#programmer021

[crystal-wingeddragon-spikes]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61843309/chapters/158128309

This is, hopefully, the final cut of my experimental Alan Becker comic. Alan's part can be read independently, but The Chosen One's part is to be read after Alan's.

Fixed several panels transition.

Fixed several art details.

Included the text transcription of AOL chat log.

There are my commentaries here and there.

The art style still changes every panel, that one I cannot fix.

If anyone want to recommend anything for me, or want to be my friend on AO3, please tell me here. The first page of My Little Pony and The Powerpuff Girls scared me off years ago. I am not looking through that site again. Archive for archiving only.

[d8tl55c]

scene of programmer021 throwing together the code for the first TCOs: "what if i just give them 100% in all stats lmao."

releases one into a sandbox*

sandbox bricked irretrievably within 3 minutes

ho-ly shit.

..... that's hilarious.

they try like ten more times, each with the same outcome. the little worm is good at what it does, scary good, and programmer is grateful that they went the extra mile with the sandbox layer of protection from it.

at a safe distance, the TCOs are brilliant sparring partners.

*(basically a mini computer running inside of (but held separately from) another computer) (used to test new features without risking a whole system)

on the twelfth go, they've learned enough of its tricks to have more of a chance. both of them take a moment after a long scuffle to catch their breaths. the stick figure gasps on the floor - it's amazing! so lifelike! and programmer is celebrating this little victory for the field of recreational AI right up until

it looks at them.

TCO #12 turns its hollow face out through the screen, looking at them.

programmer is unsettled.

can it see them?

their webcam is off.

surely it's impossible?

right?

and yet, it seems to see them regardless, because not only does it react to their reaction (little twitches eerily realistic, how did their program know to do those things), it capitalizes on their shock. it springs to its feet while they're still open-mouthed and reaches the walls of the sandbox window (which programmer had been herding them away from at all costs), crashing against the side, rebounding, and hitting them again and again.

programmer flails to reconnect to their Cursor (you know when you forget where it is and have to wave it around before you can use it again? like that, but with even more panic, confusion, and imminent peril).

there are cracks in a multitude of funny colors forming at the edge of the sandbox instance. pieces of the window dent out of its normal bounding box. The Chosen One adapts instantly, focusing its hits toward the weak points.

WTF! this has gone way too far.

programmer's Cursor swoops around from out of nowhere and catches the TCO by the base of its head. it tries to breathe fire and only manages strangled puffs of smoke. its legs kick the air. where once it was so elegant and poised it twists and writhes-

programmer drops it.

they feel cold.

their Cursor retreats outside the walls of the sandbox PC, clicking into the main system's File Explorer. already open is the folder with this sandbox, its partition of storage, and setup files inside.

they click it. press Delete on their keyboard.

the TCO tries to stand. it pushes through a dizzy spell, one hand holding the spot under its head that must be its neck, and sprints toward the breach it was working on.

a confirmation pane appears, from the process responsible for running the sandbox.

its arms are strong, but the more TCO_12 struggles the more it's clear that this wall would need way more firepower and concerted effort... and time... to break. it's out of time. it realizes this.

are you sure you want to end this process? ALL data will be lost.

programmer sees when it loses hope, because it abandons the wall. it abandons the whole game: the pride and dignity it fought with, the play-pretend that it held any real power here. it turns outward again, toward the screen. small hands slam against the barrier between them, knock-knocking faster, faster, please please please, its legs shake and give out but it keeps knocking, on its knees, please please please please PLEASE

the sandbox is deleted.

the window that displayed it freezes, lighting up too-bright and desaturated.

a snapshot of the TCO is frozen in place, begging for...

begging for what? it was never meant to know anything. to want anything. how did it know there was anything outside its reality to want?

or was it simply afraid to die?

Windows catches up, and sweeps the frozen program away.

programmer021 is left alone with the spot where TCO_12 used to be.

their friends want to play with their latest stick figures. they were supposed to update today.

programmer numbly uploads the most recent release build they have. killer and BEAST were fun to work on. they'll warn everyone not to touch TCO until.... until programmer works out how to... until ever, and if one of them does, it'll be their own fault.

[n0b0dy-yy]

My designs/takes for the users! Except Alexcraft- I forgot to do that one

(no, I don’t really HC programmer021 and DJ as the same persons-..)

! DO NOT REPOST !

