Compass wrote:1 - Why is everyone so young after 200 years? I can understand maybe being a Valvrave pilot would keep you young, but not everyone was a Valvrave pilot.
They could easily become Valvrave pilots afterwards. Magius do age, thus their need to hop bodies, but the pilots are different. As for why, well in Satomi's case he probably wants to be with his sister (I wouldn't be surprised if Takahi is also still around). I hope I don't need to explain why Shoko would become one.
Compass wrote:2 - Why hasn't anyone's runes dried up after piloting for so long?
Most of the issues with the Valvraves has to do with Unit 1. Its special status has been known for awhile now. So they just have to avoid using Unit 1, or perhaps after 200 years they've found a way to prevent leakage.
Compass wrote:4 - How does bodyjacked L-Elf regain consciousness? Don't you have to re-bite the source to return the soul? So wouldn't in essence, L-Elf have reasonably died instead if his/Haruto's conscience had died? That would have been a more fitting end, probably. And if a bodyjacked person can just die off like that... what...
I imagine that the body jacking things works by transfering your Runes into another person. So if Haruto was out of Runes he couldn't sustain it. That what little he had left went back to his body seems like a natural thing to me.
Or what stagrider said.
Compass wrote:6 - How exactly does the JIOR faction actually fight off its opponents? It has 3 suits left, and with Shoko as a possible 3rd pilot. I mean, they're still considered monsters for cryin' out loud. I assume maybe the Dorssian Royalists and JIOR might form an alliance given their past.
The World was up in arms with its Magius hunt, so the students could probably lay low for awhile. ARUS ceased hostilities, and the Royalists now control Dorssia so no one in the immediate area is going to attack them. As you said, new JIOR is in tight with the new Dorssia government, which is also the foundation for the empire we see 200 years later.
Strike Zero wrote:One other major tidbit that the show never bothered to definitively answer for us -- Who is the Prince? Who were his parents? Why were they telling him all this?
As was established, the empire is the new form of Dorssia. The Royalists took over, meaning the royal family is back in power. A-Drei is a prince, you do the math. As for why they're telling him this stuff, isn't it ideal to teach the future ruler about his country, and isn't it best to hear things from the people who were there?
Characters telling the story in such a way is a common framing device. Sure, we knew nothing was going to happen to Saki, but it also raised questions about how they were going to reach that point over the course of the show. Even if we knew the destination, we didn't know what would happen on the journey there.
Anyways, so far as unanswered questions go, what exactly Pino and Ple are was never really explained.
And the one thing I was disappointed with was the way Q-Vier died. Bastard deserved much worse, preferably at the hand of a Valvrave pilot.
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