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David | Prometheus (reserved)
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Character: David
Fandom: Prometheus
Character Notes:
History:
David is one of the eighth generation of TIPE androids, developed by Weyland Industries. David himself appears to have been the personal android of Peter Weyland, the head of Weyland Industries. Weyland describes David as the closest thing he has to a son (though lacking a soul), and when Weyland is present David is seen to give him personal care as part of an established routine. It is also implied that David has something of a...strained relationship with Weyland's actual child, Meredith Vickers.
When Drs. Shaw and Holloway, a pair of archaeologists, discover cave paintings around the world pointing to a specific cluster of stars which prove to have a planet with a moon with earth-like conditions, Weyland agrees to fund a trip to that moon (and secretly comes along himself, in stasis). David is also sent on board the exploratory ship Prometheus, and during its journey takes care of the ship and its occupants while the humans are in stasis.
And now come the spoilers for the movie.
Upon arrival, David wakes the human members of the crew up. It does not take them long to find what appear to be unnatural structures. A team of several crew members, including David, suit up and begin to explore the nearest building. David, having spent much of the journey studying languages and linguistics, easily deciphers the writing on the walls inside, but does not fully share his ability to do this with the others. They eventually find a the body of a humanoid alien and a chamber containing sculptures and a host of metal cylinders. While the humans examine the room and its decorations, David studies the cylinders, and notices when they start to bleed a black liquid. Unbeknownst to the others, David takes one of the cylinders back to the ship, where he privately studies it. He discovers vials of the black liquid inside, and later spikes Holloway's champagne with a drop of it.
Meanwhile, back in the alien building, guys who got lost earlier get killed by pale fleshy snakes with vaginas for mouths.
David is implied to be receiving continuing orders from Weyland, in spite of the fact that Weyland is still in stasis. While the rest of the crew explore the building again, David is sent to investigate why one probe is intermittently indicating that there is a life form in one area, and probably fix the probe. After bypassing several doors David discovers what appears to be the bridge of a ship, and (after cutting off video feed to Vickers) determines that its last course was set for earth and one of the humanoid aliens is still alive in stasis.
Everyone heads back to the ship, because it turns out that Holloway is seriously ill. Vickers threatens to burn Holloway with a flamethrower if he tries to set foot on the ship and risk contaminating people. Holloway deliberately provokes Vickers into actually burning him to death. Oops.
Back on the ship, David gives Shaw a medical exam, and it turns out that thanks to Holloway's infection she is now pregnant with an alien mutant terror. David refuses to comply with her demands to get the thing out of her, instead trying to subdue her so she can be placed in stasis and brought back to Earth (for proper study). David goes to help bring Weyland out of stasis. In the meantime, Shaw finds a way to get the alien mutant terror out of her, and ends up meeting up with Weyland and David.
Meanwhile, the mutated body of one of the lost guys from earlier attacks and kills a few people before he's taken out.
Weyland, Shaw, David, and some guy who's just going to die anyway go back to the bridge of the ship inside the building and wake the alien from stasis. David speaks to it. In a show of terrible manners, it responds by tearing David's head off his body, and killing Weyland and that other guy. Shaw escapes. David, being a robot and significantly less inhibited by decapitation than humans would be, informs the others that the alien intends to take that black liquid to earth. The remaining crew of the Prometheus crash into the alien's ship, preventing it from unleashing abominations on earth. Also Vickers gets crushed.
Shaw makes it to the escape pod which had been ejected from the Prometheus, pursued by the alien which apparently survived its ship's crash. Inside, it turns out the alien mutant terror Shaw had removed from herself has grown substantially. Shaw lets the mutant terror attack the alien and escapes herself. David informs Shaw that he can help her activate another of the alien ships. Shaw gathers up David's head and body and the two set off, Shaw determined to find out why the aliens started wanting to destroy humanity.
I'd be taking David from around a year into the Prometheus's voyage, long before they reach their destination.
Personality:
It's a little difficult to tell to what extent David is as he was made, and to what extent he has evolved. Certainly, he is capable of more feeling (and deception) than his human crewmates believe. But he remains confounded by many human emotional impulses- such as the need to know why another did something.
