[It's a difficult question to tackle, if only because 9S has wondered the same, for his own reasons. There has never been a satisfactory answer]
I wish I could tell you. For YoRHa, emotions are prohibited. We're constantly reminded of that, and yet we're given the same capacity for feeling as any other android units.
[Sometimes, 9S has even wondered if they feel more, but that could be owed to the extreme nature of their circumstances rather than anything else. He may never know the truth to it. Maybe someone just wanted them to suffer, considering the way only they were designed to die, live, and die again]
It's a little inconvenient, being built that way.
[He says it casually enough. 9S is good at that; at pretending something bears none of the weight it truly does on his thought routines. But in truth, he had lived with the guilt of being unable to control emotions he was ever reminded he wasn't supposed to have in the first place.
Why were they endowed with emotion? Why indeed...]
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I wish I could tell you. For YoRHa, emotions are prohibited. We're constantly reminded of that, and yet we're given the same capacity for feeling as any other android units.
[Sometimes, 9S has even wondered if they feel more, but that could be owed to the extreme nature of their circumstances rather than anything else. He may never know the truth to it. Maybe someone just wanted them to suffer, considering the way only they were designed to die, live, and die again]
It's a little inconvenient, being built that way.
[He says it casually enough. 9S is good at that; at pretending something bears none of the weight it truly does on his thought routines. But in truth, he had lived with the guilt of being unable to control emotions he was ever reminded he wasn't supposed to have in the first place.
Why were they endowed with emotion? Why indeed...]