#mech au

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Tavros big naturals?

[spearxwind]

Oh yeah!! I also realized I never posted this publicly, a short little thing I made in 2020 of Lena and Siege in their robot AU!

Lena's consciousness is trapped as digital data within Siege, copied right before a massive calamity befalls their facility. Siege's memory is damaged in the event, and so neither of them know what happened to them and must find out what led to everything

[dreamypyon]

She will slay in every universe

[mispronouncing-michaelangelo]

"Song Lan... I- I can't see." finally snapped; im making a pacrim au, lets fucking go

[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

Okay absolutly deranged late night post about the Mech AU I've been thinking about bear with me.

Okay so Bill n Henry develop their own Mechs and work together. They pilot them themselves for like a decade or so but there's an immence physical and emotional strain that leaves both of them too unfit to do that anymore.

The way that they work is you get ingrained INTO the wiring and if your emotional state isn't right or you don't pair with the Mech well you get pulled apart basically- like your veins are the circuitry now (spinglocking parallel). They know this cus some of the guys they got to test them had this happen and it almost happened to Bill that one time too.

Cus of this risk it's imporant to have people who can pair with the Mechs with little resistance. And who is malleable mentally? Children!

So it's less of a literal child murder schenario and more metaphorical. Like it's death because of their loss of childhoods and conversions into war machines.

So obvs Susie, Jeremy, Fritz, Gabriel and Cassidy have to pilot the giant metal robots now. It was probably like a shady volenteer program or something. I like the idea of Charlie being their handler cus of the puppet motif thats cute. Mike works maintenance and he hates it.

Yeh :] Faz Inc brand Mechs :] Child soldiers :]

[timelykatheliz]

[ day 26 ]

[ yuri week day 7 - colorful/achromatic ]

workshop gets cold sometimes, gotta warm up somehow.

[no-zero-four]

Some mecha au alien stage sketches. I’ll clean and color them *later*

[apphiarothowrites]

Mech Pilot AU thoughts

I'm leaning between Pacific Rim and Titanfall with this idea-mostly because Titanfall is the nicer end of "the mechs are/can become sentient" without the horror elements that NGE introduces

Marco's mech is a compliment to his father's.

Whitebeard, legendary mech pilot from back in the day, piloted a massive and fucking heavy beast of a mech unit that was wholly designed to level a battlefield and everything on it. When Whitebeard went to war, his side had to call active retreats on all positions in the ground assault because when he showed up he was absolutely going to reduce even their allied positions to pancakes. Rare was the day that Whitebeard left enemy survivors. The weakest points on Whitebeard's early design mech was the joints but unless you destroyed the cockpit (the most well protected point inside the behemoth), she could still move even with near critical damage to the joints. His big girl was made to keep moving and the only way to stop her was to destroy the legs and even then unless you also destroyed the arms this bad motherfucker was going to destroy everything in range anyway.

Marco's in contrast, was built to fly. Fast, light, and equipped with jet wings. Still well armored, still equipped with some gnarly guns, the weakpoint of Marco's bird was in the wings. The attachment areas to the back were designed to be easy to remove-pop in and out. If Marco is grounded due to wing damage, he can pop those suckers off and still jump fairly high and have high mobility on the ground. His was designed to work behind, physically on, and in tandem with Whitebeard's giant-a buddy to focus on destroying incoming missiles intended to stop Whitebeard in his tracks. With Marco around, he never stopped moving. With the whole Whitebeard fleet behind him? They never lost a battle and only the more-feared Rogers fleet could draw them to a standstill.

The Mechs developing sentience was unintended but welcomed. Whitebeard's chose the name Moby, was a jovial and gentle giant off the battlefield much like her pilot. When Whitebeard retired, his body unable to bear the strain in his mid 60s, Moby was devastated. They both knew it was coming, they both acknowledged it was needed in order Whitebeard to not just suffer a fatal heart attack or brain aneurysm inside the cockpit from the strain, and both hated it. Moby refused every attempt at a replacement pilot. Phoenix, in contrast to both Moby and Marco, is catty and moody and and elitist to the point that they rarely speak to anyone who isn't a "ranking officer" on par with Marco, Whitebeard, or Moby. They much prefer being left to themself, and on the battlefield typically treats other mechs and their partners as part of the scenery-to be climbed on if large enough or otherwise ignored unless they need assistance. Phoenix also is not immune to flattery, but is often suspicious of it unless Marco gives it his blessing.

