#they do on the starship aurora

[saym0-0]

if i ever draw jonny without body hair assume i have been killed and replaced by the not!them

n e ways this was entirely inspired by this post and my eternal need to draw cerberus jonny

[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]

[mechsconfessions]

i just found out there’s smut of nastya and aurora i’m kind of stunned

is it good (asking for a friend)

CANON smut no less

And I wish I could tell you, but I haven’t read it. I’m sure someone here can but that someone is not me

[gizm0-gadgetz]

I think Nastya should be allowed to build a robot body for aroura to interact with. Maybe its not particularly good and constantly breaks or smth

I dunno

I want them to hug

And I like robots

Its really late rn I think I'm going insane.

Gonna scudele this in an attempt to get past the post limit (such a stupid thing

[pixelated-mechanisms-chaos]

Would you be mad if the Aurora in the Nastya game is not like the canonically described and referenced Aurora?

[Below taken from a wiki]

"She also is partially biological. She is noted to be biomechanical, and Maki has expanded on it in the Discord, saying that she has flesh and teeth.

Additionally, there is a reference to Nastya being 'inside Aurora's veins', and a semi-canon fanfiction by Morgan Wilkinson elaborates on the specifics of this, confirming that the veins are literal and Aurora has a heart. There is also a machiya onboard."

And.

"She is orbited by an O'Neill ring, where the Mechanisms live. There is gravity there but not in the main body. She is powered/moved mainly by a solar-sail, which is maintained by biomechanical spider repair drones."

These are things i don't think i can implement well with rpg maker, especially the zero gravity part

The veins and heart would not be accessible in the game, so i can worry less about that, but just with the software i own, i can not stay true to cannon.

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

~fiction spoilers~

it's so silly but it's also deeply Fucked Up.

it's first 'owner' that we know of (the old lady) made it say that it loved her and she treated it like an extension of her dead husband.

it was put into a museum as a talking exhibit when she died. it left eventually, and joined the salvation army, again forced to say things it didn't quite understand. does it matter, really, if it understands what it is forced to say again? it's done it once already

then it left, and went deep into the earth, in the seediest bars. it saw a singer, and fell in love, all the while knowing it was not real. the angel 'didnt know' this, but she stayed with it anyway. the angel fell in love with someone who the toy soldier believed to be more real, so it stole the angel's voice while she slept, with naught but its fingers and a bottle of whiskey. (and this might be the least real that it feels, for however could something made of clockwork be loved?)

devasted by the loss, without a purpose and adrift, the toy soldier joined the rose reds. did it know, yet, that it couldn't die? did it know it would live forever on?

somewhere along the way, it might have found its way to terra, the homeland of the good doctor. did this entwine its fate with the crew it did not yet know?

years later, the toy soldier is once again treated as nothing more than a bit of woodwork. it is picked up by a band, that roams the universe. it sees many a battle, and eventually, all of its friends die.

and it was never real, so what does it all matter?

tldr: i am unwell about the toy soldier also

excuse me but i am not ok about the toy soldier.

i’m new to the mechs fandom but it's always struck me as a fun, whimsical character? it's just vibeing! it's just here to have fun! but then it sings it's own song and it's full of this quiet sadness? the whole song feels so soft and wistful. "marching ever through the black." no true home, no true purpose. just fighting, obeying whatever order it's given. and maybe once it was created for something, but you get the sense that whatever something that might be, TS lost it a long time ago. and it's so tragic? “no heart to break, so shed no tear.” the song makes it feel so clearly alive, and so horribly lonely. yeah jonny always says the toy soldier is enjoying itself, but is it really? or is it just following blindly down the only path it's ever known, because it doesn't know how else to be?

[gunpowderdtim]

It's no wonder Out happened when you really think about it. Nastya doesn't like organic life because it's complicated, it can break, sometimes it's even unfixable.

quote from gender rebels

Nastya is in love with Aurora, and in saying that she is saying "you are not organic life, I can deal with you because you are metal and algorithm and predictable" - we can see this in bedtime story when she says she'll tweak Aurora's story creation algorithm

screenshot from A Bedtime Story

Aurora is not inorganic. She is not ai. She is a space moon made of flesh and blood and teeth and bone. She is not an ai. She is a body that was taken and stripped of autonomy, of the right to self identify, of the right to think- to be imperfect and organic.

