Chapter 78-97, minor moralis analyses;
So. Hats. Easthies was wearing his at the close of chap 78, when he bursts onto the page mid-spatt with Vinnana.
By open of chapter 79 he's lost it. (and his hat) He doesn't get it back.
Vinnana keeps hers until she's protected from falling masonry by Coco- and certainly doesn't have it when she takes a memory-bullet for Coco.
Lulucy is wearing her hat down in the triage room- she looses hers the instant she raises her spear against Easthies. And we see it hit the floor, it gets its own panel. The others disappear off-panel. I don't think Luluci wears her hat again for the rest of the arc, or up to chap 97.
The knights ARE all wearing circlets though. Easthies has his in 79 and 80- but not in 97. Everyone else is hatless and be-circleted.
I reckon their hat roles and their circlet roles are different. I reckon their hats have always been oddly obfuscatory for a society that claims 'brimmed hats deceptively hide the face'. Circlets hide NOTHING. They also stay on when the knights are 'at ease'. (reaching now, but also, circles do different shape language stuff to triangles)
I reckon the Pact is going to be (and always was) uphold-able without the cop nonsense, and the cop nonsense is going to be the result of a corrupted interpretation or re-working of the strictures of 'the pact'.
cos hats.
