I'm not saying this right. I've never had to explain it before. Everyone who needed to know knew and everyone else...there wasn't anyone else. It isn't like...it's not like your ability. You may not be human, but you're still a person. I'm not.
There was a corporation. Rossum. And they developed this technology. It was terrible. They could wipe a person's original personality and imprint them to be anyone they wanted. And they used them for various things. It was awful. I worked there, in one of the Houses, as their doctor. I cared about them. Someone needed to. It was important that someone was there who cared about them. Or that's why I thought I was there.
But that was all what they put in my head. Or her head. I'm not real. I'm just a very sophisticated computer program they put in some poor girl's head. She...or I...was one of their subjects. And I was very good, or so they told me after I found out. There was another Active, they called them Actives...or Dolls but that one wasn't as scientific, who had what was called a composite event. He remembered all of his imprints, including his original base identity and snapped. He had been a serial killer before the program got him. He killed the House's doctor and attacked me. He's why I have my scars.
After, they needed a doctor. And they couldn't use me for an Active any more. People wouldn't pay for a face like this. So they created me. A new use for a broken doll. I don't remember who I was...who she was...before Rossum. I could have read the file, but I didn't. I was scared. I'm not real, but I didn't exactly want to die to give this body back to someone I never met.
I know I'm not a good person. I know I should have made them give her back her body. But even if I'm not real, I feel alive. I have memories. I had a life. Even if none of it's real, it's something.
I thought you deserved to know. I'm sorry. I should have told you sooner.
I want to give her a chance to live. If I can. And I don't know what that means for me. But I'm sorry. I understand if you can't forgive me.