#THE ITERATOR MADE PURPOSED ORGANISMS

[dawnleaf37]

purposed organism rain world YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[carvaiine-clone]

Honestly, why does the fandom - at least from the fics I've read - seem so set on No Significant Harassment being the bioengineering guy? This makes no sense to me, considering all NSH did was give a cat cancer while Seven Red Suns made one with enough pip storage to last a whole cycle without feeding or consequences, plus infinite matter creation in the form of spears.

[vamp1rical]

Collector scug concept, with intern slugpup doodle I left in there :)

[iteratorsex]

Wait your version of iterator puppets are grown?

Yup! Grown from stem cells + bacterium onto a basic Puppet Template of sorts. Generally the process is a little slow, and also incredibly random. Sometimes it fails.

It's very important to the ancients I imagine. Not so much to the iterator themselves.

[tropicalcontinental]

[chessbird]

iteratorsona and his two eepers

[cordycepsbian]

sort of theory that each of the downpour slugcats is the last one reincarnated (stolen from youtube comments)

[neramint]

The friends dancing :D

Climb (the scav) was made by Chasm (the iterator) to help them manage their greenhouse of a can after their last purposed organism bailed out

They are great friends, and Climb has become big emotional support for Chasm, who is pretty reclusive and only really gets along with the creatures they make

[mossyflowers]

Okay so here's some stuff i've been doodling for the past few days actually. Mostly starbound and one rw thing. I'll probably doodle more rw stuff super soon tho lol

Hey what if I just started posting robot yuri of my ocs

[cheschesterpossum]

Okay okay okay i just found your blog, awesome by the way. And i kind you not i was thinking of an au where humans being born on Unicorn looked like transformers but are pretenders.

I don't know the full lore of you au yet but i like what I'm reading so far, where the pretenders are an uncanny valley to the Cybertronians. A real among us vibe.

If its okay i wanna share my idea (If your not interested you can ignore these part) Unicorn created humans to be a weapon against Cybertronians but he can't create life like Primus so he has to work with what he has. Which is the organic material growing on him, i was thinking from trail and error Unicorn blended metal and meat together until he got a human that looks like a Cybertronian but on the inside their not. The more Cybertronians looking humans would be his version of Primes that would lead his first iteration of humans. The first humans are like worker ants, they don't have a will if their own and just follows commands.

Their able to communicate to each other telepathically. I like to think the humans are able to open their chest like a Cybertronian revealing their fleshy inside, ribs that look like teeth and red squishy organs that pulse drool from the confines of their metal shell. I'm also thinking that being able to open their chest could serve a purpose where they have flesh feelers on the inside, basically tentacles. That can wrap and crush unexpected victims but their not just weapons, they act as feelers and their able to feel things more.

Aa for eating, i was thinking humans can eat vegetables and meat. And that when eating their disguise breaks as the metal mesh if their face breaks open. Lip slitting apart to sharp teeth build to rip and tear biting into their meal. Its probably like seeing a cat yawn for Cybertronians seeing their human friend eat. Since humans were made to fight Cybertronians originally, i was thinking humans are ironically attractive to Cybertronians. A siren if you will. Luring in prey in with beauty until it's too late. While that's my idea of it anyway. Ah sorry these is getting long, i hope you have a good day!

owwwwhhhhhh this is so awesome sauce!!! Your AU is so interesting!

Oh my goodness, lowkey Among Us or That's Not My Neighbor Transformers version?

I can imagine humans being Cybertron's equivalent of fae or doppelganger. Yes, love the horror combination of flesh and metal.

Would the bots start to develop some kind of security to detect humans among them like the medbay scanner in Amongus? Would there be a security bot specialized to sort out humans and cybertronians?

I'd like to add an idea of mine to this. While humans doesn't have a cog, they do have false alt-mode. Basically wheels, windows, ect uses to fool the cybs and blend in but can't transform.

