Is this logical? (Can androids be yanderes too?)

[naosu]

I'm curious if its believable in a story to have an android be yandere? Maybe it was a bug. Maybe there was a dent in her head plate that caused it. Maybe circuits got crossed somehow... who knows. Maybe she used to be #1 and then became a #2nd place, and couldn't handle it. Maybe the chosen human she has is a 1 of a kind that she figures if she doesn't have that she'll never get another one as good as he.

But she's yandere somehow...

Would that be hard to take for readers?

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Haven't seen "Ex Machina" yet, huh? *^^*

 

[KidBuu699]

I don't see why couldn't you just have the person who created/worked on her insert a personality matrix or something along those lines. You know a code that says you must act in this certain way or this is your default personality that can be then be grown from.

 

[Eldoria]

If you're aiming for logic (in the real world), the android girl is illogical. In fiction, the most important thing isn't how the story aligns with the real world, but how you consistently and coherently portray the laws of the fantasy world in your narrative.

 

[Placeholder]

> android ... her

gynoid

> yandere

Depends intimately on her initial programming and environment

> Would that be hard to take for readers?

No. Consider the previous yandere constructs: ED-209, IT-O, Bob Dole, Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 aka T-800, Marvin, K9, and Murderbot.

 

[Tsuru]

 

[naosu]

> android ... her

gynoid

> yandere

Depends intimately on her initial programming and environment

> Would that be hard to take for readers?

No. Consider the previous yandere constructs: ED-209, IT-O, Bob Dole, Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 aka T-800, Marvin, K9, and Murderbot.

Bob Dole? XD

 

[Arkus86]

It's about as believable as any other case of androids exhibiting human emotions. It could be a pre-programmed personality gone wrong for any number of reasons, the android developing a soul somehow...
As mentioned before, the more important part is the internal consistency of your story. Your reason for the android being a yandere needs to fit into it.

 

[Golden_Hyde]

I'm curious if its believable in a story to have an android be yandere? Maybe it was a bug. Maybe there was a dent in her head plate that caused it. Maybe circuits got crossed somehow... who knows. Maybe she used to be #1 and then became a #2nd place, and couldn't handle it. Maybe the chosen human she has is a 1 of a kind that she figures if she doesn't have that she'll never get another one as good as he.

But she's yandere somehow...

Would that be hard to take for readers?

As has been said by others, it entirely depends on how you structured the logics of your story and the world inside it. If the robots are slowly developing even a fraction of human emotion, then it's logical. If you want a robot who's possessive, but not in the way humans would be, then you can make one having bias, and managed to know everything about their human partner.

 

[MajorKerina]

"I would kill for you, my meat sack."

You could definitely make it something along the lines of her being in a glitched protection mode where not doing harm to other humans is not really working correctly.

but basically as long as it's interesting people will buy any reason

 

[Bald-san]

I'm curious if its believable in a story to have an android be yandere? Maybe it was a bug. Maybe there was a dent in her head plate that caused it. Maybe circuits got crossed somehow... who knows. Maybe she used to be #1 and then became a #2nd place, and couldn't handle it. Maybe the chosen human she has is a 1 of a kind that she figures if she doesn't have that she'll never get another one as good as he.

But she's yandere somehow...

Would that be hard to take for readers?

Programming cma do that normally, I'm not an IT person, but I think the idea is the same idea in Pokemon games when the programming is step on a grass=Wild Pokemon appears

 

[Worthy39]

You could just say she was programmed to protect the human, fell in love with the human, and decided all potential romantic rivals are a 'threat', that must be eliminated.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Virus or botched code. Problem solved. Or anything that dials up "protection" to "preemptively kill anything". You're a writer, get creative.