Well hello there, Siren and Lockboy tumblr folk. I’m here because I am very aware that Siren is a robot and so there are tells about how she works and things in her design and how they tell a story so. Figured I’d share. Fair warning I get into some gross, messed up implications here about non consensual, really bad irl things but what’s this show’s bread and butter if not messed up implication? You’ve been warned.
So the main reason I wanted to make this post was because do you notice something off about this picture?
Creepy posing for a reveal, but nothing more to it, right? Well… Siren is shut off here, right? Right… so why’s the arm still up? Most machines go limp and submit to gravity immediately upon shutdown, and there need to be special brakes or parts of the design that freeze the machine in place like this without power. I hear you saying, “where are you going with this” and to that I say… I have another picture for you.
Same deal. This time we see Lockboy shut Siren down and her whole body locks up, freezes in the exact position that it’s switched off at. That would take a lot of special braking systems to pull off, especially when you take into account that her posture is off balance so she should realistically be falling over. Now here’s the kicker: why? Why would Damalion have Siren designed this way when it detracts from the illusion of her being human (human bodies do NOT do this) and it likely took way more time and effort than necessary?
Well, Siren was designed to be human-like second and an instrument for sexual gratification first. We see how Damalion pimps her out to other people, how he himself takes advantage of her. To go off on a quick tangent, there’s evidence that Siren was given knowledge of how to appeal to different types of kinks. When she sees Lockboy trying to take control of her with the book, she starts using BDSM language and steps into the role of a sub frighteningly quickly, having seen him try to assert himself as the dominant one in the interaction and seeing an opening.
So, if there’s evidence that Siren was made with several different fetishes in mind to appeal to a broad range of people for Damalion to pimp her out to AND there are special systems that lock Siren in a position when you shut her off… look, not everyone’s kinks are consensual or even acceptable things to do to another person. Humans can be attracted by things like rape, the asleep, the unconscious, any number of things. That’s why so much horribleness happens IRL. But the point being: I believe that Siren has these special braking systems in place for necrophiles (people who are attracted to corpses) as well as people who wanted to simulate sexual activity with someone who was drugged, knocked unconscious, asleep or paralyzed. People who wanted her frozen and valued the look of a human over the behavior of one. It’s sick but there’s evidence for it and if you had any sympathy at all for Damalion I hope it just tore itself to pieces.
Anyway, to move on to (slightly) less detestable things I noticed:
Siren’s feet were specifically molded with high heels in mind, the arch is way more pronounced than on a normal person’s and it’s for the shoes I’m pretty sure.
Siren has claws for the same reason a lot of animatronics or robots have claws: they’re more durable and easier to maintain than making a full human hand out of metal, which seldom works for long. It’s just that there is a mechanical reason, just in case anyone thought there wasn’t.
This is more of a lyrical thing than anything, but Siren’s song has the backing vocal lyric “I won’t recognize my face” in it, and yet when she was breaking herself and tearing the skin off, her face is one of the only things she mostly left alone. I wonder if she couldn’t bear to part with it, or if in the future Lockboy can design her a new face as character development.
So yeah. That was my ramble about the things I noticed about Siren actually being a robot and having robot design considerations and implications and effects and all that. If you liked the insight… cool! I may make other posts about the other characters because I have analyses on them too, to a certain extent. Cya!
