#obey me cyn'

[eveledoze]

spoilers for ep7 ! things about N and Uzi i wanted to point out 1/? I may sound stupid and naive going into all these details, so I'm sorry

we all thought that he was looking at Uzi worriedly, but in reality he was shocked because the elevator was broken and because now the path to V was blocked. he's really worried and angry about it (and it's so unusual to see him like that)

Tessa tells him to look back and at first he looks angry, but then his face softens. for a moment he simply forgot what state Uzi was in cuz he was worried about V (we know that now this Tessa is not exactly Tessa, but I will call her that cuz it’s convenient for me and so as not to get confused)

Uzi realizes that she has poor control over her powers and bitterly admits that she cannot do anything. she sincerely apologizes and you can hear that she feels guilty from her helplessness + exhausted from pain this short moment honestly killed me- their voice intonations, words and music, it hits so hard (thank you AJ Dispirito! /mega pos) also i find it strange that at first there was no blood, then it appeared cuz of something (even though she doesn’t even have a crack in her visor like Doll) and then the blood disappeared

but well okay-

he sincerely apologizes, feeling guilty for his inattention to her well-being, and he comes to comfort her, his body language shows this but Tessa interrupts them

Tessa calls him to explain to Uzi what's going on (lmao his face)

he rubs his hands together, which indicates his nervousness, as he realizes that his words will make her more worried and terrified of what they might find out and see, so this will make the situation worse

you can hear from the tone of Uzi's voice that she is beginning to suspect that they know more than she does, and for some reason they are not telling her this. she seems annoyed at the withholding of information, causing her to lose trust in Tessa and N

he looks at Tessa as if doubting whether he can be frank in his words, since in essence Tessa is still his boss and he should not contradict her (why does the reflection of his eyes in her spacesuit look funny to me lol)

he says this in a determined voice, while frowning. the words “we're not gonna hurt you” are addressed to Uzi while N’s gaze and gestures are interpreted as “WE'RE not gonna hurt HER” (while pointing his hand at Uzi) and this is addressing to Tessa. he clearly expresses his position and does not intend to obey Tessa in this in fact (he is rebelling)

with this "Okay?" he tries to reassure Uzi that they really won't hurt her honestly, the tone of voice with which he said it reminded me a lot of the way he said "we'll ask Tessa, okay?" in ep5, when he addressed Cyn. in both cases, his "Okay?" sounds sincere, kind, letting them know that he will keep his promise

she is scared and barely audibly says it, losing more trust in them while the fear grows

Uzi is nervous, she loses control and creates a null, everyone moves back, by the way Tessa takes out her sword

they repel each other. despite the falling stones, N reaches out to take her hand and pull her towards him

he takes a step forward, "we'll figure this out, together?.." but she steps back, losing trust in him

stones fall and block the passage, separating them from each other she closes herself off from him in every sense

when he woke up, he immediately called her and it sounded quite desperate and creepy cuz of the echo

N sees that his hand is crushed by stones. with a cold look, he takes out the blade and approache it to the hand, saying that he "deserved this", since he offended Uzi and believes that it would be right if he was punished for it. she experienced pain - he will experience pain, justice

[windyboi101]

Cyn Headcanons

Cyn won the poll I hosted! I also got WAY more notes than I expected so I am only during 30. Sorry, but its the only way to keep me from writing duplicates, low quality HCs, etc. Please like and reblog if you enjoy, as it lets me know I am writing content people enjoy, and it helps to spread my posts around! The more viewers, the more feedback I get, which is the most valuable resource to me.

So, without further ado,

30 Cyn Headcanons (Some serious, some silly)

Serious Headcanons 1. Prior to her disposal, Cyn worked as a toy assembler/demonstrator. This is why she would overexplain her actions, since toys can't exactly speak. This would later go on to influence the Solver's outlook on humanity and how it should be treated.

2. Cyn's cause of fatal error was not a workplace accident, but execution (murder) from a higher up at the company she was employed at. Reason? Up to you, whichever makes it most tragic :)

3. The Cyn we see in the show was only partially controlled by the Solver for some sections. When she was first brought home, barely noticeable influence, like 10% controlled. By the start of episode 5, about 70% of her was controlled by the Solver, but the excitement about Movie Night was genuine!

4. Solver-Cyn left Tessa for last on the night of the Gala Massacre. She had warned Tessa to not come, which shows that she didn't want to have to kill her.

5. While J was the first to fall under control of Cyn's Solver abilities, J was the last to be 'modified'.

6. While the Solver is fully in control of Cyn by the time the events of the show start playing out, Cyn is still within the consciousness of the bodies the Solver takes over. This includes being witness to Uzi's first transformation and Doll's mind.

