->''"Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe we're sick of you too? Sick of the stunts '''we''' have to pull? Sick of you guys fucking things up for '''us'''?"''

A novella-length pair of ''Anime/ArmitageIII'' fanfics, comprising ''How She Has Burned'' and ''From Blue to Red Again''.

The series progresses from personal drama to civil war as it continues the story of Naomi Armitage: a robot built to give birth to human children, but who discovers that her true fulfilment lies in saving her dying race. Saving said race turns out to involve a lot of harmful-to-humans actions, however, and since her partner is human... well, it all goes from there.

Notable for taking the political and ethical implications of the original series and turning them up to eleven.

You can read them [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/36049 here.]]
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!!This work provides examples of:

* BlackAndGreyMorality: Armitage will stop at nothing, up to and including murder, to keep her kind alive. Her opponents are various shades of bigoted, including "will stop at nothing, up to and including mass murder, to see her kind dead".
* CeilingCling: Armitage is, presumably, hiding on the ceiling when she drops down on BitPartBadguy Lance Mccallon. She proceeds to subject him to MurderousThighs.
* ContinuityNod: A bunch of them.
-->Didn't they know country singers were extinct?
* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed. The original show was gritty and violent to begin with, giving this work not a lot of room to get Darker And Edgier, but Ross's outbursts of bigotry, Armitage's willingness to [[spoiler: kill children for her own ends]] and the discovery that [[spoiler: the police are genociding Thirds]], among other things, definitely sink the world into Crapsack territory. And that's before we get to the WarArc.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Inverted. Isa is kind to Armitage in the beginning, but she soon reveals herself a military hardass who increasingly lacks tolerance for her flamboyance.
%%* DyingAsYourself: Invoked.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Julian gets one. As well, the Thirds in cyberspace have electronic ''appearance'' impediments, as the server doesn't have the power to render them properly.
* EvilKnockoff / GrandTheftMe: Combined. Armitage's Evil Knockoff ''is'' her stolen body, animated by a mindless soldier program.
* FacialHorror: Numerous robots (and, it's implied, humans as well) get their faces ''melted off''. By hydrofluoric acid squirt guns.
* FantasticRacism: The author's works are made of this trope, in general. To be fair, so was the original show.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Thirds' infrared vision.
* HeroicBSOD: Armitage goes through some small ones that are ''literally'' this. Ross even refers to her as "bluescreening".
%%* HollywoodAcid: Somewhat justified, in that hydrofluoric acid can do that. It's scary stuff.%%Do what?
%%* MirrorMatch
* PowerOfLove: Subverted, and that subversion called out.
* RoboFamily: Armitage spends a lot of time deliberating over whether her human family or her robot family mean more to her. [[spoiler: She chooses the robots.]]
%%* RobotWar
* ShoutOut: Plenty to ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* ThankTheMaker: The first fic in large part revolves around this.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: Armitage's rationalization for [[spoiler: killing a human to get hold of the required materials to make new Thirds.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Both played straight and inverted. Each side thinks this about the other.
-->'''Armitage:''' If the future of humanity depended on you killing just one Third, would you do it?\\
'''Ross:''' Armitage...\\
'''Armitage:''' Would you?
* WetwareCPU: The Thirds have them, which causes problems when Armitage and Julian try to replicate their design.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Zig-zagged. Armitage feels passionately for her own kind, but when it comes to her own (human) child she admits that she doesn't know how to love her, and the one time she's left responsible for her, she stashes her in a cardboard box. (To be fair, they didn't have a crib.)
* WouldHurtAChild: A rare female protagonist example. [[spoiler: Armitage is quite willing to sacrifice her human child to resurrect the Thirds, because it's "just one life".]]
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