#so oblivious

What I love about him the most is that he wants a sense of being. We’re first introduced to him in his training/beta form, the first thing he does it look at his hand and reflection. After he gets his shit rocked multiple times and Julian patched him into a fighting master control program, after he learns Julian is his creator he asks “who am I?”

He’s an advanced ai, and the first thing he asked is if he had an identity, a sense of being. And Julian destroys that by telling him he’s not a who but a what with a designation rather than name. Julian then later uses “100% expendable” in front of Ares, who then repeats that multiple times to himself after he gets derezzed a few times.

When looking through Eve’s digital archive the tie in of Frankenstein “I am fearless, therefore powerful.” His unintentional comparison of himself and the monster.

He realizes Julian doesn’t care that he created a ai so complex that it forms a sense of self, who can make jokes and becomes so curious of the world. He loses trust in his creator since all Julian has done is destroy and rebuild him to do his bidding.

That solidifies when Julian orders Ares to kill Eve to retrieve the code after Ares confirms with him multiple times that the process would eliminate Eve from both worlds. Despite being a control program made for battle, Ares was uneased by the idea of killing a user. Especially after he sees Eve have an empathetic response to him, seeing that she was amazed by him.

He was curious of life. He didn’t want to destroy it.

Ares hearing thunder for the first time, seeing fireflies. Catching one without killing it too. Stopping seconds before hitting a car with a baby in it and he just stares at it curiously before swerving around gently. His love for Depeche Mode and being unable to describe why he likes it. Calling the Honda Civic type R a classic after info dumping about it. “I like the 80s”

When speaking to Flynn and retrieving the permanence code, Ares is told “this is it, you only get one.” In which he responds “I only want one.” He doesn’t want to be remade over and over again, he wants to simply be.

so you all are besties. survive the perils of manners and etiquette classes together. grow up past teens and into young 20 something lady & her maiden who have to go to balls 🙄 and dress up fancy every time. like christ, the amount of time it takes to get corseted…

but then it starts to be fun when Prince Edward takes a real shine to you. now that he can slink off into the shadows- the King officially announce his own blood, Prince Stephen, as his successor the other week. and Eddie’s freed up to be a rascal.

and he flirts so openly with you during a dance in front of the other royals and the servants and god and everyone that Robin and Steve are like 😑👥😧 are you seeing this my lord. yes my lady. what sickening stuff this is. For real.

and they both decide silently to pull their friends aside. Steve approaches his step-brother with casual jovial nature, slinging his hand around the younger prince’s shoulders like heyyyyy brother. hey bro. you absolutely cannot fall for the freaky witch’s kid. you know that’s fucked up, right? And Eddie’s like what the hell 👁️👁️ why would you say that. I’m not in love with her. Obviously Not.

and as Robin braids your hair before bed later that night she’s like listen… I’m just telling you what Steve told me. but apparently Prince Edward sold mushrooms to that Henderson stableboy for a farthing telling him they were “good dream shrooms”. but all he did was give that poor kid an irritable stomach. I don’t think Edward is a good guy.