#megabyte/dot

[buginateacup]

Ship kiss ask number 7 with Dot/Megabyte plz. 🙏

Damn computer reset ate what I started. But just know the hardest part of this was figuring out who was shutting up who.

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Moans and grunts and pants echoed from behind every door of the game level. Dot hunkered lower behind a pot plant in one corridor and eyed the single open door at the far end of the corridor.

"Far be it from me to interrupt your quest," The low drawl slithered over her skin, "But I really think you ought to avoid that particular hallway."

"You!" Dot rounded on him, "I should have known you had something to do with this!"

Megabyte eyed her with an amused stare, "I?" He echoed, "As flattered as I am to hear you think I can control the User, allow me to assure you my dear Dot." His eyes raked over her, "I'm merely taking advantage of an unexpected opportunity."

"Put your eyes back in your head before I delete them." She gritted out, crossing her arms over her chest. Which unfortunately did nothing to counter the fact that her pID was providing more coverage than anything else the game had rebooted her into.

Megabyte's gaze disobligingly dropped to the fishnet stockings gracing her thighs and the skirt-that-was-really-more-of-a-belt barely covering her hips and snorted, "All out of the good little schoolgirl uniforms? How disappointing."

"Wow I did not need to know that about you." Dot shook her head.

"But I thought this was a land of fantasy," One hand gestured sarcastically to the rhythmic thumps and ah-ah-ah!s chorusing all around them, "Don't tell me you're reserving all indulgences for yourself."

"Get fragged!"

His grin leered, "I believe that's rather the point." He turned to go, "Do have fun Ms Matrix. Try not to get caught."

"Where are you going?" Dot hissed, "This place is crawling with viruses!"

"I'm aware." He glanced back at her over his shoulder, "Sharing Mainframe with Hexadecimal is bad enough. I intend to make sure no one else gets any ideas about jumping ship, as it were."

"Really." Her eyes rolled, "You're doing this out of the goodness of your heart. You expect me to believe that?"

"Call it enlightened self interest."

"I call bullshit." She stalked after him.

Footsteps sounded around the corner.

Dot's back hit the wall, Megabyte's hands digging sharply into her shoulders. She opened her mouth to demand he release her and instead tasted the sharp tang of viral code as he-

Devoured

No. Kissed her. If a kiss could swallow you whole and make you feel like every line of your code was shocked by a power surge. Ruthless and demanding and one hand sliding down her arm to caress her hip and pull her closer.

"Megabyte! I thought that was you!"

Dot's eyes flew open and her grip on his chest (when had her arms decided they needed to be touching him) slackened, falling away in shock.

Megabyte growled his dissatisfaction, punishing her lip with a sharp scrape of his teeth and took his time releasing her mouth. Pressing his thumb over her lips in a silent warning before he turned to face their voyeur.

Dot sagged against the wall, blinking stupidly at the scrawny virus interrupting saving her from...well. She tried to push herself away from the wall and found herself gathered into a possessive embrace. Megabyte's arm curling around her waist, his hand splaying over the curve of her hip.

The other virus trailed off their babbling recollection of the bad old days and stared at her. She glared back as regally as she could manage with her mouth still buzzing like static.

"A sprite?" His laugh was nasally, "Really?"

"We are viruses, are we not?" Megabyte's tone was mild, but his hand dug into Dot's hip in warning, eyes a furious red, "What's one more taboo?"

[totallyhextra]

People? In MY computer?? It's more likely than you think!

The following is a fanvertisment and is not connected to the show. ****Yet.*** *Also yes, this is the fourth time I'm posting this because TUMBLR WONT LET ME EDIT SPELLING MISTAKES!

ANYWAY,

Once upon a time, back in 1987, Dire Straits put out this music video for “Money for Nothing”, which, as you know, was a song about wanting my MTV. 

The video was made by two guys (Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson) on a very moody computer. After the video went out, these two guys went to a pub:

Ian: “Hey, we should make a whole show like this!”

Gavin: “Dude, making three minutes almost killed us.”

And so it was decided!🎉

The two guys were joined by two other guys (Phil Mitchell and John Grace) and created the Hub, which then became Mainframe Entertainment. They got even more people, and then they all holed up in this hotel.

They were mad lads with a dream: a whole cgi animated show, and they made it happen a whole year before Toy Story!

Behold! ReBoot!

(Yes that fever dream was real)

Now before I get any of this:

Let me lay this down. If you can’t with the animation of the first season because it was CUTTING EDGE IN 1994, you can close your eyes and listen to it. ReBoot wasn’t just a CGI gimmick. The characters are fully developed, the voice actors are peerless, the plot is sharp, and there’s so many easter eggs that you’ll never find them all.

Never

(And yes the episode "Bad Bob" was the actual catalyst for Fury Road. Look it up)

ReBoot is about what life is like in a computer (in the 90s, because it was the 90s) called Mainframe (because of course it is). People are sprites, the guys that look like 1s and 0s are binomes (which represent 1s and 0s). Bad guys are viruses, and the good guy is a Guardian named Bob, who is a certified cinnamon roll.

In the first season the eps are light and self-contained, mainly because there was constant friction between the Mainframe studios and the Board of Standards and Practices.

