pumped as fuck for steamheist ll. i've never been more jealous of americans/californians before as an australian, how i crave to see them live.
definitely not my fav drawing but i could not be bothered to redo it. was also my first time drawing the spg gang so pls ignore the many inaccuracies in the design.
To me Silver is very interesting as a... "project" because she's both a show of great effort and care in terms of technology, but the idea that she was built to Not follow her own programming and be "tamed" is also an act of... carelessness, maybe?
Like, would Silver feel like she was the result of people not wanting to get the time to let HER become her own person? And why? Because it makes her useful? Because nobody has tried before? Because being a robot wasn't good enough?
And yet...
With all that said, I do think there had to be a lot of care put into making her, into giving her... all the tools that makes us human. I tend to headcanon her body as pretty expressive, sensitive and durable as well (but not quite like a person because she should do more than that). Like. Kip tried as hard as she could to give Silver everything that would make you FEEL like a person, but... you need your own story to make sense of yourself and your place in the world. You need to learn to be someone to know where you want to go and actually choose a path for yourself
And Silver's place was that of a breakthrough, an enigma, a one-of-a-kind being, but built with the expectation, from the start, to act like a person (and thus better than a machine). And worst of all, the way to achieve this is to literally go against what she recognizes as herself.