#bomb rush cyberfunk fic

[mechanical-magician]

*CLANGING POTS AND PANS* "COME GET YOUR BRC HEADCANONS HERE. COME GET YOUR HURT COMFORT."

A short fic about Red and Felix being separate people and the events that transpired after the game!

[vitalix]

Hello BRC nation!!

I am working on a Felix/Solace fic and I’d love if anyone wants to beta read / edit once I finish!! :)

[monkiinart]

onewing nation rise up

[secondarythings]

Today I tried to continue writing my Bomb Rush Cyberfunk fic

I had to reread the comments between @dragonmarquise

and I to recall what extra chapters I would have to add - the original was supposed to be Vinyl, Flesh Prince and DJ Cyber.

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Now it's Vinyl, Flesh Prince, more Flesh Prince, bonus chapter for the Franks. At least, those are the ones I have written so far.

I've decided that Solace deserves his own chapter. And dot.exe. Maybe them combined with Oldheads or a separate one. Eclipse. Probably Devil Theory.

And today.....hang on, what about Rietveld? She was essential in all of this, slowing down Faux and Tryce when they were escaping from the police station. Would it have mattered? If she wasn't there and those two were able to get onto the roof quicker? Would they escape DJ? He was on the roof already. And hey, this could lead to her explaining how she escaped from the police headquarters and found Felix' body. And THIS would have to involve my headcanon of Escher being the one to help her, while he was infiltrating the station on his own (hi @dono-cho. So, Escher too. He, like me, thought that the game's story was supposed to be about identity and roots. Like why would Red chase his old head, if it meant killing himself? Would his old identity erase the new one? Can't he live with the choices he makes and be that new person? With the big question of who is the REAL person, the person Faux used to be or the person Red he has become? And then to him it was a mindfuck because there was no new identity, it was just another dude, but with amnesia. Maybe Escher thought there was finally someone like him - this model of Cyberhead seems to be unique to them - and one on a tash heap in Versum Hill and a dream sequence. Maybe Felix needs to meet Escher in a bar. Which brings me to the question: how do people with cyberheads eat? Their bodies need sustenance. Do they have mouths or at least.....holes so they can reach their esophagus? Do they need to blend everything in a big blender? Is there special cyberhead food, like pastes, astronaut food. More importantly, can Escher get drunk? Because he's going to need it.

And can't forget Tryce. He did watch Faux being decapitated and then carried his corpse to Versum Hill. And, in retrospect, he helped a murderer escape because he had a pretty face, the person who killed his idol, Felix.

So, my idea today means .... possibly three more chapters, so the total count would be .....12? 13?

This was supposed to be short!

[roseltheteacup]

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: Story Headcanons, Faux

Major story spoilers under the cut.

Faux has undiagnosed schizophrenia, but I'll be talking about his anxiety as a result of the psychosis he experiences, specifically.

Despite how suspicious others seem to be of him, I personally can't see him always being as cruel as we see him at the end of the game. He definitely knows how to sweet talk people and get them to trust him, but he never had any grand plans to kill all writers. At worst, he felt no remorse in letting other writers pay for his crimes. His charisma played a part in convincing his father to keep his record clean, but he gradually grew to regret and detest this. Faux was always aware of how others would treat him if they knew his father was a cop. Too aware, in fact. It weighed him down and pulled at him and caused him to see many of his relationships as strained for the fact that he couldn't let anyone know of his background.

Regardless if he was doing it to himself or not, Faux was haunted by thoughts of his peers discovering his roots. Of the community he thrived in plotting to overthrow and abandon him, and he tormented himself by not reaching out to his two closest friends: DJ Cyber and Felix.

Felix, of course, discovered Faux’s roots anyway. He did not tell Faux about this.

He still saw the Big 3 as comforting, though. Cyber and Felix were, naturally, the furthest you can be from the police, so it gave him a rare peace of mind whenever they were together.

It didn't last forever. The day Felix announced that he would be going solo for All City was the day that Faux broke. All of his fears, to him, were true. Felix abandoned them. He abandoned him. Surely, it was all because of what Faux had done, and he would go on to plot the end of Faux’s career as a writer. To Faux, that was surely what it meant.

Perhaps Faux was in love with Felix. Perhaps, he was in love with both of them. Whatever it was, it only made Felix’s choice hurt more, and Faux’s mental state worse.

Faux’s downward spiral was kept entirely to himself. He practically disappeared off the face of the earth once Felix went solo for All City. That was until Felix finally got into contact with him again and asked Faux to help him throw up some graffiti one night, assuming that it would be casual and low stress for both of them.

I still don't believe that Felix’s death was plotted intricately beforehand. The combination of Solace being present, everyone's opinion on Faux, and how him and Felix were so close to the building Cyber and Prince were located– all of this just leads me to believe that the murder was an impulsive decision, spawned through everything that had been on Faux’s mind. A psychotic episode. He just couldn't take it anymore, and reacted in the worst possible way he could have because he simply didn't know what else to do. And he had to live with that. Or, at least until Cyber presumably killed him that night at the police station.

But Faux did not die. He was captured, and made to be the test subject against his will for the unseeable future. Time scraped by him while he was hooked up to Algo– painful and unrelenting, where he could do nothing but sit as a pathetic human head and think about everything that had led him to his situation. Whatever shreds he had left of a coherent mental state soon rotted away as he began to lose his mind.

His operation to kill all writers was also not planned. Initially, at least. Throughout the first half of Red’s journey, Faux merely provided misinformation in order to get more writers arrested and injured. He was also, at the time, still trying to retrieve his body. Reports of a “stolen body” began circulating because he really did want his full self back.

By the time the BRC challenges DOT EXE in Millennium Mall, Faux is set on killing any writers who get in his way, and he establishes control over the police force using the same technology that they had used to flay his mind for information. Faux is, to his credit, dastardly cunning when he wants to be, but it just so turned out that this time it was to every writer’s detriment. Through this control, he could call in as many officers and mecha as he pleased, and it even extended to him being able to contact Devil Theory for a deal, in which he would unceremoniously double-cross them once he got what he wanted.

Faux has Berlage killed and begins modifying himself, finally making his escape from the bureau’s basement inside the mecha tank we see him piloting after Futurism is defeated. In Mataan, he's determined to kill all writers, regardless if they've crossed him or not.

About Rietveld; I initially gave Faux the benefit of the doubt that he spared her, but given how far gone he is at that point it's more fair to say that Rietveld is just incredibly skilled at self defence and managed to escape him alive.

Despite all of his plotting and bloodlust, when confronting the writers in Mataan, a single thread of composure holds Faux back. That is until he attempts to kill Felix and gets sprayed in the face with paint. It's no holds barred at that point. Faux is both out of his mind and intoxicated with spray paint fumes, and it leads him to scrap whatever humanity he had left– transforming into a horrifying beast of metal and wires. He becomes the monster that he thought everyone saw him as.

It's clear that he still intended to return to a human form after wiping out all writers, though, because he kept Solace alive.

Faux fights and screams until his final moments and spends his last line still trying to communicate how he feels.

But nothing changes.

