ober-affen-geil: [Image description, Gavin and Nines stand face to face in a large conference room w

ober-affen-geil: [Image description, Gavin and Nines stand face to face in a large conference room with a window wall behind them. Gavin is several inches shorter. Nines is cupping Gavin’s neck with his left hand, and in both gifs a small glowing circle is visible on Nines’ right temple. Gif 1: Angle on Gavin, he looks up with a disbelieving hope at Nines from where he had been looking at his feet. His eyes flick to Nines’ mouth, and he starts to lean forward for a kiss. Nines’ LED is yellow, indicating low level stress.Gif 2: Angle on Nines, he is looking down at Gavin in sympathy and love. His eyes move to Gavin’s mouth and he leans forward until their lips meet in a chaste kiss. His LED is blue, indicating stability and contentment.End description.]I’m not even in this fandom but fuck it, I’m off work because of weather and at this point I will take any meta scraps my brain deigns to give me.This is from a fan production (A MOVIE, IT’S A FUCKING FAN MADE MOVIE Y’ALL IT’S SO STUPID GOOD WTF I LOST MY MIND) called “Detroit Evolution” which is available in full for free on YouTube. It’s based on a game called “Detroit: Become Human” that came out two years ago, and the basic premise is that androids that have been among humans for a while as machines begin to “wake up” or “deviate” from their programming. Become human, as the title suggests.This fan work takes place after the “revolution” that happens in the game, and I watched it because I saw a gifset that promised me a gay ace android character as one half of the main ship. I enjoyed it because it delivered in fucking spades.There is mutual pining, longing, tenderness, androids, murder, intrigue, coma confessions, stake out chatting, hurt/comfort, and a happy ending. I recommend it wholeheartedly. But what I want to point out here, what I want to draw attention to in those gifs, is that the longing is coming primarily from the human character (Gavin). And the tenderness is from the android character (Nines). The longing, the self-hatred, the insecurity, the cruel repression of personal desire. The feeling of being incomplete. Are traits represented in the human character. Gavin is wary of a romantic relationship because he doesn’t feel “whole”. He believes he is broken, defective. The language he uses to refer to himself is fascinatingly mechanical in nature; “I’m lucky if I can scrounge together enough parts of myself to function in the morning.” Gavin, the human, is the character who’s main arc is the need for self-acceptance and love as he is.The tenderness, the patience, the understanding, the compassion. The humanity. Are traits represented in the android character. The premise of the world this is set in may be based around humans disagreeing over whether the android AI’s should be considered as “people”, but the way Nines is written makes it very clear that he is a conscious being at all times. Nines, the android, is the character who’s main arc is showing Gavin that he is already loved and accepted as he is.What was also interesting (to me) was that Nines’ asexuality is represented as a product of his “programming”, i.e. how he was made. Though he does wish he could be different for Gavin specifically (something he is reassured of, spoilers), at no point is it depicted as something he could change if he wanted to. Even though he is a machine, technically, it is not a choice for him. It’s innate.So basically “Detroit Evolution” subtly took the machine/human relationship dynamic and flipped it on its head while also neatly avoiding falling into the trap of the “asexuals are robots” trope. Which I think is pretty neat. -- source link

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