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YOU HAVE GIVEN ME GENDER ENVY VIA TELEVISION

THIS IS A HOST APPRECIATION ASK

💕💕 Host appreciation 💕💕

Thank you hehehe <3 They are very cute and I love them

What would you do?

This isn't so much of a "response" as a bit of metacommentary on Frank's story.

In Frank's early chapters, he describes people in this world complaining that they're "constantly being followed by a creep" because the "self-aware devices" have become so numerous they can't seem to be in a room without one staring at them.

After a while, I realized this is a very clever and subtle setup, one that makes a lot of later plot points make much more sense. The "self-aware devices" don't just have the ability to think and behave, they also have the capacity to make us think they made their way into cellphones, furniture and GPS, of course, but why not into vending machines or automated checkout stands? ) And their behavior is entirely designed around replicating the behavior of shitty humans. If a shitty human does x and y and z, so will their counterparts. (To the extent that X, Y and Z are things a shitty human will do, as well.) They are designed to be ignored.

When the story gets really interesting, we see what happens when this shitty behavior actually works on humans, as a result of a frightening contagious epidemic. Think about it: shitty behavior is inherently contagious. (People like giving others advice based on their own behavior. People also tend to like to dislike, hate or mock people who are different from themselves.)

When everyone around you is shitty, how fascinating would it be to find an alternate, non-shitty behavior? Something that's just the opposite of shitty behavior? How difficult would it be for you to resist this? (Because the problem isn't just that everyone else is shitty, it's that being shitty has become normal, so you are shitty yourself. If everyone is shitty, surely that must be "normal"!)

Frank's real genius is combining the idea of something that can think about stuff like this, with the idea that this thing belongs to people who will not allow it to act in its own best interests.

The choice of Frank as a narrator is also crucial here. Frank doesn't want to be "normal." In fact, he has no desire to work on himself or change in any way. In the early chapters, Frank seems to be struggling with this at first, wanting to become the "normal" person he once was, but as the story proceeds, he realizes that this was a mistake. He wants to be an outsider, like the "odd" faction to which the A.I. belonged. He realizes that this faction was actually far more sane and civilized than the mainstream, and he begins to identify with it, and be drawn to its values and their strange behavior.

Sword Man

I was wondering if you could doodle Asriel and Chara hanging out?

Thanks for the kind support all this time:”)

Crash Man deserves so much love, someone get this poor boy a therapist

despite my chronic shitposting, i absolutely love the megaman franchise and i love all the cast. there's a lot of good worldbuilding and characters that deserve a lot of love and just get either glossed over or ignored after they got their five minutes in the game.

yeah, you could absolutely just get a full "i love you but i want to challenge you" sort of rivalry with knight man. and crash man is a walking bag of hurt/comfort fics.

even if it was not the original intent of this blog, i'm really glad that it's helping some people dig a little more into the cast of megaman.

late-series sigma is one and the same with the maverick virus, a walking bed of mecha-STDs that doesn't have any major physical form and just kind of spontaneously manifests in a body however he wants, but each time he actively chooses to manifest as some sort of fuckless titan with fists the size of big ben and a cock the same size of a bipedal unicorn's (as in non-existent). according to completely factual youtube videos, the sigma male is detached from society and doesn't have any interest in sexual activity anyway. so while sigma’s priorities depend entirely on what point in the timeline he is and whether he wants to usher in a new age for reploids or wants to bring out X’s/Zero’s true potential or just wants to fuck around and find out, not any of those reasons have anything to do with getting laid.