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I know // I'm a complex person

While the inclusion of either in a story doesn’t require the consideration of any particular themes, I think that there is a big overlap in some themes that both easily invite the exploration of. Some of these include:

Agency. What factors went into determining your behavior? Were you just following orders/programming, or do you get to decide your actions? Or are those not mutually exclusive? Personhood vs an object, personhood vs a weapon. Are those opposite, is personhood even desired?

Loyalty, what responsibility do you have to the collective vs the self? What is your Purpose? Whom or what do you serve? What does that service mean?

In short, what code do you follow, literally or metaphorically?

And they’re both covered in metal*

It immediately made me think of the end of Arc 2, when Suvi says:

"I cast mage armor. And the light that reflects and refracts off of her, over her, if you knew, if you watched the interplay of Aurora Borealis lights dancing across the invisible glass, you would know that that is Steel's armor. This is a wizard of the Citadel, and she is coming, with all the strength of her home behind her, and she looks out and forward, and any bit of snow that touches her clothing, or her face, or her hair melts away immediately, I will not be touched by this world, or any other, without my permission again."