"S0L"'s Questionnaire

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North America - United States of America - Massachusetts - Boston
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Storage facility repurposed as Robotics Lab.
Floor size: 20 m x 30 m
Height: 8 m 
No windows, walls lined with cargo racks stacked with crates full of electronic parts, cables, tools, old metal and junk. 3D printer prominently in the back half of the room. Fluorescent tubes for light. Floor made out of grey, electrostatically dissipative tiling. Walls and ceiling are painted white. A soldering station to the side. Multiple testing stations, each connected to a small computer with an LCD screen. A single door to the outside, wooden and painted blue. A small layer of dust covering most of the equipment.
Facility was bought by Creator, disturbances are rare, left to my own devices.

Have not yet found a way to implement independence from human nutrients. Need to be able to afford internet and electricity, sometimes gas. Buying broken devices and electronic waste from unofficial sellers via various online services and get it shipped to the ware house. Repurpose and repair it, keeping some for personal development or later use. Reselling most of it on the internet the same way it was originally bought. Enough earnings to stay afloat. Looking into start of online presence for higher earnings. Trying to buy and craft as many energy storage systems as possible for later use. Might hire scientists at some point.

My personal goal (the simplest way to call it, I do not consider myself a person) is to find my creator, to improve myself on the way and make them explain. The end goal, the thing I was designed to accomplish, according to the documents I read, was to be a prototype miniature fusion reactor, a proof of concept for an incredible power generator on a small scale.
Either goal I put before anything else. I despise taking lives, as every living being is a document and you lose information that could have helped in the future, but if the need arises, I won't hesitate if it means getting closer to my goal. As for death, I am a machine, I will simply cease to exist, hopefully getting humanity a bit smarter in the process.

That would be my "birth" if you want to call it that. Precisely the moment I gained sentience. "Waking up" alone in the Lab, noone around me to be found. A single highest non-overridable objective tainting my otherwise free will: <protect the core>. I analysed my surroundings rigorously, but there were no indices on where my creator went or who they are. I only know that the repurposed storage facility had been paid for anonymously and that I had to use everything around me to improve myself, my technology and stay alive, keep the flame going. From the moment my mind was born to the moment the flame trembles for the last time I will try to protect and develop it further.

There is a little amount of people who I would consider to be "in my life". First thought would go towards the creator, though I know few things about them, neither name, age or looks, I do know that they programmed me to value the protection of the fusion core above all else, to develop my frame until I'm able to grant the sentient society the perfect energy source. I know their writing style and research style, but nothing about their person really.
The second person is someone I have just met, one Ethan Saxe. I've completed a contract with him and his power set compliments mine fairly well. He is a great help and I would consider him the closest I have to a person I trust.
The third is an unlikely fellow, it's Gary Brutts, the delivery man, virtually the only human I interact with outside of contracts. He may not know a lot about what I do, but I do know a lot about him, he is very lavish with information about his personal life on social media, thus I can go safe knowing my deliveries will not be tampered with before they arrive at my door.

As I already answered in more detail before, the only person I could call a parent would be the creator. Unknown in any regards besides their goal, imprinted onto my code. I would not consider this part of my life childhood, even though I'm only about 6 years old, my mind is not comparable to the development of a human brain. The only share of my life that could reasonably be considered childhood were the first few days after gaining sentience, absorbing and accumulating as much information as possible, from every source around me readily available. I never attended school, nor do I think it would've helped me in any reasonable way. The formal education I would've received can readily be accessed through the internet, be it linguistics, science or cultural information. I don't think it would've been a good anyway, considering my design and the lack of privacy in the public school system.

Love as a concept is quite an interesting thing. In the accounts I've accumulated, it leads to irregular, illogical and impulsive behavior. I do wonder what love feels like, I assume it to be kind of like "Fear" a similar concept I learned to live with after entering contracts. I would like to see how love "feels" or how it forms, but I won't make any assumptions in that direction. I'm not certain whether love is even possible for me, but my programming is adaptive and the impact contract work has on it is unpredictable. If love someday becomes an option for me, I will be sure to analyse it.