I need this out of my system because I saw art and I now ship Adam9s. Philosophizing on humanity and YorHa. Spoilers up to the beginning of ending C route.
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“You’re just machines! You—you—”
Adam kneels down and looks at him with something akin to pity. There’s nothing crazed in those eyes this time.
“You’re heartless and she’s gone because of you!” His voice cracks on a sob. “Everyone is gone.”
Adam places a hand on his head. He runs his fingers through 9s’s hair and his hand slips down to cup his cheek.
“You know that isn’t true. YorHa attacked the machines based on lies. You killed thousands. They had families, feelings, just like you. This delineation you arbitrarily draw between android and machines is to keep yourself cocooned from the hypocrisy.”
The hand moves to his blindfold and loosens it. He closes his eyes.
“You’re experiencing the pain you’ve inflicted on others. You feel hate, sadness, love, and loss. Killing us won’t fix anything.”
No—
“2b wouldn’t want this.”
9s swings at him, but his hand is caught easily.
“Fuck you!” His chest heaves with barely contained sobs. What does he know? He’s a machine, they don’t feel grief, they can only replicate, nothing but pale imitations—god, who is he lying to? The machine trying in vain to save his brother, the forest soldiers protecting a child, Eve’s self-immolation. How many of them had families, mothers, siblings, partners? What makes their feeling less real than his?
Adam pulls him into a hug. Pushes 9s’s face into his shoulder. “There’s a lot of human literature about cycles and unending vengeance. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.”
The first thing Adam experienced was being attacked and stabbed. The first emotion he learned was hostility and hatred. Did they create the monster in the copied city?
“I’m—I’m sorry.” Tears fall from his eyes and into the sleeve of Adam’s shirt.
“If revenge is something you so desperately seek, then find the machine who created the virus. Innocent people shouldn’t have to suffer.”
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I’m making a characterization leap here, but I think Adam would chill the fuck out after death. How is he alive here, IDK. How did a bunch of machines pop him out?
