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And we're getting into what made this my first ever serious ship,two decades ago...
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Lain really starting to realize the magnitude of what she's gotten involved in.
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So the Knights are modifying tech from an experiment that harnessed children's innate psychic abilities so that they can manifest such phenomena in the real world (which mostly consists of causing young people to murder and commit suicide and join the Wired)
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That's always the most comforting way to begin describing the scientific experiments you were involved with.
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The connective tissue of Lain is dozens of these often wordless, totally unexplained (at the time) moments.
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And Mika lands herself in a straight up horror movie
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god I love this moment where lain's weird philosophical sparring partner is suddenly her mother and she's just like "wait, mom? wtf"
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It's been so long since I watched Lain that I'd kinda forgotten that Mika was just a normal person (unlike Lain's parents) and this is all pretty crazy for her.
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And now Lain has the power to fight back against the MIBs. Those watching over her weren't expecting her evolution to be so rapid.
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Unable to leave the game, stalked by a "monster", deciding to fight back... and oof that cut back to the real (whatever that means!) world with the figures shrouded in blankets...
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The most dangerous character in any horror scenario: small girl holding a plushie
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Lain went from child's Navi to a beefy top of the line desktop to... this. Her computing setup expands at an exponential rate, like some kind of slime mold. Lain herself soaks up technical knowledge with a single-minded obsession as her father watches with concern.
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Poor oneechan. Finds creepy MIBs hanging out at her front door, gets no reaction to this news from her effectively comatose mother, and most disturbing of all is that her little sister is... displaying emotion!