miniessays: on Episode 5: on where I think she stands right before camp: on Lar'c's powers.
Gunbuster 2 is a shooorrt canon. There's 6 40 minute episodes, and all told, I'd say they only take up one year in the main storyline. Between episode 5 and 6, there's six months of time, and I'm taking Lar'c from here for a few reasons. The first and most shallow reason is that by the end of episode 6, Lar'c no longer has her Topless powers. I think they're kind of fun. Also, from a playing standpoint, there's really not much canon there at the end of the series for the way Lar'c acts, so in all and all, I think it's probably easier to let Nono jesus her in camp instead of durring a SPACE BATAROU.
At the episode 5, right after Lar'c's managed to move an entire planet with her mind and the aid of her Buster Machine, Dix-Neuf, Central Comamd proposes that Nono make an all or nothing assault on the gravity well before it uses the ancient technology of warp to escape. Lar'c promises Nono that it won't be alone--a sucide atack. Instead of pressing the atack, Nono "leaves" humanity to be reconstucted for the final space batrou between the evvilll fluxuatiing gravity well and humanity.
Of course, it really helps Lar'c's peace of mind that she figures out exactly how much she likes--loves, efectively--Nono before all this happens. Which is to say, a lot: Lar'c holds Nono in such high esteem that she's actually jelous of Nono's newfound ablities in episode 5 as they're taking Nono away from her, and is having a rather effective pity party with herself while she waits to die. And then Nono saves her with the power of her love and esteem. And by esteem, her power to make keys out of nowhere, but esteem sounds better.
So. Given this and episode 6, I think she's doing a few things--first and formost, lying unsucessfully about how she feels about Nono not being around. She's twitchy when other pepole bring up Nono in her presence when talking about her as a Buster Machine, but at the same time, she actually makes another stop on Mars to talk to the Profesor, the man who discovered Nono in an asteroid about her. She's lonely, and while it may not be for the first time in her life, it's still rather hard as it's the first seperation from a beloved friend. She tries to act around it and do other things to make up for it as a distraction, as I think the orginizing the entire group of Toppless pilots in the Fraternity and focusing so intently on the defense of Earth were for her. But in the end we still get her yelling at Nono for leaving.
I figure in camp, she's going to be somewhere between really happy and really angry about it for awhile, but get back to me AFTER the first thread plays out to hear what I think's going to happen in the long run.
On Lar'c's powers, I cannot for the life of me find the super nifty site that had the long essay on how the science of Diebuster and Gunbuster compare because it seems to have been burried in Google by the movie release, so I'll make this quick. Lar'c's a powerful psychic, of a type that in her universe are soley teens and preteens in their early stages of puberty. Once they hit the "downward slope" of puberty, canon sugests that the power disapears. Each Topless has mech that they power with their minds and sometimes a few signature techinques. Lar'c is really powerful and skilled--another one of her nicknames is the "Curve Buster." She can also move things with her mind, including Dix Neuf, her buster machine, and then later, planets. HOWEVER. I think this planet trick what causes her to burn out early, as the second time she does it, she looses her power. So. She's not shown using her powers outside of combat with her mech, so this will probably not apply TOO much in camp. Except that at some point, teleporting things around could be fun.
At the episode 5, right after Lar'c's managed to move an entire planet with her mind and the aid of her Buster Machine, Dix-Neuf, Central Comamd proposes that Nono make an all or nothing assault on the gravity well before it uses the ancient technology of warp to escape. Lar'c promises Nono that it won't be alone--a sucide atack. Instead of pressing the atack, Nono "leaves" humanity to be reconstucted for the final space batrou between the evvilll fluxuatiing gravity well and humanity.
Of course, it really helps Lar'c's peace of mind that she figures out exactly how much she likes--loves, efectively--Nono before all this happens. Which is to say, a lot: Lar'c holds Nono in such high esteem that she's actually jelous of Nono's newfound ablities in episode 5 as they're taking Nono away from her, and is having a rather effective pity party with herself while she waits to die. And then Nono saves her with the power of her love and esteem. And by esteem, her power to make keys out of nowhere, but esteem sounds better.
So. Given this and episode 6, I think she's doing a few things--first and formost, lying unsucessfully about how she feels about Nono not being around. She's twitchy when other pepole bring up Nono in her presence when talking about her as a Buster Machine, but at the same time, she actually makes another stop on Mars to talk to the Profesor, the man who discovered Nono in an asteroid about her. She's lonely, and while it may not be for the first time in her life, it's still rather hard as it's the first seperation from a beloved friend. She tries to act around it and do other things to make up for it as a distraction, as I think the orginizing the entire group of Toppless pilots in the Fraternity and focusing so intently on the defense of Earth were for her. But in the end we still get her yelling at Nono for leaving.
I figure in camp, she's going to be somewhere between really happy and really angry about it for awhile, but get back to me AFTER the first thread plays out to hear what I think's going to happen in the long run.
On Lar'c's powers, I cannot for the life of me find the super nifty site that had the long essay on how the science of Diebuster and Gunbuster compare because it seems to have been burried in Google by the movie release, so I'll make this quick. Lar'c's a powerful psychic, of a type that in her universe are soley teens and preteens in their early stages of puberty. Once they hit the "downward slope" of puberty, canon sugests that the power disapears. Each Topless has mech that they power with their minds and sometimes a few signature techinques. Lar'c is really powerful and skilled--another one of her nicknames is the "Curve Buster." She can also move things with her mind, including Dix Neuf, her buster machine, and then later, planets. HOWEVER. I think this planet trick what causes her to burn out early, as the second time she does it, she looses her power. So. She's not shown using her powers outside of combat with her mech, so this will probably not apply TOO much in camp. Except that at some point, teleporting things around could be fun.