Jericho’s Bridge:

Me: it’s an absolute tragedy that we only get three or so in-game conversations between Markus and Connor, there’s so much potential between them, what would their relationship have been like if we’d seen more? Me: …

Me: …

Me: … Ok google, unrelated search: how many times can Connor and Markus try to kill each other?

Jericho’s Bridge:

Connor fails to kill Markus

Jericho’s Hold:

Connor can kill Markus…

… or Markus can kill Connor.

Church:

Rooftop:

Connor can draw a bead on Markus but loses his chance to kill him.

Street Fight:

sweet fucking jesus

Control Markus, Connor Death (impalement)

Markus death (shooting):

Markus death (neck breaking):

Control Connor, Connor death (near beheading with metal slab)

Connor death (impalement, except with different camera angles and barbed wire separating them in this shot):

Markus dies (Connor shoots):

Markus dies (Connor breaks his neck, except then he picks up a gun and ADDITIONALLY shoots him):

Cyberlife Store

Connor shoots Markus:

Connor ‘spares’ Markus and lets him die on his own:

Connor and Markus shoot each other:

Stage

Connor shoots willingly from the crowd:

Connor resists shooting but gets lost in the zen garden, we get the same scene but from a slightly different angle:

Connor shoots Markus while up on stage with him:

This is… seven different events where they can try to kill each other, with SIXTEEN death scenes. Like holy fuck, I’d originally just thought that they rarely interacted and that Markus-Connor shippers just all tended to like Foe-Yay due to the chemistry of it, and the fact that their roles as deviant leader and deviant hunter make them perfect for it. Apparently no, it’s not just that, they literally have a fuckton of scenes together, and they’re literally trying to kill each other in nearly every single one.

This is a shitton of character energy channeled straight at each other, with their goals and their worldviews and their strategies all clashing together at the same time in the same explosive struggle. Connor has been ordered to kill Markus, and Markus is determined to lead androids to victory. Each one of these encounters is a stage for these struggles to play out.

This is also part of why I like the scenes where they work together so much. They can cause so much harm and be this violent, and yet when they do work together and trust each other we get one of the very few endings where everyone can escape and be happy. When they finally channel these absurdly high sets of competence and determination to a common enemy, they do the fucking impossible. Connor brings Markus an army, and Markus maneuvers everything so that humans are forced to back down.

JUST AGH I LOVE THE POTENTIAL IN THESE TWO. There’s so much there, and they’re great!!

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Gavin: My time has come.

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Gavin: I have made a top 10 list of people important to me.

Gavin, taking a folded piece of paper out of his pocket: Number 10 is "I can tolerate you more than most people" And then 1 is "You could steal a lung, my entire left leg and my liver to sell on the black market and I would probably thank you." So, basically-

Nines, deadpan: They wouldn't take your liver, you've destroyed it with alcohol already.

Gavin: ...

Gavin, unfolding the paper: Tina, hand me that pen.

Gavin: You've just been demoted to number 5.

Nines: Where was I before?

Gavin: 9.

Gavin, editing the list: It's a demotion because the more important you are to me, the more I'll inconvenience you.

Chris: Trust me, you don't want to get to number 1.

~~~A few weeks later~~~

Tina, standing up and getting everyone's attention: Important update! Nines has made it to number 1 and Gavin just informed me that they probably won't be here today. I'm giving $50 dollars to whoever guesses what happened correctly.

Hank: Gavin fell down the stairs and convinced Nines that he broke something so he had to go to the hospital!

Tina, writing it down: Wouldn't doubt it, next!

Captain Fowler, walking out of the break room with fresh coffee: Gavin did some dumbass shit and Nines finally got sick of it so Gavin sent that before Nines killed him

Tina: Creative but very probable!

*Many more scenarios are listed until people run out of ideas*

~~~About an hour later~~~

Gavin, walking into the DPD and clocking in: Hey!

Nines in tow, smirking: We apologize for being late.

Gavin, walking with a small limp: ...

Connor: I KNEW IT! OFFICER CHEN, FORK IT OVER

Tina: DAMMIT, YOURE GOOD!