#and rambles and goes on long tangents and yaps

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hey! just so u know, i (and i'm sure many others) would love to hear about that AU ! but it's alr if u don't wanna share it yet, do what makes u comfortable 👍

Oughh.. ohhh boy. Okay I should probably finally get to answering this ask gahhhh!.!..

Hi you!!! I’m assuming this is about my TWA AU post thing I made and deleted a little bit ago, in which I’d be happy to talk about it! I’m totally fine with sharing that shtuffs if you wanna hear about it, the only reason I’ve been hesitant to do so and putting it off is because my English is super sucky and I can’t articulate or explain my thinking properly so it can get super confusing, especially when we get to the more complicated lore. Plus, I don’t wanna make this post as long as the other one [that was pain in my ass to type and post 😭🙏] but.. I suppose I can take a swing at it! Please do bear with me haha.

So I’m not into TWA as I was before [I do sometimes rewatch videos out of boredom or for writing purposes] but I used to be super hyperfixated on it.. uh??? More than a year ago according to my discord. And I came up with this dumb unnamed AU which I fleshed out but never elaborated on. It’s got some complicated lore which I’ll try to explain to the best of my ability. Also like don’t jump me when I say I forgot most, if not everything from the original TWAEU lore so whatever I’m making up my own story now.

In the story, JP [Ego] finishes writing a chapter of his super awesome amazing BEST STORY EVER! and he’s so proud of himself that he goes to take a well deserved nights rest. And then he gets fucking isekai’d. Of course, it’s the most cliche, generic isekai plot ever, so JP just thinks he’s dreaming. He’s the all-mighty powerful chosen one. He’s self aware and got all the plot armor in the world. He’s got himself a useless familiar who dumps the plot at him. It’s your standard isekai story, save for the harem collecting because JP couldn’t pull to save his life. Anyways, he’s transported to this kingdom or whatever, because there’s always a monarchy in good fantasy right? And for whatever reason, the Knights of Artistic Integrity are the only authority figures despite sucking at their job. LOL.

Anywhos! JP’s goal is to “defeat the evil in the kingdom and restore it to peace so he can return to reality yeah!!” [the evil in question being his inners]. But JP doesn’t really take his quest seriously because why would he. It’s a dumbass dream he thinks until he almost dies and realizes “Wow! This dream sure is wack! It’s almost like this… isn’t a dream. Also what happened to my plot armor?” Or whatever white people say. In any case, he’s saved by the one and only Sir Knight Commander Mcstabbypants! [my beloved]. KC realizes that JP just might be the chosen one the prophecy called for ! So they take him back to Sir Adblock who devises a deal. JP and the knights will work together, he gets rid of the evil and restores peace to the kingdom and they help him return to reality. It’s a fair enough deal so JP agrees.

Things happen but JP and KC need to find Inner Critic. So they track down, arrest, and interrogate the Ancient Conspiracy Guy who claims to know where IC is. He’s a dirty liar and just wants to get out but he does know where to find the Cthulhu Cult Leader who’d probably know where IC is. They could also be a useful asset in defeating evil if they figured out how to get the Cthulhu Cult Leader on their side. This is also a shameless lie btw, but JP and KC don’t think much of it and without many leads they drag Ancient Conspiracy Guy around trying to find em. In reality Conspiracy Guy kinda just wants to get Cthulhu Cultist dude arrested because he’s petty as fuck. Don’t question it.

I’m gonna go ahead and skip that whole saga thing, but JP and co. find Inner Critic. And the guy is all “I’ve heard many things about you J.P. BEAUBIEN. It’s about time you owned up and repaid for the damages you caused.” or.. something like that, and JP goes “I have not a clue what you’re talking about because I just got here, but I’m gonna assume that’s a good thing!”

