ARE YOU ON THE LEVEL?

But he's not a bad guy.

We know how everyone loves drawing Oracle!Brian hardly wearing anything.

Merlin: "and so I told him that his son was alive even though he thought he was dead and he was all 'I don't have a son, my daughter's dead though' like dude?"

Tireseas: "Yeah I told Odysseus that his wife would be with a man who was haunting and he had the audacity to ask who. My man, have you looked at your reflection since you threw that baby off that tower? You look like shit."

The Drumbot has two modes of morality, Ends Justify Means, where he will excuse any unjust actions as long as the intended outcome is justified, and Means Justify Ends, where he can not do an action he considers morally unjust, even if it is for the greater good.

I believe that Brian is on Means Justify Ends in this album, as he is (most likely) physically capable of getting down from the gallows to more actively assist the Galfridians, but considers the action of freeing himself unjustly.

Personally, I think he was an accomplice in a crime the Lady of the Lake committed, which he morally justified with the love he had for her. He was the fall guy (by choice or by force), given full blame, and hanged. He considered this judgement to be just and escaping his just sentence to be immoral. Even if he was incapable of getting down by himself, the rest of the Crew of the Aurora had once roamed Fort Galfridian. It seems unlikely that one of the less hostile crew members wouldn’t have offered to help him down at some point, especially with how long Brian was hung there.

Another likely series of events is that Brian was hung by another of the crew as a practical joke. The crew of the Aurora know each other's limitations and abilities and would be able to sufficiently prevent escape. Not wanting to ruin a good prank or entertain the risk of getting pranked in return, the rest of the crew ignored any plea for help Brian may have had. The rest of the crew eventually left Fort Galfridian, and Brian was promptly forgotten while the crew committed atrocities elsewhere. When their hangovers wore off and they remembered to retrieve him, the space station had fallen and they spent a few decades fishing the melty Drumbot out the sun.

And I also know that he’s a robot and therefore his hair probably doesn’t grow…

But hear me out…

“Merlin” has been there for likely centuries. And his hair is the only part of him that still grows despite his mechanism. His hair is incredibly long. It pools on the ground below him and makes an unsettling circle around him, nobody dares step on it, even if The Hanged Man is only a statue, they still do not step on his hair as to pay respect (and possibly out of fear of what may come of it).

As Camelot is being consumed by the sun. Brian looks out one of Auroras windows into space, he looks upon the firey ball of destruction taking something he had grown to care about.

And he cuts his hair.

He cuts it shorter than he’s ever worn it since he became mechanized. He always liked it a bit long, but he is consumed by sorrow, and a part of him died that day with Camelot.

So he braids his hair (a young child had once braided a part of his hair. But the braid had fallen out long ago. He still thinks of them, no matter how much it hurts…). And he cuts it with a blade, one he had gotten from Camelot before he was rescued by the others. It’s uneven and scraggly, but he doesn’t care.

Camelot is gone. It is dead. The Hanged Man’s Merlin’s Brian’s hair is cut.