#Artemis udad

[brownshoes]

Old drawing of my UDAD Artemis headcanon :3 I gotta post more of my mechs art here

[rainbowstargazerlilies]

Mechs Ships Tournament: Shipping Preliminary Round Poll 12

Propaganda:

Ivy/Jonny: Gayed a little too close to the sun with these two.

Artemis/Actea/Lyssa: it would be funny

Odin/Crawling Chaos: rainbow and train woman

The winner of this poll will advance to the full bracket :)

[fanartbyherd]

Me having silly head-cannon designs for the other Olympians form Ulysses dies at dawn by the Mechanisms.

As well as what their role in the city is outside of being crime bosses and mobsters. I’m not 100% certain with all these designs, but they are something.

Introducing from top to bottom, left to right.

Zeus - the biggest crime boss of the city. He practically owns the utilities, especially has a monopoly on most of the cities power grid. He controls a lot of the city by keeping it in the family and he has a big family. (he/him)

Poseidon- powerhouse in industry who’s main competitors are hestia and hepatitis, but they work in a shaky alliance as often as they work against eachother. He also has control of all the resources that come from what’s left of the oceans.(he/him)

Hera- the ultimate socialite. Anyone who is anyone wants to be invited to her shindigs. To be dropped from the invite list is to be declared socially dead. She controls large parts of the cities everyday burocratices and especially when it comes to marriage, funerals and organized festivals. Paperwork needs her seal of approval to be legal. She is known to be petty. (She/her)

Apollo- a huge influencer, dominates the social media and content viewed by the masses. Most of his power comes from his control of the medical sector, but he distracts the population from that fact by his contributions in the arts and music. Called the sun of Olympus. He is sometimes called the sun of the Olympians and is set to take over as head of comity if Zeus ever steps down (not happening) has a particular dislike of the Coptic gods, Hades in particular. (he/him)

Athena- she is a powerhouse in libraries, education, and the legal network. They know the laws as they wrote most of the laws. She is also a great sponsor of the arts. she runs the newspapers and has a web of information.(she/them)

Hermes- transportation, shipping and delivery, they also essentially run large portions or the cities information network. They are sometimes called the ghost of the internet along with their assistant Iris. (they/them)

Artemis- law enforcement and jails. She has her elite huntresses who deal with outlaws and criminals, renegades and thieves. She also preserves the little that remains of the cities “wild places” this is most of the time more of luxury gardens than anything that is actually wilderness. She is often considered one of the weakest of the Olympians, but as she has the backing of her brother no one bothers her, she is also a lot more powerful than people really give her credit for. After all the weakest Olympian is still more powerful than the strongest mortal king (she/her)

Demeter- the madam of food. The farms of the cities are hers and everyone relies on her food. She has adopted the mysterious ‘Persephone’ as her daughter (she/ her)

Hephaestus- the other powerhouse of industry, but focusing more on specialized goods and luxuries. Him, Aphrodite and Aries have a well known on-again-off-again situation going on. He is also know for creative (he/him)

Aphrodite- she defines beauty. Their head can be removed and swapped out as well as most of their other body parts. She controls cosmetic industries and clothing trends. He is the ultimate pimp. Running all the cities brothels and red lights districts even if doing so In the shadows. (she/them/him)

Note: Aphrodite was sort of inspired by princess langwidere from the wizard of oz. Because she is low key horrifying and I think it would fit.

Ares- the machines of war, the defenses of city districts, personal security, and criminal activities are all places where ares turns his attention. War is business and they make certain business stays booming. (they/them)

Hestia- she is that one essential oils lady, queen of home gadgets and MLMS. This Olympian has for centuries monopolized housing and construction. She is the largest landlord and head of the majority construction companies in the city. She is planning on retirement so she can focus more on her love of pyramid schemes. Though she has yet to name a successor. (she/her)

Note: this is all headcannon that I made for the fun of it. Perhaps it will be useful to someone, but for now it’s just silly headcannons.