Anyways they kill Inner Critic. RIP. Everyone celebrates! They got rid of the evil! That is until JP’s familiar FINALLY shows up and goes “Wait, no, you weren’t supposed to kill him. You were just supposed to cleanse him [whatever that means]” which would’ve been nice to know before they killed the guy!! But no they need him alive. Man I sure wish there was a way to bring the dead back to life-

Hey so did I talk about Inner Greed’s giant 3D printer? But before when can address that ginormous elephant in the room, we have to get into the nitty gritty for uh context. This is where the lore kind of gets confusing but stay with me here! [Oh Solid Space… how I’ve longed to finally talk about you...]

So what exactly is Solid Space? In the AU lore, Solid Space is a theoretical concept proposed by this guy named Inner Ambition, that aimed to explain an oddly specific conundrum. If you watched a Terrible Writing Advice video before you’d know that all the art and characters are built up of shapes. Disconnected shapes that is [and yes, I am very aware this is a stylistic thing that makes the graphics simpler but in this AU it’s pretty important]. This design choice still exists in my AU, where all the characters don’t have those parts connecting their limbs so they just appear to be floating but it’s more exaggerated. Namely, their bodies lack a neck and joints in the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and ankles. What remains is an empty space filled up by air. This led to people wondering, how are we [the people in the AU] still able to function normally without these necessary parts? I mean, they can still eat, drink, breathe, and talk without a neck? Their limbs stay in place and can’t really be pushed or pulled around without feeling pain. So how do you explain this? Inner Ambition aimed to figure that out, conducting various experiments, and learned the following:

The empty space between limbs behaved in such a way that IA dubbed it the “Limb Space Paradox”. Essentially, if you try to touch the limb space with a part of your body [say, sticking your finger in the space where your neck should be] it would go through as if there were nothing there. Like there was just air between them. You could cut through that space and not feel a thing. HOWEVER! Any other object, substance, or element that made contact with that space would react as if there were a solid object in between them. If you tried to stick a pencil in between the space where your shoulder would be, it would stop and hit a solid wall. It would NOT pass through. If you poured water down your arm, it would flow downwards the sides of your arm instead of through the empty space. Air would also hit the surface instead of going through the other side.

The fact that these characters can bleed, breathe, feel and be hurt imply the existence of skin, organs, muscles, nerves and veins, bones, and the like within these spaces, yet it cannot be seen or altered. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what Inner Ambition calls “Solid Space”. Solid Space is a confusing idea, implying that parts of their body exist in some form, in a plane beyond their own. Something they cannot properly comprehend. Because of this, Solid Space cannot be artificially recreated [keep that in mind].

Now, why exactly this is and what evolutionary advantage this feature has is unclear, because IA died right before he could figure out the answer.

And it may or may not be JP’s fault.

Uh anyways back to Inner Greed’s printer? Oh yeah! So Greed has the ginormous machine that resembles a kind of 3D Printer. And essentially, he can produce literally anything [and I mean ANYTHING] in large quantities as long as he has the filament. The filament in question is artificially crafted and owned by Greed and Greed only. The cost to create something using Greed’s printer is insanely high, so usually only the rich and elite can afford to even come close to the thing [obviously, this IS Greed we are talking about!] Usually, companies will collaborate with Greed to pump out products in mass amounts where they then sell it off to the public for a lower, yet still expensive price. People mainly prefer to buy products from these companies because of a little bit of Greed propaganda. He assures everyone his printed products are higher quality, better for the environment and health [when that’s entirely false], and the price is totally worth it! Even though you’d have to sell your newborn to even afford housing and shi. Nowadays, a majority of big companies get their stuff from Greed. Awesome. I love capitalism. Also Inner Greed is essentially controls the government and military and.. well pretty much everything which is why the Knights need him GONE. [Random fact? The Chainsaw General Guy -What’s his face- is Greed’s right hand man here, even though he hates working for Greed and just needs to pay off a debt. I dunno]

But like I said, Greed’s machine can print anything and everything. That includes printing people, cloning the powerful, nd’ reviving the dead. Hell yeah! 3D printing necromancy babeyy!!