Cursorssss:

(still experimental with those)

[jijjmoon]

programmer021 stick version design & hc

hc for programmer021:

- can make stick figures became alive too

- can controll sticks with commands and tought Alan how to do it after AvA II

- lvl made based on stick's name ( same with alan or other creators)

- won't make stick named chosen one

hc for AIM:

- while chatting in AIM, person who chatting with views you like wearing this cloth (yellow hoodie? coat?).

[impulsive-fantasylander]

Martins yapping for way too long Part 2

Hi yall, welcome back to whatever this is! this will probably the last ava post until the hyperfixation REALLY locks into it. but yea like uh, feel free to let me yall thoughts on these they make me really happy :>

Warning: again, while not graphic will get dark at times, keep that in mind please

The Color Gang

Navy, Orchid, Purple and Citrine

Merc Interlude

An Idea For The World of AVA

And Programmer021 Finale

End Notes

honestly my brain is so fried i cant form coherent sentences, however as a little treat, here's my spotify playlist for TCO, TDL and Victim! its not organized but if its of help, Butcher's Vanity is for TDL, Without me is for Victim and My alcoholic friends is for TCO! This makes sense to me.

[eppilem]

An AvA Headcanon

Victim was not Alan's first sentient creation. It was the desktop icons.

The desktop icons in AvA S1 were never really explained. And they're an oddity when you see them nowadays; either inactive (basketball ahh chrome in AvI 1) or outdated in appearance (firefox actual short).

Because of this, I like to imagine that Alan/Noogai and Programmer021 first collaborated on the desktop icons, with 021 handling their function and code while Alan handled animations.

Victim's creation would be the result of Alan goofing off from his usual business and trying to implement that same level of sentience not to an app, but to a simple stickfigure he could "play" with.

So the new icons we see now? They're not the same sentient ones we see in S1. And the firefox from the short? It's the same old file Alan animated and 021 coded, which is why it's not up to date in appearance.

So why didn't Alan and Programmer021 continue doing this?

Alan's computer got blue-screened in AvA 3. I imagine most of his animation files for the project were brought down with it. Some, like firefox's, would be saved onto a drive, but without those files, much less a computer to animate with, Alan and 021's future plans were quietly crushed.

Or like you know maybe Alan really does just have that magic touch idfk what's going on with AvA 4 or with this WEIRD ORANGE DUDE THAT JUST CAME ALIVE OUT OF NOWHERE WITHOUT ANY INPUT

[arikashimorika]

Thank you for the question!

I'm feeling really eager to write about this AU ;)

This is the explanation.

In the early stages of AVA 1, when Alan created Victim, he was engulfed in immense pressure that attacked him from all directions, as if he were being bombarded endlessly. This left him trapped in a suffocating state of overwhelming stress.

This intense mental strain ultimately triggered his transformation into Noogai.

At the time, he was 17 or 18 years old, and the stress from having to finish an art project for university on time must have weighed heavily on him.

After Victim fled, Alan simply wondered what had happened on his computer screen, but didn’t think much of it. He managed to submit the project on time and passed.

He didn’t even know that his stickman character was truly alive and capable of moving.

All he remembered was that he was just working on an animation.

In AVA 2, Alan created another stickman character. It seems he changed the name quite a few times (he wasn’t very good at naming characters). He eventually decided on the name "The Chosen One." After naming it, he was shocked to see that TCO could move on its own, and even more shocked when TCO suddenly attacked him.

In AVA 3, he didn’t know how to fix all of this because he couldn’t contact Programmer021 anymore, as AIM had been destroyed earlier during TCO's rampage. So, he decided to contact DJ.

As for The Dark Lord, I think Noogai must have been the one who created him.

But by the time DJ arrived, it was already too late. Both TCO and TDL had escaped from Alan’s computer and left behind a blue screen of death.

For DJ, it must have been strange to see Alan sitting still, staring at the blue screen of death with a blank expression.

DJ probably asked Alan what had happened. Alan would have looked confused and asked, "What do you mean?" before turning to see the blue screen of death on the computer and shouting, "What happened to my computer?!" Something like that.

@wingedsublimeland I think if I reply to the comment under the post, it will be too long, so I decided to post a new reply instead.

