Random Mechs headcanons because they’re consuming my every waking moment:
Jonny: Constantly tells the crew about how he wouldn’t care if they disappeared and would be happy to boot them off the Aurora forever and be rid of them, but in practice he is wildly possessive of them all. Nastya is offered a position as an engineer for military vessels? He drags her back to the ship instantly and won’t stop bothering her for the next few days just to prove to himself he can keep her attention. The Toy Soldier is given the opportunity to join a galactic empire and abandon the Mechs? Jonny shoots the person on the spot and orders the Toy Soldier to take him to all of its favorite tea shops and he listens to all of its ramblings, to assure himself that the crew has enough benefits that it would never just leave. You get the point, he just always needs some tangible way of reminding himself that the crew won’t leave(read; leave him), usually by insta killing anyone who gets in the way of them staying together.
Nastya: Will sometimes have Aurora poke Jonny with her wires or make him trip for no reason. Whenever he asks her about it she plays dumb and pretends it’s just a glitch or a raised floorboard. He just knows she’s behind it because of the cheeky smile she gets every time it happens but he still can’t prove it
Brian: Absolutely ruthless in monopoly. You wanted to win? Should’ve tried not being poor. He will drive you to make believe financial ruin with a surgical precision.
Tim: Sleeps with his eyes open, it mildly creeps out the crew but since he usually needs to manually think about closing them to do so they very rarely close when he goes to sleep, exemptions being when he’s heavily injured or exhausted.
Ivy: Navigating the library and archives on the Aurora is basically impossible for anyone besides Ivy because the system she organized everything by is specific to her home planet; and is used quite literally nowhere else. The labels might as well be written in hieroglyphics, they’re borderline illegible, wildly inconsistent throughout the databases, in a language no one besides her seems to understand, and yet somehow Ivy manages to catalogue everything that way. She refuses to switch to a simpler system. Most of the crew has just memorized where important things are and leaves her to deal with everything else.
Marius: Will sometimes attempt to give the crew “checkups” and when they inevitably refuse he always pouts about it because ‘he’s the doctor and they should let him do his job’. Brian agreed once in an attempt to be polite and Marius somehow lodged a stethoscope in his throat on complete accident. There were no more check ups after that.
Raphaella: Once attempted to make her wings glow just for the aesthetic and ended up accidentally setting both her wings and hair on fire. This then sparked a long series of small experiments to see how her mechanism interacts with fire, which then sparked the crew to finally install smoke detectors on the Aurora. For entirely unrelated reasons. Surely.
Ashes: Has a tattoo of a Phoenix across their back, very pleased that it didn’t fade after they were mechanized. They’d originally got it when they joined up with the Sevens, as a symbol of their rebirth and newfound purpose. As they grew from a malnourished eleven year old into a high rolling crime boss the phoenix was stretched over time and its wingspan became larger.
The Toy Soldier: It enjoys watching the crew cook. You’d think it would be in the way, but no, it sits at the table with its hands folded neatly and smiles the entire time, watching whoever it may be while they work. None of the crew has the heart to tell it that this is insanely unnerving for the rest of them.
