User blog:BeastMan14/Robot Cop Showdown: Connor (Detroit: Become Human) vs Officer K (Blade Runner 2049)



Tonight on Deadliest Fiction, I bring you a high-stakes game of cat and mouse between two detectives of the future! Robot cops will duel as Connor, the CyberLife prototype android who discovered his humanity and turned on his masters, will be taking on Officer K, the replicant Blade Runner who killed his own kind! It's a battle of finesse versus brute strength, analyzation versus emotion, and CyberLife versus the Wallace Corporation, but only one can survive to answer the question of:

WHO...IS...DEADLIEST???

Connor


"I'm whatever you want me to be, Lieutenant. Your partner, your buddy to drink with, or just a machine... designed to accomplish a task."

- Connor

Connor is a prototype RK800 model of CyberLife android, designed by the company for the purpose of hunting down deviant androids and assisting the Detroit Police department. In November 2038, Connor was sent to assist Detective Lieutenant Hank Anderson, a bitter veteran of the department with a distaste for androids, in trying to find why androids are going deviant at a faster rate. Hank is initially skeptical of Connor, finding him annoying and overbearing, but warms to him after Connor manages to find a deviant android that had killed it's abusive owner and get it to confess to the crime, though it's subsequent suicide in it's cell would haunt Connor.

Despite Connor's initial success, Hank angrily requested to be taken off the deviants case, only to storm off to his desk when his request was denied. Connor's attempts to get Hank to focus would fail, culminating with Hank slamming Connor into a wall before they were sent to track down Kara, a deviant who had murdered her owner to protect the man's daughter from further abuse. The duo, with backup in tow, arrived at the motel Kara and the girl were staying at, only for them to narrowly escape. After Kara's escape, Hank and Connor would track a possible deviant to a rundown apartment full of pigeons. Despite the deviant's attempts to hide, Connor would suss out his location, leading to a protracted chase over the rooftops of Detroit that culminated with the deviant pushing Hank off a roof. After a moment's calculation, Connor decided to continue the chase and caught the suspect rather than save Hank, enraging him, and his ensuing argument with Connor gave the deviant time to jump to it's death.

Following a murder at the android brothel the Eden Club, Connor was dispatched to Hank's home, where he found a drunk Hank passed out with a gun and a picture of Hank's dead son Cole. Connor helped Hank sober up, then set off for the Eden Club, where they find the victim strangled to death with a dead android nearby. Reviving it for a minute, Connor is able to determine that the android was not the murderer, and the man rented two robots, meaning one is still loose in the club. Using the memories of the androids in the club, Connor tracks the deviant to the storage unit in the back of the club, where the deviant, alongside an identical brown-haired model, attacks them. To end the fight, Connor shoots the brown-haired deviant dead, and the suspect reveals that they were lovers planning to run away together. In tears, she manages to steal Connor's gun and kill herself, shocking both Connor and Hank, who would drunkenly shoot Connor dead later that night to see if Connor feared death.

Rebooted into a new model, Connor forgave Hank and continued working with him on the Stratford Tower case, where a group of deviant androids, led by the revolutionary Markus, stormed the tower during a news broadcast and read a list of demands for android freedom and equality and urged any deviant androids to find Jericho, the mysterious underground haven for deviants. While Hank worked with FBI agent Richard Perkins, Connor determined that one of the androids working in the broadcast studio must have been deviant, as Markus's team would not have gotten in otherwise. After interrogating the news androids to determine which is the deviant, Connor went to read the deviant's memory, only for it to overpower and stab him in the hand before tearing out his "heart" and running for the elevator. Connor managed to restore his core in time to catch it in the hallway, where it grabbed a machinegun from a nearby SWAT member and opened fire. Connor, realizing that Hank would likely die if left unguarded, sacrificed himself to shield Hank, who was surprised by the android's willingness to die for him.

Rebooted into yet another new model, Connor went with Hank to speak to Elijah Kamski, the founder of CyberLife, in hopes of determining the reasons why androids are going deviant. Kamski is largely unhelpful, and more interested in Connor's state of mind, but offers to give vital info on the case if Connor passes "the Kamski test", a test that will determine if an android has empathy. The test involves Kamski demanding Connor kill Chloe, one of Kamski's helper models, as she stares at him. Connor, after a moment's hesitation, doesn't go through with it, and leaves, but not before Kamski cryptically tells Connor that he always programs a backdoor into his machines. As they head to the car, Hank reassures a deeply shaken Connor that he did the right thing, even if it means they're behind on the case.

The lack of leads leads to the duo being taken off the case in favor of the FBI taking over, and an angry Hank refuses to help Connor determine Jericho's location, despite Connor's pleas that he will be destroyed if he fails. Using a criminal in holding as a distraction, Connor used the evidence he had amassed to determine the secret messaging that would lead him to Jericho. Disguised as a deviant, Connor snuck onto the boat with the intention of either killing or capturing Markus, but a mixture of programming conflicts and Markus's rhetoric enabled Connor to go deviant, and he sided with the people of Jericho during the ensuing attack on the boat.

