#mother artifice

[wardensantoineandevka]

Merlin and Artifice's dynamic is legitimately so funny and the best. Just kind of clown-to-clown communication (enthusiastic science version) at all hours.

[ariadne-mouse]

Mother Artifice continuing to be MVP with his "any surface is a door with the right attitude" approach

[thatwasahumanperson]

okay. i was thinking about episode 11 of unend and i have some thoughts about mother artifice.

so we all know the mothers are fold wizards with weird powers. the way mother artifice seemingly immediately determined the answer to cleo's mystery game had me wondering if those powers included some sort of truthtelling. but then i started thinking about the way he reacted to hambing's trickery. and how he refused to lie even as part of a game. and then i started thinking about his name.

i've been assuming up to now that mother artifice is named such because of his skill at engineering - after all, he's been credited as one of, if not the, primary minds behind the invention of the foldlight. but mothers aren't named after what they do. they're named after the problem/ailment that they solve/cure. and artifice can also mean deception.

what if mother artifice's real specialty isn't engineering, but truth?

[disasterpurplebois]

I am content with myself. Not all improvements are necessary and not all afflictions are harmful.

[bookshopsbizarreblog]

I'm not on Beacon and so am two weeks behind the best info on UnEnd, but here are my predictions for the series! I'm excited to come back to this and see which were right or wrong.

1) The Granddaughter gets given a name by Cleophee, or chooses one for themself

2) The Granddaughter doesn't understand how things work outside of the synobium, and becomes adorably bad at/uncomfortable with certain basic things

3) The Granddaughter is revealed to have been either an orphan raised by the Mothers, or possibly immaculately conceived (there is a prophecy) (I think this is less likely) (except for the prophecy)

4) The Granddaughter strays from the path of realization, which causes emotional issues and external dangers. Cleophee has to comfort them

4.1) A number of their dangers will be related to people's emotional states, trauma, and interpersonal drama. Often this will be cosmic, with the Foldlight manifesting their feelings. But more mundane issues will also arise from those sources. Especially for the Granddaughter's religious trauma, and whatever deeeeply repressed stuff Cleophee is hiding

5) Cleophee's pet does shenans. This is a repeated theme

6) Cleophee gets in trouble with wildlife and needs to be rescued

7) Cleophee shopping episode, with Granddaughter unhappily in tow (they enjoy it by the end)

8) Everyone named thus far except for Artifice becomes found family

9) One of the cool adventure lesbian wives (Everett or Micky) dies in the other's arm. It will somehow involve the Granddaughter, who will feel crippling guilt about it. If Micky dies, Everett will have even more problems with them. If Everett dies, they will forgive/reconcile/abandon their beef with the Granddaughter right before dying

9.1) It's also possible that Everett was scowling in their direction for "Oh this poor kid" reasons and will become a mentor character, making their death that much more tragic. Whatever the case, it will help the Granddaughter become more human

9.2) The bocular horse is very sad

10) A tearror happens, and the bocular man becomes real to some extent. He and the granddaughter bond.

11) Professor Merlin gets cut in half by a mica shard. It's very sad and tragic

11.1) Someone is getting cut in half by mica. It can't not happen

12) Artifice gets in an argument with the more mechanically minded parts of the crew over some problem, and his emotions revert him from being a Mother. It kind of breaks him, possibly into a puddle of goo

13) Mechanical issues with the carriage make an escape incredibly tense

[captainpookie338]

Does anybody else get Mandark vibes from Mother Artifice?

[karikokito]

Happy Mothers Day!

May Artificer see her kids in Rubicon :3

[sleepyc63]

art / info dump of an au i've been thinking about for a whiiile

essentially, artificer and gourmand meet and have a pup! his name is the gatherer, named after hunter (hunter-gatherer -- get it?) as a way to honor them after gourmand found them... yknow. anyway, gatherer meets the mother and they have pups of their own: monk, survivor, and wanderer!

wanderer is an oc i made based off of the green sibling in the intro cutscene and "the wanderer" passage. he's spent his adult life searching for the siblings he lost as a pup, which earned him the title "the wanderer" :) i like to think if he existed as a campaign, he would follow a similar story to monk and survivor; either led to the depths and seeing his family in his last moments before ascension, or reuniting with them in outer expanse!

i have more ideas for this au but i’m gonna save that for another post cause it is 4am and i have places to be in the morning lmao

[kalivasquezart]

a change in you

part 1 // part 2 // [part 3]

[essektheylyss]

Mother Artifice like "I'M CONTENT WITH MYSELF AND MY FLAWS BUT YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR RANCID MANNERS [immediately dissolves into the floor]"

[ask-the-pioneer]

I have a question for marbles, If they were to meet all of the slugcats from downpour and vanilla (minus Artificer & Inv), what would their interactions be, and who would they like most and least (maybe like a teir list?).

