Petition To Rename G/T as "Biggie Smalls"

Okay in Connor's defense ☝ This particular experiment was just to see the absolute limit a person can experience rage, which they observed and went "woah, neat!!! anyways" and moved on forever. So he's still very new to actually internalized human emotions and learning how they work firsthand. He doesn't always get what actions will trigger what response, since people can cry when they're overwhelmingly happy or when they're sad and they can laugh when they're at a mental breaking point or when they're having fun. It's confusing.

So yeah, he expects that Max isn't going to be happy with him at first, but he didn't predict just how upset she would be and the fact that she's apparently not letting it go no matter what. Oh, he did a bad thing? Okay now he'll do a good thing so that you'll feel better (: Wait why are you still upset about the bad thing, did you not just see the good thing? Girl move on.

I miss you

No, it sucks so bad and he hates it. He doesn't understand why she's upset when he tells her to make the choice of self-sacrifice, isn't that what she told him was important? Why is it a big deal then? Why isn't she practicing what she preaches? And while it's already incredibly infuriating for her obviously, it's even more so for him because he just doesn't get it. He's trying, but it's not making any sense, what is he doing wrong, he's doing it exactly like she taught him.

He doesn't get why they still can't be friends now or why things can't go back to normal. When they first began their friendship, she didn't think he'd be able to take her home, so why is she getting all bent out of shape about it now when she was perfectly content to just hang out with him forever? He doesn't get why she hates him, because he's done far more "good" things than "bad" things so that should mean he's a good person overall.

Max is a very social person, she can yap your ear off or just dick around all day, the world is her oyster. More often than not it's Max doing her own thing while Connor follows her around to observe and/or comment on, which then leads to her explaining different things about human nature.

Yeah, throwing rocks at warehouse windows is destruction of property, but it's fun and no one is getting hurt, so it's fine :) But also it's bad to demolish buildings. But it's good to go a little apeshit now and then so that you don't keep it bottled up. But it's also bad to take your anger out in overly destructive ways.

Yes <3

(Now that I wrote this it reminds me of Mr.Freeze....peculiar.)

P.S: Gotta respect and admire that alien's resolve to keep a friendship forever. Need me a Connor in my life JAHDHAHHDHAHDHA

And you know what, that's the absolute worst part about it.

Max taught him empathy, now he cares about her.

Max taught him about grief, now he refuses to let her go.

Max taught him about making a sacrifice for the greater good, and he put that moral dilemma back on her.

Yeah he could, if he did a little more research beforehand, but he could def at least keep her in a suspended animation for...reasons :^)

They are indeed quite a tragic duo…although I think that’s nearly every pair of G/t OCs I have lmao whoops. I’m sorry I simply live for the angst and fearplay and no happy ending <3

He cares about her greatly, but you also gotta remember that he only learned what empathy was, like, 2 weeks ago. These are completely foreign ideas to him that he’s never experienced, so of course he’s not going to immediately get what he should do. Max had been drilling into his head about doing selfless things even if it sucks because it’s the right thing, and rather than taking that to heart and embracing this lesson by letting Max go home with the others instead of keeping her…he instead turns it around and forces the decision on her. Because she should follow her own logic, yes? This ensures he gets what he wants and also shows what he’s learned (:

Her relationship with the others vary. Some are chill with her, some find her too annoying or reckless, and someone has a little mutual crush on her. But since it’s probably 7 or less other survivors, they all try to get along with each other well enough. After all, if these are the last people you’ll ever have on “Earth”, then you don’t want to risk alienating your only source of socialization. Especially since bigger numbers like these make it easier for scavenging or taking task rotations.

Max keeps Connor a secret for a while since she also doesn’t know if she can fully trust him yet. It’s only when he seems to have a breakthrough and promises he’ll find a way to send them home as soon as he can that she tells them, obviously they’re gonna need to know if they’re going to be beamed back to Earth or whatever. At first, everyone is less than thrilled and extremely suspicious of Connor given everything that’s happened because of his kind. Some think Max is a full on traitor, or an idiot, or insane, but she’s relentless in her efforts to get them to give him a chance.