The metal is a veneer that hides how messy and traumatized and unfixable she is. From the outside she is a starship. From the inside she can still bleed.

And this makes them fundamentally incompatible. But yet, they are in love.

And really, it's no wonder Nastya fell in love with Aurora. Let's take a look at Nastya's home planet, or at least home society:

"Terminals were scattered across the planet. There was one on every street corner, one beneath every lamppost and one in every commune block." "The midwife-machine performs a series of programmed manœuvres to quieten [the baby]. It cradles it and hums at several pitches until it finds one that seems most soothing. Mechanical arms stroke the baby’s flesh even as others start the process of implanting augmented reality interfaces into its nervous system." "The Czar an atrophied frame, never present in the real world and worn to dust by the chemical compounds that kept his brain alive so it could live forever in a perfect virtual paradise. The Rabotnik a copy, a mind preserved unchanging in the instant before its death and placed in an everlasting metal frame." (Cyberian Demons)

Its safe to say the world Nastya was born into, from the very minute she was born, was ridden with technology. She has augmented reality interfaces inplanted into her from birth. It would stand to reason that being taken from this society, wherein technology is everywhere, inside and out, would stand for a bit of a shock.

Aurora too had been augmented by the Cyberia.

While it is stated that the last time Nastya had used the ports themselves was directly before her death — "The last time she had used the ports, her tutor had ripped them out of her as the rebels stormed the palace" — Aurora is laced with Cyberian technology. I'd imagine she has something of a 'bluetooth wireless connection' with Aurora, rather than the physical data transfer of files between the ports and Nastya, it may as well be similar enough.

Imagine being Nastya, going from Cyberia, wherein there is augmented reality contantly, transplanted onto a ship with metal blood, a jonny, and a vampire. To Aurora, where the only bits of augmented reality run through Aurora.

Of course she'd fall in love with her. Aurora is familiarity. Aurora isn't organic. Aurora isn't human.

And of course when the undeniable part of aurora that is organic, that is a flesh moon plated in metal with her brain hooked to machines, when so much has broken and been replaced, when, presumably, aurora is less of an algorithm, nastya leaves with the brand cyberia left on her.

Because Aurora healing, becoming more of herself and less of a starship, is messy, and organic, and human.

and hard for nastya.

‘Think how long she’s been flying you around. Think how many bullet holes you’ve punched through her and how many atmospheres you’ve dropped her through. Think how many alterations and improvements we’ve made, Tim to her guns and Ashes to her storage and Brian to her engines and the Toy Soldier to who knows what. How much do you think is left of her after all she’s brought you through?’ Nastya held up the ancient, battered piece of hull plating. Just visible under the grime and scars of particles of space junk was a fragment of the Aurora’s original logo and serial number. Jonny honestly couldn’t remember the last time he had seen a version that hadn’t been painted by the Mechanisms themselves. ‘So she’s free, now.’ Nastya gestured around at the spaceship they were standing in. ‘This Aurora can take you where you want to go. I’m going to take my Aurora somewhere else.’

Aurora was ship of theseus'd. Aurora was improved. Aurora was no longer cyberian. (both literally, and metaphorically)

So nastya left.

[sugar--brown]

The mechanisms were Jon's college band AU

You see this AU crossover between The Mechanisms and The Magnus archives? Yeah, I like that one.

But I prefer the two groups being only linked by Jon. So, Nicholas is not Toy Soldier, Basira/Georgie is not Ashes, etc... I just like to think Jon has the coolest friend group/family to hang out outside of work and no one except Rosie knows about the mechs.

I want to try writting a chatfic too, so here it is. It's just the first chapter but I'm so anxious that I can't continue for now...

- Monday, 06:02 - The crew of the starship Aurora

Jonny d’Ville: sent a photo

[The Magnus Institute stands tall over the photographer; they had to bend backward a bit to capture the top of the building. The grey sky of this early September morning makes a great background for the golden dome, which overlooks the institute]

Jonny d’Ville: I am here.

