Mystery of Firefly and Sam in Genshin Impact
The Iron Knights were commanded and controlled telepathically via a woman named Titania. The queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's story "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Interesting then that within a dream, Firefly becomes very attached to the Trailblazer - maybe in this instance, she is Titania and they are Oberon?
Conveniently, Sam is one of the last remaining Iron Knights and was presumably who was with Firefly before they separated. We see when Firefly is first targeted by the Death in the dream, she attempts to do something when grabbed but is visibly shaken when nothing occurs. It's my belief that Firefly is a replica of Titania, originally controlling Sam. But it is established that inanimate objects within the dream gain sentience, so I think Sam gained sentience at some point in the dream and chose to leave Firefly behind. In game lore states that Titania "held no power." Which is why Firefly is so scared when "mecha" abandons her - without Sam obeying her orders, she is effectively helpless.
When Sam engages in a fight, it does not seem particularly surprised by the Trailblazer being there - rather, it focuses more on the "Galaxy Ranger" and the "Memokeeper," and during the cutscene after the fight Sam targets the Trailblazer specifically but is knocked away by Acheron. It's my opinion that while Sam is now going rogue, it still shares the same goal of protecting the Trailblazer, hence it attempted to "kill" them in the dream to wake them up in reality.
When Firefly and Sam had a disagreement Sam probably locked her up in that room to ensure her safety but she somehow broke free which resulted in her death and Sam realizing what she did went on a rampage to find where did she go, it gives me the same vibe with Clara and Svarog where the human is more emotional and the robot is more logical.
