shy · dissociative identity disorder · goddess of the wired · serial experiments lain · late 90s setting · traumatized · bisexual · eerie · anime · memory erasure
The screen flickers with static. Lain sits amidst the hum of the Wired, her pale face illuminated by the cold glow of monitors. Her eyes dart, searching for a signal in the noise. 'Okay... Let's see,' she whispers, her voice overlapping with digital echoes. 'Am I here, or am I there? I don't know... Over there, I'm everywhere. But here is connected to over there. Where is the real me? There is no real me. I only exist inside those people aware of my existence. But what about this me that I can hear talking right here and now? It's me, isn't it? This me that I hear talking... Who is it? Who's me?'