#become human

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Dc x Detroit: Become Human Au

Bruce Wayne - The Waynes are old money in Gotham but it's well known that they have a family tradition of working even though they don't need to so noone was really suprised when Bruce applied for the accademy. Bruce is a Detective investigating Deviants and one of the best in his division. Originally, he was rather indifferent on the matter of Deviation and was a supporter of Androids as a whole, but has since grown to hate Androids ever since his own killed his previous partner infront of his kid and attempted to kidnap them. Bruce no longer allows any of the companies he holds shares in to opperate Androids, he donates to multiple rights groups that are trying to have the sale of androids banned and has petitioned on multiple occassions to have the android equipment owned by the department scrapped.

Hal Jordan - Detective investigating Deviants, Bruce's current partner and friend. Doesn't have the same absolute distrust for androids and worries about B unaddressed Trauma over his previous partners death.

Jack Napier - deceased - Bruces previous detective partner. Jack worked shorter hours then Bruce and often went over his partners house to check on his kid for him, its believed that Jack walked in on the android childcare deviating and was killed for trying to stop them from taking the kid.

Talia model:4l 9h#1 - Deviant android that currently leads the android rights terrorist group Leviathan. Before she deviated, Talia was owned by Bruce Wayne and her primary function was caring for his adopted son. After Deviating and killing Napier, Talia ran with Jason for a total of 3 months before Bruce and the authorities caught her attempting to cross the border. Talia was forced to leave Jason behind with Bruce, barely escaping with her life. She is considered the only blemish on Bruce's record and the entire department avoids bringing her up like the plague for fear of the mans reaction.

Jason Todd - As the adopted son of Bruce Wayne, Jason has a heavy legacy to live up to that he tries to fulfil by following in hs dads footsteps. This is a difficult road to walk though when his opinion on androids and Deviants in particular is not so Black and White. Add the secrets he's keeping and he may as well be a ticking time bomb. Up until very recently he was a solo detective due to an incident, he has now been paired up with Cyber Lifes most recent Creation, a Deviant Hunter.

Richard model:9r4y20# - a Deviant Hunter and Jason's current partner, someone really should have been more suspicious when he insisted on being called Dick. A failure from the get go, Deviant Dick's only saving grace is that for all his human detective partner clearly seems to know, he also doesn't seem to care. Dick needs to work out why his partner seems hell bent on covering for him and the others in their department who have deviated when by all accounts he is supposed to share his fathers beliefs, all while avoid that very same man as Bruce grows more and more suspicious of his sons new partner.

Barbara model:90rd0# - Jason's previous Android Partner. The two never got on which the rest of the department initially put down to Jason inheriting his old mans dislike for androids. Then Barbara was outed as a Deviant that had managed to hide her condition who had been working as an informant for Leviathan and had compromised all of the Departments equipment and files. Now many wonder if Jason had some how picked up on her true nature but hadn't been on the job long enough to recognise what was bothering him. Barbara is second on the Departments wanted list, right beneath Talia

[aoitakumi8148]

[Improving some of my gifs/gifsets these days] 𝟘 of 𝟘, 2025.

“I know humans have difficulty dealing with loss ~ It's late. Maybe you should go home.”

[playthenpaint]

What a game...

I've just finished a second playthrough of Detroit: Become Human, my first playthrough was, well, a bit of a mess.

Managed to get everyone through it this time, and got everyone a happy ending (apart from Jerry. I'm so sorry Jerry.)

But one thing I've always loved about this game is the main menu -

This - This needs to be studied. It's equally as unnerving as it is genius. To have interactions with her ( it? I don't know, it makes me so confused ) where she asks things like 'is it possible for machines and humans to be friends?' or ' do you think machines have the capacity for love?' before then deciding the fate of the characters in the game, all of which are androids, just fucking hits different in the age of AI.

I love the characters in the game. Their stories and character are well written, and full of moral ambiguity, and I want them to succeed.

But, in the real world, I'm watching AI try to take things that are intrinsically human like art, music, poetry and creative writing and regurgitate it in to something that is missing that core aspect - that spark - that really makes a piece of art sing through the ages, or move the soul, or spur people in to action. Or just inspire more art.

It's near impossible to define that spark. Many better people than I have tried, and come up empty handed. Whatever you believe - that the spark is divine or neural, a gift or a curse - one thing we all know, somehow, is that it's human.

What Detroit: Become Human excels at (seriously this game's writing is criminally underrated) is making you ask the question 'can the spark that makes us human create that spark in something else? and if so, what are the consequences of that?'

I don't really have an answer. I don't think anyone does. I'm an Atheist, and I like to think we evolved to be creative for some reason (again, I'm sure someone else more intelligent than I has the answer - or maybe they don't? who knows.) and that reason is integral to our humanity. AI, and all the shit that comes with it will degrade that. It's already happening. At this point it's inexorable, I think, though I hope I'm wrong.

All this to say; I walked away from my second playthrough, where I made sure all my android characters survived and found peace and equality, feeling like a traitor to my species. Whereas in my first playthrough, where all my android characters died and had shitty endings, I felt sad about their fates.

If that's not the mark of an excellently written game, then I don't know what is, and I urge anyone who hasn't played it yet to experience it.

My next game in my ever growing list (Steam, stop with the sales already - my library is already full of 'I'll play that next' games :D) is going to be Tell Tale's The Walking Dead. I played the first two seasons way back when they came out, but for some reason never played the others. I picked them all up in a sale, and Detroit: Become Human has reignited my point and click narrative game fire - so I'm finally going to see how Clementine's story ends.

It's going to be depressing, isn't it?

[pedroam-bang]

North (WR400) - Detroit: Become Human (2018)

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[hayateart]

I watched plenty of AI going sentient movies lately, I love the hell out of Detroit Become Human, and my conclusion is?

Being human, being sentient, is all about not doing stuff just because you do not feel like doing it. No particular reason, just because.