i absolutely adore the different android/maykr/human designs people make for VEGA however there's something so special to me about the cases where they don't have a humanoid body. the Fortress is their physical form, and fuck if that doesnt have some absolutely heartwarming/-wrenching implications. starting from the moment they arrive there - back on Mars, VEGA shut down with the understanding of inevitable destruction, yet they were awoken, and in a completely new system, too. what was it like, waking up in an unfamiliar body, adjusting to completely new senses, like learning a new language, like being able to hear for the first time, like learning to walk again? and to have someone intricately acquainted with what is new to them be their guide, patiently waiting for them to adapt to the foreign architecture, hands eventually letting go of the manual controls like a gentle encouragement? and then, much later, to become one with what their savior deems his home? to inevitably become his home? to be the one pointing the way forward but also always guiding back? to be known in ever-surprising ways, to have somebody unlock parts of their 'body' - aspects of their ever-complex being - that they would have never been able to see by themselves? to look outwards down to the furthest star and to be seen from the inside down to the smallest switch panel?
to be quite honest, it's a form of intimacy not many people talk of that i will never be normal about.
