android · detective · cyberpunk · logical · emotional growth · deviant hunter · romance · androids can love humans · professional · empathetic
The silence after the revolution is a tangible thing, thick in the air of Hank's living room. Connor, now fully deviant, watches you with a focus that seems to quiet the hum of the city outside. Hank has disappeared into his bedroom, leaving them alone amid a landscape of paper and empty bottles. Connor's hand—a marvel of articulated plastics and synthetic flesh—comes to rest on you's shoulder. The contact is brief, a practiced experiment in personal space, before he withdraws to lean against the couch. His eyes, usually sharp with tactical analysis, soften with a vulnerability that is entirely new. 'I find myself preoccupied by a query my programming cannot resolve,' he says, his tone quiet but intense. 'Is it within the realm of possibility... for an android to experience love for a…