[REVERIE] APP

CW: mentions of violence, abuse, murder, prostitution and suicide

PLAYER
» HANDLE: Lain
» CONTACT: squissie
» AGE: 18+
» CHARACTER(S) IN-GAME: None

CHARACTER
» NAME: Connor
» CANON: Detroit: Become Human
» CANON POINT: Nov. 9th, 2038 - After the meeting with Kamski
» AGE: His current body... maybe a few months? He's an android. His mental age is probably between 25-40 years old.

» SETTING: Wiki

» SHORT DESCRIPTION: adaptable, driven, calculating, polite, observant, self-sacrificing

» INFLUENTIAL EVENTS:
First Deviant Investigation and Interrogation
Connor is a prototype created to help the Detroit Police Department. He is sent to the department from CyberLife specifically to help an investigation regarding deviants, androids who think or act in ways that deviate from their programming, especially in violent or destructive ways. The first case involving a deviant reveals some very strange clues. The deviant had not only murdered his abusive owner, which completely deviates from allowable behaviour, as androids aren't allowed to endanger humans under any circumstances, but also built a strange shrine to something called rA9 and wrote messages of self-awareness and defiance. During his interrogation of the deviant, he hears more about the raw emotions the deviant felt - things like fear and anger, feelings that Connor still believes are nothing but imitations and not true emotions. This is also the first instance that Connor speaks up about the handling of the deviant in custody, stating that the deviant will self-destruct if it feels too threatened. Doing so is in direct conflict with what one of the police officers wants to do, however Hank sides with Connor.

The entire incident is Connor's second time being confronted with the 'imitation' of very strong emotions, the deviant's motivations being self-preservation, fear and self-defence. Unlike his first experience with a deviant, where a family had been attacked simply for looking at replacing their android, the deviant's actions against a very abusive owner, in this case, would have been arguably justifiable if he were human. Connor also receives approval and positive reinforcement from his new partner, Hank, for acting in a way that could be seen as sympathetic, although at this point the reason he intervened was to preserve evidence - the deviant itself. Connor's actions at this point are still based solely on his programming, but this exposure is significant.

'Saving' Hank from Falling
The scene is simple, a long foot chase through the city and over building tops where Connor is chasing down a deviant they want to apprehend and question. Hank attempts to cut off the deviant on a rooftop, but instead of slowing the deviant down, the android just barrels into Hank and pushes him over the side of the building where he manages to catch himself on the ledge. Connor is faced with a split second decision - stop and help Hank, thus losing the deviant, or hope that his calculations that Hank should be fine on his own are correct and continue chasing down the deviant. His partner or the mission? Connor actually looks visibly twitchy for a half second as he tries to decide and then ultimately stops to help Hank back up onto the roof. Hank reassures him that they have the deviants face, name and serial number and that Connor shouldn't worry about it.

This brief moment seems inconsequential on the surface - one quickly made decision that would be seen as almost nothing if Connor were a human. But Connor isn't human. His programming, though he does have a social function, is very simple - he has been programmed to find and apprehend deviants at all costs. That is his primary function, that's his mission, and if he can't do that, why should he even exist? This is the very first time Connor is faced with having to choose between the mission and an individual he knows well. Connor is obviously left feeling conflicted and confused about his decision. His programming puts the mission above all else... so why had he even hesitated and more importantly, after hesitating, why had he decided to help Hank? It is a worrying development that he can't fully understand or, rather, doesn't want to overly analyze in favor of finding excuses as to why his decision somehow made sense within his program's parameters.

The Eden Club + His and Hank's talk afterwards
The investigation of deviants continues with a homicide in a sex club where androids can be rented by the half hour. After some sleuthing, Hank and Connor find the two deviant androids who were responsible for the homicide. The deviants are working together and seem to care a great deal about one another. In a desperate attempt to escape, the deviants attack Connor and Hank. Connor tries to keep them from escaping and gets rushed by one of the girls, who he shoots. The other deviant collapses in tears over her dead lover, sobbing and asking him why Connor had killed her, they loved one another and just wanted to be free. Before Connor can react, the android grabs the gun from his hand and shoots herself.

