The ducks are scared of her, huh? That's interesting.
[ It certainly implies that Makima is more terrifying than her outer shell would suggest. This is not surprising.
What is, though, is hearing what Erika has to say. Sure, she's got that observation about Makima, but something else stands out to Shinobu more than that. ]
Hang on. Recreated you...? What do you mean by that?
[ Despite her bombastic personality, Erika seems pretty human to her. ]
Mhm. [How does she describe this?] I'm a Witch, after all, specially chosen to hunt and kill other Witches.
[She doesn't fully embrace the title anymore. Battler may have been an incompetent buffoon and an idealistic moron, but he had a point.]
When a human becomes a Witch, it involves another Witch recognizing them and ascending them, so that they become less of a person and more of a concept, on a meta level.
When I killed myself, it was my master that fished the concept of me out of the water and set me on the path of The Detective. [She thinks for a moment, hums.] I'm not sure that Erika Furudo was my real name, for one.
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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[ It certainly implies that Makima is more terrifying than her outer shell would suggest. This is not surprising.
What is, though, is hearing what Erika has to say. Sure, she's got that observation about Makima, but something else stands out to Shinobu more than that. ]
Hang on. Recreated you...? What do you mean by that?
[ Despite her bombastic personality, Erika seems pretty human to her. ]
cw for suicide
[She doesn't fully embrace the title anymore. Battler may have been an incompetent buffoon and an idealistic moron, but he had a point.]
When a human becomes a Witch, it involves another Witch recognizing them and ascending them, so that they become less of a person and more of a concept, on a meta level.
When I killed myself, it was my master that fished the concept of me out of the water and set me on the path of The Detective. [She thinks for a moment, hums.] I'm not sure that Erika Furudo was my real name, for one.
cw continued
[ 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.]