[dragonmarquise]

Speaking of trauma and stuff, name all the characters you think have trauma in bomb rush cyberfunk, any crew, any reason. Feel free to use HCs and stories and fanfics to explain!!! Bc RN I am drowning in your content/pos

First and foremost, thank you for the interest in my ideas and stuff!! Even though art and fan fic writing has been on the backburner for me while I try to get the BRC wiki to a point where I can call it “finished” at least for now. So like, doing posts like this is the only way right now that I can share my stuff at the moment. ;u;

Second, OH BOY, this is gonna be a hell of a topic. Uhh, content warnings for mentions of abuse and injuries and trauma in general. I mean, given the topic, it’s definitely going to get dark. The big ones are probably going to be my 4 Devil Theory OCs, but I have some ideas for a few other characters…

Also this is gonna be VERY long just fair warning! No seriously, I think I basically wrote the equivalent of a short fan fic here. That ended up being the reason this took so long to answer. :u

Let’s start off with Felix! Since you brought up an interesting point about why he might be distancing himself from others. For other people’s reference, this is the reblog I’m referring to.

Actually let’s break this up into sections so it’s a bit easier to read, not to mention easier to get to certain characters.

Felix

So again, from your post! Felix distances himself even from friends a lot of the time, because it’s a subconscious thing where he doesn’t want to end up too attached to someone. And then hurting badly if he loses them.

Related to Old Amsterdam, maybe Felix somehow survived whatever happened that led to it being destroyed/buried and then having New Amsterdam built on top of it. The current fandom theory is that it was a giant flooding disaster. It’s mentioned in a couple of dialogs with the Oldheads that at least those three (i.e. Boombap, Oldschool, and Classic) still remember the original Amsterdam, and the way they talk, they definitely lived there for at least a short amount of time before the city got wiped out. Presumably they and other people managed to flee whatever disaster before it happened, while other people weren’t so lucky maybe?

Heck, I know there’s one particular dialog, I think from Boombap specifically, where he mentions how Felix was just a kid while Boombap himself was in his prime as a writer. Presumably back during Old Amsterdam, but maybe even during the early start of New Amsterdam?

So maybe Felix as a small child remembers the disaster, either having to stay with his parents and losing them while managing to survive himself. Or otherwise they all fled but something happened along the way where Felix had to leave by himself. There’s also fan theories about the coffin in the Old Amsterdam under Versum Hill, that maybe it was used to save him, but also kinda preserve him? Then again maybe the coffin is unrelated in that regard, and Felix has some other connection to it (maybe a very distant descendant of whoever actually made it).

We don’t know the exact time frame between Old Amsterdam being destroyed and New Amsterdam being built, other than the Oldheads being around for both based on the game dialog. Again, they mention having memories of Old Amsterdam and how it compares to New Amsterdam and all. But still, it could have been a decently long amount of time in the past, since we don’t quite know how old the Oldheads themselves are… I always imagined them in the 60s to 80s range tbh, and then most of the case being in the range of 25 to 35.

Well, okay, the Old Amsterdam stuff and the Oldheads’ ties into the game’s lore is an interesting topic, but I’m getting a bit too off-topic for this post, sorry!!

Anyways, Felix as a very young child was in Amsterdam at the time of the disaster, manages to survive, but loses his parents at minimum. That kind of loss, especially in such a presumably horrifying way, isn’t something that can be easily overcome.

But also! Here’s my additional idea for this: Felix doesn’t want to remember what happened back then. In fact, I like to think he’s repressed that particular part of his life so hard he genuinely can’t remember now. At least not willingly. Good thing DJ Cyber was helping Felix remember only the part about how to stop Faux, otherwise he might’ve seen some REALLY depressing stuff. I like to think the first bits of each dream Felix has at the end of each chapter (besides the 4th one, which just gets right into the actual dream stage) are subconscious symbolisms of those locked away memories.

The first dream has a black and white image of “Old Amsterdam”, with someone wearing his mask in a boat. The second dream has a bunch of people standing before a pyramid of stairs, and if you knock off the person at the top, the rest at the bottom start cheering. The third dream has a long line of people, waiting for something or waiting to go somewhere maybe. The fifth dream has a line of crows you have to chase away, leading up to the group of big crows that reveal Felix.

… granted I only have my own ideas of what those could symbolize, but I feel like there’s definitely something interesting there.

Anyways, as far as Felix knows, he grew up in New Amsterdam as an orphan. There was nothing else before that. Nope. But even if he never remembers the truth of what happened to him as a kid, that trauma is still affecting him as an adult.

Like what you pointed out in your reblog, I like to think Felix eventually realizing that pushing away people who care about him just to “protect” them isn’t a healthy way of handling his feelings. Even if he never remembers the root cause of why he felt the need to do that in the first place, I’d think he learns to handle it better from now on, especially with the events of BRC teaching him friendship and stuff (not quite but like, you get the idea lol).

Cueball

So now, Cueball! Oh boy, poor Cueball. He has two sources of trauma: the stuff that led to him going full-cyber, and Eight Ball being killed.

With the first, reiterating what I said in my big DOT EXE post: as a teen living in the US (or whatever is the equivalent in the universe of BRC), Cueball got COVID, and the resulting Long COVID left him in damn terrible health. Overall physically weaker, damaged immune system, some nerve damage, sense of taste and smell being messed up (“Can you imagine biting into a chocolate bar, and tasting nothing but a like, raw meat kinda taste? I still remember that. Wouldn’t wish that even on my worst enemies.”).

And his own friends being worried they might “catch” it from him too (even though it’s at the point where it’s just the Long COVID) so then this poor guy is socially isolated while he’s still getting through high school on top of all of this. Doesn’t help that both of his parents are convinced it isn’t that bad and it's just him being lazy or finding "excuses". It isn’t until years later when they finally take him to see some doctors to try and get him some kind of help, and even then, they only take him to see quack doctors that recommend snake oils over anything that could actually help him.

Even with Eight Ball eventually stepping in and helping Cueball moving away from his awful parents, seeing better doctors in New Amsterdam… and then it turns out Cueball’s condition is so severe that there isn’t much that can be done by that point. So then the full-cyber conversion happens, because from Cueball’s point of view, his only other options are to either continue to suffer, or just straight up die.

I mean, you can imagine that would leave some pretty significant trauma on anyone. But Cueball is repressing most of it. Especially since, he’s had other people pity him and feel sorry for what he went through, and he hates that. The only person he ends up telling about any of this in particular is Bō (my Devil Theory OC that I ship with him), and even then only after they’ve been dating for a while.

By this point, he’s mostly mad at his parents for letting it get as bad as it did, especially with how stubborn they were about taking it seriously at all. Not to mention, like I said in the DOT EXE post, Cueball originally had plans to becoming a chef or baker. But he couldn’t exactly do that with his sense of smell and taste getting messed up, nevermind everything else he had to deal with. There’s a bit of resentment there towards his parents, the people who were supposed to, y’know, keep him safe.

Oh also, he is dead to them. Quite literally. I imagine in some countries in the BRC universe, a person going full-cyber or even just getting a cyberhead makes the person be considered legally dead. Y’know, Ship of Thesesus, “How much do you replace of a person before they stop being the same person?” kind of thing. And if not legally, I can imagine some people just have that kind of thought towards cybernetics like that.

His parents even made a grave for him and held a funeral for him. To clarify, by that point he was already living in New Amsterdam with his brother and the other DOT EXE guys, going through the procedures to go full-cyber. He told them what was going to happen to him, and they basically cut contact and acted like he completely died.

