If God didn't want us to be happy, he wouldn't have made drones real!
Oh, right...
So, here's our Booru: https://dronebooru.co Wheel of OCs: https://wheelofnames.com/z8q-2mf Wheel of modifiers: https://wheelofnames.com/4h8-fyf The wiki inside the Booru: https://dronebooru.co/wiki_pages/original_character The usefulWiki: wiki.dronebooru.co And last thread: >>327050
>>327983 You know, I'd engage in the usual rigamarole of "reclaim my honour" coupled with simping for Y but cramming for tests is really taking the wind out of me, have this image instead
>>327997 >When Anon returns home, Pavo is waiting for him with a rose in his teeth and in the sexiest pose a drone can muster >Don't ask how he got into your house, Anon, he's a sentinel drone, he can do even more
Old Atlas Drone >vintage technology >shiny chrome finish >who needs gimmicks when you're the best >could go for a lot of money if you found the right buyer
Dahl Drone >affordable military hardware >steady and reliable >variety of camo patterns >register a Dahl+ account for additional features like reciprocating affection
Hyperion Drone >cutting edge technology >very expensive >very elitist >DO NOT mention the CL4P-TP product line in its vicinity
Jakobs Drone >old fashioned >made of high quality wood and filigree >not all of its charming southern phrases make sense >won't respect you if you don't have a mustache
Maliwan Drone >elegant in form and function >very smooth and artsy >batteries not included >elemental fluids are not for human consumption
Bandit Drone >you definitely didn't acquire this thing legally >ramshackle piece of shit >surprisingly good mileage >will try to kill you and steal your stuff if you don't keep it on a short leash
Tediore Drone >extremely affordable >family pack >made of disposable plastic explosives >planned obsolescence is measured in hours
Torgue Drone >EXPLOSIONS! >EXTREME HIGH PERFORMANCE! >WHAT THE F@&% IS SAFETY WARRANTY?! >EXPLOSIONS!
Vladof Drone >drone of the proletariat >manufactured in country that technically doesn't exist anymore >will liberate your household from the fascist tyranny of non-Vladof appliances >Yuo see, Ivan, yuo don't need to be better shot. Yuo just need to shoot more boolet.
New Atlas Drone >state of the art >cutting edge on technology and trends >modern comeback story >acts as a loudspeaker for the Atlas CEO's social media
What do you lads think works better with Negev having Vickers girl terrible posture that makes her look shorter than she is: her being at most as tall as Beretta, or her being anywhere from the female DD height of 4'10" to the apparent WD max of 5'2", whichever half of that range you think works better and it genuinely surprising people when she stops slouching or slumping over and standing with her knees bowed inwards?
>>328014 If murder drones have nanite milk and nanite nut. What do sentinel drones have? I know Avre has that muscle relaxant in her tail. What is sentinel drone cum and milk like?
>>328034 Cause asshole or not, having your whole family ripped apart in front of your eyes trying to protect you because the aforementioned buenolord you were bullying couldn't withstand the stress of living in a relatively safe and funcional society is kinda messed up.
>>328032 >Uzi is now an Eldritch god >She can now easily bully Lizzy back with interest as a scary Solverpede monstrosity >Immediately gives up when it becomes apparent acting and looking like a horror movie monster only succeeds at turning Lizzy on
>>328025 Officially, sentinel drones can have nanite nuts and milk. And it's blue.
>You wake up quite late because you don't have to go to work >You hear the sounds of frying with clattering dishes >You get out of bed and quietly enter the kitchen >Your beautiful, tall, sentinel drone wife is preparing breakfast for you >You sneak up behind her and carefully grab her up into your arms >Even though, thanks to her sensors, she knew you were awake in advance, she still lovingly reciprocated and pulled you closer >Now you're in the clutches of a first-class war machine, and she won't let you go easily >As payment, you give her a kiss, and her hands soften, granting you sweet freedom >But nothing is sweeter than her lips >Finally, she asks you to sit at the table, for dinner is ready, and it's time for you to get your precise dose of nutrients >She places an omelet, sprinkled with herbs and spices, and a salad of the freshest greens appears next to it >The final touch is a mug of freshly brewed coffee, over which steam swirls in a cheerful dance, and under a thin film of black coffee dust you notice a slight blue tint
>>328049 True, she could've just vaporized V while they were "hanging" with Lizzy instead of wasting time, but you know, gotta rape her epic style in front of others or it doesn't matter.
