Federico Talens Alesson said:
:
:Washuu wants her daughter back somehow: she cannot be a child again (and is
:the one and only-cf. Funaho-Washuu OAV 13) but she might learn to behave in
:a nicer way.
:
:When Zero drops after Clay breaks the ring, calling for Tenchi, Washuu
:suspects something, possibly that Zero's minds is a perfect copy of
:Ryouko's (She falls calling out for Tenchi). And then, when Zero gets back
:she possibly assumes that the gem must be powering Zero and therefore that
:she has become tuned to the gems (and similar to Ryouko, somehow).

    Zero seemed to be more (unwittingly) receptive with the
    mother-daughter relationship between her and Washuu.  I don't
    think I've seen Washuu ever spend time with Ryouko before.
    Something tuned in, and it wasn't just the gems.

:This is why she does what she does, merging the two minds: to lower Ryouko's
:barriers. And this iw why Zero can cause this effect. Once someone suggested
:that Ryouko and Zero had been merged phisically. Don't think so: I believe
:it was just copying Zero's mind on Ryouko and getting an averaged mind. OAV
:13 is not significant about the eventual change: it is too abnormal a
:situation to see if Ryouko as fully recovered from the end of OAV 12.

    Yep, just one more episode of kawaii-Ryouko-chan would have been
    lots of fun!


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