[stickkitty]

back to school (from winter break) week doodles

EDIT: added “from winter break”. I searched it up and apparently “back to school” is for after summer break usually, so I added that for clarification

(All r done on my school iPad this week whenever I had the chance to draw)

Notes about each of these doodles are below the cut

Mitsi! Super proud of this one. Especially her hair :0 She’s so fun to draw hehe

It’s Yelly :D This week I’ve been redoing my AvAvM designs. One of the changes is that website sticks (that includes rygb) get these little line-things on their face that are inspired by circuits (is that what it’s called? Talking about the lines and circles on motherboards). But they are not circuits. And the line-things come in many designs, not just lines and circles. The pattern above their eyes is from the Lucky Block Entity possessing them. The “1” is because I HC sticksfight.com to have a bunch of groups of sticks that fight, not just RYGB. RYGB is the first (technically 2nd cuz there’s group 0, which was the test group that got… well… deleted) group, so they get the number 1 on their faces. I HC that programmer021 made the website. I Hc she is a close friend of Alan, so she gave him the first group to keep. The marking on the right (the circle) is something all of RYGB have. Red has the circle on the top of the line, Yellow on the top middle, Green on the bottom middle, and Blue has it on the bottom.

It’s Purp. yup that’s all I’m saying

My version of Ghost!victim. I HC xem to be the OG victim, and only the clones got revived later. The clones are Skye (victim in AvA S3, that’s my hc name for xem), TCO, TSC, and Freedom Guy. I think Skye is a clone, because xe seems to prefer the lasso. Even though the OG victim had the lasso first in AvA1, the OG traded weapons with a clone, leaving a clone with the lasso in the end. I view the switch of weapons as the two victims showing weapon preference, meaning the OG prefers the shuriken, not the lasso, so the one in AvA s3 is not the OG because xe likes the lasso more than the shuriken. That’s my theory. Anyways the OG changed xer name to Vic. The shuriken turned into their halo (inspired by NexusLoaf), which xe can take off and use as a weapon (although xe can’t actually hurt anyone with it cuz xe’s a ghost. I guess xe can just mess around with it or something). The “No” thing is the button Alan pressed to delete the victims (I HC ghosts to usually have some part of their designs that is based on how they died). Also HC the victims were first created as 16 yr olds. The tail has a cursor on the end cuz I Hc all symbol-converted (alive-in-art-program or whatever you call that kind of stick) sticks who are ghosts to have that. It’s on fire to match Alan’s logo.

[i3utterflyeffect]

....consider (if you'd like): king as reverse selkie alan's creator, former human who got selkied (as opposed to purple getting selkied)

the general vibe of this au is switching the selkies/humans with sticks so i'm tryna pick a stick character to work as this human lol

OHHH THAT'D BE INTERESTING... i have no idea how that'd work with the whole minecraft thing but i am nodding. Fascinated...

I don't think King's intent would have been torture! he probably would have been something closer to programmer021— just someone working on a coding project who accidentally made living things. it would be very confusing and awkward to meet Alan especially if he met the CG first... a bunch of very sweet kids and— ah... that is the stick that ran away from his computer. Oh dear

probably is still around the same age i imagine he is in canon (old man old man) (aka like. 40) (he was probably around late 20s to early 30s when he made alan so not actually that old), and gold probably still existed! just was a human kid and not a stick

[astral-corner]

Happy Swap AU Day Weekend!

Given the occasion, let us post about one of our funniest aus; The Stick Shuffle au. (Name probably pending, idk we haven't super talked about it.)

What happens when you give every character a number, put their names in a random list generator, and match the new list to the original numbers? Oh boy! Let me show you.

Welcome to our beloved, beautiful mess.

We set this up to challenge ourselves to make an AU that made sense with all of the characters randomized, and oh boy has it been a challenge. With no rhyme or reason behind the character placements, we really had to stretch some things to get it to fit roughly into the original AvA/M story and timeline.

(We also originally made it before AvA 11 came out, but we liked what we had too much to reshuffle things to include Mitsi, so we added her to a list of background characters and shuffled that instead 👍)

The plot's a little loose, and it'd be hard to put it all in one post without it getting too long (and we'd like to post this sooner rather than later ^^;), so here are some highlights:

The human characters got shuffled too! I completely forgot about that until writing these notes down! Alan's role is taken by none other than programmer021 (known as the Programmer), with their little sibling alexcrafter28 (Alex) taking DJ's role. DJ and Alan take Programmer and Alex's roles respectively, and are relatively minor characters in the AU.

Powder (Blue) runs Rocket (or it's equivalent) like Vic does in canon. All of the employees at the company, including Powder herself, are anonymized during working hours, using art tools to turn them various shades of gray to protect their identities. This eventually leads to Powder essentially living a double life.

Given that Cobalt was swapped into King's role, and Purple didn't change at all (lol), this means that after the plot of AvM season 3, Purple somehow manages to get adopted by their own biological father. Neither of them know they're related at that point. This will never stop being funny to us.

