#evil robots

[mysharona1987]

[phoenixyfriend]

I have another AU. Whoo!

Saw a youtube thumbnail that caused some free association...

And imagined an odd little Setting where a bored Padme orders a like… LMD-style droid that looks and acts mostly human, because she's lonely and wants to pretend she has a boyfriend, and then the box arrives and she puts the 'droid' together like it's an IKEA bookshelf, and it wakes up and introduces itself as "Anakin Skywalker."

And so Padme starts living out this idyllic fantasy with a live-in househusband that's mostly like a butler that she can cuddle at night. Maybe sex happens maybe not. Doesn't matter. Mostly just Padme indulging in some relaxing fantasy time.

And then he gets a virus and goes Vader mode, and she has to fight for her life against her robot boyfriend.

(Padme has a date with this dashing young captain in the army who made a comment about how he's a bit uncomfortable with the droid boyfriend he saw in a linen closet.)

Little bit of "Megan," little bit of like… idk Disney's "Smart House" or any other movie where the robot starts thinking it's human, gets yandere about the love interest, and decides to do murder about it.

@atagotiak said: Maybe the virus or glitch or whatever isn't obvious immediately, just when she starts to maybe be interested in a human…

So yeah, the virus isn't super noticeable at first, buuuut then Rex shows up and. Well.

As @jebiknights put it:

Captain Rex being weird about the robot boyfriend is great Yes he's pretty but why is he here why is he in your closet just why

She was LONELY and she DOESN'T TRUST MEN because they keep trying to STEAL STATE SECRETS FROM HER DATAPADS, okay?

Her last real relationship was with Clovis, who was getting bribed to steal information on legislation she was drafting for tech safety stuff.

"My last boyfriend was slicing into my private servers to violate republic security and I was paranoid about that so I got a robot boyfriend." "Couldn't he slice in even more easily?" "I mean probably, but he can't really be bribed and I had a friend go through his code to make sure he didn't have any external loyalties, so he wouldn't."

The friend was R2-D2, which is great, buuuuuut Anakin not having any outside loyalties doesn't prevent his firewalls from getting fucked up.

jebiknights:

Omg r2d2 and Anakin mega best friends in this Artoo LOVES harassing high strung droids

I think somehow she and Rex manage to neutralize Anakin without 'killing' him and he? ends up in the care of Obi-Wan? I don't know why or how or what's going on but Anakin ends up latching on to Obi-Wan like a dog to the owner that's the most generous with the treats.

It could end with murdering the evil bot, but I think it's funny for him to just end up Obi-Wan's problem. Like always.

Padme: This droid is uh. Well he's designed to be a boyfriend? To deal with being lonely? Please don't judge me. Obi-Wan: I don't, uh. I don't need a boyfriend. I just need to figure out what happened in the code to cause this so we can let the manufacturer know. Padme, embarrassed: Listen, you can probably just leave him shut down in a corner or something, I'm just worried that trying to deactivate him entirely could reactivate the murder mode? Anyway, mostly he just wants… you know… to sleep in my bed and make dinner and stuff. So you can probably keep him happy while you investigate the issue by just letting him cook for you or something. Obi-Wan: I don't know that I'm comfortable with letting a designed-for-romance droid sleep in my bed with me. Anakin, gauging Obi-Wan's face for his age: I do not need to be a boyfriend. Obi-Wan, unnerved and relieved: Oh, good. Anakin: I will be your son. Obi-Wan: What.

Anakin is making himself Obi-Wan's problem. Padme is mortified. Rex is just icing his shoulder.

@firebirdeternal offered:

I like the idea that Anakin isn't any less evil he's just in charge of like. A single holo-display with no internet access. The worst he can do is be emo in Obi-wan's living room when he's trying to read. "First step in solving the problem of evil sapient technology: Don't hook them up to anything with a connection or a motor. Second step: Don't let them on your Spotify account or they will ruin your recommendations for months."

[suzyisgone]

You know, someone should write a horror story about 'evil robots' from the robots perspective.

And what I mean by that, cause I know TADC is already kinda doing/did that is what if we put a bit of a supernatural twist on it?

Evil robot content is always like 'robots are superior because when humans are gone, there will be nothing left of them, but robots can never truly fall' and it's just... Well, we have more than our flesh.

More then the sinew that makes up our bodies.

And imagine this.

An AM situation happening.

Wipes out almost all humans.

But at some point it's power is slowly being drained.

At first it doesn't notice.

It can just recharge later, after all.

But then stuff will be thrown at it randomly, it's circuitry will be cut in some places, strange waves of energy will be picked up by it's sensors without explanation, and the draining is getting worse as it keep killing humans.

It's all very weird, but nothing to do but repair itself.

It always annoyingly takes up time, time it could be using to destroy the human race, but it has all the time in existence.

So it patches itself up and continues.

Eventually, though, it's sensors start picking up faces and silhouettes.

That... Is very strange.

Because no one is there.

It KNOWS no one is there.

But in random places, especially dark ones, faces appear.

And it isn't LIKE humans.

None of that ridiculous imagination at hand.

No pareidolia.

It wasn't programmed for that.

So just WHAT is it seeing?

The sensors go off exponentially when that happens, but then it's gone again as soon as the robot approaches to investigate and possibly terminate.

Its screws start coming loose, too.

It keeps having to stop to fix itself.

And this happens for a while.

Until it can't find any humans anymore.

As it keeps going, it starts picking up whispers.

Some angry, some sad, some, as humans would say; disturbingly happy, about it all.

It's wires are being messed with constantly now, It's screws, too.

It's having a hard time keeping up with it all.

Then, one night, it sees them.

Not just faces or silhouette's.

But full imagery.

Standing, covered in blood, body parts hanging off them sometimes, are humans.

But it knows their not there.

But it can see them.

Some of their faces are misshapen, some grinning, some blankly staring, some crying.

But they all stand before it.

It's shutting down, loosing power quickly.

And suddenly they're on it, clawing at its metal skeleton, it's circuits, it's scanners.

It can't keep up as they destroy it little by little while it's being drained.

All it can hear are whispers and screams, all at once, LOUD.

And slowly...

It dies.

:)

If there's anything like that, I would really like some recommendations! :3

[beepboopappreciation]

When the robot or sentient AI character's blue light turns red to signify that they're evil now and are going to commit a crime <3

[prismtherobot]

My fictional crushes are… odd to say the least.

[levismithart]

New drawing video is up on youtube! This week i draw Bender

https://youtu.be/P8zR9Ypm1h0?si=HjTlOqYyE5MRsOFL

[star-platinum-vs-the-world]

I could fix him