Anime Discussion Thread - Page 2643

Henrietta and Giuseppe
During a raid against Jacomo, Henrietta's trauma prevents her from being able to fire guns... so Giuseppe has her memory wiped in order to suppress the trauma and re-formulate her as a robotic soldier, at the cost of her lifespan. During the subsequent battle it's apparently that wipe isn't absolutely perfect, so she harbors intense feelings of protectiveness for Giuseppe. All for naught though - when a masked terrorist stabs her with a knife and pins her down, her trauma comes back, she goes nuts, and when Giuseppe tries to calm her down, she shoots him through the abdomen. Remember the Eliza arc? Most people don't. "The truth is, if you love someone so much, but realize that it'll never come true, I would kill them, and then--" as he lays dying, Giuseppe realizes what Henrietta's intending to do, and and they mutually agree that he shoot her in the head.

Triella and Victor
Triella leads point on the second raid against Jacomo and gets nailed by a 50mm, tearing off her left arm and leg. She stays behind to hold off a battalion to buy time for Henriett and Rico as they go to regroup with Giuseppe and Jean. Victor finds out that she stayed on the "other side of the door" and runs back alone, and they both go down fighting.

Rico and Jean
They only two actually make it all the way to Jacomo, Jean tries fulfill his life's wish to "take Jacomo with me" in a knife fight, but loses and gets used as a human shield by Jacomo. Rico fires a rifle through him to nail Jacomo, and while Jean wants to just die, because he's fulfilled his wish and his friends + family all died, she pleads for him to "live for me." Jean later wakes up in a hospital saying "it's alright, I heard." Rico passes away a year later, her life span having reached its limits. Claes says that she thinks "although they all have short lifespans, that Henrietta, Triella, and Rico all must have been satisfied with the way they lived and died."

Petruschka and Alessandro
They both live as well, although it turns out Alessandro (not too surprisingly) was Petra's lover before she died... and that she had (and has) cancer, which was ultimately the reason why she died in the first place. Petra gets pulled from frontline combat duty in the second raid against Jacomo and survives, and the doctor lets her "unlock" her brainwashing, giving her back her memories (at some cost, brain-wise), which she accepts because she's realized by that point she she doesn't have much time to live. Petra succumbs to Leukemia.

Claes
Tries to "protect her garden" against the anti-government forces, but when the anti-government forces plead with her that she shouldn't throw away her life 1v100, and that they had fought along her former handler (who she's forgotten about), she collapses on the ground, and the scientists all rush to plead for her life, saying that she's "no longer a soldier, just a girl that wants to read and enjoy music." Her passing isn't depicted, but she ends by saying that "these days she sees an illusion, of a man walking away at dusk."

Victor and Triella, part 2
Before their raid on Jacomo, Victor secretly extracted Triella's ovary and stored it in a hospital. He passes it on to Roberta, saying that Triella was the hope passed on to him from Rachel, and that now he hopes to pass on the hope to Roberta.

Speranza
She's a short-haired, dark-skinned girl raised by a single mother (Roberta), who's in a university for med school with prodigious intelligence, meets a rising film-maker at a business lecture, and accepts his bet for whether he can get an A and raise funds from kickstarting a documentary/interview about her. Years later, the interview/documentary was such a hit that it turned the film-maker into a world-reknown director, and her into a world-reknown actress.

"To the mother who raised me...
And my two mothers in heaven" > Triella and Rachel


There's still hope in this world.