#more xiph stuff! yippee!

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OC-tober Day 8: Past

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I recently finished writing out a very important scene for Xiphoid's past, but my plan is to draw it as a comic later! Until I can get around to that, I'll just talk about other stuff relating to The Incident.

I'd love to come up with a cool proper name for The Incident, but I find leaving it vague very funny. That could mean anything. I will accept alternate Incident name suggestions.

Anyways The Incident is the night Xiph had an outburst and damaged some property, including another Xiphoid model. Most details were swept under the rug to avoid any panic from the public, a "rogue robot" is kind of a bad look for a robot-selling company. It's pretty well-known there was also a fire, though. Xiph themself managed to avoid getting deactivated, but they are permanently labeled as defective and closely monitored.

It's accepted as fact among the bots that Xiph's the reason humans were removed from the maintenance wing, though the company has made no official statement of it. None of the other Xiphoids were activated at the time either, so it's not like they really know anything about it, but there's enough details floating around for them to assume. That's the main reason Xiph's relationship with the others is so poor, not that Xiph put any effort into clearing up rumors. There's a solid period of time when Xiph just stays in their office alone, brooding and whatever, before they meet Naut and start finding their passions. And that's how you get friendly-but-weird current-day Xiph :]

Somewhat related: added this song that includes HAL 9000 lines to Xiph's playlist recently, if you want to imagine robot angst with me. It's got barely over 100 views, go check it out.

Couldn't resist drawing some "young" Xiph to go with this one :]