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Originally posted by Tyger42 (view)
In the OVA, Bell did want to stay in spite of the Almighty's wishes. However, her staying was doing far too much damage. In spite of a comment she made in the Manga once, I'm quite sure that if it came down to having to lose Kei or let the world be destroyed, she'd go the high road.

Why? She can just accept being reformatted like Velsper as a human girl, or do like they doid in the novel and just send everything back to the beginning over and over, and as I recall in the Manga she was willing to do a double suicide with keiichi rather than kill him when he was infected by the LoT.

In the LoT incident, there wasn't a solution apparent at the time that didn't involve killing Kei to destroy the LoT, which is why Bell was willing to opt for the double suicide approach. What it all comes down to is I really don't think she'd put her happiness over the welfare of the entire world. In the OVA, her presence aside from doing damage to the world in general was endangering Kei. The concept of reformatting into a different life form hadn't been introduced yet even in the Manga, I don't think, (My chronology may be off.) so the solution wasn't there. The author hadn't created it yet. Plus, the OVA is kind of its own cannon, really. Just as the movie is. So, in the OVA, the best solution she could see for Kei's well-being was to step out of his life and make him forget her. She was willing to accept that pain for his good.

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Originally posted by Tyger42 (view)
In the LoT incident, there wasn't a solution apparent at the time that didn't involve killing Kei to destroy the LoT, which is why Bell was willing to opt for the double suicide approach. What it all comes down to is I really don't think she'd put her happiness over the welfare of the entire world. In the OVA, her presence aside from doing damage to the world in general was endangering Kei. The concept of reformatting into a different life form hadn't been introduced yet even in the Manga, I don't think, (My chronology may be off.) so the solution wasn't there. The author hadn't created it yet. Plus, the OVA is kind of its own cannon, really. Just as the movie is. So, in the OVA, the best solution she could see for Kei's well-being was to step out of his life and make him forget her. She was willing to accept that pain for his good.

Kind of, since at the end you could see them both struggling agains the return gate, if he wanted her to stay (which he would), I think she would have a much harder time leaving