Ooh, that would be fascinatingly complicated! He’d definitely be shocked and disturbed by the realization, but not only would genuinely freeing them mean fewer androids on his side, the only option to fix things would involve deliberately putting them in the psychologically distressing position of having to oppose their programming. And any robot who’d gone Deviant and said they didn’t want that would immediately create the extremely complicated question of “Do we leave them without the ability to decide what they want, or do we make them capable of choices by taking away to live as anything other than a Deviant?”
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...that would be the absolute best fic ever!