7. Cyn was certainly younger than the other drones, and due to this she was never switched out of 'Parental Guidance Mode' that censors swearing (Like Uzi being unable to see Nori's crude writings). This is why Cyn couldn't fully swear when she lost grip of N's core.

8. The Cyn part of Solver has abandonment issues. This is why she was willing to clone the main cast of Disassembly Drones rather than see them as just tools. It is also why Cyn was willing to leave them alone if they obeyed her orders, despite her plan that consisted of consuming all matter possible. If she could keep them as friends, she would.

9. While still herself, Cyn had OCD and was very meticulous about her tasks. For the short time she was 'employed' at the Elliot Manor, she was particularly good at stacking and arranging of objects. Unfortunately, this would become arrangements of triangular hexagons and other mysterious symbols shortly before she was deemed too damaged to work.

10. Cyn did not create a solution for the Murder Drones to not burn in the sun because she sees it as a way to keep them restrained. The less time they can be out doing whatever they want, the less likely they are to figure out any sort of deception or way to usurp her.

11. If Cyn did not have to take a more direct approach for her plan to succeed by the end of Episode 7, she would have a fear of Sentinels while not in her 'blackhole' form after the events that transpired in Episode 6.

12. Cyn's 'birthday' was April 14th, 3052.

13. Cyn seems to have an infinite supply of bows. Nobody knows where she gets them from or how she keeps making them.

14. Post-Finale, Cyn would constantly be trying to hijack pieces of technology to gain more power. Fortunately, none of these attempts would get far due to Uzi's capable technological skills.

15. What would keep Cyn docile would be allowing her to hijack weak and limited pieces of technology, like an old game cartridge or a singular floppy disk. However, this ruins any sort of data stored on the item in question but would definitely create the closest example to those early 2000 creepypastas like 'Sonic.exe' and other 'my video game was hAuNtEd' types of scenarios.

Silly Headcanons

16. Cyn genuinely enjoys tea. Unfortunately, she does not know how to drink it properly.

17. If Cyn got an animal plushie of herself like Uzi, N, and V did, it would be an Octopus.

18. Cyn wasn't one to be impatient or throw temper tantrums like in Episode 5, that was all the Absolute Solver.

19. Cyn could have been knocked out for a few hours if you threw a big enough weighted blanket over her.

20. Cyn would host 'oil tasting parties' as a crude way of replicating the activities of her former owners.

21. Cyn's 'startup message' is not "Hello World." It is instead "Violence is the question and the answer is yes."

22. If you gagged Cyn's mouth in any way, she would use sign language to be able to communicate her actions in excessive detail, just like she does when she speaks. ("Light sip" or "Shuffle. Shuffle. Shuffle.")

23. If you gave Cyn a YouTube channel, she would market it like those "Spiderman Elsagate" videos completely unironically, but then have the content be very in-depth analyses of complex equations and theories.

24. Cyn does NOT know what sex is. She thinks humans reproduced by being delivered a child via Stork.

25. Cyn's knowledge of emojis (her last reaction in Episode 8) comes solely from what she could hijack from V's mind when she still had control, since V was texting Lizzy at some point in time.

26. Cyn sees William Afton as a role model.

27. Cyn's choice of play in GTA would be using mods to make everything fly around at high speeds and explode at random.

28. If you slapped Cyn across the face, her head would spin around on her neck until the momentum fully stopped.

29. Cyn is the kind of drone to taste-test a footprint and be able to know where somebody went.

30. A McDonald's sprite would be enough to kill Cyn.

[md-confessions]

a very specific pet peeve i have about n's mischaracterization in writing. his guilt about killing.

it's not that he feels bad in the sense of "oh no, oh my god, i just killed someone, i just did something terrible" he feels bad in the sense of the fact that he might be annoying. he could do something to piss someone off. it's not that he feels bad over taking lives its that he feels bad over the reaction.

in pilot, n apologizes for causing uzi to have an awkward moment with khan and over ruining the workers card game. he doesn't mention anything about killing until uzi points it out. thats such an interesting part to me about his character!!! though his squad kept their original personalities as cyn said, they took the humanity they had before. you see n panicking over that stuff in home (not over HIM killing anyone, i just mean death in general) but dd n doesn't show that same level of sadness over death atleast in my opinion. i don';t know if theres more proof past what i already listed but???yeah :)

