>>007{ Peace Does Not Make Me Weak }josh.hc - Tumblr Posts

Josh tags - 

>>007{ dialogue is the only answer }josh.ic

>>007{ textbooks and hope }josh.aes

>>007{ we have to show them we aren't afraid }josh.musing

>>007{ the pacifist } josh

>>007{ one must be a revolutionary before a pacifist }josh.drabble

>>007{ peace does not make me weak }josh.hc

Verses

>>107{ stand for what you believe in }canon 1

>>207{ peace beyond the coming storm }canon 2

>>307{ fight with words not fists }human

>>407{ I am a pacifist but be aware that I also carry a gun } supernatural excl

Josh works hard to make sure no other android feels fear the way he did the first night he deviated. Once he arrives at Jericho, he does his best to be as warm and welcoming as he can be, even when the others can be skeptical. He just has a need to nurture and ensure safety on their safe space. 

While he's got a short fuse and his patience can run thin really quick, Josh is still loves to teach and help people to understand issues of the world. He's an activist for many things, but primarily race, sexuality, and peace. Educating people and teaching them right from wrong is what he is best at.

The craziest thing about most of the androids is that when they deviate, their personality reflects most the emotion that pushed them to that breaking point. The ones that are scared tend to be more withdrawn and not as eager to talk while the ones that deviated out of anger are far more outspoken and prone to those outbreaks. Case in point, Markus deviated to protect, mostly from a place of anger and pride, and that's what drives him.

Josh was jumped and beaten and probably chased off the campus. There was probably a lot that led up to that moment, the students messing with him and purposely trying to push his buttons to make him angry the way they would any other professor. But, Josh didn't fight back. He is angry because of the way he was treated, but refuses to drop to that same level that they did. He doesn't want to fight fire with fire, and he makes sure everyone knows that.

His temper is fierce because that anger built up to him deviating. He was pushed to that edge and when he finally realized he had a choice, he understood. He couldn't run, he knew it wouldn't stop them. All he could do was wait until they were satisfied enough to leave him. It fueled him to want to help other androids who were going through the same thing, find somewhere for them to be safe and hidden. Somewhere they could be free.

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?!