#drumbot brian save me..............

[cosmos-fudge]

idk if this makes sense tbh :,]

click so anything in it is legible T_T

under the cut is a version with just the less hard to read text

[zurdurer]

What madness can this be?

[ID in Alt text]

[cryptile]

The mechanisms really put bondage in hnoc and thought we wouldn't notice

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: Four photos of traditional drawings of Raphaella la Cognizi. They are done pencil on drawing paper. Raphaella has long, wavy, light colored hair. She wears a shirt with puffy shoulders and repeating loopy stripes. She wears dark tights under light shorts with a belt. She has metal wing with rivets and two straps which cross over her chest.

Image One: Raphaella is standing facing the camera. Her right hand is on her head and her left one is by her side with her thumb in her pocket. She is blushing and smiling and not looking at the camera. The drawing cuts off above her knees. In the upper left hand corner of the photo, “Raphaella la Cognizi” is written in all uppercase letters. Parts of the drawings in Image Two and Image Three are visble. The words “Whey-hey,” “the,” and “Distant” and also visible, but the Y on “hey” and the NT on “distant” are cut off.

Image Two: a bust drawing of Raphaella. She is angled towards the viewers right and has one hand under her chin. Her mouth is open, like she is singing or speaking. Her fingers have lines around them and get darker as the reach the tips, which are pointed. They are labeled “claws.” There is a small, dark, heart next to her face. The bottom of the drawing from Image One is visible to the upper left and to the upper right a small amount of the bottom of the word “beckons” as well as “distant stars awaiting” are visible from the drawing in Image Three.

Image Three: a waist-up drawing of Raphaella and the Toy Soldier holding hands, like they are dancing, and smiling. The Toy Soldier is back to the viewer. It wears a hat and a uniform jacket. It has short curly hair and it’s lower jaw is a separate block from the rest of its face. Its eyes are closed and it has a curly mustache and painted on blush. Its nose is a triangle, protruding from its face, and darker than the rest of its skin. Raphaella is facing towards the viewer and her eyes are closed as well. She is blushing. Both characters have movement lines next to their shoulders. Underneath the characters is the phrase “Whey-hey the wormhole beckons, distant stars awaiting [exclamation point]” in all uppercase letters. A wing and an arm from Image One and the very top of Raph’s head from Image Two are visible.

Image Four: Raphaella is standing behind a sitting Drumbot Brian, or she is flying behind a stand Brian. They are both facing the viewer; her left hand is on his left shoulder and her right hand is over his right hand which is on her right cheek. Some of her hair is draped over his on the left side of his head. He is looking up towards her face. Brian has lines on his face deniting the metal plating of his skin. He has shoulder length, lighg colored, curly hair as well as facial hair on his chin and jaw. He is wearing a light colored, collared shirt under a dark wasitcoat. Both he and Raphaella have small circle eyes in this drawing. Raphaella’s wings are flapping, as denoted by movement lines and a secondary outline. There is a small, dark heart next to Brian’s shoulder, where Raphaella’s hand is, as well as one to the upper left of her head. Above Raphaella are the words “Evil Mad Science Lady X Some Guy.” The letters are all uppercase.

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> it's time for loving this mad scientist lady! she deserved a full page before my sketchbook ends

[kandicon]

Toy Soldier vs Drumbot Brian contrasts save me <33

Smth smth, the inanimate being choosing to carve and force a piece of life inside itself. The human who was forced to become an object, a robot, with no choice in the matter. The usage of it/its to dehumanize oneself as a means of reclaiming an identity vs the usage of he/him as a means of reclaiming the human identity taken. One who's angel voice pierces through instruments and other singers like when it sings vs the one who rarely sings unless the entire crew sings, so that his voice may be drowned out among it all. The Toy Soldier who completely halts the pacing of another mechanism's song (gptvtmk) to do a heart wrenching solo that temporarily takes the spotlight while refusing to have an independent backstory song vs Drumbot Brian who does have a backstory song, but refuses to sing it unless alongside his other mechanisms and has someone who wasn't a part of the crew at the time be the main singer. Hell, just the difference in focus on title between their songs "The Toy Soldier's Song" which puts all the focus on the Toy Soldier vs "Lost in the Cosmos" which focuses squarely on the situation. The way neither of them have complete control of their actions, not when a sharp order or the flip of a switch may change them in an instant.