[graylikethecolor42]

Favorite official mechanisms thing ever

[allthedoorsareopennow]

ALRIGHT. LET’S INVESTIGATE THE UDAD PHOTOS. MUCH INFORMATION BELOW. SO MUCH

ok top left. brian is the oracle of delphi, of course in greek mythology the most prominent oracle

bottom left. for some reason the goddess artemis’ name seems to have been misspelled as artimes? I have no idea why. artemis is the olympian that features in actea and lyssa.

bottom right. seems to suggest marius’ lecture will take place in the aristotle institute - aristotle is a famous greek philosopher (among other things, grouped loosely as a polymath)

top right. as you likely know, these are military dog tags, usually intended to allow for the identification of corpses. an enomotarch is the commander of an enotomy, a division of 25-36 soldiers, bound together by oath. this seems to be a term originating in Sparta.

middle right. tipple seems to be a term for alcohol, consistent with the bottle top the term appears on. the toy soldier seems to have made its own liquor brand while in the city. (perhaps DB stands for dionysus bacchus, the greek and roman names respectively for the god of alcohol?)

right. a coin is shown, on one side reading ‘to speed the/journey down’. this likely is about the belief that the ferryman (charon) who takes the dead souls across the river acheron and into the underworld must be paid. virgil’s aeneid claims that if the deceased cannot afford to pay the ferryman, they must wander the shores of the styx (another underworld river, in some stories providing the same function as the acheron) for one hundred years before they are allowed to cross into the underworld. thus having this coin to give the ferryman would literally speed the journey down into the underworld in greek mythology. also depicted on this side is the logo of the acheron. on the other side of the coin is featured a headshot of ashes, with the text ‘a penny’ above (the smallest british unit of currency). I cannot discern the text below.

background. the blueprint for the aegis, which in homer’s iliad is a device carried by athena pr zeus, interpreted as either an animal skin or a shield, sometimes featuring the head of a gorgon, that symbolises protection.

the text on the left appears to read as follows:

‘…[ti]tanium…n for the…ens district…[lig]htning rod

‘spikes - they look badass

‘Durable Ti core

‘Moderator’

Ti is the chemical symbol for titanium. also depicted is a uranium fission reaction. a moderator is something else that is needed in a fission reactor core, so this must be a design for a fission reactor. ‘enriched to 90%’ refers to the uranium - uranium-235 is the most fissile isotope, so the more U-235 you have, the more fission you can achieve. for context, reactors often use uranium enriched to 3.5-4.5% - 90% is overkill by a long way for energy generation purposes. my guess is that this reactor core is designed to provide huge amounts of energy to operate sone kind of lightning device, likely intended for zeus (the god of lightning). it is signed by athena and raphaella la cognizi.

BRING FORTH THE NEXT IMAGE!

another acheron coin is shown. I'm not really sure what’s happening in most of this one.

ANOTHER!

more acheron coins and a half-visible toy soldier’s tipple bottle cap. the focus of this picture is a torn and blood-splattered coaster for Calypso’s, the bar from which the suits kidnapped ulysses.

NEXT!

now this is more like it

a zeus coin is depicted, showing five credits - presumably the official currency of the city

there is a gambling chip bearing the name hermes, perhaps referencing his role as a trickster god

the guitar pick is stamped with the name apollo, the greek god of music and song.

there is a fragment of a newspaper cover - we will get more shots of this later.

the emblem of poseidon is shown to be a trident, a weapon poseidon is often depicted as wielding, representing his status as god of the sea.

wow I wonder what name is on that card it’s mostly blocked I wonder if the next will have the name..

BEHOLD!

so that’s presumably an ID card for a security guard, whose name we can now see is Anippe ?aiad. Anippe in greek mythology is the egyptian daughter of the river god nilus, and is thus a naiad, so the name on the card is Anippe Naiad. I can find little information about her, other than that heracles killed her son.

we also get a look at ulysses here, the the text ‘//ALL POINTS FUGITIVE ALERT//‘ above their mugshot.

NEXT!

the text on the ulysses info that seems to be on some kind of old tablet reads

…1) COUNT THEFT:

…[CYCLO]PS - POSEIDON PROPERTY

…OR CAPTURE: DR-25000

…E BOUNTY

…S:

SPONSORED BY POSEIDON INDUSTRIES

CLICK TO LEARN MORE

this seems to be putting a bounty of ‘DR-25000’ (presumably a currency?) on ulysses’ head for the theft of the eye of the cyclops.

more newspaper.. shall we take a closer look?

across four different images, here is the newspaper:

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS

ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME

LARGEST HOME CIRCULATION

LARGEST ADVERTISING VOLUME

DELPHI 2374

The City Oracle Telephone Number

THE CITY ORACLE

IN THREE PARTS - 46 1…

PART 1 - GENERAL NEWS…

ORACLE OFFICE

292 West Hector Stree[t]

VOL. LVIII KRONOU MORNING, GAMELION 5, 12390 DAILY, 5 DRACH[MA]

OEDIPUS IN INCEST MARRIAGE SCANDAL

SHOCKING NEW REVELATIONS OVER IDENTITY OF HERO DOCTOR'S WIFE AND MOTHER

MAN WHO CURED THE SPHINX TRIES TO PLEAD IGNORANCE - WILL SEEK TO FIND REFUGE OFF WORLD

(columns on right):

INSIDE

NARCISSUS DENIES PLASTIC SURGERY CLAIMS

HERMES TO UNVEIL NEW HI-SPEED MAGLINES

FORTY DEAD IN SUB-LEVEL 54D EXPLOSIONS: WHO IS “GUNPOWDER TIM?”

