I like to think that the only reason Otto doesn't flirt with Branch is because he considers Branch too young for him but not like in a "oh sweetie I'm too old for you" type of way but in a "Ew who let this 16 year old in" type of way. Like Otto seems like the type to absolutely despise kids in public spaces, and even tho Branch his NOWHERE considered a child, Otto still treats him like that. Aka, "Why did they even let you in here?" "I'm 25."
Otto isn't scared of the bros... He's scared of Poppy 😳 ... but don't give him too much credit
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something about Fusionsprunt that i often think about, is this contrast between human conscience and artificial inteligence, in which one of them is far more 'genuine' than the other, therefore valid. in the original context, Hunter is a human man whose brain was tranferred into the skull cavity of a robotic body, while B2 is an android manufactured to undergo the human experience in an attempt to answer the question 'how far can technology go, until you're unable to discern a man from a robot'.
when i think about these two characters living their everyday lives, turns out both are selfish, reckless, mean and stubborn, and that is comforting to me. both are making mistakes and being embarassing and not realizing it until later.
that's why, i don't like the thought that Hunter, a 'genuine' conscience, taught anything about living to B2, that he acted as some kind of mentor or guide. idk if he was ever asked to try he'd wait 5 minutes and ago fuck it i have no fucking clue. not to mention he wasn't there when she was created. he did acknowledge her existence, but he never doubted her capacity to feel or experience sorrow and frustration — though he did, unfortunately, took advantage of her programming to hide the truth for all those years the war against Bortom city took place.
on the other side, B2 isn't necessarily clueless or 'numb in an endearing way'. it can be difficult for her to understand complex emotions that are not hers, much like it is for us when someone explains a situation that we are often times unfamiliar with. B2 is not the only, but one of the examples the abstract idea that objects 'feel' when they're given emotions — not always in a literal sense.
new ideas create legs and run around. have you ever looked at the front of a car and thought 'is it smiling or frowning?'. some houses look so lonely and melancholic whenever you drive past them. what about when it rains and the sky looks sad (or relieved, depends on how you view it)? things are alive, and you care enough to acknowledge them. they become individuals with their own emotions. but then, there's never a way to tell what someone's thinking. you can't look at a person and, uh, read their thoughts (that's invasive). not even the people who worked on B2's program were capable of judging which lines of code are functioning.
sometimes we create things, and they will come to life, and these living things we created will also create other living things, and so on. it's not so far from what we think it makes us human. to sum it up, concepts have mingled (and that's not a bad thing, in this case).
in the end, there's truly no way to discern machine from flesh. Hunter and B2 are both lost and found, numb (due to trauma lol) and vigorous, selfish and altruistic, a little bit of everything simultaneosly. they're also the society they live in, the people they met, and they're also each other.
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