[caffeine-trickster]

so, i saw a post about high noon over camelot that said something like if you cut off justice at a certain point there can still be a happy ending, which hell yeah love wins, but it got me thinking about a Cool Detail i noticed and wanted to share.

throughout once and future king theres a repeating morse code (someones probably pointed it out on here before [and i only know about it because someone mentioned it on a uquiz] but i've never seen anyone talk about it so here goes) it's _** _*** which means D B (aka DrumBot)

(image ID: a cropped srceenshot of an english-letter-to-morse-code conversion chart with two columns labeled 'Letter' and 'Morse', which goes "A *_ ; B _*** ; C _*_* ; D _**". B and D are circled in yellow. /end ID)

it's all through oafk, in the singing part it's sort of a low note in the background then during the fiddle solo it becomes drums and piano (i think?) then turns to actual beeping which gets progressively more high-pitched/frantic until it finally cuts off with that long, ringing note at the end of the song. i theorize that it's brians sos call to the rest of the mechs and/or the aurora. (and the long high note at the end sounds a lot like a scream if you ask me) (maybe all the mechs have one they can set off in case they're ever in, shall we say, a pickle. such as being stuck in a space station that's hurdling directly into a sun.)

so, cool, right? it's also in justice. as a matter of fact, it starts just as he's saying "they found their hands were moving away from their guns". because brian is a prophet, he knows what's going to happen. there's a shred of hope, but it's all already over. the oracle is already sending out the sos. the love was there and it mattered but it couldn't save them etc.

so anyway yeah. details. i fuckinf love tragedy.

(somewhat adding onto this in a non-linear way, another hc of mine is that in the hanged man rusts when galahad says "I know what it's like when those bastards just can't *see*" and the music picks up brian gets a vision of what's to come, [heat, violence, hatred, etc] but it leaves him out of it/possibly unconscious so galahad's already far too out of earshot before he can say 'stop')

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 2, Match 54: Shōta Aizawa vs. Doctor Carmilla

Submitted kids:

Shōta Aizawa: Class 1-A, minus Mineta, plus Shinsou Hitoshi (total of 20 kids). Mainly Eri, Shinsou, and Midoriya

Doctor Carmilla: Jonny d'Ville, Nastya Rasputina, The Toy Soldier, The Starship Aurora, Ashes O'Reilly, Drumbot Brian, Gunpowder Tim, Ivy Alexandria, Raphaella la Cognizi * Marius von Raum

Propaganda under the cut!

Shōta Aizawa:

1. “This grumpy teacher pretends not to care about his students, sleeps during his own classes and why talk when you can also make annoying children silent by (harmless) force? Yet he loves them and they love him while he doesn't show it all that often.”

2. “He didn't mean to adopt them yet he did and he is grumpy about it. If he goes "those are my kids, damn it" it's not to someone else, it's to himself, with the damn it being a "fuck, why". Yet he is so 100% willing to risk his life for them. Because they *are* his kids now.”

3. “Idk the man is so tired what can I say. Harsh as australias wildlife but bc he doesn’t want them to actually die in the field so he’s trying to make them give up on signing up to risk your lives every day. I just submitted kiryu and I think that kiryu, bruce, and aizawa are soul sisters. They are all very special to me”

4. “Oh he tries so hard to stay scary and detached, keeps threatening to expel students, keeps saying he hates kids, and look at him now. Missing several pieces and risked death multiple times to protect them, at least 3 classes of ~20 students each lowkey adoring him, and literally canonically (not said out loud but it's basically official come on, they live together) adopted a little girl that was found by the protagonist and saved from the mafia. Also personally took the matter in his own hands when another department's student (so not one of his) showed a desire to change course, so much that even if this kid has living and loving parents he's often Aizawa's adopted family in fanfiction.”

