#robots 2

I have never drawn something faster in my life. My blog may be dead-ish but comments like this never fail to make me smile 😊

I should probably post these-

DTIYS Redraws of @orawyra fanart from when the fic first started. Since she sent them to me, we’ve been friends for years now, and I’m so happy I can finally give back to her They’re late as hell but I’m still happy to have them finished.

The Robots sequel except I didn’t jump the shark lol.

Don’t panic, I’m not abandoning the original sequel! I’m just playing around with a more “realistic” idea for a sequel and I wanted to share them!

Story wise, Bigweld kicks the bucket and everyone mourns (especially Rodney). Press bots and Paparazzi of course want to harass interview him, and so Rodney disappears from public eye and shuts down Bigweld Industries. 3 years later he decides to re-open it to the public, but doesn't allow any press inside.

Aspiring inventor Leadbetter sees this as his chance to make it big and meet his idol Rodney one on one. He's surprised to find that he's the only one at the event, but he runs into Rodney's financial advisor Tony Sterling.

Sterling immediately tries kicking him out, saying that Rodney needs to “focus on studying”, when Rodney stops him and immediately takes Lead under his wing (smiling for the first time in years). Of course, now that Sterling has competition for inheritance (and that Rodney gave up on studying for Business in order to mentor Lead), he's even more eager to get Rodney out of the picture...with Lead as collateral damage.

Now this is why I like this new idea. It's a retelling of the original (Leadbetter as Rodney and Rodney as Bigweld/Sterling as Ratchet and Ratchet as M. Gasket) with new elements. It's the same premise as the original, but introduces new elements that make it interesting.

Honestly, if anyone wanted to make a legit sequel fanfiction that stays in line with the original, this is the way to do it. You reuse the same formula that worked before, but include your own unique twists and takes to make it interesting. It's as simple as that.

While my sequel is more action and akin to early dystopia writings, this idea is more in line with the original, which is what is more in line with what people would expect in a sequel. Had I come up with this idea sooner, I would've went with this route. In fact, if I run out of steam with the current sequel, I might pick this idea up and use it!

Leadbetter was a cut character from the movie that I repurposed. As for Alpha, I wanted to give Lead a companion to highlight his idolization of Rodney. Alpha is to Leadbetter like The Wonderbot is to Rondey if that makes sense lol.

Hey all! Just wanted to give a quick update to those who aren't in my discord server!

-Chapter releases will resume late November or early December. Chapter 15 is almost ready and I just started Chapter 16.

-I've added some new tags and Trigger Warnings to the Story itself. Tags are: Sanism (which is the discrimination against those who have/are perceived to have a mental disorder), Ableism and Ableist language. I added these to prepare readers for chapter 16 since it contains those themes.

-finally, if you want to get more frequent updates, please join my Discord server using the link below or the link in my pined post!

So there’s been whispers of a possible boycott with A03 due to how racist/pro-Israel their support teams are. There isn’t any official plans to do so yet, but I’ll be joining in on the boycott if this does end up happening, and won’t be posting there until told to do so by other users.

I’ve wanted to post Robots 2 to other sites for a while now, but this finally broke the camel’s back. I’m open to any suggestions at the moment, so please let me know your thoughts.

I did mention a while back that I made my own sequel to robots (and that it was stupidly edgy)

I just remember that I fucking killed off Herb in the story.

Oh, big mood lol. I had plenty of concepts for my sequel, each more edgy then the last, before I settled on something “tamer”. I remember in one idea, Harvey was going to be a straight up ghost and we would’ve had a Jekyll and Hyde situation between him and Rodney!

Although I will say…killing off Herb wouldn’t be that half bad of an idea. That was actually one of my original ideas for the ending!

I made a document full of potential endings in order to brainstorm some ideas and gave them all a unique name so I would remember them. (I also did some silly ones for fun). I still don’t have an ending fully cemented in yet because I need to figure out how to actually lead up to it.

While I was only half joking with the idea, I did consider it. I wasn’t sure how to properly do it, but I did consider it. Of course, I ultimately decided to scrap that idea since I began to lean more into an early 2000s edgy vibe with the sequel. Can’t have too much edge!