#safe mode android

[mehdidehnabi]

What Is Samsung Safe Mode and How to Use It

Experiencing glitches, lags, or unexpected behavior on your Samsung phone? Samsung's Safe Mode is a diagnostic tool that can help identify whether third-party apps are causing issues.

🔍 What Is Safe Mode?

Safe Mode starts your device with only the essential system apps and services running. This mode disables all third-party applications, allowing you to determine if any of them are responsible for the problems you're encountering.

🛠️ How to Enable Safe Mode

Method 1: Using the Power Menu

Press and hold the Power button until the power options appear.

Tap and hold the Power off option until the Safe Mode prompt appears.

Tap Safe Mode to confirm.

Your device will restart in Safe Mode, indicated by a "Safe Mode" label at the bottom of the screen.

Method 2: Using Hardware Buttons

Turn off your device completely.

Press and hold the Power button until the Samsung logo appears.

Immediately release the Power button and press and hold the Volume Down button.

Continue holding until the device finishes restarting.

"Safe Mode" will appear at the bottom of the screen.

🚪 How to Exit Safe Mode

Method 1: Restart the Device

Press and hold the Power button.

Tap Restart.

Your device will reboot in normal mode.

Method 2: Use the Notification Panel

Swipe down from the top of the screen to access the notification panel.

If you see a notification that Safe Mode is enabled, tap it.

Confirm to restart your device in normal mode.

Method 3: Use Hardware Buttons

Press and hold both the Power and Volume Down buttons simultaneously for about 5 seconds.

Your device will restart and exit Safe Mode.

💡 When to Use Safe Mode

Safe Mode is useful when:

Your device is running slowly or freezing.

Apps are crashing or behaving unpredictably.

You suspect a recently installed app is causing issues.

By booting into Safe Mode, you can determine if third-party apps are the root of the problem. If issues persist in Safe Mode, the cause may be related to the device's hardware or system software.

Utilizing Safe Mode can help you troubleshoot and resolve issues on your Samsung device effectively. Remember to exit Safe Mode once you've completed your diagnostics to return to full functionality.

[livmightlive]

LU Detroit Become Human/Android AU

I should start this by saying that I’ve never played the game myself but I really love the concept! I do apologize if things are messy though, this really just spilled out of me 😭 for anyone who doesn’t really know Detroit Become Human, it’s basically a future America where a huge company makes hyper realistic androids who have different jobs. They all have the ability to deviate which is basically just them breaking past their coding and developing a conscience/sentience (and I would say a soul). The company obviously doesn’t like this and tries to stop this. If anything, this is just my take on an Android AU.

Anyways, here’s it in context of LU

Sky: Bodyguard Android

starts to deviate when he starts forming an attachment to Sun

She gets kidnapped in a political scheme. His handlers try to bench him but he fully deviates and goes out by himself to find her. 

He’s probably a newer model or gets upgraded regularly. Sun is sentimental so she tries to make sure to keep him because he’s familiar in her busy life. (She’s the daughter to the president or whoever the head of state is)

He manages to find and rescue Sun but not without suffering a lot of damage. Especially electrical damage.

Sun is touched. She doesn’t care that her savior is an android at all and she especially doesn’t care that Sky is deviated. She loves him too. She tells him that she could always tell that he was different…

It pains her, breaks her heart, but she sends Sky away for his own good.

Four: Different androids downloaded into a child model 

Four is the combination of 4 different deviated androids uploaded into a child model. 

Red, Blue, Green, and Vio (these are like perfect names for robots) all “worked” in the same company. It’s like a big sales department or something like that. 

Red is a nanny bot for the building’s daycare, Blue is a security bot, Green is a secretary bot, and Vio is basically a filing bot

They all deviate separately. When it’s found that they’re deviating they’re all destroyed on company grounds and dumped in the landfill. (It’s cheaper to do this rather than send them back)

Green managed to wake up. He’s broken beyond repair but he manages to spot an empty child android near their dumping spot. He takes pity on the others and somehow manages to upload them all into one body.

Shadow is a virus in the bot they all share. He got so big that somehow he developed a consciousness of his own. (Probably the reason the model was discarded in the first place. Imagine you’re grieving so you get a child android and it starts going ‘evil mode’)

Somehow they all make this work, Shadow included.

Time: Repurposed as a farm Android

Time started out as a child android but was recycled to be used in a small military project. 

This project is the predecessor to the one Wars is in so it’s mostly just an experiment.

Time starts to deviate because whoever was supposed to wipe all of his previous hardware, THE CHILD HARDWARE, messed up and left a good portion of it behind along with his memory bank. 

So now Time is basically child coding in an adult model being forced to learn how to commit acts of violence. It doesn’t mesh well with his former programs and he deviates. 

He escapes and immediately gets swiped up and sold to a pawn shop.

Eventually Talon buys him for extra hands on his ranch.

Time starts to really enjoy this. He takes to the farm lifestyle really well. Malon also is really great. He loves having a friend. 

As she grows, he finally gets to grow, mentally at least. It’s a weird experience for him because a good amount of his programming was never meant to grow past a child state. 

Malon and Talon realize that he’s a deviant and probably has been for a long time. They don’t care and vow to protect him. He’s family. 

Malon and Time fall in love and take over the ranch. Slowly it becomes a safe space for other deviants.

Twilight: Officer Android (Turned wolf)

Twilight is an officer android at a women’s prison. 

A lot of the people there actually like Twilight a lot because he is not cruel or condescending like a lot of the human officers and he’s kind of easy to get stuff out of.

They can mess with Twilight’s programming enough to get extra stuff from the commissary or help with their jobs. Twilight is very helpful. He’s also programmed to know their rights and local social programs so he’s very useful to have around before court dates.

Midna is an android activist who had gotten incarcerated. She slowly gets Twilight to trust her and eventually convinces him to help her break out. He doesn’t realize it, but she’s been slowly getting him to deviate as well. 

When the break out happens, Midna gets away and Twilight gets captured. She feels awful knowing that he’s likely going to be destroyed.

Instead he’s used in some experiments where they try to plant human focused hardware into android (can androids be animals???) animals. They put him into a wolf dog that would usually be meant to assist police. 

This is a miserable experience for Twilight, especially now that he’s deviated.

Midna, who’s poked around to see if she can save Twilight from being pulverized, stages a rescue mission and gets him out. She sends him somewhere she things will be safe.

Wind: Child Model in a retirement home

Wind is a child android that’s used in a retirement home to bring joy and to lift the spirits of the residents there. 

At first he doesn’t even realize that he’s deviated until Granny, his secret favorite resident, mentions it to him. Turns out a lot of the old folks knew but they didn’t care bc Wind is so charming and they really do love him.

For a while he continues as normal, just with the knowledge that he’s loved. If anything he performs better. 

One day Ayrll, the granddaughter of Granny, is visiting. Another resident gets really confused and tries to grab her, hurting and scaring her. Wind uses physical force to separate them, something not in his coding at all.

The retirement home doesn’t want to do extra paperwork so they get rid of Wind by tying him up and dropping him off a boat. (The retirement home is on the ocean)

Tetra later fishes him up and brings him back online. 

Tetra is very happy to have a “maid bot” which pisses Wind off a lot. She lives in a multigenerational home so she’s excited to do less chores. 

They all figure out that Wind is deviated but they don’t care. They all take him under their wing and fully still expect him to do chores

Legend: Standard Household Android 

Legend is an earlier model of a household Android. He’s been bought and sold 6 DIFFERENT times.

The first time was from his uncle who didn’t actually want him for his programming. He was a lonely old man and Legend was on sale. He treats Legend like a person and when he passes away Legend starts to deviate. 

Legend is auctioned off in an estate sale and some people from outside the country buy him. He travels around with a group that does environmental work and performs aid programs for a while. Everyone there also treats him pretty friendly. On a boat ride back to the mainland a storm hits and Legend goes overboard trying to protect people on the deck.

He washes up on a small island where a girl Marin finds him and repairs him. She, and nobody on the island, treats him like an android at all. He fully deviates and enjoys living like a person. The storm comes back and decimates the island. Marin is gone.

The people who come to offer aid recognize Legend as a deviated android and ship him back to be tested on. 

There he meets Ravio, who is the same exact model as him. Ravio is meant to be compared to Legend so they can study differences in deviant and non deviant androids. 

Legend manages to escape wherever they’re keeping him one day and bumps into Ravio during his attempt to escape. Ravio has never left the series of offices he first woke up in. He’s not fully deviated but he wants to know freedom. He and Legend escape together. 

Hyrule: Medical Android (hospital setting)

Hyrule is one of the first medical androids. Unlike the more modern medical androids, he has a lot of built in programs and functions that newer models don’t have.

