You ever think about Kara, Markus, and Connor breaking into deviancy?
And how the way that they do it is so illustrative of their character?
First, we have Kara. How she legit stumbles into it. How it was instinctual, yet she was still tentative about putting that first hand against the red wall. But then she puts up a second hand, firming her resolve and confirming this choice, and then she is pushing harder and harder against it until it breaks. It tracks right along with Valorie Curry’s performance at the beginning of the game of portraying Kara as exploring these emotions she’s feeling—uncertain at first, yet undeniably moved by their potency.
Even the way she talks to Rose with the upward lilt at the end of the line, “I felt like her life was more important than mine?” as though she still cannot quite comprehend these feelings of love-affection-protectiveness she has towards Alice. Though she doesn’t understand it, that doesn’t make it any less real; she still feels it and will do whatever it takes to protect this child.
Ugh, I love it so much—how it was the easiest choice in the world for her to make initially, then the hesitancy, then the determination, and finally the unyielding tenacity to keep pushing at that wall, just like she never stops working to protect and care for her loved ones.
Then we have Markus, our favorite revolutionary. This boi has no hesitancy, no doubts, no uncertainty, (no chill lol). He sees that RA9-damned red wall and immediately chucks a punch straight at it. Then another. And when that doesn’t work, he rams into it with his shoulder, running straight into this thing at full force—twice—before finally banging against it with two fists and his whole soul to shatter that thing into pieces.
Which, again, is just *chef kiss* perfect for him. Because unlike a lot of other androids, Carl has treated him like a living being with value. He knows he deserves better than to be scorned and pushed around and belittled and enslaved. And injustice burns white-hot in his veins. No matter what route you take, peaceful or violent or even failing everything, he never stops caring about this movement and about fighting for his people’s freedom. (And speaking of burning…)
Markus was driven like no android who had come to Jericho before. He didn’t just recognize things were messed up—he was determined to do something about it. He ran at the problem he saw before him and his people, just like he ran into that wall of code, with incredible passion and little regard for his own well-being as long as it got something done.
Last but certainly not least, we’ve got Connor, the android sent by CyberLife. ;) More than any of the others, his was one that truly felt like a wall for everything it took to reach this point, but man, when he tore his wall of programming down, he tore it down. Curling his fingers into it, bearing down with all his strength and body weight, ripping it to shreds. Not explosive and quick like Markus’ takedown, but painful and slow and a struggle, like Kara’s. Except for Connor, it wasn’t a one-time push; he had to keep going back at it again and again (three times total for those of y’all keeping count) to finally break that barrier down.
Because that was his journey. It was long, and arduous, and a process of digging his nails into this obstacle and taking it apart brick by brick. For him, empathy, compassion, and autonomy were choices he had to make over and over until he could come to a place where he realized the implications of it and what that meant, where he could grasp this potential future for himself with two hands and decide that yes, this is what he wanted for himself.
For it was absolutely a conscious decision. He did not stumble into deviancy. He was not spurred into it by injustice and the heat of the moment. No, he walked into deviancy with both eyes wide open. It could be argued he was reasoned into it (which fits his logical nature so well btw), and it was a deliberate choice. The build up of every little decision, every scrap of software instability, every ghost of an emotion coming to a head, to the realization that he held the keys to his own prison and had the power to let himself out.
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