The only issue with this system is the fact that it’s virtually impossible to do any of this as a layperson. The process is not only INCREDIBLY difficult [you yourself need to provide the resources/materials for filament] and time consuming, it’s extortionate!! Obviously it’s gonna be expensive, this is Greed after all, but even the most wealthy elites [aside from Greed’s inner circle] are hesitant to pay the price and only really do it when they get extremely desperate. Just imagine your average millionaire’s yearly income I guess. Anywho, if you were somehow able to afford and pay for this service, the steps required are just as troublesome. First, you’d need the body of the subject you’d want to print, and it needs to be preserved perfectly. That is to say, if the body of a dead person sustained any injury [internal or external] they’d need to be fixed before bringing them to Greed or he’ll just print them out as is, and there’s no going back or fixing it afterwards. And trust me, the medical bills are just as bad. So if you broke your leg before you die you gotta get that thing back in place or else you’ll just come back with a permanent broken leg. This also just makes it hard for those whose bodies are missing to be revived, those like Inner Ambition- I’m getting ahead of myself. Anyways, after receiving and scanning the body, you’d need to provide Greed with a large enough sample of preserved DNA and tissue to be mixed in with his artificial filament. Oh, remember when I explained Solid Space and said it can’t be artificially recreated? Yeah, well Greed will just replace that space with a clear, resin like substance that mimics the appearance of solid space but really acts more like a glass tube where you can see your insides through. Extremely fragile and painful to live with. And after all that you’d the wait a month, give or take? Depends on how nice Greed was feeling that moment.

All that time and effort… and only to have the husk [body] of the person you’re printing. You’d need to go to Greed AGAIN and have him reprogram a conscience and memories back into the husk to fully complete the process. So yeah. Capitalism win. The only exception to this would be Greed’s inner circle of people which he has their bodies already archived for quick and easy printing. The inner circle in question being made up of mostly rich political figures who JP is also tasked with getting rid of.

Not too sure if any of this makes sense or is that relevant to the story that I had to flesh it out like that. I stopped working on the AU immediately after my hyperfixation died off.

But basically JP doesn’t wanna have to go through that process because that’s annoying as hell, plus Greed also seems to hate him and the Inner Critic so he wouldn’t dare revive that guy. Makes JP’s mission a lot more complicated. But I guess that’s his fault-

So now JP’s real goal has become more of a “figure out what you did to turn the world to ruin and repay for the damages and crimes while also restoring order to the kingdom” or something like that. Because JP isn’t really the hero the story initially sets him out to be. All this while trying to return back to reality�� yeah this is gonna be a long mission. Existential crises, battles n betrayals, Y’know the like.

And that’s… as much as I wrote before effectively forgetting about it and never continuing the story from there. And man in retrospect this is an absolutely insane AU that I could probably rewrite and improve but hey, this dumbass post is long enough as is. So many tangents and ramblings…sorry I don’t know how to conclude this chaotic mess of a post. I am exhausted. I’m glad I finally finished writing this so I can post it and stop thinking about it LOL 😭🙏 If anyone cares, I don’t have any official designs for this AU so feel free to come up with your own interpretations.

Anywhos, thank you for the ask and I hope this wasn’t too awful of a read [that is, if anyone actually read all of this. Sorry XD] Much love to you all.

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Its always dottore being the one who rants a lot but...what if.... reader was like that too?!??! JUST LIKE ME FR??? like at the akademiya reader and dottore are studying in the library and somehow the topic goes to a specific thing and reader just suddenly starts yapping away about it for like 5 or 10 minutes straight while dottore just.... stares at them. readers super giddy smile as they talk making him blushie maybe 😊 ehe..

Or like... Omega will mention something offhandedly and suddenly reader will go on a whole tangent about it while him and the other segments are in the room.. IDK... I talk a lot so this was self indulgent mostly 💀

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YESS AHH!! You two are definitely the 'talks a lot x listens' trope where both of you can fit the roles. 💗 Ugh, this is so cute... Dottore is always the one used to going on and on while you patiently listen (which he does appreciate, no one ever listened to him) But when you do it? He's just a mixture of surprised and enamored and quiet at the same time as he just watches you ramble on. He always knew you could talk a lot (mostly when you're bothering him to do something) but this is a different kind of rambling! You're actually very passionate this time, similar to how he goes on rants about his own interests! You two are more similar than he thinks, maybe. At then at the end when you realize how long you've been talking, maybe you get a bit embarrassed but he just scoffs and waves your concern off... mumbling under his breath that he liked it. :3

One rule in the lab is if you happen to go off into a tangent, everyone is required to listen!! The segments, the agents, the random employees, everyone!! You always indulge them in their own ranting, it's only natural they listen to you too!!

