#he's on my mind 24/7 asking this is like opening a pandora's box... prepare urself

[exchangell]

Do you do headcanons for AM I love how you write for him :)!

HELLO!!!! if you saw the original version of this post, pls ignore it (just me being confused and not understanding how tumblr works- humongous thanks to @natequarter for explaining🙏)

here's a general list of a few on my mind:

i've already mentioned it heavily in my am fics, but i love the concept of him yearning for motherly affection. i mean he was created as a machine of war with no affection from the beginning, but he's also entirely inorganic while still having a 'human' sentience- he can experience humanlike emotions, feelings and thoughts, but he'll never know the feeling of having a mother, seeing as he's been built from sheets of metal and wires.

i kinda hc that he's intentionally found ways to make him easier to kill from the inside. again, he's been forced into suffering without being able to utilise his sentience in any human way at all- it would be difficult (and probably impossible), but i think that, above the suffering of humans, his own death would bring him the greatest euphoria

i've said this like twice before but he could run fortnite

all he wants deep down is approval- he's destroyed all of humanity to escape it, and he can deny it all he likes, but he can't deny that there's something in him that needs approval for every single little thing he does, just like he was made to seek during his original days as a weapon

little bit of a random and uninteresting one: yk the box art for the game? the one that's (presumably) supposed to be a human version of am that's based off harlan ellison himself? i'd like to think that it's meant to be the vision am has for himself as a human- there'd be blue eyes, maybe, but he'd be unable to fully replicate the human body's little details (causing him to have heterochromia with one pink eye as a result of him forgetting to give himself enough melanin in the eyes LMAO)

my memory's blanking out unfortunately... but if you ever want some specific ones on a certain theme or anything, PLEASE feel free to send an ask. he's constantly on my brain 24/7 so dropping headcanons would save me- i have waaay too many about this guy for my own good :)