Ideas for albums the Mechs could have done alongside their already existing ones
01. Cyberpunk retelling of events from "The Shahnameh" wherein King Jamshid and his Chief Engineer Mirdas create a powerful super-computer called the Zahhak to help them run their city...only for it to go crazy with power and absorb all the minds of the people into itself using a virus a la The Acheron before being defeated by the heroic hackers Kaveh and Fereydun (who are probably boyfriends in The Mechanisms Universe, because why not).
02. Film Noir retelling of the Hero Twins wherein they are detectives trying to bring down the Brotherhood of Xibalba crime syndicate society that runs their city.
03. Dickens crossover universe involving Fagin and the DeFarges as rival space pirates, Cartmanay and Twistperpip as polycules, Paul Dombey running a spaceship firm, the Dorrits having to escape from a prison planet, and Miss Havisham as a cyborg with Estella as her adopted daughter/repairwoman.
04. Steampunk crossover AU of all the Bronte works featuring Jane Eyre crushing on Helen Graham and queer tension between either Heathcliff and Rochester or between Heathcliff and Arthur Huntingdon or between Rochester and Arthur Huntingdon.
05. Retelling of a classic Shakespeare play, preferably one that hasn't already been adapted a billion times already.
06. Retelling of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a space opera about a war between different planets seeking to rule over the same solar system.
07. "Journey to the West" but it's about explorers on an unknown planet.
08. Polynesiian mythology retelling wherein Maui is a biio-engineer who keeps creating whole new planets and ecosystems by accident.
09. Space opera retelling of either "The Ramayana" or "The Mahabharata".
10. Russian mythology retelling about Marya Morevna and IIvan Tsarevic facing down a Koschei the Deathless who's actually a clone of King Cole alongside one of the Bogatyrs who in this retelling is in fact a former Rose Red.
11. Retelling of "Dream of the Red Chamber" wherein the house is a virtual reality computer simulation.
12. Steampunk retelling of "Les Miserables" featuring Javert as a cyborg.
13. Retelling of "War and Peace" with a Rose Red as Napoleon and Pierre trying to shoot down King Cole.
14. Sherlock Holmes but make it Film Noir.
15. Dracula or something Dracula related.
16. Snow Queen retelling.
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