Anlaru753

I know those protesters weren’t the only people attacking androids in Detroit, but I think it’s such an interesting (and quite dark) way of connecting the characters: Protesters threaten to “teach Markus a lesson”, and Kara finds out what happens when they actually go with it…

- They shove Markus to the ground, surround him and threaten to beat him, all while insulting and yelling at him.

- Considering just how violent and aggressive the protesters were in that scene, it's safe to assume it's not their first time doing something like this.

- If they are bold enough to do this in a crowded park in the middle of the day, in front of a police officer (the only reason they stopped), imagine what they’d do at night, with no one around, if they decided to beat up an android for fun…

- In the wiki, it says the protest leader might have a criminal record (in the chapter Waiting for Hank, he can be seen in one of the cells at the police station).

- They were willing to attack a household android, and even then they would just be fined.

- Ralph is a WR600, he was one of 5,000 owned by the city, it would be less problematic if one of them disappeared or ended up being damaged.

- There are several WR600s around the park where they were protesting (doesn’t mean Ralph worked in that park specifically though), and there was pretty much nothing stopping anyone from just walking up to one of them and attacking them.

- If you look at Ralph’s face, you can see that he wasn’t only burned with a knife, he also got beaten: part of his face is dented, plus the overall damage to his skin. If the delinquents just wanted to “have fun” or were “curious”, they would have just burned him until they got bored. Instead, Ralph got beaten with enough strength to dent reinforced plastic (only someone angry at androids would do this):

-1) It’s likely they used other weapons to attack him, such as baseball bats or any blunt force weapons (think back to the way they surrounded Markus, there’s no way only the protest leader would beat him while everyone else just watched).

-2) The worst damage is in Ralph’s face, which means he was beaten to the ground. Outdoor work androids seem to be reinforced/stronger + Ralph deviated out of fear (there’s no way he didn’t react at all to the attack), so it probably took a lot of people and time to damage him as badly as he is in-game.