#i love how I can casually mention casshern sins robot pregnancy compared to other stuff despite that being wtf out of context

[no1ryomafan]

Not to talk about random robot concepts and a bit of mega man lore but you know what goes through my mind occasionally? The idea of making a robot a *child*.

Child robots are such a fucked up concept to me when you specifically look at it through the lens of “it’s a society where human robots are normal” cause when it’s a case like early mega man the robot masters take various different non human looks Rock being young isn’t weird, but when you look at *Reploids* later you realize they’d need to be upgraded to get older, and it seems to be a thing that’s implied by Zero and definitely a thing by ZX. Every human is a cyborg in ZX and Reploids get a lifespan to balance that out + we know who’s a reploid by the head triangles, and we see children with those triangles so we KNOW those are kid Reploids…

Reploids are given lifespans sure yet if they are made as children they have to be upgraded to age, that’s not really aging, that’s just making up for the fact if you don’t get upgraded you’d otherwise be stuck as a child you’re whole life and that’s fucking horrifying to think about. Even if getting old has it’s disadvantages and being a child is treated as a great thing, never getting the chance to grow up unless you are upgraded just makes you ask why weren’t you just built as a adult to begin with if you don’t age properly like humans do?

And I also think about Casshern Sins approach to this, how we see many child robots too yet we also learned robots wanted to figure out reproduction and it only somewhat succeeded before it was ultimately scrapped yet I gotta wonder: while it was said they were doing it to achieve evolution, do you also think it’s out of a robot wishing to have a child like a human does? That building a robot as a child does not have the same effect, especially with all the stuff with upgrades? That even if a robot giving birth can be seen as such a ODD thing, it’s still one way they want to be human?

I genuinely need to find more sci fi robot media that dives into this concept because GOD it makes me more existential than it needs to be yet it’s fascinating.