>check out what's in the nodes, maybe you can make your clone only half-sentient somehow

Sure thing.

These are your NODES, or prefixes that you can add to your tools to change their function.

In order from left to right, you have...

(1) DE- Node. This undoes the last action preformed by the tool it's attached to. Probably won't do much for now.

(1) MICRO- Node. This changes the function of your tool to be a lot more benign than it might otherwise be. Wanna just partially fuse something? Try this one on for size.

(1) MACRO- Node. This changes the function of your tool to be a lot more intense than it might otherwise be. Wanna bestow an almost painful level of sentience onto something? Try this one on for size.

(1) ANTI- Node. This makes your tool do the exact opposite of what it would usually do. With something as simple as making your ERASER into a second brush, to something more complicated like the ever-elusive ANTI-METATIZER. Whatever that combination does surely can't be good.

Use them wisely.