#but I feel like tech doesn't know dak is also trans lmao

[themynock]

TRANS TECH IS SO REAL. It's canon to me for sure. I do know about The Robohog but I was a trans Tech believer even before that. I do like to imagine them all being trans (what a shocker, the trans person likes to imagine characters as trans) but Tech specifically is so extremely trans coded that I have to believe it was at least a little bit intentional. The only evidence for cis Tech is why would he CHOOSE to be named Squirt Purpler

I love pro gamer Z so much. When he was getting cybernetics upgrades and just zoned out to play games the whole time instead of normal anesthesia or something... Iconic. I wonder if he had a lot of fans during his pro gamer era? One day they're going to walk into a neo-gamestop and the cashier is going to be like "WAIT A MINUTE IS THAT ZENITH??"

#i have a couple other headcanons but they contain Spoilers so i will tell you about them later!! :D #but ahh please tell me about some of your headcanons/thoughts too #it's been a couple years since i listened to neoscum but if we start chatting i KNOW i'll think of some other ones #also to anyone who hasn't listened to neoscum: do it right now it's so good

Some headcanons that I really like... I honestly don't have a lot of specific ones (other than everyone being trans LMAO) but I really like the worldbuilding of neo-america.

I am really intrigued by how the matrix works and the relationship that neo-america and it's citizens have to the internet is REALLY interesting to me. It seems like the average person in 2070-whatever isn't as online as one might expect from a cyberpunk future but then you also have the entire opposite end of the spectrum with people who are literally never offline like deckers and technomancers... idk it's just really interesting to me! And the fact that deckers and technomancers can basically astrally project into the matrix like it's another dimension is reallyyyy interesting. I really like how it bridges the gap between magic and technology-- obviously with technomancers but even deckers blur that line a little.

I also just really like Xanadu and imagining how future-trucks work and what the interior looks like... I'm far from a semi truck expert but I've never heard of one that has a back row of seats with an upper bunk like xanadu canonically does, and obviously the doylist explanation is that they just needed all the characters to fit comfortably in the truck, but I also really like imagining that the future also just sees a lot more people getting on the roads for really long periods of time, which could connect to the rise of truckers as a prominent subculture and identity (the existence of the league of honored truckers and "rogue truckers" being a specific community instead of just a vague descriptor) (and the fact that Dak is A Trucker TM while not, to my knowledge ever actually doing any professional trucking jobs? except illegally taking a scary Clone Pod to LA. Like his actual profession is criminal/shadowrunner, not "trucker" in a traditional sense). That was way too many parentheticals but 2070-whatever trucking/road culture could have led to larger teams of truckers being more common and trucks being designed like Xanadu with space for more passengers.

Anyway so ALL THAT LONG EXPLANATION to say that my favorite headcanon is that Xanadu has those cool hot wheels flames painted on the cab and also everyone is trans

Also I have not subscribed to the Patreon and therefore have not heard the bonus episodes but I might subscribe after I finish the main show!

Hiiiiiiii this is tumblr user "themynock" sliding into your ask box in an attempt to relieve the terminal Neoscum brainworms I have recently come down with, SO: do you have any favorite Neoscum headcanons that you've been dying to talk about?? Because if so, here is a platform to do that!

(when will tumblr let us send asks from sideblogs, being on anon is annoying)

Hellllooo tumblr user themynock!! 👋 I am so so thrilled to chat about NeoScum with you.

One of my biggest NeoScum headcanons (which feels so real to me that I sometimes forget it isn't canon) is that Tech Wizard is absolutely definitely trans. Idk how much you've heard about the robohog so far wherever you're at in the podcast but. We truly get no other explanation for why Tech Wizard would have a robotic dick. Also Tech's whole character arc is so tied to identity and his discomfort with himself and it just. It feels so canon ok.

(Tbh all of the NeoScum crew are t4t4t4t in my heart but especially so for Tech Wizard.)

I'm trying to think of other NeoScum headcanons off the top of my head... especially ones that don't have spoilers for late game NeoScum... Oh, idk if you've listened to the SunUp Patreon bonus episodes yet but in my heart Tom and Hanz are in love and living happily ever after somewhere for sure.

Also, less of a headcanon but something I just like to think about sometimes - it's so wild that Zenith was just a pro-gamer for a while. Like he has this insane [spoilers] backstory but then also. He just played video games for a living for a little while there. That's so fun. I love Zenith.