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Suicide in Serial Experiments Lain

2017-12-27T16:05:22Z

Theyesmenarerevolting:

Suicide is a common occurrence in [[Lain]]'s world. The first suicide the viewer sees is the death of [[Yomoda Chisa]] by jumping from a building at the very beginning of [[Layer 01]]. The most common reason for doing so is to "abandon the flesh" and pursue an existence on the [[Wired]] alone.

After the members of the [[Knights of the Eastern Calculus]] are exposed in [[Layer 10]], they either commit suicide or are assassinated by the [[Men in Black]].

[[Masami Eiri]] appears to have committed suicide by jumping in front of a train in order to become [[God]] in the Wired.

It is debatable whether Lain herself can be considered to have committed suicide at the end of the [[anime]]. She erases her own existence, including her past, in order to fix all the damage she has dealt to the world, but she still clearly exists in the Wired and, at one point, manifests in front of a grown-up [[Alice]].

In the [[Serial Experiments Lain (game)|game]], Lain commits suicide by shooting herself through her mouth.

The concept of "abandoning the flesh" is popular in the Lain fandom and is something of a meme or inside joke between fans. On [[Mebious.co.uk]], for example, people occasionally encourage each other to ascend to the upper level of [[reality]], the Wired, and post about it after they have succeeded. A 2010 incident on Mebious involving an actual suicidal person led to controversy as while there were those who tried to talk the person out of commiting suicide, there were those who encouraged it. A year later, someone who claimed to be the original poster stated they were doing better and had entered therapy.

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Layer 11 Script

2017-12-27T15:50:18Z

Theyesmenarerevolting:

Back to [[Layer 11]]

==Japanese==

==English==

Title: INFORNOGRAPHY Layer:11

Text: It is not so suspicious to be called a memory.

Text: But you are also here.

Text: Inconvenient BODY.

Text: I am myself..

Text: Lain is lain...

Chisa: You should come here.

Text: I don't need to remain here.

Text: Think different.

Prof. Hodgson: Now let me go. I'm tired.

Father: Hehehe..

Myu-myu: I have never seen this.

ManInTachibana: Iwakura Lain, are you the same person...

Taro: I've seen you in the wired.

Subtitle: A biochemical research group in Tachibana Lab. succeeded in

Subtitle: analyzing the molecular structure of the human genome.

PocketNavi: Lain is a peeper.

NewsPaper: Mr. Eiri Masami

Text: ... come...

Eiri: Pity Lain.

Lainevil:) Because I am Lain.

Lainwired:) No!

Lain: No!

Alice: You are right. You are no longer needed in the real world.

Lainevil:) I will kill myself ... hahaha...

Lainwired:) Why? Why is your body warm? Why do I feel your body temperature?

Eiri: Yes, I'm God.

Alice: You...

Alice: Lain, you will be happy if you become more outgoing.

Alice: Certainly she has been changing.

Alice: Are you all right?

Alice: You look back again.

Alice: Are you all right? Lain?

Alice: Sorry, Lain. It's our fault. Are you all right?

Alice: Good.

Text: A mind of love needs you.

Text: ... LOVE needs you.

Eiri: Are you tired?

Lain: Tired...

Eiri: You are great.

Eiri: You downloaded the emulator of your navi into your brain.

Eiri: But it is dangerous. It is too much for your current brain capacity.

Lain: Am I a machine?

Lain: Don't call me as if a machine...

Eiri: I didn't mean so. It is a software problem.

Eiri: Lain, you are software. Not hardware.

Lain: Software?

Eiri: Yes. You are an executable program with flesh.

Lain: Shut up!

Lain: Shut up!

Lain: Chisa-chan.

Lain: Chisa-chan, I've ever gone back to home with you.

Lain: Now I understand what you said, Chisa-chan.

Chisa: Lain...

Lain: What?

Boy died at Cyberia:) It's easy to die, Lain. Isn't it?

Chisa: It's not easy to die.

Boy: It's easy. You already have a tool for it.

Lain: What?

Boy: I already released the safety. Its trigger is too heavy.

Boy: Hold it by both of hands. And push by your thumb.

Boy: It is too heavy for a girl.

Boy: Why? Do you still want to stay in the real world?

Boy: You called me to come here.

Lain: I can't...

Boy: The flesh is not necessary.

Lain: No...

Chisa: Lain?

Lain: What is this?

JulieNavi:) We will meet him after school tomorrow. He looks pretty good.

JulieNavi:) If you make him your boyfriend, everybody will think that the rumor

JulieNavi:) about the teacher is wrong.

JulieNavi:) I'll tell you more tomorrow. Bye.

