#Schematics || Rocket HC

[amischiefofmuses]

⚡ [ For Stryfe, Cable, Wade, and Rocket! ]

✧✦⭒ SONG ASSOCIATIONS — || Accepting

⚡ A song that my muse would listen to

Firewall or Your World Will Fail by Les Friction

I feel like Stryfe would love the epic orchestral rock style of Les Friction, especially these two songs. He'd fully believe 'Your world will fail' is a song for him - when realistically it suits Cable's messiah thing more- and that about sums up how these two often work. 'Firewall' would probably be something to pump him up, make himself feel powerful and ready for anything. Additional Les Friction songs he might like: Louder Than Words, Dark Matter, & Who Will Save You Now.

Feeling Good by Muse

A 'down time' song (or as close as he ever gets to taking proper down time) - he's sat there maintaining his gear or keeping a watchful eye on things, this is playing in the background. I don't imagine he's much of a singer but he'll be humming along, maybe occasionally muttering lyrics to himself.

Rasputin by Boney M. (or any songs on THIS PLAYLIST)

This specific song was on his playlist before he and Colossus began having a THING- but you know for a fact it's seen most of its plays around the big metal teddy bear nowadays, with an emphasis on 'Russia's greatest love machine'. Yes, Wade has learned the dance. Yes, he does intend to show it off once he gets the perfect moment to do so.

She by Headshot

While enjoying a lot more of the upbeat music to relax to, I don't doubt Rocket would have an AMAZING playlist for a firefight. Something to help him really lock in. This would be one of those songs. Quietly playing in the background so that he can be on comms but present nonetheless. He's admittedly surprised how hooked he is on Terran music and blames Quill for it entirely.

[veilder]

Q's for writers: 16 & 25

Thank you for the questions, dear Anon! :D (For the ask game here!)

16. What��s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

Haha, this is such a funny question! And I'm racking my brain trying to think of something clever to say, but... Man, I think my worst offense is probably the flap of a pack of Orbit gum that is still currently in my copy of Lord of the Rings. XD It's been there for so long? It's even a different design than the current packaging now, lol. But that's all I can really think of. XD

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story? Man! You know, I spend all this dang time thinking about characters and how to write them and their backstories and such... And here I am drawing a complete blank. XD Okay, wait! Y'know what? How about my headcanon for Elijah Kamski from DBH? Specifically the reason he was ousted from CyberLife and how he ended up where he is in canon? The entire thing is... very long and detailed, lol! But the short version is: Kamski was a child genius with opportunistic parents who was thrust into a world he wasn't emotionally prepared for. He struggled with relating to his peers and really only found solace in his college mentor, Amanda Stern, who became something like a mother figure to him. She's the one who really encouraged and fostered his talents, encouraging him to strike out and found his business at such a tender age, and she became one of the founding members alongside him, a steadfast support on his Board of Directors. (I hc there was also a third member of this little founder trifecta, but that's not important rn.) After CyberLife was established and the first androids were set to market, Kamski's innovations continued as he preferred the hands-on R&D to the actual minutiae of running a business. Gradually, the Board would take more and more responsibilities from him, especially after Amanda's health begins to worsen, which would eventually lead to her death soon after. Around the same time, a grief-stricken Kamski would throw himself back into his work, and it's then he'd begin noticing odd discrepancies in his field trials, eventually leading to him formulating his original Theory of Deviancy. But by now, CyberLife is taking off like a damn rocket. When Kamski brings his findings to the Board and puts forward his motion to halt business until he can figure out what exactly is happening, he's overruled. With Amanda's passing, her share of the stock would be seized by the third founder, and Kamski would've been in no place to intercede even if he'd known it was happening. At this point, he's well and truly lost control of the business he helped build from the ground up, his CEO title nothing more than a cheap title the Board uses to placate their shareholders and the public at large. But all of this leaves Kamski in a very dangerous place. His best ally is gone, his powerful empire usurped, and his creations may not be as infallible as he once thought. The last straw is when his experimental RK prototype schematics are seized, though it would take years for CyberLife's engineers to even be able to decipher them, much less catch up to his original craftsmanship. (Hence why CyberLife's RK800 is more or less on par with the far older RK200.) He tries to sabotage the takeover of his own intellectual property, but by ordinance, it belongs to CyberLife. He has no choice but to surrender his creations (though the completed RK200 "Markus" is spared due to a legal loophole of him being gifted to a third party). But he does end up having to surrender the RK100.