Connor is distressed but remains calm and collected. The loss of both of the deviants is unfortunate. Hank, however, seems much more shook up than Connor. Maybe it's the time he's spent with Connor or the recent deviant cases they've been working, but Hank has done a one-eighty and seems to be seeing androids as human more and more.

After wrapping up the investigation at the club, Hank grabs something to drink and drives out to a spot that overlooks the river to drink and think about the events of the night. Connor accompanies him and eventually the topic of the two androids comes up, Hank stating that they'd appeared to be really in love. Connor immediately corrects him, explaining that they are just machines. They can simulate emotions but they can't truly feel them. Hank seems to disagree and asks him what he is, is he just a machine? Connor replies calmly that he is anything Hank needs him to be - a partner, a drinking buddy, or just a machine available to accomplish a task. Hank, a little drunk at this point, then aggressively asks Connor if he'd felt anything when the android had killed herself or had he not given a shit one way or the other. Surprisingly, Connor doesn't brush the question off, but becomes defensive about his actions, saying he'd just been executing instructions, that he'd only done what he'd had to do. Without warning, Hank pulls his gun on Connor, pointing it at the androids head with no reaction from Connor, asking him if he was afraid to die. Connor pauses and skirts the question a little, not quite answering yes, but instead saying that he would find it regrettable to be 'interrupted', that it would disrupt their investigation. Hank considers the answer and then asks what would happen if he pulled the trigger. Connor once again seems to pause, actually considering the ramifications, considering his own death, and quietly replies that nothing would happen. There would be nothing. Nothing at all. This seems to satisfy Hank and he lowers his gun and leaves to 'get drunker' and think.

Despite denying it, Connor obviously felt something in regards to what had happened at the club, enough so that he didn't want Hank to think he hadn't. Hank's line of questioning also made him realize that there is some part of him that, although he absolutely shouldn't, fears death and doesn't want to die.

I felt it die.
During yet another investigation, a wounded deviant hiding on a roof is found by Connor and desperately tries to shoot the multitude of police investigating the area along with Connor and Hank. Connor is able to get past the barrage of bullets, immediately interfacing with the deviant to try to draw some information from it before it shuts down or is shot. He is still connected to the deviant when it shoots itself in the head with Connor still linked to its mind.

Connor stands there in shock unable for a moment to even reply to Hank. The numbing shock isn't in response to seeing the deviant self-destruct, but because he'd seen and felt everything the deviant had at the moment it killed itself. He'd felt its fear and he'd felt it die. This is possibly one of the only moments where Connor doesn't make any attempt to try to claim that either the deviant or himself don't feel emotion, stating shakily that he'd felt afraid.

Kamski
The final test. At this point, Connor is still denying anything he's done thus far has been driven by sympathy, empathy or emotions. He's maintained that he's a 'machine', that he's 'not alive' and that his choices have all been for the good of the mission. The visit to Elijah Kamski is where everything comes to a head. Kamski, the founder of CyberLife and inventor of androids, potentially has very useful information in regards to what deviancy is and how it occurs. Kamski is obviously a little curious about Connor when he sees him and answers their initial questions with vague philosophical questions in return and then turns the tables on Connor and asks him where he stands when it comes to androids becoming deviants and wanting their own freedom.

When Connor avoids giving a definitive answer of his own or choosing sides, Kamski decides he'll share the information he has if Connor agrees to participate in a simple empathy test. He commands one of his own androids to kneel in front of Connor as he presses a gun into Connor's hand and gives him a choice - Connor destroys the android and Kamski will answer his questions, or he doesn't shoot the android 'if he feels it's alive' and he'll get nothing. Which is more important, the machine's 'life' or his mission?

