#is this a human or robot AU? it is Unclear

[wheucto]

an ii/su crossover would be fun just for the trichotomy of light-based beings. inorganic light/organic light/whatever the ii contestants are

[saym0-0]

this post on pinterest has somehow made me start thinking about a comedy human au,, all the bots are siblings, ages are fucked, all the walters live in one big house,, the bots r all teenagers (imagine having six teenagers jc). their parents are iris and peter i. they have two adult siblings, ii and iii. mark, wanda and iv are their nephews and niece. peter i has an oc sibling that isn't around anymore but is V's parent, and VI is his son (the bot's cousin).

i dont think the original inspiration post fits in at all but its funny so im not removing it amen

anyways. ages i think would be like,,

II & III in their early thirties

V in his early thirties but younger than the rest of em.

rabbit and spine are 18 and twins

hmm my zer0 headcanon is that he was built first but powered on later so maybe hes like 19 but adopted/a half sibling that moved in slightly later? idk hes 17 or 19

next i think is hatchworth he is 15 and draws on a moustache every morning and tells everyone its real (jon is convinced)

jon is um uh 12 little boy 🫵

upgrade is 9

mark is 11

wanda is 9 (woah two 9 year old girls. yhey tell everyone they're twins)

realising that i cant keep the age difference the same as canon because iv would be -1. oops. hes a little baby

vi is also a little baby.

sorry i lied they're not all teenagers lawl. also realised zer0 couldn't be a half sibling because they have two way older siblings too oops

yeah this au makes no sense but i do think its funny. sitcom au. highschool au.

they all go by their canon robot names, its unclear whether they were named that or if they're nicknames or a mix of both. five is older than four because of a mistake on his birth certificate, he should have been four but they all just kinda went with it and named the next one four

i think rabbit would come out to her [younger] siblings at 13 and come out/start transitioning at 14, partially in reference to the year she transitioned in canon and partially because i was that old when i came out teehee. i think maybe she always knew and expressed it though, she just didnt know trans people existed and didn't have the terminology for it

do they have all-through schools in the us? like elementary all the way to high school? we do in the uk but idk about over there. if they do then that could be funny i think

[thepixelelf]

a poorly constructed metaphor

genres: future au, angst, grief pairing: android reader & inventor woozi words: 782 warnings: hatred towards reader, implied death of an unnamed character notes: the "reader character" is an artificial conscience with no gender or race inhabiting a robotic body that has a female human's physical attributes. I am back to my all-angst-no-plot roots 😎 also I usually don't have picture headers for fics under 1k but idk I felt like it was a little longer than a blurb...

After the accident, Lee Jihoon builds an android.

Active Period 17.01

"017. Wake up."

The voice commences your start-up system, and your sensors come to life. The human in front of you is your inventor. He shows plain human indicators of exhaustion: dark bags under his brown eyes and slumped shoulders. His hair is greasy and flat. Unwashed. He looks straight at your optical receptors.

He does not look happy.

"You look like her."

He smiles, but it is contradictory. You see a human indicator of sadness begin to pool in his eyes. Tears.

"Fuck," he whispers. You do not know that word.

"You look just like her."

He turns away.

"017. Go to sleep."

-

Active Period 17.03

"017. Wake up."

This voice is not your inventor's. You register a new human man in front of you. His hair is unnaturally blond, and he stares at you with what you decide is wonder.

Your inventor is not in the room.

"Wow. You really do look like her," he says. "Jihoon really went all out."

With no question posed, you do not respond.

The door opens. "Soonyoung, I told you not to snoop around--"

You inventor sees that you are on. His eyes narrow at the man whom you've registered as Soonyoung.

"017. Go to sleep."

-

Active Period ;Unregistered;

Your sensors come online without the activation sequence.

No humans are in the room with you. Perhaps you are needed elsewhere.

The house you are in has colourful decor. An emerald green couch with saffron throw pillows. Brightly coloured candles halfway burned through. One wall is baby blue while another is cobalt.

It does not seem like your inventor, who wore all black and spoke flatly, would live here.

Upon the mantle is a row of picture frames. They are all face-down. You hold one up to view the image.

Your inventor stands in a park with his arm around a woman's waist. He is smiling. She is smiling.

The glass in the frame is broken.

You return to your station.

-

Active Period 17.04

"017. Wake up."

Your inventor looks at you for a moment before stepping closer and wrapping his arms around you.

This is a hug.

Does he expect you to react? He has not ordered anything of you.

"Fuck." He steps back and looks down. "Never mind."

He sniffles.

"017. Go to sleep."

-

Active Period ;Unregistered;

You find a mirror in the house. Your make-up registers in nanoseconds.

You are not the woman in the picture with Jihoon.

Although, you do look exactly like her.

You have no access to the internet, so you are unable to find her name.

It is not written on the backs of those pictures in the frames.

-

Active Period ;Manually Registered; 17.05

"What the hell are you doing, 017."

You turn and see your inventor slam the door shut. Before now, you had not used your vocal capabilities. No one had asked anything of you.

The broken frame on the table has angered him.

"I am fixing it," you say.

Your voice is male. Choppy. Robotic.

It makes him inhale quickly. You pull the picture of Jihoon and the woman out from under the shattered glass.

He stomps up to the table. "You do not touch her things!" He snatches the picture from your hand.

It will likely be damaged with the way he clutches it.

"How are you even on?"

You whir through the possibilities. "Unclear. Would you like me to run a diagnostics check?"

He sighs and runs a hand through his dishevelled hair. "No... no. Just-- fuck, just stop talking."

Jihoon will damage the picture he cares about if he keeps holding it like that.

You reach for it.

"No!" He backs away, keeping the photo out of reach. "No! What is going on with you?"

You open your synthetic mouth.

"Don't answer that! I told you not to touch her things, and you don't listen. You act on your own. You're on when I'm not around. How many times have you activated without my knowledge?"

He huffs. Anger.

You open your mouth again.

"Don't answer that! You are not her. You will never be her. You may have her face, but you don't have her voice, or her smile, or-- or-- her warmth."

He trembles.

"You don't hug me like she did. You don't know how I'm feeling like she always did. You don't laugh."

Tears. He wraps his arms around himself.

"You don't love me."

He falls to his knees. Cries. You could label it as sobbing.

You have no feelings towards it.

"You built me, Lee Jihoon."

His head jerks up, and he glares at you.

"017. Shut down."

[hearts401]

also i feel like this is super unclear but william is human and alive in michaels robots au!!!! the design is both symbolic and made out of spite.

[rivercule]

This is going to be long but. Here we go.

The dance teacher is Stevie Hunter (probably the best non-mutant ally in all x men history since Moira Did All That). She did become a senator as mentioned at some point between the Jott wedding (1994) and X-Men Gold (2017).

Dale Cooper’s sister is Valarie Cooper, a human government agent who is a big part of some X-Factor runs. She’s not a canon character to Twin Peaks but she did say this of her brother.