Alice: It's true...

Alice: Who?

Alice: Lain?

Alice: Why? ...because...

Lainsmall:) It was not me.

Lains:) I didn't peep your secret. I didn't spread your rumor in wired.

Alice: It was Lain. Lain did. I saw you certainly.

Lains:) It was not me. It seems that there are many "I".

Lains:) The other "I" did.

Alice: What are you saying?

Lains:) Alice may also be more than one.

Lains:) But, even if I say no, You still believe so...

Lains:) So, I will make it never happened. I made all possible efforts to do

Lains:) so.

Alice: What do you mean?

Lains:) We need no device any longer. I already broke the border between the

Lains:) wired and the real world. So, I can go anywhere I want.

Lains:) So, I'm here now.

Lains:) I can make anything which already happened never happened.

Alice: Lain?

Alice: Fearing... Fearing...

Reika: Alice!

Julie: Alice! good morning!

Alice: Good morning...

Julie: Why? You look depressed today.

Alice: Julie, I am reluctant to go today...

Julie: What? What will you do today?

Alice: Julie, didn't you give me a CU mail?

Julie: What?

Reika: Alice, you look strange today.

Julie: Are you having your period today?

Reika: You are insensitive.

Julie: That teacher looks good.

Reika: There is a rumor that he loves an eighth grade girl in this school.

Julie: Really? It's immoral.

Alice: .. How do you think about me and that teacher?

Reika: What? Are there any relation between that teacher and you?

Julie: What? Do you love him?

Reika: No. It's too late.

Julie: He already has his girl.

Reika: You look unusual today.

Julie: It's strange.

Alice: Lain...

Julie: Lain! Good morning!

Reika: Come on quickly!

Julie: Quick! Quick!

Reika: Lain!

Alice: Lain, did you really...?

Alice: Lain smiled...

(Adapted from [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/rumors/11infornography_en.txt] and from memory. Originally translated by Keisuke Shindo.)

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Layer 09 Script

2017-12-27T11:31:30Z

Theyesmenarerevolting: Corrected names and terms, based off of official subbed release streaming on Crunchyroll, and provided Wikipedia links for additional context.

Back to [[Layer 09]]

==Japanese==
==English==
Voice: If you want to avoid pain, you should believe in God.

Voice: Whether you believe in him or not, God is always with you.

Title: PROTOCOL Layer 09

Narrator: In July 4th, 1947, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident a strange flying object] dropped into a desert in New Mexico, USA.

Narrator: Even now, its identity has not been ascertained.

Narrator: Guesses became facts, and rumors became histories.

Lain: Who was it?

Lain: Who was it?

Narrator: In 1984, Jaime Shandera, a TV producer, received an undeveloped roll of film in a brown envelope from an anonymous person.

Narrator: In the film was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12 the MJ-12 document].

Narrator: It said that 12 people made a secret pact with an extraterrestrial under the President's direct orders.

Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter Roscoe Hillenkoetter], who was the director of the CIA when the Roswell incident happened, was the chief of the 12 people.

Narrator: It is well known now that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman President Truman]'s signature was copied from another document.

Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush Vannevar Bush], who was a Head of Department in MIT, was one of the 12 members of MJ-12.

Lain: Connect Wired.

Lain(wired): How can you make something that already happened not have happened?

Eye: Are you Lain? I see.

Lain(w): I don't know you, but you know me...

Eye: Information does not always flow both ways.

Eye: You have been here since the Wired was created.

Eye: You are free in here.

Lain(w): But that wasn't me!

Ear: I see, then, since when have we been here?

Ear: I know we didn't start existing at the beginning of this world.

Eye: That's nothing to be concerned about!

Eye: If something exists in memory, then it's part of a record.

Arm: What you said is groundless.

Arm: How old do you think Lain is? She's still a child.

Lain(w): Let's not talk about me right now-

Narrator: Vannevar Bush put forward a new plan to extend memories, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex MEMEX], in 1945.

Narrator: It was a system to view information in microfilm on a translucent screen.

Narrator: He planned to compress information to access it quickly.

Narrator: Bush led the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project Manhattan Project] that produced an atomic bomb.

Narrator: He also made the foundations of multimedia at the same time.

JJ: You forgot this.

Lain: What?

JJ: You left this here yesterday.

JJ: I'll dump it if you don't need it.

Lain: Did I leave this?

JJ: That's what I said.

Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly John C. Lilly] explored the human unconscious in an experiment with sensory deprivation by using drugs and an isolation tank.

Narrator: He thought that he was connected to something like an existence in space.

Narrator: He called the existence that led him ECCO, Earth Coincidence Control Office.

