#because with how idolized they are I'm just gonna make all these head cannons that it's like kpop

[hercarisntyours]

the primes had a selca day and D-16 definitely participated and was well known in the megatronus prime sub fandom

[beepartcollection]

The Conagher family art was delightful! Any head cannons or other family moments for them that you can think of?

Yeah! :D

Radigan was present in Engie's childhood, a lot of people forget he had a small cache of Australium given by definitely not The Administrator Elizabeth, so I think he lived well past the expected age of the time and of a human by rationing it (after that bender when he first got it and stuff, as we see in the Engie update promo stuff), and while he did use his time to raise Dell and hone his innate genius he also used it for shennaniganery because Dell idolizes him.

I think Radigan's death was just him deciding aight, I'm done, time to go; that Conhager pride wearing out. Cause after a point his Australium reserves had to have run out, and acquiring more was nigh impossible due to the extremely tight supply and high demand. Plus, I imagine it sucks living in a world completely different from the one you know and all your friends being dead or hiding. I can see him hosting a 'going away' party and using the last bit of Australium to make himself young again, al la the Admin at the end of comic 6. Which also means Engie knew exactly how long Admin has left cause he's seen it.

Back to Radigan and Fred, I think Radigan married solely cause it was The Thing To Do in his time, and from his wife's perspective, marrying a guy who will be in his workshop 90% of the time and has infinite money and is a well mannered gentleman? Sure hell yeah. Hell it might've been an amicable agreement between Rad and his wife. I do think both of them didn't really give Fred much attention though, busy with their own lives.

Though when Dell was born, all focus went on him, cause Fred wanted to give him all his love and be the best dad ever and Radigan was retired by this point and if he's gonna die soon may as well mentor his grandson. And spoil him. Fred's kinda jealous. Plus I think Engie took to maths like a fish to water.

And of course, trains. They love em. Have over $10 mil in train stuff in the basement. When Engie was old enough they showed him the train models, so he could get inspired and build his own, big happy family :3

[booksrbetterthanpeople]

Mirroverse Crossover- Max

"Ah, so we finally meet."

Maxiro tilts his head as he walks into the room. "I guess so. Now then, I suppose this is the part where one of us shares something about ourselves and you decide to critique me for no reason other than to get a rise out of me and see if I'll retaliate in a violent way so that you and your acquaintances can have a good laugh and mock the heroic ideals my friends and I hold."

Maxdrome tents his fingers and his grin widens. "Excellent. I see my astuteness remains the same."

"Yeah, it looks like it-"

"250 IQ says 'what?'"

Maxiro rolls his eyes. "Please, that's one of the oldest gags in the book. Also, my IQ is 300, or so they say. The test wasn't made to go any higher. Also, I was ten at the time when I took it, so now might be the time to see if anything has changed."

Across the room, Maxdrome sharply inhales through his teeth. "Moving on... I'll go first." The other tech genius takes his seat across from his villainous self. "It all starts years back. I was seven and a half, and had just built my first pair of rocket boots-"

"That's impressive. I was seven when I made my first arm cannon," Maxiro eagerly chirps, not noticing his counterpart's eye twitching. "I was also in the midst of creating a visor that could shoot lasers. See, I got the inspiration from-"

"AHEM!" Maxdrome loudly says. "As I was saying... My rocket boots were the key to my debut in the world of heroics- And yes, before you say anything, I was obsessed with becoming a hero," he quickly adds, seeing Maxiro about to say something. "They were my idols, my inspiration, but... I lacked one thing... Powers. So, what do I do? I created my rocket boots and became Incredi-boy, sidekick to Mr. Incredible, the greatest superhero of the generation. I tried to prove myself to him, help him stop several big-name villains, but how does he repay me?" Maxiro flinches when he slams his fist down on the table. "He humiliates me!"

With an almost crazed laugh, he smoothes back his pale dreadlocks. "And that's when I realized, heroes are just glory hounds. Think about it." He stands and approaches Maxiro, circling around him like a shark. "The superheroes- male and female want only the glory, the attention, the huge bonuses that no one should just expect to receive after saving a dozen lives. And those costumes, ugh! Please don't get me started at all. Skin tight, revealing, and doing nothing to protect their vital organs all just to be marketable to adult audiences. They don't care about saving lives- No. No, they just want to be celebrities without any of the talent and gods without any of the immortality. Meanwhile, I wanted to save lives, but it would seem as though I didn't make the cut not only because of my lack of power but because my ideals didn't line up with countless other heroes."

Maxdrome sighs and slams a hand down on Maxiro's shoulder, gripping it before whispering to him. "It's like they say... Never meet your heroes." Patting his shoulder, the villain heads back to his seat, inhaling deeply as he tilts his head back.

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"Oh, Dios mío," Demolition Denise whispers, horror across their face that mirrors the other heroes in the room.