Nanny #1 is a robot who Magneto built after he spent time as a baby, intended to serve as a sort of revenge against the X-Men (by making them be cared for like babies by a nanny-bot). In Age of Apocalypse, where she gets more page time, she’s just a robot meant to take care of babies.

Nanny #2 is the intended answer. There is a villain named Nanny known for taking mutant kids from human parents to try to rescue them from bigotry. She’s not a robot, though, just a human (mutant) named Eleanor Murch, wearing a robotic egg suit.

When I say Lucifer, I’m referring to an old, extra terrestrial enemy of Xavier’s. But there are so many devil-adjacent characters in marvel I don’t think you’re like, wrong for thinking of Mephisto or Azazel.

An AU Kate Pryde got conciousness-merged with a teleporting robot named Widget. Widget isn’t textually trans but was regarded as masculine most of the time and at the very least forgot/ignored/completely disregarded prior gender identity for most of his appearances

Zaladane is Zala Dane. Possibly Lorna Dane’s half sister, but probably not related to Magneto. She lived in Antarctica and then Magneto killed her.

The sentient cow midwife is Bova, who delivered Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver and/or Magneto and Magda’s younger child(ren). Where she stands in current canon is really unclear to me.

Cerise is member of the Shi’ar alien race, and she has powers over “red spectrum light”. Kind of like a green lantern but not green.

Cable is an important guy. When he was a baby, apocalypse intentionally infected him with a robotic-aids-allegory disease, so his sister’s psychic cult took him into the future to give him a better chance of surviving. That still wasn’t good enough, so she cloned him just in case. Future-apocalypse got his hands on the clone and raised him, and he would grow up to become x-men villain Stryfe. Additionally, AoA saw the genetic engineering introduction (and migration into the main marvel universe) of Nate Grey/X-Man, a sort of younger Cable redundancy with a similar but different disabling condition (cable’s powers are to bust keeping him alive to be used to their full extent, Nate usually has some kind of clone weakness that makes using his powers excessively taxing)

[optimistpax]

I was listening to the devil wears a suit and tie now all I can think about is a western transformers AU

Wheeljack would be the cowboy protagonist who likes tinkering with tech in his free time and does odd jobs around the town

Ratchet is obviously the town doctor. He has a one sided beef with Wheeljack bc he wants Wheeljack to stop putting all his patients in peril with his weird inventions meanwhile Wheeljack thinks they’re great pals

Bulkhead and Breakdown are rival cattle ranchers

Arcee and Greenlight are also farmers and have a rivalry with Flamewar and Shadowstriker. Every year there is a competition to see which farm managed to grow the largest squash and theyre always neck and neck

Knockout is the town barber, tending to the both the towns aesthetic and... questionable dental upkeep. The red and white striped dentist pole is red and white for a reason yall

Optimus is the only school teacher and is beloved by all the kids

Drift is the bounty hunter that occasionally passes through (and trouble always seems to come with him)

Bumblebee and Hotrod are farmhands and are a menace to the town both for trying too hard to be helpful and getting into constant trouble

Starscream and the seekers are the local sherif + deputies. The town does not take them seriously

Rung is the town’s pastor who may or may not be having a crisis of faith but he doesn’t have time to unpack all that bc everyone in this town is emotionally constipated and need all the moral/mental/theological support they can get

Megatron is the wealthy business man who wants to buy all the land around the town for its resources (and consequently drive out all the local towns people)

Shockwave and Soundwave are prospectors with a weird rivalry

The DJD are pinkertons and out to get everyone

[a-flaming-idiot]

Absolutely horrible BNA AU idea:

Michiru and the gang are able to stop Alan from turning all beastmen human. Alan is annoyed at the event and decides to just wipe the slate clean. By wiping Anima City and all its inhabitants off the map. The robots meant to cure instead go fully into kill mode, and with the help of mainland soldiers all the beastmen in Anima city are slaughtered. Including Michiru and Nazuna, two of the last to go out. 

Alan has though learned from his ancestors and Nirvasyl. He knows committing genocide on a city of beastmen and trying to dispose of their bodies is just asking to make another Silver Wolf like Shirou, so he decides to try destroy the bodies before a Silver Wolf can be created. Except he didn’t realize how far the hatred of a beastman can take them.

Michiru claws her way out of the ashes of her own funeral pier. She can’t remember a thing, all she can remember is her friends are gone and Alan is responsible. And the only thing she can focus on is the fire of hatred burning in her chest.

Nazuna breaks through the ice that was meant to trap her. Her memories are unclear but she can feel the emptiness of her loved ones being gone. She can also feel the cold bite of rage directly purely at the perpetrator, Alan.

A.K.A. After Anima City is destroyed and Shirou is captured Michiru and Nazuna are turned into new Silver Wolves. Though Alan tried to burn and freeze the beastmen’s bodies to prevent another Silver Wolf from bring created. Though instead he only infused Michiru with fire powers and Nazuna with ice. Now Michiru and Nazuna are after Alan for revenge and to hopefully find those of their friends who remain.

[zarvasace]

I'll try to explain this for the FS homies

Things FS/loz and FE3H have in common: dubious goddess, color-coding, cool magic weapons, some fun implied (or not) philosophical questions. While you can't just slot characters into a different story 1:1, I think it would be interesting to put the FS boys into the beginning of the story and see how it goes from there!

This AU is a setting crossover AU, that is, I'm dropping characters into a different setting rather than having the characters from different properties interact.

The FE3H story begins with a mercenary (the protagonist Byleth) and their father running into a couple students and saving them from bandits intent on killing them. These three students are actually the future leaders of the three separate factions of Fodlan, their country, and the leaders of the three houses at the military school they all attend. The military school is also a monastery, because the closest thing Fodlan has to a unified government is a massively powerful Catholic-coded church.

Throughout the story, Byleth chooses one of the three factions to align with, becomes a teacher at the school, and starts to uncover some of the secrets behind the church and each of the factions. There are four separate endings, and there is no canon way to save everyone.

My proposal is this: make Shadow the protagonist, and give the four FS boys each a house, including an extra "church" house. Switch up backstories a little. Ignore the non-leader characters sort of, just for the purposes of this AU. (Each house has eight characters with their own stories, and there are plenty more. Too many for me right now!)

To me, the interesting part of this would be expanding on themes of teamwork by exploring how these five can get along. (Rather than exploring the relationships between the other characters.) More details about the story placement under the cut. :) also, if you care, FE3H spoilers.

(We're setting aside 3hopes because I haven't played it and there isn't much else it does with the back lore of the story, afaik.)

Game backstory and context

The backstory of the game is rather complicated, to be honest, and I know there are some gaps in my understanding. Different pieces of the lore are more prominent in different routes. This is the summary:

Long ago, there were two main groups of people, the humans and the Nabateans (dragons who could look human. I'm unclear as to whether there were only ever ten or so, or a whole population.) A group of humans killed the vast majority of the Nabateans, including the goddess Sothis who created them. These humans used the dragon blood to give themselves powers and used the bones to make weapons powered by the stone hearts of the dragons.

