#it is rated t but a lot of the violence upon slaves is off screen or interrupted

[1eos]

Wanted to ask: how is Arise as a whole? I love the demo but when I started playing the actual game I thrown by the slavery plot (my fault for not researching). I want to give it another try but that pink is giving me a racist vibe. Does it let up?

oh no i get u 100% when i booted it up and it said 'slaves' i was like HUH? no way....like no way....but so far (im like 30 hrs in) its avoided every common pitfall of fantasy slave narratives. the slaves don't all look a certain way and the slavers don't all look a certain way which i was worried abt. and the enslaved ppl havent done anything to 'deserve' being enslaved which i was also worried abt. everyone reacts to the pink haired elite girl w a correct amount of suspicion and teammates are chastised not for not trusting her but moreso for arguing when theyre abt to be like bombed 😭😭😭😭and the game does a really good job hammering home that no matter how much the pink haired girl helps them the slavers are overall the enemy. and in the arc im in now i was surprised bc they made a 'good' lord and then revealed that his 'benevolence' at the time was purely selfish. its surprisingly nuanced. even in the realm where other enslaved ppl help turn in other slaves theyre painted as victims who deserve to be redeemed and only the slavers don't

as someone who has a LOT of complaints abt slave narratives in video games (see my beef w dragon age) i don't have much to complain abt w arise. which is shocking bc i was VERY wary. they even made sure to never look down on slaves who didnt fight back and a character tells the main guy that survival is all u can do sometimes and that's ok. its hella clunky at times but ppl who are racist fr get killed like w no exception

the only iffy thing is the pink haired girl. she is VERY off putting and i can tell she's just a tsundere for justifiable plot reasons but it does come off as her being racist which is uhhhh. but as u progress u realize she don't like anyone slaver or enslaved and i THINK the story is going to push her to address her implicit biases and open up so she doesn't come off as a cunt. bc she is the first one to swing on a slaver so its very clear that she's pro liberation even if she's a tsundere that makes it seem like she's only doing everything for herself and like i said other characters are quick to drag her. so that probably will be the main thing that bothers you but once u get past the first 1 and a half story beats that part of her personality takes a back seat for better parts of the narrative

im glad i went in blind bc if i had known i probably wouldnt have bought it bc of how wary i am abt slavery plots but so far? im not mad at it and ive been really pleasantly surprised at how well things have been handled???

#this is so long but i wanted to be thorough #oh another thing is theyre not gratutious w the slavery violence which i also appreciate #it is rated t but a lot of the violence upon slaves is off screen or interrupted #but the nuance really shocked me #even in the town w the 'good' slave master ppl have problems w those in charge #and like i said its all shown to be a lie #oh and even their equivalent for pejoratives against the slaves is dropped SUPER FAST #like after the first hour its never said again #but yeahhhhhhhhh it was such a bad move to make shionne that off putting #and repeating so much racist rhetoric bc it makes it impossible to like her #even tho theyre trying to make it into a tsundere misunderstood sweetheart thing

[kayoiwritingarchivies]

TITLE: What would you consider a trainer, a human, an android?

CHAPTER TITLE:The Hostage

WARNINGS AND RATING: Rated T for Canon typical violence, swearing/

FANDOMS: Detroit: Become Human and Pokémon 

SUMMARY: 

How much of the story would change if Pokémon were part of the same universe as androids? (In which the universe shifts slightly right because someone had asked "What if?" And such, Pokémon are introduced, because that's just the natural effect of this.)

There’s -what appears to be- a man, standing in the elevator, playing with a coin.

He looks human enough, with neat, dark brown hair and brown eyes. He’s wearing a jacket with “RK800” printed on the left in neat, white lettering, and a blue triangle on the right. It’s left open, showing a white shirt and a black tie, with a perfect Windsor knot. He wears a belt as well, holding two shrunken Poké Balls, the red and white casings shining in the artificial light.

And that where the similarities to a human end.

