by Null » Thu Jan 10, 2019 9:51 pm
"You're thinking too literal," Will said, shaking his head and walking back over. "Right now, it's just a baby, hungry for anything. It needs good stuff to grow up. It doesn't need to be repaired, it needs to be expanded.
Think nature versus nurture here. There are basics of, well, 'Williness' in there, waiting to express themselves. There's just not enough 'there' there for him to really....latch on to. The ways in which that will manifest itself depends on what we give it to build off of. Different parts of his innate personality will be focused or diminished based on stimuli it's given.
If you put a wrench in there, my money would be on that guy being more of a gearhead when he gets out rather than just 'repairing' himself. Band-aids might make him more interested in biology or medicine or something...or maybe give him a thirst for blood. Pour enough glue in there, and maybe he comes out as a stallion. You never can tell with these things. By being stuck in a rec room in a base for 50 years, he...I...we developed a 'use me to have fun' complex. Could have been worse, I suppose."
Will paused for a moment, thinking. "You said you wanted to give him autonomy, right? So I'd imagine you'd rather let him somehow pick these things without external input? Or would you rather guide it so there was no danger of, well, another handsome young man like me?"