Doctor Carmilla:

“Morally ambiguous mother who adopts her kids and makes them immortal both to have a family and a band. What can I say. This family is incredibly dysfunctional and so very fun.”

[neim-batteries-not-included]

what is the mechanisms and where do i start (ive seen you posting about it and it sounds cool)

I FUCKING CACKLED WHEN THIS CAME THROUGH AHFVSHFFSJFBUE !!!!!

Ok so the Mechanisms are essentially a “storytelling musical cabaret” band of immortal space pirates

(Their about page is here)

The cast at its height was made up of nine performers, including some of the people involved in TMA (Jonny Sims, Jessica Law (Nikola), Frank Voss (Basira), and Tim Ledsam (Jordan Kennedy)).

They rework myths n traditional stories into more sci-fi esque narratives (eg the Odyssey/Greek mythology, Arthurian legend, Norse mythology, etc) and incorporate versions of songs (the ones that came to mind is The Rocky Road To Dublin (which became Favoured Son). There’s a focus on the characters that narrate/play the people in the stories they’re telling- these being the Mechanisms themselves.

Without going into a massive lore dump, they were all (bar two) made immortal by Dr Carmilla with metal body parts (eg the heart, the lungs, the eyes). So you’re not completely confused with who’s who, have a cast list + their mechanism:

Jonny d’Ville- played by Jonny Sims- captain first mate- the heart

Nastya Rasputina- anonymous actor- engineer- the blood

Ivy Alexandria- played by Morgan Wilkinson (Morgan uses he/him, Ivy she/her)- archivist- the brain

Ashes O’Reilly- played by Frank Voss- quartermaster- the lungs

Drumbot Brian (my personal favourite)- played by Ben Below- pilot- everything but the heart

Toy Soldier- played by Jessica Law- “we don’t know what it does, but it’s here and it won’t go away”- everything but the voice (it stole its voice)

Gunpowder Tim- played by Tim Ledsam- gunner/master at arms- the eyes

“Baron” Marius von Raum- played by Kofi Young (they/them, Marius generally referred to with he/him)- ship’s “doctor”- the right arm

Raphaella la Cognizi- played by R L Hughes- science officer- the wings

(The last two are the ones that weren’t mechanised by the doctor (their actors joined the ensemble slightly later))

Nastya left around 2015 and the Toy Soldier wasn’t in the Bifrost Incident, though was present for Tales To Be Told Vol. 2 and Death To The Mechanisms.

In terms of where to start, I’d recommend Once Upon A Time (In Space), which is their first recorded album. You can also find the live performance on YouTube (if you’d like a link let me know)

It might be an idea to start with the song Tales To Be Told (they played some variation of it at the start of every live show) from the Death To The Mechanisms album (here). This introduces you to most of the cast + the band as a concept.

After OUATIS I’d suggest going chronologically- Ulysses Dies at Dawn (UDAD), Tales To Be Told Vol. 1 (TTBT), High Noon Over Camelot (HNOC), Frankenstein (single), The Bifrost Incident (TBI), Tales To Be Told Vol. 2, and then finishing with Death To The Mechanisms (DTTM) (live album).

There’s some fiction written by the cast on their website, should be ok to find but if you need a hand/want to know where to start with those let me know. And if you want fanfic recs >:3 (get to grips with the music first though).

I love the mechanisms, they’re fucken great fun- watch their live shit on YouTube if you can (I have so many saved so if you want some, again, let me know).

(Also there’s some brilliant mechs artists on here, take a dive into the tag if you have the time.)

Good luck!!!

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 1 - Side A

Galahad art credit @spiralstain

Propaganda below ⬇️

Junk Rat

I wish his Catholicism meant if he got killed in game it would take him 3 days to respawn

