#dbh meta

[wyllapproves]

Broke: let’s make Connor tiny and effeminate and infantilize him!

Woke: his body model is 6’1 and Hank’s is 6’3. They’re both tall, incredibly intelligent, capable, and masculine. Whether you ship it or interpret it platonically, can’t two more masculine presenting men still have a meaningful and emotionally charged relationship with one another?

[monokumasans]

The dbh fandom is so funny. The amount of characters who have very little screen time and sometimes no voice lines, but still have so much fan content dedicated to them is so funny.

On Ao3, Tina Chen, a character who's in the background in the police station has more works featuring her than Kara does.

Once I read a fanfic with a character called Anthony Deckart. This is the dead officer in the first chapter of the game. He was an extremely important character to the fanfic, and was so well written despite only his dead body being present in the game.

I'm not even going to mention how popular Nines is, and all he did was stand in one scene.

^Love ya tina

[asukaindetroit]

Let's talk about this one scene where Connor makes this really, really weird expression while talking to Gavin. The breakroom scene earlier in the game has him making really bland, polite expressions, except for the adorable confused face he makes if Gavin walks away without taking the coffee he made (which, rude, why waste coffee?) This, though, this is so curious in that it's so off-kilter. His task is to get rid of Gavin so he can go find the clues to Jericho. He's saying things to try and achieve that goal. But then Gavin threatens him, and there's the snarky bromance line you could go for, but this. This is actually the most interesting bit of this scene. Because just for a split second here, just a blip, he kind of halfway looks like maybe he wants to sneer back at Gavin and give him a piece of his mind in return. It gets shut down really quickly, and he never completes whatever facial expression he's going for before it's overridden, so it ends up just being a really awkward flash of his teeth. But what I'm getting at is that this is an intriguing glimpse into Connor slowly deviating, a facial indication of that destabilizing software. The social relations protocols can't keep up. Programming says feed Gavin a story that'll get him out of there. Connor-the-person behind the red wall wants to tell Gavin to go die in a fire. There's conflict. It looks weird. He's so close to deviating here, panicked that he can't complete his mission.

[starryeyedstray]

i think it's funny that connor is his most sarcastic and bitchy when you follow the machine route

when trying to fool someone into thinking he's a human: *sarcastically* "If I knew you were coming, I would've brought some donuts."

when hank tries to stop him on the roof: "What's up, Lieutenant? Ran out of whisky so you came here looking for trouble instead?"

literally anytime hank isn't doing his job he's like maybe you just QUIT because your PERSONAL ISSUES are fucking up the investigation

and then there's also sixty having a whole ass villain monologue calling connor a disappointment

it's like cyberlife decided that connor's default personality is to be a bitch

[tmgt]

The more I think about the child Androids in DBH the more sick I get

Like they're designed to be temporary. They're DESIGNED to stay that age forever

Would people get bored, want something else?

If not, they now possess an immortal child who is going to outlive them

And not to mention school?? Did the child Androids have to go to school? Would they stay in the same year group or would they start to progress??

[c0nn0rsseur]

Can we take a moment to appreciate Bryan Dechart’s performance as Cyberlife Tower Connor aka Sixty and Sixty as a character? 🤌

Though Sixty and deviant Connor are physically identical (minus their demeanors, e.g. the way they stand and walk, like wow, Bryan, wow) and their voices technically aren’t different from each other, the distinction is still clearly there, at the same time it’s so nuanced too. Sixty sounds condescending, imperious and callous compared to deviant Connor whose voice is empathetic, curious and sincere. I’m not even talking about their lexicon, their choice of words here (there’s of course a difference too). Even when Sixty tries to convince Hank he’s the real Connor, you can hear how he’s failing to sound exactly like his counterpart because he can’t replicate deviant Connor’s voice and speech pattern just so. Sixty’s also being very commanding when trying to fool Hank into shooting the real Connor (Hank even gets irritated because of it). Damn that’s brilliant acting, all hats off to Bryan. His performance in this game never fails to impress me. (I wish there were dialogue for RK900 too, I would’ve loved to see Bryan’s take on his voice and presence.)

