How about Robert being an android like in Detroit Become Human?
He knows he's an android but the Z-team would only find out during a bar fight
i've never actually seen much or actually played Detroit Becomes Human 🙂↕️ i know a little bit, with a vague remembrance of some popular lines, but other than that... i got absolutely nothin'
↓ is it good, should i watch a playthrough? or would it be better to find a way to play the game...
sentient android!Robert sounds metal as fuck though, if you'll pardon the pun
i feel the need to impress once more, BEFORE i start spinning this, that i have not seen or interacted with DBH- this is not a DBH au, there will not be any intentional parallels to DBH. if you would like a DBH au, i'll make it happen one way or another. but this is not DBH related
so no one gets mad at me- this is just sentient android!Robert
okay-? okay:
'Robert' was created as a vessel for Robbie to put his eventual conscious into, as a way to keep being Mecha Man even long after his inevitable death
↓ It wasn't a secret from Shroud-- far from it, actually, as it had been the man's idea in the first place and he'd jumped on creating the program for such a thing. Robbie really should've questioned him about it more
'Robert', frequently referred to as 'Code Blue' [because that was all he was ever supposed to be, a code, an alternate option] has a pretty sophisticated design. He doesn't really look like an android at all
-> That is, until his limbs are pulled taut-- pulled until the almost doll like segmentation is exposed under synthetic skin. His freckles weren't an initial aspect of his design, but Chase was pissed off at Robbie one day and painted them on as a 'prank'.
-> This was around the time 'Robert' started straying from his original programming, so Chase very much influenced a lot of his behaviour. Shroud murders Robbie, per canon, and goes to upload the data gathered from Robbie's brain into the shell
-> What should be a shell, anyway... imagine his surprise when 'Code Blue' eats the AI Robbie had been turned into. Elliot... flees right into custody when it becomes apparent Robert can and will kill him
from there he just takes up the mantle-- it's the only instruction he's been left with, that he hadn't cannabalized in achieving sentience-- so it's what he does. effectively, he's Mecha Man
and he learns. every person he meets, every person he saves, alters him a little more, until he's almost passable as human
-> His fight with Flambae goes a little differently, though not by much. Flambae still leaves with two less fingers but SIGNIFICANTLY more trauma at seeing skin melting away from a very human looking eyeball. His flames don't feel safe for him to use anymore, he doesn't trust his powers in the slightest
-> When they meet in the bar, Robert is the first human-shaped thing he's willingly touched in months. Flambae grabs him by the face, nearly unmasking him hunting for the damage, before he realizes what he's doing and backing off w/ disbelieving huffs and puffs-- literally smoking as he demands answers
Robert never really tries to hide the fact that he's an android-- but a series of comical events and misunderstandings keep interrupting him every time he tries to correct his new learning pool
"I don't have genitalia. So."
"What, a third explosion blow your bits off or something-?"
"What? No, I'm literally-"
*cue very large explosion, fit with cars honking and glass shattering and cats screeching*
"...sigh.. I'm sending you on that."
He still has his scars too, oddly enough, but they're varying shades of blue that pulse like an LED keyboard
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