#also i may have delamain involved in some spoilery stuff for my fic but you didnt hear that from me

[trashcatsnark]

🚖the full Aidan and Delamain tea pls

Ooooh Delamain~

Firstly, I am a firm believer that Delamain has some sort of feelings for V in canon. Like his splits in personality being triggered not like after meeting V, going outside of his service area to pick V up, and helping Goro administer first aid. Then you have the quotes about him questioning love- Like???

That context provided. Aidan for the most part likes Delamain, she'll never quite understand why he went out of his way for her but wouldn't change the agenda for Jackie which still upsets her a bit. But he saved her life, so how much can she truly be mad at him?

Honestly, the concept of AI and stuff like it has always freaked Aidan out a bit. She's not particularly net or tech savvy beyond fixing up cars or bikes. So, it feels really beyond her comprehension. Which I think is part of why she feels very prone to "humanizing" AI, because "if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck- it's a fucking duck". Delamain looks and acts like a human for the most part, so she just treats and sees him as one. He's nice, he's helpful, he tried to make her laugh by parroting one of Jackie's dumb jokes- looking at his weird AI splits, he's clearly mentally ill which she can relate to.

Only with the Delamain that discusses the Blackwall and seems to know things about her that he shouldn't, does she ever really feel herself second guessing how human Delamain and his splits/children are

And she struggles a lot with that final choice. She hates hearing main Delamain in pain and hates that he's struggling, but crippling and snuffing out sentiment offshoots of his code/his soul feels so fucking wrong. (Especially the Delamain she talked off a ledge- that Delamain is her son now)

Overall, she really likes Delamain and cant quite fathom why the sentient AI seems to like her so much.