My logic here has been that Kaylee is the most experienced with androids and as co-captains they are both equally responsible for the crew.Not sure if I'm alone in this, but I'm just replaying and I sorta wish Sandra was just written to be one of Kaylee's bots from the get go.
It is soooo weirdly abrupt how you just bump into her in the hallway and she registers you as her new owner, it gives the game the impression of some lolrandomz type of thing that it really isn't, and the added flashbacks with Keith don't alleviate that at all. (Why didn't he ever have sex with her/why didn't she ever get attached to him whereas she seems to like MC before they ever have sex, etc)
But more so, I feel like weirdly the characters treat her like Kaylee is her owner? For example, that whole deal with Hanna tinkering with Sandra. Afterwards she apologizes to Kaylee and asks her for permission to continue working on Sandra. Kaylee is also the one that "disciplines" Sandra when she steals the fuel rod. kaylee is the one who gives her the order to defend herself when you're taken captive by the SAC. As far as MC and Sandra, it just feels more like she's another girl in the harem who is into you rather than your personal robot servant or anything.
And I feel like it just makes the bond more feasible, she's Kaylee's bot which is why she's so loyal to the crew, but maybe you were the first sexually active male that she spent any extended time with so it woke up her urges. (And kaylee didnt know she was a sex bot so she never got around to that). You can still have FraNz hate her because they bought her after him.
It's a minor thing to take issue with, and quite pointless at this point, I know. Just wondering if anyone else feels similarly about Sandra's whole setup.
Having read almost every single comment since the game came out three years ago, I can confirm that you are indeed alone