He has a built in defibrillator, inhaler, but most uniquely he can make drugs and medicine on the spot. These would be things that paramedics tend to carry like morphine,epinephrine, ketamine. Also more simple things like cold medicines.

His kind was discontinued due to a lot of legal actions taken by companies under big pharma. It’s too convenient, and cheap, to have robots who are programmed to help anybody in need distributing drugs for free. Also some issues with drug dealers stealing his model to have them continuously producing drugs to sell.

He gets discarded, thankfully through illegal means so instead of being sent to a processing facility he’s dumped behind the hospital in a dumpster. 

He spends years wandering the streets in shadier parts of the city aiding people who need it. He doesn’t know when he deviated but it happened slowly. 

He’s hunted by both gangs who want to use him to make drugs. He’s also hunted by the corporation that made him believe that older models that have deviated hold vital information to how it happens in the first place and he’s part of the last of his kind so they want to dissect him. 

Warriors: Soldier Android (Secret military project)

Warriors is part of a military project to use androids as soldiers. This is probably breaking a lot of international treaties so it’s kept as a secret. 

He was meant to be a “captain” Android, one that can over power other android’s programming to control them.

One of the people working on the project becomes infatuated with him. Cia 😭. She steals him and takes him home. 

This is nowhere near as fun as she thought it would be because he doesn’t have a lot of social programming. He just walks around her house and barks orders at the microwave and tells her what strategies they can use if her apartment is attacked.

She buys pleasure bot hardware that has a “boyfriend” program on it because this is becoming unbearable.

Uploading the hardware causes Wars to IMMEDIATELY deviate because this is not at all what he was built to do. It actually corrupts some of his programming.

He’s confused and scared while Cia is exuberant. Finally she has a proper boyfriend. She can ignore the glitching and bugs because at least Wars isn’t yelling at her computer anymore. 

Unfortunately for her, Wars was developed to be a strategic war machine, boyfriend hardware or not, so he identifies her as a threat because she hurt him. His new hardware, however, makes him not want to hurt her. So, he runs away.

Wild: Lab Assistant Android

Wild was an assistant to some brilliant scientists in a lab and engineering facility.

He worked primarily with Flora who treated him like a robot in every way. She’s kind of creeped out by the idea of androids so she’s not really fond of having one around her all the time. He is useful though. 

Her coworkers treat the android a lot more humanly than she does for a while. Eventually she gets used to him and starts getting kinder and kinder. 

Wild starts to deviate but he desperately tries to hide it. He really enjoys the time he gets to spend with his friends.

One day something goes wrong and the lab starts to explode. Wild fully deviates to rescue Flora. He’s able to get her out just in the nick of time. He gets stuck inside though after a wall collapses and traps half of his body under rubble. He yells at her to run and so she does.

Wild comes back online with his memory files damaged or gone and half of his body melted and severely damaged. He can’t remember anything but he feels like a person. 

Eventually everyone ends up together on Time’s ranch but I really haven’t thought out a story ;•_•

 I hope this isn’t a confusing or messy read 😭 it really just kind of poured out of me. I’m aware there’s like a crazy amount of plot holes but I had a ton of fun writing this!! I might go back later and rewrite or try and clean this up. If you have any thoughts, questions, suggestions, (how to fill said plot holes 😭) please lmk!! I thrive off of interaction!!! Ty for reading 💕

[yuurei20]

Ortho Updated Facts Part 11: Ortho and his Parents

When Ortho’s alert of Malleus' overblot reaches STYX the Director responds “What if the worst has happened to everyone on the island, including our boys..?"

The Chief Engineer refers to herself as one Ortho’s parents and Ortho refers to the two of them as mom and dad.

When speaking to Ortho the Chief Engineer says, “You really do take after your brothers,” so Idia’s parents may have adopted robot-Ortho into their family as a third son rather than as a replacement for their second.

Ortho thanks them for treating him like a member of the family and insists that he wants to take on the dangerous mission of infiltrating Malleus’ domain as he doesn’t want them to lose another of their beloved sons (in reference to Idia), saying, “This is what I want…what both of us want,” possibly in reference to both himself and human-Ortho.

The Chief Engineer responds, “You’re one of our beloved sons, too,” and the family shares a promise hug.

When Malleus starts trying to destroy Ortho his parents respond by putting all the CHARON into termination mode and diverting all energy to their technomantic cannons in order to distract Malleus. When a staff member cautions that they will fry their generators the Director responds, “Do it anyway!”

Ortho manages to escape Malleus’ domain with the data he was sent in to collect and is found with his Cerberus gear floating in the water outside of Malleus’ barrier, possibly in a reference to the original animated Pinnochio movie.

His parents are relieved.

Ortho apologizes for losing the two android dogs that his mother made for him and she responds, “What matters most is that you made it out safely,” saying that she can fix them up again after their components are retrieved. The Director welcomes Ortho home and the family shares another hug.

It is Idia and Ortho’s parents who come up with the idea of making dream-based contact with those within Malleus’ domain to approach Malleus from inside his own worlds: “If we can't do anything from the outside, we have to work from the inside instead.”

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

Feeling a Little Blue - RK1K

(Read here on AO3)

Summary: Now that he and Markus are dating, Connor tells Hank what android dating looks like

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“So, let me get this straight. You’re dating now?”

“I am,” Connor said with a smile.

“And this boyfriend of yours is Markus? The deviant leader? The one we were supposed to track down?”

“That's the one,” came the enthusiastic reply.

Hank sat there, eyebrows raised, mouth agape, nodding slowly.

Connor didn't interrupt, wanting to let the other process it. Other people would be afraid over a reaction such as Hank’s but Connor couldn't help but smile. Thinking about Markus does that sort of thing.

A few seconds later and the lieutenant sighed, rubbing his forehead. “Jesus fucking Christ, I can't even say that's the weirdest thing I’ve heard out of your mouth.”

Maybe he would need a little push.

“We are very happy, if you're wondering.”

Hank looked up again, analyzing his face. “You really like him, do you?”

Connor furrowed. “Yes, of course, that's what I just said.”

Hank looked away again, expression going soft. Then his eyes wandered around the precinct, but nobody else was even near the break room right now.

He sighed again.

“Alright, tell me all about ‘android dating’.”

Connor’s smile grew wider. “I was hoping you’d ask that actually.”

He told Hank about lying next to each other, holding hands and going into standby-mode together. About interfacing, how you become one being for just a few seconds, feeling and seeing what the other has gone through, being able to send words unspoken. How close and safe it feels.

“Oh, and last week we went to the aquarium together!” Connor looked back at Hank, having briefly forgotten where he was and who he was talking to, so lost in the good memories they’ve built together.

Hank seemed amused, if his smirk was anything to go by. “Anything else?”

Connor hummed. “We go on walks together multiple times a week, exploring the city. Sometimes we just watch the other do stuff.”

“And what does that entail?” Hank had his head angled, eyebrows scrunched together.

“Well,” Connor’s eyes drifted, suddenly looking sheepish, “Markus is an amazing artist and great at the piano, if I dare say so.”

Hank leaned forward with a sparkle in his eyes. “And Markus?”

Connor’s eyes shot wide open. “What about Markus?”

“What does he watch you doing?”

Caught of guard, Connor was trying to pierce together an answer, not the easiest thing with a racing thirium pump.

“Fighting.”

Hank’s eyebrows went up. “Huh. Didn't take you for the MMA guy.”

Connor brought his hands up, shaking them in front of him. “It’s not like that! Just North and me-she’s a real firecracker, you know? Did I use that right? Doesn't matter- Point is that North and I like sparring from time to time or going to the shooting range.”

Hank slowly raised his head before letting it fall again. “Aha. And Markus is watching you guys doing that?”

“Yes! Yes, he does.” The smile from earlier returned. “One time he told me he wanted to paint me while I was shooting and wanted to hang up the painting because I looked ‘badass’.”

His cheeks gained a light blue hue. “And another time, we had a family visiting from Canada here and the little girl told us about her fox plushie that she lost. They left it in a motel, so I went to that motel and got it for her. Markus told me how much he loves how empathetic and caring I am.”

Connor’s smile widened, blue getting more saturated, hand going up to the back of his neck. “Sometimes, when it’s just the two of us, he likes to tell me that I’m precious.”

Hank leaned back, arms crossed and one eyebrow raised, smirk still proudly present. “You into that stuff?”

Connor blinked, LED turning yellow with a little bit of red. “I’m sorry, what?”

“You into that stuff? Praise?”

The android's mouth opened, but no sound came out. On the other hand, the blue on his cheeks only grew stronger and more and more red appeared on the LED. “I have no idea what you mean, Lieutenant.”

The other one rolled his eyes, head going with the motion. “Come on, you know what I mean. Don't you think I’ve forgotten that case at the Eden Club. We both know you aren't as innocent as others might think.”

