#ask louisa murder drones

[xxsmoko-n-mirrorsxx]

IT IS TIME!!! BED TIME!! POLL RESULTS!!

AND HERE WE ARE, THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN!!!!!

James.... why? Why do you do this to both of us?

It's for the internet, Louisa!

But, for the 8.9 people who wanted to see our normal sleepwear

the mun made it anyways!!!!

Sweet dreams, tumblr!

James, it's 3:10pm on a Thursday, it's not even night.

[xxsmoko-n-mirrorsxx]

THIS

do you or have you ever vaped or smoked?

Ew, oh my god, smoking is cringe, and vaping is really fucking bad for your lungs.

Like fucking early onset aging and lung cancer isn't a joke, so don't put shit in your lungs that doesn't belong

[xxrobotessaxx]

Why did you hate me so much. I was just a little girl... I was just trying my best. I had only my drones...Father left me alone with you, and you hurt me so badly. I... wanted to be loved, I wanted to feel safe, I wanted to be treated better.

I hope I never am like you... ever... I hope you burn in hell, I hope the Solver has it's hooks in you and is tearing you limb for limb, "Mother"

[copper-9spurgatory]

It's RT's J. Look, I hate you and you hate me but I need you to go after a target. I'll pay you in a drum of drone oil if you help me keep a certain someone away. I will leave by your landing pod brass laced claws so you can handle the job.

the target is @xxsmoko-n-mirrorsxx Tessa's mother, just... put on spoilers for all the Untrained Neural Networks, it might get gore-y

I’ll do anything for a large sum of oil, you guys make the best and are my only supplier.

Got the brass laced claws, putting them on now. That old bat doesn’t know when to quit does she? Well..looks like I’ll have to take matters into my own hands. Oh it’ll definitely be gorey, even if she’s a phantom, but I’ll have fun with this task.

[designation-zi]

Murder Drones Timeline of Events

Disclaimer: Most of this is speculation based off of background details and conjecture. Subject to change. If you notice anything I missed feel free to comment and I’ll make adjustments :)

Proceeding Events:

Sometime in the Future, around the 31st Century

- Humanity becomes advanced enough to venture into space and establish colonies and civilizations on exoplanets in other solar systems. Some of these include the “Proxima System”, “Plat-Binary System”, and the “Copper System.”

- JCJenson, an interstellar megacorporation creates a brand of autonomous robots known as “Worker Drones” to serve humanity and mine resources on the exoplanets. One of these planets is Copper-9 from the Copper System.

- Worker Drones are heavily abused and mistreated by humans, often being improperly disposed of and thrown into landfills.

- JCJenson is aware of the fact their drones have a chance of self rebooting if disposed of incorrectly, dubbing these “Zombie Drones.” This can happen if the drone and their core wasn’t properly disconnected and destroyed, or the software cleanup program “wdOS_606” wasn’t installed or was interrupted or rejected (even up to five years later.) The company is also aware that among these instances, there’s also a chance of the drone developing “Hazardous Mutations.”

- Camp 98.7 is established in the year 3002 on Copper-9.

Humanity’s Downfall:

Year still unknown, but still in the 31st Century

-Underneath a landfill of discarded drones on Earth, presumably in Australia, a drone with a P/N starting with “CYN” self reboots. A so called program named the “Absolute Solver” seemingly contacts her through her broken visor and appears to make a deal with her, promising not to “discard her.” This is how the Solver gets its first host. It’s not known if the Solver took complete control there or if Cyn’s possession was a process.

- The landfill is close by to the mansion of a wealthy human family known as the Elliotts. Their daughter “Tessa James Elliott” enjoys retrieving discarded drones from the landfill so she can repair them. These drones become part of the manor’s wait staff, but Tessa treats them like people and as her friends, even giving them wigs so they can have identifying traits — much to the annoyance of her parents.

- Among the drones Tessa has brought home three are known as N, V, and J due to their serial designation numbers visible on their yellow armbands. It can be noted that it seems Tessa scratched out the “Marked For Disassembly” on the bands with sharpie after she repaired them.

- One day Tessa finds Cyn in the dump and brings her home. She introduces her to N, V, and J shortly after.

- N treats Cyn kindly, and she refers to him as her big brother.

- An unknown amount of time passes and eventually Tessa seems to become unnerved around Cyn due to the drone’s odd behaviour and mannerisms. J often locks Cyn in the library basement because of this.

- Many of Tessa’s drones seem to mysteriously contract some sort of error which leaves them in a catatonic state with their visors flashing a large yellow X alongside the words “error 606” (note that 606 matches the software cleanup program’s name of wdOS_606.) Because of this they are placed into the library. One of these drones is V, who N regularly visits so he can try and talk to her and read to her.

- The Elliotts’s decide to throw a gala at their manor alongside another family called the Frumptlebuckets (lol.) An interesting observation is that these wealthy humans (or at least those in the Elliott’s social circle) apparently like to dress up and act similar to those from around the Victorian era.

- Cyn escapes from the basement and convinces N to attend the gala, so they head to the ballroom to ask Tessa. This ends up leading to an altercation with Tessa’s mother Louisa where she orders Tessa to dump Cyn and all of her other “broken” drones in the library back into the landfill.