Marilan slumps in a nearby seat. "I'm just gonna sit for a while."

Kimules stares at the villainous version of his friend through the bubble for a while. "He wanted to be a hero?"

"Yeah, until your fellow heroes ruined his dream," Alix Khan snarks, earning a glare from the demigod. "Well, it's true. It was a hero who humiliated Max, and it was heroes who helped him to realize that the world of heroics is nothing but a whole damn popularity contest. You people just do it all for the glory."

"That's not true!" Kimules retorts, but deep down, he can't help but wonder if she's right while looking back and remembering how he gained instant fame after putting his training to use so he could defeat the hydra. He got dozens of sponsorship deals, fan clubs were formed, and people are still sending fan mail. As if sensing his thoughts, AriOndine takes his hand, and with a reassuring smile, kisses him on the cheek

"Oh, you're one to talk Mr. Big Shot of Olympus," Kimton smirks.

"I think we've established at this point, that the words you say have no value," Sabrinocchio says unapologetically, earning a somewhat impressed look from Madame Sabrina.

"HUSH!" Madam Aurore hisses, bouncing on her toes as she watches the bubble. "I wanna watch robot boy blow his lid!"

Jeanatoa grins, his tooth gap on full display. "Bet he'll cry when Maxdrome shows off his Omnidroid? Oh, I bet he'll cry!"

"I'm sorry, his what now?" TiAlysa questions, cocking her hip to the side.

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"You sly dog," Maxdrome chuckles dryly. "You got me monologuing"

"Did I, though?"

"Yes, you did," the villain quickly retorts. "Now that I've shared my backstory..." He leans forward, his chin resting in his hand. "Tell me about yours'. What makes you tick?"

Maxiro blinks. "Well, my life is fairly normal. I mean, I'm a child prodigy, so there's that. I was bored one day and decided to graduate high school when I was ten, then with all that time to myself, I..." His voice trails off as he rubs the back of his neck. Maxdrome looks intrigued.

"Go on..."

"I'm not too proud of it, but I got into bot fights-"

"Ah, so the hero boy isn't as innocent as I thought," Maxdrome smirks.

Ignoring that, Maxiro continues. "I just wanted some extra money; I was a minor with a high school diploma; who'd hire me? I actually fought using what I call a megabot- Meant to be deceptive in appearance so no one would suspect a thing. Its body is comprised of magnetic joints, which allow it to split into smaller parts and attach to opponents, taking them apart and utterly defeating them with their own weapons. I uh, I even fitted it with laser eyes, which was not entirely easy, I'll tell you that. It got the job done. until one of my competitors destroyed it after I swindled him out of his winnings by pretending to be inexperienced. Thankfully, Terrance- my cousin- got me out of there in time. I mean, we got arrested, but then bailed out." He looks up in thought. "That's about it for me. Now, this is the part where you mock me for something, perhaps my megabot getting destroyed by some angry sore loser."

Maxdrome sputters for a moment. "That- that's exactly right! How do you call yourself a genius when your creation was beaten by mere human strength?!" Tapping several buttons on his high-tech wristlet, he pulls up a green-colored hologram showing a spherical robot with five tentacle-like attachments ending with four claws. "Behold, Omnidroid v.8! Merely the eighth prototype for what I have in store, this baby and all those who came before are designed to learn as it fights its' opponents and take out any and all threats to its existence."

Maxiro adjusts his glasses as he looks over the hologram, his eyes growing with horror when he notices the X's crossed out over the faces of superheroes. "This thing... Killed superheroes?"

"... I mean, you've gotta break a few eggs, right?"

"You're sick!"

"Sick? Maybe. A young man with a vision? Yes! I can't have any threats interfering with my plans. Besides, it's their own fault. Superheroes were banned by the public, and forced to go into retirement after Mr. Incredible destroyed a monorail! We don't need destructive idiots like that! We need real people with some ounce of awareness!" Maxdrome expands the hologram, showing several other prototypes along with the crossed-out images of superheroes. "Once the people see a normal, everyday person defeat my masterpiece with nothing but intelligence, the word "super," will be a thing of the past! I'll make millions selling my inventions, unlike you making a measly hundred with your pathetic bot fights!" He barks out a laugh. "Why have a genius intellect if you're not going to use it right?"

For a moment, Maxiro is silent. Maxdrome leans back in his seat with a smug expression, believing he's won, but then all of a sudden, his hologram glitches out. "What the-"

"Basic hacking," Maxiro finally says. "Kid stuff. Learned it when I was three. Now, I'll admit, you've got a good plan going on here. Create evil robots, kill heroes, show up to defeat your creation, and look like the hero to gain fame and fortune. In spite of your brilliant mind, you have many fatal flaws as a result of your megalomania, cynicism, vindictiveness, desire to make superheroes obsolete, your pathological desire for attention, and your ego."

