Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S02E03 - This Missive, This Machination!

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Episode 3 - This Missive, This Machination!

Mark starts his college career, Debbie struggles with personal trauma, and Allen the Alien returns home to find a new threat facing the Coalition of Planets.

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[u/ikarikh]

But that's kinda the point of why he likes her. He's not lusting over a 12 year old's body. He's finding kinship with a personality that has experienced being "trapped" in a body like he has.

Him making a young Rex body was done purely from a "logical" standpoint that given her visual age and lust for rex, a young rex would be the most desirable physical body to appease her.

From Rudy's standpoint, none of this has to do with sexuality. It's akin to an aromantic relationship where he is into her for her, not her body or genitals.

He simply calculated the best option to appeal to "her" desires to increase his chances of getting her to like him back.

It's possible the two may have a sexual relationship down the line as she helps him to experience human emotions and experiences more now.

But it wasn't his original intent. As he has spent his entire life prior reacting to everything exclusively from a purely logical standpoint devoid of full expression of senses, emotions, etc.

[u/finnjakefionnacake → u/ikarikh]

yeah a lot of this reads like B.S. he's not asking her out and getting nervous/afraid around her just because it's a kinship/platonic friendship.

also, as someone else pointed out, you can't say he chose a physically desirous body to her and then say it's not about sexuality.

completely understand all the stuff about him (neither of them, really) having a normal life, but that's a separate issue.

[u/ikarikh → u/finnjakefionnacake]

You're missing the point.

He was called Robot for a reason. He lived in a tube never knowing physical stimuli, emotion etc..His entire world was based on logical thought.

He liked her because of kinship, not her physical looks.

But he was LOGICAL enough to know she might not feel the same way. Especially after seeing her flirt with Rex.

Thus he cloned rex, and adapted to her age to apppeal to her and increase his chances of her liking him.

Think of it like, you like tennis wheras i am indifferent to it. But i like you, so i show interest in tennis because it's important to you.

That's what robot did with rex for MG.

Now that he is in his new body and starting to experience human sensations and experiences, sex may become something he desires.

It just wasn't his original intention or interest when he created the clone. It was kinship.

Just like there's Asexuals who enjoy close bond relationships or Pansexuals who enjoy sex with a person they form a strong bond with, but aren't inately attracted to bodies for the sake of bodies.

That was the entire point being made. He didn't create Rudy because he wanted to have sex with MG. He simply liked her and used HER sexuality to make himself more appealing and increase the odds she'd like him back.

Because as a logical ROBOT like mind, that was the best calculation for success......

Sexuality CAN come into play now that he's fully human. It just wasn't the original purpose.

[u/[deleted] → u/ikarikh]

He was called ROBOT because they all thought he was an actual robot.