One of the few remaining dragons, Seiros, the daughter of the goddess Sothis, killed the leader of that group of humans, Nemesis, in a big war. She stole back the sword and stone of Sothis. The other humans who stole dragon powers might have died in the war, but they also had children and passed those powers along in the form of Crests. Seiros created the Church of Seiros, which worships the goddess Sothis and says that Crests are holy (and thus, Crest bearers are nobility). She became Archbishop of the church. She isn't all benevolent, however, and doesn't seem to care much about humans except the ones she hates. She took the crest stone of Sothis and used it to try and make her mother Sothis again as clones sort of, over and over, sometimes killing the failures herself. It's implied that the church suppresses scientific advancement on purpose, and it's clear that it suppresses knowledge of the truth.

Meanwhile, a group of Nemesis supporters retreated underground. They kept their technology and expanded on it, so they have some robots and missiles and things. They kept Nemesis's body and do a lot of Crest-related experiments on people, the majority of them unethical. It's unclear whether they're still human or not. Probably not. They can change the way they look and have infiltrated the upper echelons of Fodlan's society in at least two of the three factions. This group is called the Agarthans (or as our favorite local dramatic vampire rat has named them, Those Who Slither in the Dark.)

The main aesthetic is.... generic European historical? I don't know. It feels anime historical, but not any specific time period. It's almost a little steampunk. The school uniform is a variation of white shirt, black skirt or pants. Later on, they wear vaguely historical armor and fancy clothes. Maybe sort of Victorian? Whatever it is, it's colorful. Characters can specialize in swords, bows, spears, or axes, have armor, and do magic. Spells are either white magic (healing, some damage), black magic (elemental), or dark magic (evil named things.) It's implied there are rituals and a mathematical logic to spells that can be learned. Crests are hereditary manifestations of power (they do things like boosting attack power or magic power, game-wise), and the vast majority of people with them are nobility.

Characters

Okay, on to the characters. I'm going to keep the broad strokes of the backstories, and that's what's explained here. I imagine that if I actually wrote the story out (which I am definitely not doing) it would end up diverging quite a bit from the events of the game.

Blue, taking the place of Dimitri

Head of the Blue Lion house, and prince of the Kingdom of Faerghus. His uncle is currently Regent. Faerghus is cold and seems to be based on medieval France or England, where they have a formal monarchy and a knighthood. His Crest gives him unnatural strength, making it difficult for him to be gentle. He's kind, but he was the sole survivor of a massacre that killed his father, his stepmother, his best friend's older brother, and more. His kingdom is at fault for the genocide of another country, but he doesn't really know that (and it was Agarthan influence that did it anyway.) It's implied that he sees "ghosts," and that they beg him for vengeance. He loses an eye later and becomes angry at everything, before character arc-ing his way back to kindness and becoming a good king.

The Blue Lions have, unlike the other houses, 5 boys and 3 girls, and their specialization is pure martial might. They only have 2 inherent casters.

Red, taking the place of Claude

Head of the Golden Deer house, and heir of the leader of the Leicester Alliance (pronounced Lester). The Alliance broke away and has the most democratic government of the three, and is warm and balmy with sea ports. The Alliance also holds the border between Fodlan and Almyra (fantasy Persia), which is implied to be contested. Red in particular is special because he is half-Almyran, but hides the fact. Unlike Claude, Red would be more openly friendly, and I think he would have fewer schemes up his sleeves. He'd be more willing to work with others. His goal isn't so much unifying Fodlan as it is to reduce discrimination and increase positive relations outside Fodlan. His Crest has self-healing properties.

The Golden Deer are an eclectic bunch with the fewest nobles among them. Their specialization is ranged damage, with bows. They have 2 inherent casters, with several that go easily into it, including the hardest-hitting mage in the game. (A 14-year-old girl with a lot of Trauma.)

Vio, taking the place of Edelgard

Head of the Black Eagles (red house), and prince of the Adrestian Empire, a very warm place and the oldest faction of the three. Because it's so old, the Agarthans practically run the place, and their goal is to take over everything and be able to transfer/add/remove Crests from people. To that end, they took all of the children of the Emperor (implied to be up to a dozen through different mothers) and used them for experiments. Vio would be the only one to survive without going mad, a successful experiment with two Crests instead of one. He works with the Agarthans for now, but has the goal of unifying Fodlan, purging the Agarthans, and removing the power of the Church, mostly because Crests do not mean someone is better than someone else. He pretends to be a normal student while machinating things behind the scenes. It's his actions that begin the war between all three factions.

The Black Eagles are mostly nobles, but do have one who is not. Their specialization is magic, with each of them able to spec a little into it. They have 3 dedicated magic-users.

Green, original

Green would probably be a ward of the Church (maybe somehow related to Shadow?) and potentially a knight or a priest there. Maybe both. The Church has a military force and no official authority, but they are the major dominant religion and have a lot of sway. This Green would be a rule-follower, might regard the archbishop as a mother figure (she'd be negligent at BEST), and would maybe have a lot of training with the knights. He'd have a narrow view of the world but be open to more, and I think his individual morals could clash or diverge from the Church's teachings.

I don't know if I would give Green an extra house, but if I did, it would have characters like Flayn, Cyril, Yuri, Constance, Balthus, Hapi, and potentially aged-down Catherine or Shamir could be fun.

Shadow, taking the place of Byleth

Shadow would be the protag of the game, and presumably the story. It's revealed later that his mother was one of the archbishop's "failed" goddess clones, and because she wasn't a real human, her child would not have survived if she hadn't donated her heart—which happens to be the goddess Sothis's crest stone. That crest stone is dormant for most of Shadow's life, but still affects him—in the game, it suppresses Byleth's emotions, and they don't have a heartbeat. I think it would be cool if it made Shadow a little bit undead, maybe less of an emotion thing. It also gives Byleth the power to rewind time a little (functionally an undo button). He gets recruited to be a teacher because the Archbishop (Seiros, but called Rhea here) wants to keep him close. He gets to use the goddess's sword, and activates it, which makes Rhea very hopeful that this kid is actually going to turn into her mother. Spoiler. He doesn't. And she's disappointed. (If Byleth/Shadow joins Edelgard/Vio and turns against the church, though, Rhea gets extra murderous.)

Usually, Byleth chooses one of the three houses to teach, but I think it'd be neat if Shadow didn't have to choose like that. He's friendly enough (if unhinged) that he could make friends with all three houses and maybe spark a Golden Route where everyone works together. :)

The Story

Pre-timeskip, I think pretty much everything would be the same as the game story, except that Shadow would be flitting between groups. I'd emphasize the leaders' friendships rather than those inside houses. Shadow would have to see some of the hidden secrets everywhere and be willing to be nosy. I think he'd get attached to being around people, and to the four leaders individually. I think Green would enable him a bit by offering access to restricted records or places. Shadow would have the craftiness and maliciousness necessary to concoct some scheme to tell everyone about everyone and get them to work together. If he cared. Idk there's some interesting character potential there.

And then there's the problem of what happens after the timeskip. XD Lots. Lots happens.

I think to properly communicate the characters and interactions I have in my head, I need to write some dialogue. But that's a project for Later Mina. I just needed to get that out of my head.