On his temple, on the right, is an LED ring that glows a brilliant blue. His posture is too straight, his stance too stiff, his shoulders too square, face not retaining a hint of emotion.

The elevator doors open, and a SWAT officer brings a hand to his ear and says “Negotiator on site” before moving off, presumably to report to someone.

The “man” steps out, and walks towards a small shelf, looking at the pictures on the table.

His scanners recognise all three people in the image. He takes note of the names and faces of the family in the picture, as well as the Pokémon they are known to have, before placing the frame back and continuing to make his way down the hall.

He stops, and turns to see a Wishiwashi on the floor, next to a broken aquarium. It’s breathing, and not in any danger, but it looks rather upset about it’s situation, so he picks it up and places it back in the tank. That’s when a woman grabs his arm.

That’s when he sees Caroline Phillps in the flesh, and not as a picture that he scanned. She’s been crying, her heartbeat is fast and her breathing is laboured.

“Oh, oh please, please” she begs him, grabbing him by the arm, “you gotta save my little girl…”. She begins to say, before her eye catches sight of the LED embedded in his temple.

“Wait.” She says, letting go. “you’re sending an android?”

A SWAT team member grabs Caroline, guiding her to the elevator.

She screams, she begs, she calls him a thing and cries as she’s dragged to the elevator.

He stands there, face blank, before walking to go find Captain Allen. A lot of the men here are complaining, mostly along the lines of “Why are we wasting time sending an android to negotiate?”

“Captain Allen?” The android questions, upon seeing the man. “My name is Connor. I’m the android sent by CyberLife.”

Captain Allen sighs, and his Watchhog follows suit, before going “It’s firing at everything that moves. It already shot down two of my men. We could easily get to it, but they’re on the edge of the balcony. If it falls, she falls.” He turns to look at Connor.

Connor tilts his head, taking in the information, before asking “Do you know its name?”

The reply, it turns out, is “I haven’t got a clue. Does it matter?”

“I need information to determine the best approach.”

Connor receives no answer, so he asks “Have you tried its deactivation code? Or perhaps a Porygon2 or Magnemite?”

“It won’t answer its deactivation code, and none of my men have those Pokémon.” Captain Allen says, before turning back to the screen.

It seems like the Captain won’t answer more questions, so Connor turns to the empty hand gun case on the floor. There’s an empty box of ammunition next to it, and he scans both, before reconstructing what happened.

He can only think of one possibility of what had happened.

DEVIANT TOOK THE FATHER’S GUN

There’s a 56% percent that the operation will succeed. He continues to look further.

He ends up in the daughter’s room and looks at the tablet on the desk. He picks it up and unlocks it, watching the video that’s on it.

“This is Daniel, the coolest android in the world! Say hi Daniel!”

“Hello!”

“You’re my bestie! We’ll always be together!”

DEVIANT’S NAME IS DANIEL

When the video ends, Connor sets the tablet back on the table, carefully slotting the information away for future use. He looks down, to finda set of headphones on the carpet. It’s still playing something. Connor picks it up and presses it against his ear, filing away the name of the song and the decibels it’s playing at. There is another conclusion he come to when he does.

CHILD DIDN’T HEAR GUNSHOTS

Feeling like he’s searched the whole room, he leaves.

He approaches the father’s body, and scans it, looking at the gunshot wounds and reconstructs the scene, seeing the father sitting on his couch, looking at something in his hands. He was holding…something, Connor can discern from that.

The father turned around, and was shot by the deviant, sending whatever the father was holding flying into a corner.

Conner finds the object, which happens to be a tablet, this one covered in blood. He unlocks it, only to find an order for an AP700 being confirmed.

DEVIANT WAS GOING TO BE REPLACED

The probability of success goes up to 68%. A SWAT team member is shot. An Herdier barks at the window, ready to tackle the whoever made the gunshots, only to be stopped by a “Don’t worry boy, I’m fine. I’m alive. No tackling. I mean it.”