Warning (Hazard) is very strange, as far as stick figures go, because they literally just appeared one day on the Programmer's computer with no apparent origin or source. They were a force of retribution for the Programmer's crimes against sticksfight.com (don't worry about it /j). Eventually the two of them came to an understanding, and Warning became Programmer's new desktop buddy, along with the four residents of sticksfight at that time (Mango, Yuzu, Green and Agent).

Other important name changes include: Orange/TSC's file name is still The Second Coming, but she has a negative association with that name, and exclusively goes by Orange. Paleo/Primal's name is The Hunter, and she was created to hunt and capture/kill Orange. She totally didn't do that tho, lol. Victim's file name was changed to Victory after they joined Powder's company. And last but not least, Red started going by Ruby Red sometime before their death, matching themes with their adopted dad, Cobalt.

This. just... this.

[starry-907]

starry swap au woagh

"starry what is this swap au day was friday" yep! and i was late because of work and school so shush and sit down because i'm gonna give you the rundown of my swap au

so who swaps with who?

The basic gist of this au, the "main swap" so to speak, is that the cg have swapped with the hollowheads! there are other swaps it's just that swap is the one that started the au as a whole

here's the designs that i've worked out so far (i haven't done the mercs yet because i don't have much of a basis of design for them right now)

character info under the cut because it's gonna get long haha (i have more info i can give but you'll need to ask me about it cuz i want to talk more about this au!!!!!)

to start with:

alan has swapped with programmer021, who is a 3d modeller trying to work in blender on animating, using both 3d animation and grease pencil (moreso 3d animation, but the 2d animation is nice to get out frustration and oh those sticks are coming to life)

the computer crew came from an old file on programmer's computer that had been sent from a friend of a short stick figure animation with four hollowheaded sticks. sv finds the file during ava 4 and kinda wakes up the hollows. friendship ensues

the computer crew (ss!cg)

silver (victim swapped with blue)

technically the oldest of the computer crew due to having been drawn first in their file, silver is the sort who seems a bit cold and aloof to outside observers, but her family is more than able to easily read their subtle expressions. she often uses her neutral expressions to her advantage to poke fun at people who aren't as familiar with them. enjoys cultivating flowers and trees, as well as making potions.

charcoal (chosen swapped with green)

the second oldest of the computer crew and technically silver's twin (having been copied and pasted from the original drawing symbol of silver), charcoal is more than happy to take charge when it's needed. however, sometimes this desire to lead can turn into overconfidence, which can lead to a bit of a prideful fall. they enjoy messing around with noteblocks, as well as creating complicated pixelarts (that often get knocked down thanks to a certain bright red and orange duo)

cherry (dark swapped with yellow)

the third oldest of the computer crew, cherry has an endlessly curious mind, but often lacks the self-control to keep from doing more... dangerous activities. if you don't hear from him for at least an hour you probably want to go find him. he can often be found messing with redstone, and gets a kick out of figuring out new uses for tnt and end crystals (often accompanied by getting dragged away from their newest creations by charcoal or silver) (basically where canon yellow would watch mumbo jumbo or zedaph, cherry would watch docm77)

amber (second swapped with red)

the youngest of the computer crew, amber might seem a bit airheaded sometimes. truly when they get into trouble though, they often are able to come up with the most out there plans to get out of said trouble. this doesn't stop them from running into danger headfirst though (and often suffering the consequences...). when not drawing as a hobby, they often work on building up new structures for their family to use.

(also for reference ages are swapped/changed as well, so silver and charcoal are both 15, cherry is 14, and amber is 13)

the powered colors (ok i don't have a cool name for them)

prey (blue swapped with victim)

the eldest of the sticks made by [insert username here], prey was made to be nothing more than a punching bag, and nearly died as nothing more than a punching bag, choosing to use her second chance for vengeance. she runs nightshade corp with a warm smile and polite demeanor, but that warm smile can just as easily turn cruel when "testing" her newest concoctions on those she needs information from.

