Molton is, to put it lightly, a well endowed Hyloglent, a kind of mass produced robot that are adjusted for customer specifications for the job required. In his case, he once operated accounting and clerical duties in the Bremmerventurian Red Light District, explaining his design.

Later in life, he was purchased by Mirande once his make became slightly obsolete and his duties of helping her around her house and being a sleeper delivery robot for the final piece of her plan gives him the chance to journey to a new world, something yearned for most of his life as opposed to being constrained to a few streets and buildings in the city.

It's only when progressing further and further towards the final steps of the plan does this poor robot realise that his role in the project extends to his physical nature too. For the worst.