User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-4867780-20171201004728/@comment-4867780-20171215083137

Their relationship continues to grow over time indeed, at least for immigrating citizens. Native ones have been by his side all their life, so their relationship doesn't change much once they have had children of their own and raised them to adulthood, having covered the full spectrum by then. Still, the accumulation of shared history does deepen and strengten relationships as time passes, so they do get ever so closer as centuries and aeons go by.

It is the person that embeds herself within the shard rather than reverse, just like Lawrence was born originally, and the "person within the shard" then recreates an idealized version of their original form (just like he did). All physical and mental ailments are cured before their ascension to citizenship, so they may start their new life free of past burdens. This Selforge Ascension is the only way to truly guarantee their complete safety, so Lawrence decided to make it a mandatory condition for citizenship.

One of the few rules of Selforge City is that each citizen is unique, and this uniqueness notably include a single body. One the other hand, if a citizen candidate turns out to have several independent personalities, Lawrence would likely create a separate body for each of them, and each of them would become a citizen of their own (unless some of them are evil or detrimental, in which case he would simply erase them like other mental ailments).

I know right ? Self-customization at will is downright awesome ^ ^

That's exactly how it works, except the search engine is autonomous, instant and spot-on ;)