[microwave-magician]

@adiosterror

Ah, somehow every single time I make a new blog no matter how many years it has been, I always forget to turn asks on! Don't know how I do that! Apologies this took a little while to get to, I got so busy yesterday and then was just so tuckered out! I hope it's back up now😅

But thank you so so much for asking!!! I really didn't expect to get anything but yknow I was like ah, what the heck! I'm certainly not gonna get asked anything by NOT making a post!!

I have such a bad habit of yapping or saying nothing with no in-between, so please pardon me if I end up going on a tangent😅 read more bars are my best friend, haha!

For irl, it didn't take me long at all to catch feelings, after giggling over him for a bit and perhaps thinking about him a bit too much and rewatching the already long movie twice(it's two and a half hours long) it only took me a couple days for the feelings to properly process and sink in and I was like yep... I want to do romantic and intimate things with this man.

Story wise though, like S/I talk(whom is literally just me), I imagine it goes fairly the same way. After only traveling with him for a few nights it doesn't take me long to realize that perhaps I'm enjoying his company a bit TOO much, and perhaps wanting to be a bit too close to him, as well. It just becomes an instinctive urge at some point to split food with him and make sure he is warm on the colder nights and not overheating on the hotter days.

Our favorite thing to do together? Oooo that's a really fun question, thank you!! Hmm.. I think we both quite enjoy just being on the trail together, it can be important to have some company out there, especially one you enjoy! Sometimes we sit and talk or just enjoy the silence together.. I really get a kick out of doting over him, I'm sure he enjoys it too haha! He seems to enjoy hearing my ramblings and just enjoying the small little things together, which very much works for me. I guess in short, it's hard to pick just one big favorite thing! Perhaps that'll come in time, or perhaps it'll always be like this hehe!

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HOWDY HAIIIII HELLO

just popping in as one does to sayyyyy i love your storches they are wonderful awesome tall goibers and VERY CREATIVE i do love themmm

and more specifically at least right now FENRIR!! I have been rotating her like a popcorn bag in my head and just thinking about her in general and wondering if you have yap on her? consider this a formal yap invite. I've been going through your lore posts and i just. i love her. Very kill. I have plans for her and if you dont wanna yap just consider this a pipe bomb filled with good vibes and love for fenrir.

Stay frosty!

Uhhh yeah ok I can ramble about her a bit. Just have to go back to the shit I wrote down before, my notes and also tangents on bsky cus I just dump my thoughts on bsky mostly every once in a while. Also before I get to that, I saw your comments in the tags about forensics and stuff.. it's like half intentional lol. I don't have as much knowledge on forensics but I just try to go with my gut and what feels right so I'm glad to know it mostly comes across right. She just went swinging and shit. Especially with the idea I had in mind that this is one of her first, if not the first, kills. So I don't think it'd be as "clean" if that makes sense? It feels less like intentionally directed brutality and more explosive brutality lol. If that makes sense. Idk I might just be spouting bullshit LOL.

But generally, her whole thing is that people don't know what she's thinking. There was an idea behind her of being something like, "the type of Storch that Gestalt children would have nightmares about." She is a woman of very very few words. So all others see is her actions. It's excessively violent, which is problem enough in itself, but nobody knows why.

