#using many tags bc i would genuinely love to see some mirabelle scholars take this question lol

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I would love to know what people think of Mirabelle's act 5 super counter-shield. If you look at the shield book after Siffrin has already reminded her of the CARROT method, she says she'd like to learn how to reflect techniques someday, but those kinds of shields are really complicated. Even her friendquest shield doesn't repel attacks. So how can she do it in act 5? I feel like she would have realized some things about herself from fighting with Siffrin, but she would still be really upset and confused... it doesn't seem likely to me that she could have gotten a skill from that event, or at least not one that's better than her usual friendquest skill. Am I forgetting/did I accidentally skip any act 6 dialogue that covers this? I'm really curious about this, would love to know if there's any canon explanation I'm missing or any fan theories.