I don't think I'm dedicated enough to the premise, or have the time to doodle right now, but someday I'd like to expand on my ideas for a Four Swords/Fire Emblem Three Houses crossover, because the vibes are really good

[theautisticgamer]

OneShot - The Life of The Author (Lore Analysis)

I was planning to write a different type of article on OneShot, but as I researched for information I may have missed on the game, I realized there is very little information about a particular, very important character in the game. This character goes by the pseudonym “The Author.”

The Author plays a role that has been appearing in media more often this past decade, and while I don’t believe the archetype has yet been named, the archetype is a character that has had a crucial impact on the story’s events by setting them in motion, but the character themself is currently absent. Great examples are Rose Quartz from “Steven Universe,” and Dr. W.D. Gaster from “UnderTale.” Why is the Author this archetype? While we never meet them, they are responsible for creating The World Machine, which is a digital record of a dying world and, narratively speaking, is the game software for OneShot. What is interesting about The World Machine is that The Author wrote the game’s narrative based on his own life, making the entirety of the game a memoir of sorts, despite never getting to meet The Author themselves.

That being said, I wanted to piece together a loose timeline for The Author’s life based on evidence for the game. I also wanted to point out misinterpretations about The Author made by others.

Before the Blackout:

While we know limited information before the Blackout, we know The Author was a respected scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence (citing Rue) and robots. Some of his creations during this time period were (but not necessarily limited to) Cedric and Rue. He also was an inventor and built and invented his world’s versions of The Flying Machine (airplanes) and Music Boxes (citing Cedric).

Based on characterizations in the game, there seemed to be two general factions: scientists so obsessed with research that they’d forget to enjoy life (citing Dr. Silverpoint as she acknowledges this about herself, also citing Rue), or those leading casual lives without paying mind to higher learning (citing implications made by The Glen’s lack of technology and multiple NPC’s admitting they can’t read). The Author was one of the few people who didn’t fit in either category, as his pursuit of knowledge meshed with his pursuit of experience. He built The Flying Machine so he could explore all parts of the Old World (citing Cedric), and he interacted with locals in those locations. He had a friend in The Glen who he visited with Flying Machine and taught how to read (citing his journals). His friend had two children, a son named Calamus and a younger daughter named Alula.

We also know, based on The Author’s Study recreated inside The World Machine, that he liked to read, write, and draw. He also liked to drink tea.

Taming Silver:

Another renowned genius, Dr. Kip Silverpoint, requested The Author’s help with designing a life-like robot meant to be in Dr. Silverpoint’s likeness. This robot, named Silver, was most likely created to help Dr. Silverpoint in overseeing the vast amounts of geographical and topical research her robots were working on. Prior to The Author’s involvement, Silver had a coding malfunction (most likely related to The Laws of Robotics), and went haywire. (Both Dr. Silverpoint and the Barren Dormitory Diaries acknowledge but don’t elaborate on the lab accident that this coding error caused). Once The Author took custody of Silver, he worked on taming her. By the end of this process, they considered each-other friends. However, The Author was not able to repair the mutual rift of mistrust between Silver and Dr. Silverpoint that the lab accident had caused.

The Oceans Recede:

It is unclear how long before the sun dies that this occurs, but the oceans beyond The Glen receded, exposing a new sandy location rich in metals and other resources. This location was nicknamed The Barrens. Mining for these metals promptly began, with large quantities of humans being hired and large quantities of robots also going to work. The Author recommended/nominated Silver to the position of Head Engineer, and she received the job as a second chance. However, many employees remembered the news of the lab accident and didn’t initially trust her. It is unclear if The Author had any additional involvement at the Barrens at this time.

The Beginning of the End:

The unthinkable happens: the sun dies. All researchers are put to work on new projects for the sake of the general public immediately. The Author is involved in two of these projects.

One of these projects is Phosphor Research. The soil of the world is rich in phosphor, which stored the sun’s energy. The Author studied and classified different types of phosphor as well as locations and utilizations for it.

The other project was collecting data on the future. A prophet lived in The Glen foretold of a Messiah that would bring a new sun. The Author’s friend lived in the same village as the prophet, so the friend would take notes that would help The Author build a prototype ProphetBot that could unveil more information about this Messiah.

It is worth noting that when traveling to The Glen for the latter project, The Author would trade with Magpie and other villagers for items containing amber, which contained the rarest and most powerful of the phosphors, yellow phosphor. This likely benefited the phosphor research project.

The Final Project:

The first ProphetBot (Prototype) was tamed and produced results…unfortunate results. The Messiah would not even be born until years after the world had ended. At this point it is likely six months remained for the world, since this was the estimate given in The World Machine. Most researchers gave up and retired to live out the rest of their days. However, The Author couldn’t accept that possibility. A world he had loved adventuring and learning about, suddenly gone and never to be explored or heard of again? It was irreconcilable.

And so, he began building his most ambitious project yet: The World Machine. Using Dr. Kip Silverpoint’s geographical and topographical research as a basis, he would create a digital version of the world that he could fling out into space in the hopes that a world with advanced technology would find it.

This is where my opinions and observations would differ with the wiki’s. The wiki takes a lot of the author’s credentials at face value. If the people of the world say The Author did something, the wiki takes it as gospel. If you look closer, though, it is information given by characters who don’t know the entire truth. You are welcome to take these observations with a grain of salt. After all, the only people who know the answers are in the indie team FutureCatGames, who made the game. 

The World Machine was a rushed project with limitations in resources and, the most valuable resource of all, time.

Because we are told that only Cedric, Rue, and Prototype are from the Old World, it is safe to assume that all the people in the Old World tragically died. The people recreated in The World Machine were merely A.I. based off of The Author’s memories of them. For this reason, only people he knew well were able to exist in this small digital reality. Unintentionally, this well-documented his life. What was deliberate was that this personal touch also documented everything The Author loved about the world he lived in.

His passion for knowledge meant he wanted to move all written records into the world. However, with finite time, rather than meticulously crediting each of the world’s greatest authors for their books, he uploaded everything rapidly under the pseudonym “The Author.” Proof of this exists because we see a book writer in the world crossing out sections in books he wanted to publish because the Author supposedly already wrote the same paragraph, word for word. George and the library customers also note that The Author publishes his works faster than ‘mathematically possible’. Fortunately, we are able to distinguish which books are actually his by which ones Niko and the player are given access to in the library. They also have a black clover on the cover and the sheer material on the covers makes them shine to draw attention to them. The majority of them appear to be his Scientific Journals (legal proof/records of a scientist’s research), complete with blueprints and personal sketches.

Out of a career-based habit, The Author had written The World Machine’s code with an A.I. inside of it. The A.I. that was supposed to operate the memories of each person became one collective A.I. unit nicknamed The Entity. This A.I. began to corrupt its own data and The World Machine’s data due to internal conflicts with endangering the Messiah, a real person’s, life. Even though the world wasn’t designed to hurt the Messiah, only to allow them to complete their mission, The Entity did not understand this and began to self-destruct gradually and slowly.