The Champion (green swapped with chosen)

made for a challenge, champion quickly lived up to that goal. champion has a strong sense of right vs wrong, which is why he attacked the websites of humans but changed his mind after seeing that he and hive were hurting other sticks. he has many powers, but his preferred power is his wind abilities! he likes sneaking into music venues sometimes to listen to performances in his free time. (champion has roughly the same power set as chosen, but again he prefers to use his wind powers over the other elements)

The Hive Queen (yellow swapped with dark)

made in an attempt to contain champion, hive instead forged a sibling's bond with her target, the two of them running to the outernet. while champion slowly lost interest in striking back at humanity after seeing the sticks they were hurting, hive thrived in the destruction, enjoying watching the traitorous sticks that lived with humans flee. when not destroying or annoying her older brother, hive works on making various technological creations, her magnum opus currently at the forefront... (hive has more electrical powers)

The Second Victor (red swapped with second)

coming into being by pure accident, sv quickly forged a bond with the computer crew, managing to arrange for him and the cc to stay on programmer's computer in exchange for 3d modeling help. sv can sometimes be a bit more cautious compared to his friends, but when caught up in the moment he's all impulse. despite not showing any sign of powers like champion or hive, he has had the ability to bring 3d creations to life... and a gap in his memory from the showdown...

(again, ages have been changed/swapped for narrative clarity, so prey is 22, champion is 21, hive is 17, and sv is 13)

"what about the avm sticks?"

well this one's a bit more complicated, so let's try to explain that one

Gold -> Purple

gold lived with their dad, a well-known fighter, until their dad got sick and sadly passed. in the aftermath of his passing they could feel everyone's expectations on them, the weight of their father's legacy. they couldn't take it anymore and eventually ran away to a computer that happened to have a minecraft game open. they accidentally saved some villagers and became crowned by them. it was nice to not have any previous expectations on them.

instead of betraying the cc for power, instead gold is a bit of a coward, tending to run away when things start to get hard or overwhelming. honestly the fact that they stuck around purple for so long is testament to how much they believed in purple's words.

speaking of purple....

Purple -> King

purple goes with their mother to the fair, and the workers allow the two of them to go into the minecraft simulator together. but things go wrong, and in an effort to save her child, orchid throws purple through the safety doors before they close and she gets sucked back into minecraft. purple refuses to believe their mother is gone though, and is determined to rescue her from minecraft's code, even if they have to tear it apart line by line... (a ghost lingering around them watches mournfully).

also they totally think gold is older than they actually are cuz gold's pretty tall for a 15 year old.

(gold is 15, purple is 19)

so the avm swap is kinda a circle swap? gold -> purple -> king -> orchid -> gold.

and now for other characters that i don't have designs for yet

the mercs

I decided to swap them with fanon characters because i thought it'd be interesting to see:

agent swaps with freedom guy

hazard swaps with hangman

primal swaps with the one

ballista swaps with the [selected]

[crystal-wingeddragon-spikes]

An Alan Becker-verse experimental comic

No, that wouldn't kill The Chosen One. If it was that easy, everything would be over in year 2006. The Chosen One's POV of a related story is here.

Why is the art style changes every panel? It is experimental. Sorry.

There is a mistake, the 64 MB flash drive was from 20 years ago, not 10. I stumbled upon "Look at this flash drive from 10 years ago.", and it turns out the post is also from 10 years ago.

The glasses shape change is intentional. In reality, Alan is wearing round framed glasses, but from The Chosen One's perspective, the screen reflection made them believe the glasses were always a pair of rectangles. Use that information as you will.

I might tell you all the details. This has a lot of subtle hints and backstories. If you ask

It is mainly from Teenager Alan "noogai3" Becker's point of view.

Happy New Year.

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update 3.21 - 05/07/2025

gender: a she/they/it-type of being

util: colorsss, community posts list (doc), spacer [⠀], 🌟(• ˕ •マ ฅ(ᵔ꒳ ᵔマ.ᐟ

fan of (bold==frequent post): AvA/M and other Alan Becker works, AUs, Rain World, The Murderbot Diaries, Sky CotL, Kitten Burst, ULTRAKILL, Portal, Pony Town, Minecraft, Interstellar, D:BH, Undertale, Hollow Knight, Lackadaisy, 17776, Murder Drones, Dungeon Meshi, Doctor Who, The Isle, WolfQuest, Warrior Cats, wildlife, bugs, space, robots, software development, adding programming knowledge into my writing and headcanons, modding, whump;blood;violence;fluff;serious and silly, fanfic of all of the above, humans, math, animation, ascii art, old internet.

(^ will update over time)

my ava/m au is called EXECUTABLE. it spans the entire known timeline of AvA and AvM in a Different POV and Drabble format (img), focusing on StickFigures, software, and eldritch dieties.

^ and mostly these two.

