#literally all of this is headcannon i cannot overstate how uncannon this is

[rotten-machinery]

I saw your bio saying "#1 Unparalleled Innocence fan", but I barely know anything about them, and don't have any head-cannons about them, so I'm curious-

What is your head-cannon about them? May I get you to yap about them and why you like them a little bit? Pretty please? ^^)

OOOHHH OH YAAAAAYYY I GET TO TALK ABOUT THE LITTLE BASTARD!!! do note that this is pretty much headcannons only, they're like literally an oc at this point because they dont really have any characterization to go off of in cannon* lore <///3 *or well, downpour cannon, haven't checked vanilla's pearls in a while so unsure if there might be something about UI there. i really need to check! but basically i had gotten the idea of going off of these lines of dialogue:

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i need to point out how intriguing it is that no one knows their motive for spreading images of pebbles' rot around like that...... CW assumes it was to be mean, and the others either only mention it in passing or speak of it like spreading rumors ............ which does paint an interesting picture in my head! i think UI is a very isolated, lonely thing. they were built shortly after pebbles, and for the only reason of being like a resort for especially wealthy individuals to live out the rest of their lives, specifically with lavish and beautiful void pools for ascension. thus, UI's city and council never stayed long anyways, most of the citizens were old and looking for ascension, while their council was also planning to ascend pretty soon too. no one really stuck around them for long, is what i am trying to say.........

ever since UI was activated, councilmen and administrators would be changed out pretty regularly for the aforementioned "i only came here to ascend" deal. UI would often be overlooked in favor of their city being new, luxurious, and a good place to host pre-ascension and goodbye ceremonies. UI themselves had a lot of gifts from their councilmen, who often wrote wills to their project (like in the pearl!!!). though since UI was often overlooked, their councilmen and admins only visited them to give work or to say their goodbyes....... as soon as UI got attached to one councilmen, they'd already be gone. it was unintentionally very lonely, to have the people you care about all leave you so soon, especially with barely any communications with outside iterators too (council didn't bother putting up far-reaching communication arrays, UI had to make those themselves). this all happened while UI's ai was developing, which is rather important because anything that the iterator has the capacity to interact, or anything that interacts with the iterator in their developmental stage will be a large deciding factor of how the iterator will interact with the world around them too................... and so when UI's council was one of the first in the group to all go ascend, it stung especially hard, making UI quite the bitter and angry thing!! everyone would leave them, so why would they both to keep up this fake-nice act? after this point, UI had taken on a rather confrontational, anti-sliverist, but also very curious personality. UI condemned the very purpose they were created for, as they believed it cost them their council, their FAMILY which had built them! but also UI was pretty sheltered, once again the council didn't bother introducing them to anything outside of their job with the great task and their own city, so anything and everything UI can reach is what they'll be snooping and looking and peeping at!!! though someone does need to tell UI to get their overseers out of other people's structures.... it's a little impolite!

with the new age of a lack of ancients/benefactors, comes the growing pains of UI's confrontational nature clashing with the group, they were both disliking of how much the group was close while they almost seemed like a stranger, and jealous of the almost familial closeness of the group (which they so lacked during their developmental years)....... multiple times UI would pull off odd stunts, cause trouble, or pick fights to gain attention, as if they do gain attention perhaps they'd also gain family along the way (UI is still quite young at this point, even for iterator standards..... can someone tell UI not to throw hands with nearby group members either? its also impolite!) they did that until moon had enough of them causing trouble in the group, and had attempted to explain to them that it is indeed impolite to be starting fights............ however moon was the only person to not have yelled or shoo'd UI away....... thus UI had clung to moon!! (and in the process developed quite the dislike for pebbles due to him being moon's sibling. why couldn't UI be moon's sibling?!) moon had quite the habit of overworking herself and not paying attention to her own needs in favor of keeping her group in perfect order, yet UI really hadn't caught onto that.... so UI just kept (metaphorically) following moon around, and while moon was rather busy, she didn't mind it as long as UI behaved themselves, moon had even tried to coax UI out of their hostile behavior, UI had even made honest attempts to rebuild the bridges that they never even had the chance of building before! perhaps things are starting to look up for UI, perhaps they'd finally have a family that won't leave them, especially with moon being guaranteed to never leave UI.....right?

the golden pearl incident happened, pebbles in his desperation to find the solution to the great task had taken too much water from moon! moon had unfortunately taken very limited action too soon, interrupting pebbles' experiment, which had caused him to mess up and develop rot, but we all probably know how this goes- UI had become panicked, they didn't have a lot of resources aside from now meaningless luxuries, they couldn't send anything to moon to help her, every option seemed too slow, too time-consuming, too ineffective to help moon, the only family that UI has is now threatened to be taken away once more!!! UI had witnessed moon go offline on the broadcast, they had practically yelled and begged for moon to return yet all their attempts had gotten no reply (moon's malfunctioning broadcast system just didn't receive them, and moon's over-worked and dehydrated network couldn't respond to them either), UI was forced to watch in horror how the situation unfolds worse and worse...... until something in them snapped, until something had caught their attention- UI has overseers in nearby districts quite often, especially now with their overseers being around moon's structure to see what's happening, yet one of their overseers had caught a glimpse of pebbles' structure..... with rot! UI, in a fit of rage against pebbles, had sent their overseers to get a rather good look at what the pink dude has been getting up to, yet that only further drove them into blind rage-

if pebbles is gonna take away UI's family, they'll do the same to him, they'll shame him to the entire group! and that is what they did, also going on the public (inter-group) broadcast to do the same as well .............. it only dawned on UI what they had done after the broadcasts were already sent................. they did in fact humiliate pebbles, just like how they wanted, yet the relationships they so tried to build had all crumbled in that second, fellow iterators once learning to trust UI are now back to wary, some have tried to confront UI, some had tried to ask what their reason for that is, others simply watched........ UI didn't answer the flood of broadcasts, didn't bother to say anything else publicly, didn't even apologize, they were so sure that everyone hates them now, they realized that they never had a chance at having family to begin with...... thus they slipped into indefinite isolation .......... they themselves became unreachable, their district is on lockdown to this current cycle, they are so so horribly lonely yet they spend their time blaming and beating themselves down, they had long accepted their belief that everyone wants them dead.

that is the lore i will hopefully settle on, though i never write lore down aside from rambles (almost always privately to friends, its quite nerve-wracking to ramble publicly, it seems like any mistake i make will warrant the whole internet to come after me), so the lore is quite malleable in my head!!! even lore thats three months old is already outdated lore- i am also thinking of changing their design once more, i want them to be closer to cannon, and while i am satisfied with their outfit, i do want to change their puppet up a bit !!! so i do hope you find what you're looking for in my ramble... even if its all headcannons- AS FOR WHY I LIKE THEM!!!! WELL FIRST I WAS QUITE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT AN ITERATOR LEAKED IMAGES OF PEBBLES' ROT!!! it made me want to look for information on UI a lot, yet i never got that information in cannon- just what was their motive? why do all the others iterators never mention them? why do they also dont know their motive? whole wills were written in UI's name yet we barely get to hear about them!!!! i am so intrigued!!!! what's up with them!!!! i became rather attached to them in a search for why they are like that-