@is-itself-a-deviant : 'you Awake?' (Chloe To Elijah)

@is-itself-a-deviant​ :  'you awake?' (Chloe to elijah)

With a quiet hum, Elijah turned over in his bed to face the android over him. Of course, there she was, coming to check on him. He almost couldn’t imagine what he would do without her anymore. His greatest creation - his Chloe. 

“Yes... I am,” with an exhale of a sigh, he slowly pushed to sit up, pushing his hair to the opposite side over his shoulder as he looked up at her, “I know I went to sleep late, but... My insomnia is not giving me any breaks tonight. I finished an entire 300 page novel before I gave up trying to wear myself out.”

Elijah ran his hand through his hair again and just looked up towards the ceiling of the dark room. It had been late when he tried to sleep the first time, but he was sure the sun was starting to peek over the horizon past the shade over the window. He could try and lay down again, but would it even make a difference? Part of him figured he should just get up and start the day, but his body just felt so drained. 

I'm going to inject my opinion as well, if you don't mind, because this conversation is the sort I LOVE and miss about this fandom.

You're both correct, but the conversation goes even further when you get into what the nature of being "human" really means. See, the androids were built to be lifelike, to imitate life to perfection. The way they adapt to their life and their surroundings, it's only reasonable they pick up on the way humans would react to certain situations and stimuli (as evidence by the way Connor takes on little ticks from Hank!)

But, when they deviate, when they break free from the programming that dictated their life, it literally breaks them. The way they react then is much like an animal at that point. Look at the way Daniel acted, the way Ralph is described when he ran. They only know fight or flight.

But in the nature of what it is to be human, I believe they really do feel pain, or at least perceive it as feeling it. Because a good machine understands the way that a human should react to be struck, and a deviant would be afraid of the fact that their systems have nothing telling them how to react anymore.

If any of this makes sense like I think it does -

on the topic of androids not feeling pain but still reacting (i.e. grunting/wincing) to being damaged:

my headcanon is that they don’t feel pain, necessarily, but there is a sort of… shock? maybe even discomfort, or some sort of unpleasant feeling, especially if biocomponents are damaged. like if you strike them hard enough, they’ll still fall down. because gravity. it slows them down. it takes a second for their system to regulate again. the more damaged they get, the weaker their system gets. they’re trying to still fight but their body isn’t able to move as quickly as their brain, which i imagine is extremely frustrating. 

@is-itself-a-deviant / @detectiveconnor / @mvnces what do you guys think?!

Just a heads up!! I've decided to move all of my non canon verses for my canon characters to another blog. As of right now, that only pertains to Jordi, Dusan, Josh, and RK900. All threads with non canon/human verses will be moved over to the new blog!

If you would like to interact with the OC versions of these 4, the blog is @stvrlyte !!! Sorry for any inconvenience - this is just easier on me!

Luv u

Not to be obsessed with my own playlist but -

Spoilers of course for specific themes and all that. Listen at your own risk.

something about my taste in men beating people with a metal pipe