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MZero posted...

But Joachim is the one that killed them, so if she wanted to save them she should have just got rid of him instead of having them get closer with the Brights and Renne so that she'd save them at the last second

imo it makes more sense for an "instinctual release" to be the simplest solution, which was getting rid of Joachim. What she actually did sounds more deliberate and thought out

It's not the point of why it happened, but I can't help thinking about it that way. And I think they did a fine job of presenting that KeA's struggle with her power without needing to drop that in there

Why would instincts demand the most simple and expedient solution? That's purely a mindset of rational, precautionary thinking. She wants to protect her family--she values her family, she's 100% motivated by her love for her family--so her instinctive method of accomplishing this goal is to create more bonds of love, to inspire others to protect that which she cares for.

Remember, she's basically omniscient at this point. She could rationally identify trillions ways of solving this issue; if she were so inclined, Joachim could die by a comically inefficient Rube Goldberg machine involving Tita, an acerbic tomato, three creepy sheep and a very large stick, and it'd be just as trivial to arrange as Joachim choking on a bruhfish and dying an ignominious death. She has an infinite solution set open to her, so the one that will be chosen will be the one her instinct and emotions resonate with.

And as I've said, she's torn about this whole issue. She's not going to use her powers, at least in significant and overt ways, to help her family much outside of averting their deaths. I'd imagine Lloyd would treat a failure to save KeA as equal to dying, so the "get out of jail free card" of him being in a sense immortal isn't terribly relevant

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