Ghost in the Shell: Motoko

A quick rehash of a really old Motoko Kusanagi fanart, redrawn but with the same color scheme. You can see the original version here.

It's sort of an amalgam of the versions of Motoko from the movie and the Stand Alone Complex series. One of the aspects of the character that I found most compelling in the movie (but which is largely absent from the series) is her contemplative, almost melancholy nature. My favorite sequence from the movie:

Motoko - Maybe all full-replacement cyborgs like me start wondering this .. that perhaps the real "me" died a long time ago, and I'm a replicant made with a cyborg body and computer brain. Or maybe there never was a real "me" to begin with.
Batou - You've got real brain matter in that titanium skull of yours. And you get treated like a real person, don't you?
Motoko - There's no person who's ever seen their own brain. I believe I exist based only on what my environment tells me.
Batou - Don't you believe in your own ghost?
Motoko - And what if a computer brain could generate a ghost and harbor a soul? On what basis then do I believe in myself?