This rewards a rewatch or two for the details, but dang does ARD have a market cornered on animating love in both tenderness as much as violence.
Love how easy it is to believe those were two physical people being sweet and horny as hell for each other, love the use of the mirror, and I was unreasonably delighted at how the photo-into-pouch move is animated, it's so SATISFYING.
This made me chuckle because thinking about it, OP is totally right. Ariane is such an edgy nonconformist that she lives in a terrifyingly totalitarian state, and still doesn't even bother reading the rules - never mind shy away from breaking them.
Badgirl Ariane leads a poor, stoic, dutifully by-the-book engineer so far astray it winds up breaking reality a little bit.
She's not even sorry. 😎
She’s plotting, she’s scheming.
I think it’s funny how people generally portray Ariane as kind and gentle, but she’s the weird one in this relationship. Elster is just a good nerd girl, and Ariane breaks the law all the time for fun.
Was searching for podcast episodes about signalis, because I just really want to listen people talk about it, but I’m having trouble finding one where the hosts have… any grasp on the story whatsoever.