Sometimes you speedrun The Derangement.
Grounding knowledge you need to know to understand this analysis:
1) Angela is an android from the game Lobotomy Corporation, and it's sequel Library of Ruina, made by a scientist called Ayin. She was made in the image of a scientist called Carmen after her death, to help with an experiment started by Carmen and Ayin. She was summarily rejected by Ayin for failing to be enough like Carmen, and he never treated her like a person, so Angela has an understandable grudge against Ayin and Carmen for trying to define her life. Despite herself, she still seems to share many of Carmen’s personality traits, such as compassion, even though it has been blunted by several thousand years of emotional neglect. However, Angela also shares quite a few personality traits with Ayin, including his macchiavellianism and even looking just like him once she cuts her hair.
2) Hokma used to be a human called Benjamin, who was Ayin’s student and coworker. In practical terms his whole life revolved around Ayin’s goals and plans – he helped with the creation of Angela, and helped with the continuation of Carmen’s experiment afterwards. Unlike Ayin, Benjamin endeavoured to treat Angela with kindness even though he was apprehensive about her being an AI. The version of Hokma from Library of Ruina is not, strictly speaking, any more Benjamin than Angela is Carmen, being a reconstruction of Hokma as he existed during the experiment rather than a reconstruction of Benjamin from before the experiment.
3) Turns out Benjamin was half-right to be suspicious of Angela – he was eventually killed by her on what may have been Ayin’s orders, and she was planning on betraying Ayin. Although Hokma assumes she did this out of a machine sense of superiority, the real reason is that she’d been so traumatised by her treatment in the course of the experiment that she would take any chance to escape it. As such, Hokma’s grudge against Angela stems from holding a much stronger attachment to his previous identity, as he is still actively grieving Ayin after his death before the beginning of LoR.
4) Angela and Hokma are stuck together for the course of the plot of LoR because she had to make a deal with him and the rest of the experiment’s management team, the Sefirot, to be able to use the energy they had amassed to make her own experiment with the goal of becoming human in the end. They all go from working for Ayin to working for Angela, with the major difference being that Angela’s experiment in theory doesn’t require them to go through trauma enough to cause each of them to have a mental breakdown. (In theory.)
5) "String Theocracy" by Mili is the main theme of Library of Ruina.
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