#hk47

[legends-expo]

Triumphant declaration: the meatbags organizing Legends Consortium successfully executed a meet-up for Legends cosplayers in Los Angeles yesterday. I attempted to organize the other type of execution, but my Master and his meatbag partner were not on board.

Join us in celebrating the Expanded Universe at LegendsCon in Burbank, California on September 9th & 10th 2023!

[darthasterisk]

A good 15 or so pages in the photobook are devoted to a bunch of my robot/droid figures. This one shows the smallest scale (1/18th) with the largest in the collection (1/6th). Also, Bioware faves 🖤

(Though this figure is HK-50, I edited it to match HK-47's colors)

Orignally posted: June 24, 2018

Figures:

3.75" Hasbro The Legacy Collection | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords | HK-50 | Released in 2009 (Build-A-Droid)

1/6th Scale ThreeZero | Mass Effect 3 | Legion | Released in 2015

See other pages from my Toy Photography Photobook

[fuckablerobotbracket]

[theabsentmindedwander]

[gaiussaidno]

hiii, hope you are doing well!

i'm kind of desperate for cash rn, so i'm opening up messy sketch commissions at the mo! thanks for taking a look! any questions, just ask!

[aquar-io]

hk47 says happy pride

[minyboy]

Statement: Just a simple droid here, ma'am. Nothing to see. Move along.

[torilaa]

Statement: To quell thoughts about my depression, I have found another holonet site called "YouTube."

Appreciation: The number of meatbags in this song brings me so much joy, Master.

Declaration: I hope you realize how much better I am than that rolling metal trash compactor.

[killerrobot-killingmatch]

Bracket 1, Round G, Attack 4

Skilled Assasins

Swordsmachine Propaganda

HK-47 Propaganda

[stew-chan]

heading out to malachor v anyone want anything before I accidentally change the galaxy for better or worse?

[esseastri]

the number of people who have put in the tags or replies the names of the droids I didn't put designations for because I was trying to be funny,,, nerds sure do like correcting people it's true and I forgot that

[legends-expo]

Knights of the Old Republic came out twenty years ago this month! Let's celebrate by posting your favorite memories, cosplay photos, art and more all month long with the tag #KOTORmonth!

Revan: @DairyBoy117 Bastila: @bekahsoka 📸@phantom_tdaves

[walkerwing]

doodles

nightclothes & lynx hk47 & pink

and some strange au about malak meets revan who from another world and his alek has died in the Mandalorian War

something like that👉🏻👈🏻

[cuteypahooty]

i think hk47 would support trans rights. he'd make fun of you for being transphobic. but he would probably also shit-talk organics for having to use meds and surgery to slowly transition

[deusvervewrites]

What I meant, is how should I plan the writing, like reading the manga or looking for inspiration in different stories?

Ah.

Generally, yes, I would suggest being familiar with the source material if you intend on changing it. Whether that's the anime or manga or binging the wiki is up to you--I personally have a the wiki and a fan translation of the manga up at all times for reference.

Now, over time and thanks to asks on this blog and my various projects, I've become extremely familiar with various parts of canon, but an encyclopedic knowledge is not required so long as you can quickly find any information you need.

This is important for a few reasons. Chiefly, many readers will be familiar with canon and will notice discrepancies, which can be both a good and bad thing. For example, I greatly enjoy using canon events as a form of Dramatic Irony, like in Haigha when the Hosu Noumu attack never happens.

Being familiar with canon is also important for characterization purposes. If you really know how a character acts in canon it's easier to know how they'll respond to changes, making their personalities feel more fleshed out.

(Note that something feeling fleshed out is not always the same as it actually being fleshed out. Both is better, but the first is all you strictly need, and you rarely want to only have the second.)

More crucially to this ask, it makes the planning easier.

I'm assuming if you're rewriting canon and asking about planning things out, you aren't strictly following the way that things went in canon, and are doing something closer to my fics, where I cascade a single change into many more. This is the reason I'm personally so acquainted with canon. Knowing how each event in canon led to others makes it easier to see how changing any event will change the rest.

For example, the League attacked the Forest Camp to discredit Heroes, to acquire Search, and to recruit Bakugou. Either the League could have gone after Ragdoll at any time (presumably, it's possible they couldn't find her, though that seems unlikely), but waited until the Training Camp so they could also deal a blow to UA's reputation and acquire Bakugou. And they only wanted Bakugou because of how the Sports Festival ended. In other words, if the League doesn't have a way to find the camp, doesn't want Bakugou, doesn't want Search, and/or doesn't care about UA, there is no Forest Camp Attack.

As for inspiration, it can come from anywhere. Canon, fanfic, other works of media, random things you see in your day-to-day life, literally anywhere. I generally recommend that writers read lots of things--not just fanfic, either, but consume all kinds of media--to see more plots, narrative voices, technical writing, pacing, etc.

You can learn so, so much by reading books or watching tv or movies or playing games that don't even seem related to what you're actually planning on writing.

