#odi millican

[c0ffeebee]

added some more of my stuff to society6 today ❤️

[campfortitude]

SO THATS JUST IT???

[wellamarke]

@humanschallenge Day 6 ‘fix it’

I almost always ignore deaths in fic so today I went for fixing my biggest problem with series 2 instead, sorry Mattie for what comes across as a personal attack~~

•••

The door closes behind Odi, and in all honesty, Mattie’s just looking forward to getting on with the rest of her plan. She turns away, ready to get back to her computer and her quest for (what exactly?) finding Leo.

Then she turns on her heel. “Damn it,” she mutters under her breath, and throws the door open again. “Odi,” she calls after him. “Wait up.”

Slowly, crookedly, he looks back at her. “Mattie. I thought you said…”

“I know what I said, but it’s not safe. No offence, but you’re way beyond your sell-by date and if anyone finds you, they’ll call Special Tech, and you’ll be scrapped. Or worse.”

“What’s worse than being scrapped?”

She’s been on the Headcrack forum enough the last few days to have seen the rumours. Unmarked vans, coming to spirit away synths who start asking questions. “I don’t know. Just…come back in.”

He follows her.

“Don’t worry,” she says. “We’ll still work on what we said. Finding you a purpose or whatever. But maybe not outside on your own, right now.”

Later, at dinner, she comes clean. Her father puts his head in his hands but lets her mother give the lecture on responsibility.

“Bringing a life into the world isn’t a joke, Mattie,” Laura scolds, and Mattie doesn’t argue back, although in her head she says, Calm down, Mum, it’s not like I’ve gone and got pregnant.

Toby is impressed, she can tell, that’s she’s dropped herself in it. “I was going to keep him a secret,” she says, in answer to her brother’s eyebrows, “But he’s miserable. And this is the one house in the country where he doesn’t have to be. I thought, if everyone knows…”

Laura sighs. “Go on then. Go and get him.”

Sophie is way ahead of her, already out of her seat by the time Mattie’s set down her fork. Mattie trails after, and meets them coming back, her small sister’s holding on tight to Odi’s good hand.

“You’re our family now,” says Sophie, with more expression in her voice than is usual nowadays. Mattie catches a significant glance passing between her parents, knows they’ve noticed too.

Toby pulls up an extra chair that’s usually home to the ironing pile. “There you go, mate.”

“Thank you,” says Odi formally, and Sophie scuttles back to her own chair on his other side.

“So where were we?” Joe asks with a grin that doesn’t quite hide his unease at having a conscious synth at the table again. At least he’s trying.

“Microchips?” pipes up Sophie, and they all disintegrate into laughter, Joe loudest of all. Odi looks round at them, oblivious to the significance of Sophie cracking a joke, or the reference to Anita’s first meal with the family: seeing, Mattie assumes, only happiness.

And, in doing so, he smiles.

Mattie grins back at him, relieved. It’s better this way. She’s lost a day of searching time, but it’s not the end of the world, probably. Leo will be just as bemused to see her tomorrow as he would have been today. And it’s always nice when you cure someone’s overidentification complex in your own selfish quest for peace of mind.

As Sophie sneakily transfers a spoonful of peas onto the empty plate in front of Odi, Mattie nods to herself. Tomorrow she can really get going.

[herinnerwolf]

So... I’m not the only one who noted that they highlighted once again how Leo has recovered so fast/is now stronger than he should be, right?

They’ve been dropping little hints that there’s more to Leo this season than what we’ve been officially told, (aka that he’s 100% human now), how fastly her recovered, how it is a miracle that he even woke up, let alone with all his abilities intact and without even a little damage, and now we get told he shouldn’t be this strong...

So i feel that it could be something big, since the subject hasn’t been touched until now and we’re basically entering the finale, and if they are reserving it for the finale it should be pretty important right? I think it could be related to the future of human/synths, because i keep thinking about this passage of this article saying niska’s storyline and the future of synths is linked to both mattie and leo, and it sounds to me as if they’re being referred to as an item in this matter, so of course with the whole pregnancy storyline the baby came to my mind. I don’t know how, i’m not an expert or anything so i won’t delve into any hybrid baby discussion, many have already done it, so i’ll just say that i do feel that this baby is gonna be important for the future somehow, since it seems to be the strongest link between leo and mattie and it’s what think about spontaneously when i read this:

I know that the fact that odi came into the picture definitely rearranged things but i also think it doesn’t really conflict with niska/leo and mattie’s storylines being connected otherwise what was the point in mentioning it?

But leaving the baby aside, my major point is still about all that could be going on with leo, how it hasn’t been brought up and discussed throughly what happened to him during the coma since his awakening even if it was crystal clear that there was something weird about it.

I feel like he’s been a bit downplayed this season and that maybe it was done on purpose to distract the audience from what could be going on with him, to keep the revelation as a big twist, but still leaving some clues here and there about him still being different. But maybe i’m just downright wrong lol.

If it really turns out to be a dead end and there’s nothing going on with him tho, it’s gonna be very disappointing and also a bit senseless to me because why insert those little clues at all then?

But anything is possible so i guess i should also consider that it might really be totally random and it leads to something else entirely. I’m just very invested in this theory i guess, also I’ve always loved the idea of Leo being half something and half something else, a bit representative of the possible future and of coexistence between the two species from the start.

am i alone??? tell me i’m not as crazy as i’m feeling lol.

Also, this is totally random but now that Odi is back i’m really dying for some major odi/mattie interactions, i loved them in S2 and i definitely hope they’re gonna show us more of them as a duo!

Sorry about this long rant, i just wanted to throw out there everything that’s going on in my mind about it and i love how many of you also came up with all those theories and shared them!!

[terrilynn88]

Unsteady :: Humans (3x08)

[madamnerdette]

You guys, ODI FOUND HIS PURPOSE. I'm emotional.

[showzens]

i have literally cried 3 times in the past 20 minutes

ITS FUCKING ODI HES HERE HES BACK AND I LOVE HIM JUST AS MUCH AS ALWAYS

[harrietmjones]

Odi!!!

...not Odi?