Here's my take on it - not that I think you're wrong, but that there are multiple ways to see it. Nene is the youngest of the Knight Sabers, and has always been a little innocent - see her reaction to the whole bit about recruiting Lisa and thinking that Sylia was gonna kill her rather than recruit her. To me that feels right - even if she's grown up some since the end of the OAV series, she still retains some of that youthful innocence (which it seems to me to be something the other Knight Sabers have encouraged). To have something so far off from her innocent picture of what she was doing thrown in her face (and not have Sylia refute it sufficiently to seal the crack) in enough to cause a major breakdown. Not right away, but those cracks eat at you over time until you break and rebuild from scratch (BTDT).
As for Linna, I'm not convinced that she's unethical in her job as a mercenary, she's just _very mercenary_ about it. Yes, she's very interested in getting rich, but she's also the most even-tempered of the group, and as such she's something of a stabilizing factor. Perhaps not quite a moral compass, but she usually keeps them on an even keel. And that's what I get out of this - she's not hot-headed enough to rage about it like Priss, nor idealistic enough to fight it, nor in denial about it. She's looked at it, realized that there may be something to it, and is trying to figure out the best way to resolve the issue for _everyone_.
Unfortunately, life's never that easy....
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As for Linna, I'm not convinced that she's unethical in her job as a mercenary, she's just _very mercenary_ about it. Yes, she's very interested in getting rich, but she's also the most even-tempered of the group, and as such she's something of a stabilizing factor. Perhaps not quite a moral compass, but she usually keeps them on an even keel. And that's what I get out of this - she's not hot-headed enough to rage about it like Priss, nor idealistic enough to fight it, nor in denial about it. She's looked at it, realized that there may be something to it, and is trying to figure out the best way to resolve the issue for _everyone_.
Unfortunately, life's never that easy....
My $0.02.
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