#zots

Zots' Limb Components - Digital - 2026

More Zots bits.

His limbs are a mix of old android components, scooter parts, tiller pieces, salvaged joints, and whatever Radio could make behave long enough to call it a body.

South Larks Sorting Ground 9 - Digital - 2026

Attitude Cards and a Typical Writer - Digital - 2026

Without one, a botsie is just a lifeless metallin husk. The body might stand, the limbs might twitch, but there’s nobody home.

The cards are written on repurposed game cartridges by script jockeys, many of them former writers and techs shoved out of work by the same specialized androids they helped bring into the world.

Some write clean cards.

Some write black-market cards.

Some put a little too much of themselves into the work.

That’s where a botsie gets its voice.

Its timing. Its mouth. Its temper. Its bad jokes. Its strange loyalty.

A good card makes the machine useful.

A great one makes it impossible to forget. Unforgettable...

Botsies - Digital - 2026

In the world of KOATR, androids are commonplace. From service models to security units, they are part of the everyday song of Aeris, as well as one of the story’s main character arcs.

I saw botsies as high school robotics projects turned neighborhood mascots, cobbled together from scrapped metallin and street-wise ingenuity. Inner-city schools with enough funding compete to build the most realized hand-made androids, and botsies are the result of those competitions.

Some teams dismantle their projects afterward. Others keep their creations running for as long as there is a willing engineer or caretaker, because repair and replacement are constant work.

Attitude Cards

Without these, the android is just a lifeless metallin husk. Once inserted, the creation comes to life, imbued with all the grit you’d expect from a disgruntled ex-script jockey, robbed of a job by the same specialized androids they helped write.

Radio and Zots at the abandoned cryo stall warehouse - Digital - 2026

late 1972/early 1973 - 6 months before Zero Day

The bottom half of this page was one of the first ideas that came to my mind when thinking of the culmination of Radio's journey in creating her time viewer. I saw a dancing Zots, a silent Radio. It was finally done.

This image, or versions of it made tracks in my mind for months before I put together a rough version just to lock it in place. The version you see here is the final one and I think it did justice to the images I saw in my minds eye.

Radio and Zots, a year before their world changes forever - Digital - 2026

A small scene from KOATR: Radio and Zots working on her time viewer.

This machine becomes one of the major turning points inthe story, but here it's still something rough, tough, and dangerous (shouout to old school L.A. graffiti! )

Radio builds, fixes, keeps it moving. Zots talks too much, complains, and would still throw himself in front of a train for her.