[9S replies simply and easily, for it is the truth. Obfuscation rolls off his tongue with scarcely any difficulty, but when it comes to his purpose, his core programming, the response is automatic. No pause for consideration, no effort to conceal a thought behind a forced smile. This goes to the essence of how he was made.
Even if so much of it, perhaps all of it, had been a lie, the programming remains. He still loves mankind with all his being, still yearned for them so much that it tormented him to know they were gone.
It was the seemingly vain hope that they could somehow be saved that brought him into COST's services to begin with]
I...I don't know how strange of a concept it'd be for you. One person I spoke to understood it best to call me an automaton. Although people take me for human, I was just made in the image of mankind, to defend against threats.
[He knows that wasn't the true intention behind Project YoRHa now, but it doesn't change how he feels, nor his desire to fulfill the purpose he'd once believed was true. And here he can make it real]
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[9S replies simply and easily, for it is the truth. Obfuscation rolls off his tongue with scarcely any difficulty, but when it comes to his purpose, his core programming, the response is automatic. No pause for consideration, no effort to conceal a thought behind a forced smile. This goes to the essence of how he was made.
Even if so much of it, perhaps all of it, had been a lie, the programming remains. He still loves mankind with all his being, still yearned for them so much that it tormented him to know they were gone.
It was the seemingly vain hope that they could somehow be saved that brought him into COST's services to begin with]
I...I don't know how strange of a concept it'd be for you. One person I spoke to understood it best to call me an automaton. Although people take me for human, I was just made in the image of mankind, to defend against threats.
[He knows that wasn't the true intention behind Project YoRHa now, but it doesn't change how he feels, nor his desire to fulfill the purpose he'd once believed was true. And here he can make it real]