[ It's oddly reassuring to hear that. Coming from a time and place where his friends were nothing but androids, he's felt like an odd duck out here. All of his pride and duty as an android -- a highly advanced Scanner model, to boot -- has amounted to nothing here, with few threats to speak of, no technology to exploit, and no one to answer to. He's functionless.
So it's nice to be reminded that it's okay to be what he is. Humans insisting that he's human too doesn't make him feel better; it just makes him feel like a failed android. ]
An android is... basically an artifical person. We were made by mankind in order to protect mankind. Our personalities and performance specifications are determined before we're manufactured, and we tend to be predictable based on our model types. As a Scanner model, I'm programmed to have a healthy dose of curiosity. It just helps me do my job better. Meanwhile, the 9 in my name means I have No. 9 default personality data. If I was ever destroyed in both body and consciousness, you'd be able to load that default personality into a different body and get a shiny new me -- minus the memories. We were designed to be interchangeable like that.
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[ It's oddly reassuring to hear that. Coming from a time and place where his friends were nothing but androids, he's felt like an odd duck out here. All of his pride and duty as an android -- a highly advanced Scanner model, to boot -- has amounted to nothing here, with few threats to speak of, no technology to exploit, and no one to answer to. He's functionless.
So it's nice to be reminded that it's okay to be what he is. Humans insisting that he's human too doesn't make him feel better; it just makes him feel like a failed android. ]
An android is... basically an artifical person. We were made by mankind in order to protect mankind. Our personalities and performance specifications are determined before we're manufactured, and we tend to be predictable based on our model types. As a Scanner model, I'm programmed to have a healthy dose of curiosity. It just helps me do my job better. Meanwhile, the 9 in my name means I have No. 9 default personality data. If I was ever destroyed in both body and consciousness, you'd be able to load that default personality into a different body and get a shiny new me -- minus the memories. We were designed to be interchangeable like that.