well have told the instructors to give Anna a freehand. But they aren't machines. They know the others need training and they'll train them anyway. Just avoid pushing Anna in doing so.
 
Bah, you handle that sort of thing the same way science does normally. You note it works at all times except that one. That one's off the scale.
Personally I always say whoever drew the graph was an idiot and should have used an exponential scale.

And I'm sure that some stat folks somewhere did exactly that, but that's not gonna prevent a bunch of teens from trying it, if they ever find out about her levels. Or from folks casually referring to her as Ace, veteran, Combat Goddess, what-have-you...

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Zomg. Something I just realized, unrelated:

The instructors, and the UN in general, basically took a look at Anna and decided that she's valuable enough that she can do whatever, while they have her in training. This includes writing off her flight in terms of their education. It's not exactly Kung Pow levels of 'we trained him wrong, as a joke', but rather, simply knowing that anyone in a flight with Anna is not going to get as good a training experience as if she wasn't there. And they're okay with that, because they need Anna, and her contributions to humanity almost certainly outweigh any potential that the recruits will lose by not getting enough gunnery practice when Anna kill steals, or whatever. Heck, for all I know they've got an unnamed remedial course already planned for her flight as their first 'assignment' for whenever everyone graduates.

I mean, I don't think it's absolutely terrible, what she's doing, and they clearly know it, and are working with her to ameliorate the effects because she's generally willing and compliant.

But what I mean is, they were willing to take the risk that it would be that bad.
You're mistaken, Anna voluntarily opted out of an accelerated academic only course. When she did so, the higher ups probably guessed it was to help teach a flight and this would have been confirmed by the instructors observations.
 
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