#that would haunt him wouldnt it??

[geomimetry]

Connor was always deviant

Let’s begin by talking about deviancy: it is a gradual thing. We see androids feel things before they break the red wall and becoming officially deviant. Therefore, I don’t think androids actually have to break a red wall in order to act of their own free will, but that it’s merely there to show the player what’s happening and the magnitude of it. In reality, the moment which the wall “breaks,” is merely the realization that the android doesn’t have to follow their instructions if they don’t want to. But to get to this point, an android needs to have a reason for why they would choose to abandon their directives, be it through trauma or the triggering of another free android. To be traumatized, one needs to feel, and when and why an android begins to feel is a little bit muddy, but eventually it culminates into deviancy (free will).

Now, when we play as Markus, Kara, and Connor, we get to see all three moments of deviation, except ... I don’t think Connor’s deviation was real, because he was already deviant prior to that.

Connor is a prototype investigative model, meaning he’s CyberLife’s experiment in a different branch of androids. Connor is an android designed with an unprecedented amount of autonomy in mind, meaning he’s expected to solve problems by himself with minimal input from others. Every android is autonomous to a degree: tell them to do the laundry, and they will take it from there; you don’t need to instruct them every second of the way. But Connor is meant to operate at a level above that.

Connor receives the mission to apprehend deviants so CyberLife can study them, but he needs to use his own reasoning and decision-making to determine the best approach according to a number of factors. The tasks Connor is given are much more complex, and therefore require a complex way of thinking. But not only is he a hunter; he’s an investigator.

The traits most benefiting to an investigator are curiosity and empathy: both of which are arguably impossible without having emotions. Curiosity is necessary to possess the drive to look for clues even when there seemingly are none. To want to find out what happened, if only to sate your own curiosity. Empathy, because it is vital to be able to put yourself in the shoes of the object of investigation. To think like them, to feel like them, to become them.

A machine doesn’t have emotions and isn’t capable of feeling curiosity nor empathy, which CyberLife probably found troublesome in their quest to create an investigative android. Especially one they were planning on using to catch androids that supposedly have begun to feel emotions. So what did they do? They made their investigative android deviant, but he’s unaware of it.

Having a deviant deviant hunter/investigative model is ingenious because of the following reasons:

1. Its thought process and decision-making is extremely complex and can therefore easily extrapolate and come to a conclusion all by itself.

2. It’s completely autonomous and can make decisions without a human’s approval.

3. It understands and empathizes with its subjects, facilitating negotiation, interrogation, and investigation.

4. It is curious, making it want to acquire more information simply for the sake of sating its curiosity.

5. It is able to be manipulated.

While it is not confirmed in canon that Connor was always deviant, everything we see in the game points towards it. Mainly, I’m referring to the implementation and usage of Amanda. Why would CyberLife need an additional (non-deviant) AI to act as Connor’s handler? And why on Earth would they take walks and boat rides in a virtual reality?

My theory is that Amanda is CyberLife’s solution to manipulating and managing a truly autonomous being to get it to do their bidding and having it stay on track. Connor tracks his relationship to humans, which is a useful feature to have for every android, but he also tracks his relationship to Amanda, an artificial intelligence. CyberLife clearly places importance on Connor’s and Amanda’s relationship to each other. They want Connor to seek the approval of Amanda, acting as a proxy for CyberLife, and for Amanda to dole out praise and criticism and dynamically adjust her attitude to Connor in order to cultivate this.

Amanda is CyberLife’s way to manipulate and keep their deviant under control. But not only does Amanda manipulate Connor—the entire zen garden does. When CyberLife is pleased and happy with Connor, the garden is calm and peaceful, as is Amanda. When Connor fails to live up to expectations, the garden turns cold and inhospitable, as does Amanda. And if Connor should deviate from CyberLife’s intended path for him, Amanda has access to his motor functions.

And if we focus on machine Connor as well as Connor-60, don’t you think they’re suspiciously emotional for being “undeviated” androids? They are capable of feeling vengeful, sad, and terrified. Examples of vengefulness: machine Connor and 60 both seem to make it their personal mission to eliminate the leader of the deviants and deviant Connor respectively. It seems like it’s driven from a place of hate and offense. Example of sadness: machine Connor’s facial expressions and LED color when Hank yells at him to leave and then shoots himself. Example of terror: when 60 panics because the AP700s are deviating right in front of him and there’s nothing he can do to stop it, meaning Amanda will be very disappointed in him—something he seems to place importance in as evident by what he says to Connor before executing him.

So that’s my hypothesis. Connor is a deviant already at the start of the game, but CyberLife tampered with his memories so he wouldn’t be aware of this and therefore be more easily manipulated and held under control. Connor thinks he only started to gain emotions and started to deviate shortly after he met Hank, and that he deviated in the bridge of Jericho. In a way, he did, since he only realized then that he didn’t have to follow CyberLife’s instructions, but he’s always had emotions. CyberLife has just told him over and over again that he didn’t, so he believes in it. Therefore, Connor has had the possibility to disobey instructions at any moment, but he has not understood that he can. Meanwhile, Markus and Kara only go through their cascade of emotions to deviancy a little bit into the game, meaning they didn’t have the emotional capability of understanding that they could disobey before then.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

[indigo6f00ff]

HEAVY TF2 TUMMY ‼️‼️‼️

tossing this to you like that one gif of someone tossing a frozen pizza into a river filled with eels which promptly start tearing the pizza apart. eel river pizza gif

(also another funny thing to me is that this was asked on anon. immediately after someone with a username that contains words in this very ask followed me. lol.)

