[ BB-8 practically mowed Finn down to get to Poe that one time, and there was that other time he set the pilot and the flight technician up on a date, and--
Look, the concept of 'attachment' might be programmed into most if not all droids, but Poe wasn't too off the mark when he wondered if BB-8 had a sense of imagination. If love in humans is partially driven by biochemicals, love in BB-8 is an adaptive subroutine responding to stimuli in a way his designers couldn't have predicted. It's not unique to the droid, not at all, but his response model was Poe Dameron. Who, y'know, is not the most reserved person in the galaxy.
When Cassian suggests that there's not only the possibility of direct translation, but also someone on the moon who speaks binary, BB-8 does a quick, excited circuit around the man, making a long, excited trill that ends in a boop. A noise boop, that is, not a leg boop this time. ]
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Look, the concept of 'attachment' might be programmed into most if not all droids, but Poe wasn't too off the mark when he wondered if BB-8 had a sense of imagination. If love in humans is partially driven by biochemicals, love in BB-8 is an adaptive subroutine responding to stimuli in a way his designers couldn't have predicted. It's not unique to the droid, not at all, but his response model was Poe Dameron. Who, y'know, is not the most reserved person in the galaxy.
When Cassian suggests that there's not only the possibility of direct translation, but also someone on the moon who speaks binary, BB-8 does a quick, excited circuit around the man, making a long, excited trill that ends in a boop. A noise boop, that is, not a leg boop this time. ]