Tag: reyes vidal

So, I was thinking. Since SAM has access to his host’s sensory and emotional responses, do you think SAM can experience some approximation of emotion by proxy? It would kinda make sense, since the whole point of being linked to the host’s neural implant is to learn and understand more about the human experience. 

So like, imagine SAM processing pleasure for the very first time. I can’t imagine he experienced it that often when Alec was his host because SAM wasn’t developed until after Ellen fell ill, so the only emotions SAM might ever have been exposed to would be fear, grief, frustration.

But after being transferred to Scott, imagine like the first time he kisses Gil or Reyes, the pleasure centers are just exploding in his brain and SAM’s just like WAHT HTE FUCK. MORE. WANT MORE. And SAM just….doesn’t know what to do with it, it’s so perplexing but intriguing and he gets curious, so a lot of the advice he feeds Ryder is very directly linked to how likely it is to result in pleasure. Like, to the point where SAM might, a little bit, start to be motivated by the prospect of it. 

And Gil and Reyes absolutely take advantage of it, especially to amplify the experience of any kind of intimacy with Ryder. Gil does it mostly to satisfy his engineer’s intellectual curiosity, and Reyes does it because………..he’s Reyes. Like, since SAM can control Ryder’s vitals and was initially designed to affect the host’s physiology, presumably SAM can control the release of endorphins/hormones/neurotransmitters in the brain, which would in turn heighten the sensory experience for the host? So imagine Reyes being like, “SAM, give him a little boost of serotonin” or Gil being like “SAM, hit him hard with the oxytocin” during sexytimes and obviously SAM doesn’t have to comply to anyone other than the Pathfinder, but he cooperates with Scott’s partners because he knows there’s a significant promise of pleasure. 

And Scott is at the mercy of them both. 

And so imagine the first time SAM experiences an orgasm via Scott, and to Scott it’s like……..a fucking vibration in his brain, it’s unreal, it’s like an orgasm within an orgasm because he’s experiencing it himself but also can feel SAM feeling it and it’s the most monumental thing ever, and SAM basically becomes the ultimate sex toy.

Taking it a little further, what if Scott wakes up incredibly horny for no reason, and SAM’s just in his head with like, images of Gil in the shower or something, and he gently encourages him to pleasure himself, since SAM has so generously provided him with an endless stream of pleasing visuals to help. Haha, or like, “Based on the most frequently viewed pornographic videos in your browsing history, I have narrowed down your preferred fetishes and have been able to extrapolate what Gil Brodie would look like participating in them for your viewing pleasure.” 

And at first Scott’s horrified, it’s a little invasive and weird?? And he feels super guilty for Gil’s privacy too, like obviously this is very morally dubious but holy god it’s hot, so he goes along with it anyway. 

And it’s the ultimate symbiosis because, shit, what better way for the pathfinder to blow off steam and relieve stress, coupled with teaching an AI to be motivated by pleasure, which is a very human thing and is exactly the objective SAM was programmed for.