2008-09-17, 18:03
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魔女狩り続行中
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Spoiler for Maria:
My memory of EP 01 is pretty vague, but I'm not too convince that Maria shows exceptional memory despite what her character profile says. Maria seems to be regurgitating information that was already in her notebook. I don't think she could read the Hebrew, she is just recognizing words or phases. While I'm not too familiar with autistic-type traits, just the fact that Maria has odd knowledge isn't too strange. She does not have exceptional understanding of the topic, nor does she go on for eons about the symbol explaining every bits and parts of it, the history behind it, etc. She just stated simple facts. It's not like Ryukishi isn't adept to writing forever on small issues and topics
If I had to place a mental disorder on Maria, I would say she shows many similarities with borderline disorder or another personality disassociation disorder. Maria pretty much thinks in black or white. Maria has anxiety problems which lead to uncontrollable temper tantrums and crying. Her anxiety stems from her fear of abandonment of Beatrice or from Rosa. She also shows poor judgment in things that she knows are self harming (eg she knows if she cries U- U- U-, she'll be hit). She also lacks understanding of emotions of her peers and surrounding. Rosa's constant abuse and the rest of the family looking the other way showing negligence on the matter is a pretty common source for that disorder. I'm not an expert at all at psychology, but I do personally know someone with Borderline and Maria reminded me of that person during her childhood. For that person I know, reading books was an escape from reality so Maria having odd knowledge didn't strike me as being too strange. Disassociation is also pretty common from what I know of Borderline. Maria's witch persona reminds me of that.
I don't think Maria displays the traits of DID (aka multiple personalities). IMO there isn't a drastic enough of a switch of personalities or enough drastic unexplainable irregular fragmentation of memory. This is just an uneducated opinion though.
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