#m-bot

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Reading Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward and I love M-bot because he’s like: “I don’t have real emotions, 😶just the vague approximation of emotions 😐but what you just said was very mean 😑and if I did have feelings 🙁they would be very hurt right now ☹️and you should apologize.😭”

[lucydoodlessometimes]

Skyward Flight, confirmed.

We're here.

[cosmerelists]

Cosmere Characters Meet Non-Cosmere Sanderson Characters

As requested by anon. :)

Namely, Sanderson characters from non-Cosmere works I've actually read, aka Skyward and Frugal Wizard.

1. Ryan Chu (Frugal Wizard) and Amaram (Stormlight)

Ryan: What DOES Sanderson have against handsome, highly competent people? Amaram: I don't know. He just hates us. Ryan: Are we too good at our jobs? Amaram: Are we too handsome? Ryan: Too good with the ladies? Amaram: Too effective in battle? Ryan: Is it that we maybe slightly screw over his precious main character while working on something greater? Amaram: He's SUCH an unforgiving author.

2. Jorgen & Spensa (Skyward) and Vin & Elend (Mistborn)

Vin (narrowing her eyes at Jorgen): You look like a man from a highly wealthy, politically influential background who has a strained relationship with his father, especially after you fall in love with a badass, combative woman from the "wrong" side of society who has special powers needed to save the day. Spensa (narrowing her eyes at Vin): And I'm getting the sense that you had to fight really hard for everything in your life but never gave up, and that you didn't like your man initially because he seemed wealthy and stuck up but eventually you realized that he matched your freak pretty exactly. Jorgen: Oh wow, we definitely need to set up a double date! Elend: Did we just become best friends?

3. Cobb (Skyward) and Harmony (Mistborn)

Cobb: ...and it's honestly horrible, constantly loading children into that munitions chamber to be spent into empty shells. Harmony: I know what you mean. Every time I cannot act, I have to call upon Wax to be my gun once again. Cobb: And then they go out... Harmony: And then he goes out... Cobb: And they die! Harmony: And he kills tons of people! Cobb: ... Harmony: ... Cobb: I think you got your metaphor backwards there, friend. Harmony: I think it's you.

4. John (Frugal Wizard) and Painter (Yumi)

John: [holds out his hand for a fist bump] John: Fellow loser protagonist? My man. Painter: I-I'M NOT FIST BUMPING TO THAT

5. Kimmalyn (Skyward) and Adolin (Stormlight)

Adolin: It can be tough to be the most emotionally intelligent person in the cast, huh? Kimmalyn: Tough? I dunno about that! I like being able to help my friends! Adolin: I mean, me too! Adolin: But we're both so friendly and mostly upbeat that I think people sometimes forget we have our own problems. Kimmalyn: Yeah...I missed some shots that haunted me for a long time... Adolin: And I stabbed a guy through the eye in an alley. Kimmalyn: Well, bless your stars!

6. Sefawynn (Frugal Wizard) and Demoux (Mistborn/Stormlight)

Demoux: Off-worlders giving you a hard time? Sefawynn: I'm sorry? Demoux: People from other worlds? Coming to your planet and messing everything up? Sound familiar? Sefawynn: My husband is from another world. Sefawynn: I would not say that he "messed things up." He helped save us. Demoux: [Crumping up a Seventeenth Shard pamphlet in frustration] How great for you.

7. Spensa (Skyward) and Jasnah (Stormlight Archive)

Jasnah: So these "Cytonic" abilities of yours give you access to the "Nowhere." Spensa: That's right. Why? Jasnah: Which is some kind of extra-dimensional space that exists alongside your "normal" space where time is strange and timeless creatures exist? Spensa: The Delvers, yeah. Jasnah: You are basically a sci-fi Eslecaller. Spensa: ... Spensa: A what?

8. M-Bot (Skyward) and Nightblood (Warbreaker/Stormlight)

M-Bot: Hiiii! Nightblood: Hello!!! M-Bot: I can already tell that you're a kindred spirit. Nightblood: Yeah!! M-Bot: Do you want to read my ongoing work "The Greater Argument for Human Origination Chaos" (GAFHOC)? Nightblood: Well I don't think I can read, but you can tell me about? M-Bot: My main thesis is that "humans are weird." Nightblood: ...And evil? M-Bot: No, gotta go with "weird." Weird creatures, humans. Nice. Squishy sometimes. But weird. Nightblood: Mmmm...I think you're missing the "evil" part. Nightblood: I was created to destroy evil, you know! M-Bot: I was created to document mushrooms! Maybe! Nightblood: Does the "M" stand for Mushrooms? M-Bot: Yes! Or possibly "massacre" according to Spensa. Nightblood: Ooooh, I like "massacre." Massacre is cooler than mushrooms! M-Bot: Uh, you haven't seen my very cool mushrooms. Nightblood: Well, let's see them. M-Bot: I love having a friend!

