At the end of the day, most of the most despicable people I can think of aren't worth the powder, as Horatio Hornblower would say.

What level of trust lets me eat out of her hand?

Yeah but most of those X-Wings got shot down doing that. Their KD ratio is basically the same as the Y-Wings.

They were just tired from KO'ing a Star Destroyer at Scariff. Not sure what excuse the X-Wings had for doing just as poorly at Yavin.

Evidently his first piece of writing was for a writing contest at the Navy Academy (he did not win).

That's pretty easy. Columbus wasn't even Italian American!

Now I am wondering if the book was meant to be a cautionary tale about cults or something.

If she was the nurse who figured out something fishy was going on, I recall being struck even as a teenager how passive she suddenly became in the story once she fell into Michael's orbit. Which to be fair was true of a few of the men in the same situation.

A *lot* of anime plots make a lot more sense if you know what happened to Japan in the last year or so of WWII.

I think it's a Pokemon?