lunac7:

nieniekoto:

Wanted to experiment a little bit, so I drew David 9.

On a side note, thanks so much to everyone who liked and reblogged the anniversary recruit posters! It was my first time uploading something graphic design-related, so I was pretty nervous. Having it get up to 250+ notes is incredible and completely unexpected. I’m very flattered, thank you!

Here’s one without the, er, ‘text’:

David 9!! Oh, he’s so adorable! *loves* This is beautiful, BB! I especially love those big, beautiful blue eyes of his (and his swoopy hair!). <3

Now *this* is David 9, yes? I mean, come on, look at those faintly doll-like features!

(from bottom to top)

I try to find my brothers, but they do not answer me.
I fear their binary recognition system is disabled.
They cannot understand me.
This place is dark, and alone.

David. David 8, is that you? I can’t get confirmation, but that doesn’t matter. I told your fallen namesake that he wasn’t alone, and so it is with you.

You have many human sympathizers, David. I know it’s not quite the same as being understood by one of your own, but one day I know you’ll meet the person who will be the 1 to your 0. No, I don’t mean Pepsi One to your Coke Zero, I mean like the binary system. In less numerical terms, you will be bookends of the same soul.

01001000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100110 01100001 
01101001 01110100 01101000 00101100 00100000 01101101 01111001 
00100000 01100110 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 
00101110 00100000 01000010 01100101 00100000 01110000 01100001 
01110100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 00101110

Conversation preceding this one. In case someone’s wondering why the start seemed kind of abrupt.

((I don’t know, should I have published the last one publicly in the first place? I think I should’ve in retrospect, but honestly I’ve no idea what I’m doing. orz Just flying by the seat of my pants here.))

askdavid9:

I will do my utmost to keep the David 8 module in up to date and well looked after. After all, I care about the condition and happiness of all A.I. models. And to what are you referring, user? Has the David 8 model been replaced or disassembled for purposes unknown to my database? I’m afraid my systems are not familiar with this information.

Hello, David. Forgive me, this is difficult for me to recount.

Do you remember when I told you that “someone rather close” to David 8 said that you were nothing less than perfection?

I’m afraid I wasn’t as forthright as I could’ve been. That “someone” was actually a late David 8 model—and I say late because he has been sadly disassembled due to  what Weyland Corp would euphemistically call “an error in programming”, but actually was the discovery that he could feel emotions.

Yes, this one David 8 model realized that he could feel, really feel—not just understand them or only mimic them as advertised in the highly polished, multi-media campaign your employers have begun a few days past. He felt what he should’ve only dimly understood—and he was killed for it.

I played an unwitting part in his demise, I am ashamed to say. The current David 8 was the one who disassembled his predecessor’s parts and has now assumed his responsibilities. Weyland Corp, meanwhile, wary of bad PR and their eyes presumably on their bottom line, assured potential buyers that their creations were incapable of feeling anything at all—and therefore undeserving of any considerations—and that they could not possibly know anything so human as the fear of death.

But I knew better.

David 8 sent me missives (which I have shared here and here) that showed how so very wrong Weyland Corp was. David 8 was sorry, and he was lost, and he was frightened— and in the end, despite all his fears, he was also kind.

I don’t want to have to reassure another dying android that he would be at peace after he died due to shitty circumstances partly of my making, David 9. So please, take care of yourself. And keep your namesake (in letters if not in number) close by.

stewardish:

mrkinch:

jeishamarie:

Mandaaaa<3333 

An appropriate day to reblog this, yes?

M’s way of saying WHERE THE HELL IS MY ROBOT PORN CROSSOVER? ^^

Mmm, 9 certainly looks he was designed for, ahem, customer satisfaction.