He finds a dead police officer on the ground, body already in rigor mortis. He scans the body, also noting the Growlithe that is curled next to the body, whimpering quietly.

DPD OFFICER WAS FIRST RESPONDER

He reconstructs another scene, and find’s the officer’s gun under the table. He picks it up, analysing the model and make, before placing it back down, remembering that it was illegal for Androids to possess and use fire arms, while it was legal for Androids to own Pokémon, as long as they do not use them in combat, unless they were part of the DPD.

Connor looks into the kitchen, turns off the stove, and looks out the window, and finds the deviant outside, holding a small girl in one arm, a gun in the other. He looks down, to see a blood-stained shoe, and Connor presses his lips together in thought.

HOSTAGE COULD BE WOUNDED

Connor steps outside.

And immediately, he gets shot in the shoulder, blue blood spraying onto the wall behind him.

Emma screams.

“Stay back!” Daniel yells, aiming the gun at Connor. “Don’t come any closer or I’ll jump!”

Emma begs Daniel not too, prompting Daniel to press the nozzle of the gun at Emma’s head.

“Hi Daniel!” Connor yells, hand pressing against one of his Poké Balls.

There’s a faint “How?” from Daniel before Connor goes “My name is Connor.”

“How do you know my name?” Daniel asks, gun in hand.

“I know a lot of things about you. I’ve come to get you out of this.” Connor steps closer, pulling a Poké Ball from his belts and enlarging it in his hands.

A helicopter appears overhead, and success rate drops to 61%. He approaches the wounded officer on the ground, trying to calm Daniel. He applies a tourniquet onto the officer’s arm, using his own tie. Daniel still shoots at him, but the success rate rises to 65%.

“I just want all of this to stop!” he yells, gesturing wildly with the gun in his hands. Then he trains the gun back on Connor, and asks “Are you armed?”

“No.” Connor says, but he holds up his Poké Ball. “However, I do have a Pokémon. Psychic. I won’t use it however.” And he shrinks the Poké Ball back down and reattaches it to his belt.

“They were going to replace you and you became upset.” Connor begins, taking another step forward. “That’s what happened, right?”

“I thought I was part of the family.” Daniel says, sobs cracking his voice. “I thought I mattered.”

The success rate rises up to 79%.

“But I was just their toy! Something to throw away when you’re done with it!” and he aims the gun back at Emma’s head, who whimpers and whispers a “Patchy, where are you?”

“Listen.” Connor begins, taking another step forward. “I know it’s not your fault. These emotions that you are feeling are just errors in your software.”

“No, it’s not my fault.” Daniel says. The probability rate is now at 85% “I never wanted this…I loved them, you know…but I was nothing to them.” He growls out. “Just a slave to be ordered around.”

Daniel suddenly snarls, and waves at the helicopter “I can’t stand that noise anymore! Tell that helicopter to get out of here!”

Connor waves at the helicopter, who immediately move away.

“You have to trust me Daniel.” Connor says, gesturing to himself. “Let the hostage go, and I promise you that everything will be okay.”  The success rate is at 99%.

Daniel makes demands, for people to leave and for a car, promising to let Emma go once he gets out of Detroit. Connor tells him he can’t. “Just let the girl go, and I promise you won’t be hurt.”

“I don’t want to die.” Daniel says, voice suddenly small.

Connor placates him with a “You are not going to die, we are just going to talk. That’s all I promise, just let her go.”

The success rate is at 100%, and Daniel lets Emma go, who collapses on the floor, and clutches a Pachirisu to her chest whispering “Patchy I’m okay, I’m okay, you don’t need to shock him, I’m okay…”

Then, a sniper shoots him, before two charge beams and a thunder shock hit Daniel, causing him to collapse.

“You lied to me Connor.” Daniel says, staring at him right in the eyes. “I trusted you, and you lied to me.”

Daniel shuts down, while Emma whimpers, clutching her Pachirisu.

Connor stands there, before turning to leave, letting the SWAT team and their Pokémon to secure the area.

MISSION SUCCESSFUL

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