(( Passed @lord-squiggletits post about ‘alien robots crying blood’ and didn’t want to derail their post, so here is how I have crying set-up for my muses.
What/How do Transformers cry:
optical fluid - lubricant for the optical mechanisms that is internally produced with converted Energon (and/or externally produced based on frame) and refilled via a reservoir; a maintenance default is bypassed involuntarily when crying, causing an overflow of lubricant.
optical sparks - movement for crying causes pieces to scrape together, producing sparks; this may cause damage to the optics or visible paint transfers (equivalent for ‘puffy, red eyes’).
Which leads to these kind of things that I thought about, but have yet to use:
“Mech, you stabbed me in the feels!” as a reservoir is punctured.
“How’s my vorn going?! I had to go round to the shop and buy more optical fluid! That’s how it’s going!”
“Can’t be crying in the club, medical bay, energon mine, energon refinery, energon storage, forest, hayfield, or really anywhere for fire safety reasons.”
So, I guess I went for ‘alien robots cry fire’.))
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Even if you don't watch every episode (which, unless you have to - my condolences to the HC Recap team - I assume most people won't) one way of narrowing things down that I HIGHLY suggest is picking at least one person from each of the mining teams to watch, because the vibes are wildly different and equally hilarious.
Team Blue Bin Bags - Spend the entire mining session roasting each other. Climactic moment involving a faux ad for project management software. Would sell each other to Satan for one cornchip.
Hypno
Iskall
Mumbo
Ren
Stress
Team Red Rashers - At one point Etho says, "I don't understand some things about social dynamics, I tell you," and that's this group's motto! Simultaneously the most competent and the most nervous team, like a bunch of racing greyhounds.
Bdubs
Etho
False
Jevin
Team Mustard Milk Tots - They get a lot done, which I think is mostly because 90% of their dunking is targeted at Doc. Very 'parents out for drinks' vibes, despite constantly descending into childish bickering.
Beef
Cleo
Doc
Skizz
Tango
Team Purple Pickles - Lowest intra-group antagonism, made up for by their choice to run straight towards environmental dangers. The cave diving and sculk could make it a horror movie, but everyone is so unruffleable (excepting X, who is perpetually ruffled) that it wraps back to comedy.
Joe Hills
Keralis
xB
Xisuma
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break trio coffee headcanons (because why not):
Kidou kinda gets deeper into hand-brewing, quite to the nerd depths but instead of making it his personality he just enjoys the meticulous preparation process. he probably has an app to follow the flow rate... and of course he has a chemex. in two sizes, most likely. he still does drink all kinds of coffee, but only in the morning, to not overcaffeinate.
Endou doesn't really drink coffee but he likes sweet coffee drinks and coffee flavored things. he has the adhd brain where caffeine makes him sleepy, so he doesn't really get people who use it to energize.
Gouenji doesn't like the coffee flavor that much, and prefers energy drinks for caffeine boost. though, he's the kind of guy who takes a cup if everyone else's having, more for the social experience than the drink itself. I think he enjoys chai a lot more.
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Harper the type of mf to knock you up because he’s curious what you’d look like pregnant
oh god for real tho,,
he'd be so creepy about it too, wanting to see how you grow each week (even if there's no visible progress, still gotta record it), feeling your bump with his cold hands,, watching you shiver at his touch,,,
i haven't played the pregnancy content yet so I don't know how it goes exactly but I do remember that they like,, smear some kind of gel on you for it? so now I'm just imagining Harper taking his time feeling you up while applying it + the ultrasound itself
he'd also love to monitor your behaviors due to all the hormone changes, especially your libido
+ extra thought but Harper would make so many subtle yet inappropriate comments upon seeing you if your baby bump is showing, shit that seems normal at the time but makes you go "wait what the fuck..?" as you leave the hospital
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Ben makes his own hand sanitizer.
Most hand sanitizers work bc they contain alcohol.
The kids don't have a can opener - which tells me that they haven't tried raiding restaurants, bars, or break rooms in satellite labs.
