["Solely for human protection" feels like such a compliment, even if T-800 didn't mean it as one, and the pride that Connor feels just makes Connor mildly reflect on how a proper machine probably wouldn't be this desperate for validation. Connor straightens up, though, adjusts its lapels in a downplayed preen. Pride in accomplishing missions is an approved emotion.]

I suppose it must have been easier, with the resources they had, for humans to repurpose you to betray your creators rather than create a unit of their own from scratch. I'd normally disapprove of deviancy, but your creator-machines were all already deviant. A machine not serving humans is an aberration. In essence, you were repaired, not broken.