But if he had a chance at the time, Cueball would have flown back home, dig open his own “grave”, then push his parents in and bury them alive. Otherwise, he just likes to think that if he’s dead to them, then they’re dead to him too. Hell, they probably are dead by the point of the game, but Cueball refuses to even think about them either way.

The main trauma response (not sure if that’s the right word for this?) from all this is that Cueball gets really worried for his non-cyber friends whenever they get sick. Also getting mad if they try to keep going around as if they’re not sick, “Dude!! Go rest!! You’re either gonna make it worse or get someone else sick!!”

He is also still very distrustful of doctors in general, even if they’re genuine. He goes along with Bō for his doctor visits like a bodyguard. He’s worried for his boyfriend, but it takes him a while to admit he might be overreacting.

So then besides that! Cueball also has the trauma from Eight Ball dying. Maybe he even saw it himself, I don’t think the game specifies if the other DOT EXE members were around when it happened, or if the police/Faux managed to catch Eight Ball alone and take him out then. Personally it feels more that it’s the former, like they were all talking together nearby after losing the crew battle, then Eight Ball got shot and the others ran for it before they were next.

From a different previous post of mine, basically what I’m thinking is that Cueball was not coping with Eight Ball’s death very well. At all. To the point of even making fun of Eight Ball for just dying “so easily”. Which of course pisses off the rest of DOT EXE and gets him kicked out, leading to him joining BRC to continue to try and ignore Eight Ball’s death. Even considers just deleting his memories of Eight Ball completely, even though doing so would leave gaps in his memories that are too noticeable to ignore.

Fortunately! I think he’d eventually get a better handle on his feelings and what happened, and reconcile with the rest of DOT EXE later. He still sticks with BRC though, but at least he lives with the rest of DOT EXE again.

Vela

This one is for the spring palette Eclipse member. This is gonna be a bit shorter, but mostly because, I don’t want to get into too much detail on what happened to her, since the character herself probably wouldn’t do so either, at least to most people. So, to the point: She is studying at the local university, and at one point ended up abused by a professor she thought she could trust. That guy very nearly got away with it, if it weren’t for the rest of Eclipse stepping in to make sure he didn’t.

Though even with the scumbag punished, for a very long time afterwards Vela ends up very distrustful of men in general. She does go to therapy to help cope with things at least, especially since she wants to avoid coping in a way that ends up hurting her more. The leader of Eclipse in particular, Cassiopeia, encouraged Vela to make sure to go to therapy, and of course all of them helped support her during this time too.

It definitely does help, with her becoming less distrustful over time. She even gets a boyfriend later on! After a lot of patience from him, which Vela really appreciates and loves him for. Unfortunately, the rest of Eclipse finding out about this is the reason (in my little headcanon/AU story thing at least) for them kicking her out of their crew. So then similar to Cueball, leading to her joining up with BRC.

To clarify, they didn’t kick her out because she’s dating a man, they kicked her out because she hid something fairly important from the rest of them. With what she went through, combined with the crew overall having a, well, dislike towards men in general, she was worried about what they would think of her if she told them. So kinda poor communication on both sides?

I like to think they do eventually sort things out, but also like with Cueball, Vela probably sticks with BRC for writer stuff. However, she’s still very happy to have her friends back by thatpoint!

(Also I ended up deciding that Vela’s boyfriend is someone I’ve talked about before already. Remember the guy who I said his friends joke about his “theoretical” girlfriend, because he insists he’s dating someone but they’ve still never met her? But yeah that’s probably for another post. :P )

Rise

For Rise, I think some people might debate if it really “counts” as trauma, but I think it still does. A lot of this is copy-pasted from a document that I don’t think I’ve shared publicly yet, or at least not outside of this one BRC server I’m on.

In essence, Rise was emotionally neglected by her parents. Rise's parents are the high/upper class kind of people. Rich! Snooty! Looking down on the poor! etc. They saw their daughter as more of a reflection of their own reputation and stuff instead of her own person. So plenty of criticizing her for her appearance, what she ate, who she hung out with, what she studied in school, etc.

I have a headcanon where Rise has a huuuuge interest in marine biology and ocean stuff. It’s partly why she ends up hanging out on Pyramid Island, at least in my mind! She knows a lot, possibly even more than most people who go to school for the same topic!

But then whenever she'd ramble to her parents about it, she was basically met with a lot of dismissive "Yes yes, that's nice dear" and stuff like that. And after a certain point they were like, "When are you going to be interested in something more practical? Like medical science or business?" and that basically made her never want to talk about anything to her parents ever again, let alone her hobbies and interests.

At one point they wanted Rise to get into ice skating, but only because they wanted to have the prestige of having an "Olympic gold-medalist~" as a daughter. But also making sure she didn't get into any sports that were too "masculine" in their eyes, oh no, what a scandal that would have been for these poor rich assholes!! She got into skating alright... inline skating, specifically just to spite them. From that, Rise made more genuine friends, then became a writer through that as well. Her first time getting caught by police, her parents were horrified and actually paid to get her out and scrub her records (like with what was happening with Faux).

But then Rise keep doing writer stuff, again out of spite towards her parents, and kept getting caught, etc. Eventually they just forced her to move out of London (or maybe, Neo London? Who knows how bad the floods were in the rest of the world) where they were living, and she ends up in New Amsterdam from there. They would have disowned her on top of that, but then that would be even more of a scandal in their socialite circles, oh no!! So they just quietly sent her off and even try to pretend she's just overseas studying at some prestigious university or something.

The only "contact" Rise has with her parents these days is them actually sending her money every now and then. In their mind, if she isn't something like a doctor or CEO, it means she's probably living off of dirt without their help. She always donates the money they send her to a local charity, she sure as hell wouldn't want to keep it even if she did need it.

Rise doesn’t mind if people assume she’s just some rich kid that got into writer stuff for the sake of clout/because it was trendy. She doesn’t care for other people’s opinions too much, and besides she thinks her beef with her parents is between just her and them, and nobody else's business unless she chooses to share it.

Though, even after that, Rise tends to have trouble opening up to people, at least outside of being a writer and all. Especially when it comes to talking about her oceanic interests. So like, for my headcanons she ends up becoming besties with Rave and Shine in particular once they’re all with BRC! But even then, she’s afraid to bring up her interests, and for the longest time they mostly like to talk about writer stuff or gossip and the like. She gets there eventually, it just takes her a while.

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Now for my Devil Theory OCs! I’ve already written a lot in this post, and these four might be a bit shorter than the rest all together. Also like with Rise, this is mostly copy-pasted and cleaned up/added to from a document I haven’t shared outside of a Discord server.

Sai

He is the spring palette Devil Theory guy, and the one in my headcanons/stories who ends up joining BRC. His parents started off verbally abusive with him as a small kid, until it escalated into physical abuse by the time he was in middle school. His dad was the source of the worst of it, but his mom definitely wasn’t a saint either in all of this, being abusive as well. It’s effectively a sense of “If my son wasn’t around, he’d just go after me” cowardice, just “agreeing” with her husband for her own safety. Sai at least had Daishō (and eventually Bō and Nunchaku) to help him through it, in particular Daishō letting him stay over at Daishō's house for days at a time just to avoid his parents.

