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Regarding Firefly:

Originally Posted by belatkuro

Spoiler for 2.2 story:

And the JP dub for her sounded kinda different. Maybe because the situation was escalating so her voice reflected it but it sounded like her VA has some problems with the overall tone.

Spoiler for 2.2 Trailblaze Mission, Firefly:

FWIW, I definitely thought this was on purpose (more the first reason).

When we met Firefly in 2.0, she was "acting." Not really in a malicious way to fool us or anything (although there was obviously a bit of that), but it was like "the Firefly she wished she could be." For a little bit of time she was setting aside her mission and all the rest to "live the dream" in Penacony. She could be just a two-bit actor and a tour guide for the Trailblazer. But the Firefly we meet in 2.2 is a slightly different Firefly -- she's the one bound by her mission, by the threat at hand, who is trying to come to terms with reality, with the knowledge that she has to die three times and doesn't know when/how that's going to happen, and with the fact that she deceived the TB and the Astral Express crew although that wasn't her intention. She's basically the "deflated Firefly"; she's trying not to act too overly chummy because she's focused on the mission and probably also thinks at that stage that she's lost the right. It's the same tone she takes in the car with Blade in those flashback scenes; she's certainly not happy. During the contest section, you hear her loosen up just a little bit with some of the banter (like the "bazooka" comment if you do the Hanu path), but her tone is still deflated.

I'm inclined to think that's probably going to be a plot point in the resolution to her character arc -- that they're going to call back to the "happy" Firefly of 2.0 and the TB is going to want to meet "that" Firefly again -- her idealized self (the story will say: her true self; she may not initially agree). (Perhaps they will go on "one last date" as a callback -- I assume we will go back to the view in 2.0.) That all ties to her own wish expressed in 2.2 to also break free of her identity as "Sam the Stellaron Hunter" and be recognized as just Firefly, and also to the themes of Robin's character expressed in 2.2 (and part of the larger themes of the arc).

So anyway, yeah, I realize this is a lot to say just based on the tone of voice, but I just think it aligns well with the overall plot and character development, so it makes sense -- at least to me.