User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25135454-20171003190230/@comment-4867780-20171006094528

Lawrence didn’t inherit it, he *is* the (remaining shard of) Prime Undefineness, that gained sentience and personality by merging with the original human. Said human ceased to exist at that moment (just like everything Lawrence absorbed later on), while the person he used to be (what I call "soul data") was imprinted into the shard, filling the amorphous "empty box" it was until then with its own will and personality, refined along the way by the complete understanding of all events composing his personal history – down to the merging itself, allowing Lawrence to know from the very beginning that he is not the original human but the shard itself that gained sentience/identity by inheriting the human’s, making him a truly sui generis entity and a living legacy of both the human and the Prime Undefineness, which are now both gone forever and only live on through him.

I don’t think it was Epicurus who tackled the problem of evil, the man was more about building a simple and resilient happiness that could withstand the ups and downs of life, and be enjoyed all life long. Probably Plato instead, another famous Greek philosopher who was into ideas and principles.

Personally, I do believe a world without suffering to torment and cripple the experience of life would be much better for everyone involved, but then again it’s just not the way ours works. So I suppose convincing ourselves that things are better this way is probably the most effective strategy to face life, although I can’t follow it myself since I know in my heart it is not true. After all, if suffering was so essential to the value of life, we wouldn’t be dreaming of utopias in the first place, and Heaven itself would be plagued with it just as much, so we may eternally "enjoy" rich and meaningful lives. Definitely ! Aside from the momentary reprieve it offers in our difficult lives, fictional happiness also offers leads and pointers about how to act and behave to make our own lives happier, if only a little.

Work in progress with no deadline, that’s how I roll ^ ^ All the time in the world to make the setting exactly how I want it, and improve it endlessly one little update at a time. Minimal stress, maximal satisfaction :D

I honestly don’t have much hope about the world getting significantly better than it currently is, especially considering the direction it’s taking and the resource depletion / environmental toll of technology catching up to us harder and harder with each passing year. Maybe that’s why I take so very good care of my fictional setting, because in a happiness-unfriendly world with a very uncertain future we have to find happiness where we can, and fiction is one of the only lasting/reliable sources.

Interestingly, I only watched the movie long after the movie, and was impressed at how conceptually and visually similar they are, though also unnerved just like you were by the terrible evil potential of such constructs. Seeing the poor X-Men struggling desperately against a swarm of nigh-unstoppable adaptive killing machines relentlessly butchering them one after the other with no hope of victory or escape was really a heart-wrenching scene.

I still like Selforge Soldiers though, because they only ever do what Lawrence tells them to, and are by nature under his complete and inescapable control (powered/operated by Selforge Technology), and because they are just the perfect counter to the forces of evil, those so very difficult to face for humans, like powerful supernatural entities, innumerable hordes, or both at the same time.

Be it demonic invasions, undead pandemics, all-devouring aliens or eldritch aberrations, imagine Selforge Soldiers waging war against such forces, facing them all with the same chilling faceless indifference, and methodically tearing through them layer by layer with jaw-dropping might, speed and efficiency, relentlessly scoring dozens upon dozens of kills for hours on end as they stoically withstand anything thrown at them and optimally adapt on the fly to every opponent and situation, growing perceptibly stronger and stronger with each passing minute as they feed on the essence of the fallen, increasing their already terrifying combat effectiveness indefinitely whe radically preventing any form of revival/restoration.

Pure awesomeness ^ ^ That’s the kind of battle Selforge Soldiers were made for B)

Anti-Evil Godlike Terminators, embodying the glorious side of the uncanny valley :D