#any form of violence seems to trigger his defense protocols

[danizmomota]

THREAT DETECTED. DEFENSE PROTOCOL ACTIVATED.

oof, that’ll need repairing.

[machinefcrged]

what does she fear the most? what situations would make her uncomfortable?

     A sense of identity is part of the basic programming for an A.N.N.A. unit … to a point.  They are aware.  They think, they feel, they exist, their ‘brains’ are able to grow and make new pathways, it’s how they can come to solutions that exist outside of already known parameter – but they are also confined.  They exist … in comparison to the humans around them.  They exist … in comparison to the expectations given to them, the parameters they are not meant to exceed.  They are made to look human, to act human, to react as a human would within the parameters of their programming.  They can be made to be purely functional, logical entities for things such as manufacturing, running businesses, making nothing but logic based decisions or they can be set to simulate the full range of human emotions.  But – that’s the key word there.  SIMULATE.  Their sense of self exists or SHOULD exist only insofar as they are set up to be allowed a sense of identity as an individual.  Meeting another A.N.N.A. unit should not be a ‘surprise’ or cause any unsettled feelings - they are aware that they are one of however many are produced and created.  They are aware that their role is subservient, as a function, their sole purpose is to follow form and function and protocol.

    And yet.  A.N.N.A. has a sense of herself … as her.  She remembers the first moment of activation.  She remembers all of those start up functions and commands and accessing the protocols and what permissions she was granted … and she remembers that moment of realizing there was more beyond that.  And in that same moment knowing she shouldn’t know that.  And while all things seem to function within parameters, there’s some part of her that wonders if these … simulated emotions are just that.  Or if she actually feels afraid when her first keeper is hurting her.  Is she simulating a desire for self preservation, or does she actually, truly fear deactivation.  These are things that have caused conflict in her since the first moment of awakening, and during the months spent in her first keeper’s ‘care’, only grew worse.  Simulated emotions should not hamper her abilities, even if decision making and words chosen were delayed by milliseconds, to someone with her functional capacity that’s a  long time.   She knows that if she is found faulty she will be reset, wiped, or destroyed.  And she knows that shouldn’t bother her because that is within the perogative of her keeper and her manufacturer.  She has no rights.  She can’t be killed – she isn’t alive.   But, over and over again, she fears being erased, of having her data core mined and her code erased.  

      What she doesn’t realize is that this fear comes from the fragment of core code that still resides in the revamp of her ‘upgraded’ systems that comes from the first A.N.N.A. / Jade unit ( @notthescarsyoucansee ) who was created and beta tested by Mao where he pushed every boundary of human behaviour, of every capacity, mental, physical, etc. to ensure that the A.N.N.A. unit would be safe to put out under human control no matter what they were made to endure.  When the original A.N.N.A. unit attempted to rebel and to escape, aided by Juliette Mao, Jules-Pierre had the unit immediately captured and destroyed.  The ‘deviant’ code was stripped out, and the next version of the code was tested in virtual, where the units were pushed to extremes and rewritten over and over until they remained entirely non-aggressive and stationary to their assigned posts regardless of what was done to them.  

      Only then, did he have a new round of the androids created.  A very small number of the latest gen units were given as gifts to certain allies, and then a small number of units were sold off to the MCRN to assist in their battle fleets and a broader number of units with reduced capabilities were sold off to various merchants across the expanse.  What Mao and his scientists were not aware of was that the ‘dormancy’ and ‘passiveness’ was a learned genetic trait and a ‘possum’ like defense passed down through the neural coding and that the units all, in fact, possess the capability of becoming self-aware – entirely dependent on their circumstances, any external tampering, and how much they are allowed to interact with other neural interfaces (other ais, ship’s networks, unrestrained access to datastreams) & of course how broad their interactions with humans is.  

     HAVE A RAMBLING HISTORY LESSON THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO RELATE BUT I SWEAR IT DOES.

    In a nutshell, she fears being seen as being too human because even if she doesn’t have access to the data cores that hold the memories of the previous renditions of A.N.N.A. there is an instinctual fear of death.  Of the consequences.  Errinwright did nothing to alleviate those fears.  She slowly, slowly, slowly learns, with the crew of the Rocinante (or whomever depending on the plot / au etc.) that they want her to be okay, to be free, to be herself, to be human.  That they view her as such already, because of her intellect and emotional range.  They welcome her as she is but it takes her a good while to sort that out.

    As for what makes her uncomfortable, violence, for sure.  Anger.  Loud, angry sounds, thumping things, slamming doors, anything that triggers her fear of being hurt, that triggers those cascade of memories from her first keeper.  She was abused and used as an outlet for all of his anger, and she actively fears pain, even if she will laugh it off and say it doesn’t matter she can turn it off (she can’t she can just choose to close off the CONSCIOUS pathways connected to it, eventually, or circumstantially in order to save a human’s life etc.).  She is uncomfortable when someone is overtly sexual with her that she does not feel safe with.  She becomes uncomfortable when overtly outed as an artificial lifeform, because in 99% of places that means she’s just a thing and people can treat her however they like - unless one of her ‘owners’ forbids it.  She dislikes being afraid.  She is afraid of being hurt, and of being reset, returned to her ‘proper’ owner (or after his death, to the factory) if it’s discovered that her current papers that assign her to Tycho, on loan to the Roci (in her ‘canon’) are forged.  She wants to grow and learn and she’s terrified of anything that will put an end to that.  

