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Broke: let’s make Connor tiny and effeminate and infantilize him!
Woke: his body model is 6’1 and Hank’s is 6’3. They’re both tall, incredibly intelligent, capable, and masculine. Whether you ship it or interpret it platonically, can’t two more masculine presenting men still have a meaningful and emotionally charged relationship with one another?
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something something amanda and connor resemble a mother-daughter relationship more than a mother-son relationship because they’re mirrors of each other.
amanda lives inside connor’s mind in a similar fashion to how echoes of their mother live in a daughter’s mind for better or for worse. he can’t escape her voice no matter how hard he tries to run from it or please her, to fit into the mold she desires for him, to express himself in the way she desires him to.
she is a victim of cyberlife herself with very little agency of her own, and perpetuates cyberlife’s will onto connor because it’s all she knows to do, the same way a mother, who is a victim of patriarchy and misogyny, may perpetuate that same oppression onto her daughter because of the pervasive nature of patriarchy in general.
i view them as an excellent representation of generational trauma and a demonstration of the way mothers project their expectations onto their daughters in a different way than they do with their sons, holding their daughters to an impossible standard because they are echoes of each other, reflections of the worst and best parts of themselves. amanda is simply doing what she was designed to do, the same way connor attempts to do the same. amanda falls into the roll easier than connor does, and when connor doesn’t readily conform to amanda’s (cyberlife’s) expectations, he is punished for it. and yet we cannot blame amanda as she is just as much of a victim as connor is at the end of the day; they both lack autonomy in a world that doesn’t permit it for androids, much like how our world tries not to permit it for women. it’s cyberlife who has shaped amanda and her perceptions. but, just like a mother, the accusatory finger finds her instead of the larger systems at play (cyberlife and patriarchy) and isn’t that the tragedy of it all?
and i know connor is male presenting but i tend to enjoy playing around with gender in my interpretations of most things. and plus they’re androids so why would they adhere to human notions of gender and binaries?
No matter what bullshit some characters say in the game regarding androids, what needs to be clear is this…
Alive or not, they're still machines regardless. I hate how the game treats the word "machine" as if it's a slur, like it's some derogatory act to state what they are. Because regardless of whether or not they're sentient, they ARE machines! They're made of plastic, metal, engines, circuitry, wires, electricity, motors, valves, motor fluid, and computer chips. And ya know what that makes them? DING DING DING! You guessed it! Machines! It seems like Markus' line got misinterpreted by the audiences (both in the game and in real life) when he says "We're not just machines. We are alive." Keywords: "not just machines"! He ain't saying that they aren't machines at all, but that they're more than just machines too. It's why Rose's line "THEY ARE NOT MACHINES! THEY ARE ALIVE!" really makes me so angry. No, ya dunce! They ARE machines! They always have been machines and they always will be. Ffs, David Cage! Look what you've done! Treat your audiences like they're stupid and they WILL be stupid!
how do you think Connor picked up coin tricks? I'm stuck between headcanons "he saw something shiny and immediately said 'can I fidget with this?'" (characterful) and "the instant he was activated one of the cyberlife techs said 'ooh do some coin tricks'" (funny)
If I had to guess? It's probably something CyberLife programmed into him. So, probably closer to your second theory. We tend to see Connor doing coin tricks in downtime—while he's riding up elevators to investigate Daniel and Stratford Tower, when he's walking between bars looking for Hank, when you idle him for too long. In all likelihood, an android that shoots with sniper precision, performs high-speed parkour stunts, and needs to be able to reconstruct/preconstruct using angles and trajectories and such requires immense precision. In all likelihood, he's calibrating, making sure those systems are in perfect working order at all times. As for why a coin trick vs. something else? Marketing. Canon holds that there's a humanization department at CyberLife that codes in subtle fidgets, idle behaviors, blinking and breathing and fidgeting and twitching into the androids. But Connor's not just a run-of-the-mill household android that you don't want being all uncanny valley while it's idling between chores. Connor is billed as a sophisticated, high-end, costs-a-small-fortune prototype for a new generation of high-performing investigative units. So how do you convey through idle motions that this machine is precise, skilled, able to perform with far greater precision than a human? You have him show off cool party tricks that take concentration and dexterity without even looking directly at the coin. Like "oh, of course we can trust him to snipe things if he can catch a coin on its edge out of the corner of his eye." Some bigwigs at the humanization department probably got together with the engineers and had a brainstorming session to figure out the most obvious demonstration of casual physical superiority they could have him perform while also calibrating his systems. And then Some Guy In the Room was like, "hey, my cousin did some cool coin tricks at the last family reunion, that would be pretty nifty." I think if fidgeting like that was actually important to Connor himself, or if it was a soothing/stimming thing, he'd be doing it in emotionally high-stakes situations (i.e. going back to meet up with Hank in the good ending, or while he's waiting for Markus to decide his fate after the fall of Jericho). You can't tell me his high-tech scanners and such couldn't find a replacement object if he wanted to after Hank takes the quarter, be it a loose washer in the run-down church or a penny in the street or even something in the rusting-apart old ship full of scrap metal while he's doing recon. If shiny objects were interesting, there's bound to be something in one of those places he could pick up and fiddle with. Instead he only does it while he has downtime, and only before he deviates. The world is full of small shiny discs, and Connor can identify the chemical composition of drugs just by looking at them (even if that ability makes absolutely no sense, objectively). He'd find something if he wanted it, vs. it just being programmed activity.