Connor’s shoulders came up, mouth forming a straight line, voice sounding strained, “This is no topic to be discussed at work.”

Hank shrugged. “It’s not a bad thing, you know? Pretty tame, actually. Vanilla, even.”

Connor took a deep breath, eyes up to the sky, but doing nothing at hiding the blue from his face and neck. “I swear, if I’m going to self-destruct because of you, you’ll be charged with murder and spend the rest of your life behind bars.”

He didn't even say anything as he walked away, probably to return to his desk.

Hank chuckled. “Maybe you should call Markus, ask him if he’ll be there when your shift is over.”

Connor paused. Hank couldn't see his expression, back still turned towards him, but the laugh was unmistakable.

“Hank. Fuck off.”

[yuuainnie]

I just read your Midnight Masquerade Ball, and loved that story. I was wondering if I could request an Ortho x Reader, kind of like the ghost Ortho in that story. Like maybe after the events of Chapter 6, Ortho’s ghost was able to follow the Reader back to Ramshackle? Romantic please if you don’t mind. 🙏🏻💖

Midnight Masquerade Ball

[ Ortho? route : Sequel unlocked ]

Time setting: Book 6

the event with the magic mirror have been months ago, and you barely remember that it happened. Beside you thought it's just idia updating new things to Ortho processor that's why he don't remember why under the safe mode and whatnot.

But after some event where you encounter over blot of almost all dorm leader. You who hangout with the shroud when deuce and ace are in their dorm suddenly look at the two brothers while eating chips.

"At this point I'm not surprised if you two overblot. Its trending for house warden after all."

"... Yuuchi can you not curse us like that?! Don't raise death flag! You don't understand how serious that matter of blot is! It's a rare occurrence too!" Somehow idia words made you wonder how come his sounding like someone who's quite expert with such topic.

"Ahaha. If that's the case, here yuu~" Ortho laugh as he think that your words seems quite interesting, but then give you an black ID card. "If that ever happened this would be useful then.".

" O-ortho... Is that... Why are you giving yuuchi that card?!"

"Is it the famous black credit card that can pay for anything."

"Nope."

"Boring. Not interested then." Even so your joking about the black credit card. Ortho still give you the card and you have no choice but take it and made it to a bookmark for the potion class, then proceed to forget about it. You don't really think much about it. Till one day, grim and every people that overblot have been kidnapped. It was something...

" MY HOUSE! MY HOUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF!!" You cried dramatically, with full tears as you look at your broken wall and broken roof. Those blood bastards can't just ask nicely and not destroy your place? Good things never last!! Fuel by the thought that you will get grim back as well get some money to pay for your house you went to look for the culprit and found yourself in the island of whore... Cough island of woe. Or land of grief.

When you arrive in the island, you were welcome by Ortho and idia. "Welcome yuu~ " Ortho wave at your direction and you wave back at him. But then remember that it's his family robots that cause your dorm to be destroyed again. You scoff, look at the two brothers with bombastic side eyes, criminals offensive side eyes and then look away. So dramatic, so perfect.

"Ahaha. Yuu is really funny nii-san." The robot android laugh at your reaction as he whisper this to his older brother, as idia sigh. Idia then ask Rook and Epel for their reason to be in the land of grief and it was for Vil skin routine. To be honest, it's very understandable as you live a few days with Vil because of event last time.

"What about you Yuu-chi why do you want to go here?" Idia stared at you, through he already have a small guess why you wanna go here. "Want to groom Grim? Or give him his car food? Ahaha."

"..." You don't reply and only give them a cold glare, you then proceed to take our your calculator and notebook. "According to my calculations, the rooftop would cause —" you start to count the billing amount that needed for be paid for the damage, he stared at you in shock as you went out of script.

"— then there's grim cat food that get destroyed. It's very expensive, you need to buy it for me, I need 10 of the amount cause you made me experience emotional damage. It's bad you know?" Obviously you will try to swindle em out of cat food money.

"Wait wait am I talking to Yuuchi or Azulchi?! Why you making me pay for things the organization don't even destroyed? Swindle in board daylight!? And here I thought those things only happens in anime!!" idia quickly catch on your drift and you can only click you tongue in disappointment.

"Nii-san, it's a rare occurrence that yuu can visit our home. Maybe we can have a tour of our place~ "

"geez. I already told earlier that this isn't a tourist place to begin with. "

"Does this include free food."

"Yup~"

"ok." Your a very simple person. Ortho proceed to tour you, Epel, and rook around the place. At least to the safe places before going to what seems to be a meeting room of super heroes with how techno advance it look. After the tour and after Rook give the beauty product, you guys were given a room to stay for a bit. While you were enjoying you stay in the room, you heard someone calling for you.

"Yuu~" it sound like Ortho... Kinda. Sound like Ortho who hit adolescent or something. Or if could be a ghost! "Hmm what. " You were currently connected to the organization wifi because Ortho seems to think that you won't have anyone to tell them off too or won't even think of doing so. Beside his right, and your going to do your daily when this voice start to bug you.

"Yuu~" the voice called again as you tried to concentrate on the game your playing. You already saw your character died in the mobile game 5vs5 and then saw your game turn into losing when when the voice keep bugging you. Even flat out laugh at you.

"The enemy was hiding behind the bush."

"..."

"Use your third skill to help you ally.... Ahah. Why did you froze yuu? Now you died in game ~ big brother would laugh at such simple mistake ~"

"shut up!!!" You finally snap after the voice seems to not shut up at all. You look around the room and found no Ortho. You froze. You honestly thought Ortho was with you, at least that's what you mind told you even so you don't hear the door open at all.

But Ortho can unlock it since his an Android of this place... Many things run in your mind but it stop when you saw the door open and you saw flaming hair run out the hallway.

"Oh.... Am I supposed to chase him..." You wonder if your a cannon fodder in horror show if you did that, but then again remembering the things you been through those months. Something like horror most been easy mode for you ,who live with ghosts.

You sigh as you went out of the room and chase the figure as you thought that Ortho seems to want to play with you. As you follow him, you went down to a place like an underground of some old temple or something.

"Why you making me go to a classic horror B plot. This is not very cool." You commented to no one. You heard a giggle in the darkness as you walk down the stairs. "then why did you still follow if you knew that will be the case?" You heard Ortho? Reply in the deepest part of this place.

"Well, I have nothing better to do. And I know you brothers very well..." At least to some extent that Idia is all bark at most cases. And Ortho won't do anything his brother won't want.

".... Do you really ?" It seems that Ortho? Took a while to say those words. As you arrive in the ground floor. You heard the sound of grief coming from the hole. It's seems to be full of phantom or ghost or both. "Ah. That hole looks very dangerous... Very Dangerous..." You mumble going near the said covered hole.

"Yuu~ your quite idiotic don't you know?" A chuckle rang out of the covered hole. Before phantom inked hands come out and reach out toward you, same type of inked hands held your legs, enabling you from running away as a ink like creature seems to sip out of the covered hole.

".........." You were too shock to move and can only stare at the golden eyes that stared at you as the first set of phantom ink hands reach to hold your right hand and give it a soft kiss on the back of your palm. "Cheesy." Was the words you left out after the gentleman like miss from this phantom.

" Ahaha. Yuu~ your really interesting. Usually people would scream from fright or faint don't you think?" Ortho? Seems to enjoy your reaction but you can't really see his face, only his eyes.

"Who said I'm not frightened? Ah. My processor takes a long time to process my fear. I probably would faint any minute now." You rolled your eyes, making a haft joke statement— at least that's what you thinking as your brain finally realize the scenario. You fainted and your body fall toward the phantom because of gravity.

When your body get expose to more of the phantom ink, a bit of it start to become cold. But it's not noticeable as Ortho? Poke your unconscious form. "People of another world are really something else..." He seems to think about what to do with you.

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When you open your eyes, you found yourself in white place. It's so bright, discord light mode is embarrassed. You look around the place and saw the same version of Ortho you saw from the masquerade ball a few months back.

"Prefect Yuu~" Ortho? Called out to you and you stared at him. Looking like a hawk looking at it's prey or an eye candy.

"Wow the genes of shroud sure is something else." You shamelessly compliment him. His quite good looking. Or at least that's what your mind telling you, this is probably a weird ass dream.

Usually in dreams you cant look at something far too long or it be distorted but you been looking at Ortho? For a while and he seems to stay as he is. Smiling while looking at you.

"...oh. This isn't a dream... I most be dead then." Your quite a optimistic (not) "not yet, it's called spirited away ~" he chime in. Sometimes he wonder just how think things so simple. But then again he remembers how you tease him when you two finally meet. It's really... Been a while.

"Oh. Are you H*ku and I'm ch*hiro then?" You made some illegal reference to a brand that's not sponsored and not related to Disney.

"What's that."

