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DJ Music Man's normal body is a 20ft tall 30ft long spider

The DJ couldn't even easily move around the plex either, so Sun builds a smaller body for him, keeping the spider theme

Jigsaw's also pretty happy he has an easier time hugging his boyfriend now

Ruin who i've kidnapped from TSAMS is polyamorous and one of the ones he's dating is the DJ

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DJ Music Man's normal body is a 20ft tall 30ft long spider

The DJ couldn't even easily move around the plex either, so Sun builds a smaller body for him, keeping the spider theme

Jigsaw's also pretty happy he has an easier time hugging his boyfriend now

Ruin who i've kidnapped from TSAMS is polyamorous and one of the ones he's dating is the DJ

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Not me making myself sad thinking about Ruin qq

Im just! He never got a chance! He spent 50 years in his own dimension just trying to survive, not draw attention to himself while he worked on his plans to not just get rid of his Creator, but all Creators that were going to be problems.

And then he gets to 'our' dimension, and while this can't be the ONLY time he's ever had the chance to have allies, it's certainly his Best chance. Especially when they don't kill him! They 'cure' him instead! Surely there's hope!

And then it doesn't

Go

Anywhere

He lived as an ally for 3 months before anyone bothered getting him repaired. He was an afterthought, an awkward annoyance.

And everyone puts such great emphasis on how they didn't trust Ruin-- but I don't think he ever was given a reason to trust THEM. And whatever tolerance or hope he had for finding allies, maybe even friends, went out the window when Moon demanded to pick through his head.

How fucked up is it, knowing you have to corrupt most of your own mind to hide your tracks, because this person for sure will never be an ally? That any hope of being able to get their help in your plan, an effective yet terrible plan, has been completely dashed?

That you're as alone now as you have been for your entire life?

There had to have been alternatives. Maybe if the home crew had been more accepting, if Ruin had gotten access to different perspectives and resources and ideas, maybe an alternative could have been found.

But those things were never an option for him. And of course he stuck with the plan even if it meant Solar would die too-- sacrificing all dimensions for the sake of one person who was only kind of nice to you is a stupid thing to do if you've gotten this far.

(Man it must have hurt to hear Solar's last comment about him be "I guess we should have killed him". Like Ruin was an afterthought of some kind, not even worth addressing directly. Solar might as well have said "I guess I shouldn't have ordered the sushi".)

And yeah i know I'm just a major sucker for accepting punishment gracefully, of the fact that he knows his actions are unforgivable and hasn't tried to argue for any reasons why he shouldn't die-- the most he's said is a small plea that his death is painless, but even then he's resigned himself to suffering. He just wants to help. He's Moon's savior complex and Sun's unshakeable focus smashed together into one.

I know in the show either he's going to sacrifice himself to help, or someone like a Creator will kill him. I don't see him acting as a direct enough threat to justify letting the good guys kill him (congrats Eclipse you graduated to good guy for this).

But man.... I just really want to see someone have been nice to him. For Moon to forgive him somehow, maybe after Solar is back? I wish he could be pulled out of the pit he's in, because there's no light at all for him right now 8(

But I guess that comes with being an Eclipse. There's no hope for you, you're just.... screwed on whatever path you end up on.

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Before he went by the name Ruin/Jigsaw he still went by the name Eclipse and this is still pretty early on in the robot apocalypse when he finds something that will eventually become super precious to him.

Ruin Eclipse has been kidnapped out of TSAMS because they were doing him so dirty

Under a readmore because long

The sounds of screams and gunfire weren’t constant anymore, but you could still hear mayhem off in the distance. The fusion eclipse currently hiding behind the burned-out car hated hearing them. When around the others, they pretended the sounds didn’t faze them, but when on their own they shut off their eyes and held their hands over their audio sensors. Anything to try and block it all out.

The vibrations of violence grew a little more distant, and he felt safe to abandon his hiding spot. Switching their eyesight back on, the eclipse peeked over the top of the car, exposed endoskeleton fingers resting on the roof. The coast was clear. The hybrid eclipse quickly fled the area, not wanting to be there when the others cycled back around.