- Cyn talks back to Louisa, but N takes the fall for her and ends up being chained outside next to a dead drone that had been picked apart by a flock of crows. Meanwhile, Tessa has been chained up in her bedroom alongside J and Cyn as punishment. This, alongside an earlier scene where she seemingly rubs her wrist in pain implies this happens fairly often to her and highlights that her parents are abusive.

- Tessa berates Cyn for N taking the blame for her, angered that N may end up dead. However, Cyn seems indifferent and calmly claims she has “backups” of N.

- Cyn transforms into her horrific eldritch Solver form and claims Tessa won’t have to “discard her pets” and that she won’t discard her either. She leaves out the window after warning Tessa to stay away from the gala due to her seeming squeamish, revealing her intent to massacre the humans.

- Wanting to save everyone from being killed, Tessa gets J to break their chains and the two of them sneak out and arm themselves with a revolver and sword respectively. Despite this, after they arrive everyone is massacred anyways thanks to Cyn/the Solver corrupting the other Worker Drones, including J, who shuts the door so Tessa can’t escape.

- It’s assumed N escapes being killed by the crows and walks in on Cyn slaughtering the humans at the gala due to a brief flashback of him seeing Cyn eating a human hand (when he touches the Zombie Drones VHS tape.)

- Tessa is killed, and in a twisted way of sticking to her word of not discarding her, Cyn skins her corpse to graft it onto her drone body. (Due to an image of humans in hazmat suits finding Tessa surrounded by the remains of the people from the gala, it’s not fully known if Cyn also killed her at the gala and then posed as her, or if she was killed shortly afterwards.)

- Cyn converts the drones from the manor, including N, V, and J into deadly “Disassembly Drones.” They are given a “nerfed” version of the Solver that Cyn has admin access over to better remain control over them. Their memories are erased before setting them loose to slaughter the rest of the humans on Earth. Sometime after, the Solver causes the planet to implode into a black hole.

- The other colonies on the human exoplanets catch wind of what’s happened back on Earth, so JCJenson establishes “Cabin Fever Labs” to research the Solver and how to stop it.

- One of these labs is established on Copper-9 at Camp 98.7 and its surrounding mineshafts (and a cathedral that was there for some reason.) Multiple drones are purposely given the Solver, notably Nori (002) and Yeva (048.)

- The other exoplanets of the Proxima and Plat-Binary systems are corrupted and wiped out due to the Solver spreading and the Disassembly Drones presumably being sicced there.

- Nori ends up becoming possessed by the Solver. Eventually the JCJenson scientists on Copper-9 are able to create a Crucifix USB patch that can get rid of the Solver’s hold on its hosts. This patch is seemingly only successfully used on Yeva. Unfortunately, before it can be used on Nori, the Solver uses her to kill all the scientists except for an intern named Mitchell who had mistakenly put on the wrong uniform of a doctor and had been sent to fetch Yeva.

- Before the Solver can kill Mitchell after he returns, Yeva saves him and throws the USB into Nori’s face which frees her from its control, but also leaves her mind scrambled. However, the Solver is still able to create a small black hole with Nori’s hand that Yeva is forced to cut off. It’s sent falling into a pit to the planet’s core that the Solver had opened up prior.

- Copper-9’s planetary core partly implodes which wipes all organic life off the planet and turns it into a frozen wasteland. (Don’t worry. The dogs had been evacuated beforehand.) It seems a group of humans tried to survive by cryogenically freezing themselves in a bunker called “Outpost 3” in one of Copper-9’s cities. This didn’t work due to the computer having an error. This leaves the Worker Drones to inherit the planet and embrace their freedom.

Aftermath:

Year still unknown

- Nori and Yeva escape Cabin Fever Labs, while other test subjects such as Alice (017) are left behind to try and survive the lab’s Anti Drone sentinels. Nori meets a drone named Khan Doorman and ends up marrying him while Yeva also finds herself a husband.

- Uzi Doorman and Doll are created by their parents uploading parts of their code into Untrained Neural Networks and they both inherit their mothers’ connections to the Solver.

- The Doorman family experiences moments of happy family memories until Nori begins to have “kooky insane” ramblings and visions about the Solver and Disassembly Drones which she refers to as “Sky Demons” as a result of her brain being scrambled from the USB patch.

- Nori tries to warn the other drones and tells Khan to build doors to shelter themselves from the upcoming dangers.

Return of the Solver:

Sometime before the year 3071

- Cyn/The Solver sends squads of Disassembly Drones to Copper-9. Their memories are wiped and they are made to believe they were created and sent by the humans of JCJenson to eliminate the rogue Worker Drone population. Their directive also involves piling their kills into a “Corpse Spire” and locating Cabin Fever Labs. Cyn also wants to kill all other Solver hosts for an unknown reason.

- The squad consisting of N, V, and J lands close to the bunker of Outpost 3 and begin killing any Worker Drones they come across.

- V is seemingly the only Disassembly Drone that has retained some memory of Cyn and the Solver. She keeps this to herself and follows her directive so Cyn will leave her alone. Additionally, she also pretends to forget about N, believing this will protect him.

