#malware Ben 10

[whatudottu]

Something something cerebrocrustacean headcanons, yada yada Dr Psychobos is not immune to the in-group bias

He's doing the one thing Azmuth did not do, viewing Malware as a son with special needs Dr Psychobos is fully willing to support :P

[lepre-chauns-autistic-palooza]

I'm back

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malware

[bloodmoon24]

Malware: Is this your favorite alien, Ben Tennyson? Well…not anymore…

[ohyeahben10]

Thinking about Psychobos' role in a Gwen 10 universe that has Zennith in Azmuth's role is especially interesting because Psychobos' entire motivation in the Prime universe boiled down to its essentials is basically just "First Thinker-senpai didn't notice me and I'm so pissed about it I'm going to swear revenge on his entire species and become better than him by any means necessary purely out of spite".

Given how Gwen 10!Zenith is much kinder to Malware, Albedo, and Myaxx than Prime!Azmuth, now I'm just imagining her being considerably nicer to Psychobos as well (or, at the very least, more polite and patient towards him) but him remaining evil due to interpreting it as her being condescending/passive-aggressive towards him.

(There’s also the factor that Cerebrocrustaceans in general are insecure and competitive in relation to the Galvan, you can even see it with Brainstorm, and Dr. Psychobos is just a more active example)

So I personally see the difference between Prime Azmuth and Gw10 Zennith and how they act towards others is that Azmuth rarely ever budges with how he acts around people (ignoring some obvious examples), so if he’s unimpressed with upon first meeting he’s unlikely to treat you worse or better than that later, even you might deserve to be. While Zennith can act with more patience with people, if they fail to take advantage of that patience she will not tolerate them any further. (As seen with her leaving Azmuth after the Ascalon events and never coming back)

How they interact with Malware, Myaxx, Albedo, and Psychobos would be reflective of this I feel. There’s a lot you can say about how Azmuth treated Malware and Myaxx but he was at the very least very consistent with how he treated them. While Zennith offered more courtesy to them early on, and them taking that opportunity is reflected in their more favorable positions compared to their Prime counterparts.

Azmuth’s treatment to Albedo only changed once he um, did his whole thing starting in Alien Force. Which is, you know, somewhat fair. From there, how Azmuth treats Albedo does not greatly change despite Albedo becoming much more extreme as time goes on. While I see Zennith trying to politely talk Gw10 Albedo out of his fool’s errand of trying to find Azmuth, now that he’s gone and done it, she has very little patience for him and doesn’t consider his actions much of her business.

With Psychobos, Azmuth is fairly straightforward with him. He doesn’t think a rivalry between the two smartest species is worth either of their time or effort. Of course, this is unsatisfactory to Psychobos and he becomes more extreme. Still, Azmuth maintains this stance and relative neutrality to Psychobos even as the latter tries to kill him.

Zennith with Gw10 Psychobos would be more empathetic with him at first. However, since Psychobos is highly unlikely to change his behavior just from that alone, Zennith would be much more tired with Psychobos than Prime Azmuth, resulting in Psychobos acting even worse than his Prime counterpart. Which is a good starting point for him copying the Omnitrix to make his own faulty one which syncs up with Gwen’s, similar to Prime Albedo.

[nitkat360]

Bringing back the Best Boy

I honestly seen people reblog a bit about my home boy Ana and I have to do a doodle of him if my style.

[sidecharactersdomatter]

I wonder how the Ink Tank/ Kuro the artist will find out that there are fans who sympathize with Malware

[galvanb]

:O

Malware concept

[lumen-fox]

Malware sketches

[whatudottu]

Regarding your cerebrocrustacean headcanons mentioned in the previous ask: they very well could be somewhat canon given how, when asked if Albedo and Dr. Psychobos would be willing to work together, Derrick J. Wyatt responded with "Psychobos seems like a total team up slut, he'll team up with any villain any time" (his words, not mine).

Which he likely meant in the sense of "Psychobos is so power-hungry he'll team up with anyone in order to get ahead", but with your headcanons and the fact he never talks much about his personal life in mind, you could alternatively interpret it as "Psychobos is so desperately lonely he'll accept anyone he has even the slightest similarity with into his clique, even members of a species he's violently xenophobic towards" (probably to cope with/serve as a rebound for his mancrush Azmuth friendzoning him /lh /hj).

Now all of this is making me realize that it was a massive missed opportunity in Omniverse to not have Psychobos' demeanor do a complete 180 around the people he works with compared to everyone else (whether sincere or a thinly-veiled manipulation tactic) if not solely for a few jokes. Especially him acting like an affectionate father figure towards Malware (whether he likes it or not) solely so he can rub it in Azmuth's face that "I'm a FAR more attentive and caring parental figure towards your creation than YOU ever were, and I use the term loosely".

WHAT DO YOU MEAN DJW SAID 'TEAM UP SLUT' HAHAH WHAT!? dear god it's true it's on the wiki what the fuck what the fuck assdfjhghsdlfkgfkl-!

I mean, look at his already canon group; Khyber, allegedly the greatest huntsman in the galaxy, teaming up with Dr Psychobos to make a little watch that can sample (specifically predatory) animals; and Malware, a technology absorbing mutant mechamorph, working with the cybernetically enhanced (also listed as a mutant???) cerebrocrustacean in order to make said watch- if liking the concept of animals and incorporating machines as part of oneself is enough to get into Dr Psychobos' clique well, he's certainly stretched what that means far enough to at least snag two others into his initial team up. Same can't be said for Attea and the incurseans which seems to be more of a sponsor type relationship, and Maltruant commissioned him to repair his body but violated the trade agreement so whether or not Psychobos would do business with the incurseans again, he's already squarely sequestered Maltruant in the outest of out-groups :P

Hah, the 'Dr Psychobos adopting Malware specifically to stick it to Azmuth' bit reminded me of a signing-the-adoption-papers version of the 'I throw my used car batteries in the ocean' thing- something along the lines of; [psychobos voice] "You are the most calamitous individual I have had the pleasure of meeting, and I use the term loosely." [malware voice, threateningly] "I have devoured and absorbed the specs of the Omnitrix." [psychobos signing adoption papers] [malware, experiencing the affects of cerebrocrustacean in-grouping and having no frame of reference on how to deal with it] "What the fuck is happening-"

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Here's all my Ben 10 au sketches from the last???? Couple of months I think??? Some tween designs, some bad guys, some new characters.

[bloodmoon24]

Ok, that’s very cool

absolutely in love with @insane-mane's Malware design!

//please do not re-post//

[dannyk09]

[fiestylittlebeetle]

Malware 23 concept from my old account, with a recolor and slightly edited version of GC Malware too

Azmuth managed to help him when he came back to deal with the Ben situation. He was still pretty upset about how long it took him to get around to it, but ya know, they talked about it. Mal 23 is a lab assistant to Azmuth, and is friends with that universe's Myaxx and Tetrax. He isn't much for fighting, and tries to avoid confrontation for his own sanity, cause despite it all, if he looses his temper it's still pretty hard for him to cool off. he needs a tantrum hole /j

Ben Prime was startled when he first met him and was incredibly wary of him. Ben 23 thinks he's kind of a dork ass looser

[ohyeahben10]

Thinking about that if Azmuth had been given some sort of last name in canon at least some amount of people would tag Malware and Eunice with it

[leeisjustlee]

The fam and their pet tyrannopede, Cranberry having fun without flowers (except Azmuth, what a bummer)