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"Oh, snap," Kimules chuckles.

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"Chief among these, you are so obsessed with becoming a hero that you failed to account for the fact superheroes are banned by society, according to you."

"I-"

"Even if you had succeeded," Maxiro continues, "you would have endured constant scrutiny from the government, and it is possible that the government could have eventually discovered your crooked dealings with weapons and your murder of various superheroes. In addition, your use of technology would have resulted in your eventual destruction if it was hacked or malfunctioned. And, in the event that you had succeeded in your goals, your technology would eventually become obsolete."

Maxiro stands and taps something on his phone, pulling up Maxdrome's hologram again, only blue, and illustrating Maxiro's words with images of the Omnidroids and the villain.

"Lemme. break it down for you. Your Omnidroids are artificial intelligence, designed to learn, evolve, adapt- Stop me if I'm going too fast- You clearly lack contingency plans for when your robot eventually turns against you, and it will. Your Omnidroid will take out anything it deems a threat. Your control over it is a threat to its existence."

The hologram shows the Omnidroid crushing Maxdrome in its metal claws, much to the villain's growing horror.

"Now, if your plan had succeeded, your weapons and inventions would have possibly also resulted in more terrible wars and arms races, making the world far more dangerous." Maxiro sits back down and cuts off the hologram using his phone. He tilts up his glasses with his middle finger and looks his alternate self right in the eye. "Suffice to say, for all your genius, you are very short-sighted and have no thought about the consequences of what you will unleash if you achieve your goals. Now, if you fail because any living superheroes decided to get off their asses and defeat that thing, well, who knows? They'll probably become legal again, and it will all be because of you. So, if you fail, congrats. You'll finally be a hero."

With that, Maxiro pulls a small pack of gummy bears out of his jacket pocket and pops one in his mouth while Maxdrome stares off into space. "On the topic of bots, I've been working on these ones called microbots."

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Everyone, even the villains is left in stunned silence. King Nath, shakily, gets down on the floor and lies there with his knees tucked to his chest, Queen Rose Candy walks to a corner of the room and just stands there with her face toward the wall, and Kimton looks very pale as LeOndine tries to snap him out of his shocked daze.

"I don't feel safe now," Honest Nino murmurs.

Cosettewether opens and closes their mouth. "... He's... He's right... About everything. There is no way to spin that around! No matter what, Max... He loses! Even if we win, he still loses in the end!" They murmur a bunch of political jargon the others don't understand as they try to figure out a way for Maxdrome to go through with his plan and come out on top.

"Yeah, that's our Max," Kimules says with a proud smile. "He's scary smart, but he's good at calling out bullshit."

@msweebyness @imsparky2002

[lenasai]

hi i'm late to the party but let me ramble about my kids, which is something i have totally never done before

(if you make it to the end i'll also tell you about merry exit because they're a less-known player i think about a lot, and probably most of the lore i'm writing about only exists in my head but i don't care)

anyway

what if you got dragged into the league because the god in charge tried to drown you and then most of your siblings exploded because surprise! that's a thing that can happen to you!

and then it doesn't

and then you go kill that god who tried to drown you and wanted you to explode in an act of beautiful revenge. hi i wrote a fic about that, it was actually the first proper fanfiction i ever wrote if you can believe it

all while using your absolutely busted plot modifier that was supposed to explode you to do silly things to the sim

i mean how can i not start with max, i'm a garages fan! xe's our little guy! has some kind of connection with elsewhere because man that kid just kept getting swept

but xe was also the first player ever to go elsewhere by non-conventional means - this was before salmon cannons were a thing! max was the first player to go elsewhere and be completely immune from scattering. i gotta do more writing about elsewhere because i have a lot of worldbuilding around it. anyway because xe had immunity from a lot of the mindfuckery that came with being elsewhere, my headcanon is that xe did a lot of search and rescue missions for players who got super lost in the woods. xe was The seeker before the seeker modifier was even a thing! (and. uh. given what had happened in the weeks leading up to that first time xe went elsewhere...yeah. lot of missing people in xer life.) thanks bendie! 👍

also xe tricked sibr into recommending xem as an idol once because xe was, at the time, a fire eater with credit to the team going into a solar eclipse game (thanks glover! 👍) imagine how fucking surreal it was for people to be begging silvaire roadhouse to bean max - because if xe was an unstable fire eater, hoo boy that would have been some big money

except it wasn't because no umps showed up that day. lol. all that happened was max fucking around with the idol board because of edensity bullshit (negative/attractor make line go brrrrrr)

also at some point xe went on a heist in shark seattle (the alternate universe where everyone is a shark. this is where sharks beans of emblem warhorse fame comes from.) unlike layna and lenji, xe did not get any cool shark traits, so xe stole a bunch of stuff to make up for it. max is now the proud owner of a super rare reader-purple blåhaj, among other things. xe will tell you all about it if you ask - what are you gonna do, call the shark police on xem?

