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hayleblackburn · 1 year ago

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I love the idea of Iko being the ultimate girlboss post-series. Imagine how excited tiny pear-shaped Iko would be if she got to meet escort-droid Iko!

iko will see all crew dying oh my god...probably after cinder dies she'd want to close her system but crew's children convince her ithink

Over time, her AI would continually advance, and with it her sense of mortality. Humans do not want the burden of immortality if it means seeing everyone die, and I think she'd feel the same. I think at some point she would die, whether or not it's alongside her friends or much later is up to the imagination.

Remember also, Androids can die. If their software is damaged like in The Little Android, they will expire. And Iko was killed in W&N volume 2 when her personality chip was crushed. So perhaps over time her escort body stops working, and with technology changes, her personality chip becomes incompatible with modern androids. Maybe there's a power surge that fries her personality chip. Or maybe she decides not to backup her personality to a fresh chip, accepting that if her current system were to fail, she'd be ready to let go.

In any case, the older she gets, the human she'd get. Maybe her final act of being human would be doing what all humans do.

#i was so excited about wires and nerve but then my best friend and i ripped it to shreds in the subsequent years #probably bc it was the first time in tlc fandom history that there was truly No More Content Coming™️#so there was really not much to do but over analyze the existing books #and the art style in the 2nd book was not my favorite so I ended up not revisiting the books very often #also kiko is cringe. there i said it. iko is a lesbian even if MM doesn’t know it #I also think the center of W/N (Iko’s arc about her humanity or lack thereof) is kind of narratively unsatisfying #iko deserved better imo because the whole duology had these really heavy themes abt what it means to be human (standard TLC)#but unlike the main series I feel like the bulk of the overarching plot and it’s themes remain unexplored #maybe it’s because the graphic novel medium limits the amount of story that can be told through dialogue alone #maybe it’s because marissa was sick of writing about cyborgs and wanted to write about superheros for awhile idk #regardless I just kind of wish wires and nerve was better #anyways that’s ENOUGH unsolicited rambling in the tags for today!!#tlc #iko #tlc meta #rambling in the tags

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