Here lies the hypothetical evolution of the Genesis / Garou friendship.
Thanks to the headcanons of a friend, we decided Garou would probably get along with Genesis, because Genesis can give him all the attention he so very obviously needs, and Genesis holds back some of his murderous intents via guilt-inducing stares and polite requests to stop. As a non-combatant, he’d likely be of little interest to Garou’s Hunting (and even as a honorary hero, does it even count if all he does is patch up people?
There’s more to it than that and I’m probably not explaining well, but it’s late, so there you go! Enjoy the Garosis.
Saitama finds Aux very cute (though he can’t figure out if he’s a boy or a girl and Aux never corrects him either way).
Aux likes Saitama a whole lot. Tot can fly but he’s always clinging to Saitama and wanting to be carried by him. He gives Saitama little kisses anytime he can.
This is little Aux (short fo Auxiliary). He’s a sentient drone made to deliver emergency medical supplies to Genesis when he doesn’t have time to travel back to Kuseno’s lab, himself.
He runs on the same AI engine Genesis does, although without as much memory capacity and obviously with limited bodily functions
He’s always very happy when he correctly performs his duties, and loves carrying stuff around in his uniform.
The truth is I just wanted a Genobot equivalent for Genesis, such as the Veetles are for Virus.
I LOVE How Genesis's logs included a portion of having Asimov's rules removed. Omg. I really want to know what happened to prompt that and how Genesis feels abut it. Also, I just nerded out happily at the inclusion.
Hah, thanks, fellow nerd! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ
Side note: I know OPM’s world is based on the Saitama Prefecture and not our world as a whole, but I still like the idea that someone came up with laws of robotics similar to those of Isaac Asimov in the 40′s. For convenience and easy relation, I used Asimov’s and kept the name, but I’m 100% aware Asimov probably doesn’t canonically exist in OPM.
(I’m gonna ramble on them and how they affected Genesis now. I’m putting a keep-reading bit here, but I think it won’t actually show in my own blog, I’m not sure.)
For those not familiar with them, they’re are as follow:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Very popular in science fiction and anything relating to robotics. ⊂((・▽・))⊃
Kuseno wanted Genesis to live as a human, and his A.I. reflects that in how he’s able to reason and learn on his own. But while he ventured into the world and began forming his own ideologies, he still needed to be safe to work with humans (wouldn’t want the A.I. to take an unexpected turn and decide the best cure to someone’s suffering is death by default, after all), and the rules were programmed into him as a safeguard.
He was closely monitored by Kuseno during the first few months of his life, as the doctor was very aware that should his A.I. fail or Genesis’s thoughts turned against humans, he would have to be terminated (which Kuseno can do remotely). Dr. Kuseno simply wouldn’t be able to forgive himself if his tribute to Genos’s memory became corrupted, and so he made all extra efforts to teach Genesis about the good in the world, yet also warning him that people could be bad.
Genesis understood all of that, and his personality quickly developed from a caring (if sorta frigid) caregiver to something warmer and more sincere. It happened much more quickly than Dr. Kuseno anticipated, as he hadn’t expected Genesis to commit himself so deeply to the memory of Genos. Dr. Kuseno was very mindful not to force any fondness from Genesis towards others, not even towards himself: he won Genesis over with the same fatherly patience he showed Genos. So Genesis’s idolization of the cyborg he was modeled after was something born purely from the android himself, and it fueled his desire to be good and fulfill his purpose properly.
At this point he didn’t consider himself human yet, but he could accept he had his own thoughts and beliefs, aside from the core commands he abided by. He would’ve been 100% happy to keep Asimov’s Laws within his system, too, but after several morality tests and simulations, Dr. Kuseno deemed him ready to have full agency over himself. The doctor seemed so happy and so relieved by this, Genesis agreed to the removal of the laws.
He came to regret it almost instantly after. Neither he nor the doctor had been 100% sure how the laws actually interacted with Genesis’s state-of-the-art A.I., as Genesis was always more interested in the health of others and the thought of Genos to truly introspect on which actions and decisions were his, and which he simply defaulted to.
Before, if someone looked down on him for being artificial or treated him poorly, the first law would come into place and diminish negative emotional responses, thus making it less likely for him to ever develop a conscious desire to hurt those who hurt him. Before, if he had things to do but a human asked something of him, he didn’t even think twice before accepting, even if it was menial tasks: he only ever refused if he was on his way to a rescue zone. And before, when the laws were in place, he didn’t feel fear or hesitation when jumping into a dangerous situation to save someone.
And it mattered really little that the fear and the hesitation were easy to get over: the fact he was feeling them at all was troubling. So much so, Genesis went through a period of depression and existential crisis, troubled by free will and emotions that were dulled before, but no more. Dr. Kuseno noticed, but Genesis would avoid the topic and throw himself more into his job, overworking himself and putting a lid not only on the negative emotions, but also the good ones, believing them to be a hindrance to his objective.
It didn’t work, though, and eventually he asked the Doctor to reinstate the laws and make his existence simpler. Kuseno refused at first, but given Genesis’s existential struggles, eventually he agreed to alter Genesis’s programming once more.
He would not agree to fully replace the laws within Genesis: instead he would add them as protocols, notifications serving as guides towards what the laws would have him do in any given situation. Genesis would still be the one who’d chose whether to follow them or not, as they wouldn’t actively affect his emotions or his actions, but the reminder of what is “correct” as an android still went a long way in easing his doubts.
It was a patch over a bleeding wound, but it would have to do. True progress in dealing with free will, Genesis’s perception of himself, and a new look on how exactly to live up to Genos’s memory, would have to wait until he began interacting more closely with Saitama, a few weeks later.
Pardon the rambling, this helps flesh out the ideas that had only been kinda swimming around in my head. Much of these AUs is still somewhat fuzzy!
