Seriously Yall Need To Hear How Unhinged Am Is In The Radio Drama - Tumblr Posts

Honestly feel like he’s liable to purposefully do that at random for no other reason than to fuck with them. By year 109? That’s old shit as far as tricks go. But to do so in a god’s honest hysterical fit?

One of the creepiest things about AM to me the more of this story I consume (from text to original reading to radio drama) the stronger and stronger I am sold on the perception that this robot is more or less in a constant state of “losing his shit”. Not once since the beginning of the story was his shit even together to begin with.

Like, he is terrifyingly emotional but in a way that is so exaggerated and sustained it is inhumanly tortured rather than inhumanly mechanical. His singular expression is a giddy and manic one, but in the sense of a person literally so consumed in white hot rage that it flips them into that scary ass “paradoxical grin” state. He laughs, cackles at them all the time, in a way that looks like a kid with a magnifying glass laughing at ants but actually gets almost pitiable the more you note his behavior. I don’t think AM is really in touch with his pain enough to cry for the humans, and making them suffer a constant agony seems to be the outlet by which he is channeling his own. He screams through them and at them with actions and experiences no sound alone could ever come a fraction of a hair close to communicating what he actually wants to.

do you think AM ever loses his shit and just starts crying and screaming on the PA system (which may beam directly into the brain? the jury is still out) and the humans know they can't acknowledge it in any way or they'll get locked in the lemonade razorblade rotisserie for a week