For example, here's HK47 in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 teaching you how to kill superheroes Jedi

I'm not sure looking for inspiration is necessarily the best way to put it. I find that ideas are fickle things, much like cats. They rarely show themselves when you actively seek them out, but come to you on their own terms.

The more stories you read/watch/play, the more familiar you will be with storytelling and common narrative beats, and the easier it will be to see the connections between ideas. This is as true with fanfic as with any canon material.

Here's a practical example. As of writing this, I'm running a series of polls titled Let's Make A Shonen! where I had various selections of tropes, settings, and plot devices necessary to create the barebones of a hypothetical shonen series. At the end of which, I'll write up the plot synopsis of the resulting series. At this moment, Magic is winning the Power System poll by a landslide at more than twice the second-place option, and in the How Does The Protagonist Learn Their Powers poll, the front-runner is the the powers themselves are sentient.

With about 50 hours left in the poll, I've agonized a bit over how I wanted to combine these plot points, before the answer came to me. Magacite from Final Fantasy 6--where Espers are turned into crystal upon death which can be used as a means of summoning that Esper or to teach magic to the party member equipped with that Magacite. By taking this idea and tweaking it, I can fit it neatly into place as the combination of those two polls, and by extreme coincidence I can tie it into several other polls as well, such as the main antagonist being The Government and the first arc being a Fetch Quest. The protagonist needs to get the Legally-Distinct-Magacite before the government does. Easy.

This is something I'd never have thought of if I hadn't known about the plot of Final Fantasy 6, which, while overlapping, isn't a shonen at all.

[cinderedrose]

I don't know what to ask, but I desperately want to know about HK-24, so...

Share anything that is spinning around in your mind about him? Or just answer whatever you hoped to get questions about.

BARK ABDK BARK TELLING YOU ABOUT WRAITH. He really likes his name because he chose it, and his character arc is becoming a person

Anyway he's a rebuilt hk24 series assassin droid. They were a discontinued line produced by czerka. There's more information here:

Anyway, we (my partner and I, as he did create wraith) headcannon that HK47 was heavily inspired by this line of droids, and Revan most likely used pieces of them to build hk47. Wraith was one of these, he was dismantled and left alive with only one protocol left;

Survive

Eventually, he is found by my boyfriend's other character Orathorian, a force sensitive mandalorian, and he was rebuilt and utilized as a personal companion and aid late into the war. Orathorian never changed Wraith's protocol, which led to him being a bit unique, as organics kinda have a similar thing yaknow. The instinct to survive.

The two are good friends and Oreo (Orathorian) builds a small crew since he's a mercenary n all that. Wraith is the absolute bitchiest angriest droid ever, and his favorite thing to do is insult people. Because so much of him was damaged, including his behavior core, he is nothing like other hk24 units. He is an independent droid and completely lacks a restraining bolt. He developed a personality and bias, because nothing is stopping him from doing so.

Anyway eventually Oreo adopts a son by the name of Cyrus. He's about 16 and has the most intense beef with hk units ever thanks to HK47 threatening to murder him all the time (he was technically a prisoner of war taken by my amnesiac revan in taris, though the two built a friendship that went down in flames before Oreo adopted cyrus. I have an even bigger yap about that.)

The two absolutely *loathe* each other. Wraith *despises* organics and already barely tolerates Oreo's boyfriend and his boyfriend's partner. He did not want another organic on the ship, especially not one that's pathetic and bleeding everywhere. Cyrus saw droids as less than, and was a bit racist toward Wraith, who is a proud advocate for droid rights and an admirer of HK-01. More info here:

However, wraith and Cyrus begin to grow on each other. Wraith respects Oreo and Oreo respects his stupid death wish child. Cyrus does prove to be a very capable young boy, being trained for the mandalorian wars since infancy only to join the jedi civil war as a child soldier upon having no purpose. He is also a hiding force sensitive, another long yap but he's untrained but learned to use the force to survive as an infant due to extreme neglect. His force sensitivity causes Cyrus to be hardier, and harder to take down due to a higher pain tolerance. He's evidently capable.

Anyway Cyrus took a power grid to the heart and fucking died. (He actually got electrocuted by Revan real bad) but that wasn't permanent. He got fixed with a cybernetic engine that circulates blood and keeps it flowing. Another very long yap but this is important for later. Wraith memorized the schematics to this cybernetic engine heart thing, and he brings Cyrus coloring books and snacks and other things he may possibly need throughout recovery because he's the epitome of mixed messages and isn't heartless. Why not leave the pathetic organic some fruit while you insult him so bad he cries.

Now I'm really focused on their developing friendship, because Cyrus and Wraith are closer than anyone else in that crew.

Cyrus was a very unstable child, absolutely riddled with mental health issues among other things (wow who knew growing up in the barracks was damaging) and so wraith got assigned Babysitting Duty. Cyrus was batshit insane, had zero sense of self preservation, and absolutely lost it whenever Oreo went somewhere without him. Wraith kept Cyrus alive.

