Finally! Just go with it, Al. The universe just handed you a second chance with the love of your life; DON’T MESS IT UP! Sulla will understand; she may be your daughter (with some of your memories), but she was raised by Brendan. If anything, I bet she’ll be over the moon that both her dads want to be together.
Love the parallels here. Brendan took his glasses off at their first kiss too. The only thing that would have made this scene more perfect is if Al just cut him off and goes “Are you just going to stand there?”
I was thinking that, and I would’ve enjoyed that, and also I actually kind of like that he *doesn’t.* Brendan’s grown and changed a lot as a person while Al’s been gone, and he doesn’t need that challenge anymore. I would’ve enjoyed the callback, but this way is a great character note for Brendan, too.
At the risk of throwing a wet freezing cold blanket on the warm and touching moment, has anyone here ever kissed an ice cube?
Because Al is probably just as cold as one.
I’ve been wondering about that… his body shouldn’t still be cold unless he doesn’t have enough energy to warm it… since he has been reticent to eat the frosted coated sugar bombs formulated for androids… and that he has recently expended some energy with the rocket feet thing… is he in any danger of shutting down due to power failure? My mind’s eye keeps projecting the flashing red battery symbol for ‘out of juice’.
Did Sulla know before this that Brendan was trying to bring back his lover when he brought her into the world? Because if not… this is gonna make things reeeeeeal awkward.
This is a very touching scene and everything else the other commenters have already said, but I’ll admit that the first thing that popped into my head on reading it was “awww, whoever built him put in blush circuits,” hah.
*sniffle*
Great! Still waiting to find out where the ‘new’ Sterling comes from.
Eeeeeeeeeee, and also awwwwww, and also oh noooo how is Sulla gonna respond to this :O
AHHHHHHHHHHHH! YES! CALLED IT!
It’s about darn time!
Couldn’t have said it better!
I like how the curly cable kind of functions as a visual cue to what Sulla is feeling
I wanna see Sullas face!!! Thank you for the double update this week this is tearing me apart
Probably all like “oh, that makes sense. YAY—*two dads*!”
Well, that’s one way to warm Al up.
Whoops! Always awkward to walk in on your parents smooching. Hopefully Sulla can roll with it?
Finally! Just go with it, Al. The universe just handed you a second chance with the love of your life; DON’T MESS IT UP! Sulla will understand; she may be your daughter (with some of your memories), but she was raised by Brendan. If anything, I bet she’ll be over the moon that both her dads want to be together.
Love the parallels here. Brendan took his glasses off at their first kiss too. The only thing that would have made this scene more perfect is if Al just cut him off and goes “Are you just going to stand there?”
I was thinking that, and I would’ve enjoyed that, and also I actually kind of like that he *doesn’t.* Brendan’s grown and changed a lot as a person while Al’s been gone, and he doesn’t need that challenge anymore. I would’ve enjoyed the callback, but this way is a great character note for Brendan, too.
Oh but Al already pulled that one. It was even the first thing he said to Brendan as a synthetic
When will the next update go up? *pants impatiently*
HOLLY SHIIIIIIITTTTTTTT AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
No wait let him finish what he’s trying to say!
Oh, man. I cheered!
At the risk of throwing a wet freezing cold blanket on the warm and touching moment, has anyone here ever kissed an ice cube?
Because Al is probably just as cold as one.
I’ve been wondering about that… his body shouldn’t still be cold unless he doesn’t have enough energy to warm it… since he has been reticent to eat the frosted coated sugar bombs formulated for androids… and that he has recently expended some energy with the rocket feet thing… is he in any danger of shutting down due to power failure? My mind’s eye keeps projecting the flashing red battery symbol for ‘out of juice’.
If he hadn’t had energy to warm his body outside, it would have frozen! Like the Opportunity rover on Mars.
Still half afraid that acoustic tile is about to break, but so happy that they got a kiss in first!!! Yay!!!
Did Sulla know before this that Brendan was trying to bring back his lover when he brought her into the world? Because if not… this is gonna make things reeeeeeal awkward.
I love how closely everyone thinks about the characters and the scene!
Maybe this is covered elsewhere, but why is Al able to blush? Can Sulla blush?
Haha yes there was lotsa blushing around Titus and their friends
This is a very touching scene and everything else the other commenters have already said, but I’ll admit that the first thing that popped into my head on reading it was “awww, whoever built him put in blush circuits,” hah.
I… I’ve been waiting for this smooch for so long; my god…