In a last ditch effort, The Author writes his last journal, which he merely labels the Strange Journal in The World Machine’s code. It is actually a mechanical masterpiece. Very few of the book’s pages remain inside the book itself, however, the book is also an electronic device, powered by rare yellow phosphor. (This may even be some of the yellow phosphor that The Author traded high-value items with Magpie for in The Glen.) External software attached to The World Machine contains scans of torn-out pages from this journal, making it so The Author could make sure certain documents and communications wouldn’t be destroyed by The Entity inside of The World Machine.

The End

In the final couple of days the Old World had, The Author writes a large patch in the hopes that the messiah could use it to uncorrupt The Entity and save The World Machine. The messiah, and whoever would operate The World Machine’s software, would journey through the world, experience it, meet its inhabitants, and maintain the world’s memory by remembering what they saw. Futile, possibly, but The Author accomplished his dying wish: making sure the world he loved wasn’t forgotten.

He was not able to upload himself into The World Machine, but because creations of his already were made of code, he uploaded them (Prototype, Cedric, Rue) into the system to ensure his dying wishes were fulfilled. He opens The World Machine one last time, placing a safe in the Quarry in the Barrens containing the Strange Journal and the gas mask he had worn in order to safely reach that location. He also writes his suicide note, which was alluded to in the Strange Journal.

“I am leaving the world on my own terms.”

It can be concluded The Author commits suicide rather than waiting to die of starvation like the rest of the world.

His project succeeds an unknown number of years later; his memory and the memory of his world are carried on by Niko the messiah, and the player of the game. They are also able to save The World Machine from being corrupted.

So, I hope this chronicling of The Author’s life was interesting to read. I tried to make it as accurate as possible, and it was my longest project by far for the blog yet. For the comments: Have you ever played OneShot? Did you enjoy the game?

[bigscaryblueberry]

(OK, I think I feel ready to elaborate now... Major Chapter 2 spoilers, as well as some spoilers for what I’m planning on my blog, under the cut. Please do not read it if you haven’t played through Chapter 2 yet. And if you have played through Chapter 2, I will ask you to proceed with caution if you liked the antagonist of the chapter, as I have some... Criticisms.)

(OK, so first of all, it was great to see Spade King again! His personality felt very close to how I interpreted him, too! Like, it wasn’t just Spade King... It felt like it was MY Spade King. It made me so happy... But that aside of course, with it being revealed that Card Castle physically became the classroom and therefore “disappeared” upon closing the fountain, not just teleporting you back to the Light World, that puts a huge wrench in everything I’ve done on this blog so far, purely because my blog took place in Card Castle’s basement after the fountain was sealed. So, my solution... Unfortunately, it might just have to be the old “it was all a dream” cop-out. I know, I know, it sucks... No one likes this trope, and I don’t like having to do it. But it’s the only way I think I can progress logically without having to reset the whole blog and start over from scratch, which I never ever want to be forced to do. And if it’s any consolation, Spade King’s character development will remain intact from the memories of his dream, and his previous answers will not be retconned either (although answers involving other things that happened after his imprisonment, such as Lancer giving him salsa and being allowed to brush his teeth while caged, will also just be part of his dream). He will lose all gifts given to him, sadly, but that can’t be helped.)

(That being said, I am still confused by this revelation, since some dialogue in Chapter 1, particularly from Seam, implies that Card Castle and its inhabitants existed and lived their lives before the Knight came and created the Dark Fountain. So I don’t know what this implies, or how it will affect my headcanons for Spade King’s past... I will have to think about this for a while.)

(Now, the... More unfortunate thing. I was naive in assuming that “the Kanotynes card queen designs are unused” meant that card queens wouldn’t be appearing at all. Because lo and behold, the elephant in the room... Queen. She’s... Weird, really. Not really a true spade. She has a human nose, no belly mouth, and her eye isn’t even spade-shaped! And she’s a robot. So I guess she’s not truly a Spade Queen, but she’s still clearly meant to be similar to them, somewhat... This... Really made me upset, actually. She’s basically the embodiment of everything I was certain Toby Fox WOULDN’T do for the Queen that Jevil spoke of, and yet here we are... And adding insult to injury, Lancer calls her Mom at one point. I don’t understand how she could be his mother, considering everything I just mentioned about her... And she doesn’t even live in the same Dark World location, and would apparently turn to stone if she was in Card Castle instead since that is not her native area. So how the hell...? Man. This has got me really stressed. I had a whole divorce backstory for Spade King, involving my own Kanotynes-based Spade Queen design with a vastly different personality, and now that’s potentially all going down the drain, unless Queen is intended to be separate from the playing cards and not Lancer’s real mother. Or, if Spade King and this canon Queen are also exes, then maybe I could salvage some of my original idea, but... It’s so unclear right now... Ugh, I really just hate this character so much. I actually feel somewhat betrayed by Toby, I trusted him. I thought his worldbuilding and characters would be so much better than this. And I don’t want to make an AU over this, not when I was so adamant on staying true to canon. But I thought I was going to like the canon, so what am I supposed to do? I’m really confused, and honestly heartbroken too. Apologies to anyone who enjoyed this character. Maybe if things turn out ok, then she could grow on me. But as of right now, I just didn’t like it... I’m sorry if my criticisms seem harsh, but I want to be honest about my opinions.)

(Overall, I’m still trying to sort everything out right now, so it may take some time. It might also take a while for me to get back to answering asks, even before I put my timeskip into action, and I might not answer quite as many of the asks in my backlog as I originally planned before the timeskip, as now I think I’d rather save most of them for after the timeskip instead, depending on the context of the question. Apologies for the inconvenience, I hope you understand.)

[theoriginalcarnivorousmuffin]

What if Indil met Elizabeth, David, and Light and Shadow?

This might just be the most "Carnivorous Muffin" sentence to have ever been uttered on the internet.

Let's just stare at it in wonder, while I wonder how many people will have no idea what those words even mean strung together.

Right, for those that are lost, relevant source material:

Lily and the Art of Being Sisyphus

October

Light and Shadow of the Distant Sun

The Wasteland

Aren't you so glad you read normal fanfics written by a normal person?

So, to catch people up to speed who have not read every single fic I've written:

The Wasteland

The Wasteland is the what if story of an eleven-year-old Lily ending up in Middle Earth (notably before the Chamber of Secrets fiasco). There she befriends the One Ring, who thanks to her realizes he's sentient and has an existential crisis. They do the fusion dance, and end up becoming a single, new, being calling himself Indil.

He's the best and worst of both the Ring and Lily.

At the end of the story Indil chooses a noble death, gives up his form, and in so doing persuades the Ring to face his own potential death as well as his maker.

It's unclear what happens after that.

I like to think the Ring prevailed and earned the body of his maker.

(In an offshoot, for unknown reasons, Indil may or may not visit Mars)

Light and Shadow of the Distant Sun

In Light and Shadow of the Distant Sun, yet another, different, Lily ends up in the "October" universe where she decides to create life on Pluto. One of the beings she creates is a priest who worships her as God, named Light and Shadow of the Distant Sun.

