nobody seems to accept chief as the real her. she actively causes problems for her bosses bc they wouldn’t trust her if she was compliant. shalom wants to restore the ‘real her’. rust wants to see the real her at the next black ring. when chief is in a murderous rage, augustus says it suits her. im part of the problem. i post a lot about how much i love seeing angry chief.
but shes pretty happy with who she is. she likes being the kind chief of the minos bureau of child care, and she doesnt think her past self would hate her for that. when that gets called into question she walks away all the more confident in who she is
chief is still subjected to dehumanization in a different way. her bosses see her past, more monstrous self as ‘realer’ and see chief less as a person right now, but as a weapon, and a walking risk calculation. they prefer to refer to her as SHP-13 and occasionally even ‘it’
both shalom and hecate were subject to similar experiments at the hands of the same people. the only other known character in that category is chief herself, who notably has no doll associations (and actually helps the other two reform a sense of self and having a will)
also hecate is referred to as a doll in her promotional video. doll is the main word emphasized even, but unlike with shalom i dont think that happens in game
the way ptn leans into animal associations for characters is interesting to me. like, people who have never met rahu before keep talking about her as if she’s a dog as if this is completely normal