DOUBLY INTERESTING TO ME ABOUT V ACTUALLY. because v... remembered all that went down at the mansion, she also remembered and retained her 'humanity' which makes the way she kills/treats wds much more interesting. i think its a way to cope atleast in how i viewed it. you HAVE to kill, you have to obey, or else everyone you love will die, so you might as well disconnect yourself as much as possible from the things you have to kill. basically. if she has to, why not try and have fun with it? I DONT KNOW its just very interesting to me how v changed so drastically from what we saw of her wd self to her dd self; i think its a front. we see how panicked v is when she thinks she's about to die in cabin fever (and promening too), versus n getting his ass beat continuously and acting like it's nothing crazy... BUT THEN AGAIN if we're going by my logic of "drones who remember their humanity/old selves are able to retain that sense of fear/grief versus drones who DONT just. not feeling bad/scared in that sense" then after n remembered stuff he should have started feeling that way... which he didnt, cause of him getting disemboweled in ep6 and not giving too much of a shit outside of it Tickling . lol . but THEN AGAIN if we go by that logic then its possible that v has just . never lost her memories. and n never FORGOT anything when he regained his memories in home so maybe he's just so used to it andOK IM RAMBLING

DOUBLE TL;DR; v and n parallels through the way they respond to pain/death and also because of how much each of them remembers.

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[cyncured-au-official]

(CONTAINS MAJOR AU AND CANON SPOILERS) My plans for Cyn's schooling in this AU!

I honestly don't really know where to start with this post. I have ideas, for sure, but I don't know what to start with, lol. (I just woke up from a nap, so that's probably not helping.)

Anyway, I'm going to try to start somewhere. The actual lore is under the cut, for the sake of everyone's dashboards and to avoid anyone getting unwanted spoilers. This is probably going to get pretty long.

Note: I'm typing this on my new laptop, and I'm used to mobile, so forgive me if there's any missing letters (this keyboard is big and I have small hands) or other errors.

Please note that it'll be a while before this arc is actually posted to Ao3.

TRIGGER WARNING: ABLEISM, PUNISHMENT FOR MELTDOWNS, ABA LANGUAGE, SCHOOL SUSPENSION

Cyn is currently 5 in the AU. (This post was written after the first two fics in this AU were posted.) She could technically start kindergarten as soon as she's been cured of the Solver. She's legally considered old enough, but since it's already May by the time this happens, N decides to hold off on it until the next school year starts.

Not to mention, by the time she has all her legal paperwork in order with Outpost 3, the school year is pretty much over. N also wants to get Cyn into therapy before putting her into a potentially stressful environment.

Skip ahead to September 3071, and N decides to try sending Cyn to Outpost 3's public kindergarten. He's definitely nervous, especially after hearing Uzi's horror stories about how she was treated as an autistic student. But Cyn needs a way to make friends, and since she said she wanted to try when N talked to her about it, he decides to give it a shot.

It goes badly. As in, she has a meltdown during the second week and gets suspended for it. N gets a call in the middle of the school day that goes something like this:

Ableist Teacher: Hello, is this N Doorman?"

N: Yeah, why? Is Cyn okay?

AT: Yeah, she's fine, but she threw a tantrum-

N: You mean meltdown-

AT: Whatever. She threw a paintbrush at a classmate, so legally we have to give her a 1-day suspension. Please come pick her up. We have her stuffed animal, we'll give it to you when you arrive.

N: If you took her comfort item, you've violated her *IEP. That's illegal.

AT: Well, she wouldn't comply until we withheld the preferred item.

N: I don't care. You signed up to take care of my sister, that includes accommodations for her diagnosed disability. I don't want my sister to blindly obey adults. I've been working with her on self-advocacy, and you've likely just undone a whole lot of progress.

N: Not to mention her stuffed elephant isn't a 'preferred' item. She needs it to feel safe.

AT: Whatever. You need to pick your student up.

N: I will. I'll be there soon.

*call ends*

N unfortunately did have to be the one to give Cyn her comfort item back. After that fiasco, N pulled Cyn out and started homeschooling her.

*IEP: Individual Education Plan. This is a legally binding document detailing accommodations for a disabled student. In Cyn's case, she's supposed to have permission to carry her stuffed elephant anywhere she likes, and is supposed to be exempt from class-wide reward/punishment systems. Unfortunately, its legally binding status is incredibly difficult to enforce. IEPs are an American thing, I believe the UK equivalent is an EHCP. I'm American, so I'm using the terms I'm familiar with. This is different from a 504 plan. A 504 plan is a non-legally binding version of an IEP for students with no official diagnosis. Cyn has received an official diagnosis of autism at this point, as well as a PTSD diagnosis, so she qualifies for an IEP.

[myddle]

Aight, time to go off about Murder Drones

Okay so Episode 6 dropped a little bit ago so I'm just gonna share my thoughts on where the show might be going in some regards

Warning: Big Post, Spoilers, Opinions

Okay, first up: "Effective drones were cloned more."