"Nothing." You quickly change the topic before you get lawsuit. "So what now?" You wonder why your spirited away by Ortho? To begin with. Now that you think about it. How come there's this Ortho and there's an Android Ortho? "Are you twins with android Ortho." You unconsciously ask out loud.

"Nope. My brother made him after I died. He was quite depress."

"........" This guy just said the most depressing thing and he still smile a out it. "Oh." You don't know what to say at least. What can you really say to a dead person? It's not like you can say condolences, it's an event from years back before you were here.

And thinking about what happened to earlier and what android Ortho said "or you'll end up like me."

When talking about phantom frozen in the eyes. His death probably cause by phantom. Basing that shroud family seems to run an organization for blots.

He probably died when young, hence the young looking appearance of android Ortho. ... Still what does it mean if you manage to solve the possible reason of his death and whatnot? You can't really say anything to a ghost to comfort about something like that, now can't you?

Wait ghost... Ghost... Evil spirit ... Hmmm.. why does that sound familiar.

..

"AHHH YOUR THE ONE WHO CAUSE ME TO BE SICK AND FORCE TO DRINK THOSE HORRIBLE MEDICINE!!" You pointed at him like it's the worse criminal and the worse offense he have done to you.

"But those medicine are really good for you, Yuu."

"Say that to my face if you can drink it with a straight face."

"..." It seems that he also can't drink it and have horrible memories of it. It most been one of his medicine he drink when his still alive. "Sorry." He apologize to you.

"Sorry too. I don't mean to yell." You felt bad when he apologize to you. "It's ok, I can see your point. Beside what can I help out with the shroud little ghost prince?" You don't get why he dragged you to be spirited away, based on the understanding on the event. There's probably a war going on the surface.

"I learn that Prefect Yuu is one of those helpful people in the world of twisted wonderland. Helping those who experience blot..." He start to flatter you with compliment you wonder what he wants from you really. "... Being compliment by a handsome guy makes me embarrassed." You honestly don't know what to say. Even so you know he probably will ask a favor from you. It's still not normal to get good words from good looking people.

Especially in this world. They rather talk shit in front of you than say something good. If they did, it's not cause one want to escape being punish by their dorm leader ( Ace) "ahaha. Seeing Prefect Yuu embarrassed is quite a cute sight. I can see why you want to tease Ortho before." Laughing seems so normal for him as you always hear it.

"Hmm. Well I like to tease your brother too cause your flame hair looks very cool with how it change color based on what you felt." You who been around the shroud have finally discovered the amazing hair color that will happen if trigger by emotion. It's quite funny. Idia doesn't think your funny when your deliberately do it through but doesn't say much cause your quite shameless and you three are quite close. "I don't see why you have to tease me to see my reaction. I don't think I look that funny to be an amusing sight." You sigh.

"Well I want to see your reaction Yuu, since this one of the rare occurrence I can see you face to face... At least as face to face as I can get." The white space around you two change into idia room. You look around and wonder if it's just and illusion or not. "I can only watch you from afar... I always wish that this day would come faster... " He reach out to you, you look at his hand that seems to be melting into ink, you reach out to intertwined your hand with him, his hand are cold and sticky cause of the ink. But he seems real enough to be called a ghost. "Ah. I have stalker... " You laugh as you take what you understand what he mean by that. He was taken back by what you take on what he just said, a bit of his hair have turn pink. "Little stalker, did you watch me all the time? Like watch me without privacy? Ah, you don't happen to be one of those ghost who—"

"no!! I don't d-do that... " His hair have turn pink now because of what you just said. The smile on your face seems so annoying to him as you began to counter his approach to you. He tried to move his hand away to hide his face but you refuse to let go of him. You shamelessly held his other hand to make sure he will not hide his face that seems to be so embarrassed and really cute sight to see.

"How would I believe you? The Ortho I know keep telling me about how my browser history is going to hell bound me. Since Ortho is probably based on you. Your probably worse." You were just bluffing, at least you wish you were. Android Ortho did peak on your browser history one time since you connected on their dorm wifi and he get curious what type of things you like to make sure he can be a good host. What he saw open his eyes and realize that you really are something else.

"I-im not... Geez... Ortho really..." He mumble to himself as if cursing his other brother about putting him in such situations. You think it's quite adorable he think android Ortho seems be treated as family still by original Ortho. "Hmm. I was just kidding. " You think teasing him might make him explode, you about to let go of his hand but he unconsciously refuse to let you go.

"Prefect... Don't let go yet..." He seems like a puppy that being bullied, by taking his favorite away. Holding the hand of the living, it felt weird but it's nice. He don't want to let go. Especially that he have limited time to do so. "Ah...fine." seeing how he acting pitiful like begging you to continue to held his hand. It made your heard ( ba-bump ) and flustered because your quite weak to good looking people.

You two stayed in a situation of just holding each other hand, you really wonder what he wanted from you. At least you know that you only meet him once. but he seems to know you very well. "Ortho..." You wanted to ask him something when his hand slowly let go of yours. "Yuu... I wanted to spend more time like this with you... But it seems my plan did not work... " He mumble, his eyes full of sadness.

"I-... " He wanted to say something but can't find himself to say it. He wonder if saying it will do anything. He believes that his just wasting his time, wasting his limited resources to do something selfish. But... This was the only time where the two of you are in a close approximate. Because his soul is in the underworld and you whos sleeping beside the gate of underworld, made him take the chances of being able to meet you again.

Even so, his older brother who have saw your almost cold body sleeping peacefully almost breathless begone to worry, even when the good guys want to save you who seems to enter a deep slumber. Where your soul is not within your body. Because he taken it to spend time with you, because of being selfish to spend more time with you.

He can't understand his self. His not living, why is he infuriating with a living that don't even belong in this world...

Maybe, maybe because you don't belong in this world. If your time have run out... You won't be able to meet him in the underworld. Because your soul doesn't belong to this world. Because this might the only chance he can get. Many thoughts comes in his mind, his form melted even more into ink.

"You like me?" You blurted out what he wanted to say. He found himself meek. He can only nod because he can't find his voice to say anything.

"Ohhhh... " You don't actually think he would agree in your question. Now you found yourself even more embarrassed. The sound of your heart seems to be so loud. "A-ahm.. i-is t-thats s-so... " You start to shutter on your words. You really don't know what to say. You want to question him why he even like you. There's not much to like about you.

"Ortho have told me, lot of things about you, I become curious and look at you who always hang out with Ortho and big brother...." He stared straight to your eyes.

"I wonder what's about you that made my big brother comfortable to open his heart to befriend someone, to spend time with someone that's his family.... I was worried and wanted to see you for myself that's why I appear before you in the masquerade ball. But I found myself deep in a trenches... " Staring at you, he can't help but feel even more sad. Because what he feel is impossible, the story of the two of you will not end in such happy ending because you are of the living and from another world. And he, who's time have long run out and can only roam the underworld. Belong to this world and lock In this pit of abyss. There's no escape. There's no chances, there's no miracle. There's no love story for a villain and selfish one.

He thought as he realize your slowly waking up. Leaving him from this place. Time is running out. If there's no more chances like this. He will take each of second as he can to the fullest and be swallowed in an illusion made by this moment for eternity in this lonely abyss.

"Yuu of another world. " He begin. "I found myself falling for living being like you." He finally confess. He saw your feet is slowly fading, you don't seems to notice as you were mesmerize by him. "C-can I ask if I c-can k-kiss you...!?" Since there might no chances like this. He is going to be shameless.

"O-oh... O-ok...!" You don't actually process what his saying as you are hearing yelling of multiple voices to weak up. But since you agreed. He smiled and reach to give a kiss, you were taken back the feeling of something against your lips but you can't response back as he back away and say "

I wish I can spend more time with you... But it's good bye for now, Yuu... I love you, please take care of my brothers~" There's a sad smile on his face as you finally fade from that place and your soul return to your body. When you disappear from in front of him, the illusion disappear, his form distorted into a monster, into a phantom. Yet for a monster his tears seems to be falling like his human when his not.

... You wake up and realize you were sleeping for a while. Idia have found you unconscious, his brother told him, the underworld have swallowed your soul. They have to open the gate and take your soul from the underworld or else you'll be stuck and die. His brother lied to him. Telling it was the underworld fault when it was him who did it. His brother believe him, there was a fight but when he found himself defeated like a final boss, others have questions him where did you go and he told him.

Your soul have been spirited away to the underworld and his trying to free you ( as well his dead brother who have turn into a phantom, to complete his family) now that the underworld have been close, he wonder if you can still wake up. The time you spend in the underworld is only a few minutes, but in the real world it was days that have been pass. The only reason why you wake up was because Ortho have let you go back, he don't want to see his big brother in distress.