Ashes O’Reilly: didn’t you work here for 4 years now?

Gunpowder Tim: yeah you sound like a little kid telling his family that he arrived safe

Raphaella la Cognizi: are we ur family jon? its so sweet

Toy Soldier: Awww (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Jonny d’Ville: Shut up! You are the ones who insisted that I send you news more often.

Nastya Rasputina: Just say you are nervous about your new job and that you try to buy time by talking to us.

Nastya Rasputina: Iris whishes you good luck.

Jonny d’Ville: Are you together right now?

Nastya Rasputina: Yes Jon, at 6am we are not at work yet. Only you do that.

Ashes O’Reilly: wait hang on why are you awake Tim?

Ashes O’Reilly: I thought you were doing the night shift

Gunpowder Tim: Don’t worry big sib Alex, I go right to bed after giving some support to our first mate ;)

Jonny d’Ville: It is captain for you.

Gunpowder Tim: FIRST MATE

Nastya Rasputina: FIRST MATE

Ashes O’Reilly: FIRST MATE

Toy Soldier: FIRST MATE

Raphaella la Cognizi: FIRST MATE

Marius von Raum: FIRST MATE

Drumbot Brian: FIRST MATE

Ivy Alexandria: FIRST MATE

Jonny d’Ville: Oh! Now you are all here!

Toy Soldier: Take it as us wishing you good luck (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

Jonny d’Ville: Fine. I do not have time for that anyway, I am already late.

Nastya Rasputina: You are certainly NOT.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- - 09:32 -

Jonny d’Ville: Does anyone know how to find and catch a dog without any property damages?

Gunpowder Tim: … what?

Raphaella la Cognizi: do u have some dog food with u?

Jonny d’Ville: Of course not!

Nastya Rasputina: Context.

Jonny d’Ville: Yes, right.

Jonny d’Ville: Elias (my boss) decided to assigned a third assistant to the archives. He’s sloppy, slow, clumsy and had let a dog in. It had been thirty minutes that we all try to catch it.

Gunpowder Tim: Aren’t you supposed to work in some kind of archives, J?

Jonny d’Ville: I do.

Raphaella la Cognizi: i want to meet ur new assistant

Raphaella la Cognizi: i like dog send a picture!

Jonny d’Ville: Yes, thank you Raphaella, I will. But, I really need to find the beast before it makes serious damages or my boss learns about it.

Gunpowder Tim: You didn’t see where it went?

Jonny d’Ville: Sadly, no. It went straight into the depth of the archives.

Nastya Rasputina: I can feel your anxiety through my phone. Deep breath, it’s not the end of the world.

Jonny d’Ville: It could be the end of my career.

Nastya Rasputina: No.

Gunpowder Tim: Send us a picture Jonny-boy, maybe we could help!

Jonny d’Ville: sent a photo

[The photo is a bit blurry and dark, but it’s possible to see shelves full of files and papers, boxes on the ground and a few old office furniture scattered around. On the floor, a muddy trail is barely noticeable.]

Raphaella la Cognizi: paw prints!!!!

Gunpowder Tim: Follow the mud Jonny!

Nastya Rasputina: Just treat the dog like a very active cat and bring it back outside, its owner should search it.

Jonny d’Ville: Thank you, everyone, I think I hear it now.

Raphaella la Cognizi: No prob!

Gunpowder Tim: You got this!

Nastya Rasputina: Don’t freak out and don’t overthink it. It’s just a job like any other.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- - 10:23 - The crew of the starship Aurora

Toy Soldier: Did I just miss Jon chasing a dog in his workplace?! ｡･ﾟﾟ*(>д<)*ﾟﾟ･｡

Raphaella la Cognizi: he promised to send a picture

Toy Soldier: (❤ω❤)

Jonny d’Ville: sent a photo

[It’s a closeup of the spaniel sniffing at the camera. The pavement of the sideroad is visible just like the wagging tail of the dog]

Raphaella la Cognizi: doggie! thanks jonny u made my day! pet it for me!

Toy Soldier: ฅ V•ᴥ•Vฅ!!! <3

Jonny d’Ville: My nerves are officially fried.