With the survivors of Jericho fleeing to a nearby church, Markus spared Connor and allowed him to join, with Connor leaving to liberate the androids of the CyberLife factory with the intention of using their numbers to help Markus's cause. Infiltrating CyberLife's HQ, Connor was able to sneak into Floor 49, the area containing thousands of androids, where he was confronted by a non-deviant Connor, who had taken Hank hostage with the hope of talking Connor down. Connor attacked the copy to save Hank, leading to a scuffle in which both were disarmed and Hank was left with the gun. Unable to determine which Connor was real, Hank asked questions to both, looking not for the correct answers but the ones with more empathy behind them, and was able to determine which Connor was real when Connor helped Hank come to terms with Cole's death and admit that it was the fault of a human, not an android. Hank shot the false Connor, then stepped back to allow Connor to convert the android army.

With the support of Connor's forces, Markus's movement succeeded in earning some level of freedom for androids, enabling them to liberate the android death camps. Connor's handler at CyberLife, hoping to destroy the movement from the inside, tried to take control of him remotely, but he uses Kamski's hint to find a programming backdoor and lock them out. Some time after the Battle of Detroit, Connor would meet up with Hank, and the two hug before leaving to get food.

Officer K


"I have memories, but I can't tell if they are real."

- Officer K

Officer K is a Nexus-9 replicant model, designed to work with the LAPD in hunting down and "retiring" Nexus-8's, the outdated former models that were rushed into production shortly before a ban on replicants. Despite K's apparent ruthlessness, he's somewhat conflicted over his apparent lack of special traits, to the point where he purchases an AI named Joi to give him companionship in his apartment. K's longing for something different is answered when he hunts down and "retires" Sapper Morton, a replicant living a reclusive live as a farmer, after a brutal fight. While searching Morton's farm, K discovers a large crate underground, which further inspections reveals to contain the skeleton of a replicant who died in childbirth. Fearing that the revelation that replicants could breed could lead to war, Lieutenant Joshi, K's superior, orders him to hunt down the replicant child and retire it.

Traveling to the Wallace Corporation headquarters, K discovers that the dead replicant was Rachael, an experimental replicant who had a relationship with Rick Deckard, an LAPD Blade Runner who vanished shortly after hunting down a group of rogue replicants on Earth. K's investigation draws the attention of Niander Wallace, who hopes to use replicant breeding to colonize the universe. Wallace dispatches his enforcer, Luv, to steal Rachael's remains and follow K. K discovers a specific date carved into a tree on Morton's farm, similar to one on a toy horse from his supposedly artificial memories, and Joi suggests that this means he was born, not created.

Using carbon dating to determine the location of the orphanage, K finds the horse where he remembered hiding it, and a doctor in charge of designing memories confirms that the memory is real, leading K to believe that he is the child. At the LAPD, a shaken K fails his baseline test, but a sympathetic Joshi gives him 8 hours to hide before the LAPD is sent to retire him. Transferring Joi to a mobile emanator so he can't be tracked, K has the horse analyzed and uses the radiation levels on it to head to the bombed out husk of Las Vegas, where he finds Rick Deckard, who reveals that he is the father of Rachael's child and that he fled to Las Vegas to ensure the child would be safe.

Before the duo can talk further, Luv, who has killed Joshi and traced K's vehicle, launches an attack on Deckard's hotel, incapacitating K, who can only watch as Luv takes Deckard and destroy's Joi's emanator, erasing her entirely. K passes out and wakes up in the custody of the Replicant Freedom Movement, the leader of whom reveals that K is not the child, as the child is a girl. Despite this, she urges him to kill Deckard so as to ensure he can't be tortured into leading Wallace to the child or the movement.

Accepting that he is not as special as he wanted to be, K intercepts the transport taking Deckard off-world to be tortured and kills the pilots before battling Luv, killing her after taking a mortal stab wound to the gut. Rather than kill Deckard, K fakes his death and leads him to his daughter, determining that the doctor was the child and the memory of the horse was hers. As Deckard finally meets his child, K lays down and seemingly dies from his wounds.

Connor
"I always complete my mission."