[obsidianpegasus]

Basically M-Bot

… I tried, okay? :)

[fippydarkpaw]

[rewind-time]

How I imagine various lesser known AI characters would draw themselves,

Inspired by this post,

AIDAN:

-Just uses text of its name

-Might use ASCII of the many spacecrafts it inhabited

-Colour? Never heard of it

M-Bot:

-Just a mushroom an eye (M-Bot) watching over it

-Might even sometimes use a full on mushroom png

-He only colours the mushroom, the mushroom is the most important part to him

The Thunderhead:

-Refuses to draw anything to represent itself

-At the most would use a gradient if forced

-Reluctantly acknowledges that people do see it as a thundercloud

[curlyradiant]

Cosmere Inktober day 30: Ship

Taking a brief detour outside of the Cosmere to feature some Skyward art! It's M-bot!

[the-lunatenebris]

Beginning of Starsight

M-Bot *currently up in space* : I don’t think Jorgen likes talking to me!

Jorgen *currently on platform prime about to throw hands with an AI starfighter* : UGH! I scudding hate talking to you! How in all the stars does Spensa deal with you?!

M-Bot *still in space* : I can tell by the way he says so!😁

(I honestly have no idea if this is the actual line and I didn’t feel like checking so don’t come at me)

[every-character-ever-poll]

M-BOT - Skyward

Credit to Ben McSweeny

PROPAGANDA:

He is an AI starfighter ship who hacks himself to help Spensa !! Come on !

[murderousjelliebean]

Just finished my third ever read-through of Skyward. This was my first ever branderson book, a year and a half until my cousin shared the fun (read: pain) of stormlight with me. Man i love this book. I dreaded the deaths of Bim and Morningtide and Hurl and actually teared up when M-Bot told Spensa about how he chose a new pilot. Humans can pack bond with anything, up to and including inanimate objects, and this book is proof of that. A girl pack bonding with a spaceship and dragging us readers along. Three times and it still hasn't lost the magic.

It's almost midnight, so I'm not gonna start Starsight till tomorrow. I found skyward right after starsight came out and i was lucky enough that the library had a copy. It'll be my third time through that one, too. Second time was in preparation for Cytonic. This time is because i finally finished the novellas and have the context for Defiant.

[libertyreads]

I'm almost finished reading Defiant and I absolutely had to highlight this line. I love M-Bot.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

M-Bot in Skyward: Spensa! you are my best friend in the whole world. If you tell anyone about our friendship I swear to God I will kill myself

M-Bot in Starsight: Spensa! I'm trying to commit major galactic crimes, but my circuitry is dummy thicc and the click of my processor keeps alerting my feedback loop

M-Bot in Cytonic: Spensa! Look what I can do! *Moves three feet before running into a wall and having an emotional meltdown*

M-Bot in Defiant: SpeeEEeeeEEEnsa! I'm a ghoooOOOoooOOOst! Do you feel haunted yet? (Please say yes)

[louwhose]

"I," [M-Bot] said as the cockpit clicked closed, "made you look."

I knew this part was coming and would be devastating but how dare it make me laugh and make me feel such satisfaction at the fulfillment of a joke within the narrative?

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Virtual Character Tourney - Round 2 - Bracket 1 - 8

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Cortana propaganda:

All she had known was war. It seemed to stretch out beyond her perception of the world. She gave her life to end that war...but evidently neither would accept the end...not like that anyway.

M-Bot propaganda:

He's an ancient pilot AI that's been asleep for longer then history can remember. Was awakened by an insane girl because she wanted a spaceship. He insists he's not intelligent and have no emotions despite multiple evidences otherwise because he has anxiety and being intelligent means he have to make choices. Has multiple huge guns but insists he's a science-focused AI. Has an obsession to fungi. The M in his name is Word-Of-The-Authored to stand for 'mashroom'.

Ritsu propaganda:

She is an ai girl who has a robot body full of weapons. She was created specifically to murder the teacher korosensei.

She is one of the many student in Class 3-E who were deemed unable to make a contribution in society accept to be used by other people. Though the help of her teacher she gains love for the beauty of the world around her and the people in it that when her creators realize she's gone against what she's created for and start deleting her memory and additional code she hides everything she finds irreplaceable which are her friends and her promise to make them flowers allowing her to truly develop her own personality and humanity.

She's adorable, and very sweet.

[myfairkatiecat]

M-bot for character bingo?

Yes I colored in both “has never done anything wrong” boxes. No I won’t apologize.

I LOVE M-BOT I’d read a whole m-bot prequel tbh

[urmomdotcom37]

👀 M-bot?

Fuck yeah they gave it a mech