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This all goes back to what I told Rosas/Walmer.

Aside from what Shorty's already said, there isn't any NEED for Sally to return and be a strategist anymore. The only reason she was ever one in the first place was because her team hadn't learned to operate without her (or plotholes stripped them of their abilities). Not only was she aware in 134 that they had learned to make strategies WITHOUT her, the main character has also demonstrated the ability to get through missions without the aid of Sally. For Sally to needlessly enter a dangerous war just to hang out with buddies demonstrates that she cannot (or should not) be able to strategize with an understanding of how dangerous their mission is. If she's back because she misses her friends, then she's no better than how Sonic used to behave. To ignore the disadvantage her death or absence from the council presents to her people only demonstrates she no longer has the ability to think ahead. She's all about immediate self gratification, and Sally was supposed to be there as the sort of character who had the self control to make sure the other characters could delay impulses. What is OOC about Ian's writing is that he wants to make her appear like a good strategist on missions while ignoring the the fact that in order for her to return, her credentials would have to be shattered. You can't just destroy Sally's credentials and then act like everything is perfectly in tact.

My guess is that her reckless behavior is a product of her losing Sonic for a year (not to mention she wants to be closer to her friends) and maybe that's why she is hot blooded enough to rejoin the freedom fighters. Maybe thinking of the future has led to too many dissapointments, and as a method of coping Sally has developed a philosophy of thinking in terms of the present. The only problem with that is again, it cripples her actual ability to be a strategist. And on that token there are a vast spectrum fo characters that could beat Sally to a pulp in strategizing.