User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171003190230/@comment-4867780-20171005065913

The personal memento given to companions who are citizen material contains the sliver of Selforge Essence that will eventually become their SCE, bonding with them in a similar way and allowing him to watch over them and ensure nothing unfortunate happens until then.

Very true, indeed. “Prevention is better than cure” as they say, and although he can easily undo any kind of damage, it wouldn’t change the fact that said damage did happen, nor the reality of their pain and his failure in preventing it, hence his preemptive essence-sharing for protection purposes. They aren’t citizens yet, so functionalities are limited to safety/support until they enter Selforge City.

Lawrence does have male friends during his adventures, although no long-term ones since he simply prefers women at his side, and Selforge citizens definitely have their share of male lovers aside from him, either living in the Inner Planes or in Matrix worlds they can materialize in their private Domain.

It’s just that none of them enters Selforge City due to its core ladies-only rule. It has become kind of sacred over time, as it just wouldn’t be the same if some exception was made. Much like with the damage endured by citizens, it could never be truly taken back and only lived with from there on out. Hence why I stuck with to the rule so far, and am satisfied about it.

I do admit it would be cool for him to have a bro though ^ ^ Maybe I'll figure out how to harmoniously integrate the idea at some point, but it's admitedly not a priority right now.

As mentioned previously, Lawrence is not the original human he was born from, so the human’s personal features aren’t his own aside from the core personality, and are thus of little importance. Honestly I didn’t give it much thought so far, precisely because of this lack of personal connection.

About the size and population of Selforge City, considering it is both ever-lasting and fast-expanding, any given number would become obsolete fairly soon, and any given number would be eventually reached as well, so there isn’t much point in keeping counts of them.