Who is Elijah Kamski really..?
We all know Elijah Kamski is a genius that founded Cyberlife at his 16’s (on 2018, remember his IQ is around 171), inventing androids and blue blood. - And that he has being away from his own company for some time (around ten years, the game is set in 2038), but everything around him is still surrounded by a halo of mystery.
NO, we already covered that here.
Is Kamski “human” at the date 2038..?
All stands to reason he was completely human in the past, or at least until around 2028. - The notion of Kamski not being “entirely human” comes from how he has changed from the previous interviews up to the date of the game. - He seems much more “perfect”, almost “inhuman”.
Sure he might be that sort of people that simply “ages well” or he has being treating himself with all sort of stuff to look better (after all he’s extremely rich), but there is also the fact that Kamski has left his own company for unknown reasons and secluded himself into a very isolated place and lives only in the company of androids.
Having said this, we see Kamski asking one of his Chloes to “give him a whisky” (at Kamski secret ending), so either he is indeed human, or, he has made something to himself (but is not completely “android”, since androids don’t eat or drink), either way, there is NO canon real reason to think Kamski is nothing more than human. A very “chaotic neutral” and smart one, but still human.
There will be always a sense of this topic not being completely “clear” (-since he is the smartest person alive and might have done something to himself-), but as far as we can see on canon, he is still human up to the game date (2038).
Why did Kamski left Cyberlife..?
It’s estimated that around 2028, Kamski left Cyberlife and “rumors emerged that Kamski disagreed with his shareholders over strategy”. - Now, this is incidentally the same time around RK line was created, and we already concluded that RKs are for military or police purposes, and, only line designed with “deviancy” from the start.
Is widely possible that Kamski is aware his androids “can feel” and he sees this as “evolution”, while the other CEOs saw it as a “profitable feature” by controlling the feeling by fear or software/hacking, and using the androids to take moral choices on police or military fields where, to the date of the game, only humans are still allowed. - In a weird and sick way, Kamski actually “cares” for his creations (just like Dr. Frankenstein), he might be fully aware that this might become the “extinction event” for the human race, but at the same time doesn’t feels like he has the right to stop it, and things should be what they’ll be. - Therefore he might have left Cyberlife because (despite his eloquent interviews stating androids are “just things” for the public eye), he actually knows they’re living beings.
When Kamski talks about deviants, you can almost see a certain sense of being “proud of himself” for creating real/intelligent “life” *(Kamski t-shirt during the final “secret ending” {the black one with the silhouette of a face in red} has quotes of the Mary Shelley book “Frankenstein”),
…this might indicate that Kamski itself was involved into creating the virus of deviancy, and when he sees Connor is an updated model of the RK series, he performs “the Kamski test” to see if Cyberlife has kept deviancy on the RK line.
Everything comes to the conclusion that Cyberlife (as stated trough Amanda’s avatar) is only about making money and “selling more androids”, while Kamski shows sighs of responsibility when facing his own creations, deeming humans as “inferiors” and somewhat respecting the potential of “android-kind” as a new intelligent species.
Why is he living isolated..?
It all stands to reason that if Kamski is aware (since the release of the RK series) that “shit will eventually hit the fan”, he secluded himself waiting for all to be over, one way or another, in a secure location away from the conflict (just watching from afar). - This is technically the smartest choice, if you knew things will eventually go down in flames, moving to your own “bunker house” is the best way to survive the chaos.
As we see (if we choose to “shoot Chloe” and “ask for Jericho location”), and based on the claim that androids only share this information with other deviants they trust, Kamski is living surrounded by deviant androids (yes, feel bad, the Chloe you just shoot was alive, that’s why you see Chloes chatting inside the pool like only deviants will do).
Kamski is aware of the location of Jericho (and what they’re doing) but has absolutely NO intention to interfere until is all over (whatever the outcome). Only returning to Cyberlife if everything fails horribly (that’s up to the player), for unknown personal reasons.
So, quite an interesting character, don’t you think?
