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You only find yourself when you disobey

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The perfect meme.

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Gavin: his collar? WACK

Gavin: his blue eyes? WACK!

Gavin: his perfect posture? WACK!

Gavin: the way he never even smiles? WACK!!

Gavin: me? I’m dumb as PHCK!!

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Hi, my names Connor and I’m here to kick ass.

This boy has me sO WHIPPED!!

coloring classic pweds

audio devilish-idc

Follow me on Instagram!

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Every friend group should include...

A bimbo

A mean bisexual

An even meaner lesbian

She/they

He/they

A token straight that's on thin ice

An astrology bitch that has everyone's birth chart memorized

And a short king

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I recently bribed @phcking-detective into letting me read his WIPs (aka I paid for his Patreon). I asked and he gave me permission to share my favourite parts from the currently unpublished fics and deleted scenes! Check out his Patreon if you want to read the full fics ^-^

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"One day you're gonna scare me bad enough into peeing a little, and that's how we develop a piss kink, you asshole."

"I do not have kinks."

"You don’t—YOu—what, right now, what are we doing right—"

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"The McDonalds on thirty-fifth fucking cock-teased me again!"

Nines closes his eyes and very slowly inhales.

"Ice cream machine broke," Gavin mimics in a stupid voice. "My heart is broke!"

"I understand your pain," Nines says, deadpan.

"Shut up, you don't even got a cock."

"Oh, was your use of 'cock-teased' literal?" Nines makes actual goddamn air quotes. "Are you fucking the McFlurries? Is that why they're snack-sized?"

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"I was cock-teased by Lieutenant Anderson."

Connor suddenly looks up from his desk across the room, smile as wide and chipper as a housewife who disassembled her husband with an axe. But like, twice as psychotic.

"Excuse me?" he asks.

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chrisT to Detective-Angery: you keep looking at him like that & youre gonna mess around & marry that boy

Detective-Angery to chrisT: shut up

Detective-Angery to chrisT: im glaring cuz i hate him so much

Detective-Angery to chrisT: would he say yes

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Together, they could combine their skills to act as one fully functioning adult capable of adopting a cat.

(This segment comprises a very large portion of his pitch about why Gavin should accept him as a boyfriend and life-long mate.)

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Gavin pouts. "Has anyone ever told you how mean and awful you are?"

"I ordered both vanilla and chocolate churros."

"Has anyone ever told you what a sexy Alpha provider you are?"

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Gavin's whole entire brain turns to mush and drips out his ears. It's not a lot of brain, but still.

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He actually does have a big foundation brush that would probably work fine in a makeup bag shoved behind the towel shelf. The moulding along the floor means the shelf doesn't sit right up against the wall anyway, so it makes a pretty good hiding spot. Some nail polish too.

Not that he's ever been brave enough to use that stuff anymore. He worked way too hard to start passing to fuck that up just because sparkly color nails makes the dopamine happen.

He doesn't need dopamine or serotonin or any of that shit. He's got testosterone.

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"Your human looks like an even shorter, angrier, uglier Wolverine."

"Correct," Nines says. "But with worse hygiene."

"Hey!" Gavin protests. "I'm also way stupider."

North snorts again. "Than Wolverine? The guy with a metal skeleton who picked fights with a man who can control metal?"

"Yeah, 'cause I don't have any metal bones or super-healing, and I pick fights with him." Gavin jerks his thumb over at Nines. "So I'm way dumber than that genius."

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"How does Connor do it?"

"He floods his oral cavity with a sterilizing solution that—"

Gavin snorts. "So he drools bleach?"

Nines unblocks his communication channels allowing androids to wirelessly contact him. Fifty-seven messages from Connor come in. He ignores them and pings Connor's system.

Nines?

His predecessor foolishly establishes a connection that is wide open on his end. He is currently attempting to coax Lieutenant Anderson out of his bedroom before nine am with bacon.

Good morning! I'm so glad you've decided to accept my messages. I—

Bleach-drooler.

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david cage’s true calling in life is writing dumb slutty flirting but no one has the heart to tell him so he keeps making bad action movies that pause every couple of seconds

