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Thus Shinatama can be seen as a ''backup'' of Mai's "true nature", before her personality got alienated by her adolescence, early adulthood, life at the [[TCTF]], and [[Daodan]] symbiosis. Her death would mean the complete destruction of that backup. | Thus Shinatama can be seen as a ''backup'' of Mai's "true nature", before her personality got alienated by her adolescence, early adulthood, life at the [[TCTF]], and [[Daodan]] symbiosis. Her death would mean the complete destruction of that backup. | ||
===Violent nurturing=== | ===Violent nurturing=== | ||
Not only is Shinatama an extract of Mai's ''nature'', she was also directly affected by Mai's ''nurturing'', except for the most physical part of it (field action) and of course the [[Daodan]] symbiosis | Not only is Shinatama an extract of Mai's ''nature'', she was also directly affected by Mai's ''nurturing'', except for the most physical part of it (field action) and of course the [[Daodan]] symbiosis. "I've seen everything you've seen, felt everything you've felt". | ||
If you think of Shinatama as a backup of Mai, then Shinatama's point of view is a bit disturbing : it's as if the ''innocent Mai'' was | If you think of Shinatama as a backup of Mai, then Shinatama's point of view is a bit disturbing : it's as if the ''innocent Mai'' was following the evolution of an increasingly messed-up ''projection of herself'', live, non-stop, in subjective view and in such detail that she's virtually ''right there'' in the middle of the action, where people are killed and things are blown up. | ||
Thus, another characteristic trait of Shinatama's innocence is that she's in a non-stop senseloop made of the violence actually encountered and generated by Mai : the human she she was patterned after. | |||
Shinatama never killed anyone, and still her existence is filled with that half-virtual violence. Violence ''unto'' Mai is violence unto Shinatama. Violence ''by'' Mai... for Shinatama, is like seeing through the eyes of a maniac/murderer seeing her own hands kill, not being able to look away, not being able to do ''anything but watch''. | Shinatama never killed anyone, and still her existence is filled with that half-virtual violence. Violence ''unto'' Mai is violence unto Shinatama. Violence ''by'' Mai... for Shinatama, is like seeing through the eyes of a maniac/murderer, seeing her own hands kill people, not being able to look away, not being able to do ''anything but watch''. | ||
In that, Shinatama is very different from other legal SLDs (who coordinate firemen and such). Not only does she oversee the operations of violent cops, she ''sees through the eyes'' of one such violent cop, who additionally happens to be a projection of ''herself''. A projection in space, but also in time. | |||
===Not growing up=== | ===Not growing up=== | ||
We don't know ''at what point'' Shinatama was brought into existence. It would seem that she and [[Konoko]] have known each other for a while, possibly since the very moment Mai was "adopted" by the [[TCTF]]. | We don't know ''at what point'' Shinatama was brought into existence. It would seem that she and [[Konoko]] have known each other for a while, possibly since the very moment Mai was "adopted" by the [[TCTF]]. | ||