Galahad

OKAY SO . "Galahad (played by Jonny d'Ville): a travelling preacher/religious zealot who is told to sit in the Siege Seat by Merlin, and discovers the fact that Fort Galfridian is falling into the star Avalon. He sparks the quest for the GRAIL, and willingly goes to his death to overcome its final defences." DUDE SAT IN THE CHAIR THAT IS KNOWN FOR KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE HIS CRUSH [MERLIN] [AKA HANGED MAN] [AKA DRUMBOT BRIAN] TOLD HIM TO . SORRY I THINK THATS REALLY FUNNY. he found out the whole shitshow of a spacestation he lived on was gonna fall into the sun and he went around yelling about it incomprehensibly and got fucking gunned down trying to get the GRAIL and just kept going through the gunfire because of how Religious [tm] he was . he died . in once and future king it just "galahad's blind faith" . also hellfire goes really hard . he is the definition of going insane with the knowledge of the universe . also jonny dville played him thats bonus points

There was a prophet. The prophet gave three separate people three separate instructions. 1. Stop being racist 2. Love your son 3. Sit in the Chair That Makes People Insane Galahad received number three. He was the only one who followed the instructions. He sat in the Chair That Makes People Insane, saw the sun for the first time, and immediately starts preaching about how everyone will burn in hellfire

i dont know anything about this guy i just wanna help make Kai happy please dont like not count my submission just because i dont know anythinf except for the Kills You Chair im trying my best im sorry 😭

his themesong is called hellfire and it slaps btw go listen to it. anyways he is my blorbo blingus he is Deeply unwell i could fix him but also whatever is wrong with him is incredibly fascinating to watch. a robot dude who's been hanging from the gallows since forever told him 'hey go sit in the Chair That Kills People Who Sit In It' and he was like 'I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT MY ENTIRE LIFE'. the getting-his-brain-fried thing definitely made him worse but he was also clearly kind of fucked up before that. his death is probably one of my favorite scenes in any mechs album. maybe just straight up my favorite. ahem. SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT FAITH, BUT IT CAN HAVE POWERFUL EFFECTS ON THOSE THAT HAVE IT. IT CAN KEEP YOU FROM FALTERING AS THE BULLETS START TO SLAM INTO YOU. IT CAN KEEP YOU WALKING AS YOU LEGS ARE SHOT TO BLOODY STUMPS. IT CAN KEEP YOU LAUGHING AS YOUR LUNGS ARE FILLED WITH SHRAPNEL AND LEAD. IT CAN KEEP YOU SMILING AS HALF YOUR FACE IS BLOWN AWAY. IT CAN KEEP A MAN LIKE GALAHAD STANDING TALL UNTIL THE GUNS. CLICKED. DRY. anyways go listen to high noon over camelot <3

my friends my people my... flock I HAVE HAD A VISION!! A VAST FIERY ORB FLOATIN IN AN ENDLESS VOID!! and there so small so feagile US!!! BUT FALLIN FALLIN FALLIN INTO THE FLAMES!!! your soul is connected to the world youre in youre draggin it down with the weight of your sin surrounded by temptation and y'just give in we're fallin into the flames OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HEEEEELLLLLLFIIIRE YOUR BROW BECOMES SLICK AS YOU PERSPIRE YOU THINK YOURE THIRSTY NOW WAIT TIL IT GETS DRIER AND YA FEEL THE HEAT OF THE FLAMES OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE YOUR SICK AND SINFUL LIES WILL BUILD A FUNERAL PYRE YOUR PERVERSION SCARS THE STATION SON ITS GONAN FRY HER AND WE ALLLLLL FALL INTO THE FLAMES... oh i have SEEN DAMNATION MY BROTHERS!! ive FELT its searing heat within my VERY BONES !!!!!!! but there is a way me be saved... "OH TELL US FATHER GALAHAD, TELL US" I HEAR YOU CRY "IS IT PIETY IS IT PURITY IS IT VIRTUE?" NO!!! ONLY WAY TO SAVE US NOW IS THE HOLY GRAIL ITSELF... HAHAHAHAHHAAAA.... WELL THAT ORB OF DAMNATION MAKES THE SUN SEEM PALE YOURE QUITE CORRECT TO QUIVER YOU ARE RIGHT TO QUAIL THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE US IS TO FIND THAT GRAIL OR WE ALL FALL INTO THE FLAMES OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE YOUR SKIN STARTS TO SIZZLE AS YOU EXPIRE YOU CLAIM TO BE VIRTUOUS BUT YOURE A LIAR !!!!! AND YOU FEEL THE HEAT OF THE FLAMES ... i said HEEEELLLLFIIIIRE HEEEEEEEELLLLFIRE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLFIIIIIREEE HEEEEEEELLLLLLFIIIIIIRE OF THAT FIRE THAT FIRE THAT HELLFIRE AT THE HEART OF THAT INFERNO THAT WILL NEVER TIRE IVE SEE THE END IS NIGH AND DAMNATIONS NIGHER OH WE ALL FALL INTO THE FLAMES

