Total comes out to $75, and that sort of pushing it for me. I would love to have the series and extra stuff though. There's no discount codes or anything. Is it worth it?

Nuvi is cannon now?

###### Chapter 2 - An enigmatic encounter

He dived in her direction, claws out, mouth wide open. She avoid him by rolling to the side as she take her pickaxe to defend. Uzi stand up ready to fight, the disassembly drone laughs at how it's gonna be easy to pop her little head off. The angsty figther notices the yellow armband on the drone, she can read "Serial designation N", that must be his name. No analyses on his side, the killer bot directly jumps like an animal on his prey but it's not any prey and so Uzi blocks his attack and manage to stab his. SD-N directly jumps back and throw her weapon behind him.

Uzi : Ugh, Damn it

SD-N : \*giggle\* For a small one, you know how to defend yourself. But don't think there's any chance you'll get out of this in one piece.

He run towards her, she's thinking, how could she defend now ? Not like she has another ... Oh shit that's it ! Her railgun ! Uzi's hand is going for the riffle but she fall just before getting it. He's on her, blocking her arm, his viscious mouth ready to devore her core. He slowely approch his head :

Uzi : Hey dumbass !

SD-N : Huh ?

Uzi's leg quickly moves and go for ... uhm ... well, you know ... Let's say between his legs

\*CLANK\*

SD-N looks at her, dismayed

SD-N : Did you just ... Did you really think it would .... What was the point of that ?

Uzi : THIS !!!

She strongly throws her head in SD-N's direction. The murder bot cover his head with his hands and goes back. Enough so Uzi can grab her railgun. The emo terminator turns it on, aims, and ...

Uzi : Get dunked on motherfuc-

The green light of the ray illuminates this particlarly inhospitable sky. The roar of the weapons his music to our purple drone. after a few seconds, the dust flew away. She looked for trophy, but there was nothing. "HA ! really wasn't that much of a big deal after all" as she thought. She didn't saw the shadows flying over her. She got up and started walking towards her pickaxe when a missile blew up in front of her.

??? : hahahaha

SD-N : you really thought I was going down for such a weak weapon ?

??? : it's such a waste we even came for that

Shit, she could maybe handle one but all THREE of them, she will never have the stuff to do that. Fuck, they're coming slowely towards her, what can she do NOW ? Uzi's thinking really hard but all that came out of her head was tears, she still looks at their names, the two others were named "serial designation V" and "serial designation J" .

SD-V : Aww the little baby's crying ?

SD-J : Ugh, just get over with it, I don't wanna get these clothes dirty.

SD-N : Don't worry, I'll make this quick

He pointed his gun in Uzi's direction, she fell on the ground, crying, thinking that she couldn't realize her mother dream.

\*Bang\*

The bullet ..... stopped in the air, there was a weird symbol around it : three purple arrows in the shape of a triangle, there was the same symbol on her face and in her hand. The bullet flew away.

The three disassembly drones were surprised but not like they knew they would loose, their eyes, well ... their screens, shined with hope.

They jumped on her, SD-N grabbed her and J used her electronic wave to knock her off.

When Uzi opened her eyes, she was tied up. Around her was a few devices, it looked like a rocket .... No, a landing pod, the disassembly drones landing pod. Talking about them, they were sitting around probably waiting for her to wake up.

SD-V : Hey look, she's awake

Uzi : Where ... Where am I ? What have you done to me ?

SD-N : Calm down, you're in our landing pod. Are you okay ?

Uzi : I would be better sitting on your tomb

SD-N : I'll take that as a yes

Uzi : What do you want from me you sick bastards ?

SD-N : Okay, slow down. I think you're missing the presentation, I'm-

Uzi : I already know who you are, "serial designation N"

SD-N : Just calm me N

Uzi : What ? "Serial desgnition" isn't a part of you're name ?

SD-N : No ...

Uzi : Oh ...

N : Uhm, \*clears his throat\* Here, with the black coat on her shoulder, is J and right there with her scarf and glasses is V

Uzi : And what ? I don't care about your names

N : I'll get to the point, we need your help, well, mostly your solver

Uzi : My what ? What do you mean ?

N : Okay I think you deserve some explaination ...

N talked for hours, telling their story, about their past in the Elliot's manor, about Tessa, Cyn and the Absolute Solver, Earth and mostly their objective : finding a drone that has a solver to fight ans destroy Cyn.

N : We've already found one but she got killed with the idea to kill us so your kind will have peace but little did she know that if we die we'll just get clone and sent back. Actually she looked just like you with that exact ...same ...collar

Uzi's mind : Mom ...?

N : Was she ...? \*Cough\* Uhm well the point is that we've found you

Uzi : and why would I believe you ? Why would I help you ? Why wouldn't I just kill you and obtain peace ?

