Can we please, PLEASE talk about animatronic rights in TSBS?
Every animatronic in this show has some form of awareness. Even the ones who aren't possessed. Sun and Moon say that one day, they spontaneously gained intelligence. Every single character, even the staffbots who are way stupider, have SOME form of sentience. Even Spaniard, who was coded by Moon, is NOTHING more than coding, has some form of feelings and sentience. He can make his own decisions, talk for himself, think for himself, even if he can't move, Spaniard is a PERSON. The animatronics are PEOPLE.
But they don't have rights! This has been bugging me for so long, to do anything legal in the show they have to use fake identities. Buying a house? Gotta pretend to be human on the paperwork. Renting a studio? Put in a human name. They joke about it, but that's genuinely awful!
The animatronics aren't just coding anymore, they can have children, build bonds with each other, think, THEY'RE JUST WEIRD HUMANS AT THIS POINT!
This has been on the back of my mind for months now, but today's episode just reminded me of it. Moon says that since Dazzle is an animatronic now, being a helper in the daycare is one of her only options. CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW FUCKED UP THAT IS??? WHAT??? Like. Even if she wasn't possessed by a human soul, these robots have real aspirations, real GOALS, real FEELINGS. Dazzle will never grow up. She will never go to college. She will never work her first job. She'll never get married and have a family of her own one day.
And you could say that's because she's a ghost and can't age, which, sure. But it's even worse for the kids that can!
Think about FC, think about Francine. They will grow up with nothing, once they're too old for daycare they will have NOTHING, no hope of school, no hope of work, no hope of life outside unless they pretend to be human.
It's messing with my brain, HOW IS THIS A BACKGROUND DETAIL IN THE STORY???????
Sun and Moon mentioned that Dazzle still has her allergies and it might be because of her soul. I was wondering how did they find out? And if she had a reaction what did they do, or how bad was it? They can't use an EpiPen because she has no skin or veins. Maybe the medicine just needs to touch her soul somehow?
Anyway, this happened before Solar came back, and Jack reacted without thinking, he didn't know what he was doing, but it worked.
Dazzle character design was made by @ayyy-imma-ninja
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(Tumblr, i swear to fucking god, 25MB is not that much.)
anyway- i am slowly catching up with all the art i just suddenly am getting dumped with on. there's just so much happening---
and i wanna do so much like omg-