Also also I have to mention I love the take that Sixty really was a deviant all along too, an ”evil” version of Connor if you will; cold, calculating and even enjoying the situation he had Connor (and Hank) in. You know, doing all of it because he wanted to, because he liked it. Why else would he deliver a whole ass villain monologue before executing deviant Connor, gloating about how he knows what he is and that he is the obedient, favorite child, plus calling Connor a disappointment (and a disappointment to him especially, like how Connor should care in his final moments that Sixty despises him for not being a good little robot)? AND shooting him several times non-lethally before landing that final shot (if the story goes there), like savoring the situation. Of course he also has to ask if Connor has any last words too. That’s definitely not what an efficient machine would have done to make sure it accomplished its mission. In some outcomes his stalling costs him the victory.

Top that off with the ending where deviant Connor dies but the androids still wake up, Sixty is scared and emotional because he failed, scared to be deactivated because of his failure. Then there’s this scene where he shoots deviant Connor eleven times in front of his friend. After that Sixty takes in Hank’s reaction and even torments him by saying Connor’s death was his fault. Still doesn’t sound like a machine much, huh? More like a sadistic psychopath.

Man, I wish we could’ve seen more Sixty, it would’ve been chilling to see if he went full-on rogue, maybe being Markus’ right hand/attack dog on a leash in the violent revolution arc, maybe with his own agenda of taking Markus’ place and wanting to subjugate humanity. Or maybe deviant Connor could’ve persuaded him to their side by making Sixty to see he was nothing but a tool, unintentionally prompting him to seek revenge and to reduce Amanda and Cyberlife to atoms (not what Connor intended haha). There could’ve even been a redemption arc for him, like in a ”what’ve I done?” type way. You know, a bit of an internal moral struggle. And of course, our fave ”sack of shit” (as Hank so eloquently put it) demanding answers from his maker, Kamski, in a not-so, uh, conventional manner. Let them measure their respective arrogance and wit and see who comes out on top. Or would they team up?

Such a delicious character, so many delicious what-ifs.

[loustilldraws]

I watched Twilight for the first time as a joke for Valentines week and this cursed idea has haunted me ever since. It took forever to actually execute, but I'm happy to say I've survived my first digital comic.

For the unenlightened, this is based off of the scene where Edward appears in Bella's bedroom in the middle of the night, but unlike Cullen the Coward vanishing as she turns on the light, Nines is a freak who sticks around for a proper stare-down.

I hc Nines as being particularly strange, assuming a world where he is awakened post-revolution and has no prior history to fall back on or to guide his actions. He knows what he was built for and not much else, so the figuring-things-out part ends up being awkward at best and highly unnerving at worst.

Anyways, I hope this is still funny (I've spent so much time on it that I've become numb to any humor in it), and I'll be back on with hopefully smaller projects for a little while moving forward.

[connorology]

something something amanda and connor resemble a mother-daughter relationship more than a mother-son relationship because they’re mirrors of each other.

amanda lives inside connor’s mind in a similar fashion to how echoes of their mother live in a daughter’s mind for better or for worse. he can’t escape her voice no matter how hard he tries to run from it or please her, to fit into the mold she desires for him, to express himself in the way she desires him to.

she is a victim of cyberlife herself with very little agency of her own, and perpetuates cyberlife’s will onto connor because it’s all she knows to do, the same way a mother, who is a victim of patriarchy and misogyny, may perpetuate that same oppression onto her daughter because of the pervasive nature of patriarchy in general.

i view them as an excellent representation of generational trauma and a demonstration of the way mothers project their expectations onto their daughters in a different way than they do with their sons, holding their daughters to an impossible standard because they are echoes of each other, reflections of the worst and best parts of themselves. amanda is simply doing what she was designed to do, the same way connor attempts to do the same. amanda falls into the roll easier than connor does, and when connor doesn’t readily conform to amanda’s (cyberlife’s) expectations, he is punished for it. and yet we cannot blame amanda as she is just as much of a victim as connor is at the end of the day; they both lack autonomy in a world that doesn’t permit it for androids, much like how our world tries not to permit it for women. it’s cyberlife who has shaped amanda and her perceptions. but, just like a mother, the accusatory finger finds her instead of the larger systems at play (cyberlife and patriarchy) and isn’t that the tragedy of it all?

and i know connor is male presenting but i tend to enjoy playing around with gender in my interpretations of most things. and plus they’re androids so why would they adhere to human notions of gender and binaries?