Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-35089270-20180324014303/@comment-26018514-20180324043748

While I agree it is one of the likely scenarios, it could also be a Geppeto situation where he wanted a child.

Alternatively there are quite a few Sci-fi scenarios where an AI of human capacity is created that freaks out and kills itself or others because it's socialization/development fucked up its self image being anything but human, so her form could be to prevent that/allow aura generation.