> Pierre:
> > I have no idea why their mother's death would affect the psyche of
> > the Tendou girls that much.
> 
>       While I think if Akane's mother was around she'd have more feminine
> influence, but consider Akane's mother was mentioned about twice in the
> story (Nodoka's entrance, the story Hinako tried to marry Soun story),
> and Akane never shown any significant impact from missing her mother, I
> think she just happened to turn out to be more tomboyish than the
> average girl.

You could argue that it's indirectly the cause of all the twisted
personalities in the Tendou family, and that they just don't talk
about it because it was a painful subject for so long.

Of course, you could also argue that Kasumi has multiple personality
disorder....

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    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu