Life Is Artificial. (RWBY X Malereader.)

The initial goal of Project Soul was a noble one, to some degree.
Sanctioned by the Huntsman council when proposed by Ozpin himself, it lured the greatest scientific minds of the time.
with the sole intention to create living weapons the perfect killing machines against grimm, the Project was ongoing for 130 years. failure after failure drastically lowered scientist morale.
their life's work, failing time after time was soul crushing.
so, on the verge of giving up, one scientist devoted everything to one unit.
Unit S-7364 of the S.O.U.L program.
an ever evolving unit with a limitless power core, working in tandem with an actual human brain of a 18 year old victim of a recent Grimm attack of the nearby town.
and unknowing to all the scientists, that one little difference between the other S.O.U.L units was the key.
It's been 75 years since Project Soul's failure and disbandment.
But maybe they didn't fail after all.