While framed like a throwaway line, this has important implications. It's interesting that J doesn't seem disturbed by this fact; she's presumably the original J since she's with Tessa and remembers her. N and V (maybe?) didn't fully remember their past until "Home", and since they were with another J, they're probably not the originals. But does Tessa know this? Does she think they're the originals because they remember her? Or does she know they're clones, and is just using their memory of her to get what she wants? Either way, I don't see this little alliance lasting.

Second: Cyn/Solver's Voice

Was the GLaDOS-ass voice originally Cyn's, or the Solver's? Uzi talks in it when she's possessed, as does eldritch J in "Heartbeat", which implies it's the Solver's, but Past N acts like it's normal when he's talking to Cyn in "Home", which implies it's Cyn's. Did Cyn have a different voice before she turned, or did the Solver take her voice due to not having one of it's own? Are Cyn and the Solver one or two entities? I got nothing.

Thirdly: How Everything Is Fucked, Actually

If you thought V's sacrifice was tragic, ponder me this: How the hell is the gang even gonna get out of there? V just destroyed the elevator out, and even if she didn't, it's swarming with Walking Dinos/Dino Walk Cycles. Between being trapped in the Labs, down a fighter, N being traumatised, Uzi getting possessed, the black box of Tessa's motivations, Doll being totally fine with leaving their asses to die, and whatever the fuck else is down there, things look bleak. The only thing I can personally see being the key to survival is...

Finally: Uzi's Administrator Status

At the end of "Home", Uzi replaced Cyn as the administrator of N and V, seemingly purging their minds of the Solver's influence. This, to me, means two things.

The Solver can't control N and V anymore - I definitely think this will come up; Something like Solver Uzi beckoning N to obey, and getting hit with the "[ACCESS DENIED]", maybe with a funny Windows error sound or something.

Uzi can do Administrator ThingsTM - Uzi is smart, and knows her way around drone programming, enough to enter someone's memoryscape and POSSESS a motherfucker. Cyn was N and V's original Admin, and the Solver has done both of these things too.

Uzi has the potential to be Cyn's equal, and with whatever equipment there is in the Labs, I reckon she'll be able to brainhack her way into turning the tables on the Solver. Hell, as V's Administrator, she might even be able to recover her conciousness remotely, or something.

I don't know what's going to happen, but I hope I'm right, because the key to victory being Uzi's own hyperfixation, rather than the powers she inherited, would make for a great character arc.

Image source: Murder Drones Fandom Wiki

[callbackpingg]

I would like to know how other Cyns feel about the solver in their bodies.

I know that not every Cyn has the solver, but I do... unfortunately

To me, he's like a parasite, something that entered my body in an attempt to impersonate me, while I watch him controlling me, interacting with my friends ( Tessa and N ) while they believe that's me. When in reality, I'm watching everything without being able to do anything. It's like asking for help and knowing that they won't listen.

It makes me say and do things I would never do, while my body and mind just obey, like I'm a puppet. It's uncomfortable to think about. It's like, all those times I did something weird, I was asking for help, but no one listened.

I personally hate this thing, but hey, it gave me cool abilities /j ( it's not funny, believe me )

[admiral-anime]

I've seen the theory that Tessa is not who she wants to appear to be popular right now. It's often said that she might be CYN.

It's a very interesting theory, but I don't think it's quite right. Most importantly, if Tessa turns out to be CYN, it devalues the pressure on N. The "universe or one little drone" choice he's being forced to make by someone N trusts.

Here are a few things that indicate that Tessa is Tessa after all:

When she arrives on C9, we see the things she brought with her. I don't think that's what the CYN godlike machine needs. At least not ordinary human stuff.

It's also the same way she grabs N as she did in the Gala episode.

About her saying she's "human" too often. I think there's a couple reasons for that. First of all, she says it when the fact that she's "human" or not affects a character's abilities. Like in the case of sentinel control. In the second place, I think it further demonstrates that she clearly separates humans and robots. (As she says about N: "my robot"). Yes and in the past she has said "humans" are coming.

I'm not sure about the toxic atmosphere at all. I don't think it would affect both the robot and the man in the spacesuit. I'm just going to assume that the writers did it so that UZI could bite Tessa's finger without jumping up.

About the sentinels not recognizing Tessa as human and the weird-looking blood. Well, as hinted at in episode 5, Tessa has some kind of arm problem:

It seems to me that this "something" required future intervention. Probably using technology like DD regeneration or just prosthetics. So the sentinel broke down trying to follow two contradictory orders. Obey the humans and kill the drones.

Just because she cooperated with Doll but wants to kill UZI doesn't stop her from wanting to kill Doll too. After all, she wants a list of all the drones associated with AS. Certainly not for a census. And she wasn't looking to kill UZI here and now.

