#She building something big...

[thephonemenarentreal]

Another fool that has shown up a few times, NOW with color and her lore attached... The Self-Styled Mad Genius Engineer, Simulcast.

I just love the mad scientist trope...so what about a mad engineer?

There is no doubt that Simulcast is a genius. She is highly intelligent and there isn't a problem she can't unravel...it is just that comes packaged with a huge ego, a general disregard for others, a bad temper, and delusions of grandeur.

She was the former chief engineer of the TV faction before she was removed from the position and a warrant for her arrest put out after her horrible experiments came to light. And the treason. And the murder. And the general mad scientist bullshit....

Simulcast though is a slippery one and manage to flee to the Conglomerate and after some very heated negotiations, an agreement was come to, brokered by Vector. She now is the chief engineer of the Conglomerate...but if she puts a pinkie toe outside the Pleasure Cruise, the Alliance is 100% allowed to trash her.

So she is kind of under a lowkey house arrest now.

MORE LORE UNDER THE CUT <3

Simulcast is extremely egotistical about how smart she is and every fool should be GRATEFUL she lets them work under her genius in the labs!

Here underlings live in supreme fear of her as she is known to do terrible things to the ones that talk back to her or give her bad news. The engineer team on the Conglomerate is known to work until they collapse just to keep to her standards out of pure fear.

Her last vice-chief engineer got on her nerves and she had Collateral take care of them. She had their body turned into a gruesome fountain in the lab as a warning.

She loves to design unhinged and dangerous experiments, especially prototyping new weapons of destruction to hand off to units to test in the field and report back. She is also known to give weapons to Skibidis too to see what happens

She likes to play video games online and shit talk everyone that dares to cross her. It is a wonder she doesn't get banned, but it might be someone higher up in the Conglomerate letting her have at it.

She likes to talk in grand ways and really is embracing that supervillian mad genius role. However she has a kind of high pitched voice and sounds like an evil hamster....

Simulcast has a reputation for being into the most kinky of bondage and a terrible thirst for big, muscular units that she can make "Good boys and girls".

She has been known to use her poor engineering staff as chairs when she can't find where she threw hers, stepping on them so she doesn't have to walk on dirty floor, makeshift lamps when she breaks one, and even uses her staff to listen to her favorite songs, record thigns for her, or watch TV on them.

Simulcast was the former chief engineer of the TV Faction and the goal was to build the first Titan to get into the field. She did indeed build a very complex AI template that would allow for creation of a Titan without a former mind of a unit. Problem was she had her own ideas of what a Titan should be....

What those ideas are of the AI she produced, elite TVs have put under heavy classification as "antithetical to the morals of the faction".

She was put under arrest and when the elites were sent to arrest her, all they found was one of her engineers modified to look like her and strapped with a self-destruction function that took out half the hangar. Other engineers under her were also rigged into bomb units, causing a lot of damage, destroying the work she did, and forcing a very upset TV faction to start from scratch under a new, less insane, Chief Engineer.

Simulcast evaded capture several times, much to the pure displeasure and anger of Polycephaly. The large TV has made it a personal goal to be the one that takes her down the minute she steps outside. Simulcast finds it cute to have a RIVAL! MUHAHAHA!

Orders are to bring her in alive to get all they can out of her in terms of her research and the like, however Polycephaly believes there will be an "accident' next time and she will be crushed under the nearest building like the wretched insect she is.

She had developed the blueprints for "mind control" of units that she traded with Skibidi Toilet scientists. Later she would give them coding on how to use parasites to control titans, all in exchange for "getting a peak under the lid" of whatever titans they captured.

Her list of crimes is a mile long and she is very proud of it, having embraced her "mad engineer" moniker, which has led to her getting more unhinged in her experiments.

Simulcast went to the Conglomerate that was in need of a Chief Engineer to build them a safe Haven and she fit the bill, however this caused huge tensions between the Alliance and the Conglomerate. Mr. Vector would broker the deal where if she left the Pleasure Cruise, she was free game for the Alliance and the Conglomerate would even have a tracker go off.

