Since shikako is obviously hung over her seemingly inability to lead missions, would you call it trauma? Though she is older than she physically is, will she be a little childish in the sense that she feels vulnerable from what happened?

dosbysilverqueen:

I think it’s important not to equate age with experience – even an adult is going to have problems with ‘I made a mistake and now my brother is injured’. Even experience probably wouldn’t change that, but an experienced mission leader would probably have been able to react to the situation and handle the aftermath better. And experience, unfortunately, only comes with doing the thing. 

-Silver Queen