![]() I Am Who?: A critical part of her nature.Heroic BSoD: Caused by her realization that she is not human, but a "program".Hacker Cave: Lain creates a massively complicated one in her room over the series, to point where it actually spills out her window.Fake Memories: Lain's memories about her life and family are all fabrications of The Wired.Emotionless Girl: Her primary aspect is this.Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Gains this over the couse of the series as she gets more and more connected to The Wired. ![]() Despair Event Horizon: She has a few, but the most prominent one is driving Alice almost insane by showing her the truth.Creepy Monotone: She speaks in a constant low tone.A good example is her interaction with the junkie in the night club in LAYER 02. Creepy Child: Her blank stare, quiet demeanor and cryptic words make her this to a certain extent.Covert Pervert: Her alternate/evil personality is voyeuristic towards her friend Alice.Of course, in this world, doing so would likely consist of committing suicide. Brain Uploading: What some of the groups in the story want her to do.According to Yoshitoshi Abe, the unconventional style is supposed to represent Lain's unstable nature, and the videogame explains that the sidelock is supposed to stop evil spirits and bad luck entering through the left ear. Boyish Short Hair: Lain's hair is cropped short except for a thick sidelock held together by an X-shaped hairclip.No attention is given, though, to the fact that she has the floor of her Hacker Cave flooded in coolant and it would be ridiculously easy to suffer an electrical accident with all of those cables, which might be the greatest sign of her mental absence. It is justified by being indoors, but it seems to highlight how detached she becomes from the real world and, conversely, how secure she feels when in her domains, which are now treated as an extension of her room, with her avatars in the Wired being similarly barefoot. Barefoot Loon: One of the traits adopted at the kickstart of her character development, along with the ditching of most clothing while in her Hacker Cave.The idea of Lain coming out of her Emotionless Girl shell and making friends is a plot point, but what really goes on is far more bizarre. Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: What she does at the end of the series after resetting the world.Artificial Human: Lain is an artificially produced God created by Masami Eiri to push humanity into the next stage of human evolution by linking all humanity into a god-like collective consciousness.Apocalypse Maiden: She's the center of an Assimilation Plot.Lain rejects this in favor of resetting the present timeline where all her friends and family live normal lives without her. Anti-Anti-Christ: According to Eiri, Lain's purpose for existing is to merge the real world with the world of The Wired creating a single consciousness on Earth that would ultimately eliminate individuality.As well as just being cute, it makes sense for a bear to be Lain's motif, as they symbolise evolution and strength. Animal Motifs: A bear, as seen in her kigurumi (onesie), slippers, beanie hat, and stationery.Lain also expresses a subtle attraction towards Taro, who she had gone on a "date" with in Layer 09, and later manifests herself on his portable computer as a kind of goodbye after resetting the world. Ambiguously Bi: Lain declares her love for Alice during the climax of the series, though it isn't specified whether it is romantic or platonic. ![]() ![]() After receiving a mysterious email from a recently deceased classmate she is thrown into a conspiracy that causes her to question the foundations of her existence. Lain is initially portrayed as a emotionless fourteen year old girl being raised by her ineffectual mother and computer obsessed father in a cyberpunk Japan. Titular character and protagonist of the series. ![]()
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