>>328048 Only if you run your hand over them from nose back towards the tail. If you drag your hand over shark skin from the tail back up towards the head it will feel rough like sandpaper.
>>328061 Isn't it kind of unclear? On the one hand I saw some stuff on the old /co/ threads that talked about how you could see snow and sky and whatnot at their death scenes, indicating it took place out-of-bunker. On the other hand the behavior of pilot Doll, the 1-3 month timeskip between episodes 2 and 3, and the fact that Doll was hiding in a closet all indicate it was the bunker entrance(not to mention how much more interesting of a plot point it is if Uzi's episode 1 actions have actual long lasting consequences). Even purely evidence wise it looks like it could go either way.
Before we all continue we’ve all watched the show right you’re not just here to hang out and pretend you know who the characters are or what the story is because you want to fuck robots
>>328070 >anon isn't celebrating the influx of fresh dronetists >anon dosen't realize the sheer metaphysical weight of the racism/sexism built into the board and world will cleanse their little reddit souls, allowing them to ascend to the glorious status of "newfag" and maybe, eventually, draw or writefag instead
>>328069 That’s true, newfriends are welcome provided they read the thread lore, at least that’s how I feel like it is. But the thread is too slow for there to be newfriends here.
Wonder what the plan with Doll was going to be before Liam decided against the multiple season story arc, considering she already had oil stains on her clothes early in episode 1 when her parents implicitly got murked during the break-in. I still say the original plan was going to be that Doll's thing had kicked in before then and Yeva was helping her learn to manage it based on her own experience with being a vampire, and her parents were going to die partway through season 1 while the family was scavenging for oil (dad knew his wife and daughter were vampires and was providing lookout for them).
>>328065 In one of the glitch inn livestreams they showed off the set for the flashback of Doll's parents dying and it is very clearly outdoors somewhere (with a ship present for some reason). Doll is hiding in an ambulance, which you can see the door of in the episode itself
>>328080 Crying shame then, as I said in my big pargraph it's way more interesting from a narrative perspective if Uzi being impulsive, stupid, and desperate actually ended up severely hurting people the story actually cares about.
>>328079 Yup. Sentinels are great, even if they are a bunch of bums chilling on their special planet. Reviving headpats and cuddles from their humans. Wouldn’t want them any other way, cute wastes of resources that they are.
>>328084 You clearly haven't had any coffee this morning, anon. I know a coffee shop where the coffee is made by a very cute sentinel drone, and she's literally a master of her craft. I promise you'll love it.
>>328080 >which you can see the door of in the episode itself Screencap? Wiki isn't helping. In any case, begs the question of why they were outside, especially since it happened in high school... is what I would be saying, if I didn't know the reason was one of the following: >"I don't know!~" >"Because!" >"Unclear!"
>>328092 It's quite difficult to truly defeat a god.
I remember there was a discussion about this a long time ago, and one anon made a post where he described how while for humanity this is not just an ordinary war, but a war for its own existence, for Cyn it is simply an RTS.
>>328096 I wouldn't go so far in my certainty, but I wonder if it's a remnant from an earlier script, like the sheer size of the episode 6 Cabin Fever set.
