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that FURTHER begs the question, if her evol is patchy and unreliable in a combat situation or where she needs to react quickly, why the hell she got accepted into the Hunter Academy in the first place. did they just want her to fall down on a battlefield and get eaten, thereby ridding them of an embarrassing spawned-in-a-lab biomedical failure?

i am trusting the process, i swear i am, but its stuff like this that makes me squint.

also several grains of salt - i'm treating this like its a novel, not a plinko machine for money extraction :P

and just because I'm on a roll and feel like not-working for a hot minute:



Technically speaking, they're ALL lovers (lowercase " l ") but I personally wouldn't fit any of them into the Lover archetype or tarot card (I'm familar with Rider-Waite only though). Since the Lovers in a tarot card indicates choices and temptation to one side or another, usually to do with relationships, none of the boys really embody that in an overarching sense.

I kind of would immediately want to peg Xavier into The Fool because the visuals are perfect, but I don't think that's really correct? Maybe? The Fool makes his choice(s) without thinking or even realizing the reality around him, a blind decision and I don't think that's Xavier at any point. His choices may not have been what he started out with, but other than the innocent part, I'm not sure the rest fits. Judgement, maybe? A herald of change.

I could see Zayne as The Magician, the man in control of his surroundings in the gross sense, but maybe not where I am right in the story of course. I assume he gets there! I mean, reversed reading of a man not in control or a loss of control in translating spirit into reality... I'm stretching here.

Perfect, yes. Sylus as Destroyer, which I guess would translate to the Tower, a violent change.  Although now that I actually sit down and think about it - King of Pentacles? A man of wealth and power, able to provide answers to the material world and on the reverse a man that is not to be crossed.

/happily fucks around with rusty memories of card readings

When do we get our Two of Cups again?

When she goes to get her Hunter badge the monitor fails to get her evol level and she explains that it's because of a wanderer attack during the chronorift, and the dude tells her that it's not a problem because her level is not the only parameter they use to evaluate hunters. After all, yes you can use your evol if you want but it's not required. You have combat training to become a hunter. You have to know how to operate the technology, shoot some guns, follow missions of all sorts (including investigation and infiltration), etc. Most of all, I think to be an operative hunter you have to be okay with the possibility of dying out in the field. Not everyone has the evol gene, and while it's easy to see why the Hunters Association is almost overrun by people with evols, there are also "normal" people. 
On top of it, MC's evol is quite rare, so even with all the limitations in place, it also makes sense that they're keeping her as future investment if she underperforms now (which she's not).

alignments:
Currently chewing nails, I can't properly reply to you because I'd risk spoilering you stuff! Let's put a pin on several of the points you touched here, we'll be revisiting them after you've gone through the main story and dove into the LIs backstories (which is something you don't necessarily need to do if you just want to follow your main/s, but is definitely the only way to get the wider sense of what is happening in that world). I was using this as easy point of reference by the way.
I'm just waiting (no pressure though) and you'll get bombarded by so many videos you need to watch. Prepare popcorns and movie nights I guess.

(two of cups just calls for Xavier in my head)