Toy Soldier: More than the time you asked Georgie out?

Jonny d’Ville: shut up!

Raphaella la Cognizi: come on j! it can happen to anyone no need to stress

Jonny d’Ville: I don’t need a surprise new coworker who mess things up first thing in the morning.

Raphaella la Cognizi: sounds like good story!

Toy Soldier: Yes! Tell us!

Jonny d’Ville: It’s nothing. Just Elias not warning me that I will have a third assistant. And the said assistant let a dog in the archives when he arrived. He looks clumsy, dumb, and useless.

Jonny d’Ville: I swear! He tried to buy me with a cup of tea! How disgustingly sweet is that? And he wears the most hideous and soft looking jumpers I have ever seen!

Jonny d’Ville: Disgusting.

Jonny d’Ville: Why is no one saying anything anymore?

Raphaella la Cognizi: nothing nothing

Toy Soldier: Just go back to work! ρ(- ω -、)ヾ(￣ω￣; )

Jonny d’Ville: Right. Yes. Better to get back. Have a nice day.

Raphaella la Cognizi: luv u!

Toy Soldier: (⌒ω⌒)ﾉ

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- - 12:11 - Tim to Jules

Tim: Marius

Tim: Marius my good man

Tim: Marius our real psychologist

Tim: Marius our ship doctor

Tim: Jules! It’s important come on!

Jules: Can’t I have one lunch break in peace?

Tim: Not when Jonny is dropping bombs like that in the group chat!

Jules: Let me check

Jules: Oh my

Tim: Soooooo?

Jules: yeah, the new assistant caught his attention.

Tim: just like with Jun!

Jules: like with Jun?

Tim: we never told you this story?

Jules: I know they were best friends over their mutual love of gothic, tragic, and angsty storytelling and that Jun taught him queerness but I’m not sure how it applies here

Tim: we didn’t tell you! Oh this is great! Let me tell you what happened before Jun and Jonny became Dr Carmilla and Jonny d’Ville.

Tim: well technically Jun had had already her persona but you see my point

Tim: alright so Jonny was this weird, emo, kid in first year of college. He was a mess really, worst than when you met him.

Tim: Jun was a Japanese student here in London to study for a year before going back to Japan and welcome London’s students. Exchange program yada yada yada…

Jules: I know that, you know?

Tim: shhhhhh… let me tell the story

Tim: so! When Jun started to be better than him in their literature class, Jonny was mad! I wasn’t even his friend but I could see it, the two of them spent all their breaks bickering. Jonny in his soft, shy, but angry voice and Jun in her broken English mixed with Japanese.

Jules: Wait hang on

Jules: They weren’t friends because they were good at the same things?

Jules: I thought that Jonny always treated Carmilla like some kind of idol, having a little crush on her and all.

Tim: they did after exchanging notebooks by accident! Jonny loved Carmilla’s songs so much and Carmilla loved his stories so much that they finally talked normally and became friends

Tim: and yes Jonny had very strong feelings for Carmilla from the start, but he’s just terrible at expressing it

Tim: like a kid bothering another one because they don’t know how to keep their attention on them

Tim: but I doubt it was romantic

Jules: Wait wait wait

Jules: are you implying that this new assistant Jonny just met is his new crush?

Tim: that’s what I’m asking you!

Jules: well… it’s true that Jonny has troubles to express himself…

Tim: mh mh!

Jules: but it could also be because he’s very stressed from having being promoted to head archivist and having to deal with someone new when he requested his colleagues.

Tim: yeah, “colleagues”

Jules: We both know what he means ;)

Jules: My diagnostic: we can keep an eye on it

Tim: Yesssssss

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- - 17:01 - Archives team baby!

Timothy had created the group Archives team baby!

Timothy had added Sasha

Timothy had added Martin

Timothy changed Sasha’s name for Hacker

Timothy changed Thimothy’s name for Inspector Tim

Inspector Tim changed Martin’s name for New Guy

Inspector Tim: Here we go! All done!

Hacker: Well that was quick, one minute after the workday is done. Impressive.