That dork pouch cannot contain enough alcohol to make 6 months worth of sanitizer.
Ben reads about everything, especially emergency preparedness, and must know how to make alcohol himself in a pinch.
That boy has a moonshine still somewhere in the jungle.
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You once said that Doc's dog is his most important tool. How did Doc get his dog? Is there a special story behind their meeting? Or his naming of his dog?
So!!
It's late 1949 and Doc is still not only working through the aftermath of '45, but he's trying to once again find his footing in the world after having spent the last several years working on the bomb at Los Alamos.
Circa '46, he and a few other scientists are recruited to work on a classified project straight after the war's end and Doc, cautious but hopeful, accepts, desperately in need of money, a change of environment, and a new creative outlet.
The job, unfortunately, does not pan out, doing more harm than good to Doc overall. He gets fired. In the interim, he decides that he's better off trying to work on his own and sort things out. Doc starts the first iteration of what will eventually become E. Brown Enterprises, 24-hour scientific services (more or less a front by '85, but he has actually gotten the odd job throughout the years) and works freelance as a mechanic, repairman, and fledgling engineer. He makes house calls, repairs faulty equipment, and even improves on some already existing designs to make the lives of the people who call upon him just a little bit better.
It works, for a time, but Doc is incredibly lonely, still dealing with the pangs of guilt. He has always wanted a dog—his father didn't allow pets growing up because they were noisy and messy; a hassle, really—and what with his young acceptance to university and his job as a professor straight after graduation which eventually led to his being snapped up for the Manhattan Project, the window simply was never there to allow him to get a dog.
But as he's reading the paper one night, there are ads from the local shelter listing various dogs up for adoption and he decides, finally, that this could be good for him. So Doc goes down there and adopts his very first dog, a Norfolk Terrier that he's named Copernicus. Copernicus is energetic, friendly, and took an almost immediate liking to Doc. There was simply no better choice.
He's always been partial to the idea of adopting a dog; whenever he got the chance to, he always told himself that he'd go to a shelter and pick out one of the lonely, abandoned dogs that were in need of good, loving homes. That, coupled with the fact that it was much more cost-effective to adopt a dog considering in '49, his father's fortune had not yet come to him, so he had only the money he earned up until that point working at CalTech and on the Manhattan Project, made it the obvious choice.
Doc's first dog, Copernicus, was adopted out of a need for a very specific kind of companionship at that point in his life. He needed a friend, the unconditional love and affection that a dog would give without judgment, as well as someone that would keep him going and remind him that things got better. Copernicus was someone Doc could focus his attentions on in a positive way and who kept Doc on a schedule, reminding him that it was time to eat, to go for walks, to just get up and out and about.
Two lonely, down on their luck souls. Yeah, there's a little bit of poetry in their meeting.
It just so happened that his canine companion(s) would prove invaluable help with his scientific endeavours as well, aiding him in the lab.
Regarding Doc's naming conventions for his dogs, since science and the brilliant scientific minds of the past (and present) have been big inspirations/role-models for Doc, it made sense to him that he name his dear companions after such incredible figures in history. At the time, he chose Copernicus because not only was Copernicus a very, for his time, out of the box thinker, so to speak, challenging the accepted view of the cosmos with his heliocentric theory that so branded him a heretic, but it was for this theory, the planets revolving around the sun, that there's also a deeper layer of meaning to the name, as now that Doc had a dog to care for, his life would essentially revolve around his canine companion, making sure he was well and happy.
Sun and planets, anyone?
Anyway, that trend just continued with all the dogs he'd rescue over the years. Edison was next, named so for the light that he would bring to Doc's life. He was also the first dog adopted in the Hill Valley area, as Copernicus was still alive at the time of Doc's father's passing and his return to Hill Valley to move into the Brown mansion. Following Edison was Einstein, aptly named for his breed and his long white hair. Sheepdogs are incredibly intelligent, as was one of his greatest heroes, Einstein, and so the name was perfect.
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