- A colony of Worker Drones takes shelter in Outpost 3 where Khan starts to build protective doors like his wife had requested. Around this time Nori is stung with a Disassembly Drone’s nanite acid. Khan uses a wrench to put her out of her misery. However, unbeknownst to anyone else, Nori manages to survive in her Solver core/heart form and goes back to Cabin Fever Labs so she can look for the Crucifix USB Patch.

- V kills Doll’s parents. Doll witnesses this while hiding and the trauma seemingly causes her Solver abilities to begin manifesting.

- The “Worker Drone Defence Force” is established in Outpost 3 with Khan as the leader. Unfortunately, they don’t really try to defend anything and just play cards behind the doors.

- The other Disassembly Drone squads that make it to Cabin Fever Labs are killed by either the Sentinels or Alice and (presumably) her son Beau. Alice scavenges parts from Disassembly Drones and Worker Drones to add to herself and Beau since he is stuck in an Untrained Neural Network body. She also learns to put the Solver cores in heat as it “makes them sluggish.”

Year 3071

- The events of episodes 1 - 7 occur

• Recent Revelation: At the end of episode 3 Cyn arrives on Copper-9 impersonating an older Tessa. She is accompanied by a backed up copy of J who was previously killed by Uzi in episode 1. It’s currently unknown if J is aware that Tessa is actually dead.

[canadiannationalfox]

Murder Drones Fanfic - Beautiful

A little drabble starring Cyn and the Solver in the manor for a change! The little drone and the Solver team up to help Tessa by getting revenge on someone for making a hurtful comment about their favourite human.

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The blackout curtains in the largest bedroom of the Elliott Manor kept the bright flashes of lightning out, yet the rumble of thunder was still audible through the bedroom balcony French style doors. Louisa stirred from a dream, yet kept her eyes closed, knowing that James wouldn't be home until the morning as he had been called away that evening to handle an issue at a manufacturing plant. She readjusted to be able to fall back asleep when her hand grazed something that was about the size of a feather and soft. She sighed and mumbled to herself, "Those confound drones, they need to fluff my pillows more gently, swan down stuffing is hard to come by." She felt more of it on her pillow, she let out a huff of aggravation before she opened her eyes, the dark room to the left of her, she felt a little light headed, and her neck felt unprotected and quite cold... --------------------------------------------------

Tessa had just finished her latest wig for a beloved drone, she had bleached it all day the previous day, and just had to do some final touches now. She gently braided the back sections of the slouchy little drone's new hair as she trilled, "Isn't this much better than that synthetic wig, Cyn?"

The little drone nodded a little, verbalizing her actions with a little "happy nod"

"Do you want me to call you something else now? Or do you still like Cyn?"

Cyn responded happily, "St-Still Cyn, please", she was doing the little raptor hands thing that felt comfortable for her.

Tessa tied a bow at the end of each braid and lightly squeezed the drone girl's shoulders. "There! Now you're beautiful like me!" the ebony haired human girl giggled as she leaned over Cyn's shoulders and looked in the mirror with the drone who was like a little sister to her.

"I-I like it, th-thank you, Tessa" Cyn glitched cheerfully, yet her tone was still monotonous, she couldn't really see Tessa that well, but, she still could see some similarities. She ran one of her hands over a plait at the front of her new hair-do and happily beeped "Pet!" before assessing proudly, "Soft and p-pretty"

Tessa put the lace adorned maid hat back onto Cyn's head, but, her happiness was short lived.

"TESSA JAMES ELLIOTT!" the witch-like Aussie voice shrieked from the doorway. The matriarch of the Elliott family stood pointing her fan at her daughter before she scolded, "And why aren't you getting ready for the family portrait? The one you ever so requested us to include your little rabble of dumpster pets in?"

Tessa looked down and whimpered, "Y-yes Mother... S-sorry Mother... I... I was just preparing my new one..."

The little drone tilted her head on an angle like a puppy-dog when she looked over to the woman, she couldn't see her that well because part of her visuals had been damaged when Tessa's dad put a bullet through her screen in her past life.

The woman piped up aggressively, scolding to her daughter, "Christ almighty! You both have the same rats nest look."

The human girl stepped back sadly, she fidgeted with a section of her hair.

"Worthless little ragamuffin! When I was your age, I had a proper hairstyle! And not," she pointed her fan at Tessa and wiggled it back and forth, wincing slightly as she stated, "Wh-whatever this is!"

Cyn tilted her head at the words, not speaking yet, she wanted to see what would happen. A small voice inside the little frail drone asked, "Would you like me to think of something to help Tessa?"

Cyn nodded as a confirmation to the voice within her.

"I will allow it for now, but please see to it that you look at dressing like a proper lady, Tessa," she scolded before she left the room.

Tessa hugged herself as she slid, back against the wall, down and sat on the floor. "Why does she have to be so mean?" she whispered.

"Hop down!" Cyn beeped as she got off the vanity desk's chair, she narrated her walking over to her favourite human, "Step, step, step, step, step." "... Wh-what is a raga-m-muffin?"

"Oh Cyn," Tessa soothed as she took a hold of the little drone's hands with hers, "It's a mean way of saying someone with messy hair... though... it's a cute sounding word."

"Ragamuffin d-does s-sound cute," Cyn chirped happily before she tilted her head, holding it slightly with one hand and insisted, "Sh-she isn't pretty l-like us... ragamuffins."

