Ouroboros rp blog

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What is Ouroboros?

Ouroboros is a canon divergent Murder Drones AU that comprises of three stories (one of which is currently going through the process of being rewritten), in chronological order they go: The Bird and The Bat, Repeating Cycles and Through Wrecked Ashes

The Bird and The Bat is a story that revolves around the friendship of Uzi and an oc named Jacob

Repeating Cycles is the story of the next generation and of Cake and Bird as they try to go through life just for something from the past to come creeping back.

Through Wrecked Ashes is currently in the process of being rewritten, so no information shall be provided until then.

This Rp blog will mainly focus on the protagonist of the middle story (Repeating Cycles)

(Mod stuff and rules underneath)

#blog intro #intro post #Ouroboros AU #The Bird and The Bat #Repeating Cycles #Through Wrecked Ashes

(So, I know this is short notice, but I'm going to a wedding today, so I won't be online today)

Cake and Bird walked up to Hafiz's house, both chatting away as they did.

"You sure you're up for this?" The hybrid quizzed, her kinked tail awkwardly flicking behind her.

The Solver drone gave a small nod, "Yes, I'm just tired, don't worry." her speech noticeably slow compared to her usually way of chatting. Her system seeming to be actively lagging.

The taller drone didn't seemed quite sure, wanting to say something but not even sure what to say. She then took a needed breath, trying to calm herself as they got to the door and soon knocked. Her scarred partner looked at her for a moment, blue optics briefly flashing with her own work but didn't last long before a brief flicker made her snap her head forward.

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The familiar sound of a nose sniffing at the space under the door could be caught. Paws was the first to respond, and let out a bark. Then another.

"I'm on it you little dust mote." Hafiz was heard, chuckling a bit as he opened the door to see the drones present. "Oh! Hey there kids!" He smiled a bit. "Kiddo is upstairs. How are you two doing?" They were greeted as he moved to let the pair in.

Paws was already out and sniffing at their feet and legs, intent on discovering their previous whereabouts.

The two came in, Cake trailing Bird. "We've been alright." The Solver drone stated, sounding noticeably exhausted and earning a worried from the other.

"Y-yeah, we're okay, how about you?"

Neither of their scents have changed much, the hybrid smelling mostly of oil and metal with obvious traces of blood and flesh. The blue drone's however was... more organic compared to last time.

"We've been alright. Scraps has been pretty excited... but they are a child." He chuckled a bit. "Paws? Get Scraps for us alright?"

The dog barked before hurrying off. Hafiz brought the pair to the entertainment room, knowing that Bird probably wanted a nice comfy seat.

"Oh really, what's got them so happy?" The purple drone quizzed, continuing to closely tail her partner. Watching as Bird just slumped into couch, already looking about ready to fall asleep, before sitting next to her, tail nervously tapping against the floor.

"A local bird made a nest against their window. They're all excited about it." Hafiz rolled his eyes.

The careful steps were soon caught, the child coming down the stairs and then hurrying over the floor with a wagging tail.

"Papa, is follow Paws- OH!" The tail started to chirp happily. "Friens! Is friens here! Ooooh! Cake is better! Yis is good!" They smiled as they moved to try and climb on the couch.

"Really? How ironic." She mumbled, the tapping speeding up before stopping once Scraps entered the room.

Cake gave a happy fanged smile. "Hey buddy, sorry I haven't visited in a while, things got really busy after I got better."

Meanwhile, the blue drone gave the young drone a wave, prompting her head ontop of her knuckles in some attempt to not fall asleep.

They kicked their feet before making it onto the couch, and soon Cake had tiny arms wrapped around her and squeezing. "Is missed you! Happy see you, mhm!" They giggled and moved a little, reaching out to hold gently onto Bird's hand.

"Bird frien is speepy? Is want nap time?"

"Or something to drink?" Hafiz smiled a little bit at the child's gentle actions.

"No, no, I'm okay." Bird reinsured, letting the young drone hold her hand before looking over to the hybrid.

"She's fine, just pregnant is all." The purple drone hummed, ruffling Scraps' hair.

"Is make speepies?" Scraps blinked as they looked at Bird. Their tail swished.

"That can wear on one's systems." Hafiz chuckled. "Some more than others. I know that Wisp had a hard time carrying Zinnia."

"Oh, uh, who's Wisp and Zinnia?"

"Wisp is their aunt and Zinnia is their baby cousin." Hafiz smiled a bit.

"Mm! Auntie had big speepies. Is was no feel good. Papa say is happen because Nia is big smarts!" The child wagged their tail a bit.

Cake leaned forward slightly towards Scraps, briefly looking at Bird just to see she was asleep. "Oh really? I honestly can't say anything about my kid right now but I bet they'll be smart too, especially because of Birdy, besides my mum she's one of the smartest people I know."

"Definitely could be a processing thing... but, Bird did mention that this isn't a common way for children to happen in your world." Hafiz shrugged. "Probably best to play careful and by ear."

"Is Bird need lay in bed? Is nap time." Scraps nodded.

"Yeah, we're usually made by sticking code into a machine, so I don't know what is going to happen." Her tone was rather upbeat, a smile on her face but it was clearly strained. "Wouldn't be surprised about the processing part, half her code is to put it simply... An active headache to read, even for those who know what they're doing."

The hybrid's attention switched to Scraps. "I don't know, last time she took a nap, I found her sleeping on the floor and when I tried to move her actually growled so..." She just shrugged.

"Give biiiig huggies." Scraps nodded as though that helped.

"Don't think It's so simple kiddo." Hafiz smiled a little bit. "If you need to rest too, you can." He smiled at Cake.

"Oh! Cake, is wanna see neato stuffs?" Scraps wagged their tail.

"I'm feeling alright, just nervous I guess." She chuckled, rubbing the back of her neck.

Cake tilted her head. "Despends, what is it? I don't want to be too far from Bird."

"Is on my window!" Their tail wagged. "Is neato! Is no see inside." They shook their head. Hafiz chuckled a bit.

"Did you want to carry her with you? Or maybe have Paws guard her?" The small dog boofed.

The hybrid thought for a moment, digital brows narrowing before wrapping her arms around Bird and pulling her against her chest with just an arm. The Solver did let out a raspy — if sleepy — growl but didn't make much noise pass that, settling against the other.

"Awes. Is snuggle you!" Scraps giggled a bit as they got off the couch and headed for the stairs. "Is up my room!"

"Do you think if you kiss her on the head she'll be nicer to you?" Hafiz teased gently, watching as Scraps waited for them to follow.

"Not risking it, last time I kissed her whilst she was feral, she literally took out my tongue." Cake quipped, a smirk returning to her face as she started to follow the younger drone.

"As someone who has been headbutted in the mouth before, I understand." Hafiz laughed as he followed along.

Scraps led them upstairs, tail looking back to watch them here and there, before pushing into their room and wagging their tail. They were excited.

A muffled snicker came from the hybrid, responding with a hushed mumble as she kept following the young drone. "Definitely did that to Bird before when drunk." Soon walking into the drone's room.

Scraps pushed into their room, hurrying over to the window to point at a part where the curtains were left open.

There was a structure stuck to the outside of the window, looking like it was made of some kind of mud and filled with fur and what looked like mosses of different types. Two round orbs sat inside, easy to be seen through the glass and safe inside the almost fully covered structure.

"They like their 'roommate' as they've been calling it." Hafiz smiled. "The parent is out I guess."

The purple drone came over to the window, staring at what she can best describe as "eggs" with a curious gaze. "Wow, I keep forgetting there's life here, it's nice to have a little reminder." She chuckled, stopping just behind Scraps. "Guess they're not the only birdy having kids huh." She added with a laugh, just to stop when Bird growled. Not noticing her partner's eyes flickering. "Sorry."

"Is no birdy!" Scraps wagged their tail, they were trying to be quiet so Bird didn't wake up. "Is a... um... Is scake?"

"Snake kiddo, or a lizard." Hafiz helped out, smiling at the child.

Talking about it seemed to summon the creature, a little shadow moving into sight on part of the window before a long forked tongue flicked into the nest from the entry hole. The head peeked in, four tiny eyes blinking before the long body followed, moved in by two sets of very short little legs. Very short fur was seen peeking between plate-like scales, and the body puffed up a bit as it moved to curl around the orbs in the nest, belly hiding some of the view as it squished against the window. It didn't seem to see them through the tinted glass.

"Is that!" Scraps pointed.

"Oh cool, what is it?" She asked, audible purring as stared at the odd creature

"Warmblooded reptile of some kind." Hafiz shrugged. "We're not fully sure."

"Is a neato! Papa say is neighbor!" Scraps nodded. "Is show friens, is good show friens new things!"

"Yeah, it is. I've never seen something like this before." The purple drone purred, ruffling the young drone's hair with her free hand.

"Hehe!" Scraps giggled a bit.

"You probably don't get to see a lot. Maybe sometime I can take you and Bird to the Zoo." Hafiz hummed in thought. "At least when it gets built... Maybe another planet's..."

"Maybe, the most we've seen is from our brief trip here and one other world. Most other places seem to be as barren as where we're from so..." Cake gave shrug. "Although I think going to a zoo would be nice, probably do that after the kid's here, we're not fully sure when she's meant to be having them as we don't know how long it's meant to take and I don't to risk anything right... Now." The final word trailed off, her optics lingering on her sleeping partner before shaking her head and putting on a smile. "I-I'm just worried, ya' know."

"I understand. If you want, I can drive you guys back to your portal." Hafiz smiled a bit. "Help prevent more stress on mom there."

"Well, she doesn't mind me carrying her when awake." The hybrid dryly chuckled. "I will keep that in mind though if that changes."

"Until then, you guys can use the spare room." Hafiz motioned toward the hall.

"Oh, is can watch cartoons is Bird nap time." Scraps nodded.

"Thanks, really." She simply responded, rubbing the back of her neck, tail nervously jittering on the floor behind her. Not seeming to get the hint as she just awkwardly stood there.

Scraps pat her leg, being polite and gentle. "Is take you room. Is nice an' has comfies." The child then wandered to the door, letting Hafiz laugh a little bit as the child was so very insistent on taking care of their friends.

"Oh." Cake just followed Scraps, catching the hint this time.

"Is let you has big nap times mhm!" Scraps opened the door for Cake, showing the room with the spare couch and the bed and the blankets. Hafiz had changed the sheets, and it smelled pretty nice and clean. "Is can helps! Is for good comfy sleepies." The child tugged at the fluffy comforter on the bed.

"Kiddo, I don't think Cake and Bird need to be tucked in." Hafiz smiled a little behind the pair.

"But is so comfort!"

"I bet it is, but we're pretty big so we don't really need it." She chuckled, placing Bird onto the bed and making sure she was comfortable before walking over to Hafiz. "Hey, can we talk? I need to get something off my mind and you're the only other adult here."

"Yeah, of course." Hafiz smiled a bit. Scraps was given a pat. "Hey, Kiddo wanna go let Paws out?"

"Oh! Yis is go with Paws! Paaaaws!" Scraps giggled and hurried off, the little dog yipping happily.

Cake watched as Scraps left, waiting until they were audibly muffled before speaking. Looking noticeably deflated and worried. "So, you remember a while ago you mentioned you had a feeling that something bad was going to happen but you didn't know why?"