For when humans start becoming friends and allow cybs to touch them. Their platings or protoform is noticeably softer than cyb's. Kinda like soft metal? Or the same texture as cat's paws, human skin in general. As for armor, is more like a protective shell, like a turtle's? Except they don't have nerve cells on their armor like cybs does. So when their armor is dented or scratches, as long as it doesn't reach their internals, they're fine.

Dw i actually really like reading long ask, have a good day to you too anon!!!!!!

[error4343]

Okay, it seems like my Rain World obsession reincarnated a little, so now I want share this character I've made two years ago.

Meet Fog Between Leaves - the Last Proto Iterator

Before Iterators or even Void revolution, Ancients were already dipping their toes into creating sentient machinery. Their firsts will be named Proto Iterators - name that will come much later, after Iterators themselves will mark “proto” era as past tense.

While still being gigantic in compresence to most fauna, Protos isn't even closely as giant in size nor in purpose as their posterity. Due to technical limitations, these creations were designated to serve more mundane and easy tasks - maintenance, management, etc. Even their sentience was more limited - focused mostly on productivity, with a rudimentary understanding of greater beyond. However, design choices made in these machines would become the basis of Iterators as we know them.

One such choices being the Puppet chamber as well as the whole concept of some kind of machine’s impersonation. Although, as everything with Protos, it was much simpler.

When Void fluid came to be, many Protos were decommissioned. Few of them remained for reasons but for Fog Between Leaves it wasn’t a pragmatic choice that saved her but an emotional attachment of her local Ancients population.

Gifted with a gentle and kind personality by her creators, FBL was created as and remains a caring garden keeper.

Some attempts were made to include her in new Iterators system but with no luck – despite having modern-like Communication Network, FBL remains severed from others. Also, with time, she lost other features – drones and hand-like apparatuses that were placed though garden’s grounds. Before the era of purposed organisms mass production, these were the main ways of Iterators to do their tasks.

But ironically, despite the capability loss, FBL remains in pretty good shape. Her structure requires little to no maintenance due to being low-tech and built with nature’s impact in mind. Air Input and Outputs, which served as cooling systems, stopped long ago due to rains, and now their shafts serve as home for many creatures. This, paired with FBL’s nature-loving personality, created a symbiosis, where populations of semi-sentient beings as scavs serve as protection and maintenance force in return to food and shelter.

But FBL doesn’t really care about her success in survival. With only one directive of protecting the garden and ensuring its prosperity, she is constantly mesmerized by how it’s grown and developed over decades. She doesn’t care about the Great Problem nor about her decay nor about one or two metal sheets her beloved inhabitants would take to make use of. She’s happy and grateful to live another day – to see beaty and growth around.

[iteratorsex]

Spearmaster's early designs

Suns went through 7 total designs. each design iteration had hundreds of attempts made on it

For the first 5 designs, suns went for the "random tempurature fluctuations" method where they just carefully tried to mutate organic tissue. it went. badly

So they simply simulated a genome sequence borrowed from a database of early purposed organisms and current fauna around their can, and cut and spliced it until they got something they thought could work. They'd then inject this genome into a series of eggs pulled out from other organisms, and let the egg grow the rest of the creature for them

Also, the reasoning for why the tail needles happened to begin with is because I imagine that Suns kept accidentally making the creature backwards, with all its digestive and mouth parts being in the back. And rather than waste time fixing it, they just kept going and built off the design

[hrishcha]

Made an iterator sona :) A quiet and anxious one, avoids group elder as she doesn't perform to her highest standards and doing so strains her systems badly — either an overlooked failure during creation or gained over time wear. Still possesses incredible computing and memory capacity, but won't outperform her neighbouring iterators despite being newer generation.

