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Soul Core Origins

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Light excels in coding, he’s able to create robots who can think and feel and have their own thoughts and abilities, he lets his children help him around the lab, he’s a collaborative man who values other people’s input on his work whilst also taking a lot of pride in what he makes.

Wily is the opposite, while he is just as good at coding as Light, his real strengths lie in the building of robots, in the theoretical and dangerous weapons he builds for them. The coding of their brains is an afterthought to him, which is likely why most of them are incredibly reckless with the weapons they were given.

The idea that the Second Numbers are based on the Firsts makes so much more sense to me when working with the theory that Wily saw them and was inspired rather than stole their blueprints. I think that makes his and Light’s dynamic far more appealing as well. They used to be so close and honestly I don’t think their friendship ever truly went away, and no matter how much he’d never admit it, I think that Wily is still inspired by Light, and I think the reverse is true as well.

In certain glimpses we get into the future of the classic timeline, it’s implied that Wily eventually just gave up his world domination attempts, and I choose to believe that in those timelines, he gave it up because Light passed away. Wily is such a vindictive and competitive person that I think that the rivalry with Light is the reason he keeps on trying. Maybe the first few attempts were earnest, but eventually it just seems like he wants to compare inventions with his old pal Thomas.

I wanted to give a little explanation as to how robots ‘age’ in Soul Core, since it isn’t at all based on when they were built or activated.

When a robot is first built, they typically have a purpose in mind (construction, demolition, exploration, etc), and it doesn’t really make sense for a robot to have to learn everything from scratch, so they have it programmed into them. This typically takes a few rounds of updates and bug fixes, which leads to different code versions.

A robot starts at 1.0.0, the most basic completed version of their personality, but the more information is added to them, the higher their version, or ‘age’ is. They continue to be updated and learn as they live their lives, so they aren’t just stuck at one version forever.

The robot version of a birthday is the day when they get their code officially updated every year, which is usually either the day they were first activated or a sentimental day for them (robot twins can even have “birthdays” that are months apart, like Rock and Roll do.). All their memory data from the past year is analysed and compiled into new learned information and their code is updated based on it through a Light Capsule.

Although the process of updating core coding can be done internally, it’s a very stressful, dangerous process that’s typically only brought on by particularly memorable experiences. A robot may wake up the day after a traumatic event to discover that their version has gone up a few digits. If this happens too frequently, the updating system can stall and make it incredibly difficult to properly process data.

Another process that can forcibly update a robot’s age is the creation of false memories. If a robot wakes up for the first time with information it shouldn’t have, the systems can become confused by the lack of learned data and cause significant mental stress.

The age of a robot’s actual body (in the sense of how long it’s been since they were built, not their appearance, which is altered to match their mental age/version as they develop.) typically doesn’t factor in to how they’re perceived. A robot who was literally born yesterday can have the mental age of a thirty year old, and a robot who’s been around for years can still be in their early twenties.

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Soul Core Origins