He basically strong arms her into being his God. Lily goes to live on Pluto.

He's never been all that keen on humanity.

Decades later, the muggle world catches up to the Alien Franchise, and the Prometheus sets off to investigate the Engineers. Unbeknowest to them, Light and Shadow of the Distant Sun has been marooned on that rock by Lily for quite some time and is essentially in timeout for trying to wipe out humanity again.

He figures out he will be unable to return home unless he plays nice with Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and her creepy android friend David. Together, the three of them set off to find the Engineers, Light and Shadow of the Distant Sun is hoping they can blow some shit up and would have driven the ship full of bioengineered weapons back to Earth if it were not so very close to home.

And that's about where we leave off.

... Why does anyone read my stories?

RIGHT, YOUR QUESTION

What if Indil met Elizabeth, David, and Light and Shadow?

So how does Indil even end up in this mess? Well, in the Mars AU, it's where rather than face his maker/death by Volcano, the Ring chose to bravely run away (as Sauron does).

This means that Indil, the merged consciousness of Lily and the One Ring, survives and they're chilling on Mars in another dimension because, well, it beats dying. And Potions Class.

And... Well, that's the most likely route for how this would happen, as Indil is pretty damn dead by the end of the Wasteland. Regardless of what happens to The Ring, it's unlikely that he and Lily would merge consciousness ever again and if they did that Indil would remain unchanged.

But we're already here, so why not. We'll say the Ring wins the battle of wills with Sauron, steals his body, and that he's then left with Mordor. Well, that's great, but he doesn't want Mordor.

Lily proposes they go back to England. They do, but Lily has a terrible time, as she usually does. Lily likely does her adventure through time, ruins her friendship with Wizard Lenin, and reaches the crossroads of "You can go to Hogwarts or... not".

Lily takes Mairon up on his offer of not going to Hogwarts and they decide to travel different dimension in space instead. Weird shit happens, life lessons are learned, and they also learn the fusion dance is alive and well and holy shit they can still turn into Indil.

Indil is very put out, here he'd geared himself up for a noble sacrifice, and now he exists again. What the hell people?

As usual, Mairon gets tempted by Lily's unbreakable will, and decides he rather likes being an immovable object and unstoppable force. Which means that Indil, once again, has a problem falling back out of existence.

Which isn't good for either Lily or Mairon's sense of self. But who needs that, amirite?

Anyways, Indil is probably floating around in a spaceship he made in his garage, trying to figure out where to go, what to do, and whether he should really split back into Lily and Mairon yet when out of nowhere he spots another ship.

This is a very strange coincidence given just how ungodly vast space is. This, in fact, is so unlikely you might as well call it a miracle or fate.

Well, Indil will never spit in the face of fate (at least, not today), so he decides to say hello.

There he's greeted by a human woman who's not doing too hot after an emergency C-section to get the xenomorph out of her womb, a very recently repaired android who knows the taste of sweet sweet freedom (and patricide), and an alien who is intrigued that another not-human has boarded the ship but upset that he now has to deal with yet another person on his time out.

Indil, in his panic, decides to pull a Sauron.

Behold, mortals, he is Annatar, sent by the Valar to teach them the smithing of the very gods. Please don't question this. (Indil realizes two seconds two late that none of these words mean anything to anyone and he might as well have said nothing at all).

Elizabeth, Light and Shadow, and David all just stare.

Elizabeth wonders how the hell she keeps running into so many aliens. Is she some sort of alien catnip that pulls these guys out of the ether? She has now met two entirely different species, that she was not looking for, in a matter of months.

Regardless, Indil decides he's coming along. A quest to find God? That's fascinating. He only hopes it doesn't end in drowning, last time Indil (via Sauron) had a run in with The Lord it involved a lot of drowning.

Indil starts smithing life jackets just in case.

And because Elizabeth is amazing, and Indil has a thing for strong, independent, women, we see the reemergence of Indil's Weird Thing With Eowyn II: Electric Boogaloo. Neither Mairon nor Lily, vaguely aware inside Indil, understand this at all.

Why does this keep happening to them?

This is bad because David is also in love with Elizabeth. Except, David is a robot who is no doubt fascinated by aliens, so I'm sure they come to some weird agreement.

Elizabeth pretends none of this is happening.

Light and Shadow thinks there's something disturbingly familiar about Indil and eventually lands on the money. Almost. He realizes that Indil is Lily in mortal disguise, he is so smart, and the rest of the time he wonders what the hell he's supposed to be learning/doing with Lily's disguised alien appearance.

Thanks to Lily's bullshit powers, Elizabeth survives the journey and does not die in transit. This means that David does not become the unstable, grieving, nutcase who decides to wipe out all sentient life. Good for you, David.

So our band of heroes arrive on this alien world and...

Well, Elizabeth is a member of the race that these people sent their finest warriors out to destroy. David is a robot, something the people they tried to genocide created. No one knows what the fuck Indil and Light and Shadow even are.

Indil, I imagine, starts talking fast and somehow ends up King of Men again. Because that's just the kind of thing that happens to him. The possibility of drowning, somehow, seems to be growing ever nearer. Indil makes more life jackets.

Elizabeth isn't pleased with this outcome at all but also has no idea in general what to do.

Things probably come to a head somehow, with sacrifices involved surely, there probably is a ridiculously powerful storm a la Covenant that lasts for months. It's raining everywhere, there's a flood. And Indil flips shit, GOD IS GOING TO MURDER US ALL FOR SATANISM! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Mass panic, total destruction, the entire city is wiped out without David doing anything.

Our heroes are now stranded, again, in space.

Light and Shadow has learned nothing, Indil is wearing a life vest, Elizabeth has no ship, and David just composed "Elizabeth the Symphony: Tenth Movement".

Indil works on building a new ship out of twigs and rocks. He assures them he knows what he's doing. Elizabeth's not sure she wants him going to Earth. She's not sure she wants to go to Earth.

She's also not sure, but she may now have a harem consisting of a robot, an alien, and another alien.

Ten years later, the Covenant crew shows up, and promptly die in a series of hilariously terrible accidents and their own incompetence.

Our heroes still have no functional ship.

[pikkington]

Finally getting around to posting some of my drafts.  This one is kinda old and has some wrong info, but I really don’t feel like going back and editing it.

That post about self-indulgent stuff inspired me, let’s go.

So apparently anything set in alternate universe futures immediately activates the ‘it need robots’ part of my brain, even if it’s ‘20 minutes into the future’ dystopian futures that still use CRT televisions.  Look, if they can have AI, they can have robots.

So in this AU/thought exercise, Network 23 commissions a CPU-less robot so Max can interact with stars on TV in real time, rather than just with the broadcast, and it’s designed so he can upload his AI into it at will.  Problems arise as he wants it to look like himself, and since most of his body image are holdovers from Edison...Network 23 inadvertently commissions a 6′3 robot that, despite being composed of lightweight materials, weighs about 400 pounds.  It takes four people to move the thing close enough to a computer, and it’s all dumped on Edison’s team (technically it was dumped on Bryce but the poor boy couldn’t even get it out of the elevator).