"Not in particular..." Hafiz blinked. "What happened?" He motioned that Cake follow him, and led her to his room. She was offered a seat on his bed, while he took a seat in his computer chair. Said computer was off, and a few things were seen around, mostly photos. It was a comfy room.

The hybrid took the seat, holding onto her tail to still it. "I don't know, I've just been getting this feeling recently. I'm not sure if it's because Bird's pregnant, the fact that she's the first one to be in our world, some kind of instinct, because she's meant to have her fuck-logic-fleshy-Solver form soon or what, but I feel like something bad is going to happen and I just don't know how to deal with that feeling." Her tail was now curled tight around her hand, enough that it was painful but at least it was something to focus on other then her already strained nerves.

"One step at a time." Hafiz reached out to rest a hand on her shoulder. "First... it might be hard, but you should prepare yourself for a hard choice if it comes to making one. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. You two obviously care about each other. Don't let a bad surprise tear you apart."

He smiled, warm and supportive. "Next... what do you feel like the bad thing might come from?"

She took a moment, trying to at least slow her racing thoughts but they always seemed to keep tangling into a knot of worries and fears. Unable to tug on any thing clear, let alone figure out where it's coming.

But she still tried. "I don't-" She stammered for a moment, taking a breather, letting go of her tail and trying again.

"I'm scared? I'm scared she'll be hurt? Or I'll hurt her or she'll hurt herself. I-" Her tail beating against the floor as she rubbed her own face, "I'm actually losing it... She wouldn't do that." only to notice her claws were out. Thankfully she didn't nick herself but the purple drone was now a bit confused.

"Depending on what's going on with the whole... pregnancy thing, there are things you can be prepared for." He hummed a little bit. "Maybe think of various ways to prevent harm? Don't forget that you're afraid, but use it to be strong."

"I'm honestly worried about that Solver form thingy. I've heard what it's like from my mum and grandma, they even talked about what being in that state was like and it sounds rather scary." She let out a heavy breath, picking at the back of her hand with her claws. "My mum attacked my dad when that happened to her, he's fine, she only stabbed his hand, but it does worry me."

"I know I might be able to restrain her if it comes it, I got my dad's strength." Cake let out a weak laugh. "Just worried that something bad will happen and she'll get hurt."

"Hmm... Miss Alex would know more about the form stuff." He shrugged. "I think... From what I know, of course, if you keep the company around you to people that make Bird feel safe... it might help. Far as we can tell, the Solver itself.... While it's a virus, if it doesn't have control, it protects the host more than anything."

"Maybe, I think mine is similar in the aspect so if anything I would probably just be swarmed by whatever she makes in that time." Cake let's out a laugh. "At least then I know I'd have the advantage of flight. And guns, but mainly flight. I've never seen Buzzard fly, it does crawl up the walls but that's not flying."

"I really wish I could help more with this Cake." Hafiz looked a little worried. "All I can really do is say what I said and tell you it's probably best to visit Miss Alex if possible." He shrugged.

The hybrid nodded, "Yeah, I think I still have her phone number so I might ask her for advice later on. Thanks for hearing me out." letting out a chuckle.

"I do hope everything turns out ok for you guys." He smiled a bit and reached out to pat Cake's shoulder. "Scraps really does love you both I think. They drew a picture of you and Bird in a tree."

"I hope so too, I'm also hoping it's just the stress and anxiety talking more then anything." She laughed, trying to lighten the mood. "Guess I can't help it."

"Anyways, Scraps drew us? I would like to see that."

"They'll love to show you." Hafiz smirked a little. "I think they drew one of your friends too. Penelope I think her name was?"

"A worker with darkish brown hair tied in a plaid with standard blue eyes and wearing a jean jacket of sorts?"

"Yeah. I guess that's her then." He chuckled. "Scraps has been a busy little fella." Said child was heard coming up the stairs, giggling a little bit as the jingle of Paws' collar was caught as well.

"Yeah, at least they're being a kid." She chuckled, her attention soon caught by the little bell and laugh. "Guess we should get back to them before they worry."

"They'll find us." Hafiz smiled as the door opened and a green-eyed tail peeked in before chirping.

"Is find you!" They came in, hurrying up to Cake and latching onto a leg for a hug.

The hybrid let out a laugh, a proper laugh, "Yeah, yeah you did." before ruffling their hair. "You dad told me you drew a picture of me and Birdy? Th this true?"

#rp blog #oc: cake

The scarab shows a map of a building

[I have a lab dedicated to studying the solver]

[Oh wow, have you figured out anything by using it those far?]

[we’ve created a virus that disable nanites and consumes a drone from the inside out.]

[Oh! Um! Holy shit on a brick that is actually terrifying]

[I’ve also been thinking up a way to prevent the solver from being present in an area. Like say the solver is able to manifest anywhere in reality, what if a just created a hole reality the solver couldn’t be in. That way, I could disable a solver host from using their solver in any way whilst in my territory.]

[Also Tamonhak, my Voidmancer, has been studying a Planet Devourer that was accidentally made by Zeta.]

[Oh really? That's honestly amazing, especially if there's a universe out there where The Solver doesn't exist. Just as long it doesn't cause pain or kill them then I'm all for it]

[I have several questions, but um, who's Zeta and how did they do that?]

[The Solver doesn’t exist in my universe, or at least if it did it died out a long time ago.]

[Zeta is one of Alex’s drones, she’s a solver drone, apparently outside of the primary host, Zeta is the most skilled with the solver in that universe. We were trying to see if Zeta could make a null, but she accidentally made a small planet Devourer.]

[Huh, I hope she's okay, I'm not fully sure what effects they get from using The Solver in Alex's home. But I hope she's okay regardless. Also, what is a "null"?]

[As far as I’m aware, the only changes she’s experienced from the Solver outside of the usual needing oil and having fleshy insides are that she has, I think an extra set of teeth or something.]

[You don’t know what a null is? From what I’ve seen, they’re just black holes created by Solver drones.]

[No, I've never seen one, I don't think anyone knows what they're either.]

[Odd. Most universes I’ve seen that have solver, people are very much aware of nulls]

[I don't know, I guess no one has seen one here? Or at least The Solver drones in my bunker haven't seen one]

[That is rather strange that they don’t know what nulls are. Or maybe some do know, they just won’t tell, for whatever reason.]

[Maybe, or, again, they've just never seen one]

[True. Should we ask them if they’ve actually seen a null before?]

[Yeah, just need to finish a few chores first then we can do that. Won't take more than an hour]

[Understood.]

Within exactly one hour from the last message sent, the sound of something moving could be heard outside Cake’s house.

The purple drone was sitting on the couch when she heard the noises, pushing herself up and opening the front door.

Anutek is outside the house, standing perfectly still, almost looking like a statue.

"Hey." Cake chimed. "Here to ask the others about those black whole things?"

“Yes. Who do you think we should ask first?”

"My parents, they should be home by now and they have a fair amount of experience with the thing, so they might know or at least knew of someone who did." She suggested. "They might of seen one and not know what it's called. Knowing what something looks like but not knowing what it's called kinda stuff."

“Understood.”

Anutek moves for the first time since his arrival, backing up to let Cake guide him to her parents house.

Cake soon walked out, locking the door via keypad and walking to her parent's home. It didn't take long, soon walking over to the door and knocking. Soon the door slide open standing there was this world's version of N, wearing a pink shirt with a dog head on it and pink pajama pants.

"Hey buddy! What brings you here—" He soon notices Anutek. "Uhh, would they the reason?" The Disassembly drone asked, a bit taken a back by how tall the new face was.

The young adult nodded, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, he mentioned something and was surprised that I never heard of it, so we wanted to know if either you or mum have."

"I'm guessing it's Solver related?" He chimed, earning a nod from his daughter before he gestured for them come inside.

N then walked over to a rather comfortable couch where there was already a short purple haired drone sitting there, watching whatever was playing on the TV. "Hey Uzi, Cake brought a friend over and they want to know if we've seen something."

"Uh, sure." The short drone looked over her kid, only to pause when seeing Anutek and turning to give N a bewildered. "Uh, what do you want to know. And what are you?" She asked, with the last part practically inaudible.

“I am Overlord Anutek, I am a Necron. That isn’t important right now though. Do you know what a Null is?”

The two older drone's stared for a moment, Uzi looking over to her kid a raised brow and slight question on her face.

"Basically a black hole that Solver users— Solver drones? Has a proper name been decided or..?"

"No and I don't think we're ever going to."

"Okay, anyways they're a black hole that Solver drone's can make." Cake asked, watching her parents think it over, practically seeing there systems frantically trying to find something.

N's face then light up. "Oh! Yeah, we have. Well, more accurately me and your grandmother have, you mum was also possessed and she knew what was going on. But yeah, we've seen them, just never realised that's what they were called." He chimed, his voice whilst far away from cheery, it was still a bit too upbeat for the younger drone.

And she didn't hide it, violet hollowed optics looking between her parents. "Why am I still surprised..."

“So they do know what nulls are. Should we also ask any of the other solver hosts as well?” Anutek says, looking down at Cake.

"Depends, what do you mean by Solver host?"

“Individuals with the Solver.”

"Sure? But I don't know if they'll know anything." Cake shrugged, turning to her parents. "Thanks for answering, sorry for the random visit."

"Nah, you're fine, this used to be your home too." N chimed.

"Heh, alright, tell Biscuit I said hi." She purred, walking out the door and closing it when Anutek leaves.

“Who is next?” Anutek asks as he exits the house, sensor arrays collecting every ounce of visual and audial information.

"There's, Amy, Candy and Indigo. Amy and Candy are married so if we go there then it be a two in one. The only issue is that I don't know any of there schedules." The hybrid explained.

“If we go to their house and find at least one of them then we should be able to ask them where the other is.”

"Yeah, and if they're not there, then I at least know Penelope is." She starts to walk off. "She's their daughter."

“Given that Penelope is their offspring, I assume she has the solver as well?” Anutek asks, his footsteps silent has the necrodermis of his feet have changed to be more spongy.

"No? Well, she might but is probably just deactivated. It seems to be possibly given that we didn't know Bird was a Solver drone until after the... Accident..." She went quiet for a moment, her movements slowing before shaking her head and continuing forward. "It also doesn't help that one of her mum's Solver is completely fucked and doesn't really work? Like, she does have fangs, she does drink oil, but other than that that's really it."

“What is the ‘accident’?”

Cake didn't respond, just continuing to walk forward. Although her movement started to slow with her tail starting to kink up.

Anutek was silent as he followed. “Sensitive topic, I assume?”

Again, Cake didn't respond, just continued walking.

#rp blog #oc: cake

The scarab shows a map of a building

[I have a lab dedicated to studying the solver]

[Oh wow, have you figured out anything by using it those far?]

[we’ve created a virus that disable nanites and consumes a drone from the inside out.]

[Oh! Um! Holy shit on a brick that is actually terrifying]

[I’ve also been thinking up a way to prevent the solver from being present in an area. Like say the solver is able to manifest anywhere in reality, what if a just created a hole reality the solver couldn’t be in. That way, I could disable a solver host from using their solver in any way whilst in my territory.]

[Also Tamonhak, my Voidmancer, has been studying a Planet Devourer that was accidentally made by Zeta.]

