Originally posted by: FelixZeroAlastor
All right I am sorry but please spare me. He was indeed trying to protect Stellar when he gave her to Neo. At the moment it was a better option than watching her suffer until she gets disected alive or dies on the bed all scared and crying. I don't know about you but I would have done the same thing. He wasn't trying to dodge responsibility. He was doing the only thing that he could do to possibly save her. He couldn't have possibly known that Neo was going to have her slaughter three cities full of innocent people with the Destroy. If you love someone are you just going to let them suffer and be disected when you promised to protect them or are you going to give them back to the only person who could possibly save them. I would choose the second one cause it is what the average sane person would do. If I was Shinn I would probably want revenge on Kira too. Even tough Stellar deserves no kind of forgiveness whatsoever from anyone Shinn loved her and she loved him and love makes you do stupid things. Example: While Kira was fighting Rau he flew straight for Fllay completely ignoring the most dangerous suit on the field at the moment. I 'm not saying this cause I like Shinn just so you know.
Please not I for one lack any reason to justify the Love between Stellar and Shinn that so many people like to point out. To me Stellar loves Neo he's the person she always called out for first and the one that she always listened to and followed reguardless. While on the other hand Shinn aside from claiming he would protect Stellar as to me he saw her as a defenceless girl more of a sister really then a lover at any point. Shinn never so much as kissed her the most relevant thing we have is flying naked time when she was in destroy which really just showed she was glad to see him. In the end Neo's words were more powerful then Shinn's and thus Kira disabled Destroy.

I will state something once again I have absolutely NO idea how Stellar could have died and her final words remain to be directly translated to "Shinn like" and not "Shinn I love you" as was interpreted by subbers as Suki litterally means like I see her statement more of one made to a older brother who just protected his sister then of one lover to another. Also please note that when she dies that Shinn remembers his sisters death above that of his parents which continues to aim me at she was more of a sibling.

You can absolutely love a sister or brother in a differn't way and I do see that Shinn could only see her as a victum who he wanted to try and protect from the harshness of war. Also please note comparing Fllay to Stellar is just something that shouldn't be done. Fllay is rather close to Shinn in that they both went insane upon watching there family die in front of them and in the end Fllay right before dying had finally turned around and started regretting what she had done and in turn we had naked time with Kira and Fllay where she became Kira's guardian angel.

In the end I believe Stellar really was more of a reflection on Kira as a what if situation. One where Fllay instead of being the girl who snapped was instead Shinn who had snapped and become a MS pilot. Where instead Stellar much like Shinn was forced into a position where she believed she had to fight in order to protect those closest to her much like Kira did in all of Gundam Seed.

As far as Shinn goes realise that even after finding out it was Stellar and after Neo was shot down that Shinn did not blame Neo or Stellar but instead Kira who was nothing more or less then the one to disable Stellars suit and save Shinn's life. Perhaps if Shinn had bothered to check on Stellar, who obviously was not bleeding and also had no noteable disfigurement, was infact dead or had just had a problem that may have been treatable before dumping her in a lake she could have been saved. Or had he really wanted to avenge her and in turn have his actions be for her it would have to me atleast been more fitting for him to take her pendant and wear it for the rest of the series. All Shinn does instead is toss the body and his humanity and go into vengence mode the guy at this point in the series is a complete nutcase and I find that case impossible to argue.