They still got away with some pretty dark stuff, like Megabyte (virus) making Enzo (the kid) watch his dog get sliced open (dog got away, obviously) , Dot (sprite) have a hallucinatory breakdown, and the fridge horror of realizing the thousands of worm things (nulls) that plunged off a bridge to their death were actually people.

And Hex's (virus

best girl) scary face single-handedly traumatized an entire generation. 🙂

But busting through a window was a no go, because WhAt If tHe cHiLdReN dID iT tOo?

Anyway, halfway through the second season, ABC cut them loose, so they were like, fuck it, we’re going to start going hard. The story shifted from episodic to arcs and things start to get serious.

Third season the show moved to YTV in Canada, which gave no fucks about shielding the innocent children.

So it got DARK

How dark?

The UK refused to show the entire season, so the audience there had to wait until pirated copies made it across the pond to see how it ended.

Also by 1997, the animation was gorgeous. (Best example of third season animation I could think of that didn't have spoilers)

The show was green-lit for a fourth season on Cartoon Network, but halfway through production Warner Bros took over and the same fucking thing happened.

Because Mainframe was halfway done, they decided not to scrap all of it, but knowing they wouldn't be able to finish it correctly, Mainframe stripped anything that would hint at Season Four's true ending, then left what remained on a cliff-hanger of angst.

FOR 22 YEARS

(It's also why the last four eps of season four seem to make no sense)

And so it was.

Other crap happened, the soul left Mainframe, and its animated corpse spat out “The Guardian Code” in 2018. 

But never say die! The year is (almost) 2024, 30 years later. ReBoot shall rise from the dead, because here come the documentary!!

Do you dare see what you’ve been missing?

What the (UK) government doesn’t want you to know?? 

Then come on down to ReBoot!

We got:

Magnificent bastards with sexy voices!

(Tony Jay at his best)

Kickass women who could probably crush your head with their thighs and you’d enjoy it!

Innuendos in a kid's show!

💗 This adorable cinnamon roll!! 💗

Insane third season glow-ups!

YOUR NEW GOD

These guys!

(Gay roller-skating binome is my boi. I named him Jerry)

Nonstop cultural refs (You'll never find them all. Never.)

(There are literally videos dedicated to trying)

So many computer puns!

Body Horror!

Existential Crisis!

HAVE I MENTIONED YOUR NEW GOD?

This is it, folks! The real thing, the gem hidden in the moose-filled forests of Canadia!🌲🌲🌲

Take a trip inside a mid-90’s computer!

See the World Wide Web! (omg):

Witness the original purple Gamecubes that randomly fall from the sky when the owner of the computer (OUR GOOD LORD THE USER) wants to play a game. If it lands on people and they lose, they dissolve into mindless energy leeches, fated to tormented by their former bretheren for all of eternity.

Just like in real life! 🙃

So watch the eps! They on YouTube!

I think they're on Pluto, Hulu, Sling, and Tubi too! Also DVDs for people who have the patience to wait for them!

WATCH! BELIEVE! SUFFER THE SOUL-CRUSHING RAGE OF THE SEASON 4 CLIFF-HANGER!* (come on, its fun!)*

HYPE THE DOC!

The more people hype, the better the chances of actually getting it finished.

NOW SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE!

And now I will leave you with this screenshot from the ep "Painted Windows", where dicks can clearly be seen drawn upon the wall behind the fleeing anthropomorphized television.

(PS: If you heard the clown pic at the top of the page in your head, you're welcome)

IMPORTANT UPDATE

This message is now approved by Gavin Blair! He's an awesome guy. Show him some love on TWITTER (fuck you musk) at @TheRealMrSweary Also, if you want to share this with non-tumblr friends, here is my attempt at a webpage version:

theseventhstarprojects.com/REBOOT.html

[jurijurijurious]

Bedtime biro sketch of Codec with some bi g Vessel-Sleep-Token vibes. It's the masks...

[theanimationalley]

[nizaen]

this dumb robot villain from a 90’s cartoon

[killyjae]

When evil stands to conquer all - his only hope: a firewall!

[sciencefiction-and-comics]

Mainframe Studios have posted episode 1 of Reboot (1994) to their YouTube channel! Is there more to come??

[randomrebootframes]

[aspec-illustration]

Store Update!

Our 11x17 red foil Matrix print has been added to the store alongside the existing gold foil prints for Hexadecimal and Megabyte.

Did you watch this Canadian classic?

[miaqc1]

All story cutscenes and all endings. The bad endings are dark as heck. ReBoot Ps1 Game.

[bulbabutt]

i think if someone asked me what reboot was about id just say "the world's most complicated polycule"

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: ReBoot

Sample Size: 166 stories

Source: AO3

[jurijurijurious]

Spent some time with my ReBoot OC Codec tonight. I have a bauta mask at home that I bought because it reminded me of Codec so I did some sketches of that, then I made one of the sketches into teen Codec.

[konnichibotart]

Time to ReBoot into summer with the crew!

(I listened to Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball OST while drawing this for the reboot summer slideshow, and you should listen to it, too.)

[izztreme-art-n-stuff]

Decided to redraw the cover for The Tearing

Made it more vague and less of a clusterfuck

Sorry MegaByte fans, I've reduced him to eyes

Just gonna...

[killyjae]