notalive: (the feeling of it makes me smile)
Connor ([personal profile] notalive) wrote in [community profile] dualisnet 2020-02-27 06:05 pm (UTC)

It must be a little hard to get used to. The movements of the body, including the voice, are totally useless when he's using the mind palace - it's as natural to Connor as breathing, but for Hank it must be a strange thing. (Actually, Hank isn't breathing right now either)

He lets Hank look around, take control of Connor's focus to shift it where he wants. Though it might be strange if he focuses on himself. There's nothing visually different, not exactly. But there's a large amount of processing power dedicated to Hank that becomes especially clear in Connor's mind palace.

Impulses - to look at Hank, to touch him, to taste him, to hear his voice and hear his opinion on the things important to Connor. Awareness - a constant background awareness that Hank's there, close to him, and the comfort that brings him, the little occasional flickers of wanting more, wanting him closer. Emotion - Connor's feelings are cascades of programming that, with Hank, are in constant ebb and flow. In some moments it becomes so intense it takes up more space in his memory than it rightly should, little hitches in his system that Connor marvels at sometimes. He feels so strongly it affects the very core of his being.

If he looks at the tasklist still present there, the top item on it is just one word, with a series of collapsed subtasks: HANK

Connor's not sure how other androids experience love, or any other emotion. But his very nature means he understands very well what they mean for him.

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