one of my greatest irritations with the dbh fandom is the way most people act like non-deviant androids walk around saying “Beep Boop I Am A Robot” all the time 😭like a big part of the reason cyberlife is so successful is that androids are lifelike! they act like humans! pretty much the only difference between deviant and non-deviant androids is that deviant androids can say no! sure deviant androids may have more of a personality but that’s because they’ve escaped from the people who literally own them! also, most of the non-deviant androids we interact with are when whoever we’re playing as is presenting an android, ofc they’ll act cold, they don’t think they’re speaking with someone who’ll appreciate inflection! or, it’s androids who’re designed for manual labour and so specifically don’t have a social program/have a less developed social program!

like there’s a reason that when we play as markus and kara before their deviation, they can still make decisions!! hell, almost all of the time we play as connor he hasn’t deviated and yet isn’t just a caricature of an ai from 20 years ago.