LAIN IWAKURA 4/5demotivateJuly 9 2010, 02:18:22 UTC
Personality (cont'd):
Although she denies her loneliness and proudly forces Alice to witness what she's done to seek validation, the cracks are starting to form. Even from the onset of the series where it's clear that Lain sees, hears, and otherwise perceives things that others do not, her abrupt new internet habit isn't just a fateful turn in her development; it's a complete upheaval of self-identity. At this point in her arc, she doesn't know who she is or what she's capable of, and she is still some ways from being able to navigate it responsibly.
In a nutshell: it's like the internet hitting puberty.
While in person in the game, Lain remains a withdrawn, painfully shy little girl who seems much younger than her age; online, she is usually far more extroverted, as well as far more deliberate in getting what a given part of her wants.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
The reality-bending ability to reshape history and the future according to her will doesn't get to stay, sadly. And because Lain derived much of her superhuman prowess from literally being data, she will be less capable on Singularity's network, where she isn't working with a native protocol. However, she is still a quick study with computers, especially modding and overclocking. Give her a few weeks or months and she will be one of the station's most capable tech geeks, creating everything from datacatchers to lifelike bots.
Sacrosanct will feel oppressively loud to her, due to her heightened ability to detect and even interpret normally imperceptible sounds, like electrical currents and radio transmission. Over time it will become easier to pick out network transmissions even without the use of a device, though encryptions add another layer of difficulty to that.
Hearkening back to the words of the series which describes her physical body as "just a hologram" and more of a meat vessel she's not inextricably bound to, she has on separate occasions been able to remotely shatter someone's wearable and download an emulator for computer operating system into her brain. There are two interpretations here: that she believes she is capable of this when she isn't, or by believing that she is, she becomes so. Because the latter is a hell of a slippery slope, though, I'm just going with the cyborg theory.
As for weaknesses, in addition to being mentally ill, Lain is physically frail and has only the bare minimum idea of how to keep a physical body running. In a confrontation between her and a leaf, it's pretty much 50/50.
Inventory: Her school uniform and book bag containing her modified PDA, pocket change, and a bear keychain. Nothing else. Appearance: Lain is Japanese with dark brown hair and eyes. She appears underdeveloped for being 13 years old, and could easily be mistaken for 11-ish. She is short (5'1"), thin (99lbs), quite pale and withdrawn, with a rough bowl cut ending in a clipped ponytail near her left ear.
Somehow, a change in posture, expression, clothes and makeup manages to make her appear way more mature to people. Those who know her as "advanced" Lain (the mature/confident one) seem to see her more childlike affectations as putting on an act, so who knows. She's deliberately ambiguous like that. ABe's artwork often has her appear somewhat androgynous as well.
Although she denies her loneliness and proudly forces Alice to witness what she's done to seek validation, the cracks are starting to form. Even from the onset of the series where it's clear that Lain sees, hears, and otherwise perceives things that others do not, her abrupt new internet habit isn't just a fateful turn in her development; it's a complete upheaval of self-identity. At this point in her arc, she doesn't know who she is or what she's capable of, and she is still some ways from being able to navigate it responsibly.
In a nutshell: it's like the internet hitting puberty.
While in person in the game, Lain remains a withdrawn, painfully shy little girl who seems much younger than her age; online, she is usually far more extroverted, as well as far more deliberate in getting what a given part of her wants.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
The reality-bending ability to reshape history and the future according to her will doesn't get to stay, sadly. And because Lain derived much of her superhuman prowess from literally being data, she will be less capable on Singularity's network, where she isn't working with a native protocol. However, she is still a quick study with computers, especially modding and overclocking. Give her a few weeks or months and she will be one of the station's most capable tech geeks, creating everything from datacatchers to lifelike bots.
Sacrosanct will feel oppressively loud to her, due to her heightened ability to detect and even interpret normally imperceptible sounds, like electrical currents and radio transmission. Over time it will become easier to pick out network transmissions even without the use of a device, though encryptions add another layer of difficulty to that.
Hearkening back to the words of the series which describes her physical body as "just a hologram" and more of a meat vessel she's not inextricably bound to, she has on separate occasions been able to remotely shatter someone's wearable and download an emulator for computer operating system into her brain. There are two interpretations here: that she believes she is capable of this when she isn't, or by believing that she is, she becomes so. Because the latter is a hell of a slippery slope, though, I'm just going with the cyborg theory.
As for weaknesses, in addition to being mentally ill, Lain is physically frail and has only the bare minimum idea of how to keep a physical body running. In a confrontation between her and a leaf, it's pretty much 50/50.
Inventory: Her school uniform and book bag containing her modified PDA, pocket change, and a bear keychain. Nothing else.
Appearance: Lain is Japanese with dark brown hair and eyes. She appears underdeveloped for being 13 years old, and could easily be mistaken for 11-ish. She is short (5'1"), thin (99lbs), quite pale and withdrawn, with a rough bowl cut ending in a clipped ponytail near her left ear.
Somehow, a change in posture, expression, clothes and makeup manages to make her appear way more mature to people. Those who know her as "advanced" Lain (the mature/confident one) seem to see her more childlike affectations as putting on an act, so who knows. She's deliberately ambiguous like that. ABe's artwork often has her appear somewhat androgynous as well.
Age: 13
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