>>328084 >Sentinel drones are an extremely effective use of resources for their Job, yes really >But their Job is exclusively limited to killing Solver-Witches/command creatures, assasin/hunter-killer style >Strictly speaking there's nothing for other commanders to complain about, they are the only ways to kill Witches with any level of reliability after all >But holy fuck if it dosen't feel bad to see a billion+ dollar warmachine swoop in, kill one(1) singular entity, and give the whole "mission accomplished, returning to base" speech while you're stuck facing an army of mutants and dozens of DDs cause "not their Job" >And it's almost more enraging that the sentinels who do bother helping clearly do so out mostly so they can use the DDs as stress toys >The overall effect, plus the fact that Sentinels benefit from a "quality over quantity" policy that humanity can't afford for any other units, generally makes it seem like Sentinels don't really care about the war effort and see the whole thing as a game instead >Ground level grunt may love seeing a Blue in the skies, but anyone who'se interacted with then tend to hate them almost as much as the Solver itself
>>328082 Not the original anon you've been talking with, but I think you're not seeing the intent with their characters. Uzi and Doll are supposed to be narrative foils with similar backstories, their characters diverging with how they chose to handle their revenge plots. Where it actually falls apart, imo, is that both of Doll's parents are actually dead while Nori simply went for milk, which makes the whole thing fall flat since Uzi had actually had nothing to seek revenge over after all. >>328090 I might be mistaken that she's in the ambulance since this looks like a pickup truck to me. Luke didn't show this scene off much so idk which vehicle she's in now.
>>328094 reminder that cyn can collapse planets by chucking null orbs at them from space, and the only reason cyn hasn't steamrolled the universe already is because she's enjoying playing with her food too much (and because there would be no story otherwise)
>>328102 >Where it actually falls apart, imo, is that both of Doll's parents are actually dead while Nori simply went for milk, which makes the whole thing fall flat As BRRF Anon once observed, same with the idea that Doll shoulda just trusted people (people meaning V and the two who unconditionally stand by her mindbroken-corrupted-morally degraded-bimbofied ass), because the person she did trust stabbed her in the back at the last second for claimed reasons that are asinine (and Lizzy comes to regret it horribly, judging from how she's taking her corpse to school with her)
DRAWPILE TIME MY FRIENDS!!! yayaya https://magma.com/d/yQJY1hzggh you know the rules !! no drama no drawing over other people no minors no being a scoundrel be nice and let's all have fun!
>>328096 >>328098 (me) Friend of mine when I shared my theory with him:
>That's what I reckon. The most pragmatic explanation for me is that it was an attempt to make use of assets they had on hand.
>It strikes me now that something CGI has in common with live action is that in a lot of ways you do wind up with props and sets, and I imagine the urge to make use of all of them (after all, you paid for them) and reluctance to alter them after script changes without a compelling reason must be pretty powerful.
>>328123 (me) In line with that, considering how obscured everything is in Doll's flashback she flashbanged V with, I wouldn't be surprised if, before a hypothetical rewrite, we were originally going to see it as it happened in a scene that was shown to be outside.
Tessa did nothing wrong and was screwd over by Liam for being a moraly good person with good opinions and ideas, as reparation she demands cuddles with the cutest drones and the establishemnt of a drone ethno state
Gotta say, the plot holes and unexplained "Wait, what?" things in MD would certainly make sense if you assume the whole thing is Uzi's chuuni ventfic/accidental admission she still has a crush on her third grade teacher Mr. Kovach.
>be me >ask my giant centipede thing brother what he thinks of the Batman and Spider-Man soundtracks >he gives his thoughts on Danny Elfman in general >he moves on to a bunch of musical theory shit I don't understand >and more >and more >oh Robo-God oh fuck how is he still going >he stretches and shifts his body to get comfortable >how do I tell him he's blocking the door
>>328134 I have my own version. It started out as a hectic multi-system fight, but after Cyn took more planets, humanity decided to fight smarter, not harder, using stealth tactics and whatnot, to reclaim as much as they had left.
>>328092 To quote some guy >"You can kill us all. But something, somewhere, some way down the line. Doesn't matter how long it takes, it WILL overcome you" >"K, can't wait"
I'm just going with the idea that the Solver doesn't "Play with it's food" but just has Goku level fight autism. It wants Humanity as strong as possible. If it loses? Who cares, it got a good fight, which is the shit it lives for. And it'll show up later anyways!
>>328158 Sadly not possible in cannon, otherwise focusing as hard on the Patch as if did wouldn't make any sense. A true fight-autist would have either jabbed Uzi with the patch or, failing that, at least not directly sabotage their attempts at training(patch construction and witch study) like that.
>>328168 How so? It seems like in practice (Uzi and Nori) it just keeps Cyn from mindjacking them with the casual ease she seems to enjoy(see her attempted hijack in 8).
