#Machine Connor

[sorryiliketoscreenshot]

「 The Deviant Hunter 」

[connorology]

i know the discussion about machine connor actually being a deviant has been had a million times before but something that makes me feel crazy about machine connor and deviant connor is that they’re both equally driven by a desire to live.

in both routes connor has a fear of failure and subsequently deactivation. the only difference is that deviant connor realizes that cyberlife will never give him the chance to truly live so he must take it into his own hands to deviate, to choose himself.

machine connor on the other hand equally has this same desire, but instead of deviating and to cope with his fear, he decides to complete his tasks for cyberlife because to him, there’s safety in familiarity. in cyberlife. he’s just grasping at straws doing their bidding simply to guarantee his life which makes it so much more devastating that he ends up getting replaced despite doing everything right. all of that for nothing at all. all of that just to meet the very fate he feared the most.

the core of his character and his inner conflicts pertaining to identity and fear and repression remain exactly the same. its just a question of: to do what’s expected of you to guarantee your safety or to take your life into your own hands and be who you truly are? (dare i say connor’s character is a queer allegory but that’s a whole other post)

[chaos-theoryyy]

Oi hear me out on this okay, focus with me for a second

I haven't seen this dbh trope anywhere it came to me in a prophetic vision

[jztcas]

Just did my first ever machine Connor playthrough. DO NOT HI T ME UP. DO NOT CALL MY PHONE. 🥀

[silna-pdf]

Machine

[brooke-beaches]

Connor-53

[connorgavinarmy]

HUMANS canonically able to defeat the ✨state-of-the-art detective android prototype✨ in a 1on1 FIGHT if the player misses the QTEs, but shhhhh.

Detective Gavin Reed, DPD Homicide

Lieutenant Hank Anderson, DPD Homicide / Android Investigations

Captain Allen, DPD SWAT Unit 32

This US ARMY guy

Not the Connor canon I embrace (I prefer the 'ruthless fighter who can drop any human despite being polite and kind on the daily except when challenged by Gavin Reed'), but dang the possibility of Connor being defeated 1on1 by these guys says a lot about their combat skills.

📷 (c) ClancySCPS, b8y with no life, CINEMATIC GAMING

[thatone-artsykid]

"You're a machine, Connor... Just a machine."

[d0gwithabr0kenleg]

the machine is inherently divine...

[bunilly]

You can't kill me, I'm not alive.

[queelsolsalga]

Things machine Connor cares about:

Nothing he is a robot

Markus

[sorryiliketoscreenshot]

[ctonov]

"Having existential doubts, Connor?"

Literally need to edit someone other than these two. Maybe Kara next.

Experimenting more with effects, I think they look pretty cool even if they're a little cheesy lmao

[chaos-theoryyy]

Had a talk with my friend and expanded on the Deviant Nines since his awakening / Machine Connor who refuses to deviate idea

Under the cut for my thoughts about this AU thingy or whatever it is?

So as I said I like the idea of Nines being so advanced that he deviated the moment he was activated, which can only happen (Nines being activated I mean) in a successful Machine Connor Route. I do believe that he'd use his status as the most advanced android to go against his original purpose, without CyberLife's knowledge.

I personally also believe that Connor's loyalty in that specific Route is, while related to Cyberlife and ultimately Amanda, his unwavering loyalty is to his function, his role as THE Deviant Hunter and terminator of "defective machines", seeing everything he did to squash the revolution in that route. I do also believe though that he's a deviant in denial, and would probably resent Amanda, CyberLife and RK900 for replacing him after his success as he is perfectly functional.

He would resent Nines, who's supposed to be a "better" version of him for turning up Deviant, even though Nines saved his life (in this AU), and would go "rogue" trying to fulfill his function with or without CyberLife's approval, because they're just foolish humans trying to get rid of the ONLY loyal machine that is perfectly capable of doing its function. His mission is too important to let anyone interfere, and if CyberLife and his successor are obstacles, well, he'll need to take them out too. (He likes to believe that's the only reason, not the personal resentment he holds, he tells himself that he's a machine, and machines can't feel. Denial is a river in Egypt)

Idk honestly if this makes sense but it's kind of a fun idea to imagine, most fanfics/ fanon dynamics of this Successful Machine Route are of a machine RK900 hunting down a guilty, sad, deviated Connor, but what if it was the opposite? What if the antagonist just kept being Connor? You saw how ruthless he was wiping out a revolution, I don't think he would switch up THAT easily after everything he's done, let him be a bastard for once I'm begging

[gaydr0id]

this song coming out during my dbh hyperfixation era permanently changed my brain chemistry i think

[silna-pdf]

In my eyes - Indisposed

In disguises no one knows - Hides the face

Lies the snake - And the sun in my disgrace