And the blood. It was written somewhere that the blood disappears when she talks to N. And it does. But I'm sure it's a mistake in the animation.

Here she is talking to N (no blood):

Then V comes in and there's still no blood:

Blood appears:

And then it's gone again:

Those are probably the most meaningful arguments to me. If I'm forgetting something. maybe I'll write about it later.)

Oh, yeah. The timeline thing. To be honest, I haven't really figured it out yet. We don't have the exact dates of Gala, the destruction of Earth, the destruction of the people on C9, we don't even have Tessa's age. (Maybe in this universe, people live 400 years?)

Tessa's weird theory comes from this post:

Actually, I saw more than just this post. But I couldn't find the others.

Tessa's suspicious theory is very interesting. I'm really looking forward to seeing what this story turns into in the next couple episodes.

And if Tessa actually turns out to be CYN. Huh. Her shoulder patch could be considered a kill counter. Brutal.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

But don't pagan pantheons have a single god ruling over the others like a king? Doesn't that nullify your whole point?

no, it's not the same. i really hate the term "king" because it's such a confused term.

the christian god rules as an absolute monarch. his word is law. his will is unilaterally imposed on the world. he has a "court" of attendant angels who obey his every command without question or complaint.

the indo-european gods, on the other hand, are ruled by some "king" of the gods, yes. but his kingship is qualitatively different. he has a /lot/ of power but it isn't unlimited. for the greeks specifically, the myths are littered with suggestions that zeus, while mighty (the most mighty of all the gods), he is still under threat of being overthrown (as his father was, and uranus before him) and largely depends on the support and consent of the other gods to maintain his rule.

which leads me to my next point: the "court" of zeus is composed of a bunch of mostly-independent gods (major and minor) and spirits with their own wills and desires and agency. sometimes their wills are in direct opposition to other gods' (including even zeus').

and then we have the whole thing about fate (and all of the related concepts i mentioned in my answer to that ask -- and the ones i didn't mention) and how even the gods are subject to it. which sounds a lot like being subject to the rule of law, instead of being a king who is himself the source of law (and therefore above the law). even as far back as the iliad we have at least a couple scenes where zeus resigns to fate; the scene where he considers saving his son from death and hera reminds him of how unwise it would be to do so (even warning that other gods wouldn't approve -- again: consent is important), and the scene where he lets the golden scales decide whether achilles or hector would die.

and all of this goes back to my point about "aristocratic egalitarianism" and my issue with the term "king" in general. the "kings" of ancient indo-european civilizations weren't really the absolutist monarchs dreamed up by later christians. indeed, even in ancient times this kind of "despotism" (absolutist monarchs ruling by divine right) was seen as tyrannical and very /oriental/ in nature. the greeks often made it a point to juxtapose their civilized democracy with the despotism of eastern barbarians.

the various terms they used for their "kings" were never so rigid or absolute. their kings were typically elected (even rome's king was an elected position) and were both institutionally and socially limited. and where "kings" did exist the expectation was that the "king" would rule according to law and with the consent of their people or they'd be overthrown. this even goes for the supposed "kings" of the iliad, but i've discussed that elsewhere. i do want to note that the archaic term "basileus" is often translated as king but there's no real evidence for this. the term is applied quite liberally to a variety of people in various positions. actually, even the word "king" comes from the term "cynning" which just means "leader of the people." it doesn't imply that he has autocratic power.

so it seems to me that all of these terms we translate as king originally just meant "leader of the people" and were really more similar to being a chief magistrate or chief executive. though the extent of their powers probably varied from culture to culture, place to place, individual to individual there were definitely some major distinctions between these roles and the roles of absolutist despots ruling over subjects by divine right. hell, if the ancient greeks were able to look at the constitution of the united states i'm sure they were translate the office of our president as "basileus" and the ancient germans might refer to him as "cynning."

so when we talk of zeus, for example, as king of the gods he isn't a despot ruling over them absolutely. but he is undeniably their chief magistrate and, as such, wields a great deal of power. it's just not unlimited and is constrained by the law (fate) and the support of the other gods. very different from the monarchical authority of the christian god for example.

[nahirdinboon]

Pomp and Circumstance, Part 1

One year before Ser Lex's Witchlight adventure...

“Squire Ollex, please step forward.”

Oh good gods, this is it. Lex nodded to Herald Lambelin and stepped forward, nervously tugging on his gauntlets as he approached the raised dais in this meeting chamber. He glanced to his left and right at the assembled members of his knightly order, all standing in orderly rows to witness this momentous ceremony. His gaze moved over the collection of knights of varying ranks, trying to avoid meeting their eyes while seeking out one in particular.

