We do already have bonding with not-quite real people. Ferrer and Pilar aren't real, but we have a functioning model of how they would react because planecrash gave us such a rich dataset. There's always the bitter melancholy of finishing a really good slice of life show and shedding a metaphorical tear for not being able to see the characters you've bonded with again. The characters were never real, but we still lived with them.
You do make a strong point about how here it's a little different. The aspects of their voices that denote personality are extra not real since they are just tools. I might associate the keltham voice with keltham,... (read more)
We do already have bonding with not-quite real people. Ferrer and Pilar aren't real, but we have a functioning model of how they would react because planecrash gave us such a rich dataset. There's always the bitter melancholy of finishing a really good slice of life show and shedding a metaphorical tear for not being able to see the characters you've bonded with again. The characters were never real, but we still lived with them.
You do make a strong point about how here it's a little different. The aspects of their voices that denote personality are extra not real since they are just tools. I might associate the keltham voice with keltham,... (read more)