nobody has any idea how it works, but it's an extremely powerful device that potentially lets the body's owner interface with the world in a massive variety of different ways via direct energy manipulation
It's possible to attempt to force yourself to try to connect to a receptor later in life, but it usually doesn't work, and can cause serious code corruption if it goes wrong
random setting thought of the moment: the Common language in this setting probably has very little in the way of built-in gender indicators, because someone's gender is seldom apparent just from looking at them or talking to them
Also she's probably an experimental doomsday weapon with an abnormally high number of receptors in an abnormally tough body. There were many failures before her.
So like my endboss was indoctrinated with the idea that the world sucks and should be destroyed. She doesn't really begin questioning this until her defeat.
Honestly Paschal's inspiration was the bit in The Last Bastion when Bastion pulls the memories out of the dead robot and sees the height of the omnic crisis
hunterbot is probably named Laplace or something and is specifically designed to pick off like, roboanimals that might be threatening and keep population sizes small and is definitely not meant to see combat against murdermachines
laplace wants to hunt Bigger Things because they want to make an impact on the world beyond doing the same thing day after day so a quest sounds fuckin baller
Kajabot: "Yup that checks out"
but they'll do it anyway cos it sounds neat