Marco's chose the name Phoenix, he liked the imagery and the meaning. When Pops retired, both were nervous of the idea of stepping up into the lead. Sure, Jozu and Atmos and Blamenco all had physically larger-than-average mechs but they were still smaller than Moby and none could hit as hard. Pheonix was a heavy-hitting support, without the buddy he was designed to help. Both floundered a bit in the first year of their new leadership role, but upon finding their ground-with Pops leading logistics over their communications lines-they were somehow even more formidable than before (perhaps, some whispered, so they could make up for the lack of their greatest weapon no longer being in play).

Then came Ace, and Fire Fist. So named for experimental technology; flame throwers and a super-heated retractable sword that often just set the mech as a whole on fire. Ace, safe inside an airtight cockpit that's externally doused with all kinds of flame retardant, would cackle and Fire Fist would echo a laugh of their own. Small, fast, and lightly armored the mech would often take damage during fights-and just as easily shrug them off to roast enemy pilots alive inside their partners. Not every pilot even considers fire damage, let alone takes the measures that Ace and Fire Fist have to ensure their own safety with their equipment.

The audacity of these punks is beautiful, and Marco's smitten within a week. Phoenix takes a little time, but one compliment about their rockets setting a building ablaze is all it takes for them both.

Other idle thoughts: -Moby had, to begin with, a very stark white and gray paintjob. It faded over time and got all kinds of chips and wear/tear. Whitebeard's jumpsuit was navy blue with white highlights. -After retirement, Moby mostly hangs out at base and plays defense on the very few occasions someone attacks the WB directly. -Moby, appropriately, stands at 76 meters/250ft (PR jaeger height) -Phoenix is painted sky blue and usually enters battle from a high altitude-they match their surroundings and is difficult to spot visually and on radar. They much prefer it that way. The gold highlights were Marco's idea, as is the yellow/gold jumpsuit he wears when piloting. -Phoenix is much smaller than Moby, just about 9 meters/29.5ft (8.5 times smaller than Moby). He used to enjoy climbing all over the big guy, but after Whitebeard's retirement he now climbs all over Jozu/Blamenco/Atmos' mech's instead (each of which stand about 70-72 meters or 229-236ft) -Fire Fist is 8 meters/juuust over 26ft. He demanded that he be painted red and orange to match the fire laden equipment they use (he's a stickler for thematic matching). He's happy, fiery like Ace, but is easier going and prone to wanting to de-escalate rather than feed into an argument. Ace's jumpsuit, to match FF, is orange with red highlights.

[bonzybonztea]

alright one last scribble scratch im willing to post~ Thoma and Diluc -clenches heart-

Diluc is wearing a wet suit lookin thing for two reasons, 1. Mech au, 2. I don't wanna draw CLOTHES (┳Д┳)

I love me anything that is remotely like Robotech/Macross, by gosh. Diluc over here, Zentradi lookin' ah

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More DaveTav Mech AU if you even care (featuring wet baby cat dirk)

I am obsessed with drawing this junk aaaaaa

[fuel-burn]

New Transformers au idea:

Optimus and Megatron are not original transformers, but instead two android pilots controlling mechs, but it's been so long that they've bled into Transformer history and no one remembers that they really just appeared one day to their respective factions and inserted themselves into the others' lives, thus going rouge from their human creators.

Their original purpose was to defend the earth, and while that objective has not changed for Orion, Megatronus has fallen partly to Decepticon views and no longer believes that he or Orion should continue to protect humans.

Orion Pax is the name of the android piloting Optimus and Megatronus is the name of the one piloting Megatron.

Also the two androids are in love, regardless of their different views on humanity.

[dreamypyon]

let her captain a space army..... neow!

[greyscale-galaxy]

Finally. Finally

It’s not exactly edited but the first chapter is finished and I can finally post this art from months and months ago.

[crash-bump-bring-the-whump]

Mech au mech au mech au

NO NO BAD INFLUENCE BAD INFLUENCE

Okay but I do have thoughts here...war mage mech pilot au. Like especially if it's an alternative to prison for their war crimes. They're already trained, already used to impossible strain and the intensity of fighting for your life. They'd be ostracized anyway by their peers because of their notoriety. They learn the agony of having limbs torn from them, time after time, and reconciling that with still being able to cup a bowl of soup in two hands afterwards.

But they're free, sort of.

They pay their penance in blood and tears and tests and being lauded as monstrous heroes, in being forced to become something somehow even less human than what they already had been. They still have each other. They are impossible figures, mythical almost in how they turned from committing horrors to becoming guardians of humanity.

They aren't sure that they wanted this, but they can't go back now. They've seen the records of the failed test pilot casualties. No one else could do this so now it falls to them.