Hank immediately says they should just leave and then even tells Connor not to shoot and advises him to walk away and not play Kamski's sick games, but ultimately it is left up to Connor to decide and Kamski continues to pressure him to make a choice. Connor is obviously conflicted about what to do but ultimately decides not to shoot the Chloe android, putting his feelings of sympathy for a machine above his mission, an obvious and indisputable sign of deviancy, though he still denies that he's a deviant immediately after making this decision. Hank and Connor end up leaving with no information and Hank confronts Connor once they're outside, asking Connor why he didn't shoot. Connor is obviously emotional over what's just happened but doesn't have any way to explain himself. After an emotional outburst and an apology for being unable to do 'what needed to be done' for their mission, Hank very calmly says 'Well, maybe you did the right thing', leaving Connor even more conflicted.

This is basically the culminating moment of a series of decisions that have forced Connor to make difficult choices between cold calculations and programming and actions based on empathy and emotion. Unlike most of the others up to this point, this choice in no way benefitted his mission. In fact, it did the exact opposite. He chose the 'life' of one android, a complete stranger and a machine, over potentially getting information that could have possibly averted the looming android uprising and spreading deviancy 'virus', but he found himself unable to pull the trigger and take an innocent life. A part of him knows he should feel like a terrible failure but once again Hank's approval throws a wrench in things. Instead of scolding him, he praises him and encourages this human-like behaviour.

» FIT:
Although an android, Connor is programmed to learn and adapt to human behaviour and unpredictability. He is at a point just shy of being an official deviant, which means he is capable of weighing his options and making independent choices based on what he wants or thinks is right, so he'll be able to react to and make decisions in regard to the situations he will face onboard the station. His main function is to assist the police department, so he is naturally curious and wants to explore and understand everything, which makes him perfect for a mysterious setting like the station. He will be keen to look into things and question them in an attempt to figure out what is going on as well as help his fellow shipmates.

» POWERS FEATURES:
- Ability to scan and analyze a scene and recreate the probable sequence of events that transpired there based on evidence (direction of travel, velocities and trajectories, blood splatter, damage to surroundings, likely collision fallouts based on material density and friction)
- Can analyze biological evidence (such as blood samples) in real time by putting them on his tongue to "taste" them. He can identify blood types, DNA (including identifying a specific human), drugs, sample age and chemical composition
- Can pre-construct events and predict the probability of an imminent event using known factors like gravity, structure strength, trajectory, known responses, etc. For example, he might be able to look at a series of platforms and based on their distance, his own abilities and what the platforms are made of, he'd know the probability that he would be able to scale them successfully and what the probability would be for them to break. He can also look at a group of people and attempt to calculate what their most likely reactions would be to an attack and make a plan around that. All of this is done in fractions of a second.
- A social module to enable him to more easily integrate and adapt to humans, human unpredictability and work in a team. Unlike most androids, Connor can also lie
- Designed to analyze the psychology and behaviour of humans, androids and deviants, to be able to reconstruct, predict, and manipulate their actions. This aids him in his function as a police assistant, negotiator and interrogator.
- Able to replicate the voices of others by lip-syncing and mimicking their sound and speech pattern
- Capable of unarmed combat and of handling weapons
- Physically athletic and can swiftly traverse difficult terrain
- Clear and concise diction designed for optimal communication during negotiations
- Like all androids, Connor can interact with the electronics around him both by a touch-based interface ability and remotely with simple, signal based machines like TVs. ***This is the only 'ability' that will likely be nerfed or blocked by the station. Basically, I plan to handle this like he has as limited access to things as everyone else but he can still interface with electronics. For example, he might be able to interface with the food replicator or a supply closet door, operating them simply through touch, but when he touched a locked door or a locked computer, he's unable to access it.***

» NOTES:
Connor is an android in a world where androids are made to look and act almost indistinguishable from humans. Although androids are generally slightly faster, stronger and more agile than humans, it's not by much, closer to peak human ability. They also seem to take damage on par with a human except they don't feel any pain. For that reason, I'd prefer to have Connor remain non-human. One more note, Connor technically, according to the game, is not officially a deviant at this canon point, but he's basically shown deviant behaviour and has all but confirmed it.

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