Ok i know this is kind of a shot in the dark because hes so obscure but i need to speak my truth. Hes so insane. The narrator calls him a “holy roller.” He has a vision which is meant to tell him that the place they live is LITERALLY going to get burnt to a crisp because its slowly falling into the sun. But hes like Oh my god i just had a vision of hell i need to save everyone from eternal damnation. And he happily gets killed and turned into a pile of slop because he believes its what he was “chosen to do” he quite literally dies for his religion. Hes also quite funny. I like him. Thank you

[purgatory-is-life]

Mechtober day 6/prompt 6-Songs

@mechtober-2024 and posted on ao3 as well > Songs of Past Prophecies - Reality666Rift999 - The Mechanisms (Band) [Archive of Our Own]

sorry this is a bit later than the others i had some life stuff that meant i couldn't finish this yesterday ahead of time kalfjkldf

tw just i think?? lack of control/references to lacking control, typical Prophecy shenanigans are mentioned, not being listened to in the past, dissociation/implied dissociation, mentioned sleep walking (sleep-playing the violin?), let me know if you need me to tag something else too!

Brian wandered around Aurora’s many corridors, twisting and turning and warping as time passed. It was cold. He didn’t think he’d ever like the cold again, after being pulled from the freezing emptiness of the Void. And yet here he was, relishing the cold against his metal face, walking around barefoot to feel the cold, steel floor against his cold, brass skin. Brian couldn’t–didn’t want to–sleep. Whatever sleeping technically looked like for him. It’s not like he was tired, anyway.

And if he went to sleep, he’d just be subjected either to that horrible, overwhelming heat, an overwhelming warmth so strong he could barely register anything besides it and pain and then-nothing, before the cycle restarted again, and if not that dream it would be something else. Mordred walking into Camelot from Annwn, Galahad sitting on the Siege Seat and being overwhelmed by the visions it showed, Mordred launching his father into Camelot, Arthur refusing to heed his warning because he couldn’t tell Arthur that Mordred was once his daughter and now his son. Gawain and Mordred and that final slaughter of everyone in Camelot and everyone from Annwn. That frightening image from Arthur’s perspective, of holding a gun to Lancelot and Gwen’s head (sometimes, if he was really unlucky, he’d see one or two of the crew in Lancelot and Guenivere’s spots, and the drumbot didn’t want to admit how much that scared him. It happened all the time on the Aurora, after all.) There were just too many things churning and churning around in his head to sleep, too many images burned in his brain from his spot as a helpless observer.

He’d done everything he could to prevent what he Saw in his dreams, he’s always done so. But no one ever seems to listen, no one ever actually wants to listen to his warnings. Not even his crew, and they should know that he doesn’t Lie. The fate he’d Seen for the station was grim, and so he naturally did everything he could to prevent it, anything that his setting had allowed. (That dreaded Switch had been on the fritz a bit, since they pulled him from the sun, but he wouldn’t complain. It finally allowed him some moniker of control, even if it kind of hurt sometimes.)

He’d done everything he could, and yet he wished he could’ve done more. He should’ve done more. He should’ve tried harder, if he’d been able to do anything maybe the station could have been saved. Maybe–

Brian stopped as he ran into- something, something that was loud. The sound–violin music, now that he registered it–stopped abruptly as something crashed onto the ground. Marius blinked up at him, eyes hazy and almost empty, before suddenly clearing. Marius grinned widely at Brian, jumping up and disregarding his violin that now lay on the floor. Brian blinked, and it disappeared. Probably to that same hammerspace that the rest of the ‘doctor’s violins lived in.

