Project Kata or Kalin Taylor?

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It was project Tau with shades of Kalin Taylor. There are some aspects of Taylor he just couldn't do away with but the final product for me was great.
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I think it's a mesh of both but much of kata and his relationship with others.
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I believe he was still Kalin. Due to the things that were done to him, he had to adapt to his environment. He learned how to use the modifications to gain his freedom. I think he wants to be human and would gladly undue the modifications. He was still Kalin, but he took advantage of Kata's skills to get free away from GenTech.
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I think Kalin Taylor escaped. Throughout the book, he never really stopped being Taylor. He retained his inward personality, tenacity, and sense of humor despite all the transformation he was made to pass through.
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leximutia wrote: 03 Apr 2020, 18:42 Kata denounced the name "Kalin Taylor" himself by the end of the book, essentially stating that from his experiences, he became this new, stronger individual. That said however, I think "Kata" and "Kalin Taylor" are one and the same. "Kata" is just the new name he ended up accepting as his own empowered identity. He is still "Kalin Taylor" in the end, just an older, more experienced version of himself.
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I think he never stopped being Kalin. Yes, he had modifications done to his body and underwent “training,” but he always had his memories and he was not a clone—he was the original. He has definitely changed a lot, but it’s like how people change after they have been through horrendous experiences. They are not the same—they can be more cynical, jaded, smarter, or even empathetic, but they still have their experiences and baggage from childhood that remain a part of them.
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This is a great question. I think Kalin Taylor is irreversibly changed by his experience. So it’s not Project Kata nor Kalin Taylor who escapes, but a completely different person, who has been shaped by his experiences.
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The name Kalin Taylor was lost. But genuinely I know the name Taylor was hiding deep down inside Kata because of the struggles. KALIN was young and didn't have a broad reasoning yet. The struggles strip him off the name, but to me, the name Kalin was hiding till everything is settled. This is as a result of the brilliance of the author.
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I believe he was more of Kalin than Kata since he still thinks in the capacity of a human. If that stopped and he started functioning like anything not similar to human then he would have been Kata.
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He can never really not be Kalin as the past self will always be there. He has gone through so much that it only makes sense that he cannot see himself as Kalin anymore. He has become Kata which is just the combination of his old self and this new self.
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I think he has aspects of both Kata and Kalin Taylor because of the trait of mercy he has at the end.
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Irrespective of the fact kalin changed his name to kata, I still believe there is kalin Taylor deep down. Ones personalities can be suppressed but never totally lost.
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Kata denounced the name "Kalin Taylor" himself by the end of the book, stating that from his experiences and the modifications done to him, he was no longer the same individual. That said however, I think "Kata" and "Kalin Taylor" are one and the same. "Kata" is just the new name he ended up accepting as his own empowered identity.
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I think that Kalin Taylor was always there, but Project Kata took over. Kalin was suppressed, and Kata replaced it, but Kalin was never truly gone.
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Towards the end, Kalin believes his innocence is lost and he truly has turned into a monster who isn't afraid to kill. He chose not to go back to his family because he knows he can't be a Taylor anymore but confides in Tau for any form of emotional connection. Kalin might be buried inside Kata, but the burial is very deep.
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