[Oh really? That's honestly amazing, especially if there's a universe out there where The Solver doesn't exist. Just as long it doesn't cause pain or kill them then I'm all for it]

[I have several questions, but um, who's Zeta and how did they do that?]

[The Solver doesn’t exist in my universe, or at least if it did it died out a long time ago.]

[Zeta is one of Alex’s drones, she’s a solver drone, apparently outside of the primary host, Zeta is the most skilled with the solver in that universe. We were trying to see if Zeta could make a null, but she accidentally made a small planet Devourer.]

[Huh, I hope she's okay, I'm not fully sure what effects they get from using The Solver in Alex's home. But I hope she's okay regardless. Also, what is a "null"?]

[As far as I’m aware, the only changes she’s experienced from the Solver outside of the usual needing oil and having fleshy insides are that she has, I think an extra set of teeth or something.]

[You don’t know what a null is? From what I’ve seen, they’re just black holes created by Solver drones.]

[No, I've never seen one, I don't think anyone knows what they're either.]

[Odd. Most universes I’ve seen that have solver, people are very much aware of nulls]

[I don't know, I guess no one has seen one here? Or at least The Solver drones in my bunker haven't seen one]

[That is rather strange that they don’t know what nulls are. Or maybe some do know, they just won’t tell, for whatever reason.]

[Maybe, or, again, they've just never seen one]

[True. Should we ask them if they’ve actually seen a null before?]

[Yeah, just need to finish a few chores first then we can do that. Won't take more than an hour]

[Understood.]

Within exactly one hour from the last message sent, the sound of something moving could be heard outside Cake’s house.

The purple drone was sitting on the couch when she heard the noises, pushing herself up and opening the front door.

Anutek is outside the house, standing perfectly still, almost looking like a statue.

"Hey." Cake chimed. "Here to ask the others about those black whole things?"

“Yes. Who do you think we should ask first?”

"My parents, they should be home by now and they have a fair amount of experience with the thing, so they might know or at least knew of someone who did." She suggested. "They might of seen one and not know what it's called. Knowing what something looks like but not knowing what it's called kinda stuff."

“Understood.”

Anutek moves for the first time since his arrival, backing up to let Cake guide him to her parents house.

Cake soon walked out, locking the door via keypad and walking to her parent's home. It didn't take long, soon walking over to the door and knocking. Soon the door slide open standing there was this world's version of N, wearing a pink shirt with a dog head on it and pink pajama pants.

"Hey buddy! What brings you here—" He soon notices Anutek. "Uhh, would they the reason?" The Disassembly drone asked, a bit taken a back by how tall the new face was.

The young adult nodded, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, he mentioned something and was surprised that I never heard of it, so we wanted to know if either you or mum have."

"I'm guessing it's Solver related?" He chimed, earning a nod from his daughter before he gestured for them come inside.

N then walked over to a rather comfortable couch where there was already a short purple haired drone sitting there, watching whatever was playing on the TV. "Hey Uzi, Cake brought a friend over and they want to know if we've seen something."

"Uh, sure." The short drone looked over her kid, only to pause when seeing Anutek and turning to give N a bewildered. "Uh, what do you want to know. And what are you?" She asked, with the last part practically inaudible.

“I am Overlord Anutek, I am a Necron. That isn’t important right now though. Do you know what a Null is?”

The two older drone's stared for a moment, Uzi looking over to her kid a raised brow and slight question on her face.

"Basically a black hole that Solver users— Solver drones? Has a proper name been decided or..?"

"No and I don't think we're ever going to."

"Okay, anyways they're a black hole that Solver drone's can make." Cake asked, watching her parents think it over, practically seeing there systems frantically trying to find something.

N's face then light up. "Oh! Yeah, we have. Well, more accurately me and your grandmother have, you mum was also possessed and she knew what was going on. But yeah, we've seen them, just never realised that's what they were called." He chimed, his voice whilst far away from cheery, it was still a bit too upbeat for the younger drone.

And she didn't hide it, violet hollowed optics looking between her parents. "Why am I still surprised..."

“So they do know what nulls are. Should we also ask any of the other solver hosts as well?” Anutek says, looking down at Cake.

"Depends, what do you mean by Solver host?"

“Individuals with the Solver.”

"Sure? But I don't know if they'll know anything." Cake shrugged, turning to her parents. "Thanks for answering, sorry for the random visit."

"Nah, you're fine, this used to be your home too." N chimed.

"Heh, alright, tell Biscuit I said hi." She purred, walking out the door and closing it when Anutek leaves.

“Who is next?” Anutek asks as he exits the house, sensor arrays collecting every ounce of visual and audial information.

"There's, Amy, Candy and Indigo. Amy and Candy are married so if we go there then it be a two in one. The only issue is that I don't know any of there schedules." The hybrid explained.

“If we go to their house and find at least one of them then we should be able to ask them where the other is.”

"Yeah, and if they're not there, then I at least know Penelope is." She starts to walk off. "She's their daughter."

“Given that Penelope is their offspring, I assume she has the solver as well?” Anutek asks, his footsteps silent has the necrodermis of his feet have changed to be more spongy.

"No? Well, she might but is probably just deactivated. It seems to be possibly given that we didn't know Bird was a Solver drone until after the... Accident..." She went quiet for a moment, her movements slowing before shaking her head and continuing forward. "It also doesn't help that one of her mum's Solver is completely fucked and doesn't really work? Like, she does have fangs, she does drink oil, but other than that that's really it."

“What is the ‘accident’?”

Cake didn't respond, just continuing to walk forward. Although her movement started to slow with her tail starting to kink up.

#rp blog #oc: cake

Cake and Bird walked up to Hafiz's house, both chatting away as they did.

"You sure you're up for this?" The hybrid quizzed, her kinked tail awkwardly flicking behind her.

The Solver drone gave a small nod, "Yes, I'm just tired, don't worry." her speech noticeably slow compared to her usually way of chatting. Her system seeming to be actively lagging.

The taller drone didn't seemed quite sure, wanting to say something but not even sure what to say. She then took a needed breath, trying to calm herself as they got to the door and soon knocked. Her scarred partner looked at her for a moment, blue optics briefly flashing with her own work but didn't last long before a brief flicker made her snap her head forward.

@md-ouroboros

The familiar sound of a nose sniffing at the space under the door could be caught. Paws was the first to respond, and let out a bark. Then another.

"I'm on it you little dust mote." Hafiz was heard, chuckling a bit as he opened the door to see the drones present. "Oh! Hey there kids!" He smiled a bit. "Kiddo is upstairs. How are you two doing?" They were greeted as he moved to let the pair in.

Paws was already out and sniffing at their feet and legs, intent on discovering their previous whereabouts.

The two came in, Cake trailing Bird. "We've been alright." The Solver drone stated, sounding noticeably exhausted and earning a worried from the other.

"Y-yeah, we're okay, how about you?"

Neither of their scents have changed much, the hybrid smelling mostly of oil and metal with obvious traces of blood and flesh. The blue drone's however was... more organic compared to last time.

"We've been alright. Scraps has been pretty excited... but they are a child." He chuckled a bit. "Paws? Get Scraps for us alright?"

The dog barked before hurrying off. Hafiz brought the pair to the entertainment room, knowing that Bird probably wanted a nice comfy seat.

"Oh really, what's got them so happy?" The purple drone quizzed, continuing to closely tail her partner. Watching as Bird just slumped into couch, already looking about ready to fall asleep, before sitting next to her, tail nervously tapping against the floor.

"A local bird made a nest against their window. They're all excited about it." Hafiz rolled his eyes.

The careful steps were soon caught, the child coming down the stairs and then hurrying over the floor with a wagging tail.

"Papa, is follow Paws- OH!" The tail started to chirp happily. "Friens! Is friens here! Ooooh! Cake is better! Yis is good!" They smiled as they moved to try and climb on the couch.

"Really? How ironic." She mumbled, the tapping speeding up before stopping once Scraps entered the room.

Cake gave a happy fanged smile. "Hey buddy, sorry I haven't visited in a while, things got really busy after I got better."

Meanwhile, the blue drone gave the young drone a wave, prompting her head ontop of her knuckles in some attempt to not fall asleep.

They kicked their feet before making it onto the couch, and soon Cake had tiny arms wrapped around her and squeezing. "Is missed you! Happy see you, mhm!" They giggled and moved a little, reaching out to hold gently onto Bird's hand.

"Bird frien is speepy? Is want nap time?"

"Or something to drink?" Hafiz smiled a little bit at the child's gentle actions.

"No, no, I'm okay." Bird reinsured, letting the young drone hold her hand before looking over to the hybrid.

"She's fine, just pregnant is all." The purple drone hummed, ruffling Scraps' hair.

"Is make speepies?" Scraps blinked as they looked at Bird. Their tail swished.

"That can wear on one's systems." Hafiz chuckled. "Some more than others. I know that Wisp had a hard time carrying Zinnia."

"Oh, uh, who's Wisp and Zinnia?"

"Wisp is their aunt and Zinnia is their baby cousin." Hafiz smiled a bit.

"Mm! Auntie had big speepies. Is was no feel good. Papa say is happen because Nia is big smarts!" The child wagged their tail a bit.

Cake leaned forward slightly towards Scraps, briefly looking at Bird just to see she was asleep. "Oh really? I honestly can't say anything about my kid right now but I bet they'll be smart too, especially because of Birdy, besides my mum she's one of the smartest people I know."

"Definitely could be a processing thing... but, Bird did mention that this isn't a common way for children to happen in your world." Hafiz shrugged. "Probably best to play careful and by ear."

"Is Bird need lay in bed? Is nap time." Scraps nodded.

"Yeah, we're usually made by sticking code into a machine, so I don't know what is going to happen." Her tone was rather upbeat, a smile on her face but it was clearly strained. "Wouldn't be surprised about the processing part, half her code is to put it simply... An active headache to read, even for those who know what they're doing."

The hybrid's attention switched to Scraps. "I don't know, last time she took a nap, I found her sleeping on the floor and when I tried to move her actually growled so..." She just shrugged.

"Give biiiig huggies." Scraps nodded as though that helped.

"Don't think It's so simple kiddo." Hafiz smiled a little bit. "If you need to rest too, you can." He smiled at Cake.

"Oh! Cake, is wanna see neato stuffs?" Scraps wagged their tail.

"I'm feeling alright, just nervous I guess." She chuckled, rubbing the back of her neck.

Cake tilted her head. "Despends, what is it? I don't want to be too far from Bird."

"Is on my window!" Their tail wagged. "Is neato! Is no see inside." They shook their head. Hafiz chuckled a bit.

"Did you want to carry her with you? Or maybe have Paws guard her?" The small dog boofed.

The hybrid thought for a moment, digital brows narrowing before wrapping her arms around Bird and pulling her against her chest with just an arm. The Solver did let out a raspy — if sleepy — growl but didn't make much noise pass that, settling against the other.

"Awes. Is snuggle you!" Scraps giggled a bit as they got off the couch and headed for the stairs. "Is up my room!"

"Do you think if you kiss her on the head she'll be nicer to you?" Hafiz teased gently, watching as Scraps waited for them to follow.

"Not risking it, last time I kissed her whilst she was feral, she literally took out my tongue." Cake quipped, a smirk returning to her face as she started to follow the younger drone.

"As someone who has been headbutted in the mouth before, I understand." Hafiz laughed as he followed along.

