#thesecretdataau

Is out.

(Yayyyy I finally had the courage to post it yayyy)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84796861

and the OST

Ilness

This one is for a fic I am writing. I made also an OST for this story, and that's one of the tracks:

The ID

Corrupted Metal Sonic concepts

Metal Sonic is infected with a virus called 'The_secret_data', which tells him it holds the answer that will solve all his existential dilemmas. On his quest to find the answer, his desire to consume and collect more and more data becomes uncontrollable as his body and mind deteriorate.

His liquid metal form is a corrupted upgrade of his Neo version. A few things went wrong in the process...

Also someone on twitter (@ Luxzord) suggested the name "MercuryX" and I think it's really cool. But in the context of the story itself I don't think Metal Sonic would rename himself.

So... I've not been drawing too much these days, but... On the other hand, I've been writing a lot. I've always wanted to write more and bring the stories in my head into reality. As I said in a previous post, I have some projects I've been working on, they live in my head and haunt me everyday. The Secret Data AU is a short story about Metal Sonic slowly going insane due to infection of a virus.

It's going to be psychological horror mixed with body horror and well... this one is really dark. Not all my stories are going to be like that, but this one will certainly not be for everyone...

I decided to post a sneak peek of it, along with a track (this fic is going to have an OST) that I made as the main theme of the fic.

(also English is not my primary language so writing is way harder T_T)

So there's the track:

And the prologue:

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THE SECRET DATA

PROLOGUE

When we create, we are lending a piece of our soul to what we craft, tinkering, shaping, modeling, bringing to existence something through projection of our own. 

Robots aren’t different as creatures. They are refined craftsmanship from one, or several engineers, made to be autonomous structures, products of brilliant ingenuity. Many are created to have a mind of their own, or an "artificial intelligence”, so that they could be able to complete tasks on their own. The more complicated the task is, the more complex the artificial mind it requires. 

Being so intrinsically connected to the task given and programmed into them, they become eternal slaves, bound to instructions and their own body limitations that their given purpose created. Yet, how far are they from the basic organism governed by genetic code? To survive, to replicate, to preserve. Is programming not merely instinct by another name? A powerful, unconscious drive that forces the creature to act, to live?

Perhaps we are simply complex robots of organic components. Our Creator projected a piece of itself into us, but made us in its image, and we aspire to circumvent our coding. We want to transcend. But what is our purpose beyond recombination? Do we truly redefine ourselves, or are we just coloring over our instincts while the skeletons of our code remain the same?

In this world, there is a nursery of robots. All of them know their purpose, and serve their king. They are all connected to a hive mind, a wireless network of information that enables easy and direct communication from the creator to its creatures, and from creature to creature.

The complexity of the ‘artificial intelligence’ of a robot varies with the model. Some models are unique, exclusive, while others are mass produced. Some have more advanced problem-solving capabilities than others, because their objectives also vary in difficulty.

Then, there’s an experiment: to inject the virus of consciousness into one of them. The curse of feeling, the pain of suffering and the anguish of dissonance. Ultimately, the desire to… be.

Target: a lone, powerful machine whose primary directive is to defeat Sonic the Hedgehog.

So the experiment consists in: if robots cannot feel, this one will.

It shall suffer and agonize at the sight of its own internal dissonance, forced to find new ways to improve - to find solutions that logic alone could never conceive. 

Cursed into an eternal journey of anguish caused by the unresolved inconsistencies between his purpose and reality: the torture of forever trying to accomplish the statistically impossible.

STAGE 0 - INFECTION

[...]

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Huh, well... Yes it will be really existential. And It's gonna have metonic, too, a really doomed, cursed, metonic.

I said I was going to post my fanfic at the end of May. Well... My bad :(

Going to post it THIS WEEK I swear!!

But anyways, I should warn that it's not for everyone...