Motoko is one of my favorite characters of all time, though I probably wouldn't be able to divorce her from Sec9/GitS itself - and her characterisation differs as the canon differs. helvetius was saying that she might prefer manga!Motoko as she's more human there, funnier, more fallible and approachable. Whereas SAC!Motoko is the one I find most interesting in a fannish sense, I think? Probably due to the nature of the AU storyline itself. In the canon-canon she becomes a goddess, essentially (it doesn't seem to change her personality any, but the point is you have no way of telling). I like seeing her act as a soldier, an operative, a professional. I like how the Sec9s are so cool about everything without ever being blasé (because then you are underestimating your surroundings) or cynical (because that implies you had romantic tendencies at some point), and Motoko is of course the Platonic ideal of what it means to be in Sec9. XD There's a sort of pleasure just in watching someone be what they were obviously born to be
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