Scraps led them upstairs, tail looking back to watch them here and there, before pushing into their room and wagging their tail. They were excited.

A muffled snicker came from the hybrid, responding with a hushed mumble as she kept following the young drone. "Definitely did that to Bird before when drunk." Soon walking into the drone's room.

Scraps pushed into their room, hurrying over to the window to point at a part where the curtains were left open.

There was a structure stuck to the outside of the window, looking like it was made of some kind of mud and filled with fur and what looked like mosses of different types. Two round orbs sat inside, easy to be seen through the glass and safe inside the almost fully covered structure.

"They like their 'roommate' as they've been calling it." Hafiz smiled. "The parent is out I guess."

The purple drone came over to the window, staring at what she can best describe as "eggs" with a curious gaze. "Wow, I keep forgetting there's life here, it's nice to have a little reminder." She chuckled, stopping just behind Scraps. "Guess they're not the only birdy having kids huh." She added with a laugh, just to stop when Bird growled. Not noticing her partner's eyes flickering. "Sorry."

"Is no birdy!" Scraps wagged their tail, they were trying to be quiet so Bird didn't wake up. "Is a... um... Is scake?"

"Snake kiddo, or a lizard." Hafiz helped out, smiling at the child.

Talking about it seemed to summon the creature, a little shadow moving into sight on part of the window before a long forked tongue flicked into the nest from the entry hole. The head peeked in, four tiny eyes blinking before the long body followed, moved in by two sets of very short little legs. Very short fur was seen peeking between plate-like scales, and the body puffed up a bit as it moved to curl around the orbs in the nest, belly hiding some of the view as it squished against the window. It didn't seem to see them through the tinted glass.

"Is that!" Scraps pointed.

"Oh cool, what is it?" She asked, audible purring as stared at the odd creature

"Warmblooded reptile of some kind." Hafiz shrugged. "We're not fully sure."

"Is a neato! Papa say is neighbor!" Scraps nodded. "Is show friens, is good show friens new things!"

"Yeah, it is. I've never seen something like this before." The purple drone purred, ruffling the young drone's hair with her free hand.

"Hehe!" Scraps giggled a bit.

"You probably don't get to see a lot. Maybe sometime I can take you and Bird to the Zoo." Hafiz hummed in thought. "At least when it gets built... Maybe another planet's..."

"Maybe, the most we've seen is from our brief trip here and one other world. Most other places seem to be as barren as where we're from so..." Cake gave shrug. "Although I think going to a zoo would be nice, probably do that after the kid's here, we're not fully sure when she's meant to be having them as we don't know how long it's meant to take and I don't to risk anything right... Now." The final word trailed off, her optics lingering on her sleeping partner before shaking her head and putting on a smile. "I-I'm just worried, ya' know."

"I understand. If you want, I can drive you guys back to your portal." Hafiz smiled a bit. "Help prevent more stress on mom there."

"Well, she doesn't mind me carrying her when awake." The hybrid dryly chuckled. "I will keep that in mind though if that changes."

"Until then, you guys can use the spare room." Hafiz motioned toward the hall.

"Oh, is can watch cartoons is Bird nap time." Scraps nodded.

"Thanks, really." She simply responded, rubbing the back of her neck, tail nervously jittering on the floor behind her. Not seeming to get the hint as she just awkwardly stood there.

Scraps pat her leg, being polite and gentle. "Is take you room. Is nice an' has comfies." The child then wandered to the door, letting Hafiz laugh a little bit as the child was so very insistent on taking care of their friends.

"Oh." Cake just followed Scraps, catching the hint this time.

"Is let you has big nap times mhm!" Scraps opened the door for Cake, showing the room with the spare couch and the bed and the blankets. Hafiz had changed the sheets, and it smelled pretty nice and clean. "Is can helps! Is for good comfy sleepies." The child tugged at the fluffy comforter on the bed.

"Kiddo, I don't think Cake and Bird need to be tucked in." Hafiz smiled a little behind the pair.

"But is so comfort!"

"I bet it is, but we're pretty big so we don't really need it." She chuckled, placing Bird onto the bed and making sure she was comfortable before walking over to Hafiz. "Hey, can we talk? I need to get something off my mind and you're the only other adult here."

"Yeah, of course." Hafiz smiled a bit. Scraps was given a pat. "Hey, Kiddo wanna go let Paws out?"

"Oh! Yis is go with Paws! Paaaaws!" Scraps giggled and hurried off, the little dog yipping happily.

Cake watched as Scraps left, waiting until they were audibly muffled before speaking. Looking noticeably deflated and worried. "So, you remember a while ago you mentioned you had a feeling that something bad was going to happen but you didn't know why?"

"Not in particular..." Hafiz blinked. "What happened?" He motioned that Cake follow him, and led her to his room. She was offered a seat on his bed, while he took a seat in his computer chair. Said computer was off, and a few things were seen around, mostly photos. It was a comfy room.

The hybrid took the seat, holding onto her tail to still it. "I don't know, I've just been getting this feeling recently. I'm not sure if it's because Bird's pregnant, the fact that she's the first one to be in our world, some kind of instinct, because she's meant to have her fuck-logic-fleshy-Solver form soon or what, but I feel like something bad is going to happen and I just don't know how to deal with that feeling." Her tail was now curled tight around her hand, enough that it was painful but at least it was something to focus on other then her already strained nerves.

"One step at a time." Hafiz reached out to rest a hand on her shoulder. "First... it might be hard, but you should prepare yourself for a hard choice if it comes to making one. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. You two obviously care about each other. Don't let a bad surprise tear you apart."

He smiled, warm and supportive. "Next... what do you feel like the bad thing might come from?"

She took a moment, trying to at least slow her racing thoughts but they always seemed to keep tangling into a knot of worries and fears. Unable to tug on any thing clear, let alone figure out where it's coming.

But she still tried. "I don't-" She stammered for a moment, taking a breather, letting go of her tail and trying again.

"I'm scared? I'm scared she'll be hurt? Or I'll hurt her or she'll hurt herself. I-" Her tail beating against the floor as she rubbed her own face, "I'm actually losing it... She wouldn't do that." only to notice her claws were out. Thankfully she didn't nick herself but the purple drone was now a bit confused.

"Depending on what's going on with the whole... pregnancy thing, there are things you can be prepared for." He hummed a little bit. "Maybe think of various ways to prevent harm? Don't forget that you're afraid, but use it to be strong."

"I'm honestly worried about that Solver form thingy. I've heard what it's like from my mum and grandma, they even talked about what being in that state was like and it sounds rather scary." She let out a heavy breath, picking at the back of her hand with her claws. "My mum attacked my dad when that happened to her, he's fine, she only stabbed his hand, but it does worry me."

"I know I might be able to restrain her if it comes it, I got my dad's strength." Cake let out a weak laugh. "Just worried that something bad will happen and she'll get hurt."

"Hmm... Miss Alex would know more about the form stuff." He shrugged. "I think... From what I know, of course, if you keep the company around you to people that make Bird feel safe... it might help. Far as we can tell, the Solver itself.... While it's a virus, if it doesn't have control, it protects the host more than anything."

"Maybe, I think mine is similar in the aspect so if anything I would probably just be swarmed by whatever she makes in that time." Cake let's out a laugh. "At least then I know I'd have the advantage of flight. And guns, but mainly flight. I've never seen Buzzard fly, it does crawl up the walls but that's not flying."

"I really wish I could help more with this Cake." Hafiz looked a little worried. "All I can really do is say what I said and tell you it's probably best to visit Miss Alex if possible." He shrugged.

The hybrid nodded, "Yeah, I think I still have her phone number so I might ask her for advice later on. Thanks for hearing me out." letting out a chuckle.

"I do hope everything turns out ok for you guys." He smiled a bit and reached out to pat Cake's shoulder. "Scraps really does love you both I think. They drew a picture of you and Bird in a tree."

"I hope so too, I'm also hoping it's just the stress and anxiety talking more then anything." She laughed, trying to lighten the mood. "Guess I can't help it."

"Anyways, Scraps drew us? I would like to see that."

"They'll love to show you." Hafiz smirked a little. "I think they drew one of your friends too. Penelope I think her name was?"

"A worker with darkish brown hair tied in a plaid with standard blue eyes and wearing a jean jacket of sorts?"

"Yeah. I guess that's her then." He chuckled. "Scraps has been a busy little fella." Said child was heard coming up the stairs, giggling a little bit as the jingle of Paws' collar was caught as well.

"Yeah, at least they're being a kid." She chuckled, her attention soon caught by the little bell and laugh. "Guess we should get back to them before they worry."

#rp blog #oc: cake

The scarab shows a map of a building

[I have a lab dedicated to studying the solver]

[Oh wow, have you figured out anything by using it those far?]

[we’ve created a virus that disable nanites and consumes a drone from the inside out.]

[Oh! Um! Holy shit on a brick that is actually terrifying]

[I’ve also been thinking up a way to prevent the solver from being present in an area. Like say the solver is able to manifest anywhere in reality, what if a just created a hole reality the solver couldn’t be in. That way, I could disable a solver host from using their solver in any way whilst in my territory.]

[Also Tamonhak, my Voidmancer, has been studying a Planet Devourer that was accidentally made by Zeta.]

[Oh really? That's honestly amazing, especially if there's a universe out there where The Solver doesn't exist. Just as long it doesn't cause pain or kill them then I'm all for it]

[I have several questions, but um, who's Zeta and how did they do that?]

[The Solver doesn’t exist in my universe, or at least if it did it died out a long time ago.]

[Zeta is one of Alex’s drones, she’s a solver drone, apparently outside of the primary host, Zeta is the most skilled with the solver in that universe. We were trying to see if Zeta could make a null, but she accidentally made a small planet Devourer.]

[Huh, I hope she's okay, I'm not fully sure what effects they get from using The Solver in Alex's home. But I hope she's okay regardless. Also, what is a "null"?]

[As far as I’m aware, the only changes she’s experienced from the Solver outside of the usual needing oil and having fleshy insides are that she has, I think an extra set of teeth or something.]

[You don’t know what a null is? From what I’ve seen, they’re just black holes created by Solver drones.]

[No, I've never seen one, I don't think anyone knows what they're either.]

[Odd. Most universes I’ve seen that have solver, people are very much aware of nulls]

[I don't know, I guess no one has seen one here? Or at least The Solver drones in my bunker haven't seen one]

[That is rather strange that they don’t know what nulls are. Or maybe some do know, they just won’t tell, for whatever reason.]

[Maybe, or, again, they've just never seen one]

[True. Should we ask them if they’ve actually seen a null before?]

[Yeah, just need to finish a few chores first then we can do that. Won't take more than an hour]

[Understood.]

Within exactly one hour from the last message sent, the sound of something moving could be heard outside Cake’s house.

The purple drone was sitting on the couch when she heard the noises, pushing herself up and opening the front door.

Anutek is outside the house, standing perfectly still, almost looking like a statue.

"Hey." Cake chimed. "Here to ask the others about those black whole things?"

“Yes. Who do you think we should ask first?”

"My parents, they should be home by now and they have a fair amount of experience with the thing, so they might know or at least knew of someone who did." She suggested. "They might of seen one and not know what it's called. Knowing what something looks like but not knowing what it's called kinda stuff."

“Understood.”