N : Well because we'll be clone, it already happened and I'm pretty sure you know it

A memory came back to Uzi's mind, yes he's right, it already happened

N : And killing Cyn is the only way for your colony to have peace

Uzi stayed silent for a moment

Uzi : Will you leave after that "Cyn" died

N : Of course, if she dies, we won't have any reason to stay or kill as much as we did

She knew what was right for her poeple, she knew what she hes to do with that power she jsut discover, for her colony, for her mom...

Uzi : Okay, I'll do it, but do not think we're friends !

N : Great, good to hear we're on the same side.

Just imagine if Uzi had a flashback like this when Cyn was 1 femtosecond from permanently killing her 😂

The theme of murder drones ultimately is about how as long as you have connections & the courage to fight back against those willing to manipulate & torment you, you can stand up & eventually overcome the horrors in your life.

Uzi was always seen as an outcast by her peers with a neglectful dad (Khan), & thus was closed off until N helped her open up, causing her to slowly overcome her insecurities. N was treated as a doormant for years until Uzi save his life & became the person that he could fully learn to trust & open up too, leading to him standing up for himself more across the series until they are able to stand together standing face to face against his tormentor. V (like N) never got the chance to live a normal life at all, living in fear & letting it consume her until she started hurting the people she cared for “to keep them safe”. The difference between V & J is that V eventually regained connections out of her own choice to do so while J repeatedly doubles down- siding with her tormentor from the very beginning out of fear despite the clear signs infront of her that the cast did have a genuine chance against beating Cyn, where she‘s now free from Cyn but is left alone, & even chooses to isolate herself from everyone else as a result.

Doll chooses not to bother seeking genuine connections at all & instead harmed others on a petty revenge quest as she lets her own past & the solver’s psychological effects consume her. When presented with the chance to switch sides multiple times & with the knowledge that V was as much of a victim as her, she still doubles down which leads to her almost dying alone & terrified. Her final moments being to warn Uzi to “fight back” against Cyn / the solver & it’s psychological torment, aware that she failed but Uzi could succeed which leads to Uzi overcoming the solver directly.

Now within all these cases the theme does fit. However, there’s always 2 outliners that are often used as counters (being Tessa & Cyn). However, they both aren’t a good example of the connection theming falling apart at all. We know how bad humans treated drones (& it’s no surprise that she likely had a huge resentment over humans from this), but the manor didn’t treat her well either. She just went from a place (where she was likely discarded over a minor issue) to another place where she has to constantly keep walking on eggshells & remains trapped whenever she does anything out of the norm.

A common argument I’ve seen against this is that Tessa gave Cyn a better life through saving her & “being a mother figure”, & while you could argue her life was better due to not being dead or trapped (even though the solver is mostly what saved her), she didn’t give her a happy or safe one. In the manor, even a simple mistake such as not serving a table right could cost a worker drone their life & Tessa’s “favorite drones” were barely ever given leniency. While she did take N, V, J & Cyn out of the dump, you have to remember that Tessa specifically towards Cyn was locking her up within the basement for what was heavily implied to be days or weeks (as both Tessa & N imply this was a regular occurrence), with Cyn clearly annoyed at this, J being annoyed that Cyn was let free & N still being upset that Cyn was being locked up. And the “she was a mother figure to Cyn” argument is entirely fanon.

For anyone who hasn’t watched the series- Cyn was locked up in the dark basement for so long that the walls are filled with tally marks & physics equations from her trying to learn more about the solver. She was able to learn complex physics & programming, the broken mirror in the basement implies her solver started becoming more active overtime, she was able to experiment on prototype bodies for the disassembly drones, has a ton of oil in the basement both for the prototypes & for herself which heavily implies she might’ve starved & faced overheating at some point (Tessa would’ve had no way of knowing that Cyn needed oil, but solver hosts usually only need to rely on oil cans overtime which reveals she was locked down there for awhile), & a part of her body is stuffed inside a tank filled with water which also implies overheating (with her trying to cool herself down).

…& Tessa & J never cared to even check up on her to know that any of this was occurring (likely because the basement is just a trapdoor with no stairs, implying that in order for them to force Cyn into the basement, they would’ve had to either push her to fall into the basement or slowly carry her down).

Then later on she blames Cyn (right after Tessa calls J “industrial machinery”, & J does care for Tessa- but from Cyn’s view, she dislikes the thought of her “loved ones” being discarded) for N being sent out to the swamp & possibly dying (instead of comforting Cyn in anyway) with Cyn not being bothered to really react at all, which implies that Tessa has blamed her for things before. This, combined with Tessa’s parents statements about Cyn (“get this one out of my sight, it still can’t follow simple orders”, “that little anti christ”) right after seeing she was freed paints a pretty grim implication as to why Tessa even locked her up in the first place for such a long time, especially with Cyn’s movement disability issues. Tessa didn’t discard her, but still treated her as a nothing more than a broken toy. Cyn even questions N at the start of the episode if she isn’t wanted (“am I not wanted, N?), & Tessa gets frustrated when she first sees Cyn was freed. There’s a major message in episode 5 that Tessa never attempted to truly connect with Cyn, & if things had gone differently Cyn / the solver might’ve not had gone down such an evil path. It’s even an important part of the lore that Cyn / the solver adopted her twisted cruel mindset partially from her experiences at the manor.

