#lain headcanons

Lain can stare at a single spot for twenty, thirty, even forty minutes, then suddenly say something like, "The refrigerator seems to be in a good mood today. That's nice."

If left home alone, she might start talking to the router. She's not crazy, she just thinks it's rude to ignore something that provides internet access, not only for her house but for countless others as well.

She remembers people's faces worse than she remembers serial numbers on electronics. It's easier for her to remember things through words than through visual or any other nonverbal means.

Lain is convinced that some socks don't disappear in the washing machine, they migrate to other dimensions.

She can randomly zone out in the middle of a conversation because she remembered a cat video she watched three years ago, then quietly laugh at it all over again.

Sometimes she answers questions five hours later, or even a day later, but not because she forgot, or something, but because she's been thinking about her answer the entire time. She feels the need to carefully consider everything before responding, even if the question is completely ordinary.

She has a favorite light bulb.

Sometimes, to fight boredom, she does things that are even more boring. For example, counting the patterns on wallpaper. She's the type of person who hears the phrase "watching paint dry" and genuinely goes to watch paint dry.

If someone told her that pigeons were government drones, she wouldn't believe it completely, but she would start investigating just to verify it herself.

Sometimes she wakes up in the middle of the night and can't tell whether she's still in her room or already somewhere else entirely.

She feels guilty whenever she has to turn off her computer.

She walks so quietly that she resembles a ghost and often startles people without meaning to.

She likes the sound of old computer towers. To her, it's almost like a lullaby.

Lain is the kind of person who opens the refrigerator, forgets why she came there, and then stands in front of it for so long that it looks like she's searching for answers to the mysteries of the universe. She's also the type to open the fridge several times in a row, hoping that something new has appeared inside.

If she had a cat, she would regularly ask for its opinion on technical issues.

She sometimes feels like her reflection in the mirror blinks a fraction of a second later than she does.

She doesn't trust printers and, to be honest, printers don't trust her either.

Lain is fully capable of getting lost in her own thoughts while sitting alone in a completely empty room.

When she's bored, she likes to imagine that everyone around her is an NPC with an extremely advanced artificial intelligence.