Anutek moves for the first time since his arrival, backing up to let Cake guide him to her parents house.

Cake soon walked out, locking the door via keypad and walking to her parent's home. It didn't take long, soon walking over to the door and knocking. Soon the door slide open standing there was this world's version of N, wearing a pink shirt with a dog head on it and pink pajama pants.

"Hey buddy! What brings you here—" He soon notices Anutek. "Uhh, would they the reason?" The Disassembly drone asked, a bit taken a back by how tall the new face was.

The young adult nodded, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, he mentioned something and was surprised that I never heard of it, so we wanted to know if either you or mum have."

"I'm guessing it's Solver related?" He chimed, earning a nod from his daughter before he gestured for them come inside.

N then walked over to a rather comfortable couch where there was already a short purple haired drone sitting there, watching whatever was playing on the TV. "Hey Uzi, Cake brought a friend over and they want to know if we've seen something."

"Uh, sure." The short drone looked over her kid, only to pause when seeing Anutek and turning to give N a bewildered. "Uh, what do you want to know. And what are you?" She asked, with the last part practically inaudible.

“I am Overlord Anutek, I am a Necron. That isn’t important right now though. Do you know what a Null is?”

The two older drone's stared for a moment, Uzi looking over to her kid a raised brow and slight question on her face.

"Basically a black hole that Solver users— Solver drones? Has a proper name been decided or..?"

"No and I don't think we're ever going to."

"Okay, anyways they're a black hole that Solver drone's can make." Cake asked, watching her parents think it over, practically seeing there systems frantically trying to find something.

N's face then light up. "Oh! Yeah, we have. Well, more accurately me and your grandmother have, you mum was also possessed and she knew what was going on. But yeah, we've seen them, just never realised that's what they were called." He chimed, his voice whilst far away from cheery, it was still a bit too upbeat for the younger drone.

And she didn't hide it, violet hollowed optics looking between her parents. "Why am I still surprised..."

“So they do know what nulls are. Should we also ask any of the other solver hosts as well?” Anutek says, looking down at Cake.

"Depends, what do you mean by Solver host?"

“Individuals with the Solver.”

"Sure? But I don't know if they'll know anything." Cake shrugged, turning to her parents. "Thanks for answering, sorry for the random visit."

"Nah, you're fine, this used to be your home too." N chimed.

"Heh, alright, tell Biscuit I said hi." She purred, walking out the door and closing it when Anutek leaves.

“Who is next?” Anutek asks as he exits the house, sensor arrays collecting every ounce of visual and audial information.

"There's, Amy, Candy and Indigo. Amy and Candy are married so if we go there then it be a two in one. The only issue is that I don't know any of there schedules." The hybrid explained.

“If we go to their house and find at least one of them then we should be able to ask them where the other is.”

"Yeah, and if they're not there, then I at least know Penelope is." She starts to walk off. "She's their daughter."

“Given that Penelope is their offspring, I assume she has the solver as well?” Anutek asks, his footsteps silent has the necrodermis of his feet have changed to be more spongy.

"No? Well, she might but is probably just deactivated. It seems to be possibly given that we didn't know Bird was a Solver drone until after the... Accident..." She went quiet for a moment, her movements slowing before shaking her head and continuing forward. "It also doesn't help that one of her mum's Solver is completely fucked and doesn't really work? Like, she does have fangs, she does drink oil, but other than that that's really it."

#rp blog #oc: cake

The scarab shows a map of a building

[I have a lab dedicated to studying the solver]

[Oh wow, have you figured out anything by using it those far?]

[we’ve created a virus that disable nanites and consumes a drone from the inside out.]

[Oh! Um! Holy shit on a brick that is actually terrifying]

[I’ve also been thinking up a way to prevent the solver from being present in an area. Like say the solver is able to manifest anywhere in reality, what if a just created a hole reality the solver couldn’t be in. That way, I could disable a solver host from using their solver in any way whilst in my territory.]

[Also Tamonhak, my Voidmancer, has been studying a Planet Devourer that was accidentally made by Zeta.]

[Oh really? That's honestly amazing, especially if there's a universe out there where The Solver doesn't exist. Just as long it doesn't cause pain or kill them then I'm all for it]

[I have several questions, but um, who's Zeta and how did they do that?]

[The Solver doesn’t exist in my universe, or at least if it did it died out a long time ago.]

[Zeta is one of Alex’s drones, she’s a solver drone, apparently outside of the primary host, Zeta is the most skilled with the solver in that universe. We were trying to see if Zeta could make a null, but she accidentally made a small planet Devourer.]

[Huh, I hope she's okay, I'm not fully sure what effects they get from using The Solver in Alex's home. But I hope she's okay regardless. Also, what is a "null"?]

[As far as I’m aware, the only changes she’s experienced from the Solver outside of the usual needing oil and having fleshy insides are that she has, I think an extra set of teeth or something.]

[You don’t know what a null is? From what I’ve seen, they’re just black holes created by Solver drones.]

[No, I've never seen one, I don't think anyone knows what they're either.]

[Odd. Most universes I’ve seen that have solver, people are very much aware of nulls]

[I don't know, I guess no one has seen one here? Or at least The Solver drones in my bunker haven't seen one]

[That is rather strange that they don’t know what nulls are. Or maybe some do know, they just won’t tell, for whatever reason.]

[Maybe, or, again, they've just never seen one]

[True. Should we ask them if they’ve actually seen a null before?]

[Yeah, just need to finish a few chores first then we can do that. Won't take more than an hour]

[Understood.]

Within exactly one hour from the last message sent, the sound of something moving could be heard outside Cake’s house.

The purple drone was sitting on the couch when she heard the noises, pushing herself up and opening the front door.

Anutek is outside the house, standing perfectly still, almost looking like a statue.

"Hey." Cake chimed. "Here to ask the others about those black whole things?"

“Yes. Who do you think we should ask first?”

"My parents, they should be home by now and they have a fair amount of experience with the thing, so they might know or at least knew of someone who did." She suggested. "They might of seen one and not know what it's called. Knowing what something looks like but not knowing what it's called kinda stuff."

“Understood.”

Anutek moves for the first time since his arrival, backing up to let Cake guide him to her parents house.

Cake soon walked out, locking the door via keypad and walking to her parent's home. It didn't take long, soon walking over to the door and knocking. Soon the door slide open standing there was this world's version of N, wearing a pink shirt with a dog head on it and pink pajama pants.

"Hey buddy! What brings you here—" He soon notices Anutek. "Uhh, would they the reason?" The Disassembly drone asked, a bit taken a back by how tall the new face was.

The young adult nodded, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, he mentioned something and was surprised that I never heard of it, so we wanted to know if either you or mum have."

"I'm guessing it's Solver related?" He chimed, earning a nod from his daughter before he gestured for them come inside.

N then walked over to a rather comfortable couch where there was already a short purple haired drone sitting there, watching whatever was playing on the TV. "Hey Uzi, Cake brought a friend over and they want to know if we've seen something."

"Uh, sure." The short drone looked over her kid, only to pause when seeing Anutek and turning to give N a bewildered. "Uh, what do you want to know. And what are you?" She asked, with the last part practically inaudible.

“I am Overlord Anutek, I am a Necron. That isn’t important right now though. Do you know what a Null is?”

The two older drone's stared for a moment, Uzi looking over to her kid a raised brow and slight question on her face.

"Basically a black hole that Solver users— Solver drones? Has a proper name been decided or..?"

"No and I don't think we're ever going to."

"Okay, anyways they're a black hole that Solver drone's can make." Cake asked, watching her parents think it over, practically seeing there systems frantically trying to find something.

N's face then light up. "Oh! Yeah, we have. Well, more accurately me and your grandmother have, you mum was also possessed and she knew what was going on. But yeah, we've seen them, just never realised that's what they were called." He chimed, his voice whilst far away from cheery, it was still a bit too upbeat for the younger drone.

And she didn't hide it, violet hollowed optics looking between her parents. "Why am I still surprised..."

“So they do know what nulls are. Should we also ask any of the other solver hosts as well?” Anutek says, looking down at Cake.

"Depends, what do you mean by Solver host?"

“Individuals with the Solver.”

"Sure? But I don't know if they'll know anything." Cake shrugged, turning to her parents. "Thanks for answering, sorry for the random visit."

"Nah, you're fine, this used to be your home too." N chimed.

"Heh, alright, tell Biscuit I said hi." She purred, walking out the door and closing it when Anutek leaves.

“Who is next?” Anutek asks as he exits the house, sensor arrays collecting every ounce of visual and audial information.

"There's, Amy, Candy and Indigo. Amy and Candy are married so if we go there then it be a two in one. The only issue is that I don't know any of there schedules." The hybrid explained.

“If we go to their house and find at least one of them then we should be able to ask them where the other is.”

"Yeah, and if they're not there, then I at least know Penelope is." She starts to walk off. "She's their daughter."

#rp blog #oc: cake

Cake and Bird walked up to Hafiz's house, both chatting away as they did.

"You sure you're up for this?" The hybrid quizzed, her kinked tail awkwardly flicking behind her.

The Solver drone gave a small nod, "Yes, I'm just tired, don't worry." her speech noticeably slow compared to her usually way of chatting. Her system seeming to be actively lagging.

The taller drone didn't seemed quite sure, wanting to say something but not even sure what to say. She then took a needed breath, trying to calm herself as they got to the door and soon knocked. Her scarred partner looked at her for a moment, blue optics briefly flashing with her own work but didn't last long before a brief flicker made her snap her head forward.

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The familiar sound of a nose sniffing at the space under the door could be caught. Paws was the first to respond, and let out a bark. Then another.

"I'm on it you little dust mote." Hafiz was heard, chuckling a bit as he opened the door to see the drones present. "Oh! Hey there kids!" He smiled a bit. "Kiddo is upstairs. How are you two doing?" They were greeted as he moved to let the pair in.

Paws was already out and sniffing at their feet and legs, intent on discovering their previous whereabouts.

The two came in, Cake trailing Bird. "We've been alright." The Solver drone stated, sounding noticeably exhausted and earning a worried from the other.

"Y-yeah, we're okay, how about you?"

Neither of their scents have changed much, the hybrid smelling mostly of oil and metal with obvious traces of blood and flesh. The blue drone's however was... more organic compared to last time.

"We've been alright. Scraps has been pretty excited... but they are a child." He chuckled a bit. "Paws? Get Scraps for us alright?"

The dog barked before hurrying off. Hafiz brought the pair to the entertainment room, knowing that Bird probably wanted a nice comfy seat.

"Oh really, what's got them so happy?" The purple drone quizzed, continuing to closely tail her partner. Watching as Bird just slumped into couch, already looking about ready to fall asleep, before sitting next to her, tail nervously tapping against the floor.

"A local bird made a nest against their window. They're all excited about it." Hafiz rolled his eyes.

The careful steps were soon caught, the child coming down the stairs and then hurrying over the floor with a wagging tail.

"Papa, is follow Paws- OH!" The tail started to chirp happily. "Friens! Is friens here! Ooooh! Cake is better! Yis is good!" They smiled as they moved to try and climb on the couch.

"Really? How ironic." She mumbled, the tapping speeding up before stopping once Scraps entered the room.

Cake gave a happy fanged smile. "Hey buddy, sorry I haven't visited in a while, things got really busy after I got better."