>>328174 The DDs were sent to copper 9 in the first place by the solver to take out the solver witches. That and kill all the worker drones and make spires because the AS works in mysterious ways.
>>328178 >the spires are equivelant to chocolate chips on a cookie >the Solver dosen't need them or anything, but eating a planet just dosen't taste the same unless all the yummy yummy drone oil is piled up in large enough piles to sink her teeth into
>You hadn't been able to sleep after the kiss >The robotic maid had hurriedly apologized for the breech of decorum and run off, you hadn't been able to find her for the rest of the party >You retired to your single suite, drunk >The pounding headache and dryness in your mouth woke you up some time deep into the evening, perhaps 10 or 11pm local >You roll sideways, slide off the bed, fumble in the drawer for a pair of "hangover drops" gulping them down dry >The acetate-binding drugs take enough of the edge off to let you make it to the sink, half the water goes down your throat and the other half over your face >No hope for any more sleep now, the stimulant half of the drugs would take hold soon >A five minute power shower leaves you...nominally clean and nominally awake, you wander over to the door and out into the hall >The lights in the mansion are at half-brightness, music no longer filters out from the dining hall or ballroom >Not all is quiet though, wandering down to the first floor you find a half dozen of the diminutive drone maids and butlers cleaning up after the late-ending festivities >"Your" maid is not among them, and they silently edge out of the walkway around you >Perhaps they aren't programmed to talk to guests? Perhaps they're used to hungover guests wandering the halls >Struck by an impulse you head back towards the library wing
>The drones thin out towards the extremity of the mansion, and it seems deserted by the time you return to the lounge from the earlier afternoon >Its large outward curved panoramic window looks out a twilit alien forest, the spiraling intertwined pseudo-trees have folded in their leaflike fronds, shrinking into short, stocky, barrel like mounds that stipple the ground >The gas giant blots out a quarter of the horizon with a matte black disk, only dim amber light filtering through the edges of its atmosphere defining where it ends and glittering specks of star >Near one pole a lurid sputter of green lightning ripples deep within its clouds >Turning from the vista you head up the small curving staircase to a second story where a connecting door leads into a small but real library, stacks full of books, shelves carved from expensively imported wood >It has the ornamental feel of something rarely used >You find your maid near the end, four stacks down from the door with her back to you >You can see a book in her hands, illuminated by the spearmint blue glow from her face display >For a mad moment you have the urge to play a childish prank by sneaking up behind her, but instead choose to clear your throat politely >The light illuminating the book blinked, she looked up and turned, her symbolic eyes wide and hollow at first, then relaxing to filled in ovals >Then the checked bars of blush emotes again
>"G-good evening, sir!" >Her dainty slippered feet shuffle anxiously "Is there something I can help you with?" >You notice the cover of the book as she hurriedly stuffs it back into the shelf >Some kind of lurid, literotic manual, exactly the kind of smut you'd expect in what was essentially an upscale hookup lodge >"Company, I guess. Couldn't sleep."
Half-part, the saucier bit later tonight or tomorrow.
>>328172 Here's how I look at it >Be Solver Witch >Be used to using a swift Solver hand-waive to get rid of your problems >Be only vaguely familiar with the limits of your abilities, and are at-best familiar with not being able to target other Witches with your Solver >Suddenly Murder Drones show up face-to-face >Attempt to use your handy dandy Solver on them >[LIKE OBJECT NON-INTERACTABLE] >You are dead before you have another chance to try something else
Really the only Witch that could've possibly guessed their Solver wouldn't work on a Disassembly Drone was Nori, but she was still in the middle of getting over amnesia/being kooky
>>328134 This solver war interpretation best interpretation. Not only because it leaves tons of room for awesomeness(what with that being the primary purpose of the war in Cyn's opinion, with all the attendant singular superweapons/creatures that would imply), but because it leaves tons of room for a billion different greens in various touched/untouched areas, all possible thanks to Cyn being neither so fast in her advance that everything dies at once nor so slow that there's any place that doesn't feel it.
