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Now she has to choose: exact her deserved revenge by pulling the trigger -- or walk away in a show of mercy. (This is a choice made by the player, and so the end of the next chapter has two possible variants, marked as A (player killed Griffin) and B (player spared Griffin).) | Now she has to choose: exact her deserved revenge by pulling the trigger -- or walk away in a show of mercy. (This is a choice made by the player, and so the end of the next chapter has two possible variants, marked as A (player killed Griffin) and B (player spared Griffin).) | ||
'''Added Value''' | |||
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. | |||
Shinatama does seem to experience a freedom of action at the very end when the frame is shut down, and although she is unable to protect Mai from Griffin directly, her attack gives Mai the 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 after all when she moved in on Griffin, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.A.R.D.A.C. 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#Emergency_overrides|Or is it so unexplained?]] | |||
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