[ Were Simon talking to anybody else he considers as close as Catherine is, he’d probably assume the logical thing, that she asked because she’s ready to go to bat for him against somebody with biceps the size of her waist, and decline to give her a complete answer to that question. But threats to Simon’s life have never really been a talking point in their relationship, so it doesn’t really occur to him that she’d be concerned for his wellbeing or defensive on his behalf in particular. Almost getting killed by people/things was just a thing that happens when Catherine isn’t present. ]
In her world, robots are everywhere, and some kind of worldwide glitch broke out and started a war between robots and humans that destroyed her whole village. I guess she thinks I’m going to get some kind of... virus, and go on a killing spree. She laid off when I told her I was human, but she still doesn’t trust me.
[ He looks away from her scrutinizing squint, and there’s an uncomfortable I-don’t-like-it-but-I-kinda-get-it ambivalence in his voice in explaining this. Sure, it’s super racist against robots, but it’s kinda understandable. From what little he could glean of what life was like in 2104– well, Simon doesn’t consider himself technophobic by any means, but people who’d get implants in their brains so an A.I. could do a doctor’s job obviously trusted it more than his 2015 cave-people did. He’d like to dismiss Zarya’s concerns entirely, but the WAU and its out-of-control evolution and its hivemind are just that little bit too similar to what she was talking about for his tastes.
Next to Catherine, he’s its most stable, autonomous creation, and that thing still had way more of a key to his brain than he was okay with.
Not that Simon “literally doesn’t breathe but still gets winded from running” Jarrett could pull off a successful killing spree under any circumstances, even if he could imagine wanting to. ]
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In her world, robots are everywhere, and some kind of worldwide glitch broke out and started a war between robots and humans that destroyed her whole village. I guess she thinks I’m going to get some kind of... virus, and go on a killing spree. She laid off when I told her I was human, but she still doesn’t trust me.
[ He looks away from her scrutinizing squint, and there’s an uncomfortable I-don’t-like-it-but-I-kinda-get-it ambivalence in his voice in explaining this. Sure, it’s super racist against robots, but it’s kinda understandable. From what little he could glean of what life was like in 2104– well, Simon doesn’t consider himself technophobic by any means, but people who’d get implants in their brains so an A.I. could do a doctor’s job obviously trusted it more than his 2015 cave-people did. He’d like to dismiss Zarya’s concerns entirely, but the WAU and its out-of-control evolution and its hivemind are just that little bit too similar to what she was talking about for his tastes.
Next to Catherine, he’s its most stable, autonomous creation, and that thing still had way more of a key to his brain than he was okay with.
Not that Simon “literally doesn’t breathe but still gets winded from running” Jarrett could pull off a successful killing spree under any circumstances, even if he could imagine wanting to. ]