Unfortunately, the abuse still continued whenever Sai came home. Despite what was happened, back then he still had hopes that his parents might change eventually. They hammered into him the mentality of “family is everything no matter what”, and was hoping that would actually win out in the end. But then because of that, he never really fought back, thinking it would just make things worse, even once he grew older and was physically capable of fighting back.

It also didn’t help that for most of his life living in New Amsterdam, Sai felt pretty isolated. Him and his parents moved from Puerto Rico (fun fact, with a lot of maps that show what the Earth would look like if all the ice caps melted, Puerto Rico is still around since most of it is actually pretty mountainous! So not as badly affected by any potential world flooding disasters, at least compared to Old Amsterdam and other places). He gets picked on a lot as a kid for being Latino and just generally an outsider. Even a lot of teachers and adults end up not trusting him due to his “attitude”.

Daishō is pretty much his only friend for a very long time, and before joining BRC he only ever considered him, Bō, and Nunchaku as his friends. Basically, he doesn’t feel like he has a lot of other people to turn to for help. And at any rate, he wouldn’t want to risk his own friends getting hurt because of his parents. Especially since, his dad in particular is a cop, and has been using those connections to cover up what’s been going on.

This eventually accumulated into his breaking point sometime in high school. His father managed to give him a nasty cut on his lower leg, and his mother just sloppily stitched it up, seeing no need to go to the hospital (because otherwise the people at the hospital would probably find out about what was going on). Sai eventually snapped sometime after that, and beat the fuck out of his dad.

He would have done the same to his mom (who, again, was also very much physically abusive, even if not to the same extent as his dad), if she hadn't managed to barricade herself in a bathroom. Afterwards, both his parents decided to skip town out of “embarrassment” instead of trying to involve the police against Sai (i.e. realizing that what they were doing to Sai would have to be investigated as well, in a way that couldn’t be covered up with cop connections anymore). He hasn’t seen them since and plans to keep it that way.

Is it any wonder the poor guy ends up with anger issues? He at least gets a better hold of them later in life at least, especially once he joins BRC.

Bō

Bō, the blond one (winter palette for Devil Theory), mostly dealt with his mother being horribly controlling and abusive to him (largely emotionally, but also sometimes physically). Meanwhile his father was a doormat who effectively enabled her, even helping her cover up what was going on.

At one point she attempted to homeschool him to protect him from being "corrupted”. She and the father followed, from what Bō could remember, a “very strange niche of Christianity”, with confusing ideology, seemingly just her picking and choosing what she wanted to believe from the Bible (which, unfortunately applies to a lot of Christians out there, but I digress…). They never actually went to church, but she would insist they were are True Christians. Her attempts at homeschooling him were equally confusing, at least for him.

But then that resulted in Bō needing to be held back a bit once the proper authorities found out she wasn't doing a good job, and thus forced her to let him attend regular school. They tried to catch him up as best as possible, but eventually just let the schools "handle" him from there. Between that and continued abuse at home, he was all around miserable during this time. Also really not helping that he ended up with poor social skills due to how his mother was isolating him so much.

Fun fact, he met Sai and Daishō sometime towards the end of primary school for all of them (roughly middle school, from what I can tell from research?). They had planned to bully him into helping them with homework, thinking an older kid would know more about what they were studying. But then they found out about him needing to catch up on a lot of things, and actually helped him out instead! Also for a frame of reference on ages, Bō is 31 in the present, while Sai and Daishō are both about 28, and Nunchaku is about 27.

Anyways, back to the note about his mother isolating him. She would also manipulate Bō’s relationships, either scaring off other kids he tried to make friends with, making him paranoid that they secretly hated him, or otherwise making it so that he could rarely (if ever) see them too often.

Daishō and Sai were the only ones she couldn’t successfully scare off nor turn Bō against. They also helped him stand up to her and defend himself. This eventually led to Bō being disowned and kicked out of his home for being so “disobedient”, but he considers this the best possible outcome. As far as he knows, his mother and father both moved out in the country to get away from the “corrupting” influence of the city, so at least he doesn’t have to worry about ever meeting them again.

Unfortunately, he was still left with a lot of issues. One is with food. She would often say she was going to cook one thing and then make something completely different, intentionally adding ingredients or buy snack foods that he didn’t like, or add certain spices that would alter the taste in ways he didn’t expect. She did this mostly as a way to make sure he wouldn’t be a picky eater, forcing him to eat or go hungry. Even if it meant eating something that he found repulsive.

As an adult, this resulted in Bō being very, very picky about his food. He wants it a certain way, and if it isn’t the way he wants or is expecting, he refuses to eat it. Especially if it’s something he hasn’t tried before, he needs to be told what it’s like, be able to at least sample it first, and if it’s homemade food he has to trust the person who’s cooking it anyways. For ordering at restaurants, if they get his order wrong, he’d rather just throw it out and go hungry than ask for them to correct it. His friends (and eventually Cueball) have to be the ones to step in and get it fixed, even when Bō insists they don’t have to, “I’m fine, really, I’m not that hungry anyways I swear!”

Another thing is that he’s afraid of the dark. This one was a result of his mom often locking him in their basement as a punishment whenever he acted up (i.e. just acting like a kid would). He’s embarrassed that he has to sleep with a night light, or really any sort of light, but his friends and Cueball are very accommodating of that.

Nunchaku

Appearance-wise she’s the one based off of Devil Theory’s summer palette. She was born and raised in the United States, specifically in California. Her parents placed a lot of pressure on her to be successful no matter the topic (school, sports, exercising, even just hobbies), but she could never meet their standards, nor did she really want to in the first place. This led to a lot of mental and emotional abuse related to that, most of it in the form of guilt-tripping her about not being able to do “better”.

Skateboarding was one hobby she kept secret from them, in particular because she knew they would try and force her to become the next Tony Hawk or something, when she wanted to keep it as a fun hobby for stress relief. Especially given everything else they were putting her through. Another hobby was fixing machines, including cars, which she mostly did in secret away from her parents lest they try and force her to study mechanical engineering or something.

After a certain point this escalated into physical abuse in the form of pushing Nunchaku past her limits for any physical training/exercising she did for sports in particular, as well as attempts to control her health and diet. In regards to school sports, they basically forced her to join just about every sport team the school had to offer, even if she hated the sport in question. There were times she thought she would die from a heart attack or just exhaustion in general. Other times she was either actually sick or just pretending to be sick in order to get out of practice and sneak off to finally relax.

She also wasn’t having a fun time at school anyways. She was pretty open about being a butch lesbian since maybe around middle school. Her parents at first tried to discourage it, but then eventually tried to use it to their advantage. In short, her dad was a local politician, a conservative one at that, and used his daughter as a sort of “See, I’m not a bigot, my daughter is a lesbian!” thing. Outside of that they didn’t really do much to be supportive, other than not mistreating her specifically because she’s a lesbian (which is, y’know, bare minimum).

Also, they didn’t bother helping her with the bullying she was dealing with at school over her identity and her being a part of every team (most of the other kids thought she was stuck up for doing that, not knowing/accepting that her parents were the ones to force her to do that). Most of Nunchaku’s real friends were either kids from outside of her school or online.

The latter is how she ended up friends with Sai, Daishō, and Bō! It was mostly a shared love of anime between the four of them, I think I mentioned that in the big DT post a while back? But yeah, eventually they became closer friends once they realized they were all deal with shitty parents, so then deciding to stick together and help support one another.

