#signalis FLKR

[doekimakura]

ADLR bought himself some new shoes.

[flowersnax]

more replikas

[cell151]

The final chapter of Outland

Epilogue: Oceans Apart

Story: Sophie, a Storch unit, has been reassigned to Orion II, a deep space mining facility. Upon arriving she finds that she is the only Protektor unit and that a number of workers have died in mysterious accidents. She is determined to discover the true cause of these deaths and to find out what happened to her lover Julie, a Star unit.

Chapter Summary: The case is solved, the Imperial threat neutralized and a Falke unit has been dispatched to take charge of the station, Sophie faces her most difficult task yet.

The story will continue in "Distant Early Warning"

[crowgutzzz]

falke signalis you will always be famous,,,,,,,, (had to make an infographic for school, so i made it about my current obsession)

textless version!!

[crappwr0m]

I SAW THE VISION (ty oomf)

(Also check both these amazing artists out!! :])

[shardikart-blog]

you dont deserve to meet eyes with a god

[clodcakes]

Chasing feelings, pacing back and forth

What are all the empty places for?

[awwxhf]

both of us are incomplete, let us become whole again.

[herricasat]

[sleepingcapricorn]

— «Both of us are incomplete, let us become whole again»

[doekimakura]

hi hi, fellow fan of your Adler and Elster comic :-) always happy to see people explore these two together.....

Aside the fact that the Adler jokes have grown old, it feels like a lot of people forget that his fondness towards Falke is not something he even got to choose. It was a preprogrammed feature to make him more obedient and easier to mold to his Falkes liking. I often wonder what hed think of that if he read his own Replika files ...

haha oh BOY do I overthink about that one a lot about ADLR.

Deranged ramble below:

I feel like however we see this fact, the results can be very ambiguous, since we have a lot of ADLRs in a lot of parts in Eusian controlled areas. Since Replikas still have a semblance of individuality, different ADLRs may react differently to their situation... although I'm also sure the fact they have this 'issue' will be extremely rare depending on the situation.

(Also looking at the notes again, it seems more that the ADLR units imprinted on their Gestalt source than being preprogrammed? But, eh, semantics.)

But if we're talking about MY ideal headcanon, this is my personal take:

Our ADLR knows. There's no fucking way he doesn't. If he's aware enough to realize he's in a loop, I'm sure he began to notice details he never did before and become more brazen in search of information to find a way out of this mess. I mean, LSTR can find that document lying around, so I bet ADLR has already/can find it, too.

Unfortunately at this point in the story, it probably doesn't matter anymore. Other Replikas have issues, so there's no way he's naive enough to believe only his line is free of issues. Plus, if he's already deep into this shithole, the fact he's preprogrammed to like FLKR doesn't matter, either. She's not waking up and actively refuse to, and everything went to hell and the world is ending. He doesn't have time nor brainspace to think if his feelings for FLKR is real.

And in my take, it's not that ADLR demands any emotional reciprocation from FLKR. I feel like he'd be content watching her prosper from her shadow. So even if he doubted how he felt about her, it probably just made him question some questionable things she's ever done in his lifetime that he shrugged off before? It kind of depends on how their FLKR treat them, I suppose. We don't really know how friendly/abusive FLKR is to our ADLR, so that secret is for him to mull about.

I think if he DOES have time to mull about it, it would probably end up as something he swallow down. He's smart enough to know any negative reaction can risk a decommission, and surely Replikas still have a will to live. He'd probably weigh the pros and cons and decided that: 'Oh well. It doesn't matter anyway,' but lived the rest of his life with an added point to his misery because, maybe everytime he looks at her, he questioned himself whether or not what he feels is real. Whether or not HE is real.

It does make him wonder, though.

TL;DR ADLR is smart. I think through his high INT and the loop he should already been able to figure it out. But I think he accepts it as part of being a Replika. That free will is technically just a dream.

But, oh well. What matters now is to save his beloved Commander. Existential dread can always wait.

[shabachka]

[sakujeanz]

these were all at school. save me girl

[chlobroe]

“THIS GOD WON’T FORGIVE YOU”

[otterkitty]

Mrs Steal Your Girl

[4getful4444]