TWENTY YEARS FROM ILIUM: WILL THE SCARS EVER HEAL?

Oedipus Rex, the doctor hailed as a hero after successfully curing the disease ravaging the sublevel slums, has been revealed to have been married to his own mother for the last eight years, in what is being hailed as the social scandal of the decade.

Mr. Rex previously claimed to have grown up in one of the City's most troubled orphanages. However, a source within the Acheron has claimed that Teiresias, one of the network's most trusted interfaces, revealed his true origins yesterday.

“I didn’t know,” Oedipus told The Oracle, “I’d always believed my parents to be dead. I had no way of knowing they were even alive, let alone…”

Oedipus’ wife and mother, Jocasta Rex, has been unavailable for comment. She was last seen boarding a transport line to Outer Thebes, an area known for the number of suicides it attracts.

It is known she had been married once before to Laius, Mayor of one of the Thebian districts at the centre of the Sphinx epidemic. It was repoterd that he disappeared shortly before the announcement of the cure, under circumstances described by City PD as ‘suspicious’.

CONTINUED PG.5

HERACLES ACQUITTED ON MISTRIAL TECHNICALITY

The City High Court finally came to a ruling today in the case of Heracles, the notorious figure at the centre of the murder trial which has gripped the City for the last four weeks.

Heracles, who worked for the House of Zeus as head security for fifty years before resigning under unknown circumstances last Theozenios, was found not guilty of the brutal slaying and dismemberment of his wife and two children.

According to sources familiar with the case, he was found lying unconscious in his home, surrounded by the bodies of his family, holding in his hand what was at first thought to be the murder weapon. However, forensic evidence regarding the blade was judged to have been inadmissible, and his insistence he was defending his family from an attacker swayed the jury.

Heracles has been unable to identify the assailant against which he was struggling. This is not the first time Heracles has been involved in accusations of violence. Rumours persist that he may have been the infamous “Thunderbolt of Zeus” while working with the company, despite no connection ever being proven between the Olympian patriarch and the unknown hitman.

CONTINUED PG.9

TRANSCRIPT ENDS

Delphi and the oracle are referenced several times.

A drachma is a greek unit of currency, hence why I have guessed that as the unit of price for the newspaper.

Teiresias, the one referenced as revealing Oedipus’ parentage, is a blind prophet of Apollo from Thebes, known for clairvoyance and being transformed into a woman for several years. he is referenced as being one of the first brains volunteered into the acheron in the fiction, and holds and manages all the knowledge of the acheron.

Theoxenia seems to be a descriptor for greek mythology stories in which characters show benevolence and hospitality to strangers who turn out to be disguised deities capable of reward. These stories encourage people to treat anyone they meet as potential disguised divinity.

ONWARD!

another oracle of delphi ad, the corner of the newspaper, and part of hades’ file on oedipus..

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS (pencil markings in orange)

Name: Oedipus Rex not given surname

Occupation: Doctor (Retired) Disgraced

Age: 52 No records- abandoned at birth. Estimate Height: 5’10” Weight: 132l[b]

Hair: Chestnut Eyes: N/A self-blind[ed]

District: Thebes

Abandoned by wealthy but paranoid parents at birth. Olympians secret[ly] pulled strings, used him as poster [child] for failing orphanage scheme. Notab[le] for successfully researching the cause/[…] for the Sphinx - exceptional intel[ligence] shown. Worthy candidate for "Trial [by] Wits". Currently seeking to leave T[he] City after publicised patricide and maternal relations; will likely pla[…] ball given ample funding. EXPLOIT

END TRANSCRIPT

the tab at the side reads WITS. as well as oedipus’ fingerprints, there is a dirty handprint in the top right of the document. the newspaper appears to be stained with rings of tea or coffee.

at first I thought the photo of oedipus featured in hades’ document was this one, but it doesn’t quite match. it’s a good photo anyway.