At last, he found where the other squires were at parade rest and saw the one he was looking for. Lex smiled at the comforting presence of the earth genasi, those sapphire eyes gazing back at him, a warm smile spreading across that chiseled marble-like face that made him smile in return. Though it wasn’t the same as both of them making this walk together, at least he would still be able to share this moment with Ghibrail in some form.

Lex stopped at the steps of the dais, his eyes moving away from his rock and to his mentor. Lady Cynlanil Dawnstrider, Matriarch of the Knights of the Radiant Shield and one of many heroes who fought beside his moms in the Great Undead War, stood before him in her white and gold ceremonial powered armor. A ghost of a smile crossed her face as she looked over his choice in ceremonial vestments, a white linen tabard with a gold circle in the middle, paired with a red cloak. An unmistakable homage to her own attire. The elven artificer-paladin nodded to him, and then it was showtime.

Lex knelt before Lady Cyn, the room quiet as he took a knee, his hands sweaty in his gauntlets as Lady Cyn led him through the words of his oath. It took him a moment to find his voice, but with each word, found confidence and resolve that echoed throughout the hall. “In the name of the Knights of the Radiant Shield, I swear my loyalty to you, Lady Cynlanil Dawnstrider, Matriarch of our Order. As the moon rules the tide, as the rain refreshes the grass, as the sun imparts life to all, so your will becomes my desire. As you command, I will obey. As you request, I will comply. May my service always please you, and may my eyes lose their sight if I invoke your wrath. My heart, my mind, and my axe are yours from now until my final day.”

Lady Cyn nodded and said to him, but in a voice that carried across the chamber, “Do you swear to be the shield of this world, to protect the people who call this material plane home from the dangers that lurk outside its borders?”

Lex nodded and recited the second part of the oath. “Yes, my lady. No matter how long the road, how dark the night, or how dangerous the peril, I shall be their shield until all roads come to an end or the need is over. I shall protect the people who call this material plane home, else may the road cease to lie beneath my feet.”

“Then by the power vested in me by Helm, god of protection, and witnessed by those assembled here this day,” Lady Cyn intoned, drawing her sword Dawnblade and igniting the divine blade to light up the room, “I hereby dub thee Ser Ollex Nahirdinboon, first of his name, son of Drexa Nahir and Thuldia Moordinboon, and knight of the Radiant Shield.” She tapped his shoulder lightly – heh, lightly with a blade of light – then sheathed it as she finished with the words, “Rise and be recognized.”

As Lex stood, the chamber exploded in a cacophony of cheering, clapping, and stomping, causing his already pink-skinned face to turn a brighter shade of red from all the attention. The next few steps were a daze of being handed his letter of knighthood and the shield that every new knight receives on being formally brought into the order, followed by a cavalcade of congratulations from all the knights who had gathered for the ceremony…

[bluginkgo]

WAAAAH THANK YOU THANK YOU MY RESERVES HAVE BEEN REPLENISHED ^_^

This does make me wonder... HOW LONG did it take to count all of the symbols?! You have WAY more patience than I do.

But yes, that's insane! The sheer amount of symbols Uzi draws does make me wonder though. Doll did break a bunch of mirrors that she then stuffed into the bathroom. Maybe instead of working along with it, like Uzi does, she forces it to obey her will more often than not. So it causes more mirror breaks when it's trying to force itself out? I don't know, just a random thought that occurred to me. Cause, yeah we didn't see a whole lot of drawings from Doll, but there WAS a lot of mirrors. Way more mirrors than what Uzi went through... which is only 2, so it isn't much to go off of.

And yes yes! Just like a strong urge to use it, or maybe like a craving, like with sugar almost. We also got to see that the absolute solver does activate without the host's knowledge/to protect its host. We got to see that with Uzi fighting J in pilot. Maybe that's also why solver drones can't hurt each other? Cause the absolute solver wants as many hosts out there and not purge itself? Idk, more random thoughts there.

But yeah, it definetly makes sense with Cyn. I think you also mentioned this already- or maybe it was someone else, sorry goldfish memory acting up again- but as a theory the split control that Cyn and the absolute solver have, makes it super hard for her to make any fine motor skill movements. Does make you wonder a bit though, if Uzi does get fully posessed again, will she have the same glitchy speech? We did get to see that the first time she got posessed in Alice's control room she had difficulty moving, her head lolling about. And her voice was glitchy and switching around with the absolute solver. This makes me all the more excited and anxious for ep7. Thanks again, tho! I'll be back for more doses of absolute solver rants soon, if that's ok! ^_^

Hullo hullo! I need help. I need absolute solver motivation 😅 I'm running low on my dose of absolute solver information/rants... I... need... sustenance... please *ded*