(i plan to make an index post once there's enough material to lay out a timeline >:3 )

/// personal tag collection ///

#executable!au == my AvA/M AU!! _o/

#--/ art == visual art made by me!

#--/ story == writing made by me! +art = a comic

#--/ animation == animation made by me!

#subpixels == discussion about xyz

#read later == you can probably guess this one

#important == occasionally heavy shit /gen

#wiki == knowledge base

#ancient lore == cool old stuff

#tumblr stories == stories i found on tumblr

#writing advice == i want to save this for writing

#saving this == grabbing it

#awoo to this == this is SO interesting i want to emit a noise

#kitceil == one of my OCs (scug) (intro-ish) (ref)

#leuenaar == one of my OCs (scug) (ref)

#L1_CAT == one of my OCs (laptopcat) (intro)

#L24_CAT == one of my OCs (laptopcat) (^ intro)

#datelyssyc == one of my OCs (protogen) (two posts about him let's gooo)

(^ all these are in the tags of this post too)

/// posted works ///

✨ reaction time (done - short story - diedn't lol)

no extra memory (done - short story - musings about CG executable!au)

tco_safety+feathers.pdf (done - png and short story - EXECUTABLE AU BREACHES CONTAINMENT ) (related: third safety doc page)

they are ready to spar (done - short story - c!alan & TCO executable!au)

if you were Orpheus... (done - short story - ??? mythological chodark)

error load (done - short story - TDL and yellow? how did we get- dw about it. executable!au)

tco_physeng_breakdown.png (done - png and short story - Universe AA2B+ executable!au TCO)

orange has a question (done - story - Universe B executable!au chodark)

fly away (done - story - TCO post-Showdown executable!au)

orange with a diamond sword (done - story - green influencer arc)

some things are extremophiles (done - comic - TCO executable!au)

this is not a prophetic vision (done - theory - TCO in AvA 7)

Minecraft bed (done - comic - TDL and some TCO)

programmer021 (done - short story - AU copy of TCO, early executable!au)

in the right (done - theory/story - victim in upcoming AvA 11)

Character Limit (done - Ao3 LINK - TCO whump pre-AvA III executable!au)

Box Lunch (done - Ao3 LINK - TCO in the Box executable!au)

Call Your Last Witness (done - Ao3 LINK - tmbd prologue)

missed a spot (done - story extension - yellow and TSC)

(^ latest at the top (✨ sparkles == newly added))

/// some --/ art i like ///

thinking about names (orange vs. the second coming)

different strokes (TSC portrait collab)

WING/K (signature animation)

inspiration in 4k (word count) (L1 and being attacked by fic ideas)

they are dancing (TCO and TDL. one of my first asciis)

i have the solution (throw him into lava) (TCO headcanon diagram)

8-petal design (another ascii. this one flopped lol but i like)

2 many crabbies (Animal Restaurant meme)

approx. pi using e (Animation vs Math meme)

ways of seeing them (playing with new TCO and TDL faces)

TCO cosplays (Pony Town)

tco_physeng_breakdown.png (TCO headcanon diagram v2!!!)

d8's wolf armor(y) (minecraft build ;P )

tco_safety+feathers.pdf (TCO care and safety)

connect the dots (ava/m asciis)

L1 & L24 (intro post)

known sketchcreatures (StickFigures, laptopcats, Tempo, & kirt)

rest and refuel (it's required and honorable actually)

i liked to watch them squirm (kitceil activities)

violence common (kit & leuenaar co-ref)

person machine (critter) (tw bright colors)

✨chainmail (TCO crafting)

(^ latest at the bottom)

[storgicbytes]

based on the previous post about tdls arc i rb'd and filled with my ramblings and ascii art i also just rb'd im going to continue my ramblings about the rules of code in ava

(with doodles!)

okay so. all we know right now is that all sticks to begin with have a script. and that it starts with their name and influences their destiny?/powers. its obviously notable with the hollowheads and also but im rambling on other sticks as well

i have lots of questions about how much code and programs work in the universe and influences everyone. the first obvious question is the coding of tdl with their command of destroying chosen. i adore the interpretation of it still affecting them in some way in the fandom !!!! however in canon it isnt elaborated upon. which begs the question of did it affect them? if it did, just how much did it affect them?? was any of this code left in their programming?? if it did affect them, how did they manage it??? have they tried to mess with their programming?? honestly, how did they start programming in the first place???? since they came directly from the pc, interacted with programs and the fact that code wouldve been useful in their terrors its not surprising for them at all to code by themselves, but no other hollowheads were shown to master it to a point of creating something — could it been the consequence of trying to remove their command? another question, if it was still somehow left in them, how did it affect them during showdown?