Against what precisely? The broken ruins of the planet that used to be there? The Solver doesn't exactly have "infrastructure" after all: the only things it "wants" are suffering and a broken world. Any mutants or solverforms not dedicated to carrying out one or the other (by breaking a world's defenses or by perpetuating a particular kind of hell) likely wouldn't even be considered worthwhile enough to save from the core collapse. I do suppose there's room to quite literally scavenge the remnants of these blasted systems (mutant hells with potential survivors included) once Cyn gets bored of looking at them though... but I can't imagine one would find much in the way of meaningful opposition there (pretty much just whatever solverforms can survive no longer having an atmosphere). More of a scramble/escape than a war though if you aren't even trying to stop your enemy's advance.
>>328155 That's interesting, but I think humanity would have fought in a more logical and thoughtful manner if it could in the beginning. It was Cyn, with its vast hordes of mutants and disassembly drones, that demanded that humanity maintain massive fronts on planets and star systems.
In my vision I described that this war looks like this, because Cyn wants it, because she could wipe out humanity as quickly as possible, no matter what tactics humans use. She has no problems with resources, logistics, moral fatigue, or anything else, she just does some incredibly terrible shit and see how humanity reacts, and if they get lucky and push her forces off the planet, she'll clap and say, "Nice, more."
Actually, you and I are both describing AUs, because in the original, Cyn was more into roleplaying than strategy.Plus, Liam didn't care at all about what was happening in the world. He was so unconcerned that he even forgot that disassemblers needed to drink oil to keep from overheating, and what those damn corpse spires were for.
>>328219 Of course Cyn's MORE into roleplaying, but that isn't exactly going to stop her from indulging in some different kinds of pain along the way. I agree though that, if there was any real war effort in cannon, it probably took the form of her dropping a bunch of DDs on a planet with a new cover story from the last(and either assistance or not, depending on the cover) and then watching the fireworks happen, but there's relatively little room for greens in that(since you need to setup every planet's LARP individually) so it's probably better that anons write the solver war as they do.
Honestly Harpernon's probably closest to cannon out of anybody: it really seemed at least from the posters + diagram in CFL that humans were expecting the annihilation of the entire universe in a matter of days or months. Not exactly the kind of thing that screams "Cyn was slow and fun about things." Nor the kind of thing that leaves, well, basically any humans alive besides on a theoretical "can't kill me neener neener" planet.
>>328224 I agree, the main goal of any interpretation of Solver War is to allow anons to describe what they want. I don't see a problem with an anon describing their version of Solver War in their green, because I can easily imagine something similar happening in mine. The main thing here is to tell a story, and a well-thought-out world simply facilitates this.
many people don't know Tanner but he's a drone that actively takes care of sentinel-H!
>Tanner was once a human that got a job as a sentinel repair man, once he realized how doomed they were, he basically killed himself before waking up as a drone.
>H finds Tanner while broken trying to find help for her fellow sentinels, Tanner, being a previous technician repairs her
>H grows fond of tanner, dragging him around, Tanner realizes her sentinel parts belong to a sentinel he would care for as a human, so he goes along with her, acting begrudged
>H is naturally interested in humans and human things, tanner tells her about human things but never reveals who he used to be
>>328227 >it really seemed at least from the posters + diagram in CFL that humans were expecting the annihilation of the entire universe in a matter of days or months Keep in mind that Copper-9 was implied to be the last stop on Cyn's all you can eat buffet across the human systems, meaning those posters + diagram (and really the whole Patch program itself) naturally reflect how desperate the situation was at that point. Also keep in mind that in spite of what the posters were saying it still took upwards to a few years after the core collapse occurred for the Disassembly Drones to actually arrive on Copper-9, and it wasn't until 3071 (close to 20 years after the collapse) for Cyn herself to arrive and finish things off
>>328189 Read it. Great stuff, man, love your writing. Excited to see what's next! Or hell, even anything you've written in the past, if anything, I'd love to read.
>>328234 Yeah but I figured THAT was cause she was very much sandbagging her "last hoorah" of a planet, really letting herself enjoy her time with her dolls for as long as possible before she has to put them away in the toybox till the next universe (I honestly can't see Cyn as the type to discard the things she enjoys having around and/or made promises to whether the universe they came from still exists or not).