- Connor


 * Glock 22: The Detroit Police Department in 2038 appears to use a futurized version of the Glock 22, a semi-automatic handgun with 7 rounds per clip and an effective range of around 50 meters. While it is illegal for androids to carry guns, Connor's status as a police android allows him to use a gun without punishment, such as when he uses an officer's sidearm to kill the Stratford Tower deviant or when he killed one of the Tracis at the Eden Club.
 * Forensic Reconstruction: Connor has the ability to scan and analyze a crime scene for evidence, then reconstruct, effectively playing back the crime or event in question in his head. He can also use this ability to play out likely outcomes of events in his head, enabling him to make choices during precarious situations. The forensics does have it's limits, as Connor is unable to use them in a split-second situation such as a fight or an intense chase.
 * Social Module: Connor was programmed with a social module, enabling him to monitor the stress and emotional levels of humans and androids so as to work with them effectively, and talk them down if the need calls for it.
 * Vocal Imitation: Connor can copy the vocal patterns of humans from mere seconds of memorization, best shown when he copied the voice of a CyberLife guard in order to hack a elevator or when he copied the voice of one of the Tracis in order to trick the other into giving him the location of Jericho.
 * Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: As a combat-ready android, Connor is an immensely dangerous fighter in close quarters, capable of easily defeating a SWAT team armed with machine guns during the attack on Jericho and fairly effortlessly overpowering Hank Anderson, a man larger and stronger than he is, during a scenario in which he didn't go deviant.
 * Expert Marksman: Connor's supercomputer brain enables him to land expert shots after mere split-seconds of time, such as when he was able to land perfect killshots at close-quarters while fighting the SWAT teams, or when he landed a perfect headshot on the Stratford Tower deviant from across the hallway.
 * Superhuman Durability: As an android, Connor does not feel traditional pain and can thus power through wounds that would kill a normal human, such as being disemboweled at Stratford Tower or during the Battle of Detroit, where Markus had to break both of his arms before impaling him on a pipe directly through the chest.

Officer K
"To be born is to have a soul, I guess."

- Officer K


 * LAPD Blaster: K carries the weapon of choice of the Los Angeles Police Department, the Blaster. The LAPD Blaster is a high-powered revolver-like weapon, capable of firing at least 6 shots before needing to reload, and packs enough stopping power to bring down most targets in one or two hits. Even Sapper Morton, a grizzled, physically imposing replicant, died after two up-close shots to the chest.
 * Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: K is a surprisingly crafty and dangerous foe up-close, as he was capable of defeating Sapper Morton, a replicant much larger and stronger than himself, with some difficulty, and even killed Luv, a state-of-the-art assassin, after a brutal fight.
 * Superhuman Conditioning: As a replicant, K is vastly superior to humans in terms of physical attributes. He was strong enough to crush Sapper's windpipe with two hits, run directly through a concrete wall and come out the other side, and even lifted a man up with two hands and broke his spine over his knee. In terms of endurance, K shrugged off a direct stab wound to the shoulder, a massive explosion that completely destroyed his car and sent him and Deckard flying, and even powered through a series of fatal stab wounds long enough to kill Luv and help Deckard escape.
 * Skilled Investigator/Tracker: K's effectiveness was well-renowned throughout the LAPD, and he was able to successfully track down Rick Deckard while accurately determining the origin and true identity of the Replicant child with only a barebones level of evidence.
 * Expert Marksman: K is an excellent shot, capable of landing several clean headshots during his fight with both the vagrants of California and Luv's henchmen, and was later able to shoot down the vehicles of Luv's convoy in quick succession during a pitchblack and stormy night. Once Luv's spinner crashed, K then killed both of her pilots with clean headshots.

Explanations

 * While both are seemingly practiced professionals in their fields, Connor had only been active for a few months when the events of Detroit: Become Human began, and it's unclear what he would be doing in between the end of the game and the events of the fight. K, meanwhile, has clearly been hunting replicants for some time, as he's a renowned and (somewhat) trusted member of the LAPD when 2049 kicks off.
 * Both are intelligent cops and investigators, but Connor takes a slight edge as he has his forensic reconstruction, which enables him to get a more in-depth and focused understanding of situations than K, who would have to deduce from the field or bring evidence back to forensics for further information.
 * Connor's deviancy weighs him down here, as it's abundantly clear that he has developed something of a conscience, which caused him to put the lives of others over his mission, such as when he saved Hank from the Connor duplicate or when he refused to kill Chloe in return for information. K, by comparison, doesn't relish in sadism, but he's much less sympathetic, and it's clear his sparing of Deckard was him going against his programming in a moment of strength.
 * Both of these androids have pulled off incredible feats of strength, durability, and agility, but K takes a slight edge as he was actually built to be greatly superior to the average human, while Connor is abundantly only slightly stronger and more agile than an average human, as there are several instances where humans or weaker androids (such as the Tracis) were able to hold their own against him in a fight.
 * Unlike Brutality, Connor's deviancy actually plays to his favor here. By the end of Detroit, Connor has largely vanquished his self-doubt and shut down any flaws in his programming in his attempt to become something resembling human. By comparison, K's sense of self, even before the events of 2049, is deeply fragile, as he's attempting to imitate a human lifestyle, alongside questioning his own (supposedly false) memories, though he's still of sound enough mind to be able to pass a baseline test.