Something has always bothered me about this particular illustration from the Panzer Dragoon Orta novel (I recently bought one off ebay, if anyone wants scans (omg copyright! PM plz ;p):
Also she is chained up but apparently OUTSIDE of the prison tower as it is visible behind her?
If that is the full image I am going to assume that even though the chains are on her, they are not connected to anything and she is with the dragon?
Maybe because she is more than human, she has the ability to unconsciously manipulate reality. Her desire for defense led to the creation of the gun in a manner she did not even realize was abnormal.
Either that or it is just a plot hole…
Yus, this image is just a montage of two pictures, however in the half where she is chained inside the Jail Cell (We can see the bars behind her), she already has the gun in her hand
But even if this is exclusive to the novel, if she had a Gun whist whe was in the cell what was she doing in the cell? o_O
Unless of course, that is exactly right, perhaps she did indeed have the Gun in the cell somewhere but could not use it because of “Dragon + Gun” link theory…
Or perhaps maybe, just maybe, the artist just thought it would look cool and didn’t realize that it was going to be scrutinized to this level of detail?
You know what would be hilarious/evil? If someone at SOJ was reading these boards and intentionally putting in confusing imagery into everything Panzer-related just to mess with your minds.
She’s a drone, so she may have some hidden compartment where Azel stashed the gun, but she didn’t actually know about it… or something… yeah.
Plus, she has a few other tricks we never saw in the game, like being able to change parts of her appearance… like in that illustration how she gave herself Manga eyes!
^That would be interesting actually, but I’ll be very surprised if it actually makes it clear she got it this way, from X or whatever. I’d be less surprised if it doesn’t even say anything about it, mysterious guns are PD tradition after all…