Inspector Tim: What can I say? I am a man of many talents! ;p

Hacker: Can’t deny that.

Hacker: But if allow me…

Hacker changed Hacker’s name for Sasha

Inspector Tim: Hey! I didn’t allow you!

Sasha: It would be easier for Martin to remember our name if we keep them written on this chat.

Inspector Tim: But he needs to know the dynamic too :(

New Guy: I don’t mind either way… whatever you prefer

Inspector Tim: Don’t be shy! We are all friends here!

Sasha changed New Guy’s name for Martin

Inspector Tim: :( :( :(

Sasha: Let’s keep it simple for now.

Inspector Tim: Alright alright but I keep Inspector Tim because I’m wonderful

Inspector Tim: So! Let’s play 20 questions!

Sasha: I thought you wanted to do it at a pub

Inspector Tim: This is the sober version, so we can compare ;)

Inspector Tim: Here’s the rules! Sasha and I know each other so we will team up. We will ask a question, you answer, and you ask a question, and we answer. 10 questions by team! Got it?

Martin: I think…

Sasha: Play without me, I’m entering the no signal part of the tube.

Inspector Tim: aw :(

Inspector Tim: Well I start then! What do you think of Jon?

Inspector Tim: Martin?

Inspector Tim: I see you typing for three minutes straight now, I’m getting worried

Inspector Tim: No pressure! You can refuse to answer.

Martin: Sorry!

Martin: It’s hard to find the right words…

Inspector Tim: Relax!

Inspector Tim: I won’t tell him ;p

Martin: I guess he’s alright… he seems professional and hardworking, I’m glad to work with him

Inspector Tim: That sounds like more a job interview but fair enough! Don’t hesitate to come see us if you have troubles, he can be a bit…

Sasha: special.

Inspector Tim: Yeah! That! But he’s nice

Inspector Tim: Deep deep deep down

Inspector Tim: (glad to have you back sash’)

Sasha: Your turn, Martin

Martin: What is your favourite band/song/music?

Inspector Tim: A safe choice but a very interesting one, very smart…

Sasha: Since I know Tim is busy googling the exact song he wants you to judge him on, I will answer first.

Inspector Tim: *thumb up*

Sasha: I like songs which tell stories, no matter the gender, I’m not a fan of generic lyrics.

Sasha: @ Inspector Tim your turn

Inspector Tim: Already?!

Inspector Tim: You lost your flamboyant speech

Inspector Tim: The archives fed on it

Sasha: Stop being dramatic and answer the question

Inspector Tim: Kay kay

Inspector Tim: It’s I kissed a girl of Katy Perry

Inspector Tim: The perfect mix of queerness for me

Sasha: Tim is pan, for context. So a song celebrating lesbian loved by a queer man is a good definition of him.

Martin: That’s great!

Martin: I mean no

Martin: Yes!

Martin: I just want to say that it’s great that you are comfortable with it

Martin: Not like you couldn’t be!

Inspector Tim: Relax Martin, I get it

Inspector Tim: And thank you!

Sasha: Really, Martin, we just want to integrate you in the group, so no stress.

Martin: Thank you

Martin: It really means a lot

[kidlit-queen-competition]

Round 2 Poll 14: GLaDOS from Portal vs Nastya Rasputina from the Mechanisms

entry propaganda:

GLaDOS

big!! lovely!! will kill you!! loves you (in-game woman protagonist) a lot!! also hates you!! <3 big robot also <3 a robot that by extension is the entire science lab <3

Weirdly obsessed with another woman and fucks with her "for science"

Had a very fun codependent relationship with Chell which led to me discovering fan fiction in middle school

In unrequited(?) lesbian love with the main character who is also her test subject in the first game and the beginning of the second game. Literally writes and performs a gay-ass aria to her. Has written 4 songs about her if you count the one that’s cut content and the one in the lego game. Also her entire character motivation is “science” until it becomes “science and revenge.” Caused MANY, MANY lesbian awakenings

GLaDOS does it all - evil robot science MILF. While not necessarily a lesbian, a fondness for her is a lesbian trait, and her two songs are breakup songs w/ a woman, so read into that how you wish.

