"...I mean, as near as I can tell, the answer that is alterIone, who I've been keeping as close to realIone as possible?  She saved the Project from Nidal in the process of completely blowing her cover as a Nethysian, and everybody accepted her because she was useful and cool, and she was freed of all the horrible fears that had cowed her over her whole life up until then, and burst out of her shell like a phoenix rising.  This, by the way, is also incredibly visibly true of Asmodia if you have any before-and-after comparison."

"...I mean, as near as I can tell, the answer to that is alterIone, who I've been keeping as close to realIone as possible?  She saved the Project from Nidal in the process of completely blowing her cover as a Nethysian, and everybody accepted her because she was useful and cool, and she was freed of all the horrible fears that had cowed her over her whole life up until then, and burst out of her shell like a phoenix rising.  This, by the way, is also incredibly visibly true of Asmodia if you have any before-and-after comparison."

"...I mean, as near as I can tell, the answer to that is alterIone, who I've been keeping as close to realIone as possible?  She saved the Project from Nidal in the process of completely blowing her cover as a Nethysian, and everybody accepted her because she was powerful and useful.  Then she was freed of all the horrible fears that had cowed her over her whole life before, and burst out of her shell like a phoenix rising.  This, by the way, is also incredibly visibly true of Asmodia if you have any before-and-after comparison."