Tessa gently hugged the pale blonde drone and said, "Yeah, like a ragdoll and muffins, it sounds cute and cuddly." She tucked a curl of the yellow eyed drone's wig behind her left auditory sensor before soothing, "Thank you, Cyn... you always seem to see the bright side of things in a mad hatter way."

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A yellow lighted X appeared in the dark, flashing. Louisa couldn't see properly, but she knew it was a maid. The small trickle of light from a flash of lightning showed the glint of Louisa's sewing scissors as a wicked smile crawled across the drone's face. Louisa sat upright in fright, she tried to talk but there were no words. She felt something soft slide down her arm. She reached to touch what it was,

"Hair?!" the matriarch thought in horror, she slowly reached her hands up to her once lushious voluminous curls that, when not tied back, hung down past her chest. She felt what remained of her veil of glory, reduced to sprigs of uneven waves on the side, the top nothing but messy ringlets. She shrieked in horror.

The drone suddenly teleported to the ceiling, it's back faced to the matriarch. Her head spun around and the drone cackled before glitching, the Solver's voice speaking menacingly, the monotone voice sinister and cruel, "N-now you're b-beautiful like me, Mrs Elliott."

The doors on the balcony flew open, the curtains flying in the wind as thunder crashed outside and lightning flashes filled the room.

The freshly sheered Louisa sat staring up, the drone was gone. She looked down around her. Years and years of hard work, products, and perfect maintenance all for not. She fell asleep crying, distraught.

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Tessa sat at at the table in the sunroom, the storm had passed and it was going to be a beautiful day that she would go out and play in the garden with Cyn, N and J. She dined happily upon some waffles topped with strawberries that J had made for her, her legs swung back and forth happily.

James was already on his third morning spiked-tea after his long night of work. He laughed to Tessa since he was sleep deprived and tipsy, "I wonder where your mother is this morning, I can't wait to see her."

Tessa was careful to roll her eyes in a way that she wouldn't get caught. She was thankful that her father was inebriated since it meant he wouldn't be as mean to the drones that were bringing him top-ups of tea and scrambled eggs, but she didn't like him being all lovey-dovey with her mean mother. Louisa, walking tall, yet feeling disgraced, walked into the sunroom, a wide brimmed sunhat with a veil hanging over parts of it. "Good morning, James," she uttered in a shaken voice, she sat down across from him.

Tessa observed her mother, she knew the trouble wouldn't be worth it if she piped up about the one random chunk missing from her mother's eyebrow length bangs. She sat silently, eating her waffles, observing like a nature photographer

"You're wearing a hat to breakfast, Louise?" James asked curiously.

Louisa snapped slightly at her husband, "Well, look who's talking, you wear a top hat to breakfast all the time, and it's just us three."

The ebony haired girl picked up her cup of strawberry tea and sipped it, watching intensively like it was a sitcom, trying not to giggle.

James shrugged and responded, "Ya got me there, luv... It looks good though."

Louisa turned red from the compliment, she shut down the compliment as she responded, "I'm going to town to see Xavier..."

"Didn't you get your greys redyed last Thursday?" he added worriedly, he was starting to care as soon as he saw Louisa's eyes filled with insecurity, "You don't have to keep doing this, you can go grey and I'll still love you." He asked worriedly as he tried to hold her hand, "Did you have a bad night?"

"It was absolutely horrendous!" the woman with the now-shortened brunette hair almost retched as she spoke, she wanted to say what happened, but, she didn't want her husband to see her like this. She remarked curtly, "I am getting my hair cut, I-I need a change anyways. And don't stop me!"

Tessa raised an eyebrow, her mother hated getting more than just a trim. She huffed in annoyance of the memories of waiting for her mother to take her anywhere because Louisa would be gawking at herself in the mirror.

James kissed the back of his wife's hand and responded, "Well, you're going to look beautiful whatever you come back looking like, luv."

Louisa smacked his wrist with her fan and scolded her husband, "Save the sweet talk for when I come home." She didn't have the appetite for breakfast, so she took her cup of tea and a single blueberry scone with her before she walked away.

James looked over to Tessa and stated, "Well, after breakfast and smoko, I'm off to bed, Tessie. Can you hold down the fort while I sleep?" he waited for a response as he resumed eating his breakfast.

Tessa nodded proudly, she liked when her father was sleeping because she could be almost as loud as she wanted since he was a heavy sleeper. "Oh absolutely, Father! You can count on me!"

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Cyn hobbled into Tessa's room, she carried in her little hands a box. "H-hello Tessa," Cyn chirped in a monotone voice, she smiled cheerfully, "I h-have brought you some h-hair for a new wig."

The ebony haired girl ran over to Cyn and accepted the box. She opened it, recognizing the mahogany colour and perfectly curled texture, as well as the scent of perm formula and rose scented conditioner. Tessa looked to her little-sister like drone asking worriedly, "Where did you get this, Cyn?"

Cyn tilted her head and said happily, her monotone voice slightly having a little crescendo this time, "I got t-to be like y-you, big sister!" She took out of her apron the sewing scissors Tessa would always steal when she would 'play hairdresser' with a drone that needed a new look. She brandished them and opened and closed them, glitching happily, "Snippy snip!!" before she put them down on the ground stating, "Drop" She asked cutely with a little beep, "D-do you remember th-the Mad H-Hatter's words t-to Alice wh-when they met?"

