I THINK MACHINE IS A LOT LIKE VANYA IN THE WAY THAT SHE TREATS THEM? she adores both of them like burning, but she falls into the same issues of evading her own problems to really work on theirs. she can avoid a lot of things that have happened to her/are happening to her in camp because she can really immerse herself in their own insecurities and things that they need to learn. with vanya it's her fears and needs, and with machine it's sort of integrating him into human society and teaching him things about friendship and love and how to be a person!
i don't think there's ever really been a time where she didn't think of him as a person. there's no line between HEY, HE'S A MACHINE and HEY, HE'S A PERSON to her. i think she kind of treats him more like she treats castiel in the fact that he's "something else" that really needs guidance when it comes to certain emotions. he's almost like a child in that respect. a very large metal child. part of her wants to help protect those emotions that he's having because he shouldn't be denied those kinds of things in his life, because they're so fulfilling, no matter what those emotions are.
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i don't think there's ever really been a time where she didn't think of him as a person. there's no line between HEY, HE'S A MACHINE and HEY, HE'S A PERSON to her. i think she kind of treats him more like she treats castiel in the fact that he's "something else" that really needs guidance when it comes to certain emotions. he's almost like a child in that respect. a very large metal child. part of her wants to help protect those emotions that he's having because he shouldn't be denied those kinds of things in his life, because they're so fulfilling, no matter what those emotions are.