#Robo genetics

[bloodywolfwings]

So, I was talking about what optic colour would a Nuzi kid would have and well... I ran into a snag that I have no idea what to do with

Let me explain the following reason. We know that Khan has white eyes and Nori has purple. Uzi also have purple, assuming the process of having a drone baby is the same as actual genetics, Uzi's optic code would probably look like this.

And following the genetics idea, her optic coding would probably be

So, the snag, it's N. I say this because his eyes back at the mansion were white, but they're yellow as a Disassembly Drone but that's most likely because of the Solver.

So, what would his code look like then? I only have two ideas on this.

A: The Solver re-writes Disassembly Drones optics to be yellow

B: The Solver just adds the yellow, ignoring the default white optic coding

(Let's go for 50/50 for simplicity. Really, the percentage could be any number)

So, If we follow idea A. The kids code could look like this:

But if we go for idea B, it might look like this:

Moral of this? I have gone insane and need to go to bed

[mephiles-the-jester]

"Hii hi!! This box thing wants to ask if you wanna join the robo club! Hmm, I'm not a robot but we can still be friends if you wanna too!"

circuit is not used to getting approached to join clubs,,but she is very excited,and shes glad to make more friends too

[robo-writing]

no matter when tarja manages to get clive in for a routine check up he’s always got some sort of bruise on his knees, she would say it’s due to some rosarian fighting style but that would need him to not have a suspiciously ginger stubble near his mouth all the time

Oh. OH! OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

[hauntingblue]

Why do they say dragon is luffy's father but doesn't look much like him... I mean it is true but why point it out... in that way he doesn't look like garp either

[manty-monster]

a gothic robot man warning his robot daughter that life outside is dangerous, because she has an inherited computer virus

[thegreatestheaver]

my Yeva and Nori’s are both pretty short. Khan is pretty tall and Doll’s unnamed father is as well. my Uzi is short and my Doll is very tall. I think it would be funny if when they were born, Yeva and Nori made a bet on who did and didn’t get the tall genes :) they never got to see it to the end though

[kalpeavaris]

So, in Echo, we have a Jessa, a Nuzi, and a Vizzy fankid, but nothing for Cyn. So I would like to propose Cyn and Thad vibe together. It might not be much, but I like to think Thad would be good for Cyn. Plus, I think Thad would be an awesome Dad just as I think Cyn would make for a good mom.

Actually I do have a Cyn fankid! 8D *searches through her 30 piles of artwork I haven't really posted because they're only sketches*

Though she's a fankid of Cyn and my own character, Dina (a former maid who worked with Cyn before she became disassembled and the whole AS stuff took place). Ari's coming more after Cyn in regards to her personality and her looks mainly come from Dina (especially the Disassembly Drone regards). Sweet gal who likes to read books! :D

Also funfact, Cyn is... partially also Jecka's mom. Thanks to robo genetic maths and her code being intertwined with Tessa's. B) Still working on a lil comic regarding that!

But... I'm not opposed to Thad & Cyn, ngl, with Thad's demeanor I could imagine Cyn would find herself to find him endearing. He'd give her the space and empathy she'd need to recover from being the Solver's puppet

someone who wouldn't judge and just be like "oh yeah so anyway you like football?" with Cyn smiling because she's happy that someone finally doesn't have second thoughts about her past. 8D

They'd be awesome parents, too! Now I gotta think about how their child would look like... damn... my brain's running on overtime these days LOL

[shit-ultrakill-imagines]

imagine v1 mkaing out with girls!!!!!!!! robo girls nd human girls and genetically engineered horrors girls

imagine v1 making out with ME!

[genshingorlsrevengeance]

with firefly it's CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK GET PREGNANT GET PREGNANT GET PREGNANT GET PREGNANT

Its always the robo-gyatts that got me acting up. (Even though Firefly is still human, just genetically engineered...Does that still count?)

(Firefly) "C-Club? Club for what?"

[GFL] (M16A1) hic! "Ya knooooow!~"

[GoV: NIKKE] (Anis) "I guess people have a thing for robots these days."

[Persona 3] (Aigis) "I believe I have read about this before, called fanfic-"

(Firefly) "People are into that?!"

(GoV: NIKKE) (Rapi) "Apparently."

[GFL] (AK-12) "Hm, not the worst problem we could have."

[GFL] (M4A1) "It isn't exactly a good thing either..."

[rubyroboticalt]

Minecrafters grab your pickaxes, and catch up on the QBLR QUATERLY!

What's up guys, update just dropped! It sure is something to try and decipher, huh. We've got pages of new stuff to go over, so let me learn you a thing about all the events and mishaps that happened on the server this week!

