Guilty
Guilty adjective - Suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing.
Usage example: she was burdened with a guilty conscience after stealing the newspaper from the newsstand
Penitent and guilty are semantically related. in ashamed topic. In some cases you can use "Penitent" instead an adjective "Guilty".
Penitent
Penitent adjective - Feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done.
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Penitent Tangent was captured, and we don't see much of him, but we clearly see that the years have turned Guilty Spark into a narcissistic nutcase.
Source: Time Abyss -
The Forerunner AI constructs may count as well; see 343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent.
Source: You Are Number 6 - The two monitors we see in the original trilogy, 343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent, were both built around the same time as the Halo rings themselves, which was over 100,000 years ago.
Source: Time Abyss
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