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Other times, ethnicity is only hinted at by the creator or depicted in drawn form, with little attention being given to the character's ethnicity in written depictions. For example, this may be the case with CTSS-tan and MCP-tan, who have been suggested by their creator as being Chinese- and African-American, respectively. | Other times, ethnicity is only hinted at by the creator or depicted in drawn form, with little attention being given to the character's ethnicity in written depictions. For example, this may be the case with CTSS-tan and MCP-tan, who have been suggested by their creator as being Chinese- and African-American, respectively. | ||
====Humans and OS-tan magic==== | |||
It has been theorized that OS-tans often have wide ranges of magical skill. In addition to their self-defense ("security") powers and other forms of sorcery used in their day-to-day lives ("personal powers"), they have a certain sorcery abilities that they use in whatever job they're assigned to - spells related to business stuff, keeping track of information, collecting data from scientific experiments, etc. Unlike their more reflexive security and personal-use powers, these "work spells" can be easily invoked by human users and program-tans via commands. | |||
These commands can take a variety of different forms. Some OS-tans - specifically, real-time, timesharing and interactive OS-tans - process these commands in real time, and need only for a user to request them to carry them out. Meanwhile, batch-processing OS-tans require the commands to be written down before they can process them, and the spellcasting process tends to be more ritualistic and prolonged than it is for interactive OS-tan spells. (Analogous to the spell scroll vs. regular casting process used in various RPGs.) | |||
These ideas have implications | |||
A sub-theory suggests computer storage mediums, such as punch cards and paper-tape, are used as spellbooks by OS-tans and humans. | |||
Another theory proposes that, with enough time and training, humans have the potential to master computer-tan "code magic". However, this is regarded as a very rare occurrence, due to the difficulties posed by learning the intricacies of computer magic, as well as the biologically- and psychologically-foreign nature of code magic. | |||
==Theories about present and past factions== | ==Theories about present and past factions== | ||
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====Plan 9-tan is a hardcore geek==== | ====Plan 9-tan is a hardcore geek==== | ||
She's a confirmed space- and science-geek who cosplays, loves B-movies, anime, and is a Touhou fan. How can she NOT be a huge nerd? | She's a confirmed space- and science-geek who cosplays, loves B-movies, anime, and is a Touhou fan. How can she NOT be a huge nerd? | ||
====Unix-tan collaborated with the DEC Faction==== | |||
In the late 1970s DEC released an in-house, lightly modified version of V7 Unix. Since Unix-tan represents all research Unix variants (V7 included), it stands to reason that Unix-tan collaborated with the DECs during this time. | |||
====Windows 3.1-tan is still working==== | |||
Since Windows 3.1 has been reincarnated as an embedded OS, some theorize that 3.1-tan leads a double-life - she presents herself as retired to her family, but in reality still holds down work in the highly competitive embedded market. | |||