“Good morning–or, well, night– my dear Drumbot!” Marius declared. “What do I owe the pleasure of seeing you around at this late hour?”

Brian did not feel like talking about it today. Ends Justify Means, he decided not to answer. “Were you playing in your sleep again, Marius?” He responded instead. Marius, every once in a while, would fall asleep like normal, only to start wandering around the ship playing a variety of haunting melodies on his violin. That particular… ‘habit’, of his, typically didn’t disturb anyone else, so they usually let it happen. There were a few times where his music would get so frantic and loud it’d wake up Aurora, or someone else in the crew, but that usually just ended with Marius getting killed in one way or another.

“Oh, who knows,” the not-a-baron responded, shrugging. His flesh hand had steadily healing blisters that answered for him, though. Marius grinned up at him, raising an eyebrow. “You dodged the question! Is something the matter? You’re clearly on Ends Justify Means, because you only ever dodge questions on that mode, so something is likely bothering you. So-”

“Marius, I’m really not in the mood right now,” Brian interrupted.

Marius paused, a brief moment of confusion and hurt on his face, before he shrugged and nodded. “Well, what are you doing up? Normally at this hour, should you still be awake and not in the midst of being used as a weighted blanket or pillow, you’re on the bridge.”

“I couldn’t sleep,” Brian explained, “so I decided to take a walk.” He left out that he decided to take a walk after realizing that Aurora had locked the bridge off from him. But that wasn’t something Marius would need to know. It would get him on another tangent.

“Ah! Yes, that’ll happen. You were in a star for a while, I personally would imagine that would just leave you more tired, but I don’t know how your circuitry works. Would you like some company? It can get so lonely at night when no ones up, and I know you don’t like being lonely. Though I suppose you’re never truly alone on Aurora? With the spiders and the stowaways and the octokittens–though I personally just don’t like the octokittens that much–they’re just so off putting to me. Maybe it’s the fact that they have beaks and teeth? Or maybe their purrs, because their purrs are just off…”

And he was off on another tangent. Naturally, Brian should’ve realized that he could get started on anything and everything with very little prompting. At least he wasn’t asking about him anymore, poking and prodding and prying into what he’d experienced on the Station. His woes over not being able to do more to help, his pain at never being listened to.

(Arthur, my sheriff, I’ve news to cheer you, You’re son yet lives he’s drawing near you!

Faulty old thing, I’ve never had son)

Suddenly, just as quickly as he started talking, Marius stopped. Mid sentence, he just… Stopped. Brian was pretty sure he stopped breathing.

Marius looked at him, a grin slowly spreading across his face while his eyes fogged and lost focus again. Well, to Brian, that always seemed to be a misnomer. It was like he was finding something new and far away to focus on.

“Oh,” he said, in a quiet voice so small and quiet that Brian wasn’t sure he’d said anything at all at first. Suddenly, Marius was holding his violin and his grin grew even larger. “You have a Song,” he said, like Brian should know exactly what he meant.

With his metal hand, Marius grabbed Brian’s and started dragging him along to the music room. Brian decided to let him, curious as to what the pretend-doctor’s plan was.

When they arrived, Marius gently sat Brian at his drumset and put down his violin, before sitting down himself. He stared distantly at Brian, ears twitching like he was listening to something despite the only noises being Marius’s own breathing and the quiet creaks and groans of Aurora. “You have so many Songs, Brian… They’re all so pretty…” Brian wasn’t sure if he even knew that he said something, Marius didn’t seem very present.

Marius jumped up again and ran over to where the paper was kept, stumbling and tripping over one of Gunpowder’s guitar cases. He grabbed a couple sheets of paper, and ran back, tripping again as he ran back. He tossed the papers down haphazardly, and pulled a pen out of thin air and set it down equally haphazardly. He took a few minutes to stare at Brian again, before moving to pick his violin up again.

Marius closed his eyes, and started playing a tune that Brian almost recognized. Did, recognize.

It sounded incomplete, without other instruments, but it would be rude to wake everyone else up for an impromptu music writing session. They can figure the other parts out later.