Tessa stood silently, waiting for Cyn to finish her thought.

"Giggle! Y-your mother's h-hair wanted cutting," the slouchy drone trilled, tilting her head like a curious sparrow, holding her hands up to her face before smiling cutely, "Cute smile, innocent laugh, she didn't know it was me."

Tessa looked alarmed at first, then she started to smile and laugh. She picked up Cyn and hugged her. "Thank you, Cyn, you shouldn't risk yourself like that for me, but thank you."

The Solver talked through Cyn, responding cheerily, "I s-saw a problem and I-I s-solved it."

The End

[funnelcakesandinfinitesuffering]

Things I loved about the new Murder Drones episode: Part 2

N’s peace sign

Also, N didn’t know what he was talking about, because Louisa’s fan was freaking awesome

The complete overreaction of tying N to a tree to be eaten by crows, like seriously, chill

The crows were simultaneously adorable and terrifying

Uzi’s gamer tag is appropriately cringe

The Elliots chained up their freaking daughter, good lord

Cyn making those two male dolls kiss

Cyn turning said gay dolls into Toy Story monsters

The way she just switches from playful little anime girl to holo-spooky-snake-crab in less than a second

Uzi slipping up and accidentally calling N cute, and then immediately trying to recover by saying weird

Khan is still the worst

The robo-roach backing Uzi up and telling Khan to leave

Uzi going all tsundere when N asks what they are in the future

The shot with V and the lightning was expertly done

Tessa helping J break the chain by telling her it wants paid time off, and IT WORKED

The revolver joke

Tessa choosing a sword was perfectly extra

“This bird’s from the future.”

“I kill you, hehe.”

The fight scene against V was great

The behind the scenes video that showed stretched out J running

That one guy spouting all that Australian gibberish, and then Katie just like: “Bitch what?” And then goes back to her phone

[capnsaltsquid]

V's journey unpacked

I've seen a few people wondering how V went from a sweet, innocent maid to the murderous psychopath we're first introduced to. I believe the answer to be self-loathing at what Cyn turned her into.

This is just conjecture on my part, but I believe that Cyn removed N's memories to spare him from trauma since he was the only one who showed her consistent kindness. By the same token, and possibly out of jealousy of V's closeness with N, Cyn let V keep her memories of what she used to be. Unable to do anything about it, she leaned into her new role in hopes of forcing herself to accept it ...

... but it didn't work. This seemed like a throwaway joke, but it's very telling of V's state of mind. No matter how many drones she kills, it doesn't bring her any satisfaction. V's journey is one of learning to accept herself through the acceptance of others.

Acceptance by N and Uzi as they step in to defend her against Doll.

Acceptance by Lizzy, who helps her put herself back together after the Prom disaster, and sticks by her side afterwards, making her feel wanted and even pretty.

But she's not fully ready to accept herself yet. We can see in Ep4 just before she covers for Uzi's actions at the camp, she's looking unhappily at her claw hands:

She's asking the hard questions about herself at this point, but she needs another push in order to reconcile her feelings. She gets this push from N in Ep5.

It's important to remember that the memories Uzi sees aren't just N's. She hacked both N and V simultaneously, so she's seeing their combined memories. While Uzi and N are traipsing through N's trauma, V is reliving her conversion into a half-drone-half-flesh abomination, probably the form that repulses her the most.

Something to keep in mind is that N probably never saw her like this. In the real timeline, he was likely destroyed by birds after Louisa had him chained up, since Uzi wasn't there to intervene. It's possible that Cyn didn't rebuild him until she had perfected the DD bodies.

This is V's worst nightmare, having N see her this way as she's forced to cut him open under the Solver's control. Some have asked why V used her claw hand instead of her normal one here, and I believe it was the real V deep inside, desperately stalling for time and at the same time getting back at the Solver for making her hand like this in the first place.

But just as things look the most hopeless for her, N gently puts her glasses on and comforts her, even as she prepares to hurt him. This ultimate act of kindness and acceptance breaks the Solver's control over her, and finally allows her to accept herself ...

... even giving N a soft little smile as she realizes that she can put the past behind her.

Side note: Murder Maid V with her tongue sticking out in concentration is the most adorable thing ever.

[rhodeybugg]

I wanna know about Despina, please-

I love your design and idea of what the Solver true form, we needed more art like that

Ough. Despi. >:3

I'm actually working on the sketch of her redesign/proper design!

• What even IS Despina? Where did she come from?

• There are few people that know her name. Sirius Elliot, James' father and Tessa's grandfather, only knew of her through old texts and family rumors.

• It's believed that she was accused of committing witchcraft and exiled out of the original town that the elliot manor resides at the edge of, where she died in the woods. James has heard stories that the manor itself was built on her bones, and others say that there's an unmarked grave where the earth claimed her.

• She was summoned by Sirius when the company nearly went bankrupt. His worker drones just weren't exciting enough. If only he'd known what he was getting himself into.

•She's malevolent. While Despina does as she's asked, she's got her own ways of pulling strings to get what she wants. She's hungry, and this world-ending tech-fucker isnt going to let anything stand in her way.

