But Tear is not a very good soldier. It's not in the original game, but it is canon that she joined the Oracle to get to the surface and be with Van. (She changed her mind when she found out what he was doing up there.) She reaches her position at the beginning of the game on the recommendation of a teacher, not because she was chosen or because she worked hard for a long time.
At the beginning of the game:
-She breaks into the Fabre household by using Yulia's hymn on people on innocent bystanders. This isn't just the guards at the house, but also servants and maids who can't fight.
-She is part of the hyperresonance that sends her and Luke to another continent, but as she is the one who was aware such a thing could happen, she is responsible. (If we're going to say that anyone is responsible, and Tear does talk about blaming Luke.)
-When she gets there, having more or less kidnapped Luke (whether or not she meant to), she speaks to him in language that is inappropriate for a soldier addressing a nobleman. This is separate from any insensitivity---she is supposed to address her superiors with respect.
-She forces him to fight, instead of telling him to stand back and let her do her job of getting him home.
-Luke complains the whole way down, and instead of being a grownup, she retaliates by taunting him and reminding him he's not a very good fighter.
The game could have continued normally if Tear had gone to Luke's house with Van because she was monitoring him, and then landed up causing a hyperresonance with Luke. And Luke would have ended up fighting even if Tear did tell him to stand back because he's Luke and he wanted to be cool/he's secretly a nice bunny rabbit.
Though you wouldn't know this, in Tales of Fandom and another Yajima Sara novelization, it's shown that Legretta didn't really make Tear emotionally tough (though she did make her a good fighter). Cantabile, Tear's teacher later on, mostly wanted to Tear to be determined on a goal. Tear developed what is apparently toughness and insensitivity on her own, and I think it's her way of compensating for being a rather undependable soldier. Worse, other characters who are in the military know the difference between their opponents and normal people, and they act accordingly.
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LOL yes
Date: 2010-11-05 07:15 pm (UTC)At the beginning of the game:
-She breaks into the Fabre household by using Yulia's hymn on people on innocent bystanders. This isn't just the guards at the house, but also servants and maids who can't fight.
-She is part of the hyperresonance that sends her and Luke to another continent, but as she is the one who was aware such a thing could happen, she is responsible. (If we're going to say that anyone is responsible, and Tear does talk about blaming Luke.)
-When she gets there, having more or less kidnapped Luke (whether or not she meant to), she speaks to him in language that is inappropriate for a soldier addressing a nobleman. This is separate from any insensitivity---she is supposed to address her superiors with respect.
-She forces him to fight, instead of telling him to stand back and let her do her job of getting him home.
-Luke complains the whole way down, and instead of being a grownup, she retaliates by taunting him and reminding him he's not a very good fighter.
The game could have continued normally if Tear had gone to Luke's house with Van because she was monitoring him, and then landed up causing a hyperresonance with Luke. And Luke would have ended up fighting even if Tear did tell him to stand back because he's Luke and he wanted to be cool/he's secretly a nice bunny rabbit.
Though you wouldn't know this, in Tales of Fandom and another Yajima Sara novelization, it's shown that Legretta didn't really make Tear emotionally tough (though she did make her a good fighter). Cantabile, Tear's teacher later on, mostly wanted to Tear to be determined on a goal. Tear developed what is apparently toughness and insensitivity on her own, and I think it's her way of compensating for being a rather undependable soldier. Worse, other characters who are in the military know the difference between their opponents and normal people, and they act accordingly.