I don’t see myself working on this idea any further - at least in this incarnation. I did a rudimentary value pass for fun though.
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Love the work! Confused about the Homunculus title though.
But maybe could do something along the lines of this part explaining the etymology of the word: The term lends its name to the cortical homunculus, an image of a person with the size of the body parts distorted to represent how much area of the cerebral cortex of the brain is devoted to it.
Idk just spitballing
"Homunculus" is an artificially created person.
I'm not seeing that definition in the few places I looked, but perhaps it does. I did find this:
homunculus /hō-mŭng′kyə-ləs, hə-/
noun A diminutive human. A miniature, fully formed individual believed by adherents of the early biological theory of preformation to be present in the sperm cell. A tiny human being that may be produced (according to a fancy of Paracelsus) artificially, without a natural mother. A little man; a dwarf. A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Similar: dwarfmanikin A little man. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain. A tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell. A person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition •
In pop culture and modern fiction it's used to mean an artificial human -- e.g. see the examples in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus#In_popular_culture like Fullmetal Alchemist for an idea of what OP was going for. (In this case, more Frankenstein's monster though.)
There is also the "little man who makes things work" idea like a golem -- which is related, but not the sense used here.
Roger that. Already learned something new today. Thanks.