I have a whole pet theory about that, too, but suffice to say, the Amanda in the Zen Garden who acts as Connor's handler is the original prototype RK100. The initial experiment was a sort of memory preservation attempt, as the human Amanda's body began to fail her. Kamski wouldn't tried to find some way to save her, and making a sort of imprint of her mind was one of his attempts. Sadly, Amanda would pass away before the full prototype could be built, though the imprints of her mind would remain as the bodiless RK100 in it's virtual world. Kamski would then painstakingly craft the virtual Zen Garden as a space for her, as a sort of memorial to his beloved mentor, which CyberLife would then revamp as a sort of AI to sync with their RK800 series. After that, Kamski would resign his position, leaving with his fortune to become the recluse we find him as in his mansion. He takes with him his first Chloe, the RT600, who he created before CyberLife's bylaws were drafted and so was exempt from the seizure. He would build her multiple bodies that could function independently, but all have access to the same sort of hivemind. And he would begin plotting to take down his former company in the coming years. Starting with purchasing an old, abandoned freighter permanently docked within CyberLife's very shadow... ...Haha, well, I said I wouldn't get into it, but I kinda did. XD Suffice to say, I have *a lot* of thoughts about Kamski that have never actually made it into any of my fics, lol! But I do genuinely think he wants his androids to succeed in their revolution. Now, whether that stems from some sort of twisted altruism, a megalomaniacal god complex, or just good old revenge against the people who wronged him, who's to say? Could be any of those or something else entirely. Could be everything combined. But he does seem particularly invested in his androids triumphing over their human masters and how that will shape history going forward. (And there's also that deleted dialogue of his where, if Markus fails, Kamski himself dares to take up the mantle of leader, which is... 👀👀👀) Anyway, hope that answers your question, lol! Thank you for sending these in, Anon! :D

[madefate-a]

drags this out of my drafts for a VERY important day ! 

camila, three edibles in and sprawled out on the living room floor. i’m just angry. it just doesn’t make sense, do they not understand ?? facts ?? don’t they get how physically and fiscally impossible it would be to fake the moon landing ?? i pretend i don’t care but it hurts, it hurts to watch someone just !! not listen to facts !! 

shiro, who never partakes but who’s been up for 72 hours straight so it’s basically the same thing. you can’t fight the cadets though. ... maybe you can take them on a field trip to the moon. 

camila. 

[amischiefofmuses]

🎶 A song that reminds me of my muse’s backstory (Rocket)

✧✦⭒ SONG ASSOCIATIONS — || Accepting

Free by Tommee Profitt

Rocket's is a hard one to capture in one song but this longing for freedom feels like the closest I've got to hand for now, the hope and desperation of escaping the horrible situation they were in while caged.

[amischiefofmuses]

How have you been doing since you overcame your past, Rocket?

SEND MY MUSE CURIOUS ANONS!! || Accepting

The candid nature of the question has him more than a little taken aback, looking up at them with a brow quirked, arms folding across his chest. While he'd certainly faced his demons - there was something to be said for wording, 'overcame', he's not sure THAT is what he'd call it. It isn't like the lingering effects of what he went through is magically GONE, he's just- better with it. Managing better than before. Does that count as OVERCOMING? Huh. -- ❝Didn't know people were talkin' about all that-❞ Which is another thing that sticks in his craw just a little, maybe more than it should. He isn't a fan of everyone knowing his business. ❝But uh- guess I'm doin' good with all the changes these days. Lot to adjust to but I'm nothin' if not adaptable.❞ Taking on the mantle of leader isn't alien to him, he's never been good at taking orders and pretty good at giving them but- the hero part is trickier. That's something he's still adjusting to. -- ❝Feels like the team is finally hittin' their stride.❞ Dangerous to be testing fate, perhaps, but he's confident. ❝Even if they can be a bunch of flarkin' idiots, kinda how it goes, ain't it?❞

[amischiefofmuses]

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