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*If there's one tragic figure in this story, even more so than Kerr, it's Shinatama. Killed just to get at Konoko, then resurrected as a machine to kill her friend again, in the end she desires only death. Being an SLD obviously puts limits on her free will, as she can only protest, but not actively fight the Deadly Brain frame that she is plugged into.<br>Shinatama does seem to experience a freedom of action at the very end when the frame is shut down and she is able to extricate herself from it, and although she is unable to protect Mai from Griffin directly, her actions give Mai time to move in on Griffin. In some stories, the notion of a "soul" or simply the "true human nature" that separates us from the animals, is tied to free will. If that's applied here, then in the end Shinatama did in fact have a moment of humanness when she finally turned on Griffin; perhaps she had a soul after all, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HARDAC&oldid=511529725#.22His_Silicon_Soul.22 silicon soul], if you will.
*If there's one tragic figure in this story, even more so than Kerr, it's Shinatama. Killed just to get at Konoko, then resurrected as a machine to kill her friend again, in the end she desires only death. Being an SLD obviously puts limits on her free will, as she can only protest, but not actively fight the Deadly Brain frame that she is plugged into.<br>Shinatama does seem to experience a freedom of action at the very end when the frame is shut down and she is able to extricate herself from it, and although she is unable to protect Mai from Griffin directly, her actions give Mai time to move in on Griffin. In some stories, the notion of a "soul" or simply the "true human nature" that separates us from the animals, is tied to free will. If that's applied here, then in the end Shinatama did in fact have a moment of humanness when she finally turned on Griffin; perhaps she had a soul after all, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HARDAC&oldid=511529725#.22His_Silicon_Soul.22 silicon soul], if you will.


*On a lighter note, Griffin's override code (whatever it was supposed to do), his final hope, fails to work for no explained reason. [[Quotes/Consoles/level_18e|Or is it so unexplained?]]
*On a lighter note, Griffin's override code (whatever it was supposed to do), his final hope, fails to work for no explained reason. [[Quotes/Consoles/level_18e|Or is it so unexplained?]]
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