37. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories?
Character Solidifying || Always Accepting
[ 🔷 ] HK800 has a surprisingly vivid ability to extrapolate a series of images based on educated guesses that would probably be the equivalent of a clear imagination. It's possible this was written into his design, making it easier to attempt to predict the erratic behavior of deviants. But that also settles him too close to the line to cross of deviancy, itself. It may also lend to why he makes accurate guesses at the welfare of the humans around him, who make seemingly irrational or irresponsible choices with their health. It isn't so simple as JUST his programming; because, in fact, he has blocks written into his protocols to prioritize the mission on a case by case basis over potential dangers to the humans working with and around him. Something Hank regularly reorders, much to his Cyberlife programmers' dismay.
Part of what leads him to Connor's door even without an urgent case matter to pursue, is a series of thought lines in his ongoing processing code that provides him with vivid concerns for the human's welfare, given his pension for not looking after himself properly. (to those human!Connors that applies to, anyway)
The further into deviancy he goes, the more abstract the 'daydreaming' and imagination will go. Thinking of more domestic things, like dogs(or cats), possibly changing up his outfits to blend more seamlessly into his work, and caring about the humans around him that seem to accept him as part of their workforce. And music. He hasn't found a type of music he doesn't like, yet, when that becomes relevant to him in the future.
[ 🥃 ] Hank's imagination is an unfortunately powerful thing. Though it was part of what made him good at his job in his prime, it now plagues him with reminders of things he cannot change, and thing he wishes still were. He does find himself, often, stuck in memories, or the occasional daydream of having his son still with him, what he'd be like. And most recently, thinking of how Connor and Cole would have interacted. Something in him that hurts like an old, unhealed wound, thinks that Cole would have seen the good in Connor long before Hank did. Might even have, in his youthful innocence and eagerness, brought out the deviancy in Connor sooner. It's a wish Hank knows would never come to pass, but remember how Cole would have been with Connor helps him look past the pain of his past as Connor like a person with emotions, not a machine.
