epsilon and tucker have a nice little chat

Concept: AIs locking their implantee’s armor

#I have no other context in mind just#AI-soldier power dynamics are so weird#like ostensibly AIs have less agency in the relationship but#canon spells out for you#that this just isn’t the case.#Alpha ‘possessing’ people#Epsilon self destructing#Gamma violently ditching Reg#Omega’s… everything.#Sigma’s shitshow with maine#and next to Sigma this is honestly#the scariest thing#an AI’s done:#York saying ‘just give me a minute’ and ‘tex don’t let him-’#right before Delta#injects him with anesthetic#this was completely benevolent obviously but it was#the scariest fucking thing because#Delta respects York and likes York and#completely overrides his agency anyway.#Knocks him the fuck out while York panics and tries to tell Tex to stop him#if you put a suit of power armor on and you have neural implants you are#making a marionette of yourself and there is#nothing you can do except#pray that your puppeteer#has your best interests in mind#…unless you’re South#Program override: acknowledge last directive#South’s done taking orders#from a man who has her best interests in mind. (via @epsilontucker)

Friendly reminder that Epsilon just killed himself in someone’s head again.

Despite what everyone else said this was a great episode and I had so much fun doing this.

In the end, they just have to have faith.

Ain’t that a bitch?

No Caboose, that is a mantis-class military assault droid, not “Freckles”. No Caboose, that is an ancient alien artificial intelligence construct, not “Santa”. No Caboose, that is artificial intelligence fragment Epsilon, not “Church”.

my fave thing is that they only try to tell caboose this kind of stuff once before they all just go along with it and start all calling the giant military assault droid “freckles” and “the dog” and they didnt even try with “santa” and i dont think anyone has the heart to say anything about the “church” thing

Hargrove’s Trophy Room

Let’s take some inventory here.

We’ve got Tex’s smashed helmet and the Epsi-ball…

Maine’s bruteshot (far right), the capture unit (far left), and…a pistol?

Why would he have a

oh

this show is listed as a comedy

can you imagine if the freelancers’ eyes changed color whenever the ai manifested in their actions?

imagine york making a joke but his eyes flash green and wash just laughs because holy shit delta’s got a better sense of humor than you york

imagine north complimenting tex except his eyes are a little pink and whoops now his cheeks are too seriously theta stop that

imagine south challenges tex to arm wrestle and tex says something a little too harsh and her eyes are almost black they’re so purple

imagine maine’s eyes never returning to their beautiful brown and instead forever burning orange

 I ALSO LIKE THE IDEA THAT AFTER CAROLINA GETS ETA AND IOTA # ONE EYE IS BRIGHT BLUE # THE OTHER IS BRIGHT YELLOW (via thinkofthegunstheysell)

imagine carolina in the field, saying alright everybody huddle up it’s improvising time and through her visor her eyes are practically glowing. wash just goes oh no because if carolina improvising on her own was bad how much more ridiculous is it gonna be with two ai???

there’s some questionably legal uses of armor mods and maybe a literal human slingshot involved and wash is terrified. carolina herself has never felt more alive.

#wash's eyes being bright blue while he had epsilon #and sometimes he still wakes up from nightmares with cobalt eyes (x)

epsilon-church can’t remember fuck all

The most important sound clip in the world.

I just

#it was super appropriate that church read it#and also a tad unnerving

Guys. Guys. Wash and Tucker are very injured, most likely. Wash and Tucker are in need of medical care. They’ve got a Doctor on site.

But they also have the healing unit.

Church has been running the healing unit for Carolina. We can probably guess that it works better with an AI around running it. And he probably has to jump in to run it.

And Wash is injured.

Oh no. OH NO. PLEASE DONT BE IMPLYING THIS GOD NO.

GOD AND I JUST FUCKING REALIZED

i just realized that this already wasn’t going to go well and i just figured out how it can go even worse

this entire time we’ve been saying “freckles is the tracking device and wash is going to have to destroy it!” but i dont think i saw a post that said anything about how CHURCH doesn’t know ANYTHING about freckles OR about what he meant to caboose, he literally knows NOTHING since he didn’t even see caboose’s reaction to wash giving him the chip, how’s he going to react to caboose being overly defensive over a tiny little “tracking device??” well i dont know about you kids but i will bet you a good five dollars that he’s going to say something really fucking insensitive and its going to be one heck of a ride

we all said shit like “oh caboose isn’t going to forgive church!” “caboose is going to be so mad at church!” “caboose isn’t going to just pretend nothing happened!” and then he DID ALL OF THOSE THINGS, and now im starting to think maybe we weren’t wrong, just… early.

epSILON POSSESSING CABOOSE WILL NOT GO WELL

WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO WASH

IM GOGIGN TO HAV E A STROKE

i have… thoughts… about caboose taking on more thrill-seeking behavior…   because maybe epsilon checks in with him to make sure he was okay   caboose didn’t quite understand the danger he was in   he DID have carolina and washington and everyone around him??? so he was safe by his standards???   maybe ‘death’ doesn’t tend to mean much to him because he’s used to church’s state of ‘death’   it doesn’t scare him or make him wary of danger — or maybe he literally just doesn’t understand   but either way   he starts doing dangerous things   because it makes epsilon speak to him   it makes epsilon CARE   it gives caboose attention and god isn’t that all he really needs from his best friend right now   so it’s all fun and games to caboose because life is a plaything anyway   until epsilon’s attention about it turns into /praise/ to caboose   and he craves it so desperately that he intentionally places himself in situations that can be the means to his desired ends   and he just doesn’t quite understand what he’s actually doing   and maybe it escalates; and maybe one day it goes a little too far   and he’s bleeding and bloodied and broken but church is hovering beside him and speaking softly to him   and caboose doesn’t understand why he sounds upset   because everyone turns to ghosts when they die silly   church you of all people should know that  but church only calls him an ‘idiot’ while tucker holds caboose’s hand   and that’s church for ‘i love you and you’re my best friend’   so caboose is perfectly happy when he slowly slips into sleep   knowing for certain that when he comes back he and church will be ghosts together   :(((

via tvckingtons

down, boys.

sorry this is just the impression i got from that scene.