09-14-2017, 11:57 AM
(09-13-2017, 04:12 PM)TheSphinx Wrote: "She"
"You mean I"
This is making me think.
What IS actually this Beryl? Or better, what has been inserted in this sirenidae's head? Because if it's only a replica, what prevents this Beryl to refuse disappearing once the original is restored? I'm wondering. Because of course you need the original body, this is only a way to keep assimilating information while you're, ah, "out of service", and in case you need a pair of hands to drag your body to safety. Or at least, what I perceive here is that the sirenidae-Beryl is like a doll, not the original with just a different body. If you die, people would only have something that acts like you would but it's not, actually, you. Am I right?
This is something I've danced around because it will make a lot of people sad when I confirm it. Max is Dead. The "Max" that clings to Alex and keeps her sane, is not Max. You can copy a hard-drive's data onto a new Hard Drive but it will never be the same hard drive. It will have all the memory it will have all the data, but it will not be the same hardware. The Sirenidae that believes itself to be Beryl is just that. The chip in it's head is Beryl's copied memories. It is not Beryl. The same, sadly, also applies to Max. The sirenidae that Alex clings to, is a copy of Max. Now. if Beryl's original body was revived, and the sirenidae's chip removed and "re-uploaded" into Beryl's original body. Then it would have her "interim" memories while she was a Sirenidae. Otherwise if the chip is not re-uploaded Beryl will only have the memories of her time up until she was shot in the head.