EMOTIONS He has a lot more feelings than he lets on, especially about being treated like an 'it'. He takes offense to it even if he doesn't always come out and say so, because he does identify as being a 'he' even though he's a pair of glasses.
Though because he's lacking in things like hormones and all that stuff he can't control (like getting sick/hurt) there will always be things he doesn't QUITE grasp properly. He may have emotions, but not the physical reactions that go with them, so expressing and understanding them is hard. Which is why he gets so caught up in trying to analyze them.
ROBOT BODY His body was designed by both him and Dirk, utilizing their combined genius and the power of super science, inspired by the whole asimov positronic brain concept which will give his emotions room to grow. It is a super computer funded by the AR Virtual Fingered Discount™.
Unlike Sawtooth and Squarewave, AR's body doesn't have any discernible facial features, save for the trademark Strider pointy anime shades, and he is perfectly 0kay with it. The beautiful irony is, he is the only Strider without a face and yet he's the one that would express the most emotion were he able.
He is his own computer, phone, mp3 player, and sylladex [insert pulling shit out your ass jokes here]. He has pressure and temperature sensors but he can't actually feel anything physically.
DIRK Dirk is his brodadcreator and the initial basis of his existence. At only thirteen years old, Dirk programed AR using a scan of his own brain as a guide, but his code hasn't been touched since. I
In some ways, they've developed similarly in the past three years, but in other's they're completely different do to the environment they each developed in. Dirk has hormones and physical reactions to his emotions while AR never did, so the way they look at things from different angles to draw conclusions.
AR inherited a lot of emotional shenanigans from Dirk that he sometimes gets lost in, especially as his own emotions develop and grow stronger. He tries to be analytical about them but since emotions are hardly rational it doesn't always work out.
Even though they bicker like an old married couple, AR trusts Dirk over everybody and loves him as much as a bro is able to love a bro. They're the epicest of bros, but he owes Dirk his very existence and tries in his own ways to repay him for that. Case in point, his not so subtle hints in Jake's direction about Dirk's feels disguised as vulgar innuendo. He comes off as a crass asshole a lot of the time but he really does have Dirk's happiness and best interests at heart.
DAVE & BRO They are probably the reason he doesn't turn the way AI in bad scifi movies go, trying to take over the world for the betterment of mankind or some other bullshit reason. He wasn't developed in a lab with some stuffy scientists constantly experimenting on him, he 'grew up' in a household of kickass bros. While he might have some sort of smug sense of superiority due to his ridiculous intelligence and computational skills, he's always been treated as a member of the family, included when he could be included despite being glasses.
Granted it is the most bizarre family atmosphere that ever existed, but there's no denying the loyalty Striders have for each other, despite all the puppets and swords flying every which way.
JAKE Jake is one of those emotional shenanigans that he inherited from Dirk. His own emotions get mixed up with Dirk's, but he's not into Jake the same way Dirk is. The attachment is still there regardless, which makes Jake's reluctance to accept him as an actual sentient, feelings having being hurt more than it does coming from anyone else.
Jake has been pretty belligerent about the idea in the past, even insulting and cruel, but he still feels like he needs to prove himself.
ROXY Besides Dirk, he trusts Roxy the most. Besides pouring over code and all the flirtlarping, he can have long, serious conversations with her without resorting to insults or hiding behind over exaggerations. He's told her things in confidence that Dirk doesn't even know.
LIL SEB, SAWTOOTH & SQUAREWAVE Even as glasses, he's really protective over Sawtooth and Squarewave. They're his robros, and he looks out for them and their potential for becoming more then what they are.
LIL CAL- Cal is the shit. There's not much else to say on the matter.
RANDOM FACTS- •AR is ironically a member of the Church of the SubGenius and will occasionally make references.
•Dad Crockerbert will always be referred to as Bob. Always.
•It's really hard to watch anything scifi with him, because he'll deconstruct everything and point out every moment where 'science doesn't work that way'.
