Iāve just seen a couple of weird/meaningless āhottakesā in the tags that I just donāt get. 1) K/l/iff apologists. I just donāt get why some people feel the need to go out of their way to defend him or whatever, because I donāt think anyone legit hates on him except in a meme-y way. Iām saying that as someone who draws him a lot, and pretty favorably at that, so wherever these mythical K/l/iff haters are, theyāre at least civil enough to not put it on fanart, so I donāt get what the problem is. If people donāt like him, they have legitimate reasons not to, and even if they didnāt, itās just an opinion about a fictional character. 2) This is one I saw today: āDonāt s*xualize 1/0/10 because theyāre robots and canāt consent.ā Bro, what in the world are you talking about?? #1: theyāre s*xualized by the game. One of their introductory lines is āWe get the s*xy mission done.ā as one of them runs his fingers across his body. The main character spends the majority of their boss fight ogling them. That ship has long since sailed. If youāve got a problem with the fandom doing it, then I guess youāve just got a problem with the game. Iām not trying to say that itās an illegitimate stance to have, but the post I saw was specifically targeting the fandom, so it seems like an arbitrary double standard. #2: I donāt see why that would even be a problem since theyāre supposed to be adults anyway. This isnāt a S/A/YU situation where sheās explicitly a minor and otaku culture has completely destroyed some peopleās ability to accept that s*xualizing cartoon minors is a bad thing (obviously in that case itās a bad thing). Like I know that 1/0/10 doesnāt have an official age, and you can argue about that all you want, but theyāre heavily implied to be adults: Thatās the general age of the demographic they represent and appeal to. Theyāre military which in most countries only employs legal adults (in fact we know that V/i/nyl Cityās military only employs adults because Y/i/ruk says heās waiting until heās older to join their (nonexistent) air force, and we know heās at least younger than 21 and probably a minor). Their physical design lines up with how adults are portrayed in the game: tall and angular, and more so they share Neon Jās body-type who is most definitely an adult. #3: āThey canāt consent because theyāre robots.ā Um whatās your point??: yeah they are robots: a manmade item, not a sentient creature. Like strictly speaking, I guess itās true that they canāt āconsentā to anything, but no more than a hammer could āconsentā to pounding a nail. Like robot ethics is a whole discussion to itself that isnāt going to be helped by talking about a fictional robot boy band. But itās just the idea that this is the reasoning this person gave against it; it baffles me. But letās deconstruct it anyway: If you donāt think they can consent, then you donāt think they have free will to begin with, in which case you recognize that they arenāt people and thus donāt have the autonomy to consider consent in the first place. If you do think they have free will, then you have to accept that they choose to call themselves s*xy and furthermore draw attention to it, so theyāre canonically fine with it anyway. Like I donāt care about people having headcanons that donāt make sense; I have plenty of those. If you think 1/0/10 are sentient enough to be seen as equals among their human/cyborg peers, then fine. That seems to be the majority anyway. But you canāt ācall outā a fandom based on your own headcanons, and certainly not if theyāre engaging with it on the same level as the media itself. Thereās no need to make a statement about it like youāre unearthing some grand issue that needs to be solved.
