Is this a plothole? Question about the Endless

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Why can't it be a little of both? You could surmise that the cleansed soul aether gives them physical form. It's what makes up their tangible body. The memory aether is what then gives them their physical appearance and, err, memories.

The very fact that Otis can exist in two different forms simultaneously is proof enough that the Living Memory is making a copy of the memory aether instead of just storing the original wholesale. If it didn't, then Endless!Otis wouldn't exist. If Endless!Otis exists, then Robotis wouldn't.

Yes. That's the problem. What you're describing requires the same aether to be in two places. It makes sense if Endless Otis is a digital copy of real Otis from an earlier time, I get that. It'd also make sense if the Endless are the memory aether of the dead held together by lifeforce. I get that.

But they can't be both. But the game TELLS us they are the former, but SHOWS us the latter as the process of their creation.

1. He's not a scholar. He's the guy who just goes and gets things for them.
2. Being intelligent doesn't prevent grief, nor its processes.

Gleaners are scholars too. He states that when he's attempting to get information from a Forum member as we're listening on as frogs. I can find the scene and take a picture for you if you don't believe me. Grief doesn't make you forget how your afterlife works. And he doesn't seem sad in that moment, he seems enthused. And again, half the evidence points to him possibly being right and the other half points to him being incorrect. I'm curious why people are so quick to discard the parts suggesting he's right given it was how we justified deleting thousands of people.

"Oh no, what Cahcuia said directly multiple times was incorrect, this was actually the only version of these people and they are now gone forever. Oh well."