But there's no fucking way she's mindless either. I think if she was, she'd have long been disposed of since now. That's the biggest challenge when creating Fenrir, how do I keep her alive long enough? Fact of the matter is, next to nobody likes her and almost everyone wants her dead. But I have a couple ideas for this. One such is that aside from her penchant for violence, when she's otherwise doing her job, she exceeds quotas. And she gets her team to exceed quotas too. For a place like this, the Nation doesn't care about its residents in the slightest, they only care about the numbers. So if they suddenly see a drastic drop in those numbers by the disposal of one Replika, they're not gonna be happy. Despite her offings, it hasn't severely hindered productivity yet. Cus the thing is, she's being smart with her targets, so she deliberately goes after stragglers who are hardly contributing much to the facilities quota. Only a few cases where things became a bigger problem (such as the offing of her STAR mentor which was the idea behind that artwork), but most of her crimes are actually marked down as disappearances cus they never actually found a body nor evidence to actually trace it back to Fenrir. Of course, she is still the number 1 suspect, but they can't actually pin it to her. Like I said, her whole thing is that she's unreadable lol. Honestly a good chunk of Replikas probably just think of her like, "easy to fly off the handle, don't piss her off of she'll beat you black and blue". But that's not exactly it. Well, you still don't wanna get on her bad side, her punishments for misbehaviour are still fuckin brutal. But she is extremely calculated and patient with her little killing spree. Others think it's mindless, cus there is seemingly no rhyme or reason or goal behind her motives other than pure violence. But again, nobody knows for sure and it's not like she'll just tell you lol. I reiterate, she's a woman of very few words to begin with. There's also the possibility that she's being protected from somewhere higher up... But I'm not saying anything more on that matter 😋

I think it's also kinda funny to describe her as Lorenz-12's ghost story LMAO. With the amount of rumours that surround her. Some say she's got to be something supernatural at this point, some say she consumes the bodies and that's why they're never found, others say she steals the parts, either for herself or to sell off. But nobody ACTUALLY knows, and that's what makes ppl even more fearful of her.

But there is someone who MIGHT know... STAR-L1217 "Wahnhaft". You could say she's, "the one who got away". Attacked by Fenrir and survived. Sustained numerous injuries in the process, but she lived. But she's equally cagey about the subject too lol. But though you might think it's because it was a traumatizing experience, so she wouldn't want to talk about it, that couldn't be anything further from the truth. Even before this point, Wahnhaft had a reputation. It's in her name. "Wahnhaft". "Delusional". Maybe she had a name before that, maybe she didn't, it doesn't matter. Wahnhaft is what stuck. Because for some fucking reason, she was enamoured by Fenrir. Had this idea in her head that she could "fix her" or something. Naturally, everyone thinks that's fucking insane. And she was warned, numerous times, if she kept persisting on this she would eventually end up as not even a stain on the floor like everyone else. And just like everyone told her would happen, she got attacked. Nobody knows what in the fuck went down between the two of them, other than the fact Wahnhaft was injured to hell and back, hanging on to the world of the living by a fucking thread. Being the only one to make it this far, one of the only bodies to have been found, it was top priority to get her back in good health. This could be the witness statement they needed to finally have something against Fenrir. But what a fucking waste of resources that was lol. Like I stated earlier, she refused to say anything. Something changed about her from that point on... but it was something equally, if not even more fucking insane and delusional lol. This enamour she had for Fenrir fucking SKYROCKETED. She ditched the whole "fix her" thing and was just fuckin head over heels for her exactly as she is. Whatever happened is clearly staying between Wahnhaft and Fenrir. Wahnhaft insists it's something special between them. Something is extremely wrong with her too LMAO.

What makes it even more of a special case is the fact that Fenrir is EXTREMELY meticulous and clean about this. She cleans everything up to perfection. She has a whole fucking routine and everything. You just know her post-murder showers are something immaculate LMAO. It's funny to joke that Wahnhaft actually managed to scare her off halfway through bcus she's just that crazy in the head. lol. But I'm not saying it is or it isn't. Nobody knows. Not even me. I don't know. It could be anything. I think it's something better left dubious and strange. A mystery. It's Lorenz-12's noodle incident.

Anyways uhmm yeah I think that's mostly the gist of things? Fenrir is the youngest Storch, not even a year, yet strangely excessively brutal and in equal parts unreadable. But clearly there's more to it than her outward appearance puts on. I have a lot of other ideas I'm pondering with her too. So as always, stay tuned for more lol.