Summary: After the Android Revolution, you were one of the few that chose to remain in service. You were still considered alive and free to make your own choices, but you couldn’t leave your charge; a sick elderly woman that doted on you as if you were a member of her family. After a break-in, Connor is the first responder and helps track down the person – or android – responsible for the crime. Remaining on the police force with Hank as his partner had been a no-brainer. He wanted to make sure that both parties – humans and androids – would be held accountable for their actions. When responding to a call one night, he met Y/N, a caring and sassy android that he never saw coming. He was still learning to deal with his emotions, but no one – not even Hank – could have prepared him for the overwhelming swelling in his chest and this need to see her again. Word Count: 2,411 Warnings: Angst, fluff, language. Possibly more to come. Author’s Note: I absolutely adore this game and Connor. Title inspired by Robots in Love. I will be using my Everything tags for this series. If you do not want to be tagged, I’ll remove you. GIF Credit [X]
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2039
Less than one year after the Android Revolution, the government declared that androids were alive, a verified new form of intelligent life. That meant a wave of new bills flooded the President’s desk; equal rights, no more segregation and slavery, the right to expand their families, to get paid a salary for their hard work, to have a home to call their own.
Those rights might have been granted, but that didn’t mean it was going to be easy.
Millions of people around the globe were resistant to the changes. Losing their androids meant they needed to clean up after themselves, to take care of their children, to get clean and sober. It also meant more competition for work, which made the humans more bitter.
Demonstrations and riots started soon after, humans and androids were caught in the crossfire. And then, after a particularly savage protest where red and blue blood ran through the streets like a river, the President passed a law that, “All android lives were to be treated with the same respect as human life.”
Whoever took the life of an android would be punished as severely as if it had been another human. The same went for androids. If they took the life of a human, they were to be persecuted to the extent as humans.
After all, equal rights wasn’t a one way street. Everyone had to take the bad with the good.
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