#rhea being obsessed with undoing sothis' death and regaining the love she felt as a child sure is a lot more depressing now

[mousegard]

so in three hopes with its darker take on sothis (and her memories intact), it's pretty strongly hinted that she apparently cares about as much for her "children" as, say, a paperclip maximizer cares about the paperclips it makes, given her blase reaction to seeing and recognizing heroes relics when you use her in battle. two things about that:

1. that actually gels with my "sothis is actually a sentient von neumann probe made by an alien race to colonize other worlds" headcanon way better than i'd thought

2. in an eagle among lions i turned the agarthans into nier automata androids but it turns out that the nabateans were the simulacra who were created as tools and then abandoned to spend their lives craving a love they had felt from their long-dead creator that had never really existed all along