That’s cause Nina doesn’t cut corners… she humps them!

You got the pun! Just as planned. I figured that if IKnight didn’t pick up on that someone else would… hook, line, and sinker!

Dunno about more complicated. I mean, a Defjun Disturber (or whatever it was) is one thing, but splitting the atom is quite another. Lloyd and Laksharta strike me as weapons developers more than pure scientists, but Nina spent most of the first season being all theoretical, only grabbing a spanner when the stage collapsed at the end.

so Nina could have had Aspergers for all we know, or have been an austistic savant with a tendency to not cut corners.

That’s cause Nina doesn’t cut corners… she humps them!

This was actually a good read about a scene that was unmatched, even by dog Zero. Perhaps a little bit of Clamp-ish sensibilities about people never being pure is coming through.

Also, Nina is not looking promising as a scientist. Lloyd and Laksharta never mess up and their stuff is way more complicated!

@ Teeif: What Shiri and Owen say. Though I’ve noticed shaky motivation in several of Geass’s side characters – we know that Diethard, for example, doesn’t like Britannia, and that he likes the drama that Zero provides, but the level of obsession he harbours seems out-of-proportion.

Nina’s been established early on as a character that defines the quintessential nerd archetype in school — studious, possibly unpopular with the opposite sex, the full monty. Euphie’s presence in her life serves to highlight how much of a sociopath she is, and how Nina might not even have had proper relationships with those of her own sex to begin with, resulting in her mistaking Euphie’s kindness for something more.

Crazy? Hardly. Misguided? Most likely. But we (the public) never make the distinction between both, so Nina could have had Aspergers for all we know, or have been an austistic savant with a tendency to not cut corners.

Anyway, she was obviously crazy. And you can be crazy and irrational and still have an awesome mind for maths or physics. The two kinds of logic are not really related, or at least don’t have to be.

As a side character, she was never going to have enough screen time to exhibit her reasons for choosing to take the route of revenge, but there was not one scene that showcased her ‘love’ for Euphie to be much more adoration. Nina’s level of personal feelings for Euphie in a relationship that involved little contact and certainly no return of affection, I do not get.

I recall that Euphie saved Nina’s life and she could feel indebited for that, perhaps even embrace an ironically Japanese concept of sacrifice in honour of somebody else. But love?

For such an supposedly logical being (I assume she excels at physics) to emotionally snap and contemplate suicide in revenge, well, it’s crazy isn’t it?