While Markus is the android who led the uprising and (depending on your route) accomplished the goal of freeing deviants, rA9 is stated to be the first of the androids to awaken. Which, out of the three characters the player will play as, is Kara. Kara herself was defective as early on as her production site, where she should’ve been destroyed. Since she showed fear, she was spared by the operator administering her Turing test, but due to multiple occasions of being reset, she started anew, as a non-deviant. It is also stated (in her bio, gallery profile) that Alice may not have given her the name Kara, rather that Kara whispered the name to Alice. We all know that Connor is not rA9, due to how late he bacame a deviant and the option for him to accomplish his mission, rather than revolt against human oppressors. Not only that, but in the “Machine” or “Red” Connor route, if the player chooses the aggressive route with Markus, Connor confronts him when fighting outside of the android concentration camp in Hart Plaza. After a brawl between the two, there is a choice which must be made: play as Connor, or play as Markus. If you choose to play as Connor and succeed at killing Markus, the mission of Connor defeating the leader of Jericho/the deviant androids is not accomplished until killing North. It is possible that this implies that North is a co-leader, technically taking on the role of official head of Jericho with Markus’s death; though this event may be open for other theories. I have not played the “Red” Connor route while choosing the pacifist approach with Markus, yet, so I cannot provide any evidence from that route. Markus is also not the founder, or first to arrive at Jericho, implying that Josh, Simon, North and the others were deviants before Markus. I know my speech seems as if I am implying that Kara is rA9, but she does not fit the description either. rA9 is not only the first awakening android, but the android who freed his/her people. Kara, depending on your choices, can be particularly selfish and may die in several endings. This all begs the question; if none of the playable characters are rA9, who is truly rA9?
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