• Sirius wasn't the first person that's ever summoned her for his own gain, but he was her favorite. Not only did he let her put a piece of herself in his little toys to give them sentience and life, she needed something in exchange for such a task.

Sirius was greedy enough and only cared about his company, and traded the safety of his future grandchildren and entire bloodline: a careless sacrifice.

• She can wander as much as she wants to without someone to need her, after all, she's been bound to a deal and still hasn't been paid what she's owed. She's been after Tessa for years.

• Despina isn't afraid to cheat to get her way, resorting to seduction, underhanding deals or straight-up murdering to get what she wants.

• looks like she could kill you, will kill you. If you're lucky enough to survive an encounter with her, you'll likely be plagued with nightmares for the rest of her life. Despina can distort her appearance to be more pleasing to the eye, but at the end of the day, she's still an eldritch mess of drone parts and bones.

• Selune, Louisa's original worker companion, was her first host. After one particular night where Despina got dangerously close to devouring a helpless infant Tessa, she made a deal in secret, acting as though she'd turned against her humans and wanted to assist in Despina's destruction of the Elliot bloodline.

• Selune was stronger than Despina thought, and managed to keep her locked away within her core. After Selune's death, Despina was freed again, and now she's got her sights set on Cyn and Grimm.

• She can't do any harm to anyone or possess them without her veil being removed by her summoner. Sirius was the first to remove her veil.

• Despina created the baseline for the disassembly drones, twisting the poor workers of the manor into her solver underlings. The company took her design, and made their own, and managed to take her original copies of her three strongest pets away from her before she could fully put them under her control : V, J and N.

• Despina hates it when her little pets fight back.

[coverslutmosquitoe]

This isn't a prompt ask from me as I am just asking out of curiosity. Are there any Murder Drones pairings you had story/headcanons for? Like for mine:

J x James Elliot-James has Robophilia but has buried it deep within himself all his life. J makes hidden offers towards James in order to lower Worker Drone deaths within the Manor. James, who has remained civil but not in love with Louisa and who is getting up in age, agrees to the secretive affair.

Cyn x J-J gets stuck in a vent or something and can't call out due to the danger of waking up nearby sleeping visitors. Cyn is passing by and notices J. Cyn keeps herself quiet and due to her having a grudge for being locked in the basement or J being mean to N, offers J's lower half some 'comfort.'

Rebecca x Uzi-Pretty much just Hate Sex and the two wanting to see how sex is like among their kind.

I’m so sorry I am months late to this but I had typed out something and then tumblr didn’t save it so I abandoned this ask…. The concept with James is an interesting one. Not much to say about it.

Cyn x J concept is a good one too. Always down for characters taking advantage of each other. I like Cyn x J for a different reason though. J doesn’t seem to like Cyn at all. So a world where J somehow falls in love with her or Cyn becomes obsessed with her despite J constantly brushing her off is interesting to me. I especially love dynamics like that.

Rebecca(rip queen) x Uzi hate sex is also something I can get behind. I bet Rebecca was a secret nerd. Maybe if they had more time together they could’ve gotten along well. (´• ω •`)

Thank you for this ask! And once again I’m so so sorry for the wait… ahh.. My ask box is always open so please feel free to drop in anytime!

[theimperials1]

"What if she sends me away, what if she thinks i'm being a bad?" She started to tremble, but the chopping didn't stop "What if she hates me..."

That was the last straw, what came next was too fast to even prevent it, one second she was just cutting some lettuce, in the way she and Louisa liked to have it for their sandwiches...and just as she was about to finish and move on, and perhaps expel those venomous thoughts from her mind, she felt the pain, it was a sharp feeling of pain on her hand. J couldn't control it and made a loud half-scream when the knife opened a wound on the upper part of her palm and she dropped it on the spot.

Oil, oil over the lettuce, a ruined sandwich, she hears Louisa standing up, asking if she was hurt? she could only stare at the oil, dripping perhaps too slowly due to the fact the weapon made the injury wide, but she couldn't stand it, the dripping, the viscosity of it...and how she had just ruined the occasion to ask so foolishly.

"Idiot, idiot, idiot" She repeated that three times, as she turned around, Louisa's eyes opened wide as she saw the injury, and J fell sitting into the floor "You only know how to ruin everything, don't you?" She spoke to herself more than to anyone else

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[xxsmoko-n-mirrorsxx]

WHAT BLOODY KITTENS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?

[jcjensensnepobaby]

ur mom is a grade a bitch

Listen here, and listen well. My Mother was a respectable woman. I will NOT let you drag the name of the late and great Louisa Miriam Elliott.

She was a great woman, she taught me everything I know, she even showed me how to be worthy enough. My Mother was wonderful, and to insinuate she was a bitch is to call me a bitch too, for shame, anon, for shame.

Were you raised in a bloody barn, mate?

But you? You're nothing but a putrid little excuse of a life form, you absolute brain dead dingle-berry

[xxrobotessaxx]

(This is just a character I'm playing. Had permission from mod to be a little evil.)

Ugh. Look, I'll just say it to you straight.

DRONES.

ARE NOT.

PEOPLE.

🐟 anon

-her "Mother's voice" comes out- WELL THEN LOOK WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO! THANKS FOR CALLING ME NOT A PERSON, WAY TO MAKE A GIRL FEEL BETTER WHEN SHE'S ALREADY HURTING.

