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Originally Posted by SleepingTerror
You mean the purpose of helping a ship sail? No, not really.
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You're removing all of her friendship for them from her character in favor of a ship sailing.
Seriously, your argument could
equally go towards
Ranka, who outside of the love triangle and plot device had no real character developments which fans could grasp, or what developments she
did have people disliked a lot (people be salty for it even now).
However, Ranka is a big player in Frontier not because she's a plot device or a love interest for Alto but her
friendship with both changing their lives. Is it a bad role? No; because she helped two characters achieve something like their love for each other and dreams by her presence in the story period. Does it benefit her? Yes; she grew as a person by watching her role models.
This also applies to Mirage; who grows
because of her friendship with Hayate and Freyja; she develops by watching both aspire to do their best for their
dreams and not their love for each other
specifically (this only comes into effect once she falls for Hayate).
Mirage is beneficial to the story itself because she supports the two MC on the battlefield and as a friend. She is someone those two could come to for moral support in their dreams, a sort of mother hen if you will. And regardless of your personal opinion, it's not a bad role for a character like her. The fact Mirage is not a typical Jenius ace pilot helps mold her for a different role than her ancestors. The fact everyone wants her to have a role like her ancestors goes against her character.
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Originally Posted by SleepingTerror
The only time she's relevant is whenever Hayate and Freyja need that one extra shove. That shouldn't be the case.
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Again, is not necessarily a
bad thing if Mirage develops
from it. That's kind of the main argument of her character, really; fans all wish for her to
develop. Everyone yelling "outside of the love triangle, she has nothing" is
not true.
Delta focuses a little
too much on a specific little trope called "The Power of Friendship" more than "Love Saves The Day." Hayate, Freyja, and Mirage are following in the footsteps of the beautiful friendship of Sheryl and Ranka (plus Alto, if you will) and following by example for Mikumo and Freyja of the instructor and student relationship (also held by Mirage and Hayate in the first half).
If you remove the love triangle dynamic from Delta, it's
all about friendship for Chaos.
The fact you believe she should develop outside of this goes against how Delta is lined up. And is also kind of my
number one complaint with
Sheryl in the second half of Frontier; who goes from "I fight to survive" in the first half to discovering she's dying and blunders into developing an all-powerful emo scale of "I'm dying so it's all pointless" and also a big "I'm in love with Alto" fest comes of this, too. Didn't help her character one bit on individuality because Alto basically encouraged her to be herself again through "The Power of Love" as did Ranka via "The Power of Friendship" and... yeah, she didn't come back to "herself"
because of herself, she had help; and it's kind of how Mirage goes, too.