#pilot headcanons

The day he found out about stickers, both he and Daisy wound up absolutely covered in them. He will occasionally wander up to her and stick one on her forehead, because he knows that it will make her smile.

Early in his development, Daisy planned on making Norman multilingual, but scrapped the idea later on due to the sheer volume of code that she would need to write. However, she left the code that she had already written in when she activated him, so he only understands bits and snippets of other languages. This has resulted in him wandering around and only picking up a few words of every single conversation around him, and has caused him to be incredibly confused when attempting to talk to someone that is speaking a foreign language, since he will try to swap to their language to communicate with them. But, because the program was never completed, it automatically fills in the gaps with other languages, resulting in him speaking in a hodgepodge of about 60 different ones whenever he tries anything other than English. He doesn't even know he is doing it, since it is a coding error, so the first time that Daisy heard him try to speak another language, she almost had a heart attack. His sensory system was seriously damaged when INDEV tore off his arm, but it wasn't completely destroyed. Almost every time he wakes up, and occasionally for seemingly no reason at all, his diagnostics system will run a system check and temporarily reboot his sensory system, resulting in extreme amounts of pain while his body tries to stabilize itself, since he is still missing his arm. It isn't uncommon for him to go from being perfectly fine to curled up on the ground, fighting back tears, within seconds. It can last anywhere from a few seconds to hours at a time, depending on which diagnostic was run, and though Marpher has tried to fix it, she doesn't know how to shut down his automatic diagnostics system, so all she can do is clean up the wiring and try to figure out how to replace his arm. As a direct result of how painful it makes trying to sleep and wake up normally, he has stopped doing it altogether, and tries his best to charge entirely by moving around. There is a hardware problem with a few of the gears in his chest. When Daisy built them, she used a thermal cutter to shape and reinforce them them. As a result, they were still very warm when she put them in place, and don't interlock properly once they have cooled below a certain temperature, since the lack heat makes them shrink slightly. Under normal circumstances, his internal temperature is warm enough to where this is never an issue, but when his body stops producing enough heat, usually when he is sleeping or shut down for maintenance, the gears cool down enough to be knocked slightly out of alignment from each other. As a result, Norman has to be wrapped up in a blanket or two every time he goes to sleep or is shut down, in order to prevent this from happening, because if he boots up when they aren't interlocked properly, it causes him a rather substantial amount of pain, and could damage other components in his chest. Daisy would go out of her way to make sure that he was always warm enough when he slept, but after she left, Norman had to learn to do it himself, because if he fell asleep on the couch or at his desk, he would wake up in a daze of damage warnings and pain, instead of covered up in a blanket like he was used to. He did this so many times that he damaged one of the gears, causing them to click together when they start to spin too fast. He is so used to Yessie surprise hugging him that when he hears the patter of his feet, he automatically braces himself and shifts so that he can catch him. If Yesman can't 'sleep', he will poke Norman and ask him to sing to him or read him a bedtime story. Norman used to say no, resulting in his friend pouting and wandering off to go ask Hocus instead, but after Norman was interrupted by a terrified Yessie climbing into his lap the first time INDEV got control of the cords again, he started saying yes more often. As time passed, he eventually stopped saying no altogether, and reading or singing for Yessie became a normal part of his evenings. Daisy loves music, so she gave Norman the ability to sing. He used to do it all the time, but he stopped once Daisy left. Once, while in the sanctuary, Yessie overheard him quietly singing to himself while doing something, and made it his mission to hear it more often. He asks Norman to sing to him, or with him, or along to something, almost every day. Norman used to be annoyed by this, but has gradually started to begrudgingly accept it as Yessie trying to make him feel better. He eventually began singing of his own accord, and grew to love it again. He has started making coffee and meals for Marpher and Venelop when they are too busy to cook for themselves. It isn't uncommon for Marpher to work on something for hours at a time, so he will occasionally slip into the room and set a plate of food or cup of coffee down next to her, or cover her up with a blanket if she has fallen asleep at her desk. Venelop doesn't usually forget to eat, but she will occasionally get preoccupied with helping one of the bots, or talking with INDEV, and miss a meal, so he will bring her something to eat if she does. The two of them don't quite understand it, but it seems to make him feel better if he can take care of someone, so they don't question it. Especially since his cooking is amazing, and anything he brings them is about 5 times better than they could ever hope of making. There have been a few times that Venelop has had to scold Marpher for taking advantage of it so that she doesn't have to cook. He spends nearly all of his free time reading. He doesn't even care what it is, as long as he is reading something. He loves to learn, and one of his favorite things to do is curl up someplace warm and just read all day. The Frankenbots absolutely adore him. He has no idea