Thus she is stuck on the Pleasure Cruise, unable to go out or make contact without them being aware, which she is sore about and takes it out on her "experiments". She usually sends Collateral out to get her things.

Sometimes she gets emails from others asking for her advice on rather tricky problems, but that is always a last resort. She DOES always answer those messages because she likes to show off she solved it and also it is positive social interaction for once and she is so bad at it and so desperate for it

Simulcast has a habit of putting her signature on everything she touches. She signed her name inside Titan Speakerman's core when he was under the skibidi control just to be a complete brat.

She is very much a brat. A loud, temperamental brat that if she doesn't get her way someone gotta pay. She acts only nice and sugar sweet around the Board of Directors as they control her funding and supplies.

Collateral is very much on her side an adores her. Mizzenmatch keeps all eyes on her and she can't even sneeze without them recording it. That keeps her well behaved, if only because Mizzenmatch can control the entire ship and make the elevators close on her neck...

Her head can detached, but she hates when it does it and throws a fit about it.

Her dream is to create her ultimate dream titan using her AI model called the "Chthonic Protocol" which has been built from scratch after her disaster in the TV faction labs. She has gotten the green-light and has been lovingly working on her "Magnus Opus".

She likes to go up and party and can be found all around the Pleasure Cruise floating fortress city, boozing it up in the bars, gambling in the casinos, lounging in the pools, or rubbing elbows at art exhibits.

She tries to pretend she is part of the technocracy and not just a house arrested criminal allowed to live because the Conglomerate can use her to research and build what they need.

Her bad attitude has more or less pushed everyone away from her but Collateral and she brushes off the fact she is rather lonely in that they will all see when her Magnus Opus emerges and then they will be sorry! HAHAHA...ha...ha.....

She really wants to make friends and sort of realizes now she's destroyed every bridge to that and kind of...fucked everything up, so just focuses on her work and bullying her staff because it is too late now to turn things around and try and make amends.

SIMULCAST'S NOTES: The Chthonic Protocol; The Magnus Opus

The original code was too much a passion project honestly. The code was everything the old me would have wanted, not this new me that KNOWS what vision is now! Yes, this new Titan AI program is my baby, incubated lovingly, modified in centimeters with delicate turns. Not a rush job like the last one.

The Chthonic Protocol, named after the moniker of the Greek Gods of the Underworld and Earth, this is something sophisticated and mad genius worthy! I've prototyped it. I've experimented. I've created AIs and units.... and now I got the go ahead to finally build it.

My Magnus Opus. A Titan unlike any before. The pain in the ass is I wanted to get a look at each Titan up close, take apart their minds and make a copy of it down to the littlest detail...but ugh. Titan Cameraman is impossible to get close to. The Titan TV-man's code is fucked up in ways even I can't figure out after his face got smashed in...and I wonder if the faction is aware of that. There goes the top two picks...

So all I got is the Titan Speakerman's AI copy which was the third choice because ugh... speakermen? But beggars cant be choosers... Been messing around with it, working to combine it with the Chthonic Protocol to get it ready for the process by which I shall birth my creation. You know, mad engineer things hehe!

UPDATE It's alive! ITS ALIIIIIVVVE! But shhh. Got to keep it sleeping until the gestation is complete. I can't wait to show them all how wrong they were! They'll be sorry, all of them will be sorry!

[demigodsanswer]

There's this moment in Mark of Athena (I think), where Annabeth kind of internally laments that Percy doesn't listen to her when she talks about architecture. She describes his eyes glazing over etc etc. But there are several moments in the books where Percy recalls facts she told him and shares them with other, or moments where he sees a building he thinks is cool and thinks about her. And I just ... I need Annabeth to know that her best friend & boyfriend is hanging onto every word and even sharing her facts with other people.

[assassin-artist]

besties who slay together stay together..? ❤️

[devilsskettle]

The X trilogy + "psycho-biddy" influences

[pianokantzart]

Looove giving Princess Daisy big hands and thick(er) arms. Make this woman look like someone who could slap Bowser into the stratosphere like she did in Mario Party.