The Nether Angel, the Bird, withers away. Bibi mourns their friend, but does unlock an eye for the Eye Spy puzzles.

Peachy builds a precious pink cottage in a cherry grove. Zpca has guests in the evil lab, sure hope no experiments happen. Desnay has some deep-sea shenanigans with friends, and tames a Little Creature! Not a character creature. This is a mob that looks like a teddy bear.

A group of residents discover the chat bubbles mod, a mod that places typed chat messages above the player's head in a box. Some eggs discover how to imitate each other, so good luck telling which Salem is the real Salem. Residents also rediscover drugs and alcohol.

Two of the robo crew glow in the dark quite nicely! Also, turns out you can wear blackboards with drawings on them on your face as a mask. Now to find out what the point of the mask is.

Splat builds a manor in the mystic grove. Next on FOV competitions, we have a new record for how do you play like this. The other members of popcorn's family have a nice photo with normal fov.

Peachy does some interiors of the cottage! Some lore is silly and fun. Some lore is a kid watching a sister get killed by an uncle. The range of human emotion. And some lore is killing a g-d.

But don't worry! Residents have some very healthy coping mechanisms. And some kinning of that Russian guy who tried to grow a homunculus son using chicken eggs and genetic material. Don't forget the very normal coping dinner, that is vital.

And now, some autistic Minecraft behaviors. The digging isn't the only one, we also have our gothtistics playing funeral and going to Hot Topic.

All in preparation for summerween! Given that halloween is in october and it's not october, residents celebrate summerween to get that sweet sweet spooktacular on. There's costumes, candies, and cunning pranks. Don't forget the photo op!

Remember the creature statues that may not have actually been mentioned in a previous episode? Plenty are now complete, and some even have books for visitors to write to or about the creature in!

And this week on the server comes to a close with hor hor hor hor hor

[sunshine-tattoo]

so zim once spent an entire episode trying to take advantage of the human response to cuteness.

good idea but he wasted it by genetically altering a class pet hamster that ultimately ended in half the city being destroyed.

like homie you literally have GIR right there.

that robo puppy captured an entire generation of scene kids and was the only thing keeping hot topic in business from 2007 to 2012.

[medi-bee]

Fortune Amidst Misfortune. my stringbean. big into lizards, if you couldn’t tell. I gave him a major facelift when downpour came out, but ive had him for years lol

Fortune is a rude-ass introvert, and is totally engrossed in his genetic experiments. If asked, he’d tell you that he thinks the local wildlife are ugly beasts, but he’s secretly a huge softy for ‘em and everyone can tell. He would watch the lil babies grow up through the overseers and just be so proud.

Eventually just watching was no longer enough, so he gave his puppet a big revamp, as seen above. lizard-taur-terator? Except he only has minimal knowledge of robo-body building, so it kinda sucks. Lots of little errors that start adding up, which means lots of maintenance, so that big socket in the back is for plugging himself back in occasionally (and it also functions as a weak spot :) ). And he did have to make some concessions when deciding to separate himself from his umbilical. He doesn’t have access to his extremely competent problem solving processes or the entire history of the world, among other things? But he does bring along his lucky 8 neurons. that’s probably enough i guess? Surely nothing bad will happen.

But hey, at least he can pet the animals now! He once raised an entire pack of genetically modified yellow lizards (in the name of science). After they passed, he decided (foolishly) to hybridize lizard and slugcat (again, in the name of science). The little beast continues to haunt him to this day, eating his brain cells and chewing through his wires, refusing to be trained unless there’s a reward in it for her. He named her Nips at Neurons, after the first thing she did when she escaped for the first time. He adores her.

also his antenna do this

[bluef00t]

Finally collecting these in a post—Atomic Robo robotswap ideas. This was more of a character design challenge than a real AU, but the concept kind of got away from me.

Rambling design notes + a couple panel redraws + some ideas I had for Helsingard and ALAN 1.0 under the cut:

This idea spiraled out of an old sketch by Wegner of real-boy Robo as a genetics experiment. I'm interpreting that as basically Wolverine minus the animal motifs (and generally much more well-adjusted).

I tried to mimic more elements of his bot design; for example the hair silhouette and the thick blue-tinted glasses, swapped for goggles as his lifestyle got more active. I guess sensitive eyes are a side effect of his mutations. (The classic superhero forehead curl on babyrobo has no design justification, I just couldn't resist.) His appearance would make the public of the '20s a little uncomfortable with seeing him as Tesla's son. Which feels very thematically appropriate.

I'm still calling him "Robo" because it feels weird not to, though it would be a nickname. Appropriate for a guy who never sleeps; plausibly derived from Robert/Ratko. (The American name would be how he's introduced to the public; the Serbian one used casually by Tesla.*) Honestly, it seems in-character for him to put down Robo as his actual legal name when he finally got that chance.

