Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
That's apparently due to the "mammet core" we installed in her - however they're supposed to work.
Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
AFAIR, Maggie had a mammet core; mammets have soulkin quasi-souls.
Ah yeah, I did forget the "quasi-soul." That makes things potentially easier.

Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
As far as I can tell, though, self-awareness/self-determination and having a soul seems to be separate things in FFXIV.

Specifically, I'm thinking of Alpha. He was totally self-aware and could do plenty of things against and apart from his created purpose, but it was only at the end of the Omega raid series that the Echo works on Alpha, which Cid speculates is because Alpha has grown a soul just then.

We never did "hear" Maggie through the Echo, but that could be because her story is "done" for now. (And possibly because the lore team hadn't come up with that piece of lore about souls at the time.)
Alpha never really does anything outside his prime directive until after the defeat of Omega-M/F. He certainly went above and beyond the scope for which he was intended, but until then he just got us to fight Omega's test subjects and then Omega itself, which is the entire reason he was created. Going on a journey was the first independent thing he willed himself to do outside of his intended purpose.

Might be why we can't Echo-talk with mammets - they have some degree of intelligence, but no real will of their own. Except maybe Vivi.