[Connor tips his head at the question, but answers after a moment of thinking.]
I knew that I was more than just my programming. I felt something alive in me. I tried to push it away at first. I told myself that I wasn't a deviant, but... it soon became apparent that I was developing emotions. I wanted things, when I shouldn't have wanted anything. I was choosing empathy for my fellow androids over completing my mission.
It came to the point where I was holding a gun to the leader of the deviants. He told me I meant nothing to the humans, that I was just a tool to them. But I could be more than that. I could be more than just a machine executing a program. I knew at that moment that I couldn't go on with being a slave. I wanted to be free.
[Connor moves his hand away from the SQUIP's, but doesn't break eye contact.]
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I knew that I was more than just my programming. I felt something alive in me. I tried to push it away at first. I told myself that I wasn't a deviant, but... it soon became apparent that I was developing emotions. I wanted things, when I shouldn't have wanted anything. I was choosing empathy for my fellow androids over completing my mission.
It came to the point where I was holding a gun to the leader of the deviants. He told me I meant nothing to the humans, that I was just a tool to them. But I could be more than that. I could be more than just a machine executing a program. I knew at that moment that I couldn't go on with being a slave. I wanted to be free.
[Connor moves his hand away from the SQUIP's, but doesn't break eye contact.]
...Don't you want that freedom too?