Comments of 141108

They're actually both alive but they share the same body...and therefore can never meet each other again... this was too sad

fuck that surprised me. it was great and it's so crazy, I don't know but it's so painful I could feel my chest tighten

I'm traumatized

This just lowkey hurts :(

Omg. It has to be read, to be seen, to understand just how awesome this is.

For how short it was, it’s truly upsetting. It made me a bit sad because when you think about it, both friends are “alive” Lam (body), Blanche (head), but they’ll never get to see each other again.

This is so sad (┬┬﹏┬┬)

THE AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL EXPLANATION OF 141108
Translated by: hANA~

It's been a year since 141108 was published, but there are quite a few people who are still confused about the story so here's an official explanation by the author (though writing it and having to explain it again probably means I've epically failed already ;;) .
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The characters in the story, Lam (dark hair colour) and Blanche (light hair colour) are lovers. They were both severly injured in a car accident, since both were in critical conditions, doctors decided to transplant Blanche's head onto Lam's body.
Therefore:
The one to control the body is Blanche
And Lam, theoretically, she's dead.
BECAUSE THEY WERE IN A RELATIONSHIP, naturally, Blanche was devastated. The new alter personality that has formed within her, because of the traumatic experiences, very closely resembles Lam (one of the similarities was that she also loved Blanche the way Lam did).
The detail about the pill, that's a sleeping pill. Hypothetically, the alter personality wakes up at a certain time of day, then after sleeping, Blanche returns to normal (I made up this detail because obviously alter personalities of dissociative identity disorder aren't controlled that easily ;___; )
Blanche becomes depressed and unstable, this explains the series of attempts to commit suicide.
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About Blanche slashing her face, try putting yourself in her position, everyday you stare at your own reflection in the mirror, your face on the body of the one you love_dead, you will understand why she would hate it, wanting to destroy it. (I purposely drew lots of broken mirrors in their house in the story, Blanche smashed them because SHE HATES TO SEE HER OWN FACE IN THE MIRROR).
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So what role does the doctor play? He's a side character, to an extent that I didn't even bother to draw his face. His role is for the alter personality to recognise the strange details and progress the psychological development of the character to climax. You can tell that he doesn't like Blanche's alter personality very much, but speaks very endearingly to Blanche. This depends on your interpretation, i wrote it that way because I wanted to make the conflict of him loving Blanche but despising the alter personality, which messes up her life even more (it wasn't an important detail initially anyways).
Oh and also the role of giving her the sleeping pills.
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In conclusion,
Lam is dead.
But to Blanche, the other personality that lives within her is Lam,
TO BLANCHE ALONE, LAM IS STILL ALIVE.
I wanted to make that kind of twisted happy ending.
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To be honest, I would agree that the narration is quite hard to understand and I'm exaggerating quite a bit, but to me, just reading and understanding it straight away makes the story boring. I hope you're not too frustrated with my weird logic.
And I hope you're not frustrated that I rant on for too long.
Thank you all so much <3
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Almost forgot, the name 141108 is the date (08/11/14) that the Sergio Canavero's book "Immortal: Why CONSCIOUSNESS is NOT in the BRAIN" was published, the founder of the investigation into human head transplant. THIS IS A REAL INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT, they're planning to carry it out in 2017.

Ehh?? I thought it was similar of multiple personalities but they share in the same body? Kinda amusing and scary at the same time, but i felt bad for both of them;')

CRYING THIS IS SO SAD.

I didn't expect the ending at all.


Spoilers: They were in a relationship and one of them died. The doctors did a head transplant on the survivor's head. Very sad..

I love how the author write this so deep...REALLY deep.

Could have been a little longer to develop the story more. I understand that you have to put context clues together but, not everything made sense and I relied on the author’s explanation. Clever concept but not executed in the best of ways.

"because being alive isn't always everything."