#rich folks look more robotic and less human in an attempt to imitate him
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starlooove · 2 years ago
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Would be so cool if Batman beyond leaned a lot into the cyberpunk thing
#y’all know the video game#shit like that bro#enhancements built into them that are the norm#if we wanted to make it bloody#a scene where Terry gets a deep cut or smth#and its wires mixed in with his organs#for the angsty time travel aus#terry goes back in time but the tech that keeps him running simply isn’t available#and he’s still human but the parts he used to rely on are gone#he can’t see or hear straight across the city with the flip of a switch now#he gets kicked or punched and it hurts#he’s so much…softer now#the kinds of music he likes the fashion he wears#it’s all almost otherworldly#and bc I love cyborg#in this au he’s like the pinnacle of a cyber-human being#as opposed to the usual trope where he’d be out of date or smth#he pioneered the whole thing#rich folks look more robotic and less human in an attempt to imitate him#they pretend they don’t have emotions either refuse to get their hands dirty bc they’re just so advanced#point is that the rich folk fundamentally misunderstand who cyborg is as a person#bc they don’t see him as a person#Cyborg DOES have emotions he DOES the work to upgrade himself he pushes himself PAST the limits of a machine bc that’s not just what he is#he’s not just The Cyborg he’s Vic.#in this lil au I think the thing with Terry would be him getting blasted to the past#learning how to be more human#completely rejecting his robotic sign in a misguided attempt to copy cyborg#that’s an opposite parallel to the way the ppl in power back in his time used to do it#until he meets cyborg and realizes that he’s both#both man and machine he’s cold and warm and loves and is apathetic and he’s a PERSON or whatever idk
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