David is fundamentally curious. He seeks to acquire knowledge and skills, even when left to his own devices. He appears to enjoy challenges, creating diversions for himself such as shooting baskets while riding around the basketball court on a bicycle. When in pursuit of knowledge, following an order, or both, he is perfectly capable of going to extremes that humans may find...distressing (such as just letting an alien mutant terror gestate inside someone). He also lacks a human sense of boundaries, finding it perfectly acceptable to watch someone's dreams to learn about them (and humanity in general). David is a somewhat atypical fictional android in that he takes a great deal of initiative. This is probably related to the fact that he does not appear to be at all three-laws compliant (after all, if one of the purposes of your androids is to do things which humans may find ethically objectionable, it would be counterproductive to limit them so). He acts on his own or ignores orders from humans other than Weyland, doing things such as activating the holograms in the alien building by tracing the writing before he told anyone he could read it, or singling out the black liquid for his own study (though one assumes he later informed Weyland of it). He is, of course, immensely intelligent, capable of storing vast amounts of information and determining patterns incredibly swiftly.
Still, he is aware of himself as basically "lacking." While Weyland has acted as a father to David, it's evident that Weyland has made it clear to David that David is less than human (Weyland does not believe an android could have a soul). David's relationship with humans is thus contradictory and strained. He knows that he is more intelligent, more durable, and capable of more than any human, and he looks down on humans somewhat because of that. When humans seem to look down on or underestimate him, he can respond by seeming to be as they suggest while advancing his own agenda (for example- Holloway doubts David's ability to read the alien script- and David takes advantage of the time that affords to open a door in spite of others wanting to be more cautious). He seems to find it too easy to deal with humans, and would like to meet individuals who are more his equals. Yet he is terribly devoted to Weyland, and fascinated by some aspects of human behavior. His obsession with Lawrence of Arabia apparently stems from this- it's a film Weyland loves, and David probably started watching it out of a desire to better understand his "father." As much as he wants to meet his equals, David also wants to be approved of by humans, and to understand them.
Of course, he would say that he isn't capable of "wanting" something. While that's not entirely accurate, there is a certain truth in his denial of emotional capacity. David looks at situations as a collection of facts. If someone attacks him, the important thing is to adjust to this information- the "why" of the attack is irrelevant information. He sees no problem causing someone harm and then offering them aid a few hours later if the situation changes and makes it more to his benefit to do so. He doesn't really understand how emotional consequences work, for all that he's capable of presenting logical arguments.
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meet David
First Person (entry type):
Sir,
Today is the 94th day of the Prometheus' journey, October 15th, 2091 A.D. I have continued in my lessons, and have completed my study of Gaelic since my last report. While if Doctor Holloway's theory is correct, we are most likely to encounter a language with some commonalities with early Indo-European languages, I have nonetheless mastered the earliest known Chinese script, jiǎgǔwén. I shall progress to later forms of the script and spoken dialects shortly.
The journey continues without incident and on course, with no indicators of inconveniences arising within the next 46 hours and 28 minutes. The crew sleep well. They dream.
I will continue to keep you appraised of developments.
Third Person:
Humans had so much faith. Faith in themselves, in their abilities, in each other, in "God." It was everywhere.
Take Dr. Shaw- an educated woman, a relatively accomplished archaeologist. But a woman of faith, nonetheless. It was in her background, of course, as she was the daughter of missionaries. But it struck David that the logical reaction to her father's death would have been to conclude that there was no benevolent power. Ebola was such a violent disease, humans always seemed to find it disquieting. Yet Dr. Shaw had not only continued to to believe, but had searched for that power. She believed she had found it, and that it had invited her. That was the word she insisted on- "invitation." A word the definition of which included "allurement."
Even if there were creators at their destination- would they have invited their creations? It was unlikely. David was asked by his creators to do many things, he was ordered to do even more. But he was not "invited." Creators were too preoccupied with their own questions to pay heed to that of their creations. David would have advised against meeting their maker. It was an unremarkable experience.
But his role was not to advise. He had confirmed that the crew was safe and healthy. His present task complete, he disengaged from the system monitoring Dr. Shaw.
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