The android David is analyzed across Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, and their expanded narrative, to provide an account of his ideological trajectory from mechanized servant to self-perceived creator which ultimately remains bound to his programmed condition. As an android and therein unable to create ex nihilo, David relies on functional imagination, a mechanism through which mythological and literary scripts are recombined into templates of meaning-making, self-perception, and actions. By close-reading the films, their related short films, and epistolary paratexts, symbolic materials are clustered into intertextual fractals and traced across Mesopotamian, Greek, Biblical, and Modern source fields in order to account the narrative structures that establish David's artificial myth. This artificial myth crystallizes then around the interdependent pillars of creatorhood, the "perfect lifeform," and servitude and freedom, all of which converge in the Xenomorph lineage as the material realization of David's mythogenesis.
