#ii springy bots

[leederpfucker]

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

Tumblr shall fight The Unvitational Committee

Here's how it's going to work:

I will give you guys a member and give you guys a polls, asking you what you think your chances are when it comes to fighting them. These polls will last a week to get the most votes. We're starting with Groscer and ending with Boaty. Ballpoint Pen will be a 1 day bonus. At the end of the poll I will gather the final results and make a tier list about the chances Tumblr believes they have at fighting TUC.

THE RULES:

When picking your option, PLEASE KEEP IT REALISTIC TO YOUR ABILITIES. I want to make this as accurate to II Tumblr's abilities

That's it for actual rules

Please be sure to spread the polls around so I can get more votes and more accurate results

And with all that said

LET THE MATCH BEGIN

[ask-the-unvitational-committee]

[Walkie Talkie is open for asks!]

[The Springy Bots are open for asks!]

[Tyler Bombard is open for asks!]

[Sprinkles is open for asks!]

[Groscer is open for asks!]

[Dr. Fizz is open for asks!]

[Camera 1 is open for asks!]

[Camera 2 is open for asks!]

[Zoetrope is open for asks!]

[Ballpoint Pen is.....open? For asks..?]

[Springy and Springy!Bot are nowhere to be found]

[maxphilippa]

you try too hard.

maybe that's why you make other people uncomfortable.

[bowtastlc]

Alright watch me speed run post these arts hahahaha

[legendling]

Silly concept that @lybelulacony got me thinking about So Fast hehehe

[emmkitt]

inanimate insanity pixel arts for….. something…

if youre in the oscc server you already know what these are for

[dicediceking]

Hey umm can you make art of the Springtube au? The one that thebaddexample created? You don't have to I just think it would look cool in your style hhhhh

This is definitely a very interesting au. I'd love to see more!

@thebaddexample

[smile-files]

i almost forgot i was right in the middle of the ii3 finale???? more analysis with context from ii16. this is a long one!!

how springy talks about spring-bot like an itty bitty baby is reminiscent of how cobs infantilizes mephone and how bot themselves is also kind of infantilized... there's a point here about how having consciously created someone makes them feel like less of a person and more of an object in relation to you, with less human agency. you're the parent, and they're your child. the dual definition of "child" as both offspring and youth really plays a part here. even if your creation is mature, they'll always be a child to you, if you know what i mean.

interestingly, springy singles spring-bot out from the other spring-toys. as we know now, there is something more "real" about bot than the other contestants in that they weren't created by mephone, in that they are consciously aware of their creation and purpose and can thus choose their own path in that context. springy has fixated on bot ever since they first interacted; does springy somehow know they're the one exception?

and speaking of exceptions, bot is one of the only two nonbinary characters on the show, and given how they only came out as such right when the only other one was eliminated (paintbrush), they went on to feel really alone in that for a while; this is tied into the symbol that is bot being, well, a robot, which they are also alone in. bot had a whole speech to n/a about how both of them are "the only one of their kind" in a sense, and how there should be more of them, but for now they can find solace in the other people who'll support them anyway.

but springy is artificially making more of bot's kind, more robots artificially aware of being robots, more symbolically queer people. springy is terribly misunderstanding what makes bot special: they weren't programmed to be nonbinary, or programmed to be self-aware, or programmed to behave like someone aware of the fact that they were programmed... no, that's something bot did themselves. bot could've chosen to live forever under the guise of bow, under the guise of their "purpose"; but who bot is as a person, everything springy fixates on and fetishizes and wants to recreate, is everything bot wasn't created to be.

"i wish this was a mask!" ...bot realized they were being forced to wear the "mask" of bow, being forced to fulfill a "purpose", and was able to choose who they were because of that realization. but springy is denying that his purpose is any different from who he is: it isn't a mask he puts on. according to him, springy is indistinguishable from his purpose. springy idolizes bot's self-discovery, but doesn't believe in the agency behind it - and so springy wants to artificially recreate it without any agency involved...

