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[goingtobefun]

Your Muse: David 8
Muse wanted: Alan Turing
Community: SWS/SSWS, open to private threading
Fandom: Aliens saga, and -- real life, I suppose. Though Imitation Game would obviously be a big influence
Canon: Did David travel back in time? Did Alan travel forward in time (er, more -- rapidly than one normally does, obviously)? Did they freeze Alan

Comments

[madhumor]

I so thought I was the only one who might want to play/play against Alan Turing.

[goingtobefun]

Turing is fascinating, and I have a lot of Feelings about Robot Philosophy. And the way Alan's relationship with (computer) Christopher was portrayed in the film was lovely and heartbreaking.

[madhumor]

It was beautiful how they did it in the movie, just enough to be heartbreaking but not creepy or weird, etc. I would love to work something out with you, though I admit I know nothing of the Alien Saga. I am an email player is the only other thing though.

[goingtobefun]

David is... complicated. There are a lot of stories where the robot wishes to be human, which isn't the case for him. He's perfectly fine being an android. He considers himself a superior being, in fact.

What he does want, however, is to stop being considered as less than. He looks to his maker, Peter, as a father. But Peter has a biological daughter, and would say things to the effect of "David would be the son I never had, if only he had a soul" or "He cannot show gratitude because he is not human