#that's why I wish there was another HumaGear who had a singularity that 'went against' what humans wanted of them

[firebirdsdaughter]

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… Convenient. That Aruto only asks the kid why they’re trying to destroy humanity. Convenient.

Imagine if you’d asked this from the start. Imagine if you’d asked the person who probably had an answer (unless he’d been programmed to just say ‘will of the Ark’).

Sorry, Aruto’s just kinda pissing me off.

‘I hope humanity and HumaGear can smile together’ he says, right before summarily destroying a child dropped into this w/ only what he was taught by his embittered and resentful father. Still, still all your speeches ring of ‘I only support HumaGear as long as they unquestionably support humanity.’

‘If only your learning weren’t steeped in violence’? Yeah. He’s like that bc humans fucked his father’s mind up, then killed him, and he’s caught holding the damn bag.

That ‘emotions convenient for humans’ thing is coming into my head again. I loved that tweet. I love that person’s comments. HumaGear and human peace should not be based on HumaGear only experiencing awareness in  a way that’s serving to humans. No human mind is constantly completely convenient for others. Justice should not be solely defined as how it benefits humans. If you’re giving them self awareness, HumaGear should not be treated as some rung on a ladder for humanity to climb. They should be treated as equals. And to me, Aruto has been rather wishy-washy on that. Izu, oh she’s my equal, she’s my family, these HumaGear, oh, they’re good, they have hearts, looking at them helping people, look nice they are. This HumaGear who has anger and rage and hatred? Emotions that humans and other sentient beings also have? And he’s acting on them? Screw all those speeches I gave about HumaGear learning from humans and having hearts, obviously this one is evil! There’s no way he could have learned this from experience and there is absolutely no possibility of ever getting through to him in any way. (I mean Horobi. Really, it’s like… You only support HumaGear self awareness that benefits humans. If one goes against that idea… Sorry, you’re evil and will now be destroyed. And I hate that Horobi’s really the only example of that bc yes, he’s done bad things, but… Augh.)

I’m hoping that w/ the new enemies being humans, someone (probably Horobi) will raise the point of ‘a HumaGear threatens a human, you immediately destroy them, but a human threatens a HumaGear [I’m guessing?] you let them go?’

This isn’t ‘Horobi is bad and he taught Jin to be bad.’ This is ‘humans did something horrible, made the Ark homicidal and drove Horobi over the edge and he raised Jin w/ that outlook.’ Again, it’s just like Isamu having a kid, and raising that kid to think HumaGear are evil.

I don’t want a ‘Jin is good now bc he’s remade from scratch and taught differently’ I want to see ‘self aware HumaGears have the same capacity for good and evil and change as humans do.’ I want to see Horobi learn how to change, to realise that not all humans are actually awful. I want to see Jin w/ his full memory learning more about the world. I want Jin to keep his remarkable status as a HumaGear who was made to exist rather than to serve humanity. Like, seriously, Aruto, do you have any idea the beauty you just destroyed? Jin was the only one of his kind. He was literally no different than any human child.

Imagine if, instead of saying ‘if only you had been raised different,’ Aruto had said something like ‘okay, but did he tell you why?’ had ascertained more about where Jin’s anger was stemming from. Maybe Jin reveals that Horobi was his father, that he loved him and was angry and humans for killing him. Aruto could have offered to help repair him, could have said, ‘let’s work through this together’… But no. No, all we get is ‘if only you had been different.’ No attempt to treat him as a thinking equal. No respect. Just ‘you were threatening humanity so I’m going to destroy you, even though you only learned it from your father who in turn came to that view bc of humans in the first place.’ Justice rooted so much in human benefit.

On the bright side… There is a possibility that this will get tossed in Aruto’s face later as more information comes to light. As he finally sees a properly singularity, maybe, and realises that a self aware HumaGear is not inherently good or evil, but has the capacity to learn and grow in both. That they change and develop just like humans. In the mean time, this ain’t gonna endear him to Horobi one jot, I suspect.

Makes me think of a line I wrote for a fic I mean to finish one day:

‘Do you think HumaGear who awaken will have good will towards humans?’

‘Do humans deserve our good will?’