The 'big sister'/'big brother' thing in Japanese is a general friendly term of address. The mother here clearly wants the kid to like Plants and not be scared of them - she explains in detail how much they owe to the Plant, and I think the 'big sister' just goes along with the general positive attitude. What the relevance of those two pages is in the bigger picture is intriguing. I wondered originally if the kid was supposed to be Meryl in flashback, coming as it does immediately after Meryl's conversation with Luida, but it looks nothing like her.
It also comes immediately before Knives has his initial WTF? moment, and I think that might be more relevant. If the Plant is smiling at the kid, that suggests Plants don't automatically resent humans. When Knives collapses and has his visions, is that the Plants trying to stop him from hurting people? Are we seeing them fight back? It's either that or his own guilty conscience as far as I can see, and I'm less inclined to believe the latter.
That page with Wolfwood looking up at the Ark is another weird one. I read it as Wolfwood thinking about Vash rather than the other way round, but Nightow certainly likes leaving things convoluted for us to untangle!
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Date: 2005-05-23 05:32 pm (UTC)It also comes immediately before Knives has his initial WTF? moment, and I think that might be more relevant. If the Plant is smiling at the kid, that suggests Plants don't automatically resent humans. When Knives collapses and has his visions, is that the Plants trying to stop him from hurting people? Are we seeing them fight back? It's either that or his own guilty conscience as far as I can see, and I'm less inclined to believe the latter.
That page with Wolfwood looking up at the Ark is another weird one. I read it as Wolfwood thinking about Vash rather than the other way round, but Nightow certainly likes leaving things convoluted for us to untangle!