#mystere

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Like. Flora's mom died when Flora was young, and the Baron decided that the best way to help his daughter cope with this grief was to commission a robot replacement of her mother?

Flora's mom died. And then a few days later, her dad came home with Dahlia, who was supposed to be JUST LIKE her mother, but she was TERRIFIED of this replacement and hid from her in her mom's crypt???? Because she still KNEW her actual mom was dead.

And so the Baron had Dahlia's programming altered to be less like Flora's actual mother, in hopes that that would help, but it was still this like. Not-Mom that was living in her home, and honestly? Made it worse.

And the worst part is that right now, I can't remember if Flora ran away or was sent away, but we do know that she wasn’t in the manor when Luke and the Professor show up. And that Dahlia is clearly affected by the fact that she BELIEVES Flora ran away.

And Dahlia is so. She's an overbearing pet-parent. She loses her MIND when her cat Claudia gets out. Is that her programming? Is that the fact that she was literally designed to mother a little girl? But only until Flora was old enough to be married off? Is that why she acts like her cat who got out is a precious small child who went missing? It's heartbreaking. Especially when the game TOUCHES on this horror/tragedy aspect when Luke ASKS the Professor if the robots making up Mystere know they're robots?

All we can assume is that there was some plague that wiped out almost all of this village. And that these robots BELIEVE they're human. We see them sad, we see them angry, we see them SCARED of some creature taking them in the night and bringing them back different(Bruno(who made the robots) taking them and repairing them)