Truthfully, her eventual move to New Amsterdam was less “just moving”, and more her friends helping her successfully run away from home once she turned 18. As far as she knows, her parents have long since written her off as a “failure” and have stopped looking for her. She’s glad that they aren’t trying to drag her back, but deep down she’s also still hurt that they just gave up on her like that, after all the pressure they put on her.

Despite the whole “be good at ALL of the sports” obsession her parents had, Nunchaku still enjoys some sports and plays games with others. She’s just, y’know, not doing it to be the best, she just wants to have fun! Though there are times where she get competitive, like with writer stuff, but at least it’s on her own terms.

Daishō

Daishō, the leader of Devil Theory (also for appearance he’s the autumn palette), has been through some awful stuff himself. Though, a big part of his problems is that he’s convinced what he went through wasn’t nearly as bad as what his friends went through. Even though, trauma is not a competition. Still, I’ll get into that a bit more later.

Anyways, starting off with the root of his problems, his rich parents had a messy divorce around the time he was in early primary school (i.e. roughly early elementary school). The parents' animosity against one another was so bad to the point where they lived in separate houses, with Daishō actually living in a house of his own. His parents wanted to see each other as little as possible, so Daishō's "own" house would be where he was dropped off when he wasn’t meant to be with one of his parents. But because of how much both of them worked (and sometimes them going on vacations by themselves), he spent most of his time at that third house anyways.

He was basically cared for/raised by a nanny and a few housecleaners at this point, and those people were certainly a lot more like parents to him than his actual parents. He still sends his old nanny gift cards and stuff for the holidays, sometimes having lunch to catch up, etc. So just to emphasize, he has no love for either of his parents in the present day.

Anyways, both of his parents tried to manipulate him, in order to get him on their “side” against the other parent. Said manipulation changed often, but ranged from bribery, threats, and outright abuse. Never physical abuse, since they were at least careful not to leave “evidence” (with them thinking poor mental health resulting from shitty parents doesn’t count as evidence of anything bad).

Daishō himself was kind of desperate to either get his parents back together and maybe somehow fix the whole mess the three of them were in, or otherwise just get them to calm the hell down and leave him out of it. Him wanting to fix things was moreso when he was a kid, and then the latter was more as a teen when he started getting sick of their bullshit. Though sometimes his feelings would yo-yo between the two.

Eventually, all of this drama and manipulation led to an instance of attempted murder by his mother on him and his father. During which his father also left him for dead. Daishō got his foot almost hacked off by his own mom, but at least managed to get away despite what happened. The only other major downside to this is that she somehow got away with it in court. That whole thing basically killed what little hope he had left for either parent.

So from there, he just decided to beat them at their own game. Manipulating them, especially getting a ton of cash out of each of them in exchange for his "loyalty", telling lies about one parent to the other as “dirt” they could use later, stuff like that. After a certain point, he had effectively scammed enough money out of both of them that he felt safe enough to cut them both out of his life. The scamming was also enough to leave them both poor as hell, especially since they continued to use their respective money to try and get back at each other during all of this.

As far as he knows, his mom went back to her home country "in shame", while his dad just outright vanished. Good riddance either way, in his opinion.

So now going back to how he thinks what he went through wasn’t as “bad” as what the others went through. Other than the murder, he thinks it wasn't as bad because they weren't "directly" abusive towards him, at least not all of the time like what the other three went through.

Because of that he feels like he has to be the one to make sure everyone else is alright and happy. He has to be the one in charge, he has to be the one to fix things, he has to be the one to organize things, because his friends deserve to have that kind of happiness before he does.

Of course, with what happened in the game, he and his friends almost getting killed by Faux has put a lot of guilt on Daishō. Especially since he was mainly the one pushing for their deal with Faux, being convinced that Faux would have their backs and they could enjoy being All City and keep having fun together. With how badly things turned out, the guilt is still eating him up to this day...

One Last Section for Devil Theory

Just going over how each of them lost at least part of their legs, which led to all of them ending up with the cybernetic legs they have in the game:

With Sai, the cut on his lower leg got badly infected, made worse from him trying to hide it from both his friends and just people in general, not to mention being worried that going to the hospital might lead to him getting arrested if they found out what he did to his dad. Eventually it got bad enough that there was no saving it and he had to get that part of his leg amputated.

Bō lost part of his legs not from anything his mother did, but while he was an adult, long after being disowned by her. It was due to an accident (i.e. a failed secret test with a walking tank, where other people got injured as well), which got covered up by the police. Bō actually isn’t even sure what exactly happened that day, no one else who got injured know either, especially not that it was because of the police in the first place.

For Nunchaku, she lost most of her lower legs due to a factory accident as an adult. With her being new to New Amsterdam once she moved, she was in desperate need of a job, and ending up working for a shady factory that had a ton of questionable dealings and safety regulations. Her getting hurt lead to many other employees quitting, because it was the last straw and a bunch of other employees also got badly injured in the same accident. It was in fact the most severe accident at that factory up to that point, which led to it being finally shut down. She now works as a mechanic at a shop run by another former factory employee who was her mentor.

Lastly, for Daishō, when his mother tried to kill him, his foot ended up so mangled that he was better off just amputating it. It didn’t help that he also had to crawl and even walk with it for a while before he managed to get it looked at. Mostly because he went into hiding for a bit because, y’know, attempted murder.

With all of them getting injuries that resulted in cutting off a foot or lower leg (I'm imagining a bit after Bō's accident, that was the last one chronologically), Daishō ends up declaring, "Clearly we're all fucking cursed, let's just get this over with already." And paid for all of them to just get what's left of their lower legs replaced with fancy cybernetics, as seen in the game. This eventually leads them to becoming writers ("With these legs we could probably manage it pretty good, right?"), and then forming Devil Theory.

Not to mention the abuse all four of them faced, from their parents, and even other people like employers as adults, led to them adopting an "If the world wants to treat you like trash, then you should be allowed to trash it right back" kind of attitude. Hence how they act as Devil Theory.

Suffice to say, a lot of the problems they caused as Devil Theory would have been avoided if they all got some dang therapy!! Bō at least went for a bit as an older teen after being disowned, but stopped after a while, convincing himself he’s “fine” now. The rest refuse outright though also insist they're fine. They're not fine. They’ll get better eventually, but it will require someone convincing them that they’re not really fine, and them accepting that in turn.

So… I think that’s it. I know this is, a lot. So much. Maybe too much, lol. But if you read this all the way through, then thank you!!

[decktech-vis]

i am once again asking you to scroll past if you havent finished the game

last image was inspired by this https://archiveofourown.org/works/50295589

the fic itself was written by @shelbswastaken who did an amazing job!