[kazooiesart]

coughs

so the raising chip au is heavily inspired by the show raising hope. its not like one-to-one with the cast nor is it post-canon, its in its own universe, and everyone involved are adults, sans Chip herself.

like in wolfboy, all the drones previously worked for JCJenson, but some of them were deployed to Copper-9 to mine resources, yadda yadda. these drones eventually revolted, and once word got back to Copper-9, James and Louisa forced Tessa to turn N, V, and J into Disassembly Drones to kill the revolting workers. Not copies.

cyn was deemed too "broken" to do regular work or go with the Copper-9 group, so rather than scrapping her, she was basically turned into a 24/7 close watch on tessa, who's never left the manor despite being in her 20s (not allowed to) and is almost always working (usually repairing and upgrading drones)

since the society resulting from the revolt is still rather recent, the only ones who have parents are the children recently created. nori, yeva, etc all exist, its just they have no kids and just co-exist alongside uzi and doll, all that

ANYWAY. n finds chip abandoned in a scuffle between her parents and a disassembly drone, and since theyre only programmed to kill revolting worker drones, n decides to adopt her. hes not actually sure what she is until she gets older, anyway

j wont help, v tries but also isnt really helpful (her knowledge on baby care is the exact same as n's), eventually he meets thad and has him babysit after v lectures n on taking chip on a hunt. thad introduces n to uzi, and the trio start dating, with n moving in after giving the WDF a apology card. of course the worker drones are not really. pleased with this

n does frequently visit j and v, they just dont want to live in the base. n still kills the workers, of course, he just tries to make sure its not in public so he doesnt get caught

meanwhile, with tessa, shes going to snap. and she eventually does! she murders her parents, likely hiding them somewhere, with only herself and cyn knowing (she wouldve liked nobody to know but cyn literally cannot leave her side so there wasnt much of a choice)

shes in contact with the disassembly drones, as j as a communications relay on her that n and v like to hijack to talk to her. tessa also gives herself... basically alice's tail. yknow, long prehensile tail with a knife tied to the end. shes also a lot more unhinged and violent due to the high amount of anger shes been suppressing almost all of her life

for the vampire au... i dont have too much for it yet! its somewhat inspired by what we do in the shadows (the tv show) in that its three vampires (with each having their own familiar) with the head vampire coming to stay over for awhile. theyre also trying to take over, but... theyre not the greatest at it.

cyn is the head vampire, not above threatening her fellow vampires or their familiars to get others to cooperate. its nate for vanny and tessa for jenny (nothing for nate though, he loves doing anything!). uzi is nathan's familiar, lizzy is vanny's, and tessa is jenny's.

tessa was the most recent, having been "hired" after the vampires killed her parents and she begged them not to kill her. she tends to panic easily due to still having her overly strict parents berating in her head every time she even mildly messes up. uzi was the first, initially meant to be prey but nate changed his mind and asked if she wanted to instead be his familiar. lizzy was simply asked, though

thad is uzi's only school friend, and secretly loves vampires. uzi thinks its funny, but wont tell him she's a familiar. meanwhile, doll is a vampire hunter who's unaware she's best friends with a familiar, though is suspicious on lizzy's clearly faked disgusted demeanor about death or oil.

nori and doll's parents are also still alive! i dont have much for them yet though- but they are here!

someone remind me to explain raising chip & the vampire aus in the morning

[bloodinhershoesrpg]

Congratulations Lia, you have been accepted for the role of Elijah Granville! In all honesty, without trying to falsely flatter you, I would have handed both of my sweet summer children you have applied for to you with pleasure and a kiss as both applications captured them wonderfully. But, alas, as you asked to only be accepted for one of them, Elijah felt ever so slightly more refined to me, with your writing drawing me in to an extent that I found myself snorting aloud to his remarks which I reckon might just be the very essence of bringing a character to life! I’m ecstatic to have you join us as everyone’s favourite poison garden owner! Please send in your account with 24 hours and have a look at the checklist before you do!

REGARDING YOURSELF

Name / Age / Pronouns: Lia, 21+, GMT Activity: Honestly, a lot of my time at the minute is taken up with the investigation into Katerina’s murder, so I’d put myself at about a 6 if I am accepted and get a spy on the ground. 8 once I realise I’m the murderer. Realistically I’ve been quite sluggish with activity online lately because of my fulltime job and being ill, but am hopeful such obstacles will calm themselves from this point on. Additional: If I am to be accepted for any I’d like to just be accepted for one at this stage (restrain me in future). Thank you.

REGARDING THE STAR OF YOUR SHOW

Character name and faceclaim: Elijah Granville, Theo James

CHARACTER DISSECTION

Picture a man with effortless access to all of the luxuries and comforts this world can offer. Picture that man devoid of nurturing elders and lessons in morality. If that man were to look in the mirror he’d recognise himself as Elijah Granville, profess himself as a god among mere mortals. It’s not because he’s truly that arrogant, but because he doesn’t know any better, doesn’t care enough to look and see. Maybe if his parents had been warmer, the staff that raised him more forceful and less subservient, peers more varied in circumstance, maybe then he could have been better. Only now he believes he is the best. There is nothing he wants for, or knows well enough to realise he is lacking, and there’s certainly not enough passion in his heart to stir and crave a different path. For everything he is; he is nothing, vapour, coasting through life with momentary flickers of association to other humans, to his own heart. Utterly numb to the beauty of art and people, mechanic in the taking of all that is named sinful, named debauched, sedated to the buzz. Poison from an errant tongue coiling slowly around the mind.