*Things I found out after picking these names for their superficial resemblance to "Robo": Robert means "famous, shining" and Ratomir means "defender of peace"; literally "war for peace". Definitely an affectionately ironic moniker for a son so determined to be an action hero. Though dear monolingual Robo probably wouldn't catch on until decades after Tesla's death... Well, now I've gone and made myself sad.

The action scientists are mostly an excuse to still draw robots. Let's say they're Robo's big midlife crisis project after realizing he was going to outlive his entire first team and not think about it too hard.

Vik (inspired by Robby the Robot) is the oldest of the models. He's optimized for processing power, which is how you get a robot that will try to suggest purely hypothetical (but mathematically sound!) solutions to urgent real-world problems. And enjoys TTRPGs of Turing-complete levels of complexity.

Lang (inspired by Robo) came shortly after, more optimized for the "action" part of action science. Being made of metal does wonders for your recoil management. (I know she hasn't had the hair buns in 10+ years, but that's what I was trying to do with the "antennae".)

Foley (inspired by Alan) is the newest model, optimized for human-robot interaction. Getting wifi installed in her head early on had the unexpected side effect of making her really good at understanding networks of all kinds.

BRN-3 wasn't built to be sentient. He's just a lab geological survey bot that began showing signs of sapience one day and attributes his own "enlightenment" to the "crystals" he'd been studying. This is obviously bullshit but nobody can give a better explanation, so...

Jenkins is literally just the Terminator, except his evil future is vampires instead of AI. He was sent back to kill Robo, which clearly didn't work, so they talked it out and now he just hangs around Tesladyne on high alert for anything that might kick off the apocalypse.

(I have no idea where Ada, Ben, and Koa fit in here, but I might come back to them later. Using their Agents of CHANGE power suits as android designs felt like cheating.)

Not included in these drawings are Helsingard and ALAN, but I'm considering switching around parts of their premises, too.

Helsingard was a Nazi supercomputer meant to calculate the perfect world-conquering strategy. Instead, it realized that Germany's loss was imminent and hid copies of itself around the planet. Every once in a while, someone accidentally boots up a copy and it tries to take over. In the modern age it's a total dice roll as to whether this will be horrifying (what major infrastructure isn't computerized these days?) or just kind of pathetic (it's too old to understand the internet and can easily get itself trapped in an office printer spitting toner and stacks of paper that read BEHOLD HELSINGARD).

ALAN (potential rename pending; the Turing connection is rather lost in the version I'm going with for now) is the world's second successful "unkillable" genetic experiment, a govt project during the Cold War to ensure that the last man alive in a nuclear winter scenario would be British. But it turns out telling a guy he's the next stage in human evolution and sealing him in a bunker for decades to await a chance to inherit the earth which doesn't come isn't great for his sense of compassion or morality. Eventually, ALAN decides to hurry things along before we inferior humans end the world in a less convenient way, and Robo has to... well, you know this part.

It turns out there was a secret phase 2 to this plan, which would have been to populate the solar system with perfect immortal mind-networked clones of himself. The single under-baked clone that it does manage to spit out before being shut down is our Alan :] He needs someone to look after him while his crazy healing powers fill in the missing chunks of his body and brain, and he didn't get a full memory upload from ALAN, so it's free son boy!

No changes were made to Dr. Dinosaur. He's already perfect.

[robo-writing]

barnabas as a slightly sexist father bc when his daughter is fairly trying to get out of the castle her resemblance to his mother makes him quickly and painlessly knock her unconscious and bridal carry her to her room but when his Feral Dog of a doppelgänger son tries to waltz out he’s full on brawling like a hyena, they’re biting eachother and rolling on the ground and they both probably lost a tooth (somehow it’s grown back) before he drags his son by the leg face down inside. she’s like wtf why don’t i get a solid chance to fight back.

first son and youngest have some sort of immunity bc as long as dad provides him with all the research info he wants they’ve stuck an agreement that he won’t leave. and the youngest being bladesmith’s spitting image and legacy means he’s allowed brief and supervised usage of his mother’s forge bc the place makes barnabas calm and it’s like he’s watching his wife again.

they’re all his heirs under the watch of 19 sleipnirs tho

The fact that Barnabas treats his daughter with as much seriousness as a kitten is so funny to me. Exhausted dad telling his kid to get back in the house (even though they could easily go toe to toe with each other) and not to bother him again meanwhile his rabid pit bull of a son is actively searching for the nearest weapon to fight his dad with (he wanted to go buy something at the market and dad said no)

[mecha--maniac]

WIP of organic Neo Metal; why not?

