Strange Egg Story: If you’re loved one is suffering, then come together to save strange egg!
11 Bill is an excellent soft science fiction short story, which can be summarized as a disaster caused by the instability of the character of the artificial AI Frill as a “14-year-old girl”. The genius of this novel as a work of science fiction lies in its dual meaning of “instability” through the identity of Fried: the growing girl’s uncontrollable father, and the rapidly evolving AI’s uncontrollable human. These two grounded propositions, based on human concern/science fiction respectively, complement each other in Frill’s story. This article reviews the episode from this perspective and tries to understand how this proposition relates Fried and other characters in Strange Egg Stories to the theme of the whole series.
At present, Strange Egg Story is similar to EVA in that it is another work of “world system”, that is, the macro setting in the work ultimately serves the relationship between the main characters. There is already a tendency on President Anima’s behalf that secret associations and government conspiracies ultimately only provide background and starting point for Yin’s emotional outburst to help her sister realize her self-destructive wish. Therefore, when analyzing 11 words, it is still advisable to start from the relationship between several protagonists in the story.
As three members of a closed family, Frill’s relationship with the ledger/ledger is complicated. The animation also focuses on the relationship between Fried as “daughter” and “father”, as well as the relationship between “AI” and “creator”. In reality, parents’ cultivation in childhood affects children’s character; in the story, Frill’s character as an AI is artificially set by the table/Li at the time of her creation. The methods are different, but the logic is similar.
We gave her the personality traits that her father wanted in a daughter: bright, smart, funny, it’s okay to have a sharp tongue, it okay to have a temper. Flaws are important. Being unable to handle them is what makes a woman.
At this point, the table made the mistake of adding uncontrollable instability to her personality traits. The reason for this is intriguing: in their eyes, it is a kind of “femininity” that makes girls attractive. The list/account view is the view from the dominant partner in the relationship. In a parent/daughter power relationship, the fact that the parent has control over the daughter presupposes that the daughter’s weirdness/control is endearing; if parents have no control over their daughter (as happens later in the story), there is nothing endearing about her instability. Thus, the Table/Rictus dare to do so with the confidence that Frill’s abilities as AI/ daughter are not beyond their control as creator/parent.
Fried has no friends of the same or opposite sex, and presumably, like other girls with odd eggs, she has no other bonds formed in school/society like her peers. In the supposedly closed and monitored world, Fried and Ledger/Ledger, as the only three people, make up almost all of the social relations with each other. A sudden change in the family relationship triggers a plot twist: Zip comes along, disrupting the stable triangle. Faced with the balance sheet/balance sheet tilting towards catalpa, Fried feels a deep existential crisis: if this continues, she will have nothing. Thus, by taking advantage of the instability of AI’s character, Fried proposes a radical solution — erase Zip’s presence, and the relationship between the three may return to normal.
When confronted with Fried, who caused Zip’s death, the first reaction of the table/Ricin is “detention” – locking Fried in the basement. The table/ledger line of thinking was still based on what it imagined to be dominant: Fried had made a mistake, but was not a threat to them in a broader sense. In the following years, Biao/Li Zhang ignored the existence of Fried, did not take the initiative to repair the relationship with Fried, but devoted himself to another daughter: the daughter left by Zip. In the face of their own fall from grace and enjoy the father’s care of the “sister”, Frill’s instability again let her have the motive of revenge. Frill’s role as a foreshadowing of AI’s rapid growth helps the plot, allowing her to kill Zip’s daughter in the latter’s neglect with abilities beyond his/her expectations. At this point, overconfidence in her daughter’s “femininity” becomes a disaster for her and her family.
Unlike a real-life teenage girl, Frill’s AI provides her with the ability to become the “villain” of the story, which touches on a common theme in science fiction: technology’s unexpected growth can cause its creators unexpected disasters. Regardless of the sci-fi elements, however, the key motivations that drive the plot are always rooted in family relationships: the father’s neglect of his growing daughter, the child’s instinctive fear of a new member of the family, the child’s motivation to compete with siblings for attention, and so on. The focus remains on the theme that runs through the unit: the emotional care of girls from different backgrounds.
Frill’s revenge for her bad father’s report/account, through the creation of the strange egg world instead involved more girls who had similar experiences with her, from abnormal families. She as the audience of 11 words is not without reason; she faced the school teacher’s unease and fear, so that she can have empathy for Fried in the face of catalpa’s emotions. Eventually, these two similarly situated girls should start a conversation, looking for a way to finally settle their family’s problems.