Nastya Rasputina

She is canically gay and is the engineer of the starship. Who is sentient. And her girlfriend. Yes the starship is sentient and her girlfriend.

canonically wlw AND trans. is literally dating her sentient ship, Aurora (in both a romantic and sexual sense.) shes the last princess of Cyberia, which is pretty much just Sprussia (Space Russia) (her backstory is really just the Romanov massacre but make it cyberpunk).

She is an imortal space pirate. She's dating the spaceship (who's name is Aurora). She has mercury for blood. She has forced the mechanisms to go do quests because Aurora was sad. She has the most autistic swag of any charcter I have ever seen.

Canonically a lesbian and dating the sentient starship aurora!! Also immortal space pirate

Not only is she the engineer of a sentient spaceship, she's also in a romantic and sexual relationship with the ship!

[drumbbot-brian]

Addressesd to Mr Brian of the starship aurora

You owe us

You owe me

You owe me alot

I kindly suggest you pay what you owe or I'm going to get myself a new addition to the suit of hearts

Unkind regards

Phanandra addler, the snake eyes casino

Ah, someone still angered? I did what I had to do, your casino was awfully unkind. But, alas...my heart isn't something to put on a pretty pedestal, unless you're looking for a trophy wife, though I am taken.

I have some sort of a deal, if you're willing to hear me out.

[mechtober]

Welcome one and all to Mechtober 2023, courtesy of @heliophaestus and @therainbowtea !!!

You are not required to finish every prompt, and don't have to start on the first day. Join when you like, finish when you like, and do what you feel comfortable with. Askbox is always open for clarification!

Other guidelines are to please tag appropriately, especially if your work goes beyond canon-typical subject matter. This account will be trying to reblog all contributions, so please make sure to tag work under #mechtober 2023 , #mechtober, or #mechtober 23. Don't hesitate to @ us to guarantee your pieces get seen! If a day has gone by and it still hasn't been reblogged, dm this account with your post and it will be added. [ID: A prompt list for Mechtober, with a background of the inside of a spaceship, with one prompt per day.

The Starship Aurora

Gunfire and explosions

Mechsona

Fav Mech

Backstory

Makeup and scars

Airlock

Fav Album

New Texas

Doc Carmella

Unused folklore

Belief

Found family and/or relationships

Peacemaker

Tarot

Photoshoots

Clothes/role swap

Drunk Space Pirate

Narration

Redesign

Cyberia

Headcanons

Fav quote

Inhuman

(No) Happy Endings

Liveshows

Shenanigans

War

Crossover

Fav death

Beginnings and ends

/End ID]

[dropitdoeeyes]

Jonny D’ville butch transgirl to me. btw. Finally dropping the mechs takes. She’s so everything in my heart

[ID: A drawing of Jonny D’ville depicted from the thighs up, leaning against the stone wall of an alleyway. She has a relaxed expression on her face, eyes shut, smiling with a piece of wheat between her teeth. She has an arm behind her head, hand in her hair, the other in her pocket. She’s wearing an unbuttoned white shirt and black pants. Besides Jonny is a wanted poster that reads: “Wanted. Jonny D’ville of the starship “Aurora.” Crimes include: Murder, grand theft aether, murder, arson, unliscenced foul language, murder again, public drunkenness, every form of piracy, so much murder. Reward: 2,000,000 credits. Dead, do not take alive. Last seen performing free storytelling musical cabaret at :venue:, :time: everyday.” Jonny is lit in a warm yellow coming from above. End ID.]

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

nastya on a desert planet!! 🎻💿

[Image ID: A drawing of Nastya Rasputina from the Mechanisms. She stands slightly off-left of the camera, in a desert. Nastya is a white woman with skin that is almost grey. She has shoulder-length brown hair, and below her ears her hair is dyed a bright teal colour. Nastya has a flat nose, and wears rectangular glasses. She wears a long grey button up shirtdress, with baggy dark blue ankle-length pants beneath. On her neck Nastya wears a small silver cat necklace, and holds her viola in her left hand, with her bow in her right. Her viola appears to be electric, and the only frame for it is jet-black curves on the inside. The desert behind her is made up of mesa-like cliffs as well as small yellow-gray sand dunes at the bottom, with small round cacti. There are clear strata in the cliffs, with many red, white, and brown colours. The purple night sky has three visible moons in a line, the leftmost being the largest, as well as several small starts. The starship Aurora floats in the top right corner of the image. End ID]

[crazylittlejester]

Do you have a list if songs that fit some of the Lu boys? If you do can you share them?

