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Sanford, I can't understand you!

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snff

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YOU WILL BE MY BF?!?!

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I guess I should take a rest for a while? I've been very unstable lately haha

art with my oc that I still can't finish for some reason

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What do you think about this style?

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grunts are made of code (theory)

hi. i've been trying to figure out how to word this, but basically this is my theory/headcanon for how grunts work, what they're made of. of course, grunts bleed and seem to be made of organic matter, but what about their S-3LFS? how they operate? well, basically, in my mind grunts are made of code. i'll go into this and explain why i think this.

also obvious disclaimer this i just for fun! this isn't matpat game theory where im trying to prove this is actually canon, just my own thought. :) (thank you also to my friend @/fluffydeoxys for the idea, i was inspired by their posts)

TLDR: grunts are made of code and i think that because of several instances in the series, and also a second part about them potentially sharing code.

so for this theory, in my mind basically the code is embedded directly into a grunts' S-3LF, the culmination of their being, what they're made of, etc. throughout the whole series(but more specifically in later entries), there's a present aesthetic of code/glitching, and i think (IN MY OPINION) that it shouldn't be ignored as just an aesthetic choice, so in this theory it's a lot more literal.

i'll go ahead and show the biggest and most obvious example of grunts dna being made of code; scrapeface/an experiment 1.

we see this guys, scrapeface, code being tampered with by their hands being separated from their body, causing a literal glitch. just like a program being corrupted, it starts bugging out and being unstable until an actual crash (in the form of scrapeface blowing up) indeed, all parts of a grunt, their hands and feet, are all important to their metadata.

now you might think, 'ok but an experiment's whole thing is that it's a glitchy horror, scrapeface is just an outlier' good news i have many more examples of this happening!

as you can see, both times sanford (and hank/deimos) are referred to as subjects, and this dialogue is being written as code. auditor trying to obtain sanford is basically like auditor trying to rewrite sanford's code, to locate his file. as we know, auditor is very capable of changing the programming of grunts and corrupting them.

i feel like it wouldn't be unfair to say that doc's recovery of others is reliant on him knowing code, he is a hacker after all. and it just so happens that another character to help revive another happens to also be a hacker.

i mean how else would you explain this

and again here, in mc8, auditor literately coding jeb to infect him with a virus. like how would he be able to do that if he couldn't literately edit and tamper with jeb's metadata?

and apparently you can just easily edit a grunt's data with cmd and some hightech computers so uh. stay safe, grunts.

tricky being generally corrupted is often depicted with gibberish nonsensical code, or straight up errors, which makes sense because that damn clown's code got fucked up by dissonance reality long ago.

also: this isn't a secret to them either, grunts are fully aware of what they're made of.

i think here is an example of them knowing, phobos talks about a 'combat boost' like that's just a normal thing you can give to yourself, but to me that reads as him speaking literately about hofnarr changing his own internal stats. like how in the game you can see your own stats and it's all numbered.

there's many more examples of this code-talk in the series, and i wish i had better explanations as to what they mean but admittedly i am blind when it comes to coding lingo.(but i've also been told a lot of the code actually doesn't make any sense) so now i want to get to my second part of the theory where it gets more meta.

code sharing

OK ILL BE REAL a lot of this part is just because i really like the idea, i'm aware it's very meta-y and literal. but just hear me out!

basically, two grunts are able to share code with each other. now, how this is possible isn't fully clear, but basically it's a process where you can literately share (copying and pasting sort of) code into another person.

my example of this is very meta, but within the game's actual code itself, many characters and enemies/ncps share animations. and this includes doc, who shares many of hank's animations and attacks.

(compiled using the MPNDossier) but doc isn't the only person who happens to share code with another character.

(compiled using the MPNDossier) ......YEAH!

but my problem with this idea is that the question becomes 'okay...why are they sharing code? what does that do?' because i feel like the answer kind of varies.

the first idea that i think is most plausible is that it serves as a sort of business contract. 'you work for me', or maybe 'we work together'. i feel like we can rule out the idea that it's to share the same strength/power, doc is the weakest link in S.Q, so there's no way he's as powerful as hank. (THAT'S NOT SLANDER THAT'S JUST A FACT)

now what the extent of the code sharing does, i'm not sure. i have some ideas for how they actually manage to do it, but considering in both instances it involves two characters who have a lot to do with hacking and coding, i feel like you need to be knowledgeable in that to be able to share code.

my other proof: during the phobos fight in mpn, when phobos strikes this pose when summoning his little demon guys, jeb does the exact same pose and doesn't move.

which means... something. i'm sure it means something for sure.

so yeah, i think that's about it from me, thank you for reading if you did. and again i'm not trying to say this is 1000% canon, it's just more for fun and a kind of neat idea.

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My favorite jawless

(I don't understand how the image loses all quality when you post anything on this damn app)

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YAY!!

I was really worried, but in the end it turned out really cool 🔥

collab with @kinetai, banger stuff

my part

more vv

I really like it in black and white I need to do a full black and white drawing in the future

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small vent(?) sketch

I can't make out my face again :p

Hah... I'd rather do something else

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2b sits down on the ratty old couch next to you. small couch. there is room for him. he has put his coffee mug on the table. he has his laptop open, that might be a graph of something, you can't tell. your eyes got worse, you can't read screens anymore. you shift to watch him type anyway. he starts muttering about the work, maybe to himself, maybe for you.

"clone production shifted to sector four, which means our sabotage was successful. but they're moving their food stores along with the cloning vats, we'll have to follow, we're running low. again. I wonder how their water purification project is going, hopefully they didn't set up a higher security level on that- they didn't. beautiful. I'll send that to deimos he might enjoy building that. need to do another raid for food and medical supplies too, I'm running low on NSAIDs. burning through my supply pretty fast. don't worry about that. we could use some more bandages but that's not urgent yet. aaagh, fuck-"

he's stopped typing. he's holding his hands the way he does on a bad pain day. he's running out of meds for that, he said that already. you lean forward and tap your hand gingerly against the coffee mug. it's empty.

"what? oh. yeah. I'll get a refill in a second. give me a minute."

you don't. you get up and take 2b's mug to the kitchen. sanford is there. you stare at him. eventually he gets what you're asking. he takes the mug and presses the stupid tiny coffee maker buttons to get it to work. and the coffee is done and sanford is gone. you pick it up carefully, you bring it to 2b. the mug is warm. he wraps his hands around it, fingers flat against the sides. you sit next to him. he leans against you. its your sharp shoulder it can't be comfortable. but he stays.

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OH MY GOD, I POSTED SOMETHING ON MY XWITTER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME…

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Why… Why is my feed suddenly filled with furry arts?.. Hey? I actually like the guys from madness combat?? Tumblr thinks they're cute furry girls??? :D

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It's been a long time since I've drawn he ahaha

If he offers you a piece of candy, then know that it is with a "surprise" :)

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WIP again =⩊=