Talk:Louise de La Vallière/@comment-124.187.140.99-20130606133022

Personally I am a fan of louise and think that the relationship dynamic between her and Saito is more effective than any of the other girls (at least after it had developed, I concede that season one Siesta made more sense). However Louise gets a large amount of dislike and most of it is compltely justified, the problem is that most of the dislike is due to a misinterpretation of her character.

Louise's problem is not that she is mean spirited, brutal, untrusting or the such, her character flaw is that she is disingenuous. Every problem between Louise and Saito arrises from her refusing to be honest both with him and with herself. This is an immaturity issue and something that will pass with time. The source of said disingenuity is pretty obvious. As a child of a high ranking noble family and a mage she was expectedto stand out and prove herself as one of the top mages in the country, a task that was literally impossible for her to accomplish. This creates negative self image which in turn results in a negative outward treatment of others.

The treatment of Saito is admittedly poor at times. The undeserved beatings in particular. This said, it is a product not of Louise but of her society. Saito is a familiar, little more than a pet in the eyes of the society and him disobeying her or showing signs of disloyalty would be a symbol of shame upon her. Event though he is human that doesn't change that he is still a familiar. It isn't fair for Saito at times but it is a relationship dynamic which works because when they are forced to look beyond the scope of societal judgement the falsity of the master-slave relationship is abandoned.

Finally we reach he reason why Louise and Saito work. Saito is the one person in the world who is capable of seeing Louise as something other than a nobleman's daughter or a failure. Even knowing that she couldn't perform magic and that she was a failure in the eyes of everyone else she still vowed to protect her.

That is clear reason why she would fall for him, but why would Saito. There is the familiar loyalty bond of course but that bond is broken at one point but his feelings remain so it isn't that. I suspect that it is because Saito is able to see past Louise's disingenuousness and see the shy and nice girl underneath the years of emotional repression. It is in moments when they are alone, away from everything when Louise drops her facade of being a noblewoman that we see exactly what Saito likes about her.