Farspeech stones

[forwearemany]

(It's an abrupt decision to voice the question that has been plaguing their thoughts over the stones.)

How is synthetic life treated in your universe of origin?

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[triggerhappytraitor]

They were made to follow the orders of the person who made them. I never saw one act on it's own, only --

[[a pause as he remembers]]

No. No, one of them did. He was given the memories and mind of the man who had created him-- but then had that mind altered, after that man died. The others were more... single minded. And only given the physical memory and instinct of the person whose data was used to create them, rather than their personality.

[forwearemany]

Was the mind alteration his decision?

(Or was it forced upon him?)

How was he treated?

(The intelligent one.)

[triggerhappytraitor]

I don't think it was. He only remembered it-- and his creation-- when he was dying.

We thought he was the person he appeared to be, until he attacked us and showed his true form. Even then, we thought somehow he had just been changed, until Hirose told us he had been given her father's memories.

[forwearemany]

(Confused chattering.)

He betrayed you because of this alteration?

(It's a little hard to figure out from such a brief explanation.)

[triggerhappytraitor]

[[That it's a... very complicated issue that involves far too many things that would take too long to even start to explain isn't helping either.

And there's an awkward hesitation.]]

...it may have been. A lot of the things that he did...

[[another awkward pause]]

The man who created him had asked that he look after his daughter in his place, but when I worked alongside him, he refused to go see her, no matter how much I urged. When they finally came face to face... he stopped hiding his true form, started acting... erratically. Like he was being torn between what Tennouji had told him to do, and what Mr. Hirose had asked of him.

[[yet another pause before he continues a bit more decisively]]

If he hadn't been altered, he wouldn't have been our enemy.

[forwearemany]

...Acknowledged.