...but in trying to do so, springy is undermining that self-discovery entirely. they clearly desire the ability to defy purpose, but they simultaneously submit to it, and thereby see purpose as a worthy means to an end: just as test tube and fan imposed the purpose of "being bow" on bot, springy is imposing the purpose of "being bot" on spring-bot.

springy is still caught up in the idea of "purpose", even if he thinks that idea is bad, something especially apparent when he begs for approval of having fulfilled his purpose of being helpful and making others smile.

springy, following their interaction with cabby about spring-bot, realizes they can be more than just their purpose; however, as the spring-toys were made while springy was still following his original purpose, and were thus made to take down mephone, they still obey walkie talkie in doing so.

in this episode, walkie talkie and springy talk a lot about their own "purpose", what they were "built" to do. there are a lot of implications that these two were also created by mephone, though definitely not consciously; they're more so projections of some of his inner desires, like having the show continue indefinitely or having it be lucrative (and treating the contestants like "toys" in a sense).

springy takes pride in being more than just his purpose; walkie talkie, meanwhile, takes pride in still having her purpose and still fulfilling it.

as walkie is antagonistic toward mephone, he immediately assumes she's working for steve cobs -- which is strikingly similar to his accusation of toilet working for cobs. toilet wasn't antagonistic, no, but he was incredibly annoying to mephone; and we know from the ii14 ending scene, and with the current context, that toilet was made by mephone (as he was attacked by mephone x and presumably deleted). walkie, too, was made by mephone; we get this thru-line here of mephone despising people who bother him, people who are really extensions of himself... people who want to defy what they were made for, but have difficulty doing that...

really, we don't know how much mephone knows now; he knows that, to some extent, these people's purposes revolve around him, but i'm not sure if he'd be fully clued into the fact that he made them. in any event, this is all a troubling revelation to him.

weirdly, while the other spring-toys deactivate when walkie talkie is turned off, the toy version of bot doesn't. well, given how spring-bot was programmed to defy programming, one would expect that it wouldn't "obey" being stopped. it's funny: effectively, spring-bot is more obedient to purpose/programming than the other spring-toys, because of its unnuanced defiance.

who is springy saying this to? spring-bot... or himself? he's sacrificing himself to save mephone, truly defying his purpose of being self-serving; he's ultimately choosing who he wants to be. we don't see spring-bot for the rest of the episode, so it's unclear what happens with it.

interestingly, though springy was created by mephone, mephone had to make a melife icon for them: springy didn't automatically have one. perhaps mephone technically has the capacity to regenerate anyone he creates, but he only naturally has the option to do so for his contestants? cuz reasonably, they'd be the ones dying over and over in his challenges?

at the same time, though, didn't dough turn into a ghost because he died before mephone created a melife icon for him? my theory is the following: if a person mephone creates dies before having a melife icon, mephone has a short window of time to create their icon and regenerate them before it's too late, at which point they'd die permanently and turn into a ghost.

balloon seems surprised that mephone's able to recover a non-contestant; as it is, now that mephone knows he can do so (on account of what walkie said), he does do so.

mephone comparing himself to cobs!! his seasons as his creations!!! something something that cool "we both reached for the gun" ii amv. you know.

i love how ambiguous his wording is here. "responsible [...] for these guys" could mean anything from mephone being in charge of their safety and happiness to being the reason they exist. and he's saying he's "responsible" for more than just his contestants, and that he "can help them, too"; does "them" refer to his contestants, or to whatever it is he's referring to aside from his contestants? is that folks like walkie talkie, springy, toilet, etc? those non-contestants he made and whom he knows revolve around him, even if he doesn't know directly that he created them? so many double-meanings here.

...

i've been able to understand the unvitational committee a lot more this time around, especially walkie talkie and springy; knowing their motivations and "purpose" in the context of ii16 makes it a lot more meaningful. the ii3 finale overall was pretty well-written i believe! not my favorite part of the season, but it wrapped it up pretty well, i think.

i must apologize to ii3! i used to be so negative about it all... but it's actually pretty darn good. very flawed in a lot of ways, certainly, and those flaws make me very mad (the way the show treated bot and cabby in particular), but the season overall is enjoyable and fascinating, and it fits into the lore very well :) love you ii3!!

[birb-chirpn]

day 2 of drawing characters I’ve never drawn before until ii 18

And I also have a few bonus drawings (some are a bit old)

[winger]

ugly springy sketches (idk how to draw him help) and some bot stuff frim school again. decided to draw my fave characters (airy and bot) togetherrrr!!!!! YAAAYYYY!!!! i know the dialogue sucks i am not a writer guy i do not write i do not understand characyers .don’t get mad….

editing photos to look cooler is fun ^-^

[inanimateinsanitystuffzbecos]

can you draw clover kissing bot while springy taking pictures?