NEXT

gunpowder tim’s dog tags from earlier are visible at the base of the photo again. A different part of Oedipus’ file is shown, showing a handprint and the start of a date on the photo of Oedipus, beginning 08/12. a map is shown too, with crosses through two locations and a circle around another. from what I can see the streets seem to mostly have fairly generic names.

sadly I have now reached image limit. when I have made the next post, I will link it here.

update I realised some of the stuff guessing cut off words and such that I did is pointless because the full documents for a bunch of them are in the goddamn cd book thing. and I kind of can’t be bothered to finish cause it feels like half the stuff I did was pointless. if you would be interested say so and maybe I will do more. but otherwise. nah

[yourlocalmechanism-dr-carmilla]

I NEED TO COSPLAY EVERYONE FROM THE MECHS EVER MENTIONED OR ELSE I WILLA NDKRKEKSNDLWÖFKDL-

Sorry, bifrost incident got me.

ANYWAYS....HERES MY COSPLAN LIST REGARDING THE MECHANISMS:.

Brian - everythings there, but no wig

Tim - i need alot of it.

Marius - same as tim.

Ivy -twchnically have her but diff wig

Dr carmilla - jusr a outfit variation and a wig

Nastya needs minor changes, same goes for good ol jonny

Raphaella - her og wings i want to do and og fit

The aurora -need a whole ass concept, so far she has long red hair

Charvaters:

Rose red - i have tk craft a few things, but shes planned for next year

Snow - its a idea, i might do that. Same goes for red hood aswell as cinders (not sure bout cinders tho)

Ulysses - frosty blue contacts baby! But otherwise no concept regarding clothes

Orpheus - he needs a pinstripe suit.

Eurydice or ariadnes are HUGE MAYBES

Ashes as hades gets a few touch ups

Artemis - just a for fun version, a loose idea

Mordred, arthur, guinevere and lancelot - i have a cowboy hat and revolver and funky pants. I need to settle on details designwise. Fuuuck.

(Hanged man brian although he wouldnt be diff from normal brian and i cannot hang around all day lol)

Saxon ghoul - i love sfx make up and scary stuff and...ghouls...are cool :D

Loki or sigyn -WOMEN! i tend to loki cause...i lobe her...so much...

Lyfrassir amy get additional accessoires

(Odin -idk if i am brave enough to cospaly a crazy woman whos horny for a train but then agaim..who knows(

Dr.carmilla in a mad scientist labcoat.

My oc sevens moira - i really wanan cospaly tjem, since they fit so well in udad.

Yeaaa

ALSO I TAKE SUGGESTIONS

[miralines]

Upper level college courses are great I’m currently writing a paper about anticapitalist themes in UDAD contrasted with the monarchist themes in a medieval retelling of Orpheus

[thepromisedbride]

I absolutely love the thought of the mechs in the City for just... mundane life, especially with like Ashes, Raphaella and Marius, bc I’m pretty sure they were all heavily involved in the Olympians (I think I remember Marius was their therapist, Raph in the album line art worked with Athena, Ashes... well, that one’s pretty obvious). Did they acknowledge they knew each other? Did they have to pretend to be strangers? I guess it’s kind of suggested that Ashes completely reinvents themself as Hades, so it’s not like there could be a solid explanation for any previous acquaintance. Do the Olympians know that Marius and Raphaella are immortal too? What about the other mechs?? I have so many questions

[c0rpsedemon]

Alright, hear me out here:  You’ve heard of Persephone!Tim, and you’ve heard of Achilles!Tim, but may I interest you in the concept of Aphrodite!Tim?

Here’s my reasoning for this:  

-Aphrodite was the only Olympian who wasn't related to pretty much every other god, meaning it’s likely UDAD!Aphrodite isn’t too close to the Olympian crime family, and she came from the sea, which could be translated to space for UDAD

-During the Trojan War she was on the side of Troy/Illium (see: Tim singing Prometheus)

-In some myths, she had a problem with the hunters of Artemis, goddess of the moon 

-And she started out as a war goddess before That part of her got written out

Also she’s known for being pretty and having an affair with Ares, god of war, and Tim is known for being the prettiest mech and Bertie was a soldier so.....