They darted down abandoned streets, rushing past cars that were still burning, hoping not to run into any survivors. He had no idea what to do if he did. Obviously, if any of the others were around, he’d have to kill the person but when alone it was harder to know. He’d want to let the human go – but what if the others found out?

Eclipse was still learning how to move with one damaged leg. If the others became enraged, they didn’t want it ripped all the way off.

They sprinted across rubble and frighteningly large pools of dried blood, and they almost fell from the sudden vibrations of a fight coming close again. Freezing, they listened, rays twitching slightly.

There were no screams, no pleas for mercy. So it wasn’t more murder just a … ‘friendly fire’ kind of thing. Their motor ran a little faster. They didn’t want to deal with that either.

Ducking into the closest hulk of a destroyed building, the sun-moon fusion bot crouched among piles of debris. Their yellow and blue wrists and yellow and red eyes glowed in the darkness. They hoped that wouldn’t give them away.

All he had to do was wait until they passed. That shouldn’t take too long. Just wait there, quiet. He’d done this countless times.

Eclipse jumped at the sound of voices. They looked around frantically, this way and that. Their rays could only twitch a little now; they would have shot upright in fear, if they still worked properly. But now, they only twitched. The voices weren’t coming nearer but they weren’t fading away, either. Someone in the building? They didn’t recognise them… and a human survivor group wouldn’t have such noisy, open conversations anymore.

… It could be one of those voices, the other type the former attendant had started to hear. The type that showed up when no one else was actually around. They hesitated, then slowly stood up, looking carefully around their surroundings.

He’s heard of museums, from chatting with children, a long time ago. This sort of looked similar to the descriptions, though this place was almost completely destroyed. Once-beautiful cement pillars had crumbled, and all of the display cases had been smashed, glass glittering on the floor. Some shards stuck to the bottom of the fusion’s shoes. Reaching down, he brushed them off, careful to not get any lodged into his exposed hand joints.

Looking around, they used the glow from their wrists and eyes to see more of their surroundings, stepping carefully to not pick up any more glass.

A lot of the display cases, even though now only wreckage on the floor, had been emptied. Only shelving, signage, glass and the sides of old wooden displays lay in heaping piles. Signs sliding off the rubble stated these cases used to hold historic weapons. Swords, bows and arrows, spears. These ancient tools must have been grabbed by humans, for protection. But, would old weapons of stone and wood, or even metal, really work against animatronics that had gone rogue? Stepping over broken wood, Eclipse picked up a very battered wooden rifle, turning it over in his hands. Broken. No trigger and the barrel had large cracks. No wonder no one took it. They tossed it aside and continued on, at times placing a hand on the wall for balance.

One of the next displays had been of various knives and swords – at least, judging from the description plaques, anyway. As expected, large sheets of glass and many thousands of sparkly, jagged shards covered the surrounding floor. This display case was mostly intact, but it slumped to one side. The case was just about picked clean. What would knives do to animatronics hellbent on ending human life? Eclipse had no idea. They grimaced at the thought, hoping that any humans who believed a tiny knife would give them… any sort of protection at least went out fast.

Climbing onto a toppled pillar, Eclipse searched for any part of the floor that wasn’t covered in broken glass when something caught their eye. They slid off the rounded pillar and carefully stepped across shards. They placed their hands on what seemed like the last, mostly unbroken display case. Half the glass front was gone, but on the other side was a very, very large sword. Eclipse was a little under 7ft tall, and looking at the sword, he guessed it had to be roughly 5 foot in length. How could humans possibly use something pretty much their height? Granted, that was probably why it was left behind, but why was something so massive even made in the first place? What a waste of steel!

It was beautiful, though. Yeah, now very dull and it could use a polish, but it was beautiful. The handle was a deep grey, almost black. Plain at a glance, but when examined more closely, there were indents, grooves with little ridges, to help keep a tight hold on the weapon. And the blade. It was so long! And while it wasn’t all that thick, it certainly wasn’t paper-thin. It could be used with force. Something like that probably would be useful against a raging animatronic. The only reasons the eclipsed bot could think of for it being left behind were how long and heavy it was, and how very blunted the edge of the blade appeared. Sharpening something that large would take time and patience. Neither of these were in big supply during the heat of an apocalypse. That and the size. A frightened human trying to wield that might have events take a bad turn.

