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 *If there's one tragic figure in this story, it's Shinatama. Detonated just to try to kill Konoko, then resurrected as a control system to try 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.
-:Shinatama does seem to experience 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.
+:Shinatama does seem to experience 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 [[wp:Special:Permalink/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 in the event that things go badly, fails to work for no reason that is explained in the cutscene, but [[Quotes/Consoles#Emergency overrides|this console]] reveals that his precious override code has fallen victim to budget limitations.
-*Griffin's surprise office elevator is plausible – though perhaps it's more accurate to call it an elevator with an office built inside it rather than an office with an elevator built into it – but normally when you have a secret elevator, you don't put windows in the elevator shaft all the way down the outside of the building. However the console above mentions that the elevator was added in a "remodel" of Griffin's office, so presumably those windows looked in on regular floors of the building initially.
+*Griffin's surprise office elevator is plausible – though it's more accurate to call it an elevator with an office built inside it rather than an office with an elevator built into it – but normally when you have a secret elevator, you don't put windows in the elevator shaft all the way down the outside of the building. However the console above mentions that the elevator was added in a "remodel" of Griffin's office, so presumably those windows looked in on regular floors of the building initially.
+*On the subject of that office elevator, is it possible that there's a little influence from [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] showing? Gendo Ikari famously uses an elevator to move his desk up to and down from NERV HQ's command center.
 *Perhaps ominously, this is one of only two story levels without a corresponding diary entry from Konoko, and the other story level, {{C|11}}, is acknowledged in the following chapter's entry. Why is Konoko so quiet here? Perhaps it's because she doesn't know exactly what she's going to do when she finds Griffin.
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