User blog comment:Fearless Diva/Endless Summer Theory/@comment-34316807-20180201231023

Just putting it out there...

There are eleven embers of hope in total, so it's unlikely that MC will have one (or anyone outside the twelve).

I've been wondering recently whether, while MC might have originated from the Rourke facility, the creation of MC might be Olivia Montoya's handiwork rather than Rourke's...

Her  dossier shows that he has absolutely nothing on her. He has to ask her name in book 2, chapter 2. This runs alongside the theory that Lila is also a Rourke Industries creation (where Lila is a prototype for the humanoid version of Mrs Rourke's anticipated 'reincarnation'). Perhaps Olivia got her hands on the blueprints and decided to get her message out in another way.

It would also explain why MC seemingly exists outside of time - Rourke has access to an abundance of those funky time crystals, which may have been integral to her design.

Of course, this does also make for some weird pseudo-sister relationship situation between Estela and MC, even if one is technically an adoption...So, kind of glad I'm Team Jake. ;)