I have playlists for all of em!! Some of the songs are based more on vibe than lyrics, but I’ll pick one song (spoiler alert: I failed to only pick one) for each of em!! (my friend says this really shows how i interpret all of em lmao and it’s also a bit reflective of what i think their music tastes would be like, but here ya go):

Wild: The World We Knew (or Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men)

Warriors: GOSSIP (ft. Tom Morello) (or I Bet On Losing Dogs by Mitski, OR Starships by Nicki Minaj, OR She Looks Like Fun by Arctic Monkeys, it’s very hard for me to not keep listing off songs rn I have SO many more-)

Four: The Moss (or Runaway by Aurora)

Twilight: From The Start (or Southern Nights by Glen Campbell because I genuinely think he would like and listen to that song, also Neon Moon by Brooks & Dunn)

Time/Mask: Separate Ways (or Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin OR Don’t Cry by Guns N’ Roses)

Hyrule: La Vie: A Colors Show (or Jusqu’ici tout va bien by GIMS)

Legend: Mama, specifically this version (or Bernadette by IAMX OR Immortals by Fallout Boy)

Wind: Puppy Princess (or Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz)

Sky: Rises the Moon (or Mr. Loverman by Ricky Montgomery)

if you have any questions about why i stuck a specific song with a specific character i will do my best to answer coherently or if you want more of my playlists for each of em just ask aldkdkdk

[daedalus-over-heaven]

Who is my favourite mechanism?

The Starship Aurora is my favourite mechanism. She’s complex and expansive and wandering her halls feels like a warm hug; I love how she cares so deeply for her crew. I would literally die for her if asked, she’s everything to me <3

Jonny D’Ville is my favourite mechanism. I love the way the first mate’s eyes sparkle when he tells a good story; I love how he lights up when there’s a new opportunity for violence. He deserves the world and more.

Nastya Rasputina is my favourite mechanism. The engineer is so beautiful in her love for Aurora; I love how she’s as empathetic towards machines as humans. And her skill on the violin is second to none.

Ashes O’Reilly is my favourite mechanism. When the Quartermaster starts a fire, they shine just as bright; they love doing paperwork and making spreadsheets as much as they enjoy taking over and burning down entire worlds. I just think that’s neat.

Ivy Alexandria is my favourite mechanism. The Archivist’s quiet nature and peaceful outlook is not to be underestimated; I love how fiercely protective she is. She contains incredible multitudes.

Drumbot Brian is my favourite mechanism. The Pilot is thoughtful and rational but that never stops him having fun; I love his mischievous streak. Sword Tag with Brian sounds like such a good time.

The Toy Soldier is my favourite mechanism. I adore how cheerful the Mascot is; it always greets you with a smile and the most wonderful cup of tea. It has the voice of an Angel.

Gunpowder Tim is my favourite mechanism. The Master at Arms is warm and welcoming to those he considers family; I love how he knows love so deeply and will do anything not to let it go. The glint of menacing joy in his mechanical eyes is beautiful when he picks up his gun.

Raphaella La Cognizi is my favourite mechanism. The science officer is so creative and always coming up with new experiments; I love the sound of the wind sailing through her mechanical wings. She flew close to the sun and it still shines like a halo around her.

Marius von Raum is my favourite mechanism. He’s neither a Baron not a Doctor but that never stops him from pursuing his interests; I love his fun fashion sense and his unwavering resolve. He raises such fascinating points about life and humanity.

When I say I don’t have a favourite mechanism, that’s not exactly true. There’s something I love dearly about each and every one of them. I can’t put into words just how much they mean to me <3

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Mechtober 2023, day 1: the Starship Aurora. Wanted to do something with the fiction where Aurora tries to tell Nastya a bedtime story