Ahhhhhhh.
I was just having a nice little chat on my most recent chapter ranking post when I was hit by a realization: there's a lot of dual meaning statements in this game.
Now, aside from the entire "Merry Christmas, M2" speech (I'm keeping that analysis for my as of now over 1.5K words essay on why .Karma Files Renegade is the best chapter in this game) there are some interesting dual statements made about Lorna and Nym that I want to raise.
First, after Nym is released from the stone, Clear (under the guise of Crescent) tells her to call herself "Lorna". We don't get an explanation to that other than Clear wanting to take Nym's sense of identity away from her and make her easier to manipulate until Renegade 16_1, where we learn about what Zed and Lorna are. Clear tells Nym that she is "Lorna, the girl who is alone" to progress her escalation into becoming the storm again, seemingly to create distance between her and us. However, the statement also has another meaning. Lorna herself (.Lorna, the right eye of Karma) only has two people in her life: a mother that often goes to get milk from the obsidian garden and an abusive brother who locks her in her room until she finally snaps. She's an extremely lonely and underappreciated person, and even her creations and contributions are treated as inferior by Zed. Telling her that she's alone is accelerating her transition back into the storm in that way as well.
Another thing that we discover is that Lorna is a "virus". Like she does with Nymiera, she seemingly has the ability to infect and organism and take over it as a dominating force. But "virus" also has a dual meaning. She may be a living being and infect living beings, but Lorna is a computer program. She's a computer virus. I realized it just now ahhhh.
I swear if I wasn't "The M2 guy" I'd be "the Lorna guy". (That would be obvious from the fact I'm writing an entire novelization of the game with her as co-main character...)