[ciitrus--artz]

haiii i wrote felix/solace fanfiction enjoy honey garlic fans

[treemintart]

I've been thinking of that one piece you did with Faux putting on the Cyberhead esp what u put in the tags abt the idea that Faux comes back as Red postgame. I usually go with the theory/HC that an ai was made for red but your idea is super interesting.

like it would make sense for Faux to go by Red now bc outside of the law/police force the BRC, DJ Cyber/Futurism and the other rival crews most likely hate his guts now ( along with like the civilians that had to witness the events of the storymode ) i'd love to learn more abt this au/headcanon btw!

eyyy! i also share the hc that red comes back with an ai, its pretty neat! i kinda swap between the red ai hc and the red!faux one to be honest

i started thinking more about faux and just his overall situation and read waaay too deep into his character/actions so i became this while thinking about the hc/au

ill slap it under a readmore, unsure if its considered spoilers but it is post-game

so the idea is that after the game escher finds faux's head/body and put him back together. the two talk it out, and he gives faux the option to start new, much like how he did with red earlier in the game. knowing this is his last chance to finally get rid of his roots; to finally get away from the police, he takes it.

knowing that everyone hates him or is after him he dons a fake cyberhead from escher and starts a new identity. he hides away from everyone and never talks, not wanting to get close to anyone and be betrayed again (or to get involved with others, he doesnt need another target on his back). he slowly changes into a person who enjoys being a writer for the sake of it again like he used to, the chains of his past slowly coming off of him.

does he end up running into BRC or the other gangs later on? possibly, im unsure on how that would play out, although he might be given a chance if he seemed genuine in wanting to/has changed. (thats assuming they figure out its faux in the first place)

[fauxridium]

Chapter one of Pretty Boy Revival, the fic my bf @ganondorf and i have been writing, is finally out and ready to read! After a long wait lmao

You can read it here!

(Pls keep in mind the rating for this fic and make sure to read all the tags/warnings)

[mechanical-magician]

THE SHIP FIC IS HERE

COME EAT YOUR FOOD I HOPE YOU ENJOY

[glitteraffe-art]

VINYL BRC MY BELOVED...

Vinyl is very much one of my favorite characters in BRC and she does not get enough love.

Though I originally wanted this to be more of a straightforward list of headcanons, it ended up being paragraphs of me rambling while trying explain my reasoning/analysis(?), so I can get a good grade in headcanons, which is normal to want and possible to achieve.

(Under the cut for length and for spoilers for the the story of BRC)

Overview

Vinyl’s roles early in the game tend toward covertly gathering information (observation of the Bomb Rush Crew during the first two chapters, with cutscenes showing just her shoes as she stands on rooftops, only fully showing up to hold back Red at Versum Hill) or bargaining using information (in her conversations in Millenium Mall, she mentions she knew Faux personally and hints she knows about Red’s dreams to motivate the Bomb Rush Crew to defeat DOT EXE).

She’s shown as knowing more than the Bomb Rush Crew about the whole Red situation, and intentionally keeping some of that information under wraps, though that’s specifically for Red’s safety (such as, when Red’s face is revealed, she lets the Bomb Rush Crew know that his true identity would be dangerous if others learned of it, but does not reveal who Red really is).

Later in the game, when DJ Cyber attacks her on top of Pyramid Island, he accuses her of being a double agent—which is true both ways, as she’s both acting like she’s betrayed DJ Cyber to join the Bomb Rush Crew while also actually still working with DJ Cyber, since it’s all part of his plan to get Red to remember his identity.

So, to me at least, Vinyl is a character who primarily deals in information, and leans toward being a “spy” type character.

Let’s get deeper into headcanon territory:

Prior to the Big 3 Era

Vinyl mentions she works for herself (and that this sometimes means working for others) at Millennium Mall. Plus, Tryce addresses her as “Vinyl the freelancer” after defeating DOT EXE. Because of this, I think prior to the events of the game she may have been an independent writer who occasionally worked with other crews if there was some benefit in it for her.

This also gives her a reason to know Felix, if both of them were independent writers prior to the formation of the Big 3.

Vinyl and Felix

To me, Vinyl and Felix really contrast. I’m not sure it quite reaches the levels of being foils, but their base similarities but completely different outlooks are intriguing.

I think that Vinyl and Felix have known each other for a pretty long time, of the characters who knew Felix prior to the events of the game. For one, she knows what Felix’s face looks like (which few know about, implying that 1. only close friends or people he trusts see him without it, and 2. he rarely, if ever, took off that mask). Plus, she’s comfortable enough to casually insult him (she mentions to Red that he’s just as slow as Felix in the opening of the Mataan chapter) despite the fact that other characters see him as a legend, so I feel she must have known him prior to him being put on a pedestal as a legendary writer.

Despite both being pretty independent and appearing kind of cold to others, Vinyl and Felix seem to have different opinions on trust and giving people another chance. In the dream memories shown after the Pyramid Island dream, Vinyl says she has a bad feeling about Faux, while Felix says a guy like Faux can change.

Felix chose to give Faux a chance to change, but it doesn’t seem Vinyl would have done the same in his place. Vinyl ultimately ends up accepting Felix’s assessment of Faux (i.e., to ignore that bad feeling about Faux), as she is the only one of the characters who personally knew Felix (the others being Faux, DJ Cyber, and Solace; Flesh Prince is also present but it’s unclear if he knew Felix personally) who is not present when he is murdered by Faux.

Despite being such an information-focused character, there was one piece of information she did not know—that Faux was, in fact, trouble (due to the whole framing other writers and cop dad situation thing), and that Felix knew this about Faux. If she had known this, if she had chosen not to accept Felix’s opinion on Faux, investigated further, observed more, would the whole situation have turned out differently? I think this is something that haunts her during the game, something that she regrets, and it probably makes up at least some of her motivation in being involved in DJ Cyber’s plan to bring Felix back.

On a sillier note, I think Felix and Vinyl are specifically the kind of friends who hang out by doing completely different things 10 feet away from each other. If someone asks if one of them is free, they’ll say they are busy hanging out with the other person. And they genuinely are hanging out with each other, it just doesn’t look like it from anyone else’s perspective.

Vinyl and DJ Cyber

It’s not clear how well Vinyl and DJ Cyber knew each other prior to or during the Big 3 era. But, despite Vinyl seeming pretty practical, she was totally on board with DJ Cyber’s absolutely wild plan to resurrect Felix.

I think they at least were acquaintances-turned-friends, since she must’ve trusted DJ Cyber a lot to go along with his plan.

Since DJ Cyber features a lot of vinyls on his person and just, generally, in his job as a DJ, you’d think that he and Vinyl would be more connected. In Versum Hill, Vinyl gives off the impression of being something like DJ Cyber’s right hand man (since she has a different design from the Futurism girls). In Millennium Mall, she addresses him with a sense of distance as her employer/boss, and DJ Cyber addresses her as one of his personnel on top of Pyramid Island. However, once their ruse is up, they seem to be on more equal footing than the arrangement they were pretending to have.

Since it takes a lot of dedication to keeping up a days-to-weeks-long ruse like that, I feel like the two of them are both dedicated theater kids. I think Vinyl was absolutely having a great time acting all mysterious and peppering in ellipses at Millennium Mall.

Also, since her name is Vinyl, she’s probably just as much of a vinyl collector/enthusiast as DJ Cyber probably is. They probably talk about record releases or rare finds or that one band they’ve been listening too recently in their spare time.

On a slightly related note, I think that Vinyl pays attention what bands/singers that people she’s close to tend to like, or their favorite songs. If she sees a record from that band/singer, she’d think “oh that’s the one that so-and-so likes, right?” and then buy it, with the end result being a collection of vinyls that vaguely represents her friends. Not that she was intentionally making it happen, it just did.