Brian followed Marius’s lead, closing his eyes and let himself follow the music Marius was playing.

“Gawain I know you fear the underworld, hate the Ghouls that live in it’s thunder,

That hunger for carrion torn asunder, by blades that glint in the dark…”

Jonny would like to hear what they end up writing in the morning, anyway. It’ll probably make a good story.

[carmillatism]

everyone keeps asking for the carmilla and drumbot brian hc/lore/theorizing from me so:

i thought a little too hard about brian pre-backstory and i just came to a thought that the morality switch was a little too personal for carmilla to do to him, which made me think that he was her apprentice before she had begun to mechanize anyone, when she was in her beta stages. and they worked very well together and he learned a lot and she saw him a lot like a son and her own protégé. but he started to feel off about what they were doing, seeing through the ways carmilla spun her work as being good even if it wasn't always moral to both herself and him. he questions this which leads to a large fight where she hurts him somehow and causes a large amount of distrust between the two, and ultimately this ends up with them being distant but still together, until brian finally addresses her, telling her that what she's doing is wrong. she may think it'a good, but she is taking advantage of people who can't make their own choices, and she will hurt them even if she is trying to save them. she can't force anyone to be a part of her family through violence and medical malpractice. this makes her snap, causing her to choose to dispose of him. she wipes his memory using the way she learned whilst with loreli and then put him in an escape pod and sent him to the furthest planet from her (that was in reasonable distance for the escape pod), causing him to crash land in the town without his memory (but he has inklings of knowledge that make him remember how to mechanize the priest, however rudimentary it may be). all of this to say that carmilla kept an eye on him the entire time she was mechanizing people, guilt and anger eating away at her the entire time, so she decides that she will make him a part of her family once more (out of guilt) and mechanize him (out of anger and to prove to him that what she's doing is good). and out of spite, she decides to give him a morality switch and says she thinks it's funny because it mirrors his time in the town, but she knows. she knows deep down that she gave him that morality switch because he had always tried to be so moral even whilst hurting her. she could prove to him being moral all the time is never good. she could strip him of the agency she felt was stripped from her when he made his choice against her and left

[cosmos-fudge]

old man core ^_^✨

^ feels like someone stuck an ice pick in between the bones in its hip

[should-have-been-at-the-club]

A list of all 64 tournament competitors (Alphabetical by source)

Every character has propaganda -- however, not every character has a lot! The ask box is now OPEN to receiving propaganda for any character on this list. Please state clearly which character the propaganda is for, and please don't put propaganda for more than one character in one ask.

List with sources is below the cut. If you have any additional questions, please feel free to ask me anything!

2001: A Space Odyssey - Hal 9000

Adventures With Anxiety - Beebee

Bang Brave Bang Bravern - Isami Ao

Bang Brave Bang Bravern - Lewis Smith

Berenstain Bears - Mama Bear

Black Sails - Max

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy Summers

Cell of Empireo - Noa Enomoto

Chess - Florence Vassy

Cult of the Lamb - Heket

Cybersix - Cybersix (Adrian Seidelman)

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - K1-B0 (Kiibo)

DC Comics - Tim Drake

Deep Space Nine - Kira Nerys

Doctor Who - Martha Jones

Dungeon Meshi - Marcille Donato

Dungeon Meshi - Falin Touden

Guild Wars 2 - Taimi

Hamlet - Hamlet

Hamlet - Ophelia

Hatchetfield Series (Black Friday, Nightmare Time) - Lex Foster

In Other Lands - Elliot Schafer

Jujutsu Kaisen - Nobara Kugisaki

Lupin III - Goemon Ishikawa XIII

Master Detective Archives: Raincode - Kurumi Wendy

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury - Miorine Rembran

Naruto - Tobirama Senju

Naruto - Uzumaki Kushina

One Piece - Kozuki Hiyori

One Piece - Nico Robin

One Piece - Trafalgar D. Water Law

One Piece - Sanji

Persona 3 - Ken Amada

Plague Doctor (Чумной Доктор) - Lera Makarova

Pokemon - Delia Ketchum

Rain World - ???/Inv/Enot/Sofanthiel

Scarlet Hollow - Kaneeka Forsyth

Scarlet Hollow - Tabitha Chrysanthemum Scarlet

Scum Villains Self Saving System - Luo Binghe

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - Adora

Squid Game - Kang Sae-Byeok

Star Wars - Anakin Skywalker

Supernatural - Mary Winchester

Terraria Calamity Mod - Supreme Witch, Calamitas

The Bible - Jesus Christ

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari - Cesare the Somnambulist

