#and also say hi to Makabris!

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You know how it is with stinkbugs

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Synapse says goodbye to his son before turning himself in to be interrogated by Prince Max. Itchy is afraid to be apart from Synapse for so long, as they’ve spent most of their life following him around wherever he went. If Synapse is locked away for ages, where will Itchy go?

It’s just occurred to me that I’ve never posted Itchy on here (just on DA)! Time to change that! Their full name is Ichthyargyropodus, and they’re biotech like Peg-- a robotic silverfish with a functioning organic brain. They were originally just a sculpture made by Makabris, but Synapse saw promise in his design and brought it to life. Despite Itchy’s height and speech capability, they’re actually only over a year old. But that’s expected, robots can’t exactly grow like living beings do.

Though Makabris technically created them, Itchy is much more attached to Synapse. I guess it could be compared to something like imprinting? They regard Synapse as their father, and Synapse happily raises them as his own child. Synapse generally does treat all of his machines as if they are his children, but obviously since Itchy is literally sentient, it’s much more real. Itchy does regard Makabris as a parent in some capacity, but not as a guardian if that makes sense. Their relationship is rather distant. For the most part Makabris is unbothered by this since he thinks Itchy is a pain to deal with, though he can be a bit jealous of how strong of a bond Itchy has with Synapse.

Itchy will have to learn to be more independent from Synapse earlier than expected, but thankfully they have the support of the other Kruds too.

Bonus sketch of Itchy under the cut!

Also, for the record, Itchy is nonbinary. Synapse refers to them as ‘son’ because it’s more personal than saying ‘child’ in my opinion.