Just throwing in my 2 cents about the fan films "Detroit: Awakening" and "Detroit: Evolution", I guess.
- Canon material is indeed pretty bad, but as someone who often likes pretty bad stuff for the concepts which could have been better explored, I respect those fan films and all the work put into them. Also, fuck david cage. I will not justify myself for liking Detroit Become Human, everyone knows it's okay and healthy to like things and simultaneously be very critical of them at the same time.
- Nonetheless I have to thank it for the actual well portrayed asexual representation which was there for the whole fandom to see. As mixed as my feelings are about this whole thing, that part is mine to enjoy and in fact added 10 years to my life thank you.
- I love the idea of Nines being both Connor 2 the Electric Boogaloo as well as a depiction of what happened to all the Androids that were already awaken into deviancy, without any previous experiences to shape them. This is now my one of favorite fanon headcanons.
- But being honest now, I wouldn't have done it with Gavin Reed as Nines guiding character. Ideally I'd prefer Connor, Markus, Hank, any of those characters in the game who actually gave a damn instead of him, and specially wouldn't make him a romantic interest. To be honest I never really understood that ship. Gavin Reed was the absolute worst in the game and a textbook exemple of a brute police officer. I know he didn't appear all that much, and because of that you can fit a lot of backstory into it and make him better, but... given what he represents within the context, it still feels... kinda wrong. Idk.
- I will allow it, though, only this time, because that team clearly worked a lot in those fan movies, explorong a lot of ideas and taking the time to develop it. It's an exemple of how sometimes... canon... is worse.
- Also appreciate that it had a diverse cast and that none of the romantic pairings portrayed were straight. Damn, we really don't see a lot of that in actual tv or videogames and it shows.
