Was Tama a real person at some point? (mild spoiler)

[Sardonicus]

I thought the game would answer this question as it kept giving me weird information that I thought were hints to something more with Tama, but it never happened.

There were several points in the game where you're small talking with Tama and she says things that sound strange for an ai to say. Things like talking about her grandparents if I remember correctly, and climbing on things when she was a kid, and hints towards her childhood. The thing though is these don't seem like normal memories for an ai to have. I never heard Aiba talk about family or her childhood.

It made me wonder if Pewter programmed a whole backstory into Tama or if she used to be human at some point, or maybe something I missed since I might not have seen everything in the game?

Any thoughts on why she sometimes talks about things that don't make sense for an ai?

[Llyes]

The answer most foreshadowed by the AI ball minigame is that all the AI balls are based on Abyss members.
That would make Aiba mostly likely to be based on boss, which is only supported by her affection toward Date and her chosen form.
Tama would mostly likely be based on Date, which is supported by the constant dirty jokes and the form Date would definitely choose if he were a woman.
Who Marco could be has no supporting evidence, since we probably never hear him talk, but it could be Mizuki since Bibi would get along well with such a personality.

That's all pure and utter unsupported conjecture, but hopefully any sequel will focus on what Abyss actually is and what its goals are, as it seems like Boss might have directly caused both of these games to happen. In the first it was Boss' idea to do the body swap with the mob boss with supposedly restricted tech, and in the second Boss seems to be directly abetting the Nirvana Initiative due to Bibi's extremely suspicious movements following the hamfisted timeline reveal, and Boss calling SAT on Date and Mizuki during the Gen and Amame ending which could otherwise have led to a prematurely solved case.

However Uchikoshi loves completely discarding most sequel hooks going into a new game, so who knows if a sequel will do anything satisfactory.

[Sardonicus]

Originally posted by Llyes:

The answer most foreshadowed by the AI ball minigame is that all the AI balls are based on Abyss members.
That would make Aiba mostly likely to be based on boss, which is only supported by her affection toward Date and her chosen form.
Tama would mostly likely be based on Date, which is supported by the constant dirty jokes and the form Date would definitely choose if he were a woman.
Who Marco could be has no supporting evidence, since we probably never hear him talk, but it could be Mizuki since Bibi would get along well with such a personality.

That's all pure and utter unsupported conjecture, but hopefully any sequel will focus on what Abyss actually is and what its goals are, as it seems like Boss might have directly caused both of these games to happen. In the first it was Boss' idea to do the body swap with the mob boss with supposedly restricted tech, and in the second Boss seems to be directly abetting the Nirvana Initiative due to Bibi's extremely suspicious movements following the hamfisted timeline reveal, and Boss calling SAT on Date and Mizuki during the Gen and Amame ending which could otherwise have led to a prematurely solved case.

However Uchikoshi loves completely discarding most sequel hooks going into a new game, so who knows if a sequel will do anything satisfactory.

It might be conjecture but it actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks for that perspective. I never even thought they might be based off of currently alive abyss members, though I do remember thinking how much Tama and Date would probably vibe if she was his ai-ball since they're both such perverts.

[HolyThursdayBot]

It's not that I don't think the posts already made aren't interesting, and maybe they are valid too, but I feel like even in the first game, Date and Aiba would make strange, off the cuff remarks and act kind of ironic/silly. I don't know if "roleplay" is the right word, but it seemed to happen with particular frequency during somniums, especially when first entering a dream, and when examining objects. So it might just be that Tama likes saying weird things. I don't really have much of a memory for exact lines to back up what I'm saying.