Sigma's feelings for Luna are very complicated. /meme
On one hand, Sigma knows that Luna is his creation, that he literally gave her life from metal and plastic and that he programmed every part of what makes her her. However, he sincerely believes that robots are a new form of sentient life. After all, if her programming is like the Chinese Room, couldn't that be said of all sentient life? Neuroscience suggests that our decisions are made for us before we are consciously aware that we have made a decision. Isn't it just our own electrical impulses and hormones that make up who we are, make all of our choices and give the illusion of free will while we sit back and watch? Can you prove otherwise? Of course, Sigma doesn't actually believe that, but that's what he would argue in a robot's defense. Part of the Alan Turing case for Artificial Intelligence: So I can't prove a Robot has thoughts of their own free will, but I can't prove that you do, either, so let's give everyone the benefit of the doubt! (Hilariously, when told that robots can't be intelligent because they don't have ESP powers like humans, Turing said "well, I'll just put everyone in an ESP-proof room." Plot of ZE3 confirmed. Just kidding.) As far as he is concerned, there is no difference between programming and physiology other than the former is a lot easier to change. But Luna was programmed to have free will, not to be his puppet. She does what he asks because he asks her, not because he forces her to do it. She is free to refuse, and eventually does. Because of this, Luna is alive.
Luna is someone irreplaceable to him. Sigma's feelings are pretty ambiguous in Luna's ending, but I think it's fair to say that he had a romantic interest in her back then, even, perhaps, loved her by the end of the route. These feelings didn't change because he created her. It changed because he fell in love with someone else, and that someone else happened to be her precursor.
Sigma considers Diana his soulmate even though she left him (probably in outrage for discovering he was Zero) and finds it difficult to move on, even in Panem, where romantic relationships weren't impossible for him. Luna may have been created in his grief to ease the pain of her disappearance, but it ended up making it worse. Is it fair to Luna if he loves her for being like the person he modeled her after, the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with? Is it fair to Luna to love her for who she is... with the intention to turn his back on this timeline, return to Diana in the past, save the world, and stay with her instead? Now that Diana is dead, is it fair to her memory to love Luna and be relieved that the decision was made for him with her death? It isn't so much that Sigma doesn't love Luna romantically anymore, like it disappeared somewhere between both Nonary Games, it's that he does not let himself. Luna isn't forward enough to tip his decision either way and they just go around and around and around.
Still, she is very dear to him. He wants more than anything for her to be happy, but he's caught in the awkward no-win situation of "tell her and the Capitol wins" and "keep quiet and she's miserable." He does what little he can, like showing up to give her the music box or telling her about Diana. Behind closed doors, Sigma definitely shed a few tears worrying about her. When this is over, he'll do anything to make it up to her. Literally anything. Luna didn't do anything wrong and deserves to live a happy life. He'll be sad if that life doesn't involve him, but will understand why it needs to be that way.
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Welp, Luna.
Sigma's feelings for Luna are very complicated. /meme
On one hand, Sigma knows that Luna is his creation, that he literally gave her life from metal and plastic and that he programmed every part of what makes her her. However, he sincerely believes that robots are a new form of sentient life. After all, if her programming is like the Chinese Room, couldn't that be said of all sentient life? Neuroscience suggests that our decisions are made for us before we are consciously aware that we have made a decision. Isn't it just our own electrical impulses and hormones that make up who we are, make all of our choices and give the illusion of free will while we sit back and watch? Can you prove otherwise? Of course, Sigma doesn't actually believe that, but that's what he would argue in a robot's defense. Part of the Alan Turing case for Artificial Intelligence: So I can't prove a Robot has thoughts of their own free will, but I can't prove that you do, either, so let's give everyone the benefit of the doubt! (Hilariously, when told that robots can't be intelligent because they don't have ESP powers like humans, Turing said "well, I'll just put everyone in an ESP-proof room." Plot of ZE3 confirmed. Just kidding.) As far as he is concerned, there is no difference between programming and physiology other than the former is a lot easier to change. But Luna was programmed to have free will, not to be his puppet. She does what he asks because he asks her, not because he forces her to do it. She is free to refuse, and eventually does. Because of this, Luna is alive.
Luna is someone irreplaceable to him. Sigma's feelings are pretty ambiguous in Luna's ending, but I think it's fair to say that he had a romantic interest in her back then, even, perhaps, loved her by the end of the route. These feelings didn't change because he created her. It changed because he fell in love with someone else, and that someone else happened to be her precursor.
Sigma considers Diana his soulmate even though she left him (probably in outrage for discovering he was Zero) and finds it difficult to move on, even in Panem, where romantic relationships weren't impossible for him. Luna may have been created in his grief to ease the pain of her disappearance, but it ended up making it worse. Is it fair to Luna if he loves her for being like the person he modeled her after, the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with? Is it fair to Luna to love her for who she is... with the intention to turn his back on this timeline, return to Diana in the past, save the world, and stay with her instead? Now that Diana is dead, is it fair to her memory to love Luna and be relieved that the decision was made for him with her death? It isn't so much that Sigma doesn't love Luna romantically anymore, like it disappeared somewhere between both Nonary Games, it's that he does not let himself. Luna isn't forward enough to tip his decision either way and they just go around and around and around.
Still, she is very dear to him. He wants more than anything for her to be happy, but he's caught in the awkward no-win situation of "tell her and the Capitol wins" and "keep quiet and she's miserable." He does what little he can, like showing up to give her the music box or telling her about Diana. Behind closed doors, Sigma definitely shed a few tears worrying about her. When this is over, he'll do anything to make it up to her. Literally anything. Luna didn't do anything wrong and deserves to live a happy life. He'll be sad if that life doesn't involve him, but will understand why it needs to be that way.