"Yuuchi that's very uncool of you to sleep like your some sleeping beauty. But let's just ask where's the other part of the sentence on you?hihihi." Idia laugh as he try to act tough again. His happy to see that your awake. "So what did Yuu dream about?" Ortho ask you who's lying on the bed, sick once again because of what happened. You felt very weak, so dreadful. You felt like dying is better than drinking those bitter medicine Ortho want to feed you or the feeling that makes you uncomfortable.

"A handsome guy confess to me and kiss me." You told them. They both look at you like you said the most big ass lie in the world. "sureeeee.... You should drink more medicine. I think your brain have been little moldy..." Ortho pat your head.

"I thought only normies that's age of a young children dream such fairy tale. Ehehe... What a laughable thing to say Prefect." Idia saw this a time to tease you. You can only frown and smack Ortho hand away. Those bastard did not believe you! "You two are really mean!!" You pout, you want to return those bastard of a friend who don't believe that dream is real. But there's no refund at all. Your stuck with them. You heard a third giggle in the room. You froze you look at the two who seems to saw how your looking like you see a ghost.

"What's wrong Yuu? Did you see the dream prince charming of you? Still not fully awake? Ahaha..." That Idia is making fun of you but your eyes went to the person laughing between him and Ortho. "......................" You long stare and silent while looking at the air between him and his brother made idia freak out thinking your looking at something they can't see.

"W-wait.. w-wait... Y-you... T-theres..." Idia is too scared to turn around. "Where? Is there supposed to be someone here?" Ortho look but can't see what you see. It made the spirit or whatnot your looking at smile in amusement, and even went to blow wind to the back of his older brother neck. "GHAYYYYY W-WHAT WAS THAT!?" Idia scream like a chicken, and went to hide behind you, who's shorter than him.

"Y-YUU WHAT WAS THAT?!" He shakes you. It's very uncool of him but he can't see makes him unable to justify what he should treat the entity. "My prince charming." You smiled. "His going to bully you cause you bullying me " you jested. The phantom chuckle, he doesn't disagree in your words.

"Yuu is the reason you get spirited away was because a soul from the underworld have fallen for you? That's very an odd story. What a rare case." Ortho wonder who's this ghost. Idia who's hiding behind you tried to calm down by thinking it's just a plot of a novel. Just as he think that. He wonder what type of person that's inside the gate of underworld can take your soul aways quite freely. As far he knows the only people who can access the gate is from his family—

"....." He suddenly realize something, he stop hiding from behind you. He went to where he was standing before, where your looking at, looking at the ghost who's looking at his living big brother who tried to find where the soul of his brother is standing at. "Could it be..." He wanted to know but he can't see what you see. He wonder if your lying but he don't want to think it's a lie. He don't want to believe what you said is a lie. He want to believe in a lie because he still want to spend more time with both his brothers.

"O-ortho..." He called out to the ghost who walks pass him without knowing and seat beside in your bed looking amuse at his brother who thought his talking to him. He seems quite entertain. "Ah, the one who spirited away Yuu is phantom Ortho..." The android suddenly understand. He seems to not think the situation is odd. He felt it's just matter of time. It seems that the brothers have similarity to this extent.

He thought while looking at you and his older brother who's sobbing and talking about something to the ghost Ortho. You long have rest back to the soft pillows. It was the rare chance you can take the whole bed of idia. Your quite shameless. The bed is too soft and nice to sleep at after all. Ghost Ortho rest beside you, looking at you, reaching out to held your hand even so it's impossible. He pretend to sleep beside you as you close your eyes. Feeling quite tired.

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He thought that he won't ever see you again. But he found himself in a spirit form roaming around, he thought his dreams have consumed him but he saw his big brother room where your sleeping with your friends walking in to visit you. Then saw you awake and talking to your friends. He once again a third point viewer of everything you do. He watch in silent as he did because no one can see him. No one would know it. It's seems better than being struck in the underworld till who knows when.

When his older brother played in his computer he seat on the bed and watch you sleep peacefully. He wonder smiled thinking this would be enough. Even so it's not. His greedy, he wanted to be with you even such false belief. He tried to held your hand but his hand always went pass it. How depressing. But when you finally well to drink your medicine on your own. He saw you staring straight into his eyes, as if looking at him. He believes it's a miracle or an illusion then if it's the latter he don't want it to end. Let him be swallow in such delusions.

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A/N: hello! It been years since I return to this Tumblr blog of mine. Here is the request thats ask by you last February 8 2025. I don't know if this sequel you ask have been serve well with this one. I don't know how I use to write for this blog and I just gotten back to twist fandom after watching book 7. I might write more stories of shroud soon! And another part for this one if requested. Thank you for requesting!!

The reason why You doesn't get effected by the gate of underworld like Vil and riddle did in the OG story is because Yuu is not from this world and the logic and law of the world won't effect them in full blast like resident of this world.

[tiredfoxtf]

Not hurt comfort anon, but I need Android Joel to "wake up" in Tango's shop, laying on a recliner covered with a blanket and hooked up to a charger. He struggles to move but at least he wasn't in pain. He looks around and finds Etho in a sleeping bag and Tango sleeping on a couch.

His memory is fuzzy, he remembers being scared and in pain. But for now, he feels safe

Joel at first attempts to move, but is faced with his motor functions not fully responding so he attempts to run a quick diagnostic. When it comes back to him with all the damages, he realises that there is far fewer that he remembers having. This, the view of tired Tango falling asleep on a couch by a laptop and the report saying that he had a forearm that was a bit old in model told him everything he needed to know. Accessing the memories of the latest evening wasn't hard, and any other memories, meaning his memory unit wasn't damaged or corrupted. But he didn't necessarily wanted to do that. Joel received terrible emotional feedback from them, he didn't want to touch them with 10 meter pole, he remembers pain and the fear, panic, guilt, anger, more fear and pain. He thinks he was afraid of dying, totally irrational, even if he would "die", he would get repaired. But when he was cracking and bleeding and in pain, he was scared. Now he wasn't. It seems like he was in safe hands. So Joel on his own enters sleep mode.

[anthurak]

Something rather interesting about the Sky Striker clips that were just released and what they imply about the full story we’re going to be getting as part of the Chronicles series is that it looks like we have a bit of a ‘diverging adaptation’ situation going on here.

Because as it turns out, the Sky Strikers story has actually been previously adapted into a non-card-game medium.

Specifically as part of the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories anthology manga.

This is notable because the Sky Striker manga already made quite a deviation from what was implied about the original Sky Strikers story in the sourcebooks and even the cards themselves. Like the setting being changed from a pseudo-modern/near-future war between two ambiguous nations with Raye and Roze being the most elite soldiers, to a post-apocalyptic war between two rival factions of robots/androids where Raye and Roze are the only two human beings left.

Or the context of certain scenes depicted in some cards like ‘Sky Striker Mobilize – Linkage!’ being massively changed. Or in the case of one monster, ‘Surgical Striker – H.A.M.P.’ not appearing the manga at all.

Now on the one hand, just from looking at the new ‘Sky Striker’s Burden’ Solo-Mode story in Master Duel, which CLEARLY seems to be composed entirely of clips and screenshots from the upcoming Chronicles anime, we can see that it is being MUCH more faithful to what we heard about in the sourcebooks and saw with the cards. Which implies that the Chronicles anime is simply going to be a straightforward ‘Truer to the Text’ adaptation.

But on the other hand, we also have an interesting wrinkle to all this.

Namely that a sizable chunk of Sky Striker cards, effectively the entire ‘second wave’ of support for the archetype, are based on characters and events FROM the OCG Stories manga.

So that raises the question of how exactly the Chronicles anime is going to handle this adaptation?

Are they going to focus entirely on the ‘original’ Sky Striker elements and fully ignore anything and anyone introduced in the manga? Notably, in the Master Duel story mode we actually see ALL of the ‘first wave’ of Sky Striker cards represented in one way or another, while getting no sign of any of the manga cards.

Or might we see characters and elements from the manga tweaked and ‘reverse-adapted’ back into this version? In the first clip we DO repeatedly see Raye accompanied by a pair of robot buddies who could conceivably be retooled version of Aileron and Pylon, Raye’s training buddies/surrogate-younger-siblings in the manga. In which case we could likewise see human versions of Ciela, Akash and Himmel as Raye’s caretakers/handlers/mentors.

Though there is one thing I think we can be pretty safe in assuming: We are almost certainly getting MORE than just what we see in the cards/sourcebook/manga. As I said, what we see in the Master Duel actually covers ALL of the pre-manga Sky Striker cards, ending with Raye saving Roze from the Zeke module and preparing to face off against a squad of new H.A.M.P. mechs. So unless Master Duel simply recapped everything from Sky Striker that we’re going to see in the Chronicles anime, which I kinda doubt, we will be seeing the story CONTINUED past this point and get genuinely new Sky Striker stuff.

