#as data is an android and nick is a synth

[captainpricespuppyboyfriend]

If I had a nickel for everytime an f/o of mine had yellow eyes and was a robot I would have two nickels

Which isn’t a lot but interesting it happened twice

Pro.shippers/com.shippers DNI please

[jadefyre]

Silly Game Time: Who are some of your favorite mechanical characters, be they robots, androids, cyborgs, or something else? And what do like about them?

well obviously Murderbot and ART to start us off, but I'm also a big fan of Data and the EMH from star trek TNG/VOY, and North #2 from the mini-series Pluto (which was extremely good btw), and since I was raised on the Star Wars original trilogy I have to say R2D2 but also I'm a fan of K-2SO. Then there's all the synth characters from FO4 like Nick Valentine and [redacted for spoilers] :3

I feel like I'm forgetting a bunch but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head!

[rjalker]

Android/Gynoid/Androgynoid/ect = robot designed to look like an organic person (usually a human, but this would also apply to robots created by other species)

Examples:

Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Murderbot from The Murderbot Diaries

Nick Valentine and synths from Fallout 4

Cylons from Battlestar Galactica (excluding the Raiders)

Terminators from The Terminator movies

C3PO from Star Wars

ect.

Cyborg = organic person augmented with computer/mechanical/cybernetic/magical parts. This includes but /is not limited to/ prosthetic limbs. (I am including magic here because scifi and fantasy are pretty much the same thing, okay? okay.)

Examples:

Cyborg from Teen Titans / I guess the DC universe in general idk,

whatshisface from Marvel with the super scifi robot arm

Tony Stark from Marvel

Anakin and Luke Skywalker from Star Wars

the Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation

the Grox from Spore (who are literally just a reference to the Borg)

John Crichton from Farscape assuming I'm remembering the one episode correctly.

uh apparently the Courier from Fallout: New Vegas if you pick it for some quest??

A bunch of random NPCs in The Clockwork City in The Elder Scrolls Online

The ancillaries(?) from The Imperial Radch series.

[cute-untagged-shit]

Omg, look, an original post from me on tumblr??? It's been a hot minute.

But I have androids on the brain these days, I now I wanna make a list of my favorite androids. And my "android" I mean any artifical human shapes life form, so don't @ me about the synths, ok??

This is not a tier list, I can't possibly choose, but I WILL do them alphabetically just because. Here we goooo!

Andrew Martin. Bicentennial Man. Look, full disclosure, I think this movie is... kinda bad. But it's charming, and it's Robin Williams, so how can you not love it? And I love Andrew specifically because he's a rare example of the Pinnochio thing of a robot becoming human, and actually delving into some of the more mundane challenges like farting and aging. Just. Charming.

Christopher Samuels. Alien: Isolation.

God, this robot man gives me all the feels. The notion that he's just been living his android life, working for WY and pushing papers, and then suddenly catching FEELS because one grease monkey never got closure for her mother's death?? God, my EMOTIONS.

And, dear lord, his last words. JUST SHOOT ME IN THE HEART, WHY DON'T YOU.

Connor. Detroit: Become Human.

Connor is a fan favorite, and I am not immune to his charms. He's personable, funny in a deadpan way, and absolutely fucking deadly. He's a killing machine and he knows it, and the choices you make in the game are actually much more likely to make him a brutal character. You have to make very specific choices to make him a morally good character, and that's just very interesting to me.

Danse. (Does he have a first name? Or last name? Honestly, Bethesda...) Fallout 4.

This one is unique, because for the most part Danse doesn't know he's a synth. And he HATES synths. Which leaves him in a really complicated situation when he finds out he IS one. And that just makes for very compelling stories. Alas, the game did NOT deliver on the potential, but I'm certainly tickled. Also, he says "Ad Victoriam!" after you have sex with him, and I find that fucking hilarious!

Data. Star Trek TNG.

Ahhh, my OG android love. I will love him always and forever, amen. I was introduced to him in the deepest throes of puberty, and instantly fell in love. His innocense and naïvete just really struck a cord with me, and watching him evolve was a deeply emotional journey for me.

Dorian. Almost Human.

Look, this show should have had 7 seasons and a movie, istg. It had SO MUCH POTENTIAL, and Dorian was such a wonderful character. Smarmy, witty, emotional (even though he's definitely not supposed to be) and just such a perfect counterpart to his human partner.

I WANT MORE OF HIM.

Nick Valentine. Fallout 4.

God, Bethesda, LET ME DATE HIM, PLEASE!

I have a very adult and carnal love for Nick, and I honestly don't care he's falling apart, I just know he'd treat me right. I KNOW IT. He's honest, hard working, kind, understanding and just a little sad. He's also a brutal flirt, and every time I hear him go "you got a thing for antiques, huh" I mentally give Todd Howard 28 stab wounds.

The T-X. Terminator3, Rise of the Machines.

I'm bisexual, and she's very, very hot. I wish I could say it's deeper than that, but it's not. I didn't even know I was bi when I saw this movie in cinema, but I remember enjoying it VERY much, even though it's objectively not a great movie. But just look at her.

That's it for now, but after going through the depths of the internet to remind myself of all the good androids, it's clear to me that I'll need to make another list of less humanoid looking robots. Coming soon, maybe!

[local-lovebug]

Why do I always love the androids/robots/synths? Data, seven of nine, nick valentine, x6-88...