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An [[SLD]] specifically designed to interface with [[Konoko]], the pink-haired Shinatama is one of the most tragic characters of the game. | An [[SLD]] specifically designed to interface with [[Konoko]], the pink-haired Shinatama is one of the most tragic characters of the game. | ||
===Advisor to the Heroine=== | ===Advisor to the Heroine=== | ||
Initially, Shinatama acted as the informant to Konoko via their neural link. At this time, her personality was similar to a bright and happy child, and she considered herself a sister to the up-and- | Initially, Shinatama acted as the informant to Konoko via their neural link. At this time, her personality was similar to a bright and happy child, and she considered herself a sister to the up-and-coming [[TCTF]] agent. She was also assigned the task of monitoring Konoko's [[Daodan Chrysalis]]. It was later discovered that she falsified these reports in order to protect Konoko. | ||
Shinatama also alluded to the chrysalis indirectly by informing Konoko that [[hyposprays]] might affect her differently then other people. This, along with her warning the young agent about [[Comguy]]s and the [[Deadly Brain]] clearly indicated their relationship was more then military professionalism. Her youthful personality was also demonstrated by her panicking when the Deadly Brain flooded the network with self-portraits. | Shinatama also alluded to the chrysalis indirectly by informing Konoko that [[hyposprays]] might affect her differently then other people. This, along with her warning the young agent about [[Comguy]]s and the [[Deadly Brain]] clearly indicated their relationship was more then military professionalism. Her youthful personality was also demonstrated by her panicking when the Deadly Brain flooded the network with self-portraits. | ||
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*And there's the priming, which at the time of Oni requires an SLD to be patterned after an existing human brain (that's true for [[Shinatama]] ''and'' [[Tanker|Tankers]]). | *And there's the priming, which at the time of Oni requires an SLD to be patterned after an existing human brain (that's true for [[Shinatama]] ''and'' [[Tanker|Tankers]]). | ||
Fact is : Shinatama was primed with such a human "seed". And she was patterned after no one else but [[Konoko|Mai]]. They don't share memories (not like Mai has a lot anyway), but Shinatama's emotional pattern, at the core, is not synthetic. It's human, and it's Mai's. | Fact is : Shinatama was primed with such a human "seed". And she was patterned after no one else but [[Konoko|Mai]]. They don't share memories (not like Mai has a lot anyway), but Shinatama's emotional pattern, at the core, is not synthetic. It's human, and it's Mai's. | ||
===Backup of Mai's innocence=== | ===Backup of Mai's innocence=== | ||
In a way, while the human Mai got corrupted by her upbringing at the [[TCTF]] (as a "violent cop") and the implantation of the [[Daodan|Daodan Chrysalis]] (which further catalyzed | In a way, while the human Mai got corrupted by her upbringing at the [[TCTF]] (as a "violent cop") and the implantation of the [[Daodan|Daodan Chrysalis]] (which further catalyzed violence), Shinatama retained her innocence integrally through it all. Interesting point is : that innocence, too, was no one else's but Mai's. | ||
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. "I've seen everything you've seen, felt everything you've felt". | 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". | ||
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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. | 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 | 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 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 people, 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''. | ||
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That "excessive humanity" in man-made machines is often addressed in sci-fi. Non-trivial approaches are rare, though. All the more appealing to read a lot of complicated stuff into the SLD concept... | That "excessive humanity" in man-made machines is often addressed in sci-fi. Non-trivial approaches are rare, though. All the more appealing to read a lot of complicated stuff into the SLD concept... | ||
=== | ===Pain and Death=== | ||
How much can Shinatama suffer and how many times can she die? | How much can Shinatama suffer and how many times can she die? | ||