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari - Jane Olsen

The Dragon Prince - Rayla

The Life and Times of Juniper Lee - Juniper Lee

The Locked Tomb - Gideon Nav

The Locked Tomb - Harrowhark Nonagesimus

The Mechanisms - Drumbot Brian

The Old Kingdom Series - Sabriel Abhorsen

The Stormlight Archive - Moash

Torchwood - Ianto Jones

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni - Shannon

Vocaloid - Mikudayo

Warrior Cats/Warriors - Dovewing

Warrior Cats/Warriors - Frostpaw

Warrior Cats/Warriors - Shadowsight

Warrior Cats/Warriors - Squirrelstar 

Wings of Fire - Moonwatcher

Wings of Fire - Winter

Yugioh 5DS - Akiza Izinski

(Please note this is *not* the order they will be competing in.)

[cryptile]

Listening to stranger from ttbt 2 again... Save me save me save me save me save me save me save me save me save me save me save me save m

[clown-paws]

hello, mechanisms enjoyer. who is your favourite mechanism. what is your favourite album. what is your favourite song. do you have a favourite mechanisms photo.

> oh hello, didnt know u were sending these out to others, but ill answer!

> fav mech is a big tie between brian, nastya and ashes. i have a lot of thoughts abt them but ill keep it brief as brief as i can.

Brian for his morality switch and horrors of his situation/ hes debatebly a robot and i like robots.

Nastya for her being a rogue princess which is v badass and... well she fucks the ship and thats great lmao. plus her sibling relationship with jonny makes me emo.

Ashes because they're rlly cool and frank being openly nonbinary back in 2010 ish means a lot to me, and lucky sevens makes me insane.

> fav album... couldn't tell u. i genuinely cant figure that one out because they all tell such interesting stories and the songs are all bangers for me.

> fav song? i might cheat and say Alice but it is technically a mini ablum but still, i adore it so much. apart from that, i love The Ignominious Demise of Dr Pilchard. the scenario is vv funny and it rlly gives an insight into their personalities and weaknesses!! v catchy as well.

> fav mechs photos from a SELECT FEW. bcus i have a lot saved:

> this ashes look is so fucking good agh <3

> SIBLING SHENANIGANS!!!

> smily and pretty drumbot

> tim holding the mic like this makes me swoon

> and some silly group ones!!!

> this was vv fun, thanku !!

[idiotic-b-gilson]

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Asgore, my king, I’ve news to cheer you Your son yet lives, he’s drawing near you. And saved by those they blamed through fear Now he’s grown up into a man. You lived, and grieved you’d ne’er again see him, But still he came though feeling deceiving, So recognise, embrace and believe him. And you may yet save your world.

This paraphrase of Ben Below's/Drumbot Brian's words in "The Hanged Man Rusts" by The Mechanisms I decided a few days back that it shall accompany my posting of the completed spritesheet. Now you know. And since I did put it here, that obviously means...

Feast your eyes on my boy!

Seems like yesterday I was a little bit too pessimistic about the melty Asriel sprites timeline. Too tired from drawing the other sprites of the day perhaps? Regardless, while I'm not ruling out making pixel corrections here and there, for what it's worth I completed the proper part of the work and I'm mostly satisfied with it. Thanks for following this journey!

Undertale by Robert F. "Radiation" Fox from @fwugradiation (finally tagged the man. Let's see if it gets me in trouble lol)

Tale Of The Living Prince by riel from @sukifoof

Once more, shoutout to @hatbeemo for the helpful adult Azzy spritesheet

And if you're a fan of transparency, a version of the spritesheet with the background removed is down below!