[tornsuits]

alright ive been meaning to put this somewhere other than my notes app for a while. but someone actually asked for this so idk it's as good a time as any

every udad character mentioned in album or fiction, assuming i didn't forget any

under the cut bc there's so many jesus christ

ulysses (album, main character)

oedipus (album, suit, doctor/scientist)

heracles (album, suit, hitman? i think)

orpheus (album & fiction, suit, nymph, singer)

ariadne (album, suit, influencer??? ig??)

daedalus (album, technically a suit? inventor, might also be hephaestus)

penelope (mentioned in-album, ulysses's wife)

jocasta (presumably the name of oedipus's mother/wife [album], name confirmed on the youtube cover for trial by strength)

zeus (album & fiction [the hacker's mistake], olympian)

poseidon (mentioned in-album, ulysses stole his diamond)

laius (presumably the name of oedipus's father/person he killed, name confirmed on the album cover for favored son)

hades (album, mechanism, olympian)

calypso (mentioned in-album, runs a bar)

hylus (mentioned in-album, died during the "fleece job")

jason (mentioned in-album, lead the "fleece job")

prometheus (ttbt 1. [prometheus] & fiction [the hacker's mistake], hacker)

arachne (ttbt 2. [twisted threads], publicity person?? idk)

athena (ttbt 2. [twisted threads], olympian)

atcaea (ttbt 2. [atcaea & lyssa], hunter)

lyssa (ttbt 2. [atcaea & lyssa], hunter, got turned into a wolf)

artemis (ttbt 2. [atcaea & lyssa], olympian)

hermes (fiction [FAO: hermes: not urgent], olympian)

xenophon (fiction [death in metropolis], cerebral collector)

herodotus (fiction [FAO: hermes: not urgent], journalist)

narcissus (fiction [orpheus and narcissus go on a trip to the seaside] & jessica law song [narcissus under the knife], nymph, model)

dionysus (fiction [orpheus, dionysus, muriatic acid and the strange whirring thing], runs several speakeasies/bars/clubs)

silenus (mentioned in fiction [orpheus, dionysus, muriatic acid and the strange whirring thing], dionysus's old tutor)

hera (mentioned in fiction [muriatic acid], olympian)

pentheus (mentioned in fiction [muriatic acid], dionysus's cousin)

eurydice (mentioned in album and fiction [both orpheus fictions], orpheus's girlfriend)

echo (mentioned in fiction [seaside], one of narcissus's "society beauties")

linus (mentioned in fiction [muriatic acid], orpheus's brother)

teriesias (fiction [muriatic acid], works for the acheron)

aagamemnon (fiction [in the madness of war], field marshal)

palomedes (fiction [in the madness of war], has SOMETHING to do with the war, friend of ulysses)

achilleus (fiction [in the madness of war], war person)

patroclus (fiction [in the madness of war], achilleus's strategist and right-hand man)

menelaus (fiction [in the madness of war], general)

telemachus (mentioned in fiction [in the madness of war], ulysses's son)

phoebe (fiction [one of the chosen], scholar)

charon (fiction [one of the chosen], works for the acheron)

we know the other mechs are There but they didn't take on different names afaik so i'm not counting them

also presumably the other olympians Exist but those were the only ones explicitly mentioned

hopefully i didn't forget anyone bsjshs

[iamthescalesofjustice]

okay so im never sure when things that feel obvious to me arent so to other people but anyway references to dogs in the context of labyrinth "the city" udad refer to robotic/cybernetic dog bodies with transplanted human brains in them.

thats what happened to actaea and lyssa. they were remade into artemis' hounds as punishment. one retained a semblance of human awareness, the other did not. maybe she had one hunt the other, that parts not clear.

in extended udad setting lore it seems that the city leans more towards having noir-style private eyes than a centralized police force but artemis is apparently associated with some kind of hunter corps that seems to roughly parallel cops or bounty hunters so keeping actaea and lyssas fates in mind it might be normal for the hunters to keep these kind of hounds as a k9 unit sort of thing.

why do the cyberdogs have to have human brains in them? well, the city doesnt seem to have developed actual AI, they just use brains for everything. orpheus doesnt have a siri he has some actual dude thats his personally-assigned digital ghost who does siri things and thats apparently a cushy position.

its noted that they dont actually need every single brain for the acheron, but they cant just say that or openly make exceptions. it would undermine the system. so you have a lot of surplus brains, and not all of them are in the best shape between the various things that could have gone wrong at any stage of the process. you probably dont need a brain undamaged enough to manage complex higher thinking skills to make a decent cyberdog.

so thats the basic premise of what a dog is to an inhabitant of the city.

[yourlocalmechanism-dr-carmilla]

REALIZED THIS IS A ACCIDENTAL HUMAN TARDIS COSPLAY-

But it also has UDAD vibes- it could DEF be a Artemis cosplay cause..moon imagery.. :D