Mhm. [She doesn't want to go through all the details of that. Maybe Shinobu would understand. Maybe Erika could squint and pretend she's talking to Dlanor.] I never said I wasn't human.
[It's.... complicated.] But I remember what came before. And it was a life of boredom and misery.
Tell me. Are you familiar with the thought experiment about a cat inside a box?
Imagine a cat is in a box. From the outside, it is impossible to parse the state of the cat completely, the box has cut off any other factors. This means that there are two outcomes that may take place. The cat is alive. Or the cat is dead.
But the outcome is only made real once you open it and reveal the truth. Until then, both of these are simultaneously true until you shatter the illusion and reveal the truth for all.
...I am a catbox. Both mystery and fantasy - real and conceptual at the same time. I am both Witch and Detective, until you shatter the illusion that forms me.
[It's deeply confusing. That's why there were a million words about it and some people are still so unbelievably wrong about it despite the themes being spelled out a billion times.]
I could explain some of the details behind it but I doubt that will help. Rest assured, I'm more human than most of my colleagues. [Who are all demons or windows or the concept of Knox's Decalogue.]
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[ Is that part of the process? If so, that's...
Mm. ]
Do you remember what it was like to be human? Or are those memories that fade once you become a Witch?
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[It's.... complicated.] But I remember what came before. And it was a life of boredom and misery.
Tell me. Are you familiar with the thought experiment about a cat inside a box?
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At her question, Shinobu just offers Erika a blank look. ]
...No? I've never heard of it.
cw for depersonalization and umineko fourth wall leaning
But the outcome is only made real once you open it and reveal the truth. Until then, both of these are simultaneously true until you shatter the illusion and reveal the truth for all.
...I am a catbox. Both mystery and fantasy - real and conceptual at the same time. I am both Witch and Detective, until you shatter the illusion that forms me.
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I think I understand, to some extent. You said you were a concept – that's real, but your being is also unlike anything that humanity can grasp.
I find it confusing...but rather interesting.
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[It's deeply confusing. That's why there were a million words about it and some people are still so unbelievably wrong about it despite the themes being spelled out a billion times.]
I could explain some of the details behind it but I doubt that will help. Rest assured, I'm more human than most of my colleagues. [Who are all demons or windows or the concept of Knox's Decalogue.]