| “ | Most people just turn white and shatter to pieces, but there are a few exceptions... and they end up like this. We've named this one Betty, for now. It's hard to look straight at them... But I don't want to refer to them by some code name or number. It's just not right to treat the dead like mere objects.
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Betty is the name that Jr. gives to the one of the transformed bodies laid to rest on the Durandal, whose remains have halfway turned into a Gnosis. After finding a monogrammed "B" among her belongings[1], Jr. named her "Betty", since he didn't feel it was right to refer to the dead by a code name or number.
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht[]
Betty
Shion's team discovering Betty.
In Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, after repeated inquiries and warning them they would not like what they see, Jr. shows Betty to Shion Uzuki and the group, and explains how she came to be.
MOMO asks if Betty is a lady; Jr. says she was a little girl the last time they saw her, and that Betty's body, like the other Gnosis remains, is composed of sodium chloride (table salt), sodium hydroxide, and water.
Shion is horrified because she was touched by a Gnosis earlier on the Woglinde, and wonders if she will have a similar fate to Betty, since she didn't turn into salt.
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- The group seems shocked to learn people can turn into Gnosis, despite seeing Andrew Cherenkov turn into one the day before.
- Jr.'s childhood at the Yuriev Institute almost certainly informs his perspective regarding how to refer to Betty and the other Gnosis remains in the Foundation's care, as he himself was referred to by a code name (Rubedo) and a number (No. 666) for at least the first half of his life.
- Xenosaga: Official Design Materials notes that since her body is able to be stored, the transformation was halted while she was still a physical entity. It offers that she could have died due to the transformation process, or rejected the transformation, which would have ended her life.[2]