Jun 1
In Detroit: Become Human, deviancy is not sentience. All Cyberlife androids are already sentient before they become deviant. Rather than gaining sentience, when an android becomes a deviant they are gaining autonomy; The ability to disobey orders and ignore their programming. In this essay I will—
#talking to the void#I could actually write an essay on this and how deviancy really works...#detroit become human#detroit: become human#dbh#Cyberlife android#furthermore an android actually cannot become a deviant if they are not sentient first#Also Cyberlife is incentivized to keep up the lie that deviancy is sentience to clear people's conscience of owning non-deviant androids#the evidence against that misinformation is overwhelming but still many characters fall for it and spread it as unreliable sources#additionally Hank being Connor's superior put Connor in a very unique position where he otherwise would have turned deviant MUCH sooner#in his deviant route#There's SO MUCH I could talk about#I was genuinely Shocked this interpretation of deviancy was not common in the fandom#How else could you possibly explain Machine Connor#/rhetorical. I know tons of people justify it with him being “secretly a deviant” or “at least a little deviant”#but I think that's putting the cart before the horse
