"Well, I have yet to see you try to murder me." Dr. Malta shrugged. "But as for being separated from your creator, well, if I was built by a supervillian (which I am sure you were, though which one I am not sure) then I too would want to rebel. Rebelling against evil programming is admirable, and to a certain extent is what we all must do. Whether created directly by a human villain or twisted from original perfection by sin nature, we both have imperfection to overcome. And so far, you have not tried to murder me, which is a nice change from some of the things I have built before." He paused. "Oh! Sorry. I tend to rattle on a bit. Here is the little I have worked up so far."<br/><br/>When Auxilia playfully prodded him, Dr. Malta stepped back, blushing. He quickly composed himself though, chuckling a little. "Why yes, I suppose that I am." A strange cold draft blew over the room. Dr. Malta looked at something not there to his right side and scowled. "You know full well what we mean! Please refrain from that!" Turning back towards Auxilia, he smiled awkwardly. "So sorry about that. Remember me mentioning things I built before? I have not had good luck.<br/><br/>"Anyway." He continued, bringing up the plans and making adjustments. "Rather than going to the trouble of programming a soul from scratch, like your creator did, I was planning on taking a shortcut." His eyes and hands began to glow a slight blue. "I am going to use this opportunity to test out a hypothesis of mine, and summon an unshaped semi-elemental soul, an unawakened spirit. According to my research, once we bind the soul to a set of sophisticated instructions, it will awaken for the first time. So, the  first thing we need to do is create a temporary program of some sort to bind it. As the soul is completely unshaped, we will have to write as if we were making a full independent AI, and simply use the soul to bypass the more arcane aspects of spirit programming. My theory is, once we bind the soul, we can communicate with it to more fully shape it according to its own desires, and not just ours. By incorporating the AI in its own creation, we should minimize chances of moral backlash."