#bugbug au

i still can’t can’t quite stop obsessing over the bugbug au

i realized that i really like the idea of Winnie shifting in shape back and forth all the time when work called for it.  maybe the process for doing so requires a lot of dangerous type energy or something- in any case, he finds it much easier to make a copy of his human self to stand in his place

the first image is already uncannon as Winnie is a reasonably smart guy, but he’s no genius.  He can build robots.  probs has someone working for him- perhaps Dudley?  

my first idea was a robot but the human!winnie in the rest of these images are necessarily robots.  maybe they’re clones?  i also considered sort of an avatar situation where Winnie controls the body remotely like some kind of Henson animatronic.  

and then my mind dipped into a weird trying to get Phillip involved.  See, there’s two Phillips in this world- one Winnie’s living, breathing, 30-something ex, and Phillip5′s a digital snapshot of Phillip’s feelings and memories from when he was seventeen.  This AI has been uploaded onto a pair of glasses that can hijack bodies at rest.  Phillip is...kind of weirded out by this.

I think eventually Winnie will decide(with much prodding from Phillip) that using the memories of a kid to pilot his unwanted human body is kind of a shitty thing to do, but he feels too bad to shut down the AI by then, so they make Phillip5 a new robot body.