Hello!! Ez/Ezra or Newt here, they/them. NO i*cest, homophobia, racism, discrimination of any kind, or asshole-ness in general >:( shoo go away be nice
Would you believe me if I said that I started this like three months ago and never quite finished it because I didn’t know what the next episode would be about and then ava 13 came out and just fit perfectly?
In the distant future humanity fights for powerful warring 'gods' in cyborg bodies called vessels. Dubbed Inheritors, these pilots are inexplicably bound to their mechs.
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Time to finally elaborate on my doomed mecha pilot headworld that has been occupying my brain for the past few months. Originally came up with these guys way back in Jan last year (what!!) and they've been through a lot of adjustments as I figured them out.
(The text is pretty small so if you don't wanna zoom in I've put the full transcript below the cut (minus the labels))
INTRODUCTION
Thousands of years into the future, in a decaying foreign universe, humans pilot biomechanical war machines known as vessels. Godlike beings command armies of pilots in an endless struggle for territory and resources.
The Gods once produced fully biological angels, but with their reservoirs becoming contaminated their bodies were emerging half-formed and mindless. Human pilots were implemented to operate the empty vessels - linked by mind and life force, these 'Inheritors' can control them as if they were their own bodies.
CHURCHES
Each God reigns over their respective Church, enormous space stations which serve as their main base of operations. The Gods themselves are immobile, sealed deep within these structures in secure chambers.
HEVSPACE
The Inheritor's universe. Though it bears many similarities to outer space, conceptually it is more akin to an ocean, saturated with invisible streams called hevcurrents which run at high speeds. The generators on their wings allow Inheritors to propel themselves through the void. The points of light are not stars, but 'splinters', scattered remnants of long-gone structures which have since eroded. These energy particles are small and bear some similarities to marine snow, though they become dangerous when swept into hevcurrent vortexes - colossal centrifuges which gather large amounts of splinters and spin them at incredible speeds, creating burning wheels of fire.
PILOTS
The active neural link between vessel and pilot is established when they connect the cord to their helmet. The only part of the vessel manually controlled by the pilot are the guns and tech systems. The rest is an extension of the pilots body - once linked, they can control it mentally. The passive link is always on in the background; pilots can sense minute changes in the vessel in their own body. They also experience any injuries to the vessel as intensely as if they themselves were injured.
The pilot is like a head connected to the rest of the body. One cannot survive without the other.
Sigils
All pilots are born with 'tattoos' which denote their Church and vessel type. These markings also act as RFID tags that store information about the pilot, as well as location and status.
DEVELOPMENT
Inheritor vessels are created in fabrication tanks. First the organic body is grown, encased in fluid and equipped with life support systems. Once it has finished maturing it is outfitted with engines, guns and final stage cybernetics. Until it is ready, cadets pilot disposable training vessels.
Every pilot is born via controlled external fertilisation, and develop in artificial wombs called pods. From the moment they are conceived they are tied to a vessel.
VESSEL TYPES
Vessels are divided into four main categories, each specialised for certain tasks. A pilot's role in the army is determined by their classification.
Standard
The vast majority of Inheritor armies are comprised of standard-class vessels. Built for sustained aerial combat but highly versatile.
Scout
Scout-class vessels are optimised for stealth and speed. Usually deployed for reconnaissance and special operations.
Surgeon
The smallest frametype, medic-class vessels have no guns but are equipped with tools essential for mechanical repair and magnets to latch onto other vessels.
The class symbol on their tail flukes mark them as noncombatants.
Heavy infantry
Heavy-class vessels are flightless and specialise in terrain-based combat. Large and sturdy, they are able to withstand more hits.
ugh guys don’t you hate it when you post smth and only notice a glaring mistake hours later 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 arggggggghhhhh i fixed it but there will always be reblogged versions that still have the mistake
“my dear, brave son… i am so proud of you. and i am so very glad you are safe.”
their reunion directly after the invasion. rambles under cut
i dont see enough people acknowledging in fics and other fanwork that this is the first time april and splinter are seeing raph since metro tower. he's back to them, he's broken free of the krang's control, and he's obviously horribly traumatized from it. there would be tears! many tears! and careful hugs! and whispers of relief! their boy is back, and he's very much hurt, but he's alive! mind you, before the events in metro tower, they had no idea if he was even alive!
god, same with his bros. after they win and get leo back (and possibly frantically rush him back to the lair for emergency medical treatment, depending on your interpretation), the bros that are left conscious are 100% going to have that same moment of reunion with him! they haven't had the chance yet for it to fully sink in that he's back, he's alive, he's okay, and they saved him. so yeah, don't skip over my baby's reunion with his goddamn family!!! let him have those tears!!!!!!! and let him have a moment to break down for himself and cry bc he broke free, and it was awful, and he definitely thought he was going to die but they saved him. guys please
My rise Tiger Claw final design! Ill be answering questions about her to flesh her out before starting to post her actual story with Leo, keep a look out for that!
Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it with the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.
so the thing is, draxum strikes me as the type of autistic sheepman fastidious scientist to split things evenly between the turtles he chose: 3 biologically male, 3 biologically female. sexing a baby turtle is nigh impossible through human methods, but i would eat my hat if yōkai didn't have some sort of mystic, electromagnetic-esque way of scanning for exact biological structures. so, running under the (probable) assumption that he had access to that kind of technology, draxum most likely would have split it 50/50.
but there's only 1 confirmed sister (frida). the others --the 4 main boys and the lost brother (camille)-- are all confirmed to be boys. at least, according to word-of-mouth.
so that brings me to my final(ish) point. a significant percentage of the fandom already views leo as transmasc, which makes sense all around (scale color, plastron shape, stripes, etc); but if we go by the assumption that 3 of the original 6 turtles were biologically female, then there's one AFAB turtle left unaccounted for (unless, of course, frida is actually AMAB, in which there would be two). it's either one of the main bros or the lost brother.
(i personally tend to lean toward the lost brother, but it is harder to reason out because splinter somehow knew he had a lost SON and daughter. and the most likely way he could have known that was that draxum told him which turtles were lost, which in this case would be two "daughters". there are other ways splinter could of found out, though --spiritual plane, ninpo connection, somehow finding out about both-- so i can still hope.)
now, it would have been very impossible for splinter to actually determine his new turtle babies' genders, so my guess is that he just... raised them all as boys. hence the accidentally transmasc leo. and possibly one other of the main bros, if it isn't the lost brother.
leo and whoever the other one is would only find out they were AFAB when a) someone compares them to what a male turtle should look like, b) donnie runs a biological analysis, c) draxum lets the turtles look at his records for them, or d) they get some sort of human-turtle menstrual cycle conglomerate. which you could debate the likelihood of, to be honest, because human menstrual cycles and the turtle equivalent of a menstrual cycle are wildly different things. humans are actually one of very few species to have a "menstrual cycle", per say.
anyways, that's my rant. trans turtles for the win 🔥🔥💪💪💪
