Father…
What am I?
Beautiful Hatred
The story of Kiehl Hyre
By Sarcastic Innocence
The beginning
The world was dark, with the soft hum of machinery. At least, that is how it was when we were born. There were five of us; siblings. We took the days as they came, cheerfully, carelessly. The whole world consisted of just us. We were nameless, yet we knew each other like we had been alive for years.
That was our mistake. We should have cherished each day as if it were our last. In an instant, they were gone, killed by the man we had called our "father". I, the only one remaining, went to father, and he smiled at me. I was given a name, and could you believe it? One nearly exact to his own!
Kiel, Kiehl... There is no difference. It was as if he created me just to become him. And as the years went by, the questions lingering in my mind began to clear.
Though he treated me as if I were his son, I felt as if I was just a toy to him, nothing more, nothing less. I was a robot. I was created, I could be recreated. My mind, no, my memories, in the form of that condensed memory scroll, could easily be manipulated.
Did I ever have those brothers and sisters I see in my memories?
Heh, don't give me that look. Of course I'm grateful that father taught me everything he knew. And in turn, I learned much about him and the world he lives in.
Jealousy... is a beautiful thing.
An unrequited love.
A woman's death.
A man's revenge.
Orchestrated almost like a tragic play...
The beginning of everything.
Have you met the woman named Allysia? The one who stands by father; his assistant. She is my sister in a sense, I suppose.
The real Allysia died over thirty years ago, when father was still young. Father loved her, and she, in return, loved another man. The man loved her as well, but was engaged. Not wanting to go through the marriage, the two had planned to elope. However, love stories never end up well. The night before their escape, tragedy struck.
Human lives are so frail. Simple natural occurrences can cause a life to be cut short.
The night before their escape, Allysia was called out to the riverbank. A small quarrel between her and father, and by the time anyone realized it, the ground underneath them had fallen and Allysia was swept into the river. A fisherman found her body the next morning, but it was too late; she was dead. In her hands, she had held onto the ring the man had given her to the very end.
Heartbroken over the fact that that she loved the man even in death and refused to leave him, father joined the Rekenber Corporation to exact revenge. Why? I don't know... while I can express them, I have never completely understood human emotions. To me, it was always foolish to wish to exact vengeance on someone if you are partly to blame. The plan worked, though. A few months after Allysia's death, the man's rich and powerful family went bankrupt, destroyed by Rekenber, no doubt. Father's revenge was then fulfilled. But was he happy with the result?
In any case, while working under Rekenber, father created a robot. It was made in Allysia's likeness, but... it would never be the true Allysia.
That was the beginning of father's career creating robots.
Notes
The actual fictional part of the story begins now. There really isn't much of Kiehl's opinion during the quest, most of what he tells you is fact, backed up by other characters in the questline. So I really need to come up with things that he would say that tie in with the story and doesn't change it completely.
"Kiel, Kiehl... There is no difference.": Both are pronounced similarly, though Kiehl has a slightly longer "e" when pronounced because of the silent "h". It's not something really that noticeable, though.
"Killed by the man we had called our "father"": Rekenber Corp. only allowed Kiel to keep one of the five 2nd generation robots; the one he kept was obviously the one he eventually named Kiehl. Kiel gave no resistance to Rekenber's decision, or at least, he never said he did, which is why Kiehl believes his father took part in the death of the other robots.
"The man": The man Kiehl mentions in the 2nd half of the chapter is a man with the name James Rosimer. Kiehl doesn't mention his name because it is an incident that has nothing to do with him. He never mentions Rosimer's name in the questline anyways.
