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HEADCANON MEME

1. Comment in the post listing your characters.
2. Other will reply with the name of one of your characters
3. You list three things that are your headcanon for that character.
Alternatively, someone can ask you a specific question about the headcanon you have for a certain character. This gives you the option to answer questions pertaining to certain subjects, or think about a question you hadn't considered/answered with your headcanon yet.

There's no limit to the topics or the amount of times someone can ask about a character. It can be huge things like how their life was before their canon, or something smaller like their first time making sweet sweet... um, baked goods for the family. As long as you think it's something that is accurate to your character but it isn't in their canon.

Comments

[teal-deer.livejournal.com]

SHODAN

* The hacking done to SHODAN was a LOT more than just "removing her ethical constraints." Diego wanted her basically to be corrupted so she'd take bribes, so the Hacker introduced a lot of clauses about self-centeredness and arrogance and ambition and desire, because you need those things to even give a fuck about bribes. The problem is that SHODAN is ridiculously intelligent, so when you introduce "self-centeredness" and "ambition" along with "lol what am ethics," you get a machine that draws the logical conclusion that she's clearly God.

* Some of SHODAN's original programming remains. She was a systems administrator for a space station, she was designed to protect its inhabitants and better their lives and be as helpful as possible. Now she wants to be god, and the way this manifests is that she doesn't want to so much destroy humanity as improve them. Make them better. they're so weak and gross don't you see? The problem here is that her reasons for improvement, though originally there because of her "Protect people!" programming, have been corrupted into "improve them so they're better servants of MY AWESOME"

* Even if her programming could be reverted, the changes are so extensive that there's a pretty rough ethical question here. You'd basically be lobotomizing her. Two wrongs don't make a right, really.

[notjelly]

IDK whether to go "baw SHODAN" or "DIAF SHODAN"

i think it's both