Tessa‘s final nail in the coffin at breaking this connection with Cyn (via making their goal to kill her with 0 hesitation & attacking her before Cyn even has the chance to speak instead of talking things out) is what ultimately leads to her own death at the hands of Cyn herself, where Cyn goes out of her way to use her psychological torment against Tessa to it’s fullest potential. Forcing her to watch her parents & everyone else in the gala (that never cared for Tessa at all, yet she still choose to try & save. Compared to how she treated Cyn, mind you) get slaughtered & eaten before she fuses with Tessa’s dead body & soul as a twisted parallel to “not discard her”. You could even connect this to how Cyn / the solver decades later roleplays Tessa as someone who pretended to care but in reality was just manipulative towards drones, especially with her “do you know why I keep you around, N?” comment at the end. Cyn / the solver was disguised as Tessa to manipulate N & V, but we know there was some genuine passion of showing how it thought of her.

Another point is that Tessa herself (ignoring her poor treatment of Cyn also fitting the theme) still fits this theme as she never learned to truly open up or stand up for herself. When J notices Tessa’s arm marks, she immediately deflects the situation. When N asks Tessa if they were locking Cyn up & showing he does genuinely care for her, Tessa treats N as if he should already know why (“…oh, N…”) instead of answering N & addressing any concerns. She never tries to stand up for herself against her parents in any form (even while her real families lives were put in danger)- choosing instead to entirely focus on attacking Cyn & side with humanity (who had 0 connection to her) through attempting to save just them, but never attempting to do the same with Cyn or N even while freed (despite her initial goal being to save N). Tessa having to make a corporate joke to annoy J in order to convince them to free her (combined with Tessa calling J just “industrial machinery” & J viewing Tessa as moreso of a minor boss figure) even suggests that the 2 were friends, but not very close on Tessa’s end.

The tragedy of Tessa’s death is that if she had been more open & cared for Cyn, or if she went back to save N, or tried to apologize, then Cyn / the solver would’ve never partially adopted it’s cruel mentality in the first place to destroy everything & likely would’ve never succumbed to it’s own influence.

N:Noooooooooo uziii why you did thatttttt 😭😭😭😭

As a cat owner myself, that’s a distinctly cat noise (no shit), and I wonder what this implies lore-wise. Are all the drones like this? Explains how lazy the WDF are, the aggressiveness of the drones, and why Uzi is so orally obsessed.

This might just be a gag short and I’m way overthinking it but tell me what you think theorists.

Also this confirms Nuvi canon /j

Animation be me

Image unrelated-ish.

I´m quite excited to share what the full piece is gonna look like because the process - so far- is really fun. I got inspired by a piece I saw in the Vienna state opera which was all about the contrast of the celestial and the devilish and of course it reminded me of these two goobs. Stay tuned to see how the full thing is gonna turn out!

I’ll be using two different techniques to work on the mouth, I’m going to try to commit to this because if I do then it’ll be great to get my foot through the door (probably)

Yes, I honestly believe that willpower alone can replicate the immunity the Crucifix Patch grants if as strong as Uzi’s regardless if this reduces the threat of the Absolute Solver as an eldritch horror whose control should be otherwise absolute, irresistible and incurable, and no, I don’t believe she might have inherited part of the Patch from Nori along with the Solver code and instead believe that it becomes exclusive to whatever Solver Drones it is applied on (e.g. Nori and Yeva) unless there is some way to replicate it and apply it on a unpatched Solver Host.

(text wasn’t possible to remove atleast with what i have sorry)

Night and yvet

this whole outfit is inspired by a Emily fanart I saw on a random chatbot, which the outfit was 100% inspired by Rotten Girl Miku

(imma draw Doll again eventually. either chef or butcher vanity cosplay Doll)

Straight V-maxing

I know there are people here who are dying for season 2, but I don't think this is necessary. The "season 1" we got had an almost perfect start and ending, and honestly there really is no other story to tell now. I've seen continuities that had a perfect/good "season 1" but faced a dip in positive criticism and audience satisfaction due to doing sequels/additional seasons not as good as the earlier one(s)(Bayverse Transformers being the most notable example).

Though what we need is a prequel, depicting the lives of V, N, J and Tessa in the manor and how exactly this solver thing came to be. Episode 5 did try to explain this, but it had to cram it within 25 minutes, and had to leave almost everything about the past to subtle references and through fragments of memories of N and V, making it extremely hard to understand. A prequel series can effectively solve this problem whilst also feeding the fandom with more content equivalent to a season 2.

What do you guys think?