User blog comment:MezzoDragon/Buddyfight's Dropped Plotlines/@comment-1755882-20180415194849/@comment-28173866-20180415221825

Maybe that's what Mezzo meant by "smug".

The "Terumi as Kyoyas toy" plotline may have come to an end, but the character Terumi is far away from being resolved. Her plotline basically had an open end, many questions (that are "irrelevant" for the plotline, but not for the character) remain unanswered. Like Sofia or Rouga, she simply dissapears without legitimate reason, other than the writers had enough of her and that's why most people say the plotline was dropped (that's not exactly true, the character was dropped, not the plotline). We have dozens of other characters nobody asks about, simply because their characters are fully resolved and not every ending was good (ok, most bad endings happend to the villains, but that lies in the nature of the series). Nobody wants to force a good ending, we just want a definite conclusion. If she got hit by a truck and died, fine with me. If she lived a normal life without her memories, also fine. So don't act as if the forced and unsatisfying ending of her plotline is pure gold.