Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24934890-20181008004211/@comment-25936766-20181017170933

If you really need to wonder after it was spelled out to you, you're simply not paying attention.

Nora loving pancakes or "penchant for capital punishment of those who hurt her friends" (which only happened once in the entire show), that is not depth, that is merely personality.

Nora being an orphan has, so far, led to basically nowhere since as far as we've seen, she simply happened to just be there when Kuroyuri got attacked, and we never got anything about her beyond "Ren saved her and she fell in love with him". Meaning that even that part of her backstory orbits around Ren.

What do we want? We want Nora, to have character and motivations, that are not centered on Ren or have anything to do with Ren. If her backstory is shown, then we want to see something that has nothing to do with Ren, like whatever the hell she was doing before she landed on Kuroyuri.

For example, have her parents have been Atlesian engineers, have Nora want to learn more about Atlas and machines because of that. Something that has no Ren on it, something that Nora likes and wants and isn't motivated or influenced by Ren in any way.

It's perfectly simple, perfectly easy to understand, and if you don't get it then that says more about you than the ones who spell it out to you.