“i dont want to be a pet bot.” I think I fucked up my memory rebuild somehow. If I was smart, I would have told someone. A soft reset might have prevented this, or maybe a system rollback, or something. But I wasn't feeling very smart at that moment. I was just scared. “We know, SecUnit. That won't happen.” //: Five times Murderbot saw Miki again, and one time it didn't.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Miki (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), ART | Perihelion, PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries), JollyBaby (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: canon character death, Angst, Grief, Hallucinations, PTSD, 5+1 Things, Hurt/Comfort, Sort Of, in the way that comfort happens with mourning, things aren't okay but someone is there to weather the storm with you, Spoilers, like ‘not shit’ but also, please read through book 6 at least
Summary:
“i dont want to be a pet bot.”
I think I fucked up my memory rebuild somehow. If I was smart, I would have told someone. A soft reset might have prevented this, or maybe a system rollback, or something. But I wasn't feeling very smart at that moment. I was just scared.
“We know, SecUnit. That won't happen.”
//:
Five times Murderbot saw Miki again, and one time it didn't.
omg i cant believe hatsune miku wrote the murderbot diaries
helmeted version under the cut
i need yall to know i have Worldbuilding for this. she calls her drones fireflies. she's an idol and is like a kpop demon hunter robot. she's a construct and a hive mind and the place she comes from thinks all constructs are idols. all mikus are canon. murderbot regrets meeting her
avatar the last airbender x legend of zelda tears of the kingdom corssover les gooooooo
ive been working on this for far too long so im forcing myself to say it's done even though the background is just my color mock up. to draw fast, i must accept messiness
eeeee I love your atla dino au so much!!! do you have an idea of how bending would look different in the dino forms?
aaaa thank you!! im glad you like it!! it feels so great to know that people like this au!!!
actually, bending as a dino was one of my first thought experiments, came way before anyone had any dino designs! ive always wanted to make sure to preserve the whole magic martial arts vibe of atla, even in dino form. and combat is such a big thing in atla that im constantly shifting things around in my head to try and make sure that everything feels balanced. i don't want dino bending to be the definitive replacement for human bending, yknow?
im gonna plop the rest of my response under read more cuz it got pretty long. here we go!
as for how bending actually looks, my thought was that dinos primarily use their head and tails for major bending motions, as most dinos dont have long or flexible limbs that would do much good, at least compared to human limbs. each bending looks slightly different, as with their human forms.
earthbenders are the easiest to visualize to me, as mostly they just do a lot of stomping and head throwing. foot goes down, rock goes up.
airbenders mostly rely on appendages that are feathered, so flapping wings or slamming down a very feathered tail like a fan. i have no idea what a non-winged airbender would do. probably not be very good at airbending.
waterbending is kinda muddy honestly, in my head they're mostly ground based tail and head swingers. less flipping than an airbender, but more mobile than an earthbender. i feel like sokka would use his head a lot though. he's not a bender, so if he wants to get a concussion blugeoning a parasaurolophus, go ahead man.
also also, airbenders and waterbenders can absolutely propell themselves with bending. i mean i guess all of them could if you want, but it's super common in air and water. air dinos flying in dino forms that aren't *quite* built for sustained flight (aang is a microraptor, which is a gliding dino, and not actually able to fly, but with airbending, that doesnt matter!) and water dinos bending while swimming in order to torpedo themselves through the water.
and then firebending is mostly reliant on the tail and legs if possible, basically use the tail as a replacemnt for legs in human form. loooots of roundhouse kick stuff. with a tail. also i was thinking that maybe it's normal to be able to spit fireballs like a dragon? but it's still kinda hard, and something most people can only do in dino form. idk about that one, i just like the idea.
i drew a bit of concept art for this waaay back, but honestly im not all that well versed in how to draw movement, so i feel like the firebender there is the only really clear representation of my thoughts. here's that pic, and a link to the post.