Very slowly do they start coming around and being properly introduced to him. And when they finally trust his intentions as they are…mm nah that’s when he has a change of heart now that he’s learned about grief and heartbreak and how much it sucks to lose someone you love. No thank you he doesn’t want to experience that himself so.

:)

Maybe :)))) 

And you completely knocked it out of the park, dude!! I loved how Connor was still trying to pull the 'friend' card because to him, they are still besties and he loves her dearly, but for Max that bridge has been burned and then the ashes also burned again. He's being cruel and selfish, but at the end of the day, it's out of adoration.

Poor Max girlie definitely would grow into the mindset of fuck it, nothing left to lose. She can either take her frustration out on him or herself, and she obviously doesn't have the physical ability to cause him any harm...unless it's through herself. It's disturbing on both ends for them.

Connor is learning about emotions the same way anyone else learns about something new, through exposure. He’s always technically had the capacity for it, but the Vrak as a species just don’t have that kind of emotional stimuli for others to mirror. Him being around Max is like eating a Snickers bar after only consuming cottage cheese your entire life – it’s a very overwhelming experience at times, especially when it’s for concepts that he just can’t grasp.

His 180 change is a very gradual thing. At first, things were going pretty good! Even if he never fully “got” something, he still understood the basic idea of it, which was far more than he knew before. He was developing empathy, he liked how being happy made him feel (well, maybe not at first…) and that he’s at his happiest with Max. He’s breaking out of his shell, becoming something more caring and humane. He loves Max with all that he’s capable of. 

Until he learns about jealousy through firsthand experience. He was never jealous of her old friends that she always talked about, because they were dead and obviously held no competition. But her little…romance she’s starting to develop with another survivor makes all the warmth inside him turn bitter. Then he realizes about the concept of grief when losing a loved one, since helping Max and the others leave would mean never seeing her again. It would be the right thing to do, it would be selfless and compassionate of him to make that sacrifice, it would be an act of pure love that defines his character and proves how much he’s grown. 

Unfortunately, he decides against all of that. He doesn’t like these new, ugly feelings. They hurt and make him feel anxious and upset. These weren’t feelings he was supposed to know, he only wanted the good ones. So if he keeps Max instead, he’ll get those good feelings forever (:

She’s mildly aware of it, but he’s already a weird dude in general, so she just brushes off his behavior off as freaky lil quirks. It doesn’t start setting off alarm bells in her head until it’s far too late.

It’s such a shame, because Max spent a lot of time drilling into Connor’s head about morals and kindness and putting others before yourself. Obviously, Connor is doing none of that, but he also turns these lessons around on her with the ultimatum that he’ll let all the other humans go home in exchange for her staying here forever with him. It should be a cut-and-dry deal based on everything she taught him,  but…it’s hard not to be a hypocrite when you’re the one tasked to be the sacrificial lamb. 

The first real friendship he’s ever had and it’s with a drunk grunge bitch who tells him to kill himself and shows him a sick rail grind before immediately eating shit at the bottom of the stairs.

And he thinks it’s the best experience ever.

Nope! The frequency still plays through any radio waves that are on, but all the remaining survivors are immune to its effects one way or another, so it’s not much of an issue aside from Max getting migraines around them. Since this is an abandoned experiment, Connor doesn’t really have the means to control it anyways.

He didn’t get permission because it’s one of those things where no one said you can’t go take a peek or interact with it after it’s been concluded. It’s basically just laying around collecting dust, no one really cares what’s done with it now. It was just by chance he happened to look into this particular experiment and become interested in it on his own.  

Yeah pretty much lmao. Although it’s been several months since the event so most of the bodies, that have also already been torn apart by others or scavenged, have decomposed significantly.