Vinyl and Faux

Vinyl mentions she used to know Faux personally at Millennium Mall, and she mentions that she has a bad feeling about him to Felix in the memory shown after the Pyramid Island dream. It seems that she knew him—it would be inevitable for them to meet at some point, after all, if she was hanging around Felix (and theoretically hanging out with DJ Cyber). She didn’t know about Faux’s secrets, but it looks like she was able to correctly guess he was trouble by vibes alone.

Faux is described as being quiet in Tryce’s description of the Big 3 (which is, I assume, how Faux acted when around other writers that he wasn’t close with), so I imagine that Faux and Vinyl didn’t have direct conversations with each other very much. Neither of them seem to be the type to carelessly share things about themselves, so...The situation was probably like “You’re friends with someone I’m friends with (...rivals with???), but I’m barely even acquaintances with you”, and probably resulted in some awkward non-conversations. I guess Faux probably dropped enough red flags when talking with either Felix or DJ Cyber for Vinyl to notice, though.

To me, Faux also seems to be a person who says things he thinks people want to hear, if he can get something out of them, and that he tends to be right in those assumptions (due to his interactions with Tryce at the beginning of the game). If he was Wrong about what he thought Vinyl wanted to hear, or if she at any point got the hint that he was just saying things to get something out of her with no real intent of being friendly, that’d be a pretty big red flag to her to think “oh, this guy’s Trouble” without her actually knowing his secrets.

Vinyl and Red

Vinyl is the only one of the people who knew Felix who really gets to interact with Red as Red, and not as Felix, if that makes any sense. Solace doesn’t know Red is Felix, and Faux doesn’t directly meet Red until Mataan. DJ Cyber only really interacts with Red as an antagonizing villain who shows up intermittently, and though DJ Cyber sides with BRC after he drops the ruse, it’s only after Red has remembered being Felix, and plus, he doesn’t actually join BRC until postgame.

Vinyl, though, joins BRC midway through the game. She gets enough time to get to know Red as a separate entity from Felix.

It must be weird to her, seeing Red. He looks like Faux with a helmet on and sounds like Felix with a voice filter, but isn’t quite either of those people. He asks questions a lot and gives off the impression of being quite naive. He’s technically Felix, but Felix minus however many years of experiences and successes and failures and memories is like, just some weird kid. But, a weird kid who works with a crew, which is something the Felix she knew only ever kept at arm’s length. Still set on being All City King, though.

Vinyl can be a little mean to Red sometimes, though. (like when she called him as slow as Felix post Pyramid Island). Admittedly, Red (as the Designated Player Viewpoint Character for Explaining Things To. And also the amnesia) can be pretty clueless.

Interestingly, Vinyl addresses Red as “kid”. More specifically, she says “Call me Vinyl… if anything, kid” when they meet at Millennium Mall. It seems he gives off the feeling of being pretty young to Vinyl. I don’t feel like she would address Felix as “kid”, since he’s got a beard, so maybe even from the beginning, she felt that Red was someone totally different from Felix? (As a side note, just how old is everyone, anyways?), Or, I guess it was just her part to play in her and DJ Cyber’s ruse. In order to ensure Felix comes back correctly, Red is Red, a totally different guy (until he’s not) and she doesn’t need to worry about it before then.

I think that to Vinyl, the differences between Red and Felix’s tendencies would be more noticeable than it is to, say, DJ Cyber, who doesn’t get much time to observe Red in action. Like, one difference could be that Red has a completely different center of gravity (due to the length of his cyberhead and different body) so maybe the way he does some tricks and some dance moves is a little different from Felix. I don’t think Vinyl would say anything about it during the game, but in the post-game, after Felix is “revived”, she might bring it up to Felix.

Vinyl and Tryce

As seen in Tryce’s dialogue in Millennium Mall, Tryce isn’t very trusting of Vinyl at first (due to her association with FUTURISM and DJ Cyber), but he accepts her pretty fast, especially after she smacked Escher over the head with a skateboard. Tryce seems to be pretty practical, and appears to value reliability. Vinyl genuinely helping BRC seemed to help change his mind on her.

Vinyl seems pretty focused on her and DJ Cyber’s mission (to get Red to remember) throughout the game, so I think she’d only really relax enough to become better friends with Tryce during the post-game. Since Tryce has an interest in music and mixtapes (he made the Hideout mixtape, and is a huge DJ Cyber fan), they’d probably be able to talk about the latest releases or albums. I think it’d be funny if she offhandedly mentioned to him that she got to listen to one of DJ Cyber’s upcoming mixtapes prior to release (since she and Cyber still hang out sometimes), and he’s just simultaneously Mildly Jealous and struck with the realization that he’s got friends who Casually Hang Out with the DJ Cyber, something that was totally unthinkable a short while ago. Vinyl doesn’t seem to be the type to get starstruck by anyone, and definitely not the legendary Big 3, so her lack of reaction about it would probably be baffling to Tryce.

Vinyl and Bel

Bel is a lot more willing to trust Vinyl than Tryce is during the game when Vinyl first introduces herself to BRC at Millennium Mall. I think they’d get along fine during the game, but just like for Tryce, I think that Vinyl would only really relax enough to become better friends with Bel during the post-game.

In the celebration cutscene that plays after beating the game, Vinyl and Bel are laughing while Bel takes silly pictures of Solace. I think it would be cute if they surprisingly had the same sense of humor. Bel is described as being on her phone constantly, so I think she’s the kind of person to text silly photos and memes to Vinyl. Of course, Bel probably sends silly photos and memes to everyone in BRC, but if something made Bel laugh, it gets automatically sent to Vinyl. Going by the in-game text messages, Vinyl probably responds with a text that is slightly like an email, which is funny in itself.

I think it’d be refreshing for Vinyl to be friends with someone as straightforward and openly trusting as Bel. Especially since dealing with the Big 3 (and the ensuing post-breakup fallout) was drama central.

Postgame

After completing her and DJ Cyber’s goal (reviving Felix), she seems a lot more relaxed. After the game, she stays with BRC, an interesting choice for someone who started off as a so-called freelancer. But it’s not like there’s any particular downsides to staying—she gets to hang out with people she trusts and is friends with, and besides, they’re All-City now.

Well, I guess she’s not being paid, but then again, I’m not sure if DJ Cyber was actually paying her when she was allied with him and Futurism, since it could’ve just have been something she just said he was doing, as part of the Role she was playing in her and DJ Cyber’s ruse. On that note...

Graffiti Won’t Pay the Bills

I wouldn’t be surprised if Vinyl had a “real job”, even if only part-time, on top of being a writer. I think she’d be the kind of person to try to keep her work and writer lives completely separate, with a completely separate group of friends and acquaintances for each sphere who don’t even know the other sphere exists. Given the fact that New Amsterdam is functionally a police state hellscape, she’d be pretty justified in keeping them separate. If word got out about her being a writer, the cops would probably crack down on anyone near her.

In Millennium Mall, she mentions she knows the mall like the back of her hand. If she hung out there as a writer, I feel like DOT EXE would be more familiar with her, but they don’t seem to make any special note of her. Maybe she works (or worked) at one of the stores there?

Respect Your Elders

I think Vinyl is friends with the Oldheads. I think it would be cool if she learned about the best shortcuts through the city (for traveling quickly and appearing and disappearing without being seen, of course) and the best places to observe the boroughs from them.

I could see her as a future leader of whatever Oldhead equivalent is set up in the far future, since their job is basically to Watch Shit Happen, and drop Ominous Information you didn’t know every once in a while...which she kind of does already!

