#he's Johnny d'ville

[starry-teacup]

so Johnny has canonically committed every crime known to man except for the sexual ones, right? And I know that he always assumed it was just a thing carmilla had built into him. but I like to imagine that he's sex-repulsed ace. this fact has never crossed his mind ever

[uboacore]

Guys called Jonny/Johnnie who die and then come back because they find being dead boring

[gancholadh]

ive always had the theory that johnny keeps seeing marius die, due to some wonky time shit on the aurora he keeps turning the corner in a hallway and seeing marius get devoured and it happenes so many times he cant bring himself to care so he starts timing it and thats how we know how long it takes

thinking about the period of time between the mechanisms performing DTTM and their deaths actually occurring...

thinking about how the mechanisms know how they die but they might not know when they die or in what order.

thinking about them trying to prevent each other's deaths. none of them wants to be the last to go.

raphaella begs the others not to leave marius alone on the ship. tim refuses to leave ashes's side in the hopes he can stop the accident from happening. brian pilots them around pockets of temporal instability and away from backwater asteroids. marius pleads with ivy not to retire. nobody talks about how they die in front of the toy soldier. they don't want to make it sad.

jonny selfishly seeks out bar fights, hoping this time it will finally be the one, and he won't have to watch his friends disappear one by one until a milllenia has passed since the last time he laughed. even if the others mourn him, he doesn't want to still be alive when the rest of his crew are all gone.

none of them know for sure who dies first, but they all know who they don't want it to be, and they all hope it's themselves instead.

[mechanismslorearchive]

Heyo, I have a kinda meta question about The Bifrost Incident:

Is it really Jonny D'Ville as Lyfrassir Edda narrating or rather Jonathan Sims as Lyfrassir Edda?

Cause I every other album it's specifically Jonny narrating and then playing some roles along the way. But in TBI Jonathan introduces himself as Lyfrassir Edda and narrates from 1st person perspective, while Jonny mostly narrated from a 3rd person perspective. And while Johnny's narration is more all-knowing, Lyf is discovering things through the Black Box. I propose that it's either Lyf found by the mechanisms and forced/nicely asked to tell their tale or it is a recording from Lyf found by the mechs.

Is there any further info on this?

It's the second, basically-- in the Bifrost Incident Debut, Jonny says that he is repeating Lyf's report as recorded on the Black Box "verbatim." Theoretically, the Mechs in-character have that recording Lyf made and are simply repeating it, but it is pretty explicitly d'Ville playing Lyf. I'd guess the shift from the other albums is one of the things they did as they were experimenting with style in The Bifrost Incident!

[nefkyology]

The fact I only discovered The Mechanisms a few weeks ago is criminal. Not just because the lyrics and the beats are straight fire, but because all the members went on to do some amazing stuff!

Also, do you guys ever think about the potential for Jon, yes the character from The Magnus Archives not Tumblr user Johnny Waistcoat, performing as Jonny d'Ville in his university years?

Imagine Elias getting into Martin's head to idk, put him against Jon by showing him his past, but instead of seeing him being an asshole, he stumbles into a memory of him on stage, dressed in an edgy steampunk attire that collides simultaneously with renfair fashion, singing about space pirates and dead gods. The slow burn would've lasted from the start to the end of Our Boy Jack, just those two minutes I'm telling you.

[arktixx]

Hiya! Can we see Jay Merrick and Johnny D'ville trading Tims?

They just thought theyd have a smoke until (the other) Tim and Jay came back, but suddenly Johnnys talking about his cannibalistic tendencies? Tims so confused, he just wants to be back with normal people.

Meanwhile Tim and Jay are having a splendid time taking pictures and videos of random things. Wait, where do the pictures and videos that Tim takes go?

They didnt give him a place for them to go :(

[voidselfshipp]

The//mechanisms s/I.

"Glittering gold and good Friends,Call me sentimental if youd like Jhonny,but thats all I need"-Jerico "Merchant" Castro in Tales To Be Told.

"And of course,our lovely co singer Jerico Castro,the merchant"

[Crowd woos louder than they did to johnny]

"Really?" Said Jon,a little annoyed and pretty much miffed that he isnt the centre of attention.

