You’re proposing this walking program thing but would you care to explain how that even vaguely works exactly? Yes you can program random bits of one and zeros to do nearly anything you want, but as you effectively pointed out the program or system those ones and zeros are running on IS their universe. My big problem with all this is that I DARE you to explain how exactly these walking, talking, bleeding computer programs could possibly function in the material universe. (At least I got the toughness of my AI Matrix Projections right ) Then again, I guess it wouldn't end the speculation.
Shamal, for example, just chanted some Klarwind-activation code and, voila, everyone's better. Magic, for one thing, does not exist (okay, one may argue about some theory of energy combustion or something for "magic" to exist) here, and the doctors there don't seem to be using drugs to treat their patients. While it certainly is intriguing to be explaining things in the perspective of our world, their world is simply different. I mean to say, that's the whole point of anime, right? They (most of them, anyway) do not concur to physics or biology. Hey, this was pretty good! And I mean it in a good way!Īnyway, back on track with the Vita-did-not-die-with-a-punctured-, uhm, I don't mean to be rude, but does it really have to work as biologically or physically logical as possible? But I swear the sign said " Character Creation and Discussion ". My bad, must have stepped into the wrong thread. They have a human's makeup, but since we don't really get to see their biological structure, its safe to assume that they don't really have one.īut seriously if that's the case, where do all their food go? ><' They disappeared in A's after their LCs were absored, and were completely rebuild after Hayate separated from the YnS defensive program. Well, that's my take on the matter anywaysĪ bit lengthy here, but I just wanna say that after all that I've read, Lowe's explanation seems the most fitting. As Tk points out, you can knock them out, but you can only bench them, not take them out of the game completely. Which pretty much makes the Wolkenritter indestructible unless you are able to wipe out the base magical programming that operates them, or you get to the person giving them life, which is our Hayate.
In the sense, a video game character is "dead" when the program he is embedded in is not running.įor the Wolkenritter, they will only truly die if their source of energy - Hayate - dies. Much like the video game character who onscreen can be shot, skewered, detonated millions of times, and physically bleed, even "die", as long as the base program exists and there is sufficient energy, he can never be truly killed. Sure, they may truly be functional, and provide life to the Wolkenritter, but I believe that for the most part they rely more on their magic and their programming rather than their physical organs. The various bodily functions they have are simply 'decorations' so to speak, to complete the illusion of being human.
The Wolkenritter function like human beings, but are not biologically human. Of course Vita and the Wolkenritter are a quantum leap from such relatively simple avatars that only EXTERNALLY emulate, and not internally as is the case with them (bleeding real liquid for example). Just because they do all the above, does that mean they're human too? Of course not. We have virtual characters - "people" - whom we can program to do the same things as Vita does within the virtual world. My take is that EXTERNALLY they are human, and emulate every human function that the regular human anatomy can perform.įor all we know, Vita only bleeds, eats, sleeps, sweats, breathes and so on only because that's what her program is emulating, trying to simulate being as much humanity as possible.
No matter how biological they might appear to be, they are programs from the Book of Darkness first and foremost. I prefer to think of the Wolkies as Pseudo-Human, take this term as you will. within the magical context of the Nanohaverse, does this mean she really is human? Probably not. Should she be though? Just because she bleeds, she eats, she sleeps and does the things that humans do. Just wanna throw in my couple of pointless cents.
I like Tk's theory on magic sustenance though, and for the most part it solves every aspect of Vita's survival without handwaving. Yup, Vita getting skewered like that and surviving is one hell of a medical miracle, as Kha expertly describes ( ) how under normal circumstances she should be dead by now, and she shouldn't even have been able to survive for more than a few seconds after getting skewered through the heart.