Without a purpose, life doesn't hold much meaning for an android.
[There's a certain weight that settles over those words, because 9S knows from experience what it is to be robbed of that purpose. He knows the burdens that come with losing everything, piece by piece, until all that remains is self-directed destruction. Purpose is fulfillment to an android. It lets them move forward and gives them something to hold onto.
In the absence of that, there is only despair. It's why he never shared the cruel truths he'd learned with other units, lest they lose hope too. Even machine life-forms were that way. He remembers the Wise Machines and their struggles with a lack of purpose all too well. For all that, when he speaks again, the weighs about him eases as though he's simply shrugged it off]
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[There's a certain weight that settles over those words, because 9S knows from experience what it is to be robbed of that purpose. He knows the burdens that come with losing everything, piece by piece, until all that remains is self-directed destruction. Purpose is fulfillment to an android. It lets them move forward and gives them something to hold onto.
In the absence of that, there is only despair. It's why he never shared the cruel truths he'd learned with other units, lest they lose hope too. Even machine life-forms were that way. He remembers the Wise Machines and their struggles with a lack of purpose all too well. For all that, when he speaks again, the weighs about him eases as though he's simply shrugged it off]
For someone like me, it's pretty important.