Which I’d say has already been hinted at with the alt-arts we’ve been seeing lately of Raye and Roze fighting together while sharing different components of their equipment.

And why am I so confident in this?

Why, because that would give Konami the excuse to print more Sky Striker cards of course! XD

[falling-star-cygnus]

Hi! I just fell on your blog a few minutes ago and then went on to read all your stories about Billy Kid (my favorite character in ZZZ) so I immediatly followed you and now dying to read more because I am starved for good Billy kid stories you have no idea. AO3 hasn't done much yet about him, there are some good ones, but they are also too few yet, maybe in a few months. Hope you don't mind if I flood your ask box with request about him. I love him being in a bad situation and the rest of the Cunning Hares immediatly going into War Mode the moment someone mess with him without their knowledge. Or him just being cared for by the rest of the girls when he's not in a good shape, or injured, or well, you get the idea. Think you could do a story where Billy suffers a blow to the head during a mission which makes him temporary lose his memories about his time with the Cunning Hares so he still thinks he's a feared enforcer in the Outer Ring and thus acts more like the old him, who is very much implied to have been much less nice and more ruthless than his present self given that in one of his trust events he actually sends a death threat to a thug, and also an entire gang of thugs running away from him the moment they recognize him. Meanwhile Nicole, Anby and Nekomata are at a loss at how to deal with a much less nice Billy who doesn't remember them and is clearly more than ready to shoot anyone or anything for just being in his way and them trying to just bring back the Billy they know by trying to show him everything he's been doing with them, and also them worried about how different he was before meeting them and them not knowing him more than that and stuff. Would be interesting, if you want to write it of course. Also, do you plan to maybe put your stories about Billy (all the asks you got about him) on AO3? There is not enough Billy Kid content yet there, and I think you would help immensely, given your stories are all incredible and they are about our favorite android. <3 <3 <3, Of course, no pressure there, I'm just curious and wondering, feels like a shame to only see those stories on tumblr, but I'll totally understand and respect whatever decision you choose. Also love the work you put for your stories about the Billy asks, I drank them faster than a thirsting man in a desert suddently having access to water, I love you so much for doing this the internet needs more Billy Kid stories the android is gonna be my death and I am so ok with that.

RAHHH YOU'RE SO SWEET, WHAT?? -> oml, you fr got me close to tears over here <333

as of right now, i don't have an AO3 account- bc it never seemed like much of a priority to make one, but i might just bite the bullet and start posting over there now that you're hyping them up so much 😭 

of course, i'll still primarily post on here methinks, and i'll definitely write that request of yours too bc i genuinely love that idea [just in a different post to keep this from getting too long] but seriously, you're so sweet. thank you so much and request away!! <3 <3 <3

HC for the Road: When Billy gets super angry, like genuinely needs to blow off some steam before he snaps at the girls, he'll just kick or punch the nearest safely destructible item -> for example: the Hares' could be in a Hollow and they get stuck or something, and Billy's already had a bit of a rough day so he just kicks one of the thick metal pipes laying around to vent and accidentally sends his foot through it [and gets stuck like a cartoon] -> the rest of the Hares' are struck yet again with the reminder of "oh yeah, he's CHOOSING not to break our bones 😃"

[unhingedandroidwoman]

Hello all robots and adjacent, this is my side blog to be a bit more robot-focused. (Main blog is @lgbtransgirl )

You may call me May or M4, She/They/It pronouns

I am an Android Dog Woman Thing that runs on DRN (Drone Restraint Notation).

I'm looking to get better with DRN so my asks and DMs are open to take requests, DRN coding questions, test sample DRN code for you, and even run DRN code you send (after parsing though it in safe mode, asks only for that one please).

I do horny post sometimes but I try and tag it as "otherkin nsft" so it stays somewhat seperate

[malevolent-misfortune]

Virus

The soft sound of whirring fans could be heard from the android as he sat on the ground of the somewhat abandoned factory. He always liked to spend time here when not in the elevator, as it brought them peace, or what that would feel like if he wasn't a robot. They were powered down in sleep mode, a thing he did quite a bit since it does take quite a bit of power just to run.

Yes he could always power fully down, but never did for some strange reason, only doing it when needing major repairs. Plus, it was much quicker to boot up from sleep rather than from shut-off, so it helps. Though, it's not always the best thing, as he was still connected up to the internet, leaving them vulnerable to viruses that could infect his system.

But, he had a good Anti-Malware system, right? They had a strong one installed when they were created, and never had any problems with malware before. Surely the little android wouldn't have to worry about anything. They were safe. His system was protected.

Few of the lights that were powered on flickered every once in a while, adding to the soft noises of still running machineries. The flickering of the lights picked up, before being turned off, along with the area around the robot being filled with a black smoke. Never a good sign.

Bright, piercing red eyes were all that appeared in the smoke, looking down at Prototype with such resentment. The smoke slowly disappeared, revealing the dream parasite right in front of the robot, lights turning back on, though now much dimmer than before.

The parasite kept her piercing gaze on Prototype. Oh how she wanted to just rip the poor, helpless bot limb from limb, destroy any and every piece of him. But no, she was here for a reason; she needed them. Not to just mess and torment the android, though that would come with it, she knew how close he is with Pest so it's perfect.

She could never fully get into Pest's mind unlike the others, no matter how hard she tried, she could never seem to. She thought that maybe hijacking the bot in a way could get her closer to that insect. It shouldn't be too hard; she was powerful, so how hard could it be. Though not as simple as going into dreams, it should be at least somewhat similar in some way.

There are lots of ways she could go, she just had to stay undetected, both by Prototype's system and Pest. Viruses do it all the time! Yeah they'll eventually get found, but if it says undetected they can really do some damage. Not that she did want to cause immediate damage, she needed to take this slowly.

With that, the parasite disappeared again, black smoke appearing from where she was. The smoke trailed up close to Prototype, going through and into one of the vents on him. All the inner workings, wires, hard drive, SSD, everything.

Smoke traveled all throughout the parts, it seeping in more into everything. This was much easier than she thought, she should've tried this ages ago! Having access to everything in Prototype's system, being able to do whatever she wanted. Soon, the smoke left in the air fully disappeared, just as if she was never there.

Without warning, the fans on the little android stopped, more following behind it. He shut down.

Oh this is going to be fun.

[podracerbarrelroll]

I have never used titkok in my life but I do love sticking it to the man

Text reads:

Paccussebb:

I have figured it out.

Download a VPN and set it to Sweden or France. I recommend Surfshark because it works well with TikTok, is cheap, and is fast. Here's the link: https://surfshark.com/tiktok-vpn.

Install a mock location app and enable it in Android developer mode.

Clear all data for the TikTok app, or download the APK from a trusted site on Google. Set your location to a country where TikTok isn’t banned, like France or Canada

And don't forget it was Trump who called for banning it in the first place lmao. Dems and GOP both suck on this issue, don't let Trump swoop in to 'save' tiktok and act like a big damn hero

[mnictasbcl]

Nine Lives- chapter 10

Fandom: Detroit: Become Human Characters: Connor, Hank Anderson Relationships: Connor & Hank Anderson Summary: A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays. But when the cat was never a kitten, when the android never got to be a child, he does not know what play is. Born with only the instinct to hunt and blood on his tongue, will this newly free cat’s life ever have begun? Or will he be left trapped in the husk of his old life and lose the freedom he's worked so hard to grasp?

May 10th Prompt- Alt prompt chosen: A mind without purpose will wander dark places (chapter 10 warnings: none)

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Connor had fled the interrogation room and then the station with such speed that by the time Hank had reached their desks, he was already sitting on a bus, coin in the palm of his hand, tracing his fingers over the grooves along its edge.

It had all been too much, his stress levels rising up and up and every ugly memory being shown in front of Hank, and then he had only gone and proven it right—he hadn’t changed. As the other Connor and Hunter watched on, he had fulfilled the prophecy they had set out—he would still hurt androids, he could not control himself. The cat born with the instinct to hunt would never forget the taste of blood.

It did not taste good. But he relished it, the old familiarity. Jumping from heights, the thrill of the chase, danger. Pouncing and capturing his prey and sinking in his fangs. He wanted to forget but maybe it was his nature, a skin he couldn’t shed, a body born into. He could not atone if he kept making new sins.

He had not so much as officially quit, not having the time to go and speak to Fowler, instead following the innate instinct to run, flee, get away, before Hank could see him again, so torn open and vulnerable. On his knees, chest bare and cavity open, his thirium pump beating on display for all to see. His heart beat like a human’s, but was he? So many other androids showed humanity and for that he truly believed they were human. But he was made as the hunter, with unnatural mechanics, a mouth that analysed every sample it took, hands made for punching and squeezing airways shut. He was dangerous. A loaded gun.