// I will answer this in text, I hope that's okay!

Gourmand, Survivor, and Monk - Marbles will meet all three of them in Act 2, when a colony of slugcats is temporarily staying over around NSH's can. They can't progress further into the area of the big slugcat trees (known in-game as Outer Expanse) as the way is blocked by the heightened presence of vultures. Gourm is the colony leader who bravely ventured out to the 5P can to scout the area and find a different, suitable spot for the colony to spend the dryer season. On his way back he found Surv and Monk (who are also from his colony), and brought them back safely to their parents.

Gourm - fella is a gentle giant with a big heart and a passion for cooking, he and Marbs would get along well! In my story he teaches her new delicious recipes as a thanks for housing the colony members.

Surv - they are about 20 in human years by the time Marbles meets them, so only slightly younger than our protagonist. Being peers, I think they also would get along well. Surv would tell her all about their adventures in the 5P area.

Monk - Surv's younger sibling in my AU, they are about 12-13 at the time of meeting. Monk miraculously survived their journey to save their older sibling despite being very very young themself, I headcanon them to be maybe 8 or so when their in-game campaign begins. They would be shy, but Marbles had a lot of adoptive younger siblings so she would know how to win Monk over quickly.

Hunter is Marbles' adoptive parent, he found her when she was about 7-8 years old, and raised her as his own (along with over a dozen other slugpups that he found orphaned during his expeditions). They have a very strong familial bond.

Arti - Marbles' long-lost mom. They meet again in Metropolis after almost 15 years, but it's not a happy reunion. After Marbs makes her leave the scav colony, the two of them move on to live with other scugs around NSH's can. Arti is very socially maladjusted and avoids contact with anything that is not her only surviving child - the only person in the entire world she has love for.

Saint - they will make a brief appearance during the story (visiting Hunter after he's brought back to the NSH's can and given rot treatment), but they probably won't meet Marbles in person. If they did, I see both Marbs and Saint having lengthy philosophical conversations about the nature of life, karma, ascension, and so on.

Spearmaster - won't be appearing in my AU in-person as I assume them to be very old and retired at the time of my story taking place, or even deceased... perhaps already reincarnated? Or ascended? I haven't decided yet. However, they will show up in Hunter's flashbacks. If Marbles and SM were to meet, she would probably be scared of them, lol. I imagine Spears to look very tall and freaky for a slugcat, but also very collected and duty-driven like Hunter.

Rivulet - Riv won't show up in my AU, their campaign takes place far ahead in the future and it wouldn't make sense to include them (sorry!). I headcanon Riv as very energetic, and so if Marbles met them she'd find the aquatic scug rather... overwhelming.

[wardensantoineandevka]

advice that I'm so confident nobody on the Ship will ever be need ever, not with the way people in this cosmos seem to be constantly falling from things at deadly heights

[ariadne-mouse]

okay but does Mother Artifice swim with the getup on

[garvalhaminho]

i unfortunately have to disagree w the "will herondale makes history as first present father figure [relating to the protagonist(s)] in tsc". have we not seen julian blackthorn in action. he was acting like a full-on dad at 12yo

[sarascamander]

When I say MOTHER 🛐, I mean him, actually

[wikitpowers]

I have this very specific vision that book 2 of TWP ends with Kit taking the fall for the necromancy and being imprisoned in the Silent City, after which Ty and Dru tell the rest of the Blackthorns + the NY institute + Jem and Tessa everything, but when they try to get Kit out they just find this empty torn apart room because Mother Hawthorn got there first...

and that, my friends would (quite literally) be the cause of my death. like no lie. i would fall apart like so badly. and the fact that ik that at least one of the twp is gonna end on some sort of cliffhanger does not make it better. like cassie is famous for that shit. and if she hurts either of my twp baby leads, i will BAWL!