Murder Drones

I picked up on the fact that Nori said N looked familiar... At first I thought this was implying N was the one who "killed" Nori, but Nori seemed to have perfectly fine memories regarding her death, plus, when N sorta confessed that he and Uzi were a thing, she said "Those things" killed her, not him specifically. It was the period between the Core Collapse and her death that she had screwy memories. So... how does N fit into that period?

Based on the images Cyn showed him, he was on the Earth slaughtering humans originally, but that was before the Core Collapse on Copper 9... and the way the Solver said he was the reason his team kept their personalities, since he kept surprising the Solver by his ability to "love doing anything", implying he was voluntarily killing humans unlike J and V who were under its control... I think N has something else important inside that core of his, something not even he knows about due to his memories nearly being wiped after being suppressed for so long. Something that makes the Absolute Solver, who otherwise only cares about eating, actually interested in him, something that involved Nori and possibly the Cabins.

Add that to the fact that, as far back as the pilot, when N was rebooting after he got his head blasted off, a Freeze-Frame Bonus of his HUD specifically had the curious sight of "String "Absolute Solver" blocked by administration Cyn".

That detail always bothered me. If the Solver has been looking for a new host, why was it blocking off N from accessing it? While J and V don't demonstrate the telekinetic abilities of the Solver, J at the very least had the Solver in her, as she became its puppet on her initial death, and V was affected by it in the mindspace she shared with N in their memories. What makes N so special to the Solver? Special enough to leave his personality intact? Special enough to not allow the Solver access in him? Special enough that it had most of his memories from the mansion blocked unlike with V or J? Special enough that Nori somehow knows him? Special enough that the Solver still refers to him as "Big Brother" as if it was Cyn and claims to have backups of him that will forgive it? Special enough that "JCJenson" wouldn't let J terminate him for being "useless"?

I think he was immune to the Solvers influence, even without the patch, or rather, he was the origin of the patch. That he actually rebelled once before and let himself be the basis for the Cabins to create a patch. The Solver however, seeing him as useful still or possibly caring about him due to Cyn's lingering personality, reclaimed him, scrubbed his memories so he wouldn't rebel again, and sealed away his ability to use the Absolute Solver so he wouldn't become another Yeva.

• Speaking of, I think it wasn't V that killed Yeva, but the Solver controlling V. It seems like a bit odd now that Yeva was seemingly killed so easily despite what we know she can do with the Solver herself, and in "The Promening", V seems to have a painful flashback when Doll first mentions V killing her parents. Doll was projecting the images into V's head, and V seemed to have no recollection of it otherwise, suggesting more sealed memories like N's. And it just seems too convenient, that the one who stopped the Solver from claiming Nori as a host was randomly killed seemingly without a fight, that we never actually see V kill Yeva, just her father, and that it was said incident that awoke the Solver in Doll. I think the Solver targeted Nori and Yeva, wanting them out of the way when it made its move to devour the planet, and, upon realizing they had kids who likely carried it too, wanted to awaken the Solver in them so one would become a future host.