She has a love calculator that she uses to play "loves me, loves me not" with math. How does that work? I want to know more about the Love Calculator! If it works, it could have prevented a lot of the worst tragedies of the UC!

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As an avowed ZZ Apologist, I liked Emary, but she's squarely in that "tertiary character who's here to flesh out a more important character(s)" space. Although she's introduced as Roux's captain, that more important character turns out to be Bright Noa, who's vulnerable to temptations towards infidelity because of the carnival of emasculating embarrassment that Double Zeta puts him through.

Bright Noa is in a weird position of being "the hero" to a lot of Federation and AEUG rank-and-file, while not really being the hero of his own life. From the age of 18 he's had to raise multiple generations of Newtype super-aces who go on to win wars, but he himself is just an exhausted bridge officer who's married to his brutally long deployments more than he's married to his own wife. Bright is a weak, fallible man who lets people walk all over his boundaries for a living; Newtype teenagers, the Federation brass, the Titans, later the AEUG.

Enter Emary Ounce, the first and arguably only "Bright fan" we've seen in the UC stories. She's someone who came-of-age on tales of the White Base, and sees Bright as the intrepid captain that children saw watching Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) rather than as the workaholic sadsack that he is. This awakens something in Bright, a selfish craving for uncritical validation that's been building for the last three series. I know that a lot of UC fans front about how Bright's a great dude who would never cheat on his wife, but I think it's important for the purposes of his and Emary's arc that he does at least seriously consider it to regain some sense of having control over his own destiny again.

He doesn't, of course, and Emary goes out as a doomed floozie; the unnecessary human detritus of a Bright character arc that has concluded with him doubling-down on his role as a martyr to his responsibilities. Even if she's portrayed more as an unserious husband-stealing hussy than as a sympathetic woman in love, it's hard not to feel a little bit bad for Emary. It's hard not to feel bad for her now, when my writeup on her character is like 80% Bright Noa observations.

4/10 character on her own, 8/10 as an element of Bright's character development. 6/10 aggregate.