Meanwhile, the blue drone gave the young drone a wave, prompting her head ontop of her knuckles in some attempt to not fall asleep.

They kicked their feet before making it onto the couch, and soon Cake had tiny arms wrapped around her and squeezing. "Is missed you! Happy see you, mhm!" They giggled and moved a little, reaching out to hold gently onto Bird's hand.

"Bird frien is speepy? Is want nap time?"

"Or something to drink?" Hafiz smiled a little bit at the child's gentle actions.

"No, no, I'm okay." Bird reinsured, letting the young drone hold her hand before looking over to the hybrid.

"She's fine, just pregnant is all." The purple drone hummed, ruffling Scraps' hair.

"Is make speepies?" Scraps blinked as they looked at Bird. Their tail swished.

"That can wear on one's systems." Hafiz chuckled. "Some more than others. I know that Wisp had a hard time carrying Zinnia."

"Oh, uh, who's Wisp and Zinnia?"

"Wisp is their aunt and Zinnia is their baby cousin." Hafiz smiled a bit.

"Mm! Auntie had big speepies. Is was no feel good. Papa say is happen because Nia is big smarts!" The child wagged their tail a bit.

Cake leaned forward slightly towards Scraps, briefly looking at Bird just to see she was asleep. "Oh really? I honestly can't say anything about my kid right now but I bet they'll be smart too, especially because of Birdy, besides my mum she's one of the smartest people I know."

"Definitely could be a processing thing... but, Bird did mention that this isn't a common way for children to happen in your world." Hafiz shrugged. "Probably best to play careful and by ear."

"Is Bird need lay in bed? Is nap time." Scraps nodded.

"Yeah, we're usually made by sticking code into a machine, so I don't know what is going to happen." Her tone was rather upbeat, a smile on her face but it was clearly strained. "Wouldn't be surprised about the processing part, half her code is to put it simply... An active headache to read, even for those who know what they're doing."

The hybrid's attention switched to Scraps. "I don't know, last time she took a nap, I found her sleeping on the floor and when I tried to move her actually growled so..." She just shrugged.

"Give biiiig huggies." Scraps nodded as though that helped.

"Don't think It's so simple kiddo." Hafiz smiled a little bit. "If you need to rest too, you can." He smiled at Cake.

"Oh! Cake, is wanna see neato stuffs?" Scraps wagged their tail.

"I'm feeling alright, just nervous I guess." She chuckled, rubbing the back of her neck.

Cake tilted her head. "Despends, what is it? I don't want to be too far from Bird."

"Is on my window!" Their tail wagged. "Is neato! Is no see inside." They shook their head. Hafiz chuckled a bit.

"Did you want to carry her with you? Or maybe have Paws guard her?" The small dog boofed.

The hybrid thought for a moment, digital brows narrowing before wrapping her arms around Bird and pulling her against her chest with just an arm. The Solver did let out a raspy — if sleepy — growl but didn't make much noise pass that, settling against the other.

"Awes. Is snuggle you!" Scraps giggled a bit as they got off the couch and headed for the stairs. "Is up my room!"

"Do you think if you kiss her on the head she'll be nicer to you?" Hafiz teased gently, watching as Scraps waited for them to follow.

"Not risking it, last time I kissed her whilst she was feral, she literally took out my tongue." Cake quipped, a smirk returning to her face as she started to follow the younger drone.

"As someone who has been headbutted in the mouth before, I understand." Hafiz laughed as he followed along.

Scraps led them upstairs, tail looking back to watch them here and there, before pushing into their room and wagging their tail. They were excited.

A muffled snicker came from the hybrid, responding with a hushed mumble as she kept following the young drone. "Definitely did that to Bird before when drunk." Soon walking into the drone's room.

Scraps pushed into their room, hurrying over to the window to point at a part where the curtains were left open.

There was a structure stuck to the outside of the window, looking like it was made of some kind of mud and filled with fur and what looked like mosses of different types. Two round orbs sat inside, easy to be seen through the glass and safe inside the almost fully covered structure.

"They like their 'roommate' as they've been calling it." Hafiz smiled. "The parent is out I guess."

The purple drone came over to the window, staring at what she can best describe as "eggs" with a curious gaze. "Wow, I keep forgetting there's life here, it's nice to have a little reminder." She chuckled, stopping just behind Scraps. "Guess they're not the only birdy having kids huh." She added with a laugh, just to stop when Bird growled. Not noticing her partner's eyes flickering. "Sorry."

"Is no birdy!" Scraps wagged their tail, they were trying to be quiet so Bird didn't wake up. "Is a... um... Is scake?"

"Snake kiddo, or a lizard." Hafiz helped out, smiling at the child.

Talking about it seemed to summon the creature, a little shadow moving into sight on part of the window before a long forked tongue flicked into the nest from the entry hole. The head peeked in, four tiny eyes blinking before the long body followed, moved in by two sets of very short little legs. Very short fur was seen peeking between plate-like scales, and the body puffed up a bit as it moved to curl around the orbs in the nest, belly hiding some of the view as it squished against the window. It didn't seem to see them through the tinted glass.

"Is that!" Scraps pointed.

"Oh cool, what is it?" She asked, audible purring as stared at the odd creature

"Warmblooded reptile of some kind." Hafiz shrugged. "We're not fully sure."

"Is a neato! Papa say is neighbor!" Scraps nodded. "Is show friens, is good show friens new things!"

"Yeah, it is. I've never seen something like this before." The purple drone purred, ruffling the young drone's hair with her free hand.

"Hehe!" Scraps giggled a bit.

"You probably don't get to see a lot. Maybe sometime I can take you and Bird to the Zoo." Hafiz hummed in thought. "At least when it gets built... Maybe another planet's..."

"Maybe, the most we've seen is from our brief trip here and one other world. Most other places seem to be as barren as where we're from so..." Cake gave shrug. "Although I think going to a zoo would be nice, probably do that after the kid's here, we're not fully sure when she's meant to be having them as we don't know how long it's meant to take and I don't to risk anything right... Now." The final word trailed off, her optics lingering on her sleeping partner before shaking her head and putting on a smile. "I-I'm just worried, ya' know."

"I understand. If you want, I can drive you guys back to your portal." Hafiz smiled a bit. "Help prevent more stress on mom there."

"Well, she doesn't mind me carrying her when awake." The hybrid dryly chuckled. "I will keep that in mind though if that changes."

"Until then, you guys can use the spare room." Hafiz motioned toward the hall.

"Oh, is can watch cartoons is Bird nap time." Scraps nodded.

"Thanks, really." She simply responded, rubbing the back of her neck, tail nervously jittering on the floor behind her. Not seeming to get the hint as she just awkwardly stood there.

Scraps pat her leg, being polite and gentle. "Is take you room. Is nice an' has comfies." The child then wandered to the door, letting Hafiz laugh a little bit as the child was so very insistent on taking care of their friends.

"Oh." Cake just followed Scraps, catching the hint this time.

"Is let you has big nap times mhm!" Scraps opened the door for Cake, showing the room with the spare couch and the bed and the blankets. Hafiz had changed the sheets, and it smelled pretty nice and clean. "Is can helps! Is for good comfy sleepies." The child tugged at the fluffy comforter on the bed.

"Kiddo, I don't think Cake and Bird need to be tucked in." Hafiz smiled a little behind the pair.

"But is so comfort!"

"I bet it is, but we're pretty big so we don't really need it." She chuckled, placing Bird onto the bed and making sure she was comfortable before walking over to Hafiz. "Hey, can we talk? I need to get something off my mind and you're the only other adult here."

"Yeah, of course." Hafiz smiled a bit. Scraps was given a pat. "Hey, Kiddo wanna go let Paws out?"

"Oh! Yis is go with Paws! Paaaaws!" Scraps giggled and hurried off, the little dog yipping happily.

Cake watched as Scraps left, waiting until they were audibly muffled before speaking. Looking noticeably deflated and worried. "So, you remember a while ago you mentioned you had a feeling that something bad was going to happen but you didn't know why?"

"Not in particular..." Hafiz blinked. "What happened?" He motioned that Cake follow him, and led her to his room. She was offered a seat on his bed, while he took a seat in his computer chair. Said computer was off, and a few things were seen around, mostly photos. It was a comfy room.

The hybrid took the seat, holding onto her tail to still it. "I don't know, I've just been getting this feeling recently. I'm not sure if it's because Bird's pregnant, the fact that she's the first one to be in our world, some kind of instinct, because she's meant to have her fuck-logic-fleshy-Solver form soon or what, but I feel like something bad is going to happen and I just don't know how to deal with that feeling." Her tail was now curled tight around her hand, enough that it was painful but at least it was something to focus on other then her already strained nerves.

"One step at a time." Hafiz reached out to rest a hand on her shoulder. "First... it might be hard, but you should prepare yourself for a hard choice if it comes to making one. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. You two obviously care about each other. Don't let a bad surprise tear you apart."

He smiled, warm and supportive. "Next... what do you feel like the bad thing might come from?"

She took a moment, trying to at least slow her racing thoughts but they always seemed to keep tangling into a knot of worries and fears. Unable to tug on any thing clear, let alone figure out where it's coming.

But she still tried. "I don't-" She stammered for a moment, taking a breather, letting go of her tail and trying again.

"I'm scared? I'm scared she'll be hurt? Or I'll hurt her or she'll hurt herself. I-" Her tail beating against the floor as she rubbed her own face, "I'm actually losing it... She wouldn't do that." only to notice her claws were out. Thankfully she didn't nick herself but the purple drone was now a bit confused.

"Depending on what's going on with the whole... pregnancy thing, there are things you can be prepared for." He hummed a little bit. "Maybe think of various ways to prevent harm? Don't forget that you're afraid, but use it to be strong."

"I'm honestly worried about that Solver form thingy. I've heard what it's like from my mum and grandma, they even talked about what being in that state was like and it sounds rather scary." She let out a heavy breath, picking at the back of her hand with her claws. "My mum attacked my dad when that happened to her, he's fine, she only stabbed his hand, but it does worry me."

"I know I might be able to restrain her if it comes it, I got my dad's strength." Cake let out a weak laugh. "Just worried that something bad will happen and she'll get hurt."

"Hmm... Miss Alex would know more about the form stuff." He shrugged. "I think... From what I know, of course, if you keep the company around you to people that make Bird feel safe... it might help. Far as we can tell, the Solver itself.... While it's a virus, if it doesn't have control, it protects the host more than anything."

"Maybe, I think mine is similar in the aspect so if anything I would probably just be swarmed by whatever she makes in that time." Cake let's out a laugh. "At least then I know I'd have the advantage of flight. And guns, but mainly flight. I've never seen Buzzard fly, it does crawl up the walls but that's not flying."

"I really wish I could help more with this Cake." Hafiz looked a little worried. "All I can really do is say what I said and tell you it's probably best to visit Miss Alex if possible." He shrugged.

The hybrid nodded, "Yeah, I think I still have her phone number so I might ask her for advice later on. Thanks for hearing me out." letting out a chuckle.

"I do hope everything turns out ok for you guys." He smiled a bit and reached out to pat Cake's shoulder. "Scraps really does love you both I think. They drew a picture of you and Bird in a tree."

"I hope so too, I'm also hoping it's just the stress and anxiety talking more then anything." She laughed, trying to lighten the mood. "Guess I can't help it."

