hmmm..
..was that something brendan made up on the fly, or was tiara the already-agreed-upon name for that component?

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was al giving poor helena The Grumpy Bear™ there treatment?
(what was going on, in that panel, anyway?)

But this could be evidence for a theory I’ve had for awhile; Al & Sulla are made from 2 different copies of Al’s mind.Brendan only found Al when he was mostly dead, and didn’t have time to make a perfect copy… but someone else had been there first. And saved the copy for 16 years before using it, for some reason.
It explains why Sulla doesn’t have Al’s memories, but yeah, there’s the problem of who would copy Al & why. I have two ideas: a jealous business rival who wanted to steal their ideas, but didn’t have the hardware to give the mind a body at the time; or a hospital nurse who thought it was medical equipment & accidentally made a copy. Either way it would be found by robots 16 years later, who quietly took some money from Brendan so they could put it to use. This is all just wild guessing, though.
tl;dr two copies, i still think Sulla had nothing to do with Al’s resurrection, bluh bluh huge rant
(even my tl;drs run long!)