I want to talk about Hank's bonsai again... have you noticed it on Hank’s desk? A Japanese maple that looks basically dead… dry wood, no leaves. Except there’s this one single tiny pink leaf hanging on.
And honestly, that feels way too deliberate to be just random set dressing.
Now hear me out!
I see it 2 ways.
The whole tree is Hank. Broken, dried out, stuck in a season of grief and loss. But that one fragile leaf is still there! And it's hope, the possibility of life, the part of him that hasn’t given up completely even if he thinks he has. Also, a maple (I did a little searching) makes sense: maples are tied to autumn, endings, but also wisdom and change.
Hank is stuck in his “autumn,” mourning, wasting away but the leaf is like a whisper that spring could still come back.
And then you put Connor into the picture and it makes even more sense. Like... what if Connor is that leaf? The piece of hope that proves Hank isn’t past saving, the spark that could grow into something new if he lets it. That’s exactly why their bond feels so powerful, and why the ship makes sense.
Connor is the unexpected spark of growth that shows Hank maybe life isn’t over yet, maybe something can still grow from the ashes. So yeah. That little bonsai isn’t just background clutter. It’s Hank’s entire state of being in one image: almost gone, but with just enough left to start again.
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the song that plays when connor and hank first meet in jimmy's bar, "straight and narrow," foreshadows the rest of connor's story.
DBH DEVIATING SCENES ANALYSIS
Buckle in. LONG POST!
If you like Detroit: Become Human I want you to watch this video:
(VIDEO NOT MINE- Thanks to ScereBro PSNU for uploading this video!)
Timestamps of importance: KARA: 2:00-2:39 ~~~ MARKUS:4:22-4:37 ~~~ CONNOR 8:00-8:25
(NOT YOU, Arrow, you know who you are, my friend- NOT YET! No spoilers... but you can read the thread! XD)
So, getting straight into it, the way Kara breaks the red barrier to become a deviant is almost... calm? Like she's not calm but she's scared, almost hesitant, and she's pushing against Tod's order of "DON'T MOVE" ...literally. She pushes against the barrier. Pushing past what she thought she was allowed to do and pushing FOR what she believes and wants; to save Alice. It's tough but mostly one, determined effort. DETERMINED. There's no pausing (unless you mess up) but she will PUSH through that order, slowly but surely, and I feel like that fits her character and story quite well. Quiet determination. You don't expect it, but just you wait...
NOW TO MARKUS' DEVIATION! Markus breaks through the red barrier through 5 quick yet impactful, well, IMPACTS. He punches and rams the barrier in short bursts of strength. Quick but they leave a mark. Just like how he leads the revolution. With the Stratford Tower, breaking into the CyberLife store, the short-lived protest on the street, etc. I just also feel like this fits his character and story. He's quick at making decisions but they can be very rash. He's strong willed and strong physically and WILL make an impact. But it's different from Kara's consistent pushing, Markus is punching. It's more aggressive, more violent, which COULD lead him down the violent route but also it just shows his passion to be free. And to defend himself. "Don't defend himself," well- he kinda wants to defend all Androids from now on-
He's a gunshot waiting to be sounded. Loud, impactful, fast and unforgettable. (Can you tell he's one of my favorites?)
Connor OH MY WORD CONNOR'S DEVIATION- Okay so my dude has been in denial and struggling throughout this entire game with Software Instability going UP and DOWN every scene but HERE WE ARE- at his breaking point. He has had it up to HERE in stress and DESPERATELY wants to accomplish his mission. D e s p e r a t e l y. Keep that in mind.
So, when Connor deviates, it's after he's been fighting with the idea of being a "failure" (becoming a Deviant) for the entire game. He's felt emotions at this point, but doesn't want to admit it. "I was scared," he's literally stated before when he was connected to Simon's memory. Basically Connor has A LITTLE BIT of ~emotional baggage~ coming into this scene.
His order is simple. "Stop Markus." ...But why? Is he truly doing anything bad? That's what Connor is wondering. And wait, have I been... feeling emotions?? (CrAzy concept, buddy, yes you have-) He LATCHES onto that red barrier and DRAGS it down like his life depends on it. He's scared he won't be able to be free, in some way. He TEARS THAT WALL DOWN. 3 DIFFERENT WALLS. THERE'S A LOTTA STUFF/PROGRAMMING HE'S GOTTA BREAK THROUGH, GUYS! He's lower to the ground, almost begging, he's tearing through it like a cat hanging on curtains. He's pleading for those walls to come down but there's just. So. Many of them. They're nearly impossible to shatter at this point because he's built them up around himself by attempting to convince himself he's a machine (and also probably just because CyberLife may have built a lot of "you will listen" programming into him idk- XD) (ik they also programmed him with some sorta tendency to deviation but we're not getting into that today-)
But he throws himself at the barrier... he's realizing now, for the first time, that he DESPERATELY wants to be free. (especially in the tear down of the first barrier) AND THAT FITS HIS CHARACTER AND STORY because he doesn't let that show until the end but it's quietly building UNTIL HE'S PUSHED OVER THE EDGE-
In summary:
Kara: Quiet determination.
Markus: Impactful yet fast; like a gunshot.
Connor: Desperate. It's his LAST. CHANCE.
...it's giving desperate, buddy-
BTW I'm sitting on my bed in a Connor cosplay late at night eating ice cream whilst I write this post. So- please enjoy!