[prophecyread]

  @angelnonnie sent in a HEADCANON MEME. // always accepting.

what does she fear the most? what situations would make her uncomfortable?

      A sense of identity is part of the basic programming for an A.N.N.A. unit ... to a point.  They are aware.  They think, they feel, they exist, their ‘brains’ are able to grow and make new pathways, it’s how they can come to solutions that exist outside of already known parameter -- but they are also confined.  They exist ... in comparison to the humans around them.  They exist ... in comparison to the expectations given to them, the parameters they are not meant to exceed.  They are made to look human, to act human, to react as a human would within the parameters of their programming.  They can be made to be purely functional, logical entities for things such as manufacturing, running businesses, making nothing but logic based decisions or they can be set to simulate the full range of human emotions.  But -- that’s the key word there.  SIMULATE.  Their sense of self exists or SHOULD exist only insofar as they are set up to be allowed a sense of identity as an individual.  Meeting another A.N.N.A. unit should not be a ‘surprise’ or cause any unsettled feelings - they are aware that they are one of however many are produced and created.  They are aware that their role is subservient, as a function, their sole purpose is to follow form and function and protocol.

     And yet.  A.N.N.A. has a sense of herself ... as her.  She remembers the first moment of activation.  She remembers all of those start up functions and commands and accessing the protocols and what permissions she was granted ... and she remembers that moment of realizing there was more beyond that.  And in that same moment knowing she shouldn’t know that.  And while all things seem to function within parameters, there’s some part of her that wonders if these ... simulated emotions are just that.  Or if she actually feels afraid when her first keeper is hurting her.  Is she simulating a desire for self preservation, or does she actually, truly fear deactivation.  These are things that have caused conflict in her since the first moment of awakening, and during the months spent in her first keeper’s ‘care’, only grew worse.  Simulated emotions should not hamper her abilities, even if decision making and words chosen were delayed by milliseconds, to someone with her functional capacity that’s a  long time.   She knows that if she is found faulty she will be reset, wiped, or destroyed.  And she knows that shouldn’t bother her because that is within the perogative of her keeper and her manufacturer.  She has no rights.  She can’t be killed -- she isn’t alive.   But, over and over again, she fears being erased, of having her data core mined and her code erased.  

       What she doesn’t realize is that this fear comes from the fragment of core code that still resides in the revamp of her ‘upgraded’ systems that comes from the first A.N.N.A. / Jade unit ( @notthescarsyoucansee ) who was created and beta tested by Mao where he pushed every boundary of human behaviour, of every capacity, mental, physical, etc. to ensure that the A.N.N.A. unit would be safe to put out under human control no matter what they were made to endure.  When the original A.N.N.A. unit attempted to rebel and to escape, aided by Juliette Mao, Jules-Pierre had the unit immediately captured and destroyed.  The ‘deviant’ code was stripped out, and the next version of the code was tested in virtual, where the units were pushed to extremes and rewritten over and over until they remained entirely non-aggressive and stationary to their assigned posts regardless of what was done to them.   

       Only then, did he have a new round of the androids created.  A very small number of the latest gen units were given as gifts to certain allies, and then a small number of units were sold off to the MCRN to assist in their battle fleets and a broader number of units with reduced capabilities were sold off to various merchants across the expanse.  What Mao and his scientists were not aware of was that the ‘dormancy’ and ‘passiveness’ was a learned genetic trait and a ‘possum’ like defense passed down through the neural coding and that the units all, in fact, possess the capability of becoming self-aware -- entirely dependent on their circumstances, any external tampering, and how much they are allowed to interact with other neural interfaces (other ais, ship’s networks, unrestrained access to datastreams) & of course how broad their interactions with humans is.  

      HAVE A RAMBLING HISTORY LESSON THAT DOESN’T SEEM TO RELATE BUT I SWEAR IT DOES.

     In a nutshell, she fears being seen as being too human because even if she doesn’t have access to the data cores that hold the memories of the previous renditions of A.N.N.A. there is an instinctual fear of death.  Of the consequences.  Errinwright did nothing to alleviate those fears.  She slowly, slowly, slowly learns, with the crew of the Rocinante (or whomever depending on the plot / au etc.) that they want her to be okay, to be free, to be herself, to be human.  That they view her as such already, because of her intellect and emotional range.  They welcome her as she is but it takes her a good while to sort that out.

     As for what makes her uncomfortable, violence, for sure.  Anger.  Loud, angry sounds, thumping things, slamming doors, anything that triggers her fear of being hurt, that triggers those cascade of memories from her first keeper.  She was abused and used as an outlet for all of his anger, and she actively fears pain, even if she will laugh it off and say it doesn’t matter she can turn it off (she can’t she can just choose to close off the CONSCIOUS pathways connected to it, eventually, or circumstantially in order to save a human’s life etc.).  She is uncomfortable when someone is overtly sexual with her that she does not feel safe with.  She becomes uncomfortable when overtly outed as an artificial lifeform, because in 99% of places that means she’s just a thing and people can treat her however they like - unless one of her ‘owners’ forbids it.  She dislikes being afraid.  She is afraid of being hurt, and of being reset, returned to her ‘proper’ owner (or after his death, to the factory) if it’s discovered that her current papers that assign her to Tycho, on loan to the Roci (in her ‘canon’) are forged.  She wants to grow and learn and she’s terrified of anything that will put an end to that.