is Chain meant to be interpreted as a sibling to Crimson? (along with the other parts of Crimson's missing hearts..) if Crimson didn't have their hearts removed, would Crimson have just one mind or multiple minds? like would severing a Mandragora heart in half produce two different minds? or is one heart = one mind?
I think its kinda tricky for me to say what we’re “supposed” to interpret Chain as, cuz its like.. Something along the lines of a ‘sibling’, or perhaps a ‘clone of yourself who was raised under totally different conditions’ or like meeting yourself from an alternate reality, except this takes place in the same one? Its because they are literally the same person (or were, originally) but also not that makes me hesitate to use “sibling” for them. Even a ‘twin’ is not the same thing as ‘you’. While its true that Chain also has grown to be a very different person than Crimson and I would consider the two not the same anymore.. i still kind of also.. consider them the same character? I suppose it requires some fluid, not quite determinable thinking when regarding the two of them, ideally anyway. If Crimson’s hearts had not been removed, they would have likely been perfectly synchronized in a way which made them pretty much the ‘same.’ (And their third heart might never fully matured.) But despite that, 1 heart = 1 mind. They just would have been so close together that it felt like one. (So for example, if something had been dragged into crim’s heart world during that time, they would have two hearts in control of that place and make it even more dangerous for those who enter it. this is also why a 3-heart mandragora would be even scarier!!) So anyway to wrap up, i dont.. think severing a single mandragora heart in half would result in more mandragoras. i think that worm would just be like........ fking dead. or at least in the most wild hypothetical circumstances, i dont think they would have access to a heart world anymore.