why, but every time he is around, they will all swarm around him and try to get his attention or play with him. He doesn't mind it at all, but he has to be careful. If INDEV sees him anywhere near them, he will attack Norman on sight. Inx has taken to distracting INDEV if Norman is playing with the others nearby, so that he has time to hide. He is annoyed by things not working properly, so he will go out of his way to fix things like dripping faucets and blinking lights. It is almost impossible to find anything broken in the facility anymore, since the moment he sees something, he will repair it. Before Norman showed up, there were tons of broken things that nobody ever took the time to fix. Now, anything damaged usually only stays that way for a day or two before it is working like new. Marpher is slightly concerned that she will be completely out of a job at this rate if he ever learns how to fix robots. He spends a lot of time wandering the facility at night, so he occasionally ends up helping some of the other bots settle down to charge or go to sleep. It isn't uncommon for Venelop to come to check on him and find him surrounded by other robots, reading them stories to help them drift off, usually with one or two of them curled up against him so that they can see the pictures. Norman cleans things when he is nervous. Marpher will occasionally walk into her office to find all of the miscellaneous spare parts sorted back where they are supposed to be, or a plate of food settled at her desk because he ran out of things to clean and went to go and cook instead. He'll even go so far as to straighten up INDEV's lab, as long as he isn't in there. After what INDEV did to him, he has panic attacks every time he cries. He will force back tears and pretend that he is perfectly fine, even when his sensory system comes online, and it has led to him developing some incredibly unhealthy coping mechanisms for the pain. If one of them fails, and he winds up in tears anyway, the resulting panic will cause him to cry more, making him panic even worse, and the cycle will usually continue like this until someone finds him and helps him calm down. Hocus has become surprisingly good at it, since it is normally him that finds Norman first. Norman can dance. Taizo cannot. The resulting catastrophe that was someone with one arm trying to teach someone that barely understood what he was saying to dance was something that everyone in the sanctuary desperately wishes they had recorded. The night Yessie found out about Norman's loose gear, Norman woke up to a temperature warning. Yessie had wrapped him in 6 blankets, 4 scarves, at least 2 hats, and had piled on multiple pillows for good measure, and had successfully gotten him so warm that he had started to overheat. He had to sit outside in the snow for over half an hour before his body temperature went back to normal, after which he very pointedly told Yessie that a blanket or two is more than enough. He is so used to being called "Nonny" now that he answers to it faster than if someone calls him Norman. The first time Yessie saw Norman change the image in his eyes, he promptly climbed into is lap and demanded that he do it again. They wound up sitting there all day, with Norman creating increasingly difficult or strange shapes to make his friend laugh. He can technically still change them after he loses his arm, but the shapes are partially controlled by his sensory system, so they don't always do what he wants them to do. There have been days where he has wound up with them stuck as exclamation points, hearts, and on one memorable occasion, rotating spirals. Yessie has attempted to give Norman one of his arms a grand total of 7 times. It took Norman physically dragging him to Marpher to explain that it is impossible for Norman to use it before he stopped, and Norman still catches him trying to poke it onto his shoulder sometimes. In the week before Norman got his glasses, he walked into so many walls and doorframes that he left dents in some of them. He also managed to walk right into Taizo, trip over Bubbles, crash right into the side of a table, and narrowly avoid walking face first into Countdown. When Yessie went to tell Marpher that Norman needed glasses, just about every single robot in the whole facility that heard him looked at him like he was insane for not noticing it sooner, because somehow, Marpher and Yessie were quite possibly the only things in the whole building that Norman hadn't walked into. Norman took the time to properly learn Japanese after meeting Taizo, making it the first full language that was registered in his system other than English. It turned out that the language system Daisy wrote actually worked just fine. It was her database that was incomplete. After figuring that out, Norman began filling it with other languages in his spare time, for the sole purpose of reading books that weren't written in English. Up until Norman learned it, Yessie didn't even know that Yiddish was a language. He hates it when things are out of place. Occasionally, Countdown will move books around on bookshelves or move furniture and pictures slightly, just to mess with him. He goes out of his way to avoid the hallway where the infirmary is. Everyone does. However, Norman is the only one that avoids it for someone else. Yessie walks with him almost everywhere, so he has learned just about every alternate path under the sun to keep his friend as far away from that terrifying room as he possibly can. Hocus never specifically mentions it, but there have been a few times where Norman has been shot an incredibly grateful look after steering Yesman clear of that part of the building.

Vince is JOHN CENAAAAAA

When Atty/Atychiphobia was killed, Boogeyman decided to make his death slow and painful for all the Phobias to see what would happen if they rebelled against him but only to make them sad and mourn over a lost friend/phobia who tried to speak for what was right for everyone.