#bomb rush cyberfunk dot exe

[mechanical-magician]

CUE.mp4 having an existential crisis

[literallyneurodivergentandaminor]

i cant for the life of me keep a combo to unlock cueball. ghrhgghgrgggrgggrgrrrr hes taunting me

[w0rmyz]

hey what if i wasnt normal about the sliding challenge guy (no bg under cut)

[marquisegallery]

An Angsty Bomb Rush Cyberfunk Headcanon (also spoilers): Despite what the cueball DOT EXE member says in game before trying to recruit him*, the death of the crew's leader affected him a lot more than he would like to admit.

* = (at least from the impression I got, he sounded very... not-bothered by it)

More rambling under the cut!

For ease of reading, I'll refer to the DOT EXE leader and cueball member with my headcanon names for them: 8-ball and Cueball respectively.

So basically, Cueball not coping well with 8-ball's death during the main game is what leads him to leave DOT EXE and be willing to join up with BRC in the post game. Maybe even throw in some particularly-not-handling-this-well in the form of Cueball outright making fun of 8-ball's death ("What a noob to get wasted like that LOL"). Which leads to the other DOT EXE members getting understandably mad at him for it, thus kicking him out.

(I would like to think they all can still reconcile later, hopefully after Cueball gets a better handle on his feelings and apologizes to the others for not coping with it very well. But I digress.)

Additionally, this got me thinking, "Wait, what if 8-ball survived that after all??" And I would think, no, Cueball and probably the other DOT EXE members would still be traumatized by what happened, at least to some degree.

I like to think that "full-cyber" people like DOT EXE (and by extension, anyone with a cyberhead) do have the option to "back up" their minds. If you can copy a mind from a flesh head into a cyberhead, like you would copying a large file from one computer to another, then you can probably make back-ups of them too.

But this is either very expensive, a very long process, or otherwise just very prohibitive for the general public to handle on their own. Only the richest people (or otherwise those who have the resources to set up and maintain their own equipment and servers for the back-ups) would be able to afford to do so regularly, if at all. Heck, maybe most people wouldn't bother, sort of like a philosophical or spiritual "I cheated death once already, so I think the next time I wouldn't mind if it's permanent" kind of way.

So if 8-ball ends up restored from a backup and a rebuilt body, there's still the possibility he might be missing, say, a month's worth of memories. Maybe even more than that, depending on how vigilant DOT EXE is about backing themselves up in case of emergencies.

Who knows, maybe that kind of thing ends up bothering Cueball way more than he would have expected. So again, he's not handling it well, maybe even this time making fun of 8-ball over what happened to his face, and then getting kicked out of the crew shortly after.

(Again, I would still like to imagine they all get to talk it over and reconcile later at least.)

Not to mention, the way I personally see it, someone being brought back to life doesn't erase the trauma of seeing them die in the first place, yeah? At worst, Cueball starts seeing 8-ball almost like a undead monster or something. He can't get the image of 8-ball just after getting shot out of his head, which is kinda what I was going for with the pic above, tbh.

Angst bonus, 8-ball refers to Cueball as his bro in game. I'm going to intentionally choose to interpret that as them being actual brothers, not just a bro-as-in-friend kind of way. Maximum angst, you see. 😈

[ketrindarkdragon]

I had a vision

[vinegardude]

felt like drawing Dot Exe to keep experimenting

[dragonmarquise]

I like to think I have gotten better about making gifs that are small enough in size to be post to social media, without tanking the quality at the same time. So yeah, made more dancing gifs!

I already uploaded these to the BRC wiki (I'm in the process of getting that place cleaned up), but I figured I could share these here too.

Also, not sure if anyone wants to use these, but I might as well say: You are free to save these and use them for stimboards and other stuff! All I ask is for credit, at minimum just linking back to this post. I mean, I can't force anyone to credit me of course, but it'd be nice. :P

[backupmissingno]

More dludis

[breadbugg]

my art for CYPHER ZINE VOL 2!!! @cypher-zine im super proud of how it turned out!! check out the other contributors too they all did awesome!!!

[iambuggy]

[kremechihihi]

🎱💫 Leaders of the Millennium 💫🎱

besties, if u will

bonus doodles as a continuation of my previous 8 ball post

[mechanical-magician]

CUE.mp4 flirting while working his cringe (necessary) job at the second hand shop (they're secret base)

[literallyneurodivergentandaminor]

sequel to this i gotta hype myself up i can do it i can do it i can do it i will get the challenge done

[w0rmyz]

another one of fish and 9-ball

[marquisegallery]

Itty-bitty kitty! Also Cueball would be a cat owner and no one can convince me otherwise, lol.

In fact, why not tack on a headcanon of mine here: Cueball was allergic to cats before going full-cyber, and once he realized he didn't have to worry about that anymore, he was basically like, "Welp time to adopt ALL OF THE CATS LOL"

Eventually the rest of DOT EXE had to convince him to just foster a few cats at a time and volunteer at shelters, instead of trying to hoard like 20 cats at once. A better ending all around, especially for the cats! 🐱

[witlacosh]

Sadly I won't be connected tomorrow so this is an early celebration post for the 1st anniversary of BRC.

I made these circular designs based on each crew

Thank u Bomb Rush for being a really cool game based on my childhood fav games, it inspires me to draw and create things like this!