Just an idea the task force noticing Android reader getting more human (like developing feelings, opinions and thoughts) also trying to mimic human reactions and behaviors trying to "fit in" (if you catch my drift)
I understand the idea behind the ask, but that's sort of the opposite of how Android!Reader functions in my mind. Because that's the entire point - they are not human, they don't become human, they don't even act much like a human because of who they are and how they have been placed in this dehumanising bubble of being something 'other' than everyone else.
This is the entire intention that Reader never feels like human either, frankly, they don't want to be human. Perhaps they just didn't want to be an 'object'.
But Android!Reader has different kind of perception and they already have thoughts and they already shared them in the previous snippets. They do have a personality, as much as it is allowed within the frames they were set in.
In some snippets we can see how Johnny or Simon loosen these frames. For starters, because Simon too never really felt like part of something other than military - he has been a weapon too for as long as he could help it. He doesn't know it any other way and that is why he finds kinship in Reader.
Johnny is just so alive that it is hard not to give around him. Johnny doesn't want Reader to become human, he just wants them to be and preferably around their taskforce.
Android Reader makes no mistakes and needs no sleep, they don't cry and don't scream, they never complain and have no autonomy. They are a perfect soldier and shield behind which anyone can stand if needed because they do not die.
And I want you to think for a moment about that. They will outlive 141, they will outlive the next task force too and as long as they are getting updated, they are never dying.
They might start eroding with time though. You know, their programming was never meant to go on forever and at that point, they'd become a ship of Theseus kind of thing because how long can you keep replacing old parts until they are no longer what they were in the beginning?
How cruel it is, to make something that will not age, will not die and will not go mad, so it can stay around forever and despite everything else, still do the thing we all do with time - change.
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