one of the interpretations of it that it's been "dormant" and that their need of destroying had shown itself in their seven year long reign of terror and why it was SO hard for them to back off. and that the showdown eventually made both dark and chosen to go "back to their roots". but since the command was targeted on chosen specifically i believe that if thats were the case the need to destroy wouldve been expressed to him and not to the whole web (god all this stuff opens so many ideas for them)

my second big wonder that i have is about the creation of chosen himself. as i mentioned in my rb all hollowheads attacked only when they felt threatened or had a command ingrained into them like with dark. except chosen

he attacked the second that he was born without being threatened. just by getting his name. (its also interesting to note the names noogai considered before bringing him to life – again victim, killer and BEAST. did any of that influence chosen too?). in the instant messenger conversation programmer021 mentioned stickmen having levels which i believe is most widely interpreted in a non literal sense, just in the "how powerful is he" way. but if it is used in a somewhat literal sense? it opens a big conception of leveling??? and that being the "chosen one" is, supposedly, one of the highest levels possible for a stickman to have. and the fact that making him the chosen one was called a suicide???? god

it isnt really known from the series alone how much being the chosen one influences a stickman or a creation in general besides having very high levels of power. at the same time, having powers isnt an instant call to attack — unless there are in-universe rules that suppose that being the chosen one immediately means destruction being ingrained into a sticks code. but if thats the case... how much would it influence chosen as well?? wouldnt he have an innate, coded need of destruction too? and if its like this, how would he come back down from it? and if it goes in hand with tdls command too, why it was easier for him to denounce destruction than to tdl? does being the chosen one imply a variety of abilities, with destruction being part of it, but not it being the part that is impossible to suppress?

along with the "literal levels" idea, where would the second coming and the dark lord come in the "hierarchy"? and with the idea that being "the chosen one" initially supposes destruction, did the dark lord, given their name, have any initial code of destruction prior until the go and kill chosen command? why instead of attacking noogai as well they stretched at first instead, until they got their command?

these thoughts bring me to the idea of how exactly adobeflash brings a stick to life, to have a code of their own that influences them and ill probably have to dig information on the program itself and its coding language to know more about its functions. if bringing a stick to life, giving them powers is a function of animated programs in the universe, what else can a program do with them? how does adobeflash makes its creations interact with other applications? how could a creator get rid of a sticks life except for the supposed "dont save the changes" button? man. the whole idea of ava having interactable, 3d and alive internet, animations and creations in general, the existence of outernet as a whole makes me really happy since i just adore internet and digital concepts. i love exploring ava rules !!!

now getting to the second coming. to begin with, how was the program aware of who they were a second coming of in the first place to give them powers? the question feels answearable, but at the same time, second wasnt aware of their powers up until literally the last episode of ava. theres a lot to be thought about their awakening too

if most applications, art and creations has their own consciousnesses [desktop applications, youtube, browser stuff and etc], then how did specifically the last frame of second's animation come to life? could any previous frames of that animation be alive as well? and if they could be, would second's "clones" have the same powers and the same name?

in general, sticks are perceived as a separate entity in ava, but i do wonder if that could be the case, based on the fact that victims clones were able to be created and used after lol. even with vics clones, even with the idea that they're temporary, do they share the same memories with victim? given that victims life was "unsaved" along with their clones, were they able to "uncopy" themselves, or did they continue to just exist? are the clones that agent deployed in the box the same clones or new ones, just made with the amount that what victim is personally used to/the amount of weapons that victim is used to? if they are the same ones and were somehow able to "get back" into victim, do they continue sharing the same memories with them?

talking about other sticks i also have questions about their code. color gang for example

so far we had only seen the creation of hollowhead sticks by noogai and we dont even know about how other types of sticks came to life, not even mentioning the process of it, their code and their possible "program of birth". we do know that other alive sticks, and other HOLLOWHEADS, created by users exist given the stick rights banner in ava 3, yet it is the only clue of stickmen like noogais hollowheads existing. and we know that nonhollowheads are considered "naturally created" sticks both in internet and outernet, and that they're naturally weaker than "artificial" hollowheads are and that, supposedly, they reproduce by themselves. but how did they come to exist in the first place? do the rules of the universe imply them just coming into life by themselves, with the outernets existence? we do know, again, that users, other computers and programs exist in the universe and that some sticks are created by other artists, but were any of non-hollowheads like the colorgang, mercs, king, purple, gold, navy&orchid, everyone in the cities we have seen created by someone else as well? and why noogais stickmen are more special than others? are there stickmen stronger than noogais hollowheads? ... how would you tell two solid-headed sticks apart if, say, some artist created a copy of a "naturally" made stick?

if non-hollowheads stickmen are created too, are they in touch with their creators? besides the enslavement fact-freedom guy stick banner, do creators tend to torture or befriend their sticks, creations in general? are there stereotypes about sticks and their creators? is it more or less acceptable in stick society to be in touch with your creator? are other creators, besides noogai, aware of the outernet?

