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Now, this got me thinking... The Red Girls' words seem to imply Lab No.9 and 9S are one and the same, which seems to be a point of interest to them. If you have read YoRHa Boys' prologue or heard about Project YoRHa, you'd realize that most of the "feelings" Adam uncovers inside 9S also fit what No.9 felt before he massacred and destroyed the whole Labo. So what if those feelings inside 9S are not merely his own because of the trauma he has gone through in every execution, but also remnants of his No.9 persona? The interesting part about this is that 9S claims he could withstand any pain as long as he could be with 2B, so despite some resistance, his executions by 2B (by extension implied to be Lab No.2) were still part of Project YoRHa, a project No.9 tampered with and most likely set up that way as his own way to atone for what he did, even if their fate was still being cannon fodder regardless of his meddling. They were always meant to die. And now as 9S, he still carries that "karma" from his past as No.9 and those feelings are still there, hidden very deep inside. No.9 was said to be a special being, so I wonder if maybe there's way more to him than this.

The interesting thing about NieR:Automata is that... the more you play it, the more things you start noticing, and sometimes you struggle to believe the writing is this freaking good. For example: I'm replaying the part when 9S is captured and Adam uncovers his dirtiest secrets. The words he mentions: "You do not trust anything." "You want to destroy everything." "You have lost hope in everything." "You want to obtain everything." "You want to be loved by all." Those are supposedly emotions 9S hides inside, but he rejects them with everything he's got. At that point in the story, most of us (the first time) got a bit confused because why does this boy have such intense negative feelings?