You Can Say Hi

Not quite a headcanon per se, but since the one trailer for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk features Vinyl’s voice actress doing the voiceover narration while You Can Say Hi plays, I associate that song with her. Actually, prior to the release of BRC, I thought that she was going to be the secondary main character/female lead! I was surprised she was really only was introduced about midway through.

Bonus: Concept Art

Anyways, as a side note, here’s some concept art from Dion Koster (pinned on his Twitter, https: //twitter.com/DionKoster/status/1364838899659472903/photo/4, remove the space) featuring a Vinyl with reddish brown hair and a stylized Audio-Technica Soundburger record player on her wrist.

It has no basis in canon, but I’m partial to the idea that Vinyl knows how to fight with wheels of steel, but unlike DJ Cyber, who goes for long-range projectiles attacks, goes for close combat with a wrist-mounted weapon. She’s quick thinking and has a fast reaction time (she’s the first to act when Escher shows up unannounced) so in a close combat fight she’d be pretty tough to beat.

There’s not much use for a real weapon, though, if cops just run away if you kick them enough times or spray them with spraypaint and almost all writer conflicts are solved via crew battle. I’m not sure what situation she would need to use it in or what would lead her to learn to use it, but I still like the idea.

[of-his-dragoon-ways]

Fanfiction is in the works. Faux is a genderflux lesbian, cry about it. Both of them have AIS (an intersex condition)

He loves his girlfriend Rietvield so much.

He/She for Faux

They/She for Rietvield.

[faulix]

do you ever think about the future?

bomb rush cyberfunk felix/faux, felix/dj cyber no major warnings apply

description: Felix was always impressive, but in the end, he chose to work alone. DJ Cyber accepted this, there was no budging, he would fight for All City in his own way. Faux never let go of it. He had other ideas.

fic link in reblogs so this post can show up in tags!!

[snibbit]

OMG YOU’RE THE PERSON THAT WROTE CHRISTMAS IN JULY! I just wanna say that I love your work i enjoyed reading it and I also really loved the other two fanfics you wrote! Also question, if you could hang out with any LLB character for a day who would it be with and why?

AH HELLO!! thank you, makes me very happy 2 hear you like my writing :D

my bad i kinda abandoned christmas in july , lost motivation and etc . i might write some bomb rush cyberfunk fics soon tho

i think id want to hang out with jet tbh. she seems nice + i wanna learn how to inline skate

[dragonmarquise]

Rise & Devil Theory theories

ONCE MORE the BRC brain rot takes hold on this fine Thursday evening. This time thinking about the connection between Rise and Devil Theory!!

Why would there be a connection between her and them? Think about it: Devil Theory are known in-game for being aggressive assholes, even turning on their fellow writers by snitching on them to the cops. Not to mention the whole “were apparently working with/for Faux behind everyone’s backs” thing.

So then how the hell would Rise be able to apparently have free reign of Pyramid Island, Devil Theory’s own home turf, when DT themselves have been shown to be jerks to other writers? Especially other writers trying to move in on their turf, as seen in the game when the player starts going after them!

She was even blocking off most of the island until BRC got more REP. Ultimately trying to stop them like that would moreso benefit Devil Theory than Rise herself in the grand scheme of things.

AND SO, I present to you, a list of theories about the possible connections between Rise and Devil Theory, about how/why DT would make an exception for Rise! This is gonna be long, sorry, though at least it's not nearly as long as the two headcanon posts I did for Devil Theory and DOT EXE.

Also lot of fan fic material here, just saying, hee hee...

I have this in my headcanon tag just for ease of referencing it again later, but I’ll note which one of these is my own personal headcanon too. :>

Getting this out of the way, the possibility that Rise has no connection to Devil Theory at all. I still think they wouldn’t take too kindly to another writer moving around freely on their turf, even if she didn’t do any graffiti. So then in this case, maybe she somehow sneaks around and never gets noticed by them most of the time. But then that makes the gate guarding risky from her point of view. Though it’s also a bit funny with how she’s just out in the open after that, in a spot where one of the Devil Theory guys can challenge you anyways, so surely he would’ve seen her then, lol

Rise seems to make a big deal about social media, given she has you take pics of her for her missions. I imagine she’s likely a very big name online, so then maybe at least some of the Devil Theory members are fans of hers! They have an agreement, Rise can hang out on the island for “exclusive photos” and stuff, as long as she doesn’t do any graffiti herself. Of course, nothing about her getting other people to do graffiti for her (at least, in a way), given how she gets BRC to up their Rep before letting them into the rest of the island :P (This one is my personal headcanon btw!!)

The Devil Theory guys all have crushes on her (probably stemming from her social media status maybe??), and basically letting her on the island as a chance to ask her out. Resulting in them competing with each other over it. Rise is actually fully aware of this… and just messes with them, so she can still be on the island without having to commit to anything.

Alternatively, they are her simps and she basically pushes them around, which is how she’s “allowed” on the island, she outright bullied them for it. Maybe they’re into that too, don’t judge them for it, lmao

Maybe the most potential for drama? Kinda? But one of the Devil Theory guys could actually be dating her, which explains why she’s being made an exception for being allowed on the island without getting harassed by the others.

An extension to the previous point, it’s a polycule! All the Devil Theory guys are actually dating each other and Rise is in on it too.

Just plain friendship is also an option of course! Maybe Rise and the Devi Theory guys go way back, and they just let her on the island as a favor, as long as she stays out of their way in terms of writer stuff.

Another option: Rise kicked all of their asses in a 1 on 4 fight, so they let her on the island out of respect to her. Probably-maybe the coolest option, tbh :D

Sort of a small subsection that can be applied to all of these: How does Rise chose to deal with Devil Theory being assholes, especially the whole “snitching to the cops” thing? There’s a few possibilities to consider:

First option: She actually didn’t know it was for real. She knows their reputation and the rumors, but she didn’t think it was actually true. In the game, talking to Tryce just before going to the island, he mentions that it’s a “rumor” that they snitch to the cops. So that only gets proven once you try to go after them yourself. Then in this case she breaks off from (or breaks up with) them, after learning the truth. Big potential for dramatic fic writing here! And character development in the aftermath at least on Devil Theory’s side of things, but maybe that’s just my own preference...

Second option: She definitely knew the truth, but turned a blind eye because it at least wasn’t affecting her directly. “Not my monkeys, not my circus” as they say. Not to mention, she probably had it in the back of her mind that her trying to say anything or convincing them to quit it could risk them snitching on her to the cops. In this case I imagine there’s at least some guilt on Rise’s part for not doing something sooner herself.

Third option, and I think the most exciting for both dramatic fic writing and potential character development on both sides: She absolutely knew what was going on the whole time, and even had them call the cops to help her out more than once!! If the truth ever got out on that, you can imagine her social media status would take a BIG hit… but again, excellent potential for character development for both Rise and Devil Theory in this situation, both of them learning to be better from this, at least imo ;u;

I think that’s all I got on this topic! What do you think? Any particular idea you personally like? Or do you have another situation that I haven’t listed here that would be fun to think about? Reply or reblog this with your thoughts and opinions!

No, seriously, please interact with this post, I don’t want to be alone in the Rise + Devil Theory brainrot, ahhh ;o;