by Adon » November 22nd, 2013, 12:33 am
Wow, just... wow. I honestly didn't see that explanation for Willu's behavior, but it does answer several discrepancies, namely:
- Why Willu immediately declared Charlie to be her love, and never questioned his course of actions. Regarding the first, Willu (the original) would likely have viewed Charlie as a son/little brother, and it's highly doubtful that she would have been sexually attracted to him even in his altered form. And she sure as hell would have at least raised concerns on his 'assimilate everyone' plan. In this, it boils down to an Oedipus complex combined with a deep seated need for Willu's approval. And since nu-Willu's personality is based on not what Willu was actually like but what Charlie wants her to be like, she would of course be egging him on in whatever task he set out to do.
- The seeming lack of mental trauma from her long stasis and the display of very sadistic and egocentric behavior. I originally thought the latter was caused by the former -- that her changed behavior was a result of having gone crazy being unable to move and having a horrific experience replayed in her head for years. There was no transition period here, though... she didn't seem to need to adjust at all to suddenly being able to move again or having her physical form altered. And the sadism seemed completely new. Again, it's now revealed that it's because she's basically the embodiment of all of Charlie's darker urges, the ones he apparently didn't want to openly admit to until now.
- Her seeming vanity project of changing Centrum into a bunch of copies of herself. The female drones were clearly stand-ins for Willu, and to Charlie's immature mind he now doesn't need stand-ins. And what's better than having the object of your obsession here and agreeable to your every whim? Having LOTS of them! So essentially Centrum is being cast aside because Charlie-boy has a new toy that's occupying his attention and he doesn't need to pretend to have any noble purpose any longer. Oh, he might have believed that he was doing something great and good, but it all came down to having his fantasies fulfilled.
The question is whether Charlie even realizes that he didn't really resurrect Willu... that he took her shell and made her into a reflection of his desires -- a 'mom' who is all too happy to have sex with him, has no problem being in a permanent fetish outfit, and giving an outlet for his cruel side (because let's face it, forcibly turning countless people into obedient drones is pretty hard to justify as being without malice). Or that his entire 'noble goal' was just a cover for his desire for revenge and control. Remember that for all of his intellect, he's emotionally stunted and there's no evidence that he ever really 'got' the psychology of organic minds. I suspect being confronted with this would cause a breakdown of high order (which is not necessarily a good thing -- a vastly powerful and amoral being throwing a temper tantrum is pretty high on the 'bad thing' scale).