Manga: Claymore

[Buffalobiian]

Feeders feed on awakened
The tower is an awakened, isn't it.
If the doublet Beth/Alicia is infected, once under control they will of course attack feeders to protect their puppet master.

If Beth is taken over, I believe she'd relinquish control over Alicia rather than becoming the medium throught which the parasite can control her sister. The whole thing about them having to be twins is that their mindset and bodies are similar, so that a link can be maintained. Beth's mind has to be focused to keep Alicia in control, so the link isn't ON by default. Being taken over by a parasite would kill that link, as it kills Beth's mind, and I doubt the parasite would be able to re-establish it.

[David75]

If Beth is taken over, I believe she'd relinquish control over Alicia rather than becoming the medium throught which the parasite can control her sister. The whole thing about them having to be twins is that their mindset and bodies are similar, so that a link can be maintained. Beth's mind has to be focused to keep Alicia in control, so the link isn't ON by default. Being taken over by a parasite would kill that link, as it kills Beth's mind, and I doubt the parasite would be able to re-establish it.

I don't know wether we can say now that the link would be broken and the parasite would be unable to use that link.

After all, she had a direct hit, didn't see it coming and the parasite might have been very quick in taking her body and soul (massive cell invasion through bloodstream for example?)
It's fairly possible she didn't have time to cut the link.
After all, the scene let's us think she's infected and her sister still in awakened state.
She would probably have her sister quit the awakened state in the event she feels she's compromised. But again, I think she didn't have the time to realise/react.

[Buffalobiian]

After all, she had a direct hit, didn't see it coming and the parasite might have been very quick in taking her body and soul (massive cell invasion through bloodstream for example?)
It's fairly possible she didn't have time to cut the link.

"Cutting" is where my idea differs from yours, in that there is nothing to "cut".

The way I saw it is that the control is balanced. When Beth controls Alicia, she tries to control Alicia's body, while Alicia's awakened "soul" tries to take it back.

For example, at Beth's best condition, the control will be 100% Beth, and 0% Awakened Alicia. If Beth lost concentration, her level of control will drop, and since the body is Alicia's, her awakened mind will automatically control what's left over:

eg. Beth 80%, Awknd Alicia 20%

The idea is that Beth has to actively hold her share of control, or it's automatically lost to Awakened Alicia.

In the current case, I see it as Beth slowly losing control as she can no longer think, concentrate nor even keep her mind intact sufficiently.

The control now might be, for example: 40% Beth, 60% Alicia.

When Beth no longer has a mind, and hence can no longer control Alicia, Awakened Alicia is completely independent.



What's happening is that the parasite is devouring Beth's mind and body. If I was to use an analogy, it would be that the parasite is taking over the "space" in Beth's head. It's destroying Beth's consciousness and replacing it with its own. It's not taking over Beth by "controlling" her data, but "rewriting it", hereby tipping the balance to

0% Beth (because it's no longer there), 100% Alicia.

The parasite can't push to increase it's share of control of Alicia's body because it doesn't know how. It was explained before by one of the organisation's men to Galatea that as the result of Alicia and Beth's training, they no longer have their own personality. The parasite that has overwritten Beth's data with its own doesn't have this ability.

Plus, I believe that the control only worked because control of Non-Awakened Alicia was given to Beth, then she awakened, while Beth maintained control.

Once it's lost, and the Awakened takes over its own body, I don't believe even a healthy Beth could have re-established control.

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Bottom line is that I don't think the link is of a nature where one party has to actively severe it. As soon as Beth's normal mind is gone, Alicia has her own body, and the parasite has Beth's.

btw, I think the correct name was Alice, not Alicia (my own stuff-up after watching Valk. Chronicles.)