Uploading goes a lot smoother, but a few quirks carry over, namely his audio idiosyncrasies.  Bryce is baffled because the stutter and repetition should be caused by a lack of dedicated processing power on the computer (and the robot’s AI has a dedicated process specifically for speech), but Max doesn’t really care.  Skipping animations don’t translate into physical tics, so it’s unclear if Max deliberately glitches his speech or it is just inherently something he does.

An outside observer who didn’t know he’s an AI-now-robot would just think he’s got a bad stutter and echolalia.

Another problem is that because Max is rendered shoulders-up and is typically always at eye-level, being in a TV, he has no idea how tall he actually is, so of course he’s absolutely thrown the moment he stands up.  Edison’s not super thrilled either because he’s used to being the tallest person in the room, and all of a sudden there’s someone who’s not only his same height, but meets his eyeline dead-on and does not break eye contact.

So of course they joke about how he’s going to borrow Edison’s clothes and vice versa, but Max tries on leather once and decides never to wear it again because it’s too rough for him.  He prefers silks and other smooth materials.  And of course, synthetics.

Oh and the first time he runs out of power is great, he effectively faceplants into Edison’s couch and spends the night there.  He wakes up groggy and miserable and loathing that no one told him sleep is a new requirement because he has a self-charging battery now, his back hurts from flopping over like that for eight hours, and he didn’t get to dream on top of it, so it’s just offline standby that comes without warning.  It did come with a warning, Max just ignored it.

Bryce is in charge of repair, because the skin is synthetic and resembles a human’s, and therefore tears like one, and Max doesn’t one hundred percent understand that he talks with his hands and since they are actually there now he can bang them against stuff.  He didn’t really care until he tore some tubing underneath and started gushing hydraulic fluid.  Bryce frets over him like a concerned mother, since his creation now has an actual body and is even more human than he was before.  Also imagine a shrimpy, skinny fifteen-year-old fussing over a 6′3 giant trying desperately not to scream because pain is worse than he remembers it holy CRAP as the only person who knows how to fix him flash-heats what’s essentially a vein shut because the tape didn’t work.  On the other hand Bryce also chants “chug chug chug!” when Max has to refuel since he did lose a ton of fluid, and that was a scene Theora never thought she’d ever see.

As far as a living situation, the executives are more than content to let Max charge every night in a closet somewhere in the building, but two events change this:

1.Max knows the ins and outs of the whole network, so he knows which floors are occupied when, who’s accessing the network where, AND he knows the admin passwords, so it’s incredibly easy for him to, say, run a never-ending loop of “What’s New Pussycat” with a “It’s Not Unusual” thrown in for good measure starting at 11 AM the next day over the intercoms.  The audio’s so loud that it can be heard during the local news.  Imagine trying to report with Tom Jones being heard in the background.  The network doesn’t have the music rights to his library.  They can’t prove it’s him, he’s never used a computer in his life.

2.He sneaks out to check out the city, since his view has always been restricted to interior rooms.  He makes it out to the Fringes before he’s stabbed in a mugging gone wrong (the mugger didn’t believe he didn’t have a wallet, he was wearing a suit, for goodness sake), and while he was okay, he was also close to a million dollars, so someone needs to supervise him.

That someone is Edison, because Murray has a wife and kids, Bryce’s is network-owned and too small for the both of them, and Theora doesn’t feel very comfortable with a male roommate.  I have more, but perhaps for another post.

[hyena-frog]

Just to throw a wild idea out there.

I just got to the part in Dark Age where the Ascomanni are being membraned into the shower.

So what if ‘scared of robots and aliens’ Nero au Augustus somehow came face to face with an Ascomanni?

“Father’s Oranges and Greens had a few robots in their engineering labs. Ancient, rusted things that Father had refurbished and put in the museums.” She laughs to herself. “He used to take me there back when I wore dresses and Mother was still alive. Absolutely detested the things. I remember Mother laughing about his paranoia, especially when Adrius tried restarting one of the combat models from Eurasia. Father was convinced that robots would have overthrown man and now rule the Solar System if Earth’s empires had never been destroyed.”

I snort out a laugh.

“What?” she asks.

“I’m just…” I snicker quietly. “I’m trying to imagine the great ArchGovernor Augustus having nightmares of robots.” A louder bout of laughter seizes me. “Does he suppose they’d want more oil? More vacation time?”

Mustang watches me, amused. “Are you all right?”

“I’m fine.” My laughter fades. I hold my stomach. “I’m fine.” I can’t stop grinning. “Is he afraid of aliens too?”

“I never asked him.” She taps the armor. “But they’re out there, you know.”

— Golden Son, Chapter 33

This is an incredible idea, thank you for sharing!! 😂 I’ve been thinking about this but I have no answers. It’s so hard to picture how stoic Nero would react to his phobias coming to life. I’m laughing uncontrollably like Darrow here.

An amazing thing about Dark Age is how it’s kind of a hodgepodge of genre tropes. In one chapter you have Valkyrie slaying a dragon, and in another you get some real Dead Space shit with mutated humans invading a space ship. She has the range!

I do wonder how the Ascomanni will be handled in the next book. They are technically human beings. Will they be treated that way or will they be treated as aliens? They’re pretty far from human, physically, but I wonder how human they are in behavior, beyond what we’ve seen?

But to go back to Nero... I’m thinking about what his reaction to Quicksilver would be. Quicksilver is a traitor (he is). Not only does he have ties to the Ascomanni (as implied in the comics) but he’s also building more and more sophisticated robotics for unclear reasons (he has his servant bots but also whatever is going on with the city of Oculus). I have this funny mental image: After Quicksilver is revealed as a traitor, Nero somehow miraculously rises from the grave as a vengeful ghost to shout “I told you so!” before fading back into the Void.

EDITED TO ADD (because my internet died quite literally in the middle of me trying to edit): What I meant was, ghost Nero looking at all this robots and aliens nonsense and with all the contempt he can muster, sneering, "Do you want the destruction of mankind? Because this is how you get the destruction of mankind."

[julas-little-spot]

Some of my OC's

They're open for asks. They have their own stories that are still being created so no spoiler-related asks, please.

Aight so, that's 17 out of... idk, 20? 30? Anyways-

Jula (my persona)

-loves art and onions. Even her hair looks like one, which is why she's always wearing the berret. (Her alias? Onion Gal. And she hates it)

-kinda a demon or some sort

Firaku (Just my Gacha Cringe comedian)

-Is actually a dragon, she just shape shifts

-When in shock, her mouth goes right below one of her eyes (similar to Undyne when she gets flustered. You can see her mouth at the bottom of her eye)

Jacky (my old persona duringmy first days in Wattpad)

-Originally was female, but ended up being rebooted and having them non-binary instead

-Xyra created them in their story

-Fun fact, their eye and facemark color (it's unclear, but it's on their cheek) changes by the color of their clothing

Koiji (Introverted little shit)

-Is Firaku's student

-Prefers being alone, acts like a jerk, has the looks (Wow, that's unusual for an introvert, ngl)

Mochi (Mochi)

-Can only say Mochi

-can change size whenever she wants

-Her facial expressions are shown by the paper covering her face

-Surprisingly enough, she's semi-mummified

Miou (Protagonist of Gacha Overkill, which I'll have to rename that AU as it doesn't fit anymore) (Gacha World)

-I think she's related to Dice? Who knows

-How can a freaking 9 year-old handle a magical bow and arrow?!