"Cant share the spotlight,captain?"

"Honey,you could be right Next to the sun and id still stare at you" -Jhonny D'vill and Jerico "Merchant" Castro in the mechanisms last concert,2020.

" [...] "Who the bloody hell thought leaving Jerico and Nastya alone was a good idea?!"

"They said they wanted a girls night!"

"THE WHOLE DAMN SHIPP HAS MAKE UP ON"

"Die mad about it, Jhonny" -Gunpowder Tim and Jhonny D'vill about Nastya Rasputina and Jerico "Merchant" Castro. In Tales To Be Told vol2. "

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>ONLY MUTUALS ALLOWED TO REBLOG.

[jewishdainix]

Wait jonny sims voice of jon sims tma is also jonny sims voice of Johnny d'ville mechanisms??? Fine, I guess ill listen to the mechanisms (has already listened to udad)

JDJEJS yeah he is!! A few other voice actors from tma are also there!

[unhinged-izzy-hands-posting]

I think one reason I fixated on Izzy so hard may be that he hit me right in the Johnny d'Ville obsession

Absolute bastard First Mate who does NOT have rights (except for when he does)

[blazeismyname]

Hold on, I made my friend Lillaby make a list

Ok, here's her list:

"Well from what I've gathered it's a very queer musical story about mythology, space pirates, and evil kings.

Johnny D'ville is kinda like the narrator in instances.

He went from an innocent guy to a traumatized guy.

Another thing to mention, I can't keep up with the amount of topics this fandom covers. LIKE- GREEK MYTHOLOGY, ALICE AND WONDERLAND, ETC! There's soooo much to it I can't even keep up with it.

In the songs I've listened to they consume a lot of beer and alchohol-

there was also somebody who offered Johnny a cigar when he was tryna convince him to kill his father.

Probably shoulda mentioned this earlier: THERE'S A LOT OF DEATH.

The main cause being super mega bad King Cole. He's an evil king who captures people.

So in summary: Lore. Also gay. Very very very gay."

This is all her words that I've turned into a easy to consume list

The Mechanisms from someone who has never listened to The Mechanisms

There's an album where it's all the brothers Grimm fairy tales but now it's futuristic space fantasy and war crimes

gay space pirates

There is a sentient ship

The sentient ship and it's engineer are in a gay wlw relationship

Things keep going into the sun apperantly

Some dude forgets trans people exist, this causes problems

There's a character named like, tinker toyman or something

Everyone dies all the time

In Ulysses dies at dawn, Ulysses dies at dawn

If you have a mythology, congrats its mechanisms now

Everything is a mechanisms reference, you're gay? Mechanisms refrence

More gay people

The ship goes into the sun, everyone dies this may happen more than once I don't know

The Ship x Engineer Yuri gets broken up tragically

Seriously forgetting trans people exist causes more problems then you'd think

[sw33t-oubliette]

idk what fucked up media ur getting into this time but im giving u hugs when ur done. or before ur done. whenever u read this ask. i love you/a

OKAYSO im trying to get into the mechanisms specifically death to the mechanisms im barely following anything going on but i fuckibg love johnny d'ville .he killed his dad

[sparrownnax]

instead of a "the mechs were Jon's college band" thing it's a "Jon just happens to share a name with the guy who plays Johnny D'Ville and nobody will let him live it down"

[iwillsithereandtrytocontribute]

I like to imagine that Johnny isn't in the jail cell during Lyf's visit to the jail cell in the Bifrost Incident because he was either in solitary confinement or someone killed him (again) both are because they got tired of him.

[the-suns-a-tube]

as i have previously stated.

Jonny is Johnny. Jonny is the Devil. he plays both parts(Jonny D'ville, get it)

Nastya and Marius behind him, aggressively fiddle battling.

The mechs could have done so much with devil went down to georgia

[silverbld]

Expert Testimony by The Mechanisms:

[shitty-mechs-headcannons]

"johnny" d'ville doesn't know what sex is, but jonny d'ville fucks.

Look I get simping for him, he is after all feral and emotionally damaged but don't lie to yourself he absolutely does not