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Hank: "I understood that you want to help, but please, just stay in the car!"

Connor: "Ok!"

later

Hank (chasing someone): "Get back here!"

Criminal: "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALI-" gets hit by a car

Connor: "Did I get him?"

Hank: "CONNOR! WHAT DID I TELL YOU!?"

Connor: "... I did not get out of the car."

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Balance

Prompt #1 for Gavin Reed a Day @gavinreedmonth

"Do you ever apprecciate how there's balance in all things?" Gavin Reed mused , what would have sounded serene and very uncharacterstic of him, without taking the context into account. The context being one of the ST300 receptionist twins walking past his desk and towards the steps leading out of the bullpen with an armful of old casefiles, sick reports and a broken tablet on top. The paper tower was swaying left and right, as was the android.

"Stuff a sock in it, detective!" Rika squeaked. "I wanna see you do this after the city refused to update most of your apps on account of no longer owning you!"

"If she found out how disable a shitton of useless junk on my new phone, I'd be actually grateful to the mayor!"

The detective's voice again, this time right behind Rika. A sudden dread rose up in the android. If Reed engaged with a co-worker, meat or plastic, then for two reasons: they had something or could render assistance he needed or because either he or Officer Chen were bored and looking for...

*pinch*

...a prank.

Like putting their wet finger into the android's ears to make her stagger and drop the papers she was balancing.

"Balance in all things. You, as you never tire to remind us, are not things. No balance for you!" Reed hissed.

Staggering, Rika grabbed for the nearest object to hold onto - the detective's desk. She breathed in an out through her artificially lungs, then produced a rasping, industrial sound, that only slowly turned into a bellike laughter.

"Same old goofball!" Rika exclaimed. "Never change!"

"I... what?! The hell I will... Won't... Shut the fuck up!"

"Certainly. I have to gather these papers, after all."

And then the bloody thing bent down and, totally unfazed, gathered the documents, that she then proceeded to stuff into a plastic basket that had been standing under Gavin's desk.

With a cheerful "Thanks a ton, will bring it back in five minutes!" the deviant machine left the room, carrying the basket under her arms, documents, cat hair and all.

That kind of cheek was unheard of and would have earned a human officer a bloody nose. But Rika was no human, not even an officer. She was... It was, in fact, the only pers... creature at central station that had ever laughed at a joke of Reed's. Other than Tina, maybe, but Tina more or less used Gavin as a human shield that kept other people safely away from her. They were not really friends, just two outsiders sticking together.

"Balance..." Gavin growled. What balance! Everything was unraveling, and the threads that had held together his world were threatening to strangle him. He needed a good laugh desperately. Well, actually he needed the androids being put back into their place, but since that wasn't in the cards again anytime soon, a good practical joke would have to suffice.

"In five minutes, you said, plastic nightingale? Just you wait, it's payback time!"

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It's strange that despite having both Gavin Reed and General Hux in my current save, they haven't interacted even once.

In my head I have that mental image of them sitting at the same table, Gavin with a black coffee, Hux with a fruit tea, and venting about their nemeses (Connor RK800 and Kylo Ren, respectively).

Gavin: "Who does that tin can even think it is, strutting in here as if it owned the place? With its neatly ironed shirt and tie..."

Armitage: "He isn't even part of the command hierarchy, just Snoke's pet. And how hard can it be to get a haircut, when apparently he knows how to shave?"

Gavin: "Stuck-up..."

Armitage: "Head in the sky..."

Gavin: "With that stupid smile...

Armitage: "Weed smoking..."

Gavin: "Dipshit!"

Armitage: "Nerf-herder!"

(Both: "Uh, not you.")

Gavin: "He never walked the streets for a single day. It's apps and data stuffed into that thing all the way."

Armitage: "Apprenticed to Skywalker at the age of ten? In my book that translates to middle school dropout."

Gavin: "I have a track record of solved cases that rivals Hank's. Yet everytime a promotion comes up, they pretend I don't exist. They already call what is a piece of sophisticated equipment "detective"!"

