思い出は時の彼方なの。。。 Memories that Lies Beyond Time...
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Nanoha Episode 07: The Third Mage!?
Nanoha Episode 07: The Third Mage!?
After a recap we see a segment in which Nanoha-chan watches her sister practice swordsmanship in the morning. She speaks telepathically with Yuuno-kun about wanting to know more about Fayt-chan. The scene cuts back and forth between Miyuki's sword strikes and images of Fayt-chan. The meaning of this isn't terribly clear here, but gets revealed somewhat in episode 10.
Meanwhile Fayt-chan is going to visit her mother to give her a status update. Arf doesn't look too happy about this prospect - she terms her mother either `あの人' or `あの女'. Nanoha-chan herself seems awfully sad when she senses the two beam up (or whatever you want to call it).
Turns out the apprehension was justified. It's difficult to find a loving kind of amae between Fayt-chan and her mother. While they are dependant on each other in a way, it seems to be a rather sado-masochistic dependency.
We do get hints that there used to be a `normal' amae between Fayt-chan and her mother. For now, however, the relationship has been supplanted, in part, by a more conventional emotional bond, between Fayt-chan and Arf. Fayt-chan here acts as a mother figure (she created Arf, after all), but we can clearly see the two-way dependancy. Arf is terribly worried (to the point of seriously freaking out), and only wants Fayt-chan to be happy (as any good daughter should :p), but Arf also functions as a protector for Fayt-chan.
A charming fellow by the name of Chrono comes in from the spaceship Asura, on behalf of the `Time-Space Administration Bureau'. We met him and some of his fellow crewmates earlier, interestingly to the tune of military music. In his capacity today he seems to be acting as a mediator..but Arf doesn't wait, and gets Fayt-chan out of there as fast as she can. It seems the two really have something to hide...
We see this even more in upcoming episodes, but Arf is taking a more proactive approach to protecting Fayt-chan - likely a result of the beating she took earlier at the hands of her mother (Arf commented afterward that, had she knew what was going to happen, she would have stopped Fayt-chan, no matter what..).
At this point, Fayt-chan seems almost senile (and she's what, ten years old?). She's trying to get her mother back the way she used to be - to regain that amae dependency. She's very dependant on her mother (she is ten, after all - who wouldn't?), but as her mother isn't responding in a very helpful manner, Fayt-chan instead latches on to the memory of her mother, who she could depend on. It seems, however, that she's descending more and more into this escapist fancy, and clearly can't go on indefinitely.
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