Narrator: After that, Lilly began to research dolphins.

Narrator: Dolphins can communicate over long distances in water using ultrasonic waves.

Taro: What?

Lain: I promised you.

Taro: What?

Lain: I'll go on a date with you.

Myu-myu: Really? Did you say that?

Taro: Did I promise?

Myu-myu: No, no.

Taro: Even if I did, I don't want to date with the current you, Lain.

Myu-myu: Idiot! Taro!

Lain: She is the same as me. I'm myself. I'm the only one.

Taro: Great!

Taro: You made this very well.

Taro: I see. This synchronizes the parallel processors.

Taro: It's not very neat, but you can keep extending it this way.

Taro: How do you cool this?

Lain: Taro.

Taro: Is this liquid carbon?

Lain: Sit there.

Taro: What?

Lain: You know what this is, don't you?

Taro: !

Lain: It was you, Taro, right?

Lain(w): You're one of the Knights, aren't you?

Taro: You're...the real Lain...

Lain(w): I'm not sure if there is another me in the Wired or not.

Lain(w): But in the real world, there is no me other than myself.

Lain(w): The only other me with a body only appeared in the club.

Lain(w): It would have been enough just to modify the memories of people who were there.

Taro: I can't...

Lain(w): Play track 44.

Father: It is drawing to a close...

Father: Finally...

Mother: So, before it's too late...

Mika: a.. e..

Mika: Pii Pii Pii... Understood.

Mika: Pii Pii Pii... Now transmitting. Pii Pii Pii...

Lain(w): Stop.

Taro: It wasn't me...

Taro: But I know that the data that JJ receives can have such effects.

Lain(w): If I install this chip, what will happen to me?

Lain(w): Would I commit suicide? Or would I go insane?

Taro: I don't know. I'm too young to be a formal member of Knights. I'm only...

Lain(w): What will this do?

Taro: It's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-volatile_memory nonvolatile memory]. It will overwrite existing memories.

Lain(w): What kinds of memories?

Taro: I... I don't know...

Taro: Knights aren't just crackers, Lain.

Taro: Uh...

Taro: You're strange. That's why the Knights are interested in you.

Taro: Knights fight in order to make the only truth become real.

Lain: I don't understand. What's the only truth?

Taro: I've never been told, because I'm not a formal member of Knights.

Taro: But it's true. Truth is strong because it is true.

Taro: Truth is justice because it is true.

Taro: Don't you find it convincing?

Taro: Don't you also want such a truth?

Taro: I'm going back. Myu-myu will be jealous of you.

Lain: Taro, thank you.

Taro: You...

Taro: It's a date, after all. I'm a guy, so I had to do that.

Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson Ted Nelson], who learned from heretic pioneers Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly,

Narrator: made a plan for a digital library in orbit that can be used anywhere on earth through electromagnetic waves and a telephone network.

Narrator: It would be a utopia where every text from every culture will exist forever.

Narrator: It is called "Xanadu". Hypertext can make it real in this world.

Narrator: Ted Nelson will go down in history as a proponent of it.

Lain: Hello Navi.

Lain: Kachi Kachi...

Sound of machine: Memory check...

Lain: Kachi Kachi...

Lain: Was it me?

Lain(past): Yes, it was me.

Lain: Who were those people?

Lain(past): I don't know because I'm you.

Lain: It can't be true...

Lain: Everything must be a lie... Why did you do that?

Narrator: The earth itself has peculiar electromagnetic waves.

Narrator: There are always resonances between the ground and the ionosphere at 8 Hz in the ELF band. This is called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances Schumann Resonance].

Narrator: It is the brain wave of the earth. But we still don't know how it affects humans.

Narrator: The human population on Earth is approaching the number of neurons in the brain.

Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] claims that it will awaken the consciousness of Earth itself by connecting humans to each other in a network.

Narrator: The network has quickly grown into a form like the neurons in the brain, so the Earth itself will become a neural network.

Lain: The only truth... God.

Deus: Yes, me.

Narrator: Eiri Masami was a chief research worker in Tachibana Labs.

Narrator: He caused the theory about Earth's neural network to progress.

Narrator: He advocated that every human's unconscious should be connected to a wireless network without devices through the Schumann effect.

Narrator: He added a function to use the Schumann Resonances to the 7th protocol code on his own discretion.

Narrator: When Tachibana Labs found out, they fired him.

Narrator: One week later, Eiri's corpse was found run over and killed on the railway on Yamanote line.

Newspaper: Mr. Eiri Masami

(Adapted from [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/rumors/09protocol_en.txt] and from memory. Originally translated by Keisuke Shindo.)
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