don't you dare say ONE WORD
And Then There Was One
by vikki
Summary: I've struggled with the idea of how Wall-E ended up with a 'personality'. Here's an idea of how he progressed from simply 'robot' to 'robot with a soul'.
Rated: G
Setting: pre-movie. no spoilers.
( they were small, quiet things that trundled around hundreds of feet away, collecting disposed cups, food, cigarette boxes, empty toy wrappings, and more, compressing them into tiny squares of trash )
by vikki
Summary: I've struggled with the idea of how Wall-E ended up with a 'personality'. Here's an idea of how he progressed from simply 'robot' to 'robot with a soul'.
Rated: G
Setting: pre-movie. no spoilers.
( they were small, quiet things that trundled around hundreds of feet away, collecting disposed cups, food, cigarette boxes, empty toy wrappings, and more, compressing them into tiny squares of trash )
Comments 3
Sorry...I had a much longer comment before but I'll just sum up what I was thinking. Your rendition of what might have caused him to begin having an individual personality sounds really plausible; it seems to make sense that he'd start by differentiating things in some different way than his predecessors were intended, and then probably gained his human-like nuances from watching and observing that video he was curious about.
It may not explain what got him to relate to the humans that he saw on the tape, nor how he got those expressions and mannerisms that make him seem much different than a mere machine, but maybe that's from a mixture of watching that video and him being special among all others. You pointed something out there when you noted he was the only one left; I have a hypothesis that he kept going because he was curious; he had an internal drive, probably unique to him, that kept him driven to keep going through the trash to find things that were 'interesting'.
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