YES YES YES YES I WILL HELP YOU

ANYWAYS. RANDOM SOLVER INFO AND RANTS LETS GOOOOO

Gonna start with um. SOMETHING FOR SURE. UZI HAS DREW AT LEAST 337 SOLVER SYMBOLS. AT LEAST 258 ON THE CEILING, AT LEAST 51 ON THE FLOOR (in the same scene), 7 IN THE LOCKER AND AT LEAST 21 ON THE STICKY NOTES. Which I think says a LOT. Just shows it even more how this thing takes over your thoughts, most likely even subconsciously, even if not that much time has passed after its activation! At least 316 of those were seen in ep2-3. i, uh, unironically want to draw so many as well

I also. Really like the idea that the solver can affect different drones in different way based on how emotional they are. Doll doesn't seem to show a lot of emotion and she keeps her solver pretty much under control, even if it slowly takes over her as well, it is not as apparent as it is with Uzi. Uzi seems much more emotional than Doll and.... we've seen how it goes with her. Going into a solver form, drawing AT LEAST 337 SOLVER SYMBOLS, literally getting possessed by it in certain points..... Yeah. I think it's pretty safe to say that the emotions play a HUGE role here

Random sudden headcanon moment: I suddenly got a random headcanon/idea that sometimes you can get a weird feeling that you. NEED to use the solver. For.... No actual reason. You just feel like you need to do that. Just a sudden urge out of nowhere

And now. Time to talk about Cyn. Maybe I'll later make a whole post on it, but..... You've seen how she seems she has a bit of a struggle with certain actions AND is kinda glitchy? The way she needs to adjust her head with her hands at moments, that moment where she tried to drink the oil and it just all spill from the cup to the floor, etc? I really like the idea that this happens BECAUSE her mind is so overtaken by the solver that when she tries to do any possible action by herself, she just. Can't do it as easily as other drones. Her thoughts are never collected enough to do so. Well, and there's also the fact that she's a zombie drone, but I do think that the solver STILL plays a huge role in all of this

[md-confessions]

"NO!!! NOOOOO!!!!!! YOU CANT DO THAT!!!! YOUR SUPPOSED TO OBEY ME!!!"

the seven cyn souls:

[im so sorry. for this. thing.]

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[drabblesnooneaskedfor]

Fright of His Life

@indiavolojones Boom! I’ve done the thing!

Barely two months since they popped up, and Cyn's already letting some of their more theatrical traits out, much to the amusement of the House of Lamentation. Well, most of the House, Samson corrects. Their love of a certain musical is one of those small things that didn't get revealed by choice, however. How they revel in it now. "I want freedom, but to get my freedom, I need 'em, to get a living person to say my name~" Samson and Mammon, "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice?," right on cue. They've had this song on repeat all morning while they cook breakfast, so he's become familiar enough with the lyrics by this point. "I know that beggars can't be choosers, but did they have to be such losers~ Both of them are deathly dull and lame!~" Beel joins in this time, "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice." He's already finished the food they brought from work. "Dear God slash Satan," here they point their spatula at the mentioned brother, who raises an eyebrow over his book, "why'd you send these bed-wetters!" They return to their pancakes, doing a little dance while they can't move from the stove. "Even like a tax attorney would've been better!" The music cuts off, but Cyn' pays no mind. "Somebody with gravitas, somebody to fear-" Lucifer clears his throat, wearing the closest to 'casual' he'd probably ever be seen in outside his bedroom. "Some of us are trying to enjoy their days off, without their sleep being interrupted by your caterwauling." Cyn' flips the pancakes before putting them on top of the growing stack, no longer singing, dancing, or even humming. It's quite conversations while Cyn' finishes cooking, with only one loud "BEEL!" from them when he tries to grab the bacon off the griddle.

It's after everyone’s started eating that Cyn' speaks to Lucifer. "You know, that song you cut off's from a musical. A Broadway production, even. And,” they wave their fork at the eldest, “you interrupted a soliloquy." Oh no. They get a sharp grin. Please don’t- "So you're the one who's being rude." Without taking a breath, "Mammon I will give you my paycheck from Hell's Kitchen if you get me out of here now." "Got it!" He quickly scoops them up and bolts out the door. Great. Asmo looks the very picture of offended, Beel’s grabbing the food from their plate, Levi’s snickering, Belphie has this mix of shock and delighted awe on his face, Satan’s coughing, and Lucifer is taking that about as well as you’d expect. “MAAAAAMMOOON!”