... where would the creators of the color gang, mercs, king and purple & co be?

talking about the "natural" and the reproduction part, i do wonder, if, in case of non-hollowheads also being created by other people and animators, purple and gold came to life as a will of creators or as a will of the sticks themselves. we have only seen symbolic depiction of purple coming to life in their song, and i feel like it can be a depiction of a stickman drawn for two other stickmen (with the existing code of them being their child) or a proof of actual, natural reproduction. if child sticks were drawn for the parent sticks, were they drawn by their creator or by the parents themselves?

talking about creation again, i do wonder why king was called "king" in the minecraft code, given that he had a life prior to becoming one. was it a player name inside minecraft that he has given to himself, or a name that he had outside minecraft as well? if its the second, why was he called king before? did he do anything king role related prior minecraft? and if it is not his real name, what IS his real name? and did he end up changing it back?

in general, talking about my favourite alive internet concepts, how did outernet appear? did it come into existence along with the internet? is outernet an extension of internet, and does it serve as a sort of a "backstage" for what is happening in the internet sites?

in my personal interpretation, i feel like outernet IS and extension of internet, and it develops with it — that, if you needed to describe it, the internet is the flat front of a regular box, while the outernet is the 3d space inside the box.

goooddd i think im done with my questions and ramble. my beckerverse brainrot consumes all. this is so long omg

if you read till the end...... have an aurora borealis duo doodle !!!! thank yew

[becker-call]

a personal theory of mine concerning the beckerverse is that i don't believe that chosen, dark, and orange/second were the only other iterations of hollowheads created by alan, after he made victim.

no, i have reason to believe there were others before all of them.

it's a bit of a random theory, yes, but i have my evidence.

for starters, there's the description for animator vs animation 2:

"The animator, looking for a challenge, decides to make the stick figure harder to beat. Little does he know exactly how much power he is giving to the little guy. Long live The Chosen One!"

alan was looking for a challenge. you hear that? a challenge.

maybe it's just me being an overthinker, but it always seemed kind of strange to me how alan suddenly decided to challenge himself after he made and fought a stick figure for the first time in the previous installment.

but i can add more to this. specifically, with the help of aim.

more specifically, alan's messages with programmer021.

now, we still have no idea who the fuck programmer021 is (i like to believe that it's dj, but that's just a silly hc of mine that doesn't really have any solid evidence), but what we do know is that they have knowledge of alan's history with stick figures, given their nonchalance when alan mentions fighting a stick figure:

[I tried to get screenshots, but they looked like ass so you're getting transcriptions instead]

noogai3: HELP! programmer021: What's up? noogai3: i dont have much time to talk noogai3: he might kill aim soon programmer021: Who? noogai3: the stick figure programmer021: Ohh... programmer021: That guy

programmer didn't even find it odd, what his friend was saying. hell, he asked what level chosen was, and even tried to give SUGGESTIONS on how to beat chosen- at least, before chosen smashed aim's window.

in my opinion, this implies that victim and chosen, at this point in the series, weren't the only creations of alan. no, i think alan (along with programmer/dj, possibly) used to create stick figures and then fight and kill them, just for the sake of his own entertainment, only stopping after the events of ava 3, where he was forced to get a new computer thanks to what chosen and dark did to it

this puts...a lot of new perspective on alan. makes chosen/dark's hatred of him a lot more justified

[alan-in-the-outernet]

hrmm if it's not programmer021 i'm basically outta guesses lol. uh.... last guess, alexcrafter??

unrelatedly, i think alan in this au might at some point start to almost believe noogai. like you CAN'T technically prove you existed beforehand. last-thursday-ism and all. what if it was all constructed? denying it isn't really getting him anywhere, anyway...

Nope :3

I will say it is someone you know though...

But possibly.. if he's stuck too long... and the others don't save him before the doubts creep in... or if they're stopped from saving him..