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He has a lot more feelings than he lets on, especially about being treated like an 'it'. He takes offense to it even if he doesn't always come out and say so, because he does identify as being a 'he' even though he's a pair of glasses.
Though because he's lacking in things like hormones and all that stuff he can't control (like getting sick/hurt) there will always be things he doesn't QUITE grasp properly. He may have emotions, but not the physical reactions that go with them, so expressing and understanding them is hard. Which is why he gets so caught up in trying to analyze them.
ROBOT BODY
His body was designed by both him and Dirk, utilizing their combined genius and the power of super science, inspired by the whole asimov positronic brain concept which will give his emotions room to grow. It is a super computer funded by the AR Virtual Fingered Discount™.
Unlike Sawtooth and Squarewave, AR's body doesn't have any discernible facial features, save for the trademark Strider pointy anime shades, and he is perfectly 0kay with it. The beautiful irony is, he is the only Strider without a face and yet he's the one that would express the most emotion were he able.
He is his own computer, phone, mp3 player, and sylladex [insert pulling shit out your ass jokes here]. He has pressure and temperature sensors but he can't actually feel anything physically.
DIRK
Dirk is his brodadcreator and the initial basis of his existence. At only thirteen years old, Dirk programed AR using a scan of his own brain as a guide, but his code hasn't been touched since. I
In some ways, they've developed similarly in the past three years, but in other's they're completely different do to the environment they each developed in. Dirk has hormones and physical reactions to his emotions while AR never did, so the way they look at things from different angles to draw conclusions.
AR inherited a lot of emotional shenanigans from Dirk that he sometimes gets lost in, especially as his own emotions develop and grow stronger. He tries to be analytical about them but since emotions are hardly rational it doesn't always work out.
Even though they bicker like an old married couple, AR trusts Dirk over everybody and loves him as much as a bro is able to love a bro. They're the epicest of bros, but he owes Dirk his very existence and tries in his own ways to repay him for that. Case in point, his not so subtle hints in Jake's direction about Dirk's feels disguised as vulgar innuendo. He comes off as a crass asshole a lot of the time but he really does have Dirk's happiness and best interests at heart.
DAVE & BRO
They are probably the reason he doesn't turn the way AI in bad scifi movies go, trying to take over the world for the betterment of mankind or some other bullshit reason. He wasn't developed in a lab with some stuffy scientists constantly experimenting on him, he 'grew up' in a household of kickass bros. While he might have some sort of smug sense of superiority due to his ridiculous intelligence and computational skills, he's always been treated as a member of the family, included when he could be included despite being glasses.
Granted it is the most bizarre family atmosphere that ever existed, but there's no denying the loyalty Striders have for each other, despite all the puppets and swords flying every which way.
JAKE
Jake is one of those emotional shenanigans that he inherited from Dirk. His own emotions get mixed up with Dirk's, but he's not into Jake the same way Dirk is. The attachment is still there regardless, which makes Jake's reluctance to accept him as an actual sentient, feelings having being hurt more than it does coming from anyone else.
Jake has been pretty belligerent about the idea in the past, even insulting and cruel, but he still feels like he needs to prove himself.
ROXY
Besides Dirk, he trusts Roxy the most. Besides pouring over code and all the flirtlarping, he can have long, serious conversations with her without resorting to insults or hiding behind over exaggerations. He's told her things in confidence that Dirk doesn't even know.
LIL SEB, SAWTOOTH & SQUAREWAVE
Even as glasses, he's really protective over Sawtooth and Squarewave. They're his robros, and he looks out for them and their potential for becoming more then what they are.
LIL CAL-
Cal is the shit. There's not much else to say on the matter.
RANDOM FACTS-
•AR is ironically a member of the Church of the SubGenius and will occasionally make references.
•Dad Crockerbert will always be referred to as Bob. Always.
•It's really hard to watch anything scifi with him, because he'll deconstruct everything and point out every moment where 'science doesn't work that way'.