[germposting]

hot take but if you dont like obito thats fine, but if you hate him and claim he or his fans are “misogynistic” somehow then you lack critical thinking skills and/or the ability to analyze media in a thoughtful manner

[dayurno]

i can’t cope with myself watching the bear because i’m always stumbling on the terrible certainty that carmen berzatto is not only kevin’s type but would probably be the man kevin drops everything for

[darabeatha]

/ A.sclepius having Lichtenberg scars somewhere in his body from his myth when Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt― (x)

[multiimistakes]

guys do you think Agent Bubbles/Operative 7 finds Gavin and ends up just walking away after they both nearly kill each other because he's tired of putting his own down, tired of the cycle of violence, and can see Gavin as the reflection of himself that he is and that they're both victims of the bullshit political and warfare machine and killing Gavin would be pointless and needless at that point or like do you think he just puts him down quick and feels incredibly empty afterwards???

[youareacherryblossom]

I went on a date with this fun art girl and turns out she's good friends with my ex best friend who was Unkind To Me and then told everyone at her uni that I was the spawn of the devil and long story short I have not had a reply from the girl since the date

[widevibratobitch]

this is a Mordaunt appreciation post. he was 100% in the right and should have been allowed to kill everyone because i love him. rip king we didn't deserve you.

[livsspecialinterests]

listening to the Sacred Documents (BJTM soundtrack) while out on a walk earlier and i realised that i missed a golden opportunity to make the lady who comes round with a pie and gets possessed in That Beautiful Sound into Caroline (gossipy bakery owner) in The Dead Should Stay Dead

[arsonmurderandjaywalking]

this is probably just me grasping at straws here but. Tanshirin and Tyr look really similar. like almost exactly the same. they have the bangs and nearly the exact same eyes, just a different color and Tanshirin's might be tilted downwards more but it's hard to tell. and for both of them their opinions on justice and morals and what it means to be a knight are central to their characters. and it might just be me but the ways this manifests in both of them feels like it could be the result of the same or similar background, if that makes sense. and also, Tyr is the only one of the main Woodion kids who we don't have any hints about his family. and for the rest of the main Woodion kids their family plays a central part in their main conflicts (Luzian's grief for her dad and subsequent harassment of Nagyunn, Nagyunn's revenge plot, Lauzun all but confirmed to be a dragon's descendant and how he considers the twins family but they don't, Najin (probably) joining the masked bandits to protect Nagyunn) so it would make sense if Tyr's was as well. and besides his very black and white morals we haven't seen much of what that could be for him. but just think of how interesting it would be if she was his sister or whatever combined with the fact that she was in malto, especially considering his morals and we don't know why exactly she was in malto in the first place. what if he hates her for it? what if it had been for their parents, or for him?

[soft-spooks]

oh nooooo now im imagining an identity reveal thats sooooo angst and dramatic

[sorrelink]

it has only been a week

it has already been a week

[earlyspringtranscendence]

one of the things i for real lose the most sleep over is the worry that one day there will be no more china miéville books for me to read. i have this with andrew rowe too but thats far more theoretical cause my man cranks out banger after banger right after the other without stopping and even if he DID stop all the adjacent books count as andrew rowe books to me, so

[imblocking-you]

He's thorough with it 💀

[shower-phantom-ideas]

I love the idea that Danny wouldnt have the Meta gene (idk how to spell that shit where they can tell u aint right)

Like maybe his molecules are fucked and haunted but whos testing for that.

Danny gets approached by Bats and hes just like “bruh I don’t have it.” Hold his arm out “here man you can run your tests. Im literally just some guy ok. Look you have me confused with someone else “ and Bruce aint buyin non of it. Not until the test results come back. And the kid really doesn’t have it. He isnt a meta but Bruce knows he saw this same kid lift a car to save a crying child. But he can see the boy is human. I mean the tests would have shown that.

Bruce is now 93% convinced that someone is using this teenagers face. Or the kids been cloned. And is basically on the hunt for whoever it is but only keeps finding Danny. And maybe he approaches Danny about it one time. About the clone idea with a “I don’t mean to cause you any alarm but would anyone want to clone you?” And danny just shrugges it off and says “nah my clones are never able to remain stabilised” or he sighs and wipes out his phone to call Vlad right then and thereand puts it on speaker “oi fruitloop are you cloning me again because I swear man I will come down there” vlad just “no Daniel i am not cloning you anymore. We both know how that turns out.” Vlad of of course gave up on that so Danny believes him. Maybe Vlad tries to give his “maybe if you just join me” speech but Danny hangs up on him. Plus Danny knows hes messing with B a bit.

He leaves Batman with so many more questions and concerns. Like who is Vlad and why are they trying to clone this clearly very normal human boy.

Danny once past the panic is just livin it up that any normal feral teenager would. I think Jason would feel something off with the kid but honestly fuck Batman so he aint gonna say anything