Comments from the second tankoubon:

Title:	Pharle / Soushi (Master Creator)
Favorite thing:	V-TEC (a Cephiran food)
Least favorite thing:	A messy room
Hobbies:	Torture

<Asuka> I like her!  She's cruel!
<ChunHyang> The COOL dominatrix!
<Satsuki> Um.....
<Alice> I thought Alcione was the dominatrix....
<ChunHyang> Come on!  She likes to
           torture!  That's a sure sign she's a
           dominatrix!!
* Shinji reads aloud from the character profiles in the
  back of RE1-2.
<Shinji> "A Pharle's job is to create weapons for
         all occasions -- ceremonial symbols as well
         as weapons for battle.  Presea is the supreme
         Pharle; she is the only one that can create
         weapons from the Legendary Mineral Eskudo.
         Sometimes she does not listen to what others
         say; she lets her imagination run wild
         instead...  That is the troubling thing
         about her."
<Rei> So Pharles are blacksmiths...
<Alice> I guess.  Aren't blacksmiths the people
        who supply the main characters with weapons
        in role-playing console and computer (PC)
        games???
<Sizer> I think the term you two are looking for
        is "Artisan".
<Alice> *ponders* Why, yes! =)  The people that
        sell various materials, are in fact called
        artisans. 
<Asuka> Is that where Fuu thought of "Mythril"?
<Alice> I would think so.  Fuu was thinking that
        the whole concept of "Magic Knights" was like
        a RPG....
<Yang> Hmm.  Mokona sure liked harassing her.
       I'm glad Julian is more well-behaved than
       Mokona.... not that I would be that cruel to
       him.
<Asuka> I would be just as cruel to anyone that
        makes me mad!
<Shinji> (mumble) You are even when you're not
         mad at me....
<Asuka> Did you say something, BakaShinji?
<Shinji> N, No, no, I didn't say anything.
         (mumble) see, there you go again....
<Asuka> By the way, she seems to start acting
        weird in part II of the anime.....
<ChunHyang> Sounds like we're doing another
            spoiler.



(spoiler section - hilite or read source!)



<Asuka> What's the big deal with her?
<ChunHyang> Well, you know that depending on the
            medium you choose, she's dead or alive
            at the end of part II, right?
<Alice> Really?
<ChunHyang> Yup.  If you read the manga, she
            stays alive the whole time.
<Satsuki> And if you watch the anime, she really
          dies in Episode 6.
<Asuka> Then who was it in part II of the anime!?
<Satsuki> That was her twin sister, Sierra.
<Suu> *points to chest* ano hito. koko.
<Sizer> chest?
<Alice> Of course! the little "scar"!
<Satsuki> Exactly.  Presea didn't have the scar
          while Sierra does.
<ChunHyang> Of course, the Knights didn't
            realize this.....
<Suu> They were both in love with Clef.
<Sizer> Identical twins, with same occupation,
        fall for same man...
<Alice> That almost sounds like a stereotypical
        soap opera plot.
<ChunHyang> No kidding! *laugh*