Arm outstretched along the line of the chair, a tumbler of whiskey settled to the side of it, some gauchely pretty young blonde in the seat to his left. The usual appearance of Elijah Granville as he seems to encompass the entire box reserved solely for his use. Even the way his eyes practically glaze over as they roam the stage for appearance’s sake, all too familiar. The blonde makes the mistake of speaking, of assuming that is her use. Some pathetic wonder expressed at the dancer’s, a quick admission of insecurity. “You’re right, darling, you could never look so graceful.” It’s unusual for him to respond to such futility, preying for his attention, but the bite of the words are enough to humour him for just a moment. He thinks so litte of those on the stage that her dismissal as even lesser seems a stunning indignity, punishment that she has opened her mouth in a way that doesn’t service him. Maria, or Louisa, or Emilia, settles back in her chair, deflated against the velvet. It is then, just after he strikes, that he moves. Forcing her to follow suit by expectation. Only when she has risen does he shake his head. No, no. “Stay here. You have lessons to learn, do you not.” The experience is surely soured for her, but he makes no note of it, is not intentionally cruel as he leaves her to stew alone. Leisurely strides have him backstage within moments, unfazed as he walks a straight path so all those buzzing in their hurry have to move around him. A figure he briefly acknowledges as familiar, a queen in the hive, steps out of his way, no notion to question him. He pushes open a fire escape and steps outdoors. There are no bodies to deal with, no smokers attempting pleasantries. His goal accomplished, to avoid the droning tones of theatregoers and the effort to cover his distaste. There’s very little he denies himself, but a line is still drawn at smoking indoors. More for the way they’ll surely bump up the cost of smoke damage or refunded tickets for alarms blaring, than for respect of the theatre. Architecture perhaps one allowance in its beauty, he holds too much venom for the funds the theatre siphons from him to recognise any attribute. Handrolled filters greet him in a sterling silver case, less pretentious than one might imagine, given how bashed and nicked the case truly is. A questionable hand-me-down from his grandfather when he was a boy, the picture of magnanimity at some fundraiser or another, a story regaled by the presses who happened upon the scene. He taps the cigarette against the lid of the box, allowing any stray tobacco to fall, or perhaps just for the habit of it when the cigarettes always look immaculate and machine pressed instead of forged by his hand. Just as he’s raising it to his lips, calamity strikes. “I’m sorry, you’re not supposed to..” Owlish features turn on the woman, and she steps back in response. Theatrically he settles the cigarette back in place, “Do finish that sentence.” Finally some real entertainment. Except she seems frozen in place, all too aware of her error at this point. “You’re not.. You can’t.” A scoff as he clicks the case shut, lest he drop them all on the ground and force her to her hands and knees. Unless you’re new here is on the tip of his tongue, but it seems too much an excuse, a kindness. “I can and I will. And I am.” he doesn’t stoop, doesn’t press forward, and yet the intensity of his words force a closeness and presume an attack. “Now shut the door and wait right there until I knock.” “I’ve got work..” “Yes, you have got work in making up for your ignorance. So hush now, let’s not fall out. I wont repeat myself” He doesn’t need to, for she closes the fire exit in front of her. He’s not one for grudges, not at all, so he finishes his cigarette, watches the smoke plume into the night sky, a far better dancer than inside the building, and doesn’t linger further. Knocks against the door to be let inside. A mistake to let him in, if ever there was one.

CONNECTING THE DOTS

Norah Monroe: If it irks him to have any dealings with the theatre at all, it bothers him all the more to have a face to put to it. Someone with the belief they are charming him, or guiding him, or offering anything at all. A meek little butterfly fluttering about anxiously with her placations, her assurances as to why this is a good investment- when it’s not. The worst part of it is the mask he has to wear, the near neutrality stretched across features, and blunting down of words so that he might sound reasonable, disaffected, instead of bored and frustrated and essentially tired of the whole affair. Even offended that a woman such as she gets to go home and pat herself on the back, presuming to have quelled the beast. She’s done nothing for him, as obsolete as the rest of the staff. And yet he supposes it’s better to have an unwitting adversary believe themselves in control. All the better to watch their eventual fall on the most holy day he can rid himself of them all, watch the demise of an intolerable legacy.

Raúl Mendoza: For whatever reason people oft assume you peers. As though grandeur and political aspirations go hand in hand. Somehow, at theatre functions Elijah is requited to attend, he will find himself pointed in the direction of the man, with prompt introduction before the guide takes their leave. There’s very little for you to talk about, very little interest held in politics or the theories behind them. Yet you allow a convenient amount of time to pass, pleasantries exchanged, because at least the man is an intellectual. Not much of one, considering his profession, but still a better option than the dull and frantic attempts at charm from the artists.

REGARDING YOUR INSPIRATION

Unfortunately I have nothing available for this section at this time (except one shoddy multi-char edit)