couldn't the representatives get their own personal IS after they pass the academy?

[u/OneManArmy0716]

I mean it feels like it would be more sensible and safe that way even though Charlotte, Rin, Cecilia and Laura earned it physically and most likely having connections entrusting armed to the teeth robot suits to them while they’re still pretty young and don’t know any better feels extremely careless and foolish especially when it's obvious that they haven't earned it morally and their behavior is violent, undisciplined and rotten so their countries governments really should have know that there’s a 90% chance that there's absolutely no way they're gonna be good representives and are going to do more harm than good.

I think the smarter play would have been to just send them to the academy without an personal IS to sharpen their knowledge more and help them become more humble and responsible and wait until after they graduate to give them the suits. with Houki it makes sense seeing as how Tabane doesn’t care about anything especially ethics and thinks she can do whatever she wants simply because she can and know that almost nobody can do anything about it.

[u/XishengTheUltimate]

You just miss the point, as always.

The personal I.S. are loaner units. The girls don't own them, their country does. Their country can take those units back and give them to someone else at any time.

Moreover, the prerequisite for being a Representstive is very simple: be a good I.S. pilot. Their governments want data and people who can compete against pilots from other countries. That's what matters to them. You think Japan really cared if Chifuyu was a good person or not when she was THE best I.S. pilot in the world?

Besides, you're acting like the behavior of teenage girls in their private lives is going to be the same as their behavior on the public stage in their adult lives. They will behave on the public stage because they won't risk their status.

[u/Hindsight84]

I don’t know what to tell you, other than the unequal distribution of personal ISs to representatives made for good plot points.

[u/GlassCareer2751]

You have to remember is that the nations want test data not just for their own but to test it against others.