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fandomsecrets2015-04-14 07:20 pm
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OP
(Anonymous) 2015-04-15 12:05 am (UTC)(link)The closest I can come to understanding is if the robot has a great voice; I've definitely been attracted to animated characters based on their voice work, os if that's a big part of it I guess I can understand a little.
I should admit that I've never watched any of the robot shows or movies (they just don't interest me).
Re: OP
(Anonymous) 2015-04-15 12:21 am (UTC)(link)Okay. I'm coming at this from a Transformers fandom point of view, just so you know. Obviously this reflects my own biases and those of the people around me, as well.
That particular character, it's probably not his voice that makes original!OP attracted to him, for the simple reason that he gets literally one line of dialogue in the whole series. For some of them, though, the voice definitely helps. (A particularly unpleasant voice can also do the inverse, same as with humans - there's some episodes of a different Transformers series I can't even stand to watch because one of the characters is voiced by a particularly inhuman-sounding text-to-speech machine and it's too grating to listen to.)
For a lot of them, it's the personality - if you (general you) happen to be into people with gruff exteriors and lots of internal turmoil, there's some of them, or if you like people who are just irrepressibly cheerful no matter what's going on around them, or really pretty much any personality type. Fictional robots are just as diverse as fictional humans. A lot of people find them humanoid enough to basically ignore that they're robots. Well-written characters will almost always feel human.
Finally, some people just have a fetish for something about robots. I'm one of them, sort of - I have a thing for airplanes. Obviously I am not going to find a real boyfriend who is an airplane.
Re: OP
Okay, that and he's the biggest badass in the show and I love that he's never lost once despite - because - he looks and acts unassumingly :D
Re: OP
Robot porn where it's just robodicks is completely boring to me, because if I wanted that, I could just look at human porn. But I'm always fascinated to learn about nonhuman characters and how that impacts how they experience the world and the people around them.
Also, you know. It might be less dick-oriented, which is something that annoys me in ANY kind of porn.
--Rogan
Re: OP
(Anonymous) 2015-04-15 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)The spark-sex idea in TF fandom does interest me in that regard, though it can trip into the bad end of soulbond tropes as well. I usually steer clear of humanesque 'spike & valve' stuff because it just doesn't interest me (and because I can't remember a good one off-hand). The manually-stimulated electrical overload (ie orgasm) idea can also be interesting - it's usually the most machine-seeming (spark-sex is often more spiritual, while spike-&-valve is biological-at-one-remove).
... I wonder if anyone ever did any meta on fandom ideas of robot sex in the Transformer fandom. I think I'd be interested in reading that.
Re: OP
Rogan: I admit, I enjoy robot stories of any flavor because I can empathize more easily with them. Like members of a multiple system, they were created artificially, usually for a specific purpose, and are often considered subhuman (or at least NOT human) in the societies around them. So sometimes the more "fantastic" parts of those stories actually ring more true to my experience, even if I can't turn myself into a car.