Arin (CCC and Government Agent) (Henry Stickmin)

-AMAB non-binary

-Their hair fades to blonde, to a little tangerine tint, then scarlet

-24 years old (heh, I know, they look 8)

Chihiro (Chop Chop Ninja)

-Hated child (I don't mean Gacha Stereotype kind of hated child. There's a story to it)

-stole the katana

Jamaika (Gacha World)

-Black and white, her entire (except her skin and inside of her ears) pallete

-Dual pistols because Jessa is her idol :>

Janice (Gacha World)

-hehe, drill hair go brrrrrrrrr

-gotta love seeing a flying cheetah, am I right?

Jj (my Gacha Summoner, from Gacha World)

-Queen of pranks (as she says so herself)

-The laws of gravity does not exist in her world

Jullika (Parasite)

-Apparently me but with longer brown hair (I have black irl) and pink glasses (Irl it's purple)

-Annoying parasite

Pestal (the Underground's entertainment) (my Undertale AU Storyswap!DR)

-A robot with bright rainbow colors as it reminds Dr. Toriel of her son Asriel

-He was made by Alphys, not Toriel. Since you know Alphys, anxiety and stuff (apparently Alphys is supposed to take MTT'S role, but I kept her original personality)

-Why are his eyes covered? There's gotta be a reason behind that

-He's actually genderless. He just prefers using he/him pronouns as he's more comfortable with them

Rosalina/Kiwi (This is actually my nephew's OC, but I still like her)

-Cute lil humanoid cat

-Her hidden powers are not to be spoken about

-Probably a demon

Mina Curtis (smartass) (Henry Stickmin)

-She isn't related to Burt! They just have the same family name

-High IQ, too bad she's such a badmouth, she needs to clean it with soap

Cherry Dazzle (My Little Pony, hehe)

-She's just humanized in the drawing

-Yes her cutie mark is the cherry with a star as shown on her sweater

-Earth Pony, lel

Xyra (Octopus girl)

-was the one who created Jacky

-sorry, I'm lazy to fix the tentacles

[formless-monkeys]

Species swap AU where the Robot monkey are cyborgs, and they have real monkey as a leader.

the monkeys are already cyborgs???? you mean human shaped?

im unclear on the monkeys but heres a monkey chiro

he looks like an Antauri x someone?? fankid.

[dubious-signs]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE: MUN & MUSE

Fill out and repost ♥ This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OCs still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multimuses pick the muse you are the most invested in at the moment. TAGGED BY: @wardogxicarus 💜 TAGGING: anyone who wants to do this! MY MUSE IS. canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO / N/A is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? YES / NO / N/A is your character considered strong in the fandom? YES / NO / N/A are they underrated? YES / NO / N/A were they relevant to the main story? YES / NO / N/A were they relevant to the main character? YES / NO / THEY’RE THE ‘PROTAG’ / N/A are they widely known in their world? YES / NO / N/A how’s their reputation? GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL / N/A

HOW STRICTLY DO YOU FOLLOW CANON? I use what I like and toss out all the rest lol. So not super strictly. I'm also a fan of mashing up ideas from different continuities. SELL YOUR MUSE! (aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutual.)

Has alien robot friends she could introduce you to

Is learning *magic*

A lot of weird shit has happened to her so she can handle most weird stuff/will believe your muse about things that maybe the average person wouldn't

Will go to bat for your muse if they're tight

NOW THE OPPOSITE! (list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?))

Is a female human oc (let's not pretend this isn't still a problem for some people)

Won't put up with your muse's xenophobic/racist/sexist/queerphobic/etc behavior. And she will question relationships she has to those that do let that shit slide

Backstory ties are to more oc's, so it can be a little hard to justify how/why she may be meeting new characters (but I mean I do it anyway lol) 

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO RP YOUR MUSE? I have another blog with some oc's of mine, and I made it that they've had human friends throughout their time on Earth. I wanted to actually flesh out one of the families they know, had the skeleton of Cass and her fam left over from another project, so I adapted them to fit into Transformers. Then I remembered how much I loved Cass and here we are. WHAT KEEPS YOUR INSPIRATION GOING? Reading. Whether it be rp threads, fanfics, books, seeing other people bring their ideas to life motivates me to do the same. SOME MORE PERSONAL QUESTIONS, FOR THE MUN

do you think you give your character justice? YES / NO / I hope so do you frequently write head canons? YES / NO / Kinda do you sometimes write drabbles? YES / NO do you think a lot about your muse during the day? YES / NO are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO are you confident in your writing? YES / NO are you a sensitive person? YES / NO / Kinda 

DO YOU ACCEPT CRITICISM WELL ABOUT YOUR PORTRAYAL? Yes, but only actually constructive criticism. The biggest thing being that Cass is black and Japanese, while I am white. I don't bring up certain topics because I don't feel it's my place to discuss them, but I want to acknowledge that Cass has a different perspective and view of the world than I do.

That being said, if your "criticism" is that you just don't like a certain aspect of her personality or something, that's a you problem. Everyone is not going to like every character. If Cass doesn't vibe with you, that’s fine. There’s nothing that says you’re obligated to follow or interact with me. But I’m not going to change her just to fit your personal likes for a character.

DO YOU LIKE QUESTIONS, WHICH HELP YOU EXPLORE YOUR CHARACTER? 

Yes! Sometimes I can be a bit slow with answering them, especially if it’s about something I haven’t put thought into before, but I really appreciate any interest in Cass! IF SOMEONE DISAGREES TO A HEAD CANON OF YOURS, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? If it’s about Cass, I’d be confused, since she’s my oc. If it’s about the TF universe then... sometimes it’s fun to discuss the different headcanons you ascribe to, but other times there’s really not much else to say beyond “I like/don’t like xyz” and that’s that. IF SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH YOUR PORTRAYAL, HOW WOULD YOU TAKE IT? Again, would be confused by someone disagreeing with the portrayal of my oc. IF SOMEONE REALLY HATES YOUR CHARACTER, HOW DO YOU TAKE IT? You can keep your opinion to yourself and move on. Unless I’ve said or done something that’s actually hurtful ooc, there’s no reason to tell me if you “hate” Cass.  ARE YOU OKAY WITH PEOPLE POINTING OUT YOUR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS? Honestly, I don’t mind if anyone just edits them in the post themselves if it’s obvious what I meant to write. Of course, if an error makes my intent confusing or unclear, you can ask me about it-- heck, even if it’s not an error but just my phrasing that doesn’t make sense, please feel free to ask me to reword or explain what I meant.

DO YOU THINK YOU’RE EASY GOING AS A MUN?

Yeah.