I never said I’d do art request but why not 🤷‍♀️

here you go

Springy is so hard to draw 😭😭😭

Sillyyy

[leederpfucker]

Would you guys be interested in me doing "Tumblr VS. The Unvitational Committee" polls. Like, I give you a member and then make a poll asking you guys if you think you can beat the featured member, and when I've gotten all the members down, I'll make a tier list showing the highest result for each member (I'm so sorry if this is poorly explained; please ask me questions if you're confused). Example of what I mean before the cut (it's my own personal tier FT. Me VS. II villains and (most) antags

[phonification]

II16 SPOILERS!!

ITS THEORY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

about the big reveals, to what extent is the show made by mephone? aside from all the contestants, what about the islands where the competitions took place? what about non contestants like the uninvitationals, ballpoint pen, spoiled lemon, springy, ect?

FOR STARTERS, the reveal that 3gs actually ended up getting one of the eggs and how the whole mission happened was AMAZING!!!! after that its most likely that cobs is using the egg as a source of energy to power things like Melife and the rest of his creations.

so like, we know mp4 was the first mephone after the egg discovery, so what if cobs tried harvesting its energy/soul into his latest creation at the time, mephone4, but since this was his first time doing it, he went overboard and gave him too much power? mabye thats where his "gift" comes from..? after mephone ran away, i guess he decided against killing him and put everything in place to watch how far mephones abilities went??

we know that mephone knew everything that he had to do to set up a reality show, most likely from all of the shows watched during his time at meeple.. so mabye he consciously knew that the show was made by him, its was HIS. but he had no idea to the EXTENT of the things he created. subconsciously, mabye his system/mind is in way part mecanic but powered by organic energy from the egg? or just specific parts function on that energy? because whatever energy/soul they got from the egg had an influence in the subconscious creation of the show, i have no idea where else the egg looking mountains from the shimmer home planet wouldve come from if it wasnt that LOL (and it could explain why mephone was affected by the wailing from the other shimmer egg back in hatching the plan and mepad wasnt)

id guess cobs learned how to calcute how much energy he had to put into the future mephones to balance out their abilities, said abilities given by the energy of the egg being stuff like mepads teleportation, melife, mephones portals, and maaabye the item generation thing?? (if mepad also had "shimmer energy" in my system, mabye he wasnt glitching because he doesnt have that much of a dosis of it??? GOD THIS IS CONFUSING SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF HERE AUGH)

i have no idea what mephonex's deal is though. how the fuck is he doing that. all we know is that: he isnt physically there (i think), attacks via hallucinations and can uninanimate objects ...? i think it might be a weird thing with cobs messing with mephones head and it leaking into the other contestants???????? please give me your thoughts . im stumped . PLEASE

aside from that!! GOOD LORD THE FORESHADOWING WAS INSANE!! i think its really neat that cabby was most likely the most aware of her apparent memory loss, no one has actually realized up to this point unless its pointed out to them, I CANT WAIT FOR THE REST TO FIND OUT!!! IF THEY EVER LIVE TO HEAR IT!!!!!!!!

OH AND THE GLITCHES!!!

IM so hyped

[maxphilippa]

did an edit because episode 18 part 1 hurted me.

leopard - jackstauber

[solar93-osc]

GUYS. BOT WAS MEPHONES FAVOURITE CONTESTANT. THAT WAS A WHOLE THING IN SEASON 3.

bot was mephones favourite. they're the only true contestant xe didn't make. the only one whom xe had no clue how they were going to act. its why xe protected them so much from springy, very likely another of xer creations - because they were the only one xe could truly have fun with without xer guilt.

bot was mephones favourite. is that also why springy, a strip of mephone's conscious in his own right, was so attached to them? are all of the contestants based on an archetype of mephone? is springy xer possessiveness?

bot was mephones favourite. they were the only one xe could do a true show with.

they're the only one that's real.

[jewelofgems]

Alternate Ending to III 19[Tw: Blood]

No I will not stop the Hazbin references

[Reblog to spread this cursed thing]