“We call it the Operator. But I call it O-per for short.” The man leaned back in his chair lighting a cigarette not showing as much interest as the Kirijo Group Supervisor. Two years of almost limitless resources to do one simple job had made him particularly acclimated to the atmosphere surrounding it.
“It looks… human.” The man spoke taking off his glasses as he stared through the thick window. The creation could look just like a sleeping young man, had it not been for the visible separation of panels where it was put together. The outer layer of “skin” only breaking up with the occasional line in the skin, hiding all the in-human parts underneath.
“Well we used the old idea for the anti-shadow weapons. Though this one is much more updated and has a few key differences. But I assure you it fits well within the task we were given, though broad as it were the idea was the best we could come up with. Have you read the file on Arisato Minato?”
“Yes of course. Hard to believe a kid could do something like that, it’s also clear you made it in his image.”
“Well, the power he had was the goal. To fight back against another threat like Nyx. But given what we know about Personas I hypothesized it would be just about impossible to simply “replicate” that power. It’s tied to ones subconscious after all and we have no idea if it was a single thing in his mind that created. The puzzle pieces were just too many to figure out in our lifetime. So we wanted to recreate his consciousness.”
“Is that possible? That would be like playing God wouldn’t it? Ms. Kirijo doesn’t care for a Frankenstein project.”
“I don’t look at is as playing God anymore than we do with every birth. It isn’t him and I’m positive O-per is well aware of that. We took all we could from the data we had on him but it’s not like he spoke aloud everything he was ever thinking on camera. We had the top psych guys analyze. The best we could do in the end was infer… but the data included his death.”
“So if I’m not mistaken you don’t even know if this will work?”
“There are a lot of controversial questions that come from this type of project. And a lot of it is still beyond human understanding and calculation. He hasn’t seen any field experience yet but he has a love for humanity. Arisato Minato died to save this world. O-per’s power will be immense even if it won’t meet that level completely. But humans have been known to achieve great things in their most trying times. It ends up becoming their Finest Hour.”
“There is no limiters on it.”
“What?! That’s insane it could go haywire!”
“Limiters would inhibit what Arisato Minato was as a person. You have to believe in what he used to be. That’s why I trust this project. Arisato Minato was the world’s savior and he died for it and he’ll never be known for it. That’s the kind of person he seemed to be.”
The supervisor paused as he pushed his glasses back up his nose. “…I’ll deliver the report to Ms. Kirijo. She thanks you for your work as always Director.”