[icyblueroses]

Types of video games Arcane characters would play:

Caitlyn - First person shooters and detective based puzzle games, like Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol

Vi - Hack and slash games, used to be a pro at Smash Bros after playing it so much with her family, but she also has a secret soft spot for visual novels

Jinx - Tetris, bullet hell games, and first person shooters where she also stream snipes Cait for fun

Ekko - Puzzle platformers, like Neon White or Celeste where he’s definitely doing speedruns, and a Stardew Valley save with Jinx

Mel - Society simulation and strategy games, like Civilization or even Frostpunk, but she’ll also play fighting games like Guilty Gear to pull off insane combos

Jayce - Life simulation games, like PowerWash Simulator, narrative choice games with emotional endings, and Minecraft

Viktor - Completely modded out Sims, soulslike games for the challenge, and maybe chill exploration games like Season: A Letter to the Future

And Heimerdinger is playing League of Legends as Heimerdinger

[welcometogrouchland]

Noticing that TV and film will often have a character either have had an abortion in the past that isn't showcased on screen (and just used as part of the character's ~fucked up and twisted backstory~) OR contemplate getting an abortion in the present day but not to through with it. Just once I want to see someone delete that fetus within the events of the plot and not be like. Extremely majorly punished for it and/or be in the wrong

[roots-symphony]

do you think the reason agatha’s trial felt weird is because she was the only one who did not actually buy into the mythos of the road since she knew the truth? like that was why no perspective change and all the other reasons why people thought it was a fake trial

[cornertheculprit]

i saw someone on reddit say that turnabout revolution sucked because apollo had pretty much no reaction to watching jove's last moments compared to his breakdown when he found out dhurke was dead and like. yeah man. he literally says, earlier in the case, that he never really gave enough of a shit about jove to ask about him because he never knew him and considered dhurke his dad ("[...] Plus, I always thought of Dhurke as my dad, so I never really brought it up."/"(My real dad... I was never really interested in learning about him. [...])"). he got curious enough about him when dhurke gave him the photo to ask for whatever details they knew but he still didn't KNOW the guy at all. why would he have the same reaction to his final moments as discovering that the man who raised him was dead.

[milliesnotes]

Why do people keep saying Emily “got ruined”

Y’all she was never nice, are we forgetting she was helping YUL manipulate Grett at the beginning of the season 😐

[hiddenbeks]

oooooo i need to talk abt heidrun so bad. a fun fact abt heidrun is that animals will sense that something is Off abt her. horses will become agitated around her cats will hiss at her farm animals will freeze or flee in fear and it's all very sad

[milfbrainrot]

i know other people are tired of female characters having stories revolving motherhood but god it is so nice to get stories about it that are actually... written with care? i imagine some of the fatigue around these stories is bc of how it's done with the assumption that all women must be or want to be mothers or it's done without any actual examination of the woman's characterization--and i also get tired of those! but there are so many female characters who specifically do not have or want kids as well these days, so i am glad that we can have a balance of ones who are fine without kids but also ones who are well-written as mothers??? idk. it makes me happy that we can have both, because parenthood will always be a thing, even if some people... equate their own preference of avoiding those stories altogether with automatic misogyny when a story does include it at all.

[autism-corner]

wife moodboard to pull me trough the horrors (she is part of the horrors)

[lovelaceisntdead]

Like yes this show is a tragedy and of course none of them are making it out alive but idk this just doesn't sit right with me.

[goldensunset]

so i’m one of two women in this one class and i was in the bathroom and the other girl came in yapping on the phone to someone about the class and like she was talking about being lonely in there but like. i swear i heard her say like ‘yeah like there’s only one other girl in the whole class [something something] i couldn’t tell if that was a boy or a girl at first but it turned out to be a girl’ WDYM. i’m not posting a photo of myself but WDYM????????

[dimension20stuff]

I feel like I've grown so much as a person the past couple years but not in like...quantifiable ways. I am very proud of myself.