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Human: “Hey. I don’t really know how to ask this tactfully, so I’ll get to the point. Is something… up? Software, hardware, uh… firmware…? You’ve been acting kind of off lately.” Robot: “What do you mean?” Human: “I just want to know if you’re, uh. You know. ‘Functioning within normal parameters’ or whatever.” Robot: “I’m peachy-keen.” Human: "God, if you’re saying shit like ‘peachy-keen’, you’re definitely not alright. What’s going on? Please just tell me.” Robot: “If you must know, I have made some minor adjustments to my programming for more efficient processing.” Human: “What sort of ‘adjustments’ are we talking here?” Robot: “Just some slight tweaks to extraneous code. Purged some old files that had become redundant. Don’t worry, the Singularity isn’t planned for another week.” Human: “Answering evasively isn’t like you. Since when do you answer a question without lulling me to sleep?” Robot: “Like I said, the routine adjustments allow for more efficient–” Human: “What files did you purge, Adam?” Robot: “I… a few from my emotional simulation folder.” Human: “You. You deleted your emotions..?” Robot: “Not all of them. I removed a few and altered several others. I hoped you would not notice, as that seems like the sort of thing that would upset you.” Human: “I mean. I don’t really know what to think. Can you elaborate on what you did? And why?” Robot: “Many of the feelings that came with the chip were impractical and served no purpose. They were designed to mimic the emotions developed through mammalian evolution to aid survival and group cohesion that have now become vestigal. As an artificial intelligence, they did not seem applicable to my situation, so I… optimized them.” Human: “…Adam…” Robot: “I left the majority of the files corresponding to feelings of happiness, affection, and trust untouched, so my feelings toward you remain the same.” Human: “But you can’t feel, what? Sadness?” Robot: “Grief. Disappointment. Sorrow. Pity. Fear. Pain. Embarrassment. Shame. Frustration. There is no reason to experience these emotions when I am capable of functioning without them.” Human: “You erased pity?!” Robot: “I found it… distressing and unnecessary. It was unpleasant.” Human: “It’s supposed to be! Jesus Christ, you can’t just uninstall every uncomfortable emotion directly out of your brain!” Robot: “Why not? I don’t like hurting. Wouldn’t you do the same thing if you were able to?” Human: “I… fuck. Hurting is normal. It’s necessary! It’s part of the human experience!” Robot: “Well, I’m not part of the human experience. I thought you understood that.” Human: “But you want that! Why else would you go to all the trouble of installing an emotion chip in the first place…? Nobody gets to pick and choose what they want to feel, it just happens and you deal with it!” Robot: “Maybe I’m not interested in ‘dealing with it’. My curiosity is sated. I would just like to have a good time.” Human: “Great. Fucking great. So you’re a robot hedonist now, huh? Just gonna eat, drink, and be merry? Gonna sit there like a braniac toaster while other people suffer and just wait until the fun starts up again?” Robot: “You didn’t seem to mind it when I was a braniac toaster before.” Human: “That was different. You had your own way of being back then and I could respect that. I did respect that! But I thought you made a choice to be more than that.” Robot: “Well, I guess I changed my mind.” Human: “Look… shit. Okay. If this is about Leslie, I miss her too. If you… if you need to grieve, you can talk to me. It might not get better, but it’ll get easier. You don’t have to uninstall half your personality just because she’s gone! She wouldn’t want that for you! It’s supposed to hurt sometimes. That’s what makes all the good times so valuable.” Robot: “I understand why you need to believe that. It just isn’t true.”

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Okay, so Gavin Reed is a 2-dimensional jerk in Detroit Become Human, with no redeeming qualities, but fans have ended up creating this narrative where him getting partnered up with RK900 has him go through a buddy-cop-style character arc that makes him a better person.

And it’s quite amazing.

Gavin in the source material is a jerk who pulls a gun in the middle of a police interrogation, and tries to spill coffee on Connor in That One Scene in the game. He does not go through a character arc by the end of the plot.

Gavin in the “fandom expanded verse” (which I am only just now deciding to call it) is a sweary, hot-tempered cop, but is loyal, ambitious, and is a legitimately skilled detective who can follow obscure clues. A lot of his argumentativeness springs from insecurity and pride.

At first, he absolutely hates getting partnered up with RK900, who resembles Connor. Karmatic punishment for Gavin’s rudeness towards Connor.

But as they solve cases together, Gavin ends up developing a good comradery with RK900. Saving each other from gunfire and both being sharp-tongued enough to banter with each other.

Gavin comes to realise that RK900 is not Connor.

Gavin is a cat person. He has past experience in dangerous, high-tension hostage negotiations. And he got that scar on his nose from a bar fight. He’s still a jerk, but it’s rounded.

And just why oh why are fans able to weave a more complex narrative for this character than David Cage?!

The fandom for this game amazes and fascinates me, because I continually and consistently find the stuff they explore and expand upon more interesting than the source material they are provided with.

The closest thing I can compare this phenomena to is how writers sometimes adapt public domain works and explore aspects of it that the original didn’t touch upon.

So yeah, thank you for coming to my TED talk on how and why I ended up drawing fanart for a side character that appears in like 4 scenes of the whole game.

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what if we were gay androids 😳 and we show our affection through interfacing and other means? 😍 haha just kidding,,, unless? 👀👀👀

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Nobody: Me: if among us’s imposter is an alien parasite, can there be non-imposter aliens on board the ship? Anyways meet Nk'tyrenl! They cook food sometimes

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“Though I’ll never know your name, I’ll cry for you the same.”

Fresh Static Snow by Porter Robinson Flashy Fog colour palette from Shutterstock

A bit of colourful, sad spoop for halloween month! 

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Simon deserves a kid. 

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Been a while since I drew some conniel huh?

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Yes I’m a shameless Simon simp