Terribly Abnormal About Robots

stuff I think about a lot for potential fic application. Like when we're thinking about in general what is it that actually bound the 3 together in the narrative, it wasn't by their own choice, and one could say "well nobody really chooses any body, it's all random", and perhaps that's partially true, Tessa pulled whatever drones out of the pile, probably indistinguishable, that was random. But Cyn made the choice they would never truly leave the manor in a way; they'd continue to be servants and they'd be together, no matter how they felt about another, death could not separate them, Cyn would bring them right back, to her they were a playset. And they also share the same "disease" Cyn gave them, of which they can never be cured and makes them live forever.

"the emo snatching the ties of destiny" is a very true statement, VERY much so with the fact before even inheriting the AS she straight up stole N and V by being a hacking genius, and now thanks to AS omnipotence they're all (including the hypothetical J) hers.

Thinking about hypothetical full company or even just a canon compliant friendship reunion, they're free, right? Uzi isn't going to make demands, torment them, I don't think she's the kind of person who would use her powers maliciously if like, they wanted to go their separate ways from her. But that's still a choice being made and it's not theirs. Uzi replaces Cyn as the core of the disease, and all they can do is trust her benevolence she won't force them to stay with her or stay with each other against their wills. But it still must be harrowing in a way, that there is no pure freedom, with no strings attached.

She COULD force J, N, and V to be an inseparable playset. The implications of that idea only get darker the more you think about them. She wouldn't though. Or at least all they can do is trust she wouldn't. But at the same time here they are, again, (and depending what flavor you like your J lore of joining the group, they found her, abducted her, rescued her.. she couldn't get away, perhaps even couldn't stay dead) and the only way to undoubtedly prove they are allowed to leave each other is by... Leaving. That's not exactly the .. goal.

This is why jenvys its own polycule within the polycule to me it's just so delicious the way there's ... an unbroken tension in the back of their minds. 💕

Anyway all this to say I feel like this image of Uzi having them tied together and subdued is .. man how do I put it. It's like she's not domming N and V and J, she's domming the set of them. I'm picturing addressing them not by names, just "you (all/three)". And it brings up weird feelings that are trauma adjacent like the inescapabability of things but like.. it makes them feel steamy and squirmy.

And it's like ok Uzi isn't going to abuse her power like Cyn and make them stick together, but ummmmmm this like microdose of What If She Did is kind of hot ..? Did they always actually like this? if Cyn had let them go would they have ACTUALLY left? Is it easier to just tell themselves it was her fault, and, what, Uzi's now? Lmao sure tell yourselves whatever you want. I'm thinking the tighter the rope the better even when it starts getting hard to breathe. And the REAL mindfuck domming starts when Uzi takes out some scissors and starts making some agonizingly slow snips and they frantically beg not to be cut loose ...which is practically a feedback loop of turning each other on by hearing one another beg.