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Red's lover is nobody. He's never been Selected, undergone the screening process through which a person will be given a purpose in society by their best talent; therefore he receives none of the benefits or protection/identity accompanied with citizenship in Cloudbank. It might be because he was either never good at anything or was too scared to take that step that would decide his career for the rest of his life. He's suffered greatly because of his choice not to be Selected, his brief appearance show his hands ragged and covered in bandages, furthermore he's quite bitter from the days spent without purpose. The reason he's kept anonymous like that is to enforce his role as a nobody, a glitch in the glamour of Cloudbank, something that never fit in...until he found Red. Red needed him, whenever Red was down Red's lover was there to support her and supporting Red was the first purpose in life he found worth fighting for, it was eventual that their fate would be woven together. Then she dies.

"When everything changes, nothing changes". The Camerata adore Cloudbank City, in the beginning Royce and Grant were always building and supporting people's dreams. However Cloudbank's people became fickle in prosperity: they constantly bickered over trivial things in the OVC terminals and people who excelled in Selection became became a potential threat to order through their sway over the people(who in turn decided the fate of the city). In the end Cloudbank stagnated, Cloudbank's people expected everything from their better halves and kept building useless things without any real progress towards society-everything changed but nothing changed. So the Camerata got desperate, they blamed the problem on the Selected for coddling the people with their amazing but ultimately useless pointless feats. Imprisoning them would only invite anarchy and outright murder would be worse, so they had each of them disappear in a way that makes it seem like they would appear fine the next day.

The Process was always there, Royce was found by The Process in Fairview and Grant was the one who pushed him to try and control it.

Not much is known about the Process and perhaps to make them more fearsome or support the fact that they were mysterious creatures to the conventional world. What is known is that the Process is an entity that supports Cloudbank by acting as workers or soldiers should the need arise, that it adores the people (Red and the Snapshots, they never kill just change the people's form) and that if the Transistor can become the voice of the people it can be compelled to do terrible things. In the end the Process's location is unknown, and seeing as Red was the only one capable of finding out that time it's likely to stay that way with her death. Perhaps that was one of the motives behind her committing suicide.

Royce did not flee to The Country after the outbreak, he went to a semi-isolated district in Fairview to secretly continue his work and stayed there once the Outbreak started. The Country is the afterlife that much is known, it's a questionable existence like Heaven-the only proof is that people support the it's existence thus it's form changes according to the people.

The final boss battle takes place in the Transistor or "The Country" as some would call it, this is evident by the storage banks which hold people in them (remember how Red's lover said he couldn't see or feel anything?) and the grasslands in the background of the battle are similar to the lands seen in the ending credits. Nobody leaves the Transistor, once you go in you can't get out but Red is an exception as she's a User and controls the Transistor but Royce too vied for the position of User when he as a living being was sucked into the Transistor with Red. When one of them leaves the Transistor will recognize the other person as data to be absorbed into the Transistor, this is evident by the Function called Flood and Crash.

So if Reset ends up raping women later on in her life..should Rance encourage her? Regardless that smile is medal worthy.

I really, really wanted them to use the key on the secret door and find his porn stash and I wanted it to be full of REALLY nasty stuff. Oh well, kemonomimis next episode!