oh also fun fact: before the last precog blessing added more players with ridiculously high divinity, xe was in the top ten for that stat. when xe hits something....like the ball, or perhaps the coin....watch out! xe hits hard!

and of course i pretty much adopted ivy by association - which makes sense because a lot of people just adopt them. they have a very large collection of parental figures across three different teams (maybe a fourth if you count the garages because they visit seattle a lot)

ivy was the first player to go elsewhere while shelled, and the first player to reveal the special flavor text that shows up when a player comes back from elsewhere in a shell! the poor kid just wanted to play blaseball, but the sim said "no, and also fuck you"

and then they proceeded to pull a fast one on the sim and cheated their way out of a superallergy by overwriting it with someone else's (thanks flattery! 👍) no consequences for ivy forever and ever, amen

SPEAKING OF AVOIDING CONSEQUENCES, hoo boy ivy getting traded to the steaks and then immediately shadowed at the end of the season actually ended up being the best thing for them because nan roamed to the tacos in s19, and the georgias AND the steaks played the garages in feedback in s21, and either scenario meant they would have been toast

the sim said "push the plot button," and then ivy said "okay" and became a detective (thanks uncle plasma! 👍) my favorite herring came from forrest best getting chomped by a consumer, followed by ivy pointing at the consumer and going HOLY FUCK A CONSUMER! they're my favorite detective 💜

oh yeah and the sim was doing some great storytelling in s24. the sim went "hey, you know how one of your siblings was nicknamed 'death mason?' yeah. you're death mason now."

peanut holloway was the last incineration of the expansion era, and ivy took their mods all the way to the end. thanks peanut! 👍

also they had a squiddish ring, meaning they would get replaced by a hall of flame player if they got incinerated.

and of course, they went rogue and "died" so they could kill the god who tried (and failed!) to kill them. absolutely based. legend. you love to see it.

but of course, that's not where it ends because after all of blaseball got eaten by a black hole, the microphone started acting weird and broadcasting the short circuits

and you know who was on that shit immediately?

my favorite detective, that's who.

and then the mic started eating people and uh. well, they didn't take that very well. (i wrote a fic about that too, although it's mostly from the perspective of one barry burkhard, who is also a less well-known guy that i started thinking about a lot after writing that fic. the sim did my guy dirty in season 24! he's not a pitcher!!!)

anyway, they did get some leads over the course of short circuits, but then the broadcasts ended and with it, so did their observation of the microphone - which they later found they didn't have a connection to anymore because all the mods got wiped yaaaaaaaay (no consequences for ivy forever and ever!!!)

even though it seemed like there would be no more leads, guess who showed up! nat wilds and dimi wobbler, who showed that yes, it was possible to come back after getting exploded! not only that, but they had contact with merry exit, who was kind of the key to all of this (more on them in a bit)

anyway, my headcanon for post-blaseball is that with the help of merry exit, barry burkhard, flattery mckinley, nat wilds, and (kind of) dimi wobbler (they're a bird), ivy figures out how to get everyone un-exploded and writes an academic paper about it. (and yes dimi wobbler is on the paper as a co-author because they were there, it counts)

also the black hole eventually spits everyone out and they're also reunited with max. and they all lived happily ever after, the end (NO CONSEQUENCES FOREVER AND EVER!)

uh. that was a lot. anyway here's my little mini-rant about merry exit

so i believe the collective lore is that they were a schoolteacher who wrote novels in their spare time before becoming a blaseball player. my own lore is that they are also very into larping. they have a cool cape that they weren't allowed to wear to school, so once they became a blaseball player, they just wore that thing everywhere. it even came in garages colors, so it was perfect! (merry exit was a garages player from the first short circuit, the one we weren't allowed to see)

anyway they exploded.

but also somewhere along the way, we found out there was another hidden alternate universe in the tutorial that featured a different version of the gamma 1 garages. merry exit is still there, but someone else gets incinerated in it

so we have seen two versions of merry exit

my headcanon is that both versions of merry exit got exploded and one of them learns how to manifest in other dimensions (specifically, the one they used to be in before they got exploded.) this is the merry exit from the tutorial universe. regular gamma 1 merry exit also learns how to do this and becomes a cool dimension traveler with a cool cape. (i also wrote a fic about this)

yeah. thanks for reading all of that, i also miss blaseball but all these guys (gn) are still rotating in my brain like rotisserie chicken

I've been sad about Blaseball lately

You should tell me about your Blaseball blorbo, especially if they aren't one that's well known. I mean, I wouldn't mind if you want to tell me why you like Jessica Telephone or Mike Townsend or PolkaDot Patterson anyway. But I especially want to hear if you have a guy (gn) that's constantly rotating in your mind.