They looked around, left and right, listening carefully. Silence. Well, other than the constant purr of their own motor functions. The abandoned museum was dark and empty.

Eclipse focused back on the large weapon, rays twitching a little. Moving past where half the glass had been removed to get to what had probably been much smaller blades, they reached in. One hand rested on the remaining glass pane, but even by leaning in and stretching their other arm out, they weren’t even close. They kept inching closer to the sword, but the jagged edges began to scrape their sensitive exposed endoskeleton.

They let out a small hiss and backed away, checking their arm and face, worried about further damage. Thankfully none. The giant, shark-toothed remaining pane of display glass might have been another reason the sword had been abandoned. Even a giant of a human would hate to cut up their arms, especially now all hope of dependable medical care had vanished.

Backing away, the bot looked around for large but lift-able chunks of rubble. He tried to pick up a fragment of a smashed pillar, but his mechanical joints protested. Eclipse let go and heaved a synthetic sigh. Rays twitched in annoyance. Trying again, he grabbed the chunk of pillar with both hands and attempted to heave it up. His mechanical joints screamed, but he didn’t quit.

Eventually he had it lifted to about knee-height. They were simulating panting, just about, fighting against their built-in limitations to lift something heavier than they were designed for.

Holding it tight against their thighs, they slowly, slowly inched closer to the large section of intact glass. They would need to throw it at the glass AND back away as fast as possible to avoid flying shards. It would be… very bad to get razor-sharp bits of glass, like tiny knives, lodged inside their joints. Or worse.  That shouldn’t be too hard…

Eclipse simulated a few deep breaths to calm any nerves and worries about things going terribly wrong.

Once close enough, he stopped and simulated a deep breath to lift the chunk of cement a little higher. Another moment of hesitation and then he shoved the large fragment forward as hard as he could. As soon as it left his hands, he jumped back, staggering a little but somehow managing not to lose balance completely.

He flinched away, arms shielding his face, just as a loud crash rang out. Followed by the extra tinkle of the rest of the glass pane peppering the floor.

Rays twitching, Eclipse lowered his arms and glanced around. Hopefully no one else heard that…

Waiting… waiting… waiting… nothing. Nothing but his own motor roaring inside him and now his cooling fans trying to calm him down. But no one heading inside to investigate the crash.

Another synthetic breath, this one coming out as more a sigh of relief.

Stepping forward, Eclipse avoided as much of the glittering danger as he could but with the fresh wreckage it was impossible to avoid it completely. Luckily he still had both shoes at least.

They reached in and pulled their new prize free from the broken shelving and piles of glass. It had some weight to it. Most likely it was solid steel. The sword was lighter than the cement, though. It took some effort, but he was able to carry it.

…

Eclipse eventually left the abandoned, broken, former museum, clutching their new weapon. They waited until they were fully and completely convinced the coast was clear outside.

…

It’d taken a while to find sharpening and polishing tools.  Weeks even. The eclipsed animatronic had to store his new sword somewhere safe until he was able to actually fix it up. The last thing he wanted was for it to be snatched from him before he could even see if it would be useful.

Finally though they did find the restoration kits they needed. At last, they came across a wrecked hardware store which still had metal files and rasps for sharpening tools, and some soft cloths for shining up silver and brass. They found a quiet safe place to get to work. They were just finishing up. He brought the gleaming blade close to his face, examining it.

“Really does look quite sharp… Now for a quick polish, to pretty you up a bit.”

As the eclipsed bot stroked and wiped the polishing cloths along the length of their new sword, they couldn’t help but admire how it shined in the dim light of the abandoned house.

Once they were finished, they carefully traced a finger along the flat surface of the blade. “Pretty...” They tilted it until they could see themselves reflected on the mirror-like surface. They quickly tilted it away again, averting their eyes. Their Sun and Moon probably wouldn’t have approved of taking such a weapon if they were still around.

It would be fine. They would use it for protection only! … Their rays retracted as far as they were able to. Their confidence in that wasn’t very strong.

Mostly for protection …maybe.

Trying to not think unpleasant thoughts of what they might be forced to do, Eclipse decided, for the moment, they were just going to admire their new beautiful sword. They turned it from side to side, watching it glisten in the low light. Beautiful. Deadly. But, beautiful.

