I'm going to add a little more about Faite at the top here because it's important to understanding the way she thinks:

She spent probably hundreds of years separated from the human race, and existing only as a cosmic spirit. During that time, she found herself highly in touch with the progression of the universe, and thinking only a big big things. Little things like a few hundred people dying in some disaster didn't mean much to her.

Eventually, she started to regret losing contact with the human race, and started to get involved again. But that proved to be disastrous at first, because she didn't really understand them. So she turned herself into a teenager (because she observed that way people will take care of her for a while, so she doesn't have to worry about getting established) and went to a boarding school.

So she's been immersed in re-learning how to be human, and has been missing some of the bigger cosmic things going on because of it. She tries to protect herself by disappearing when in danger, and tries to protect the few friends she made, but is otherwise stand-offish and distant to everyone else because she doesn't feel confident around them.

Now let's see how that relates to the stuff below...





To Vinnie, Faite would simply reply, "You didn't ask." She doesn't understand or trust him, and his anger just makes her want to distance herself from him further. So she says the most cold and logical thing she can think of. Until he earns her trust, that's all he would get from her.

To Chiaki, someone she tends to talk about her real feelings with, Faite would admit sadly that she waited too long, and regrets missing her chance to stop all of it before it was already in motion. Chiaki, always being encouraging, would remind her that control is an illusion, and the future has a way of working around interference - so interfering might have been for nothing.

Eventually, Chiaki might have then scolded Vinnie for taking his frustrations out on Faite. That she can't fix things now any more than he can, and that he should stop burning bridges because he might need her someday. If that upsets Vinnie, she would ask him sweetly to please stop turning on people who care about him, and that she would like to help him through *his* crisis as well.





Faite probably would have encouraged them to merge spirits. Primarily because she can do it, and without dealing with the sadness of either one of them, or their friends.





Not enough of them, obviously. That's part of the talk about regret that Faite would have with Chiaki.





And after that intro, we just now get to the point where Vinnie trying to be nice to Faite would actually come in handy in present time. His own feelings of regret and pain, and the ones he caused in other people, give all of his enemies a lot of leverage over him. Especially the Hooded Hood. Faite is one of the few people with the ability to see it coming, and help him head it off before it becomes another tragedy. But only if he can set aside his anger first.

The timing works out, too, because as long as she can't hide from it, she'll start to notice how much pain Vinnie is in and start to open up to him a little. She can be aloof, but she's not made of stone, and she's starting to pick up Chiaki's conscience.








It really is. She doesn't like what she was, and she's very happy right now (or was until Vinnie started turning weird on her) so she doesn't see any reason to look back.