Yukikaze. Stuff I'd like to remember.

[konomon]

Earth’s just a big ball of water filled with a lot of bitter memories.
Rei Fukai р.15

“Look, I was born trouble,” Rei replied without turning around, still standing in front of the coffee maker. “My parents split up right after I was born, and I was raised in a home along with plenty of other kids like me. But the truth is, I was happy back then.”
Rei to Jack p.21

“Add insulting a superior officer. Think about it, Rei. Which would you rather do: try to persuade thirty squadron members or one woman?”
“The woman would be harder.”
Jack and Rei p.24

Walking into the SAF deputy commander’s spacious office, Rei saw a severed head sitting on the large desk and blanched in disgust. He knew it was a doll’s head, but it looked very lifelike. On top of that, it had the face of his former electronic warfare officer, the one who had got himself killed.
“That’s the height of bad taste, General.”
Rei Fukai p.26

Booker slurped at his coffee. “How about you carry smokescreen shells, too? Any particular color you’d like? I can even get you rainbow-colored ones.”
“This whole thing’s just making me depressed.”
“So…blue, then?”
Booker and Rei p.38

“Taken over by the JAM? Seriously?” she asked.
“First you don’t believe it’s an agent from Earth and now you don’t believe it’s the JAM. Don’t jerk me around, General. This isn’t my problem, and I couldn’t care less what’s happening aboard Banshee. And besides, Banshee’s air team were idiots. If it was shooting at them, they should have shot back. If it was me, I wouldn’t care if it was a carrier, or a plane that looked like a Sylph, or someone wearing a general’s rank insignia. Anyone who fires on Yukikaze is an enemy, and if she says it’s an enemy, I’ll pull the trigger without a second thought. That’s war. You think too long and you die. But you wouldn’t understand that.”
“Watch how you speak to me, Lieutenant.”
Cooley and Rei p.69


If I died, Rei thought, I wonder if the general would regret the loss of a good soldier. Maybe she’d give me a medal, but no way she’d ever shed a tear for me. She’d probably be relieved to be free of someone who spread pessimism like an infectious disease. Rei knew it, but…what did it matter?
Rei p.69

“You’re thinking we could be the first humans to come into contact with an actual JAM?”
“We have no idea what form the JAM really possess. We assume they’ve been hiding from us and that they’ve never appeared in front of a human. That’s Lynn Jackson’s opinion, but I have a feeling that may be wrong. I wonder if it’s not that they won’t appear to humans, but that humans aren’t able to sense them.”
“Like spirits, you mean?”
“Maybe, maybe not. There’s also the possibility that we look at them without actually seeing them. We see JAM fighters, and we have no doubts that there are JAM inside of them or, even if there aren’t, that they were made by JAM ‘people.’ We don’t consider the possibility that the fighters may be the JAM themselves because that’s just too strange to us. The JAM also seem
to be perplexed by the existence of these ‘humans’ they observe. Maybe they’re wondering, ‘What are those organic things attached to the fighters? What are they doing, wandering around on their own? Well, they seem harmless enough, so just ignore them.’ You can practically hear them saying it.”
Rei and Tom p.76