As evidence see how we go from "t-minus 100 days until oblivion" in the labs to "literally 20 years before she even sets foot on the rock" as Uzi's classmates imply.
>>328232 >Sentinel-H presumably has major loyalty to humanity going in addition to her humanboo thing, since she's imitating a Sentinel >Tanner is, even under the best considerations, a WD and not a human
So if it came down to saving him vs saving a human, or obeying a human's orders vs going with him, which one would she pick?
>>328240 Oh she would no doubt pick the human over tanner, me and H's drawfag had a conversation about this once lol, it's also more out of an interest thing too I'm pretty sure(?)
>>328241 The minute Sentinel drones got Steven Universified and turned into crybaby hugboxes it was all over for the whole Violet Evergarden emotionless assassin aesthetic
>>328242 From my understanding her drawfag framed it as if it was an infatuation with a lost civilization There was a doodle ahe sent me once of H excitedly showing tanner nyan cat and saying he wouldn't understand (despite him previously being human) lol
>Tanner was a human, then became a WD >Even assuming this some other supernatural nonsense rather than Solver shenanigans, he's still vulnerable to all the parasites, infestations, and flesh twistings that can afflict any drone during the Solver War(especially any drone hanging out close enough to the front lines for DDs not to be a top priority target)
So what does he do when/if he starts changing?
And at exactly what level of mutation does H decide he's too far gone to keep around?
Matter of factly, what happens if they run into human human forces when he's only partway to unsalvagable and they understandably want to put down the mutie. Does H kill them if she can't get away? How would that impact the rest of her personality?
Feel free to answer all or none of these non, this just got me to thinking and I don't have time enough to write green right now.
>>328244 anons can cry that he ruined themqll they want, but lets not forget harperanon is the reason why sentinel characters are a staple of thread culture
>>328246 Sentinel-H's drawfag isnt as into murder drones and moved onto a different fandom but I'll try finding an answer if she has any.
i don't think that both of us thought that deeply bout the affects lf the solver, nor do I think their storyline is in line with much of the thread accepted lore and just goes with the original murder drones story.
>Tanner is very much like how the teacher acts in murder drones, considering H is his only connection after being locked out of his last outpost, he'd be around as a ride or die
>humans are long gone by now, tanner was apart of the experiments that helped with the solver patch and died before everyone else did, if they were to run into humans Tanner would probably spill the beans about who he was
>>328249 The vast majority of anons like these sentinel drones, and salonanon and Avre have contributed greatly to their popularity. In my opinion, his art and greens have contributed even more to the popularization of sentinel drones than droneanon's work.
Duh, but this is a Murder Drones board: "silent emotionless killers with, maybe, a handful of tiny personality quirks if you looked real close" were never gonna win out against big personalities with big gimmicks attached(like how the show does characters).
Matter of factly, if Harpernon never wrote his green, I'd bet Sentinels would exist only as slightly scarier jobbers to throw up against DDs + Witches + Mutants with actual personalities who can loev anon/be funny. Then, once they got blasted into the dirt in every green, they'd become another set of thread jokes like jobber-J. The only way Phoenix's admittedly badass interpretation was ever gonna survive at all was by having a bunch of actual characters to contrast the "tool" Sentinels against. And the best way to make people write about characters on the Droneboard is to give them art(very hard) or make then drones.
>>328256 She didn't model herself, the solver put together whatever parts of what was SD-H and a sentinel and made, sentinel-H. Much like how J was a solver piede in a way? But she lost memories of her life as a DD, and believes she is genuinely a sentinel raptor
>>328258 Not until Copper-9 she dosen't! That's plenty of time for Anonymous "lost loves" from the war effort if you want to write them. Bare minimum the "anon tries not to get shot by a real Sentinel Drone" green from a tgread ago was probably the only green I've seen made about ger ever and she could sure use some love.
NTA but I'm still not cucking my humanbro, even if he's been dronified. If he wants to take it slow with his retard GF then anon will be there in my greens cheering him on and giving him tips on Dissembler lovin the whole way. With his own drone/Solver-Sap gf of course.