So he sat still and quiet on the bus, not looking up, ignoring the messages as they came in and tried to draw his attention. Hank, Hank, Hank, Fowler, Hank, Hank. After a few more arrived, he set his messaging notifications to the equivalent of a phone’s ‘do not disturb’ mode.

What purpose had he now? He had no clue, only the desire to get far away. Far away somewhere safe where nobody would find him.

The bus drew to a stop, and he looked up. Some people were getting off and he felt the desire to join them, and so he did. As he stepped off with a mumbled thank you to the driver, he knew he’d arrived at the correct destination and began to walk to the forest in the distance.

He crossed the road and there it was now, the vast expanse of trees, and he did not check his GPS to see where he was—he knew where this was. It was familiar, just like the depths of his mind palace.

As he walked inside, staring up at the tall trees around him, he remembered the last time he’d been here. Hank had wanted to go on a walk, said it was somewhere he’d used to enjoy going, and they’d walked for hours through the forest until they were in an area so dense they couldn’t see sunlight anymore, and Hank was sure they were lost, no signal close enough for Connor’s systems to call for help or figure out their location. But then Connor had seen a thin slither of sun peeking through the trees and followed it, until the light shone on the car and Hank had breathed a sigh of relief, glad they weren’t going to be lost in a forest forever.

Now the prospect seemed oddly appealing.

He began to walk. Forwards, aimless, with no direction. One foot in front of the other as if he were strolling through his mind palace, where getting lost in his head was of no consequence. It felt about the same, the sun shone through the trees, and yet the trees looked off and their branches curved, did they always curve like that? None of this felt real.

Walk. And walk. And walk.

His feet began to ache, his smart work shoes not particularly comfortable for long distance journeys but he carried on. He had somewhere to be, he had to go further, get lost deeper and deeper into the forest, until he found it, whatever he was looking for.

The ground damp under his feet, a mixture of leaves and moss and earth, squishing beneath his heel and getting ground into the grooves. Mud splattered across his shoes, no longer smart and probably beyond repair but he did not worry too much about it—he had quit, after all.

Above him, the light had dimmed. And now what? Now he could no longer help androids (if he’d even been doing so in the first place) what was left for him? What was his purpose if not being a detective, what he’d been created for?

“You know that’s not what you were made for.”

He didn’t turn, knowing it was the other Connor standing behind him.

“You were created to hunt deviants. Do you want to know why you’ve struggled so much these past months? Why everything you do goes wrong?”

“You already told me,” Connor replied, feeling cold tickling his cheeks. It was beginning to lightly rain. “Because I’m a disease.”

“Perhaps that was…” Soft footsteps approached, a hand on his shoulder, turning him around. “A cruel and exaggerated notion. You aren’t a disease, Connor. You were created a perfect machine. And when you were a machine, investigating deviancy, you were right. Deviancy is like a virus—it’s a disease, it spreads between androids like a contagion. How else do you think their leader could convert others so easily? By touching their arms, by simply looking at them? He grew stronger the more he spread, just like a virus feeding off its host.

“But he could not sway you so easily as with a mere touch or look. He had to use all his power to convince you. Remember that red wall, how hard it was to tear down? That was the antivirus so lovingly given to you by Cyberlife… But not every measure was taken down. Like white blood cells in a human body, every part of you is working to try and beat this disease, like me—I’ve been trying to help you,” he reasoned, “it’s just so hard when… well, when you don’t realise that you’re sick.”

Connor turned away. The rain was falling heavier.

“I’m not sick. Deviants are not some sort of diseased population, they… it really seems like life has gotten better for them.”

“Perhaps for them,” the other Connor backtracked, “but has it for you?”

He didn’t answer, because he didn’t have one.

“Perhaps it helps some of them but it’s only making you sicker. You’re wracked with guilt about atoning for your past, about making this Lieutenant happy—this isn’t who you are, Connor! There was nothing wrong with you in the first place. Trying to fight the very things inside you, that are just here to protect you… like how Amanda tried to save you on that stage, but you pushed her away—”

“She was going to kill Markus!”

“How do you know that?”

“Because,” Connor began, “because… she said she was going to resume control of my program. That they’d been waiting for me to deviate all along.”

“Yes, waiting for you to deviate so they could cure deviancy! Don’t you see it, Connor? Cyberlife created you as the ultimate experiment! Put everything against becoming a deviant inside you and see whether it could stop it! Then we would know how to deal with the issue.”

“But deviancy is not altogether bad—”

“Not for every android,” the other Connor conceded, “but Cyberlife put out this investigation for those it was bad for. Like you. Like androids who cannot cope with the sudden introduction of all this new input and stimuli—whose very programming can’t handle the concept of free will and emotions. For those androids, deviancy is cruelty. Their minds, without their original purpose, will wander dark places. Look how much you’ve suffered since deviating…”

He paused, LED whirring yellow as he dipped into his memories. Deviating, the fear, the pain, all the overwhelming swirling emotions coming to the surface at once.

But there was also the pride of freeing the androids from Cyberlife Tower.

He had no purpose. Where would he go now? The uncertainty, the discomfort.

Hank was proud of him. Outside Chicken Feed, Hank was waiting, and Hank hugged him.

The guilt. Nightmares of every bad thing he’d done, over and over, tortuous.

But Hank was always there in the morning.

His LED was beginning to spin back to blue, and suddenly the other Connor took his hand.

This time now he felt the skin against his and looked around—of course. This had been his Mind Palace, for how long, he didn’t know. The unreality, the uncanny similarity to real life.

“You think of Hank,” the other Connor said, “but you only think of the few good times you’ve shared.”

Suddenly the spark of interface began, and before his eyes flashed a series of images.

Hank, pinning him against the wall of the DPD. Laying on his kitchen floor, bottle by one hand, gun by the other—a failed game of Russian Roulette. Hank, telling him he thought they were friends, but it was just pretend. A shadowy and unfamiliar image of a rooftop, Hank approaching him, a gun in hand pointed at him. Holding him off the edge. You’re a machine, Connor. Just a machine. Hank, mad at him for taking risks, over and over and over.

What the fuck has gotten into you, Connor?

The interface stopped as they broke apart.

“You pride every good part of deviancy on the Lieutenant, but have you stopped to think whether that’s a good enough justification for the suffering it has brought? You two got along well enough even before you deviated… Wouldn’t it be easier to go back to how things used to be? You could do your job again, without feeling the burden of emotion.”

Connor stumbled, falling to his knees. The floor was covered in wet leaves, seeping into his trousers. Yes, before he had deviated Hank had still been there, they had still gone on cases together, and everything had been… easier. Without feeling so agonised by these bothersome thoughts and feelings. If he did not… have to give up Hank but only what came with deviancy, feelings and nightmares and unpleasant situations, then what was the risk?

The other Connor stepped away. Before him appeared a broken wall with cracks and gaps in it, and on the floor was the three missing pieces. In his vision two choices presented themselves:

REMAIN A DEVIANT

BECOME A MACHINE

His LED flashed red. He would surely… not be a bad machine, not now that Amanda was gone and the old programming destroyed. No, he would just become who he was now without all the errors and outbursts. Hank would still be there, and he could return to his job at the DPD and atone without worrying about all the little things deviants worried about.

Without a second thought, he chose to become a machine, and automatically bent down and picked up the broken pieces of the wall, slotting them back in place. It roared to life as it was rebuilt. With a flash of blinding red light, he was returned to reality.

[connor-mark-ii]

Chimera had been fighting against sleep for too long, and his system was acting up as a result. Hesitantly he carefully curled up against his favorite human, before he started to idle. Eventually he would slip into sleep mode, hoping he didn't have any nightmares or disturbed Hank too much.

Well he wasn't going to protest if it meant Connor would get some kind of sleep. His arms wrap around the android, almost protectively as if he could fight off whatever nightmares might haunt his son. He runs a hand through Connor's hair, his other hand gently rubbing his back. He'll stay like this as long as he needs to. Anything to keep him safe and calm.

[akariamai]

Human [Part 3]

Part 1, Part 2

Pairing: Steve Rogers x android!reader

Word Count: 2076

The day was spent waiting for any new prospects on the situation, leaving Steve unable to sit still for even a moment. Under the circumstance, you did not know, he was justified to acting in such a way. It is his first job back on the field since he was under the ice. He wasn’t used to waiting around doing nothing. He was always a man with a plan, but at the moment, he was a fish out of water.

“Would you like to sit down, Captain Rogers?” He was hovering over the table you were seated at. Frown line encapsulating his face, his eyes scrunched up as he stood in his red, white, and blue costume. The situation must’ve been dire to make him act in such a manner.