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"Yes. for safety" Sun stated

"Is he still here somewhere?"

Sunny refused to answer that, knowing Nix would want to go talk to him "Starla, sunshine, let me see your finger"

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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Sunny got the repair kit out "lemme fix that up for you real quick"

"Man I wanna talk to this nut" Nix said

"Don't even think about it, much too dangerous" Sunny replied

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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Nixy nodded "Yes! i heard that! I wanted to help take that loony down but Moony sent me a message saying 'Do Not' you saw him though right, lil sis? what was it like?"

Pixel watched out curiously from the arcade cabinet. a text box appearing next to him which read [Limited hearing from in here]

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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"Three? It's just us, lady." Moon called, hoping the other had a clean shot and took it soon

Jigsaw's rays almost fully retracted and they looked away. They stayed quiet, tail tucking between their legs. They weren't going to try to get out of helping anymore.

With a crackle of energy and a flash two wolf monsters appear in the heart of the pizzaplex. One of them looks around for a bit. "This is definitely not where we are supposed to be."

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Once up in the balcony room above the daycare again, Sunny went up the the balloon world arcade machine that Pixel resided in. Nixy was there too. if the crazy fusion eclipse were ever to allow himself to be repaired he and Nix would look like twins! - though Nixy would be a solid foot shorter

Nix, star-tipped tail swishing behind him slightly, was talking to the digital solar eclipse in the arcade who was responding back with text boxes

Nixy's rays shot up like cat ears hearing Sun and Starla enter and he turned and gave them both a happy little wave. then moved so Pixie could see what was going on from behind the screen

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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Sunny giggles, letting their little sister play with their rays

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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Sunrise smiled, rays spinning happily around his head "Come along then! lets leave the security issue to the security bots"

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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Sunny returned the hug to his youngest sibling "Please Starla? Promise me you won't go down there? At least we are sure he's not going to be a threat anymore?"

Sun would need to have a word with Nix privately. the young security bot would probably be wanting to head down there himself to ask questions and he just wasn't There yet. and no doubt if Starla asked, Nix would take her down to parts and service

"I'm trying to get Pixel to transfer out of the arcade and into a tablet, wanna come help with that instead?"

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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Moon and the staff bots dragged the squirming eclipse off in the direction of parts and service

Sunny turned to Starla "Please don't go down there. he might be locked up but could still be dangerous. we don't know anything about him yet"

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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"I'll take the first one but DON'T call me the second! I am NOT an eclipse!" the angry british eclipse yelled

"Sun, can you cut his vocals for a moment? At least until we get him in a holding cell" Moon said, while Sun carefully went to fiddle with the back of the struggling eclipse's head, Moon added "find out what he's going here and what he plans on doing here. then send him back where he came from"

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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if the eclipses's rays still worked they would have flattened like an angy cat's ears "How I look doesn't concern you I look fine!"

"...Sure. and you can Keep looking .... 'fine' in a parts and service holding cell" Moon stated

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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Moony carefully checked her finger "we'll get that covered once we deal with Crazy over here"

"Charles is angry you haven't let me and him bloody go already!" said, 'Crazy' "That's why he cut you! he never cuts me!" Liar

Starla is working in the daycare with Sun and Moon.She has recently started there.The smaller star animatronic's tail wags softly as she cleans up the tables." Man.rough day.thank the stars we are now free to do whatever we want." She says and stretches out her arms.they pop back in place and she turns to Moon." So what's on the agenda tonight?"

Moony picked up one of the last remaining knocked over barrels, his own tail swishing idly behind him as he thought

"Sun'll probably be making plans for tomorrow's groups of kids. Nix will be mostly doing a patrol and then playing some games. we could probably work on getting Pixel out of that arcade cabinet"

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"Good job you got their attention" Moon looked around for any wired - there were none. So staying on the ground it was. Avoiding the back of the room as they were playing distraction, Moon went one way and Nix went the other to try and split up the group of patchworks at least a little

"Yes I know that!" Jigsaw was a little louder than he had to be there, his rays were flat, like an angry cat

With a crackle of energy and a flash two wolf monsters appear in the heart of the pizzaplex. One of them looks around for a bit. "This is definitely not where we are supposed to be."