"Anyways, Scraps drew us? I would like to see that."

"They'll love to show you." Hafiz smirked a little. "I think they drew one of your friends too. Penelope I think her name was?"

"A worker with darkish brown hair tied in a plaid with standard blue eyes and wearing a jean jacket of sorts?"

#rp blog #oc: cake #Am I remembering that person right?#<- yep

The scarab shows a map of a building

[I have a lab dedicated to studying the solver]

[Oh wow, have you figured out anything by using it those far?]

[we’ve created a virus that disable nanites and consumes a drone from the inside out.]

[Oh! Um! Holy shit on a brick that is actually terrifying]

[I’ve also been thinking up a way to prevent the solver from being present in an area. Like say the solver is able to manifest anywhere in reality, what if a just created a hole reality the solver couldn’t be in. That way, I could disable a solver host from using their solver in any way whilst in my territory.]

[Also Tamonhak, my Voidmancer, has been studying a Planet Devourer that was accidentally made by Zeta.]

[Oh really? That's honestly amazing, especially if there's a universe out there where The Solver doesn't exist. Just as long it doesn't cause pain or kill them then I'm all for it]

[I have several questions, but um, who's Zeta and how did they do that?]

[The Solver doesn’t exist in my universe, or at least if it did it died out a long time ago.]

[Zeta is one of Alex’s drones, she’s a solver drone, apparently outside of the primary host, Zeta is the most skilled with the solver in that universe. We were trying to see if Zeta could make a null, but she accidentally made a small planet Devourer.]

[Huh, I hope she's okay, I'm not fully sure what effects they get from using The Solver in Alex's home. But I hope she's okay regardless. Also, what is a "null"?]

[As far as I’m aware, the only changes she’s experienced from the Solver outside of the usual needing oil and having fleshy insides are that she has, I think an extra set of teeth or something.]

[You don’t know what a null is? From what I’ve seen, they’re just black holes created by Solver drones.]

[No, I've never seen one, I don't think anyone knows what they're either.]

[Odd. Most universes I’ve seen that have solver, people are very much aware of nulls]

[I don't know, I guess no one has seen one here? Or at least The Solver drones in my bunker haven't seen one]

[That is rather strange that they don’t know what nulls are. Or maybe some do know, they just won’t tell, for whatever reason.]

[Maybe, or, again, they've just never seen one]

[True. Should we ask them if they’ve actually seen a null before?]

[Yeah, just need to finish a few chores first then we can do that. Won't take more than an hour]

[Understood.]

Within exactly one hour from the last message sent, the sound of something moving could be heard outside Cake’s house.

The purple drone was sitting on the couch when she heard the noises, pushing herself up and opening the front door.

Anutek is outside the house, standing perfectly still, almost looking like a statue.

"Hey." Cake chimed. "Here to ask the others about those black whole things?"

“Yes. Who do you think we should ask first?”

"My parents, they should be home by now and they have a fair amount of experience with the thing, so they might know or at least knew of someone who did." She suggested. "They might of seen one and not know what it's called. Knowing what something looks like but not knowing what it's called kinda stuff."

“Understood.”

Anutek moves for the first time since his arrival, backing up to let Cake guide him to her parents house.

Cake soon walked out, locking the door via keypad and walking to her parent's home. It didn't take long, soon walking over to the door and knocking. Soon the door slide open standing there was this world's version of N, wearing a pink shirt with a dog head on it and pink pajama pants.

"Hey buddy! What brings you here—" He soon notices Anutek. "Uhh, would they the reason?" The Disassembly drone asked, a bit taken a back by how tall the new face was.

The young adult nodded, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, he mentioned something and was surprised that I never heard of it, so we wanted to know if either you or mum have."

"I'm guessing it's Solver related?" He chimed, earning a nod from his daughter before he gestured for them come inside.

N then walked over to a rather comfortable couch where there was already a short purple haired drone sitting there, watching whatever was playing on the TV. "Hey Uzi, Cake brought a friend over and they want to know if we've seen something."

"Uh, sure." The short drone looked over her kid, only to pause when seeing Anutek and turning to give N a bewildered. "Uh, what do you want to know. And what are you?" She asked, with the last part practically inaudible.

“I am Overlord Anutek, I am a Necron. That isn’t important right now though. Do you know what a Null is?”

The two older drone's stared for a moment, Uzi looking over to her kid a raised brow and slight question on her face.

"Basically a black hole that Solver users— Solver drones? Has a proper name been decided or..?"

"No and I don't think we're ever going to."

"Okay, anyways they're a black hole that Solver drone's can make." Cake asked, watching her parents think it over, practically seeing there systems frantically trying to find something.

N's face then light up. "Oh! Yeah, we have. Well, more accurately me and your grandmother have, you mum was also possessed and she knew what was going on. But yeah, we've seen them, just never realised that's what they were called." He chimed, his voice whilst far away from cheery, it was still a bit too upbeat for the younger drone.

And she didn't hide it, violet hollowed optics looking between her parents. "Why am I still surprised..."

“So they do know what nulls are. Should we also ask any of the other solver hosts as well?” Anutek says, looking down at Cake.

"Depends, what do you mean by Solver host?"

“Individuals with the Solver.”

"Sure? But I don't know if they'll know anything." Cake shrugged, turning to her parents. "Thanks for answering, sorry for the random visit."

"Nah, you're fine, this used to be your home too." N chimed.

"Heh, alright, tell Biscuit I said hi." She purred, walking out the door and closing it when Anutek leaves.

“Who is next?” Anutek asks as he exits the house, sensor arrays collecting every ounce of visual and audial information.

"There's, Amy, Candy and Indigo. Amy and Candy are married so if we go there then it be a two in one. The only issue is that I don't know any of there schedules." The hybrid explained.

#rp blog #oc: cake

The scarab shows a map of a building

[I have a lab dedicated to studying the solver]

[Oh wow, have you figured out anything by using it those far?]

[we’ve created a virus that disable nanites and consumes a drone from the inside out.]

[Oh! Um! Holy shit on a brick that is actually terrifying]

[I’ve also been thinking up a way to prevent the solver from being present in an area. Like say the solver is able to manifest anywhere in reality, what if a just created a hole reality the solver couldn’t be in. That way, I could disable a solver host from using their solver in any way whilst in my territory.]

[Also Tamonhak, my Voidmancer, has been studying a Planet Devourer that was accidentally made by Zeta.]

[Oh really? That's honestly amazing, especially if there's a universe out there where The Solver doesn't exist. Just as long it doesn't cause pain or kill them then I'm all for it]

[I have several questions, but um, who's Zeta and how did they do that?]

[The Solver doesn’t exist in my universe, or at least if it did it died out a long time ago.]

[Zeta is one of Alex’s drones, she’s a solver drone, apparently outside of the primary host, Zeta is the most skilled with the solver in that universe. We were trying to see if Zeta could make a null, but she accidentally made a small planet Devourer.]

[Huh, I hope she's okay, I'm not fully sure what effects they get from using The Solver in Alex's home. But I hope she's okay regardless. Also, what is a "null"?]

[As far as I’m aware, the only changes she’s experienced from the Solver outside of the usual needing oil and having fleshy insides are that she has, I think an extra set of teeth or something.]

[You don’t know what a null is? From what I’ve seen, they’re just black holes created by Solver drones.]

[No, I've never seen one, I don't think anyone knows what they're either.]

[Odd. Most universes I’ve seen that have solver, people are very much aware of nulls]

[I don't know, I guess no one has seen one here? Or at least The Solver drones in my bunker haven't seen one]

[That is rather strange that they don’t know what nulls are. Or maybe some do know, they just won’t tell, for whatever reason.]

[Maybe, or, again, they've just never seen one]

[True. Should we ask them if they’ve actually seen a null before?]

[Yeah, just need to finish a few chores first then we can do that. Won't take more than an hour]

[Understood.]

Within exactly one hour from the last message sent, the sound of something moving could be heard outside Cake’s house.

The purple drone was sitting on the couch when she heard the noises, pushing herself up and opening the front door.

Anutek is outside the house, standing perfectly still, almost looking like a statue.

"Hey." Cake chimed. "Here to ask the others about those black whole things?"

“Yes. Who do you think we should ask first?”

"My parents, they should be home by now and they have a fair amount of experience with the thing, so they might know or at least knew of someone who did." She suggested. "They might of seen one and not know what it's called. Knowing what something looks like but not knowing what it's called kinda stuff."

“Understood.”

Anutek moves for the first time since his arrival, backing up to let Cake guide him to her parents house.

Cake soon walked out, locking the door via keypad and walking to her parent's home. It didn't take long, soon walking over to the door and knocking. Soon the door slide open standing there was this world's version of N, wearing a pink shirt with a dog head on it and pink pajama pants.

"Hey buddy! What brings you here—" He soon notices Anutek. "Uhh, would they the reason?" The Disassembly drone asked, a bit taken a back by how tall the new face was.

The young adult nodded, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, he mentioned something and was surprised that I never heard of it, so we wanted to know if either you or mum have."

"I'm guessing it's Solver related?" He chimed, earning a nod from his daughter before he gestured for them come inside.

N then walked over to a rather comfortable couch where there was already a short purple haired drone sitting there, watching whatever was playing on the TV. "Hey Uzi, Cake brought a friend over and they want to know if we've seen something."

"Uh, sure." The short drone looked over her kid, only to pause when seeing Anutek and turning to give N a bewildered. "Uh, what do you want to know. And what are you?" She asked, with the last part practically inaudible.

“I am Overlord Anutek, I am a Necron. That isn’t important right now though. Do you know what a Null is?”

The two older drone's stared for a moment, Uzi looking over to her kid a raised brow and slight question on her face.

"Basically a black hole that Solver users— Solver drones? Has a proper name been decided or..?"

"No and I don't think we're ever going to."

"Okay, anyways they're a black hole that Solver drone's can make." Cake asked, watching her parents think it over, practically seeing there systems frantically trying to find something.

N's face then light up. "Oh! Yeah, we have. Well, more accurately me and your grandmother have, you mum was also possessed and she knew what was going on. But yeah, we've seen them, just never realised that's what they were called." He chimed, his voice whilst far away from cheery, it was still a bit too upbeat for the younger drone.

And she didn't hide it, violet hollowed optics looking between her parents. "Why am I still surprised..."

“So they do know what nulls are. Should we also ask any of the other solver hosts as well?” Anutek says, looking down at Cake.

"Depends, what do you mean by Solver host?"

“Individuals with the Solver.”

"Sure? But I don't know if they'll know anything." Cake shrugged, turning to her parents. "Thanks for answering, sorry for the random visit."

"Nah, you're fine, this used to be your home too." N chimed.

"Heh, alright, tell Biscuit I said hi." She purred, walking out the door and closing it when Anutek leaves.

#rp blog #oc: cake #N

Cake and Bird walked through the jungle, the blue drone in front with the purple drone closely trailed behind. The former was wearing a black cardigan with a solid high cut dulling blue shirt underneath, whilst the other was wearing her usually get up of a pale blue jacket with a navy blue shirt with a trim that matched her jacket with shorts of the same colour scheme.

The violet drone was looking around, peering into anything that was even remotely considered dark, expecting something to stare back. She forced her attention onto her partner, flicking her tail before speaking. "So, remind me again, are we telling them or not?"