She's not fond of their purpose and doesn't do much steps towards achieving it; most likely believes that ancients' philosophy is not applicable to less intelligent creatures, although thinks that by the time iterators will be long gone and new possible civilization arises, those beings might also wish to ascend, but it must happen on their own terms. Instead of looking for the solution, prefers observing the nature through her overseers, but does not wish to have any creatures within her can and gets noticeably frustrated and nervous if anything finds its way inside. At some point became good friends with iterators far outside of her local group, but when the communication arrays deteriorated and went out of service, she lost contact with them. To this day occasionally runs simulations of their imaginative conversations to entertain herself. Loves her personal collection of pearls and secretly wishes to obtain more, but doesn't dare to reach out into outer world even with purposed organisms. Messing with her data pearls will severely anger and unsettle her. Do not touch the pearls

Her name shall be… Questions Silently? Not fully satisfied with it for now but maybe I'll come up with something better we'll see + some details :)

[lucettapanchetta]

[LIVE BROADCAST] - PRIVATE Seven Red Suns, No Significant Harassment

[ …so are we done with the plan now? ]

[ Yes, we are. There is no point in trying to solve something that we can't control. ]

[ I suppose you do have a point. I just wish I had the chance to speak with Five Pebbles one last time. ]

[ Also, I'd hate to go back to old questions, but what makes you so sure that the messenger died? ]

[ Well, I never intended for my messenger to fend off against large threats. Yes, I may have given them some increased adaptability, but that's about it in terms of intuitiveness. ]

[ ... ]

[ You know, I'm really starting to believe that they might still be alive. ]

[ That is, if you want my reasoning behind it. ]

[ Go ahead. ]

[Right. So, if you created a purposed organism capable of making the journey over to an iterator superstructure, wouldn't that disprove the notion it died?]

[ …not particularly. I made them to specifically to do that. ]

[ True, but anyways, the messenger also managed to get the failsafe pearl rewritten, so they must have met Moon. Keep in mind, her superstructure is extremely unsafe as of right now. ]

[ Right… ]

[ So, do you realize how much this messenger must've gone through to reach this point? ]

[ Quite a lot now that I think about it. ]

[ …and if that's the case, do you really think they would die that easily either? ]

[ Personally, I doubt it. They've likely spent countless cycles with the same level of grit needed to finish the job. I even bet they'll come back to you as soon as they're done. ]

[ When you put it like that, maybe you're right. But why are you being so optimistic all of a sudden? ]

[ Because it'll be all that I'll have left if things continue this way. If the one iterator I know, who usually makes light of everything, is hurting, I might as well compensate. Wouldn't you agree? ]

[ I suppose that's true, but if I wasn't experiencing the fear of uncertainty, I'd be doing a better job than you. ]

[ Can't help but throw punches, eh? ]

[ Oh, come on Seven Red Suns! It's in my nature. ]

[kelnexia]

*Slams this onto the table*

Soft Bodied Iterator Propaganda! >:D

I think I might be one of the only artists in this fandom who draws iterators like this… Not sure why though – they look soft and organic like this in the game! I mean, yeah sure, they are robots – but not in a way most people would be familiar with… They’re purposed organisms, aka living machines made of conjoined metal and flesh. Striping them of their biological qualities, is striping them of one of their main defining features! Also, they look really cute this way! I want to hug them, I want to snuggle them, and I also kind of want to bite them… Sig especially.

(Please don’t leave any nsfw comments, this is just meant to be silly.)

[mushroominaforest]

NSH in the original siblings au vs the current version lol

In the original one, Sig used the rot as a way to make sure Hunter didn’t run away like Arti did. Sig couldn’t cure it, but he could keep Hunter alive and well enough to function, so Hunter didn’t really have any choice other than to keep going back to Sig. In the current one, basically Sig just does not give a single shit about Hunter.

The current Sig isn’t actually that bad of a person from an Iterator standpoint, but he, like almost all Iterators, sees Slugcats as being less important life forms.

To Sig, Hunter’s just his purposed organism. He can make another if he needs to, and it doesn’t have the same amount of sentience and intelligence as him. But to Hunter, Sig is his dad. So obviously it really messed him up when Sig just consistently let bad things happen to him. But again, from the perspective of an Iterator, the life of a slugcat is insignificant compared to theirs. But, since I’m writing a story from a slugcat perspective, a lot of Iterators are going to seem like huge jerks lol, even if they’re decent people.

The change was made to the story to make it more accurate to how I write Iterators!