[MASSIVE PLOT SPOILER DISCUSSION] - WAU

[caffeine4671]

Could Akers and Ross be two personalities of a schizoid WAU? Both were involved with programming it, and maybe the WAU took something from the personalities of both.

Akers worships the WAU. He stayed alone at Delta for almost a year, maybe he just got mad from the lonlieness, and started having hallucinations, then injected himself with structure gel, linking to the WAU. Maybe the idea of keeping the people in a comatose state linked to the WAU was his all along, after being merged with it himself and experiencing a higher state of counsiousness.

Ross was programming the WAU, it was also its psychologist. He died and the WAU revived him, also linking itself to him, but he somehow maintained individuality and was able to act independently. He dislikes the WAU's way of saving mankind and wants to put a stop to it.

What if the WAU, when merging with them, integrated them into its "counciousness", and thus the two personalities are conflicting with eachother? Maybe part of it wants to go on with its way of saving mankind, while the other considers it has failed and that it has become obsolete, and wants to put a stop to everything. Being an AI it cannot kill itself due to its inherent programming, so it is trying to convince Simon to destroy it.

If the WAU was so good, then it would vomit coffee into Golaski's mouth on-demand, wouldn't it? Instead it just torments him. :c