[RFC] Being You is Deculture

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Well, first off, Minmei really is making a full-on charm offensive, isn't she? She knows what she wants and has a solid idea of how to get it, that's for sure. At the same time, I don't think the differences are truly that great from her canon character - it's just that she's chasing a person who's more experienced and settled in their own skin than Hikaru, who is after all her own age and just feeling his way around life himself. Adjusting her approach to appeal more to a mature viewpoint rather than hanging out, having silly fun, and not dwelling too deeply on heavy subjects is only natural given that difference.

In the letters section, it's nice to see Garrick's appreciation for Mihoshi as a person. She often gets shortchanged in the fics I've read, blown off as nothing more than a ditz who's always popping up just in time to be the biggest annoyance, or comedy relief. Sort of fanon-Minmei only even more so, I guess you could say...

I don't think it's all that odd for Kamjin to be depicted as a canny commander - he canonically is, it's just that he places no value on anything but victory. Even then, he still gets around to grokking something as far out of his world view as love with Azonia by their last appearance, in one of the most underplayed character arcs of Macross as a whole. As for keeping him occupied when they get sent to pick up "Sourpuss," maybe Roy could decide to give the order at that moment because he's disposed of his previous opponent and dialed in on Kamjin's Glaug to take over keeping him occupied himself? You wouldn't even need to change anything above, just have Garrick wonder about it later, and have Roy say something about how it was an interesting few minutes before he broke contact again.