“You are twenty-three. You are not a mother. You are a weaver. Before you lies a blank Replicant – eyes closed, skin marbling with initial vasculature. You do not feel joy. You feel the weight of a god who has forgotten how to pray.
Your fingers program a single forbidden emotion into its core: nostalgia for a place that doesn’t exist. As you seal its chest plate, you realize you have also sealed your own loneliness. You look into the mirror behind the tank. Your reflection mouths a different name. That name is not yours. blade runner 2049 female replicant creator memories
Because she was born with a compromised immune system, she was hidden away in a sterile bubble (a "glass house") to survive. To protect her, her father (Deckard) scrambled her memories to hide her identity. “You are twenty-three