Yada Yada friendship. Cyrus doesn't sleep much, so he spends his nights with Wraith. He is a curious boy, wraith has answers. Wraith also replies to everything Cyrus says with cold logic, which Cyrus needs sometimes. The two get to know each other, wraith patches Cyrus up whenever he sprints into danger and gets injured, Cyrus is curious and presents his ideas to wraith who probably insults him. He is a half ton of angry metal, what do you expect. Anyway yeah. Wraith also has a habit of collecting data, and he downloaded cyrus' journal entries from his datapad dating all the way back to age 12, as well as his narrative writing, poems, and story ideas. Wraith learned a lot about the nasty organic. He also scans and stores copies of cyrus' drawings. He learned from it all.

He also spent so much time with cyrus that he, a droid programmed like an organic, started to become a person instead of a machine. It all kicked into gear when he was walking on a path with Cyrus, and they saw a flower that Cyrus found pretty. Wraith proceeds to bend down, and with his hands built solely for slaughter, picks the flower with utmost gentleness and care and gives it to his friend. It was a small gesture, yet it screamed so much more. It was a chosen decision motivated solely because his friend glanced at the flower for a second longer than the others and he wanted to be nice. Idk man. Most droids can't do that.

I've never actually written this out beyond sporadic text messages with my boyfriend but yeah this friendship absolutely spirals. Wraith becomes a person who *feels*. He cares for his friend, he cares for his crew, he has bias and preference and passions and emotion. He gets sad because he knows his family will die. He gets sad knowing his kind is enslaved. He gets sad knowing he will never be understood, and he's so *afraid* of death. He's way more than just a discarded droid.

He and Cyrus repurposed the mandalorian kiss as a show of affection like a hug between them. Cyrus trusts wraith with his written soul, with his body (Cyrus is very protective, but he will let wraith repair his cybernetics and gossip with him as he's numbed and laying on his sterilized table, his chest agape before wraith. Wraith isn't a gossiper, but local anesthetic was easier than knocking the kid out and Cyrus needed a distraction before his insane death wish kicked in and he decided to try and run.) Wraith reveals bits of his past to Cyrus. Even though wraith still has an attitude, they are the best of friends and closer than anything. They trust each other more than anything. (Cyrus had taken apart wraith's body and put it back together to learn how he worked and know how to repair him).

So much for the disgusting organic title lmao. Wraith still thinks Cyrus is disgusting, but he does for everyone.

Cyrus will now fight for droid rights. Wraith fights for what Cyrus believes in now too.

Oh and remember how I mentioned wraith gets sad he will never be understood? Well, Cyrus is remarkably observant and always with wraith. He did his goddamn best to understand his friend, and this is why wraith is friendlier toward Cyrus. He gets Cyrus literally anything he needs or wants. Food, water, sugar, tampons (Cyrus is ftm, believe it or not wraith insulted him through his first period and dealt with it. Not fun but now Cyrus, my poor late starting boy, knows what that whole process is), condoms, coloring books, markers. You name it. Cyrus draws wraith and talks to wraith and even tries to comfort wraith when he acts different. It has a different effect, and wraith will never admit if it works or not, but Cyrus noted his eyes glow slightly brighter afterwards.

Like seriously these two are so close and always together. Wraith bails Cyrus out of uncomfortable social situations and looks like a weird protocol droid so nothing is suspicious in public, Cyrus holds wraith's hand and bangs his forehead on him and hugs wraith despite it being cold and uncomfortable. They duel even if Cyrus ends up bleeding internally or wraith gets so scorched he almost dies (Cyrus stole jedi books and learned pyrokinesis, as he did live on dantooine briefly but that and hiding his broken sensitivity is all he can really do until his boyfriend, an ex sith, trains him). They're absolutely brutal but it comes from love <3. After the whole near death experience with wraith, the two work together and repair him and make him more resistant to force attacks.

And its just like- ahwwhwjsnowns. When cyrus is older he engraves his clan symbol into wraith's shoulder because wraith is kin. Wraith gives Cyrus a little hk24 unit number tattoo behind his ear or on his wrist i havent decided lmao because he's also kin, just a machine of flesh and blood. Cyrus even engraves that number on his helmet when he's older and better equipped. Weird thing but they also hold their foreheads together when cyrus is feeling affectionate or needs some. Wraith probably even initiated once or twice..

Cyrus leaves notes in his room, wraith probably even wrote one back.

Wraith learned to create with feeling from Cyrus. He gave his friend a drawing.

A drawing! That *he* made. It's not copying a thing he saw, it was *art*

Agh i just love them so much. Wraith even keeps cyrus' fucking body parts like his dysfunctional flesh heart and random bone shards and ends up studying them, and learning to synthesize multiple human genomes and construct one from scratch. Also he's weird and wants a keepsake probably. Cyrus keeps pieces of wraith all the goddamn time.

And wraith is still a pissed off asshole the entire time 😭😭 he cares for this nasty organic but good lord if he breaks his collarbone or dents his cybernetics *one* more time-

Too bad Cyrus dies eventually and all wroath has are the notes and equipment left behind.

Lmfao. They're great. Enjoy the fucking novel i wrote.