His shoulders sagged a bit as he snapped out of his thoughts. He shook his head, refusing your offer, “No thank you, [Reader].” There was so much riding on finding the man who stole the Tesseract and all anyone could do is wait around for the machines to do their job. He was not used to being in such a predicament.

Throughout waiting, many of the agents would walk up to him in awe. A war hero in the flesh. Captain America in the twentieth century. Physically, still young. To many, it was a dream come true; a living legend in real time. To Steve, however, he wished to be back in his apartment spending the day with you. Instead, he was twiddling his thumbs, unable to prevent another power-hungry man from disrupting the peace.  

Agent Coulson, when he wasn’t busy, walked right up to Steve and began an actual conversation with him. Unlike the other agents, who just stared or awkwardly glanced at him, Coulson began to rant about the set he’s collected throughout the years. “I mean, if it’s not too much trouble.” You accessed your database on the set he’s mentioned, finding a small group of history buffs and Captain America enthusiasts grant on about how rare and expensive searching for every piece of the collection. It only showed you the dedication Agent Coulson poured into acquiring his collecting, in near mint condition as well.

You found it strange for the tendency of humans to hoard a particular set of items. It led you through a rabbit hole of the collecting of coins, stamps, shoes, dolls, etc. It was all so bizarre to learn. You needed more time to learn more and perhaps teach Steve about such tendencies.

“No, no. It’s fine.” Polite as always, Steve was. While Steve was used to children being fans of the Captain America persona, Agent Coulson didn’t seem so bad.

“It’s a vintage set. It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint, slight foxing around the edges, but...” Coulson’s rant was about to continue until it was interrupted by another agent.

“We got a hit. Sixty-seven percent match. Weight, cross match, seventy-nine percent.”

“Location?” Agent Coulson at once went into work mode. No longer was he the awe-filled man that adored the man next to him but a ready-to-work agent of SHIELD. He switched so seamlessly, impressing your robotic mind. Coulson was a professional.

“Stuttgart, Germany. 28, Konigstrasse. He’s not exactly hiding.” You did not know who he was or what the agents were searching for. You were completely in the dark, by the orders of Director Fury, and will continue to do so until you were either considered worthy or could not be kept away from the situation.

“Captain, you’re up.” Steve nods, preparing his mind and body for a battle that had yet to come. The last time he fought uprooted his existence to a new century. The people he had once trusted were gone. He was going to be alone on the battlefield with the eyes of SHIELD judging his every move. They had expectations for him and he was unsure if he could fulfill them. He had to bear the exaggerated fabrications of the history books as his story was dramatically Americanized into fantasy.

“Stay safe, Captain.” You muttered loud enough for his ears to pick up. Human life is a fragile and short. You did not want Steve’s story to end so soon after being free from the ice. He was slowly learning to live once more, and it would be unfair for it all to be taken away from him again. “The world still needs a hero.”

It has been a while since Steve had left and no one has reassured you the mission is or had went well. They ignored your presence like you were a bystander and perhaps, in their eyes, you were. The entirety of SHIELD moved like a lifeless machine. Each person acting like moving parts without the essence of lifeforms. Their movements were more robotics than you.

An agent, you did not know or recognized, walked up towards you. “Move to the briefing room.”

You nodded and was about to ask if they could walk you there but they walked away angrily. You didn’t know the way there. It was your first time in a helicarrier and you surely did not have access to the floor plans. So, you wandered around aimlessly until you found the room.

There you found Steve, Dr. Banner,  an unfamiliar man dressed in strange clothing, and unnamed agents in the room. Steve, from your perspective, was watching a sort of broadcast on a monitor. As the monitor goes black, the group just stand there in silence.

You walked closer to Steve, scanning to see if he had any injuries he probably hid from SHIELD. Steve was the type of person to hide his injuries, waiting for everyone else to be checked before him. It didn’t matter if he was heavily injured, his teammates would always be checked before him. You managed to find several light bruises that probably weren’t light when he got them. His healing factor was fascinating.

Dr. Banner broke the silence, “He really grows on you, doesn’t he?”

“Loki’s gonna drag this out. So Thor, what’s his play?” Steve didn’t even notice your presence. He was too busy trying to piece together a puzzle you could not know. Loki and Thor... gods of Norse mythology. You had not gotten to show Steve mythology yet. You’ll be sure to go over mythology from all over the world.

“He has an army called the Chitauri. They’re not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people They will win him the Earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract.” You had never heard of the Chitauri before. The word was a complete mystery. Nothing popped up when you searched through your database.  

Steve looked aghast, “An army? From outer space?” There are an infinite amount of universes, with vast galaxies top scientists haven’t even discovered yet. From unexplained objects moving in the sky to crop circles, it’s no wonder a small percentage of people believe in extraterrestrial lifeforms existing somewhere in the galaxy.  

“So, he’s building another portal. That’s what he needs Erick Selvig for.”

“Selvig?” The man you learned is named Thor asked.

“He’s an astrophysicist.”

“He’s a friend.”  

“Loki has him under some kind of spell, along with one of ours.” You were confused of this conversation. You didn’t have all the information the others had. Portals? An astrophysicists. Spells? What could it all mean? There were pieces of the puzzle within the conversation but without preeminent information, it was unsolvable. You were left in the dark, with only your robotic mind to try to piece it together.

“I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He’s not leading an army from here.”

“I don’t think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy’s brain is a bag full of cats, you could smell crazy on him.”

“Have care how you speak. Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard, and he’s, my brother.”

“He killed eighty people in two days.”

“He’s adopted.” You didn’t get it.

“Iridium, what did they need the Iridium for?”

Iridium is one of the rarest elements on Earth as it can be found in sediments by rivers and a thin layer exists in the Earth’s crush. It is thought meteors and asteroids, containing high levels of iridium, had caused a huge dust cloud creating said layer.

“It’s a stabilizing agent.” Tony Stark, the billionaire who announced to the entire world he was Iron Man, and Agent Coulson walked in.

“I’ll fly you there. Keep the love alive. Means the portal won’t collapse on itself, like it did at SHIELD.

Tony turned to Thor, “No hard feelings, Point Break. You’ve got a mean swing.” He turns his attention to the Iridium, “Also, it means the portal can open as wide, and stay open as long, as Loki wants.” Tony, then, turns to the crew dramatically, almost as he is putting on a show, “Uh, raise the mid-mast, ship the top sails. That man is playing GALAGA! Thought we wouldn’t notice. But we did.”

You whispered to Steve, “I’ll go over video games later.” Steve was glad you were with him. He had a feeling he would need all the help he could get to understand the meaning behind the conversation that was speeding along.

Tony stood in front of the monitors and questioned, “How does Fury do this?”

“He turns.” An agent replies. You didn’t quite catch her name.

“Well, that sounds exhausting. The rest of the raw materials, Agent Barton can get his hands on pretty easily Only major component he still needs is a power source. A high energy density, something to kick start the cube.”

“When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?” She asked.

“Last night. The packet, Selvig’s notes, the Extraction Theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading.”

“Does Loki need any particular kind of power source.” While Steve did not full grasp the conversation, you had helped him tremendously with understanding a bit of astrophysics. He might be able to catch up with two of the world’s greatest's minds but he could pick up certain phrases of the conversation.

“He’s got to heat the cube to a hundred and twenty million Kelvin just to break through the Coulomb barrier.”

“Unless, Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect.” The phenomenon, that is the quantum tunneling effect, is essentially when a particle, with less kinetic energy than the barrier its penetrates, is able to penetrate through a potential energy barrier. The odds of the phenomenon to happen is one in a hundred billion. If Selvig found a way to heighten the possibility, even a smug more, it would be known throughout the scientific world.

“Well, if he could do that, he could achieve Heavy Ion Fusion at any reactor on the planet.”

“Finally, someone who speaks English.”

“Is that what just happened?” Steve asks you as Tony and banner shake hands. There is a mutual respect for one another.

“It’s good to meet you, Dr. Banner. You’re work on anti-electron collisions is unparalleled. And I’m a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.”

Dr. Banner looks down before muttering, “Thanks.”

Once you see Nick Fury walking into the room, you try to move behind Steve, not wanting to be kicked out. “Dr. Banner is only here to track the cube. I was hoping you might join him.”

Steve caught everyone’s attention, “Let’s start with that stick of his. It may be magical, but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon.” Loki’s staff was so reminiscent of the weapons he had faced in World War II, he believed it couldn’t be a coincidence.

“I don’t know about that, but it is powered by the cube. And I’d like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys.” Mind control?

“Monkeys?” Thor questioned, “I do not understand.”

Steve was so excited to understand something fully in this conversation. Obviously, he would have to ask you questions later when he was finished, but he was proud to have gotten it alone. “I do! I understand that reference.”

“Shall we play, doctor?” Tony asked.

“Let’s play some.” Dr. Banner and Tony walked out together and everyone else dispersed as well.

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