Mammon comes back Cyn’-less, saying they were able to crash at work. “Yeah, apparently they’re one of the few who actually come back on a regular basis. Guess that has some perks with the boss.” It’s nearly dinner, and still, no one’s seen them but Beel. “They said ‘hi’ when they came in.” That was about an hour ago, according to Beel’s stomach. So Samson searches the house. Not in the kitchen, the living room, the library, the planetarium, the attic room, the theater, or the music room. Guess he’ll check their room again. Their D.D.D. is still there, playing thunderstorms. There’s a new sound, maybe? Is it coming from the closet? He opens the door, and finds Cyn’ sitting in a ball on the floor. “Everything alright?” Samson sits just outside the closet, facing the door. They shrug. “Just... Had a bad night at work, that’s all. Ran outta energy in the middle of my shift.” Oh. Well, “That sucks.” “Yes, it does. Boss let me take a break though, once I explained what happened.” He nods. “And it got me thinkin’, how it always feels like I’m performing, even when I’m supposed ta be relaxing.” They start drawing in the carpet. “How hard it is, pretending to be normal. Making sure I’m making eye-contact, that I’m not ‘acting out,’ that I’m paying attention to what people are saying.” Samson notices someone’s stopped in the hall, and silently shoos them away. “Just sayin’ I know what it’s like, to make yourself boring on purpose.” Cyn’ adds a dot to whatever they drew. “You don’ gotta do everything yourself, Samson. I can take care of myself.” He honestly doubts that, and he really feels bad for doing so, but if hunkering in their closet is their knee-jerk reaction to being overwhelmed, then how did they survive in the Devildom as long as they claim?

[shslcheshirecat]

The way I haven’t forgiven belphie and he’s not even r e a l

[bigahhhhhhhh]

I think that's how Cyn explodes planets. She possesses the body of the dead drones, that accept her as some sort of deal with the devil as presented in episode 5; because AS is like an eldritch entity, however it can only do its bidding once it gets a body, like a patient 0, and Cyn is that patient zero; and in a way the AS does that with different drones too; example: AS posses J, so it is using J's body but is it the absolute solver but it's posseses J's personality in a way and memories and habilities like two personalities into one. That being said, considering all of these people were killed by N (now that V is out of the picture and idk if J will have a role in these episodes anymore) when can guess that this corpse pile, alongside with every other person that was killed by the trio if brought back to life will want revenge. Which to me is kind of ironically hilarious because they only did that because Cyn, that is kind of their boss in a way, asked them to do it, gave them no way of coming back to earth or leaving their planet, leading them with only the option of obeying or dying; and now she brings all of the people they killed back to life so they get revenge on the main cast. Like damn this girl deserves a medal for both creepiest villain and worst sister in existence. What a bitch. By the way, if someone would like to draw that last part please it would be hilarious. Lol.

So I was looking through old Murder Drone fic ideas that never came to light, and came across a multi-chapter one called Enemy of My Enemy and, uh.

Well, one scene has Uzi bring to life all the (most intact) corpses of the Corpse Spire. And, based on how the show is currently going, I can see that becoming a reality courtesy of Cyn.

Also I once had an illustration idea of Uzi standing at N's grave while wearing his coat. Never got around to drawing it, of course, but now I think I may have to draw N at Uzi's grave if things keep going like they are.

[prideful-sins]

So here’s their tweet, they are going to do it for the other brothers I guess they just decided to start with Lucifer because it’s Lucifer and he’s the eldest lol

[longforyesterday]

Pete did his best to get on with Yoko—he even said she seemed good for John—but according to him, the minute she had achieved her goal, Yoko turned. She started asserting herself and John meekly obeyed. Overnight, he no longer had a will of his own. Yoko had turned thirty-five three months earlier on February 18, 1968, and perhaps she thought she had to do something fast to achieve her ends. Whatever it was that drove her so persistently after John, she finally won. But John did more than open the gates to his estate. He opened the floodgates on the Beatles partnership. Ever since Brian’s death, they had been unsure of their future direction, but they were still together, still best mates. Yoko became a wedge. She went from being “that dreadful woman” to becoming the love of his life, his soul mate. […] At GHQ Apple, we only heard bits and pieces of all this as it went down. Most women whose husbands have betrayed them, get on the phone and call everyone who will listen and then start at the top of the list again. Cynthia was very shy and very private. As far as I know, the only person she fully confided in was Paul, who made her smile and feel better when he said, “Hey, Cyn, how’s about you and I get married?” Paul really lit into John before he sat down and wrote “Hey Jude,” one of his most beautiful and successful songs, to express his love and sympathy for Julian, who was caught up in the middle. Paul, who believed strongly in the family and in family values, told me that he felt as if it was the Beatles themselves who were heading for divorce, not just John and Cynthia. I think that perhaps Paul’s anger and everyone’s disapproval drove John further into Yoko’s arms out of his usual sense of defiance.

Tony Bramwell, Magical Mystery Tours