I don't really have any reason to do any sort of organic au (outside of maybe thinking of how interesting it'd be if Eggman was a genetic engineer mad scientist instead of a robot one) but drawing the bots as organic helps give me more of a sense of their robo designs and character, I guess. Plus I'm not super used to cartoony androids so it's more fun to draw fuzzy furry dorks that need to eat more and go to therapy.

Bonus a wip pass at a Sonic design and wip pass of Metal for a post-Heroes AU

[self-indulgent-paw-patrol]

Do you think any of the PAW Patrol members are on the spectrum? Because I HC Ryder and Rocky as both being Autistic (it's why Rocky hates water and Ryder hates brussel sprouts, bad sensory experience)

Particularly I think the brussel sprouts thing might be more of a combo of sensory and taste, if it was only sensory, Ryder would hate a bunch of vegetables altogether. What would tell me Ryder is autistic is mostly how his knowledge on engineering for his age is just-- Miles Tails Prower level of spawning new buildings and vehicles overnight. It's canon he's the one projecting, building and maintaining all their vehicles, we see him doing maintenance on his ATV pretty regularly and he taught the pups to inspect their own vehicles and do basic maintenance as well. Not to mention he projected, programmed (and regrogrammed several times) and built the Robo-dog from scratch. That implies he not only knows engineering but also has plenty knowledge in the field of Artificial Intelligence! And he's TEN.

But for Rocky I agree! It could very well be an autistic trait. He's also extra passionate about his stuff and both his creativity and ability to learn things of his interest are off the charts. I also picture him into the ADHD part of the thing, mostly on the HD part of it. He's one of the pups we get to see doing things on their own sometimes, outside of missions. Tbh Rocky only stops moving when he sleeps, and maybe not even then XD

Personally, I headcanon Ryder, Chase, Rocky and Zuma as autistic to some degree each in different ways. As for Marshall, my headcanon on him has nothing to do with any spectrum but with genetic health. Skye, Rubble, Everest, Tracker, Rex and Liberty (the other pups I know so far), I don't have anything on them.

With Ryder and Rocky explained already, let's go to Chase and Zuma, under the cut, post's getting long again, omg.

Chase would be this one "kind" of autistic person I've met at least a couple autistic kids like him before: They get one subject to hyperfocus on and it LASTS LONG, they just don't change interests. They might go and also focus on something that's very alike to the main subject too, but they won't switch their focus target. They're also extremely perfectionists, very hard on themselves, failure when working on something is NOT an option.

Chase is pretty much like that. We know he's intensely passionate about his job as their Police and Spy pup, he follows the rules, he enforces the rules, he does all he can to make sure the task will be complete and always gets extremely upset and/or worried with the possibility of failing or disappointing Ryder (or anyone else for that matter, but it's to a personal level when it's with Ryder), to the point it makes him lose his ground, driving him into anxiety and panic attacks on the most extreme cases.

As for Zuma, I think he's one of those cases in which the person also has this hyperfocus on something and sticks with it, but to him it's less intense than Chase, I mean, to be a cop you gotta study and learn a lot of stuff. Zuma's case is that one that looks more like a very intense hobby. Getting his natural passion for water as a Labrador Retriever and adding it to a greater level of interest on water related stuff, Zuma just put together the fun and the usefulness in his life. So, not only Zuma does the aquatic rescues for the Patrol out of convenience on being the pup whose breed actually doesn't mind getting wet, he also has fun and enjoys it all.

"But that's expected from a Labrador, isn't it?" you ask me. Well, I raise you the fact that Labradors are also usually extremely hyperactive dogs, but then we have Zuma who's... Totally chill. He's there in his spot, content, just enjoying himself. He's not constantly running or jumping around unless prompted to do so, he's playful but only when the others go out to play as well. Otherwise, he's just there, just vibing. Zuma is literally that pup who's there in his corner, vibing, minding his business, until someone else interacts with him or invites him to go do something.

He's literally the chill dude who will go out to surf on his own because he enjoys it and doesn't feel the need to interact with others unless necessary - doesn't mean he's rude, it only means he's vibing his own vibes and will gladly interact if prompted to do so, but doesn't usually takes the initiative because he's already happy in his world.

JUST A REMINDER, IT'S ALL MY PERSONAL TAKE on watching these characters and thinking way too much about their behaviors outside of missions and the vibes I get from them. Mind you, I might be autistic myself but I'm not diagnosed and most I know about it comes from research I've done years ago up to nowadays, the first time being when I wanted to create an autistic OC and didn't know much about it and didn't want to get it wrong to not be attacked over it.