Talk:Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 10/@comment-204.108.96.93-20140521174334/@comment-11571396-20140522225516

To sum it up, you're one hell of an Index fan aren't you?

Bwahaha, lol, what?

Index is not even in my top 5 of favourite characters in the series, I simply don't think your argumemt holds much water at the current stage of the story. I can just as easily criticize how Kamachi handles Index if I wanted, along with Mikoto, Touma and Shiage, no characterization is perfect. It's just that, really, the opening post kinda annoyed me for being overly dramatic and typical of a fair weather fan (i.e., fan of something in a franchise for a long time until it doesn't go their way once, and immediately become fan of something else). Then it was because I wasn't seeing your point, and I'm still not seeing it (on your last points, 1st, Birdway did not only wanted to kill her but was going to do it by putting all the Earth in danger with Gungnir, which is still as reckless as in Hawaii, and second, Index wasn't going to help him [incidentally, so did Agnese, so it wasn't except Index], but was not going to hinder him in his quest either, she wanted him to apologize, which is a completely different issue than wanting to stop him)

To be fair, long before the volume came out, I was already wary of the obligatory wonky characterization issues to get everyone to fight Touma. That was still a thing, and hardly good, but it wasn't enough to prevent me from getting my usual level of enjoyment.

One last thing in parting,

Index growled like a wild dog for a bit, but she finally sighed as if she had given up on something.

'''“Well, at least I know you haven’t changed, Touma. …And I suppose there is something I should say.”'''

“What’s that?”

“Welcome home.”

(NT6, before Touma sent it all to waste, of course)

Compare with,

To put it a bit more colloquially, she was having difficulty deciding what she should get mad about first.

'''Normally, Mikoto might have used her control over massive amounts of magnetism to rip the entire bench up into the air and shout “Ventura, Ventura!!” while launching it high into the sky. However, she was different today.'''

She spoke in a low, quiet voice that was almost a groan.

“…I’m sick of this position.”

(NT8)

Both girls who would usually punish him before he got a chance to explain himself. But as you said, not that you're going to change your opinion anyway.