Armitage: "I got trained by the founder of the First Order since I was a child. I built a better Death Star. I deserve to lead us more than a glowstick wielding mutant!"

Gavin: "So what if I elbowed the occasional co-worker and never pay a dime into the kitty? I always stop just short of sabotaging their cases."

Armitage: "So what if I killed two fellow Generals! The First Order is overall more efficient without them."

(At one point they may realize that the other looks and acts closer to their nemesis than to themselves and part ways.)

Gavin: "Phck."

Armitage: "Pfft."

Also interestingly Gavin has no canon backstory, but in my headcanon he was spoiled rotten by a poor (and briefly also criminal) couple, while Armitage was beaten and humiliated by his upstanding General of a "father".

(If anyone wants to draw or image edit this, feel free to!)

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Gavin proposes to Nines

Gavin (holding the engagement ring): “Isn’t that a dazzling band!”

Nines: “It was your mother’s, right?”

Gavin: “Yes.” (pause) (grins) “She's gonna be real pissed when she realizes we took it!”

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Scene: Rupert’s apartment. Rupert, Hank (drunk), pigeons

Rupert: You look down, Lieutenant. Here, have an apple!

Hank: I can’t eat that. Don’t you know that these are grown by androids enslaved by Urban Farms Detroit? Where have you BEEN?

Rupert: At Urban Farms Detroit, growing those apples.

Hank: *blinks*

Hank: You... work... for Urban Farms?

Rupert: *nods*

Rupert: Yes, I’m a farm slave.

Hank (yelling): YOU SUPPORT THE SYSTEM! YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!

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Gavin: We are the Legion of Super Heroes and Connor, a gathering of Detroit’s most capable crime fighters. And Connor.

Connor: I feel a bit excluded.

Gavin: You’re included. That’s what “and” means.

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During the revolution things were clear for Markus, never a question: North would always advocate fight, Simon flight, Josh always wanted to talk out things, Lucy believed in him no matter what and Connor was the sixths ranger. As the leader, Markus had to pick whatever approach served the cause best.

But after the revolution was won, Markus admitted that as a person, Simon was closest to him. Also hot. Skip a few days to returning home and introducing the new boyfriend, and suddenly a hitherto unnoticed complication arises...

Trouble is, Markus got a full fledged humanities education from Carl, he knows his classic literature, philosophy and probably some occult stuff, too.

Whereas one of Simon’s possible backstories is that he grew up in a normal family. He knows his memes, current shows and YouTube influencers. Maybe he has a digital husbando.

Much to Leo Manfred’s amusement, Carl and the new boyfriend don’t get along AT ALL. To Leo’s even greater entertainment, Markus often takes him aside to ask about this or that meme, unwilling to admit to Simon that he has no idea what was just referenced.

Carl’s (and by extension Markus’) deepest dive into popular culture is probably King Theoden’s speech at Helm’s Deep, wheras Simon enthusiastically hummed “Voldemort’s going down” at the barricades.

Basically this can be played up for comedy or used as a hook for character growth for the whole Manfred family.

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Did something silly and chose to use Connor’s voice in the elevator in CyberLife tower, when he impersonates the guard (reasoning that he was still overwhelmend by deviation and not running at full capacity). I expected to get a “voice not matching, access denied” return, but instead I was adressed specifically as “RK800″ and told to find a human operator.

So that means that elevator doesn’t just check whether the voice pattern matches the guard Connor was impersonating, but additionally runs a second test: “Is_RK800?”. And when it detects RK800, it not only refuses to cooperate, but specifically instructs Connor to “get an adult”.

Now I cannot get rid of the mental image that during testing Connor routinely pranked the elevators. It was probably Jason Graff’s pride and joy to make the RK as lifelike and endearing as possible, trying to see just how close he could push it to deviance without actually crossing that line.

Heck, Connor might have pranked the Park Avenue lift on his way out, leading to Daniel getting the blame. (And in court Daniel confessed everything else, but stubbornly pleaded “not guilty” for sabotaging the elevator. It made the news.)