Hi I love W1 they’re so peak!!! Can you elaborate on why the Vs merged to survive? Was it a lack of resources, did they come to the conclusion that they would survive longer together?
AAHH so exciting! This is such a hard question to answer in all honesty, not because I don't have a story planned, I do. Thing is we don't have a canon explanation on how humanity disappeared yet so it's based off of my assumptions or vibes,,
And if Ultrakill reveals something that contradicts it, maybe it's details are subject to change.
First as mentioned in my comics super briefly here [x] and [x], V2 takes apart V1.
At the time V1 was put in some kind of stasis/sleep mode since it couldn't be used with the new peace happening. So.. V2 was made as a ditch effort to save the company resources. They more or less finished her and started looking for investors to put money into V2's model for mass production.
Of course as we know that doesn't work out well. V2 catches wind of it's inferiority, but doesn't quite understand why that is. So it sought the answer itself.
V2 has a voice synthesizer as she was intended to work alongside people, but V1 does not. To share information V2 would give V1 access to it. A voice was the first thing those two ever shared! They had to take turns on it and everything.
But this isn't when they combine. The goal is to put V1 back together piece by piece.
Eventually that would be mostly a success! ... However modern machines aren't so simple. V1 was incapable of moving well at all and needed help due to damage caused to its biological components.
Later on humanity would perish despite it's best efforts. I am uncertain why!
Perhaps their own hungry children came to haunt them, on their own or woken up by hell. Maybe something else?
But when machines start rushing to find the last resources on their way to hell. Well, a machine that can hardly move and has rare elusive armor is a very tempting target and scavenge for parts.
V2 would prioritize it's safety.
But being made with regular tough armor while still having a fragile and swift build, combined with her lack of tools for war (some she had to make herself like the knuckleblaster), even lack of data, it wasn't well equipped for the environment at all.
V1 was. V1 was made for it, every part of it itched to join the battlefield.
One lacked the data and the other lacked the body.
So the solution to that came quite naturally!
.. even if it was uhm a bit awkward at first -> [x]
