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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 human | 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''. | ||