guess who's suddenly fallen hard for atla and also loves dinosaurs
in terms of visualizing the movement, there's this one video game project though called dinoSword by Jean Nguyen that actually really represents what im thinking, even if it's a bit flashy and fast for what i mean. either way, it's badass and might give a good point of reference. absolutely check out their work, here's a compilation of some of their animations
and here's a gif of another one of their animations which i will try so so hard to describe in the alt text
so yeah, all in all super badass! definitely faster and more deadly than what i have in mind, but the general idea about the potential movements and range of motion for these dinos is there
(also a side note, in terms of species for dino forms, my half baked idea is that it isn't really based on nation or bending style as it is geographical location. like, those are obviously linked, but the cause is the physical location. so you can find spinosaurus anywhere you find water, even though it is commonly believed to be a water tribe dino. there are swamp spinos, earth spinos, and yeah, even fire spinos. yes, there are conotations and societal consequences to a fire spino, regardless of how accurate those assumptions are. it got worse with the war
the msot common species for each nation are: mid to large raptors for the fire nation, spinos abd cold weather dinos for water tribes, large herbivores for the earth kingdom, and tiny tiny raptors or flight adjacent dinos for the air nomads. maybe also some lil herbivores, and they just dont get to fly in dino form.)
in terms of what the actual element looks like while moving, i imagine that dinos would have a rougher time with anything that has a huge amount of finesse to it. delicate movements or anything super precise might not be worth it to do in dino form, and most attacks would be more explosive than their human alternative. that whole thing katara did where she incased zuko in a ball of ice in the s1 finale? not happening as a spinosaurus. so while a dino form might give a boost in power, it isn't always practical at the time. not to mention it takes energy to transform, and sometimes it's best to save that for the fight itself.
the general feel of the movements is much more flexible and weirdly athletic than any actual dinosaur would ever be. but at the same time, i want to impose this idea that dino bending, while powerful, can be pretty clumsy, and each dino brings it own limitations. large dinos like sokka and katara are automatically slower, and in fights like the ones we see in atla, that really matters. small dinos like aang and toph also have to deal with how lightweight they are. their natural defenses are to run and hide, so they dont get much in terms of physical equipment the way a large carnivore or herbivore would. they're much more reliant on their bending to stay safe than say a big ol ankylosaurus, who's built like a tank.
SO. that's my big infodump agdkhsjf. i have maybe possibly thought a bit too much about this au. thank you for the aaaask!! so sorry if you didn't expect a wall of text x3
The Atla dino AU has precedent to exist since (almost) every animal in the avatar world is a mix of two real life animals. Humans are animals irl, so it could be reasoned that they are a mix of humans and dinos in the avatar world.
oooooo yeeeeeees! that conveniently lets me sidestep my lack of dino hybrids ahdjsjgj
atla hybrids are so important to the vibe, i had considered for a while trying to do dino hybrid forms, but it didn't really pan out. despite my obsession, i dont have a lot of practice actually drawing real dinos vs vague cartoonistic dino like creatures, so learning to combine two species of dinos i'd never properly drawn before was a tall order. but who knows, maybe i'll try it in the future! for now, im chill with the explanation agdjshhf
though the implication that all non hybrid animals might have another animal they can transform into is mildly horrifying. what crimes must miyuki be committing
So, in your AtLA Dino AU, do they switch back and forth or what?
that's the idea, yep! everyone can swap back and forth between their human form and dino form at will. the few worldbuilding rules i have in my head are that transforming takes energy and practice, dino forms can't talk, dino forms can still bend, and dinos are only known in the world as humans. there aren't raw dinos running around, unfortunately. that said, im very lenient on world building details here, it's not really a cohesive narrative at the moment. im literally just making art and jokes ahdjhsjf
alsoooo im fully on board with other interpretations or people using my dino designs for their own aus!!! i'd love to see other people's takes
hi i just wanted to say that your art of zuko and little zuko hug stopped me in my tracks So Thourghly it hasn’t left my brain in. about 24 hours. i’m in love with it so much but it also Hurts because like. i want that for my younger self but because of time and all that i can only look at art and hope she feels my love through space and time. thank you for giving me that little bit of peace i needed.
aaaaa im so glad my art helped you in some way!! i dont even know what to say, i'm buzzing with joy right now. thank you for the ask anon, this means so much to hear
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