Four Fics and a Discussion about Robot Feelings

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Feelings felt by robots.

To start off, I thought this discussion about "nonhuman people" went to an interesting place:
Re: Do you think the Buffybot qualified as a person? by buffy-truths, wishiwasmorticia, dreamsofghostsandstars

This poignant supermarket story may have shaped my Buffybot headcanons forever back when I first read it:
Still Some Bugs to Work Out by me_llamo_nic (Buffybot, G, ~600 words)

This is a brilliant in every way, from the rarepair to the POVs:
Patchwork Girls by punch_kicker15 (April/Buffybot, M, 729 words)

This is fascinating to me as the least cute Bot story I've ever read (even taking into account the hilarious dialogue tags in the flashback scene), and it introduces a perspective I haven't noticed elsewhere:
Reinvention by an author who has since chosen to orphan the work (Buffybot/Spike, explicit, mind the warnings, 706 words)

And this is a longer Spikebot story with grief, suspense, funny jokes, *and* intense weirdness, though robot feelings only appear in part of it:
Turing Test by Dutchbuffy (Spike/Buffy, explicit, 21,191 words)

Comments

[petzipellepingo]

I don't think we've had a post on this topic before. Thanks for posting.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

You do have a very respectable collection of Buffybot recs, I noticed. I might want to archive binge at some point. ^^

[frogfarm]

Self-pimp for my Xander and Buffybot non-sex of "Woman of Steel, Man of Kleenex". One of my finest hours in terms of titles, as well as content.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Seconded, it's excellent!! It was actually in the first draft of this list, before I went more in the direction of Bot POV.

[yourlibrarian]

I think my favorite of those is the April/Buffybot, such a lot of possibility there. Kind of surprising that there hasn't been more done with them, though it's also possible that the Buffybot is April reworked. I mean, I don't know that Warren ever bothered to follow up and figure out where April was after he left, nor what Buffy did with her. Once deactivated he could always have reprogrammed her.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Yes! :)) It's such an inspired pairing. Glad you like it too.

"it's also possible that the Buffybot is April reworked"
Very true

[sparrow2000]

Oh, what a wonderful list. And April/Buffbot is just inspired! Can't wait to read these.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Yay! :) Hope you enjoy them.