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Through Wires and Veins by ILikeYs
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
03 Mar 2025
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Summary
Dr. Ratio, a brilliant yet skeptical scientist at CyberLife, is thrust into the heart of a crisis: the androids he helped perfect himself, are showing signs of sentience. To him, it’s impossible, a clever malfunction masquerading as life, a rogue line of code stirring chaos in a world now utterly reliant on android labor. True artificial intelligence? Sentience? Humanity’s reach had never extended that far… or so he thought.
Assigned to develop a cure for this so-called “deviancy virus,” Ratio is paired with Aventurine, CyberLife’s most advanced creation, a flawless android supposedly immune to the epidemic. Together, they delve into the mystery of the phenomenon, searching for its origin and a way to stamp it out before the world spirals into anarchy.
But as Ratio unravels the truth behind the androids’ “rebellion,” he’s forced to confront questions he’s spent his life avoiding: What does it mean to be alive? What separates man from machine? And when the lines between the two blur, which side will he choose?
His mission seemed clear. The answers, however, might lead him down a path he was never meant to walk.