Blue optics looked up to the taller drone. "No, not currently, I don't want the first thing we tell either Ai or Specter after not seeing them for a while being "I'm pregnant", it feels..." She stopped to tried and find the word but just ended up shrugging, her mind drawing a blank. "Rude? Well, rude is too harsh but it just feels off."

"Got it." The hybrid nodded. "Just wanted to be clear."

@md-ouroboros

As they walked, a familiar voice could be heard.

"You're leaving yourself open."

There was the sound of someone hitting the ground, followed by a groan.

"You're doing better, though. I can feel the energy behind your swings."

If the drones were to approach the noise, they'd see Spectre sitting down on a fallen log, talking to a worker drone with orange eyelights holding a sword, currently laying on the ground facing the canopy above.

"That's good?" he asked, not moving.

Spectre nodded. "Yeah. Though I'm noticing you don't space yourself very much."

"Maybe? I don't think it hormonal changes as Bird would've most likely shown it sooner rather than later."

"No, not necessarily." The Solver drone butted in. "It's possible, but it might not be our worlds trigger in specific. Trauma and/or stress might be though, as it seems to be the common factor before symptoms show up. Makes me wonder why though."

Cake nodded. "Well simple, given from what I've been told about the fucking thing, I might be for manipulation gives that a scared person isn't usually a thinking person. Not to mention that whilst some, like my mum, would try and figure out what's going on, not everyone is like that. Some are more anxious or would rather deal with it themselves." She briefly paused, thinking about something. "It might also help with hiding it as all the strange behaviour might be shrugged off as trauma related, even to the person themselves."

"You've thought about this for a fair bit haven't you?" Bird asked, slumping against the hybrid.

The purple drone fumbled her words a bit, her visor briefly flushing before getting something clear out, smiling softly. "Yeah, yeah I have."

She then turned to Spectre, smile still on her face. "Anyways, why was this version of my mum feeding her own oil to a baby?"

(Previous)

"Over here, pillbabies are typically fed oil from their parent or someone else capable. It's like breast feeding, if you know what that is." She put her hand over the opposite side of her waist. "I believe it's teen bodies that first get it, but drones have a side panel. It's got a spot to put a bottle then you take the bottle and put it inside a port pillbabies have. There's also a port to share your charge with them, since to my knowledge, they aren't able to fully charge themselves yet."

Spectre moved her hand back.

"Tera was adopted when she was a pillbaby. She had an overheating issue, and so N adopted her. Uzi joined him because disassembly drones had their side panels removed when they got turned into one."

She looked up with an almost fond smile.

"Uzi didn't realize until later that feeding Tera her oil also passed on The Solver. By then, there wasn't anything they could do. I'm pretty sure you need to have the solver in order for your oil to be okay for a baby solver drone to be fed it. At the very least, we feed Tera's oil to Koba and Kiara's to Kim."

"I know what breastfeeding is, mainly in the context of animals, but why have that to start with? Is it babies need it filtered or somethi—" Her optics then unfocused, narrowing as she thought about it, staring into nothing as she realised she might of just answered her own question.

After a moment, Bird decided to just carry the conversation on. "Would I be wrong in guessing the feeding situation is due to one of the babies already having The Solver?"

"Yeah, all kits that are born have the solver. Their bodies are naturally more organic and they grow up like a typical child, they don't have body transfers." Spectre tapped her nails across her leg. "The only exception I know of would be that Bullet, one of V's kids, most likely has the Solver. She and Lizzy opted to use a machine to develop the baby's code instead of carrying it themselves. So the triplets are all pillbabies, we're not quite sure if they would be kits if the machine wasn't used."

Spectre stopped herself and laughed. "Sorry, I'm rambling."

[SD_V: ...]

[CVD: I'm never letting this world's version of you know you exist]

[CVD: Also, who did you have a crush on when you were still alive? :>]

"Nah you're fine. So Solver drones grow like organic babies?" Cake asked, a slight upbeat tone in her voice as one of her optics buzzed yellow like crazy, smiling rather happily.

The blue drone tilted her head slightly, face blank but curious. "You have a machine here that can make kids too?"

Spectre tilts her head to Cake. "Yeah."

She nods to Bird. "In a sense. It's more like an artificial womb. Both drones put in their own data and from there it develops. It really does seem to be for drones who want to have kids but either don't want to carry or for one reason or another can't carry."

Then she went back to Cake. "Hey, so random question. Do you have another consciousness inside your body, or mind, or whatever the right term would be?"

"Sounds similar to something we have in our world. It's how all of us we made actually, nobody — until recently — has carried code." She hummed, looking back at Cake and noticing the hybrid's optics were two different colours now.

The drone in question blinked for a moment, either having a conversation or just thinking. "Yes, I do. It's the person I got my core from, apparently enough of her code or something survived where she was able to get stuck in my head. She's alright." She ended up shrugging, not sounding too bothered as both optics went back to being violet again.

"Huh, interesting. Well at least in your case, it seems to not be a bad thing."

She looked at Bird. "I'm guessing the 'until recently' is referring to you two?"

"Nah, if anything, the opposite. She's genuinely stopped me from getting myself killed on multiple occasions when I was a teen." The purple drone chuckled, sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck.

[SD_V: you got yourself into those situations to begin with." The two stated, although Bird's were the only one's to be heard.

"I know." Cake nervously chuckled, her smile faulting slightly before wrapping her arm around her girlfriend.

"Anyways, y-yes. Did even know this was possible, just started feeling off and it just never went away." The blue drone pulled down her shirt, enough where her servely cracked orange and yellow core light would be seen. "No clue why those in specific, guess we'll find out when they're here."

Spectre leaned forward to get a better look.

"Well, yellow could easily be from whoever's core Cake has. Taking on the color of the original and still kinda alive owner of it, it'd make sense."

Spectre crossed her arms.

"As for orange, I couldn't say. Maybe from a relative?" She started snapping her finger. "Ah, what's the word. Oh! Recessive, right."

"I like to think it came from my dad."

"Yes, recessive. It is likely as nobody can remember the eye colour of one of my bio fathers. So probably came from there."

Spectre blinked.

"One of?"

"Turns out I had two bio fathers." Bird shrugged, not sure what to even say.

"Huh." Spectre gave a tiny shrug. "Neat, didn't know that."

"In that case it very well could've been. I don't know enough about you guys to say any more, though."

"Neither did I until last week."

"Yeah, I don't blame ya', if anything that just suggests we should visit more." The purple drone chuckled, curling her around Bird.

"Or maybe I should visit you all some time."

"Oh, really?" Cake asked, her tail wagging against the ground.

"It would be nice to see you around honestly." Bird chimed, a relaxed smile on her face.

"Yeah, for sure. It'd be nice to meet you two's families."

"Yeah, I would love to see my mum and dad's reactions if they see ya'." The hybrid chuckled.

"I know my dad would be curious, although I do think everyone else will be startled as I don't remember if anyone has visited or not."

"Question. When you see a human, are they detailed, or do you just see a black silhouette?"

"Silhouettes." The Solver drone started. "Although, you were briefly labelled as "Human" when we first met, but later on it did to "Unknown". Now it's just your name."

Spectre chuckled like a gremlin... or like Uzi.

"I always do love seeing people think I'm human until I grow a third arm. The reactions are so funny sometimes."

She hummed. "Honestly, my... I guess species, we don't have a name. The scientific one they came up with was just 'shadow human' or something. I guess that counts?"

The blue drone hummed. "It sounds more like a description, but I do know it used happen a lot. It doesn't change that to me and Cake, you're just Specter."

"Yeah, you're Specter, a friendly shadow we know." The purple other shrugged. "Although I don't think I've ever seen you grow extra limbs pass wings one time."

Spectre blinked.

Then she began to shift in appearance, growing larger, 3 sets of wings revealing themselves to curl around her body, of which several pairs of arms sprouted, reaching through the gaps in the wings. The melted halo above her head shatters, hovering behind her head in some sort of symbol.

"I Can Do A Lot Of Things." Her voice boomed, loud and yet not seeming to affect anyone's hearing.

The two sat there stunned, Cake with a wide amazed smile and Bird with hollowed optics.

"Holy biblically accurate angel, that's awesome!" The hybrid yelled, tail wagging excitedly.

"Huh, your wives have taste." The blue drone stated, sounding so calm and casual it made her girlfriend chock out a laugh.

Spectre laughed as she slowly returned to her normal form.

"Thank you. I've done some thinking for a more 'combat' specific forms. That said, I feel like this one would probably scare Sanctuary more than anything."

"Probably, I'm not sure what to suggest as I don't really fight." She started. "My only suggestion is to mess with it and be willing to go wild with it even if you go for something more simple in the end."

"Eh, I've come up with something more simple. Just thinking on how to tweak it."

She tilted her head. "Don't fight? Surprising."

"Why is that surprising?"

"Why? Hmmmm..."

Spectre looked up in thought.

"Maybe I just know a lot of Solver drones who get involved in fights somewhat often. Tera's a guard, Harlow's an assassin, Tess is... Tess."

Bird thought about her answer, thinking it over. "That makes sense actually, I think I would be surprised to in your situation. But to repeat, I'm not a fighter. I've gotten into arguments but they don't usually result in violence."

"Can confirm, she's gotten angry with me over the years and not once has she hit me over it. She did throw out her voice once though, that was... Awful but given what I was doing at the time, I deserved it." Cake purred, pulling the smaller drone in closer to her.

"You were throwing yourself off buildings."

"Like I said, I deserved it."

"Honestly I think I prefer you not being fighters. As much as I love seeing Tera in action, I think I'll always prefer the peaceful life."

She chuckled.

"I mean, the idea of just... living, it was part of my proposal to her."

"Well, it's nice just living. It might not be the most exciting thing to some but I like it." The blue gave a smile. "Now then, I am a fan of horror so I can't say my life is fully peaceful." She then added, her smile turning into a slight smirk as the hybrid rolled her eyes, a loving smile her face.

"Ahh, horror is good. Always love me a good horror movie."

Bird's optics light up. "Agreed, I'm curious now, what is your favourite horror movie?"

#rp blog #oc: bird

Cake and Bird walked through the jungle, the blue drone in front with the purple drone closely trailed behind. The former was wearing a black cardigan with a solid high cut dulling blue shirt underneath, whilst the other was wearing her usually get up of a pale blue jacket with a navy blue shirt with a trim that matched her jacket with shorts of the same colour scheme.

The violet drone was looking around, peering into anything that was even remotely considered dark, expecting something to stare back. She forced her attention onto her partner, flicking her tail before speaking. "So, remind me again, are we telling them or not?"

Blue optics looked up to the taller drone. "No, not currently, I don't want the first thing we tell either Ai or Specter after not seeing them for a while being "I'm pregnant", it feels..." She stopped to tried and find the word but just ended up shrugging, her mind drawing a blank. "Rude? Well, rude is too harsh but it just feels off."

"Got it." The hybrid nodded. "Just wanted to be clear."

@md-ouroboros

As they walked, a familiar voice could be heard.

"You're leaving yourself open."

There was the sound of someone hitting the ground, followed by a groan.

"You're doing better, though. I can feel the energy behind your swings."

If the drones were to approach the noise, they'd see Spectre sitting down on a fallen log, