Maybe the answer you are looking for has to do with the very meaning of ones personality (remember that her father copied her memories to recreate her personality).
The personality are different for each people because they learn different things over time, that means they have different memorys (even if it is about the same thing, for example the 1º time you had seen the sea you probably said "WOW! What a giant swimming poll!" and other person maybe said "Look! A large lake!") this may seems that not make to much sense but if you multiplied for every thing you saw it will create a different idea of the world and with that a different personality.
Your question is about who's the one are "Melina" or the one that really was the "last living Melina" (if it can says in that way) and what about the other.
Well, science apart, lets says the memories were copied right after she "died" (to get the entire memory). After she "reborn" in Jenice body (or mind) she had felt and learn new experiences and continued to grown her memory and her personality (an easy example was when she was suprised when Jenice accepted her insted of the "natural" rejection, that changed her way to see and of course the personality about that).
1 year passed (I think it was a year but) now think about how much she learn and how much she change her personality (and Jenice personality too, they both lived in the same body). Its most like you have a record of you when you were 10 years old, it was you but not like you are now. It the same for the original (the dead 1) and the so called "copy".
The answer (with this explanation) is simple now: They both were Melina, the more "grown up" were the "copy" and the other was the live but the "young" one. If it matters who the one have more meanig I would say its the "copy", but they didn't lived at the same time, so it wasn't any problem about the 1 who means more. (if they lived at the same time you could see the "copy" more like a clone, its very familiar to the original but its different because they don't have the same experience only the ones they share when the "copy" was made, after that they were being in different experiences, even if it in the same place they are not the same, one of them have a body with other personality in their. In this case they both be named separately, but for this question it doesn't matter any way. xD)
This is my opinion about your question (an intriguing one I must say), I hope it has helped you. |