Edit: Ah. She’s supposd to be an android.

She's supposed to be burned so I don't have to see it , or so it picks a side in the uncanny valley on the side of "destroyed machine" instead of "this simulacra of a child is going to eat your soul through your eyes, DO NOT TRUST IT AND RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN OH GOD I'M GOING TO VOMIT"

to paraphrase a northernlion bit that's in my head constantly these days as I struggle with food

this is a cognito hazard [...] It never touches the executive function part of your brain whatsoever, it goes straight to the cerebellum and it freaks the fuck out and wants to flee.