Anna's Identity.

So in my usual out-there thought process, I thought of this crazy idea:

What if the Anna that we see in the Manga isn't the same as the Anna that Crisis originally ate?

Think about it: we don't know any of the details of the dimensional anomaly that occured, she may very well be an entirely new being, created with Human Anna's memories, personality, and general appearance.

I sort of imagined a scenario where Naga Anna ends up being knocked unconscious and having an out-of-body experience, and ends up talking to the spirit of Human Anna, who's been keeping a close eye. Naga Anna doesn't exactly take this well, and ends up beating herself up over it.

Further complicating matters, through sheer coincidence, Anna's younger brother ends up meeting her again at the Giant Tree. She asks herself a question: should she tell him the uncomfortable truth, or let him be blissfully unaware? Should she treat him as a younger brother if he technically isn't?

In the end, she makes an important decision for herself: she may not be the same person as Human Anna, but she's still Anna Demorah, and the brother she remembers is still her brother.

It's a pretty interesting theory, though only Karbo would be able to give a definite answer. But, I reckon if you asked him, he'd probably just say something like, "Well, you'll just have to wait to find out..." It seems possible... And given how crazy Felarya is, I can easily see something like this happening. I wonder how it would affect Anna's character if that actually happened...?

Hmm, I'm surprised no one else has noticed this, I myself thought this was a very interesting idea...

Cool idea, although from an existentialist standpoint it really wouldn't mean anything. After all, who are we to presume that when we wake up in the morning we aren't an entirely new being preloaded with memories about previous days... and that when we fall asleep later that day we won't actually die and be replaced by a new being in the morning? After thinking about it for a while the best conclusion I can think of is that all that really matters for we who only know that we exist right now is how things are right now. So Anna discovers that there used to be a different Anna who was human and whose memories are the ones she thought were hers? Why should that matter now?
Still a cool idea though, I'm all for reading that plot twist in the manga if it gets included.

considering the fact that Karbo is not a small Indian man obsessed with plot twists, I'm going to say that this is not the case

Prof.Nekko wrote:

considering the fact that Karbo is not a small Indian man obsessed with plot twists, I'm going to say that this is not the case

BUT WHAT IF HE REALLY IS!

Considering how much our body replaces cells within itself, you could say we're an entirely different being every few years. So this might hold SOME plausibility.

Again, like said before, it's Karbo's call.

Except for brain cells, muscle cells, and lymphocytes to some degree. So while we may have pretty much a new body every few years, we still have the same brain our entire lives. This is one of the biggest reasons people can't live forever.

That's an interesting thought XP
But no, I can say that Anna is the real Anna. She remembers perfectly what happened prior to the "accident" and her old life in Delurah ^^

That means little to nothing. Who are we to say that the universe and we with it weren't created a nanosecond ago, our memories all fabricated? Obviously we don't have the technology to do that and the level of sophistication of technology, magic, or any other means of doing that is unimaginable, but it's certainly possible for all we know.
So while you do have the authority to say whether Anna is Anna, one Anna having the memories of the other isn't a bulletproof argument.

^ LOLOL

parameciumkid wrote:

That means little to nothing. Who are we to say that the universe and we with it weren't created a nanosecond ago, our memories all fabricated? Obviously we don't have the technology to do that and the level of sophistication of technology, magic, or any other means of doing that is unimaginable, but it's certainly possible for all we know.
So while you do have the authority to say whether Anna is Anna, one Anna having the memories of the other isn't a bulletproof argument.

Not unless the process of radiological decomposition were to be completely false.... which it is not, and we can conclusively prove today, yesterday, and tomorrow. Indeed, we've had that technology for years. Unless you're a creationist who ignores truth in favor of belief.

The idea of memories being something so easily manipulated is incredulous at best, and I won't even go into worst. We aren't positive ourselves what locks 'memory' into a person; if it is a 'greater design' theory, where there is something akin to a human soul that shares collective memory with the storage process of what little we do know of dark matter and energy then the transplant of a brain to a new body would not preserve memory. If however our memories are merely neurological synapses firing at dedicated times to recall specific bits of information and organize them into a recollection, then such a transplant would work and thus Anna's case is made.

Of course, that is still a pointless diatribe since Anna was created by flux from Notys, who does not obey any law of known science.

Through the endless possibilities in the multiverse, and felayra being somewhere drifting along them all randomly assimilating parts it could be quite possible that there is a naga out there that could very well believe she was a human that was eaten by crisis complete with memories that match a humans from another universe.