When you think of what Blue's been through, she is truly amazing. First, she is kidnapped from her home and raised for the purpose of evil. Mask of Ice probably treated her like a disposable tool. Then, she escapes. Blue was left homeless and without a family. After that, she had to face her greatest fear: Ho-oh. Finally, when she had found her parents, they were suddenly taken away from her. Even through all of the emotional stress, she pulled herself together and continued to fight.
Don't you guys wish that they showed more of Blue and Silver's past? I know about the chapter "Escape!", but it dosen't show how they were treated.
Oh, I know. I was reading the manga in the P.E. locker room when I got to the part when her parents disappeared, and I was crying my eyes out in front of my whole class and I didn't even care because her entire life was just sooooo sad. T____T I just hated to put to book down and go out to P.E...
I totally agree with the points about showing more about how Blue and Silver were treated, and what they did after they escaped. You get the feeling that the Masked Children didn't exactly grow up in the most nurturing environment, considering the brief flashbacks of things like the Masked Man knocking Blue to the ground just for giving her Jigglypuff a nickname, and Silver shivering in the cold. And think about the way Karen, Will, Chermaine, and Keane... even Blue herself, to some extent, turned out. Totally sadistic and selfish, like the Masked Man. Blue was never really sadistic, but she was pretty selfish at first. She probably gained some kind of a "everyone for herself" mentality while she was there. Since Chermaine, Keane, Will, and Karen all teamed up to stop Blue and Silver from escaping, they probably didn't get along too well. There were just the slightest hints that the Masked Man did have some kind of affection for the Masked Children, like the ice sculpture he made after Blue and Silver escaped, and the way he smiled in recognition when he heard Silver's voice. But he didn't seem to really understand it or know how to show it, so he took it out on the kids. Maybe he was - cliche, cliche - afraid of learning to love something again, and then losing it. [EDIT: (BTW, is it just me, or is it completely ironic that the Masked Man feels so bad about his Lapras not getting to see its parents, so he goes out and kidnaps kids? And then two of the kids he kidnapped both end up stealing Pokemon?)] But who knows?
And I, too, long to know more about what happened between the time she escaped to the time she entered the story. Like, when did Blue decide to go live in her tower-thingy (lighthouse...?) when Silver was living by Tin Tower, and stuff... it drives me crazy not knowing, so I make stuff up.
LOL, I'm way off-topic here, and that's probably way more than anyone wanted to hear. I just read waaaaaaay too much into fictional stories sometimes... >_<''
