So does the amount of self that Edris retains once absorbed and converted into the Teleena's bodies vary? Some of them she seems more fully absorbed than in others, got me wondering.
for the Teleena it likely feels the best to absorb everything and leave nothing left, but if they want to tease (which they like to do a lot) they keep a bit of the agent's consciousness there.
That stage 9 scene was just Eddris not wanting to have an humiliating end, but she didn't mind it later