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1st time I doodle my favorite plastic guy. \o/

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when the deviant hunter is kinda hot and his devotion to his mission is also kinda hot

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Headcanon time!

I really, really like Amanda and like to think that she somehow deviates at the end of the game (She and Connor get along great since they’re both sarcastic, clever, scheming bastards xD)

As Connor’s handler and an important AI to the whole company, she has access to information that compromises a lot of fat cats, both in Cyberlife and in the government, so she and Connor basically spend their time fucking Cyberlife & Co up and making the pro android bills pass quicker lol

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you know what I have 🤖

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i just think how incredible it is that this poorly developed piece of medium that's DBH inspired so many extremely talented people that created art pieces like comics, movies and literature that are huge and deep and nothing like quantic dream ever could. i see pieces from 2018 that are full long comics and videos and thousands of words of stories written about fucking detroit become human, guys, that's cRAZY

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i'm still kinda new to dbh, so it's still hitting me that rk1k really isn't like a super popular ship in the fandom????? like it's still pretty popular don't get me wrong, but i searched the relationship tag on ao3 and there's like 1700 rk1k fics. meanwhile, hankcon and reed900 are each sitting at 6700 fics. like that's 5k more fics. that is a SIGNIFICANT difference.

it's a bit tragic that i don't really ship either of those ship hahahahah. (no hate just not my particular cup of tea)

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Ok but what makes Connor my personal fave and so interesting to me is the knowledge that, damn, that missing sense of identity is so gonna come down crashing on him now that he is a deviant and can’t suppress the sense of dread that comes with not knowing who you really are and what you stand for.

Because what do you mean the first thing he does as a deviant is to assign himself a new mission, which is as over the top as it gets? I know he is very driven in general, but invading the Cyberlife Tower all by himself a few hours after becoming a person with a free will? Even as Markus himself (you know, the guy who started a revolution, broke into the news tower, etc.) tells him that his mission is a suicide! That screams „I need a goal so extreme that I forget that I haven’t found my place yet, and I also HAVE to prove my worth the only way I know.“

Whereas Markus was encouraged (to an extent) to be more independent, Connor was conditioned to be as dependant as possible. He sees himself solely through Amanda's eyes and measures his own worth by how happy she is with his actions for a big part of the game. I believe that his relationship with Hank is also based on this - he kinda replaces one person he strives to please with the next, because the new person is more accepting of his personal ethics and doesn’t threaten to kill him all the time (well, as long as Connor's ethics align with Hank's, that is, but they generally do in the deviant route). I'm not saying this because I blame Hank or want to question the sincerity of their relationship, I mostly blame it on Connor not knowing who he is and how not to define himself through other people's approval of his actions.

And then, he meets Markus who wants the very same thing Connor wants (in the deviant route, that is), and if Markus as much as chooses to trust him instead of executing him there and then, Connor basically puts everything at stake to show just how useful he is, instead of calming down for a moment and reflecting on who he is as a person. He knows he has fucked up, he feels guilty, and the only way he believes this can be fixed is by marching into the tower and awakening tens of thousands of androids at once. You see, Markus has accepted him and his apology already, but in Connor's books, apologising and being forgiven isn’t enough, because that is the point of being forgiven if he can’t deliver? He identifies himself through his actions, a forgiveness that is granted to him as a person because he has shown regret, and not as a result of something he has done for the other, is simply not enough.

Because who is Connor if you take away the acts of service from him? Who is he if he can’t impress someone, get someone's approval, if he doesn’t get told he did well? I don’t think he knows the answer just yet. He doesn’t see himself, the closest thing to an identity he has is seeing his actions reflected back to him by the people he wants to impress.

And you kinda know that the moment he doesn’t have a task, he’s gonna end up in a black hole because he’d be left feeling absolutely empty.

And I think that’s soooo interesting to think about and to explore…

The game ends, but Connor’s journey has just started.

Yeah.

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The thing is: “Markus’s story was not written with the same level of quality as Connor’s and that’s Cage and QD’s fault” and “Markus is actually a very nuanced and intriguing character, but this fandom as a whole doesn’t give him a chance” are two statements that, yes, can be true at the same time but also should be examined separately more often than not.

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And he always accomplishes his mission 🙂🐾

or should it be “Detroit Become Hooman” ?

This is woefully unfinished from what I envisioned. I’m trying to get back into making and sharing more art instead of just devouring and enjoying everyone else’s hard work 😅

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the most deviant-like thing I've ever heard.

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i thought of dbh but like ace attorney

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I'm pretty late to the party but I finally played D:BH and I just had to draw my little pookie 🥺

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Hi! I'm looking for people who are active in the Detroit: Become Human fandom to follow :)

In terms of what I'm looking for I really love anything about Connor, Markus and Hank. Connor x Markus is my OTP (so definitely like this post if you post about them so I can follow you!) and I love seeing (platonic) Hank and Connor content. I also love a lot of the less "popular" characters, especially Amanda but also the other android side characters like Cyberlife Tower Connor, Carlos Ortiz' HK400 android, Ralph, Daniel, Luther etc.

Bonus points if you're open to DMs and wouldn't mind someone chatting your ear off about the game/fandom (but not necessary at all!) Thanks for reading! <3

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Markus so clearly being a cat person while Connor is a dog person makes life worth living believe it or not.

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Prior to deviancy Connor is a dog on a long leash the way Markus is a bird in a beautiful cage.