#the crew of the aurora

[angermango]

i try to warm up and/or fight off burnout by making dumb memes/joke edits for anything (with middling success). this is the PL edition of the latest abominations i concoted in my lab

originals: [1] | [2] | [3 (blank)]

[kandicon]

There is a popular headcanon that Aurora stops talking to the crew and largely goes dormant after the events of Out. And while that's all well and good, it is a headcanon I know I enjoy and it's good that everyone is having fun with it, but it is far more likely that Aurora didn't begin talking to the crew until after the events of Out.

My evidence is the fact the crew (excluding Ivy) didn't know that Aurora and Nastya were lovers until the events of the Breakup story- which can be dated in the timeline by the fact Scuzz is present in it. Admittedly they did know Nastya had a sexual relationship with Aurora, but their knowledge of her sentience is debatable. Furthermore, in A Bedtime Story, Nastya is messing with Aurora speech/story parameters, and all the crew is acknowledged to be aboard (Scuzz is not a part of the list, but Tim, Raphaella, and Marius are, which date it pretty far ahead).

Or if you don't want to go with evidence from the writings, there is the very basic fact Nastya has to translate Aurora's desires to the crew in ouatis.

Nastya fulfilled all of Aurora's social requirements while she was aboard, but she also possibly created those requirements through her endless refinement of Aurora. Just like Aurora was likely Nastya's main connection to someone, too. When she goes Out, there is no one left for Aurora. She's trapped with too large of feelings now and nowhere to voice it.

Really, it's no wonder when she speaks to the crew for the first time, through the speakers she once transmitted Nastya though or through screens aboard. It's an acute horror for the crew to learn her only after she leaves. To learn Aurora as her engineer once did. To truly feel every bullet hole they put in her, every time they wrecked her, once her personhood is forced upon them.

They understand now, but that doesn't make anything any better. They understand, but Nastya is still gone and never coming back.

[adhdzagreus]

thinking about the period of time between the mechanisms performing DTTM and their deaths actually occurring...

thinking about how the mechanisms know how they die but they might not know when they die or in what order.

thinking about them trying to prevent each other's deaths. none of them wants to be the last to go.

raphaella begs the others not to leave marius alone on the ship. tim refuses to leave ashes's side in the hopes he can stop the accident from happening. brian pilots them around pockets of temporal instability and away from backwater asteroids. marius pleads with ivy not to retire. nobody talks about how they die in front of the toy soldier. they don't want to make it sad.

jonny selfishly seeks out bar fights, hoping this time it will finally be the one, and he won't have to watch his friends disappear one by one until a milllenia has passed since the last time he laughed. even if the others mourn him, he doesn't want to still be alive when the rest of his crew are all gone.

none of them know for sure who dies first, but they all know who they don't want it to be, and they all hope it's themselves instead.

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: a digital drawing of the Mechanisms (+ Lyf) sleeping on the floor. Clockwise, starting at the top, Ashes and Nastya are in the 12-3 quadrant, Jonny and Raphaella are in the 3-6 quadrant, Marius is at 6, Lyf and Ivy are in the 6-9 quadrant, Brian is at 9, and Tim and the Toy Soldier are in the 9-12 quadrant. Most characters have their heads towards the center, but Nastya, Jonny, and Marius are reversed. Nastya, Jonny, Raphella, Marius, and Ivy are “creatures” each with a different type of (non-human) animals features, mostly including ears and tail. Ivy and Marius have whiskers as well. Jonny has paw pads and Raphaella has bird feet and hands. Lyf also has wings, a tail, and (non-human) animal llike ears. Nastya’s head is on Ashes thigh and her foot is very close to Jonny’s crotch (and he does seem distressed although, like nearly everyone else, his eyes are closed), Raphaella’s arm is on Marius, Marius is cuddling his own tail, with his foot on Lyf, Ivy is cuddled up to Lyf, Lyf and Brian are holding hands, and Tim’s head is on Brian’s chest. The Toy Soldier’s eyes are open, it is in a purple sleeping bag. Raphaella has an eye mask. Ashes shirt says “Big Boss” with an arrow pointing down, Jonny’s has a graphic of a person on a horse and says “Save a horse, Ride a cowboy,” Raphaella’s says “Girls [heart] my autism swag,” And Brian’s has a picture of a wolf sitting like a man and says “Literally me.” The floor under them is covered in overlapping, patterned rugs. There are some purple tubes that are presumably Aurora’s next to Nastya. End ID]

🎶what do you do with a sleepy space pirate🎶

(commission for @moons-br !!)

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

evil fucked up version of hnoc where brian sings once and future king. just a glimpse into my dark & twisted mind

[sunset-sunbun]

RED I AM MORE THAN CERTAIN WE ALREADY HAVE MORE THAN TWO PROBLEMS-

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: nine images of the Mechanisms with tumblr posts edited into them.

Image One: a photo of Drumbot Brian holding his drumsticks crossed in front of him which standing in front of a painted white brick wall with a text post from @/goldenxtongued reading “i want moss to grow on me. not cuz I’m like decomposing, just like. recreationally.”

Image Two: a photo of Jonny d’Ville on stage with a dead look on his face with a text post from @/jamiebenn reading “if you listen carefully you can hear me whisper ‘shut the fuck up’ at least once every fuve minutes.”

Image Three: two photos, on top is one of Gunpowder Tim looking over a pair of reading glasses with one eyebrow raised and a text post from @/adzolotl reading “you call it ‘really bad at darts,’ I call it freestyle acupuncture;” on bottom is a photo of Ivy Alexandria sitting on the ground in front of a body of water with buildings in the background with an addition to the post from @/sailor--spoon reading “Sir I’m going to have to ask you to leave the bar.”

Image Four: a bust photo of Jonny with a near flat look on his face, holding his gun in one hand, with a text post from @/internetmessiah-deactivated2017 reading “I’ve decided I want to be cremated. Not when I die, just whenever. Surprise me.”

Image Five: a photo of Marius von Raum, crouched among some green plants, with a text post from @/twocubes reading “she knocked that smug look off my face but luckily i was wearing a second, smaller smug look underneath.”

Image Six: a photo of Drumbot Brian sitting on stage and smiling with a text post from @/farm-gayz reading “Be gay, be kind, and fuck capitalism.”

Image Seven: a photo where Jonny has caught Nastya Rasputina, who is bent over, with on arm and is holding his gun pointed at the back of her head with a text post from @/gayarsonist reading “that last guy’s blood didn’t splatter across my face and shirt sexily or artistically enough so i have to kill again. sorry.”

Image Eight: a photo of Ivy crouched, holding a book open in her lap, in front of a body of water, with buildings in the background, with a text post from @/radroller reading “Historians won’t tell you about Attila the Hun’s particle beam weapons.”

Image Nine: a photo of all nine Mechanisms in a V shape on some steps outside, from left to right: the Toy Soldier, Nastya, Raphaella la Cognizi, Tim, Jonny, Brian, Ashes O’Reilly, Ivy, and Marius, with a text post from @/nayx reading “im gojng to jail for excessive cuteness and manslaughter.”

End ID]

hey kids I made you something

part 2

bonus

[murderandcoffee]

I think that the aurora and the ruby 7 should be best friends

[bbaked-beans]

rip drann auroracomic you would have loved air fryers

[iwantofall]

for @meluxzcux :3 the spartans/aurora crew like to tease him

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID, copied from alt text:

Image One: Digital portrait of Nastya Rasputina in dark blue, purple, brown and white.

Image Two: Digital portrait of Marius von Raum in dark green, red, brown and white.

Image Three: Digital portrait of Jonny d'Ville in dark purple, brown and white.

Image Four: Digital portrait of Drumbot Brian in dark green, red, and gold.

Image Five: Digital portrait of Ashes 'Reilly in dark blue, red, brown and white.

Image Six: Digital portrait of Gunpowder Tim in dark green, brown, gold and white.

Image Seven: Digital portrait of Ivy Alexandria in dark blue, purple, red and white.

Image Eight: Digital portrait of the Toy Soldier in dark teal, red, and white.

Image Nine: Digital portrait of Raphaella la Cognizi in dark purple, red, gold and white.

End ID]

distant stars awaiting

(reference photos by thecuriousmagpie and wickedace)

here’s all of them together!!

[captain-dville]

Dear Jonny.

Marius stole my psychology section and is refusing to get it back. Do you have any advice on ways to kill him without staining my books?

..also how do I use this, the library isn't equipped with a Tumblr manual?

@homosexualarchivist

Hey, Ivy. I haven't got the first fucking idea, I stumbled on this site a few hours ago. Mostly just been trying to set up the thing and figure out how many of us are hiding on here. Murder though, I can help with that.

If you're going to be boring and non-bloody about it, then go for classic strangulation. He's really satisfying to choke out, he makes the funniest fucking faces. And it gets him to shut up for a bit.

Hell, thinking about it, maybe I'll go find my Marius now...

[adhdzagreus]

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: Nine edited “you wouldn’t steal a car” antipiracy memes. They has a black, navy, teal, and tan background and the text is unicase white with a black outline. Some of the letters look worn. The text size varies from word to word.

Image One reads: “You wouldn’t blow up the moon”

Image Two reads: “You wouldn’t kill your father”

Image Three reads: “You wouldn’t burn a planet”

Image Four reads: “You wouldn’t fuck the ship”

Image Five reads: “You wouldn’t steal a voice”

Image Six reads: “You wouldn’t fake a medical license”

Image Seven reads: “You wouldn’t bring back the dead”

Image Eight reads: “You wouldn’t be a library”

Image Nine reads: “You wouldn’t perform unethical science”

End ID]

Okay you guys get the other Mechs anti-piracy memes. As a treat.

Tim

Jonny

Ashes

Nastya again so they can all be in one place

The Toy Soldier

Marius

Brian

Ivy

And of course Raphaella

Image IDs in alt text

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

my beautiful girlfriend the starship aurora!! she has teeth and flesh and veins btw!! for mechanisms women's week day 4 time/space. this is because she is a woman and i like her a Normal amount

@mechanismswomensweek

[ID: A digital artwork of the starship Aurora from the Mechanisms in a style reminiscent of a construction paper craft, with paper texture and shadows to show the various "layers" of the piece. The Aurora is going upwards diagonally from the bottom right to the top left. Her grey-pink solar sail, which looks like a parachute, is extended to the top left of the image, and there is a muted smoke/fire trail coming from the bottom of the ship leading into the bottom right. The Aurora is a purple-red ship with three darker fins visible along her bottom, and light purple windows on her main body. The O'Neil ring circles her, with six separate light pink spheres representing the rooms located there. The background is dark purple and spotted with stars. End ID]