I was rewatching Blade Runner 2049 and started thinking of a Joe/Nicky AU with Joe as K and Nicky as Joi...
For those who haven't watched the film, Joe is a Blade Runner who hunts down rogue replicants (bioengineered humans used as slave labour). Nicky is an artificial holographic AI that Joe buys to be his companion. Nicky's AI program is actually widely available and is made to be a live-in romantic companion for anyone who buys him.
Joe falls in love with Nicky and Nicky loves him back (but how "real" is their relationship given that Nicky is literally created to love him?)
If the story follows the movie, then Joe believes he is not just a replicant and he sets out to find out what really happened to him with Nicky's help.
Or you can just take the idea of Joe as a Blade Runner and Nicky as his AI boyfriend and have lots of angst over how Nicky can never be a real person...or can he? (insert futuristic solution here - maybe Joe commissions a replicant of his own who looks exactly like Nicky and transfers Nicky's AI consciousness into him and it becomes a sort of sci-fi Pygmalion situation?)
Joe/Nicky - Blade Runner 2049 AU
For those who haven't watched the film, Joe is a Blade Runner who hunts down rogue replicants (bioengineered humans used as slave labour). Nicky is an artificial holographic AI that Joe buys to be his companion. Nicky's AI program is actually widely available and is made to be a live-in romantic companion for anyone who buys him.
Joe falls in love with Nicky and Nicky loves him back (but how "real" is their relationship given that Nicky is literally created to love him?)
If the story follows the movie, then Joe believes he is not just a replicant and he sets out to find out what really happened to him with Nicky's help.
Or you can just take the idea of Joe as a Blade Runner and Nicky as his AI boyfriend and have lots of angst over how Nicky can never be a real person...or can he? (insert futuristic solution here - maybe Joe commissions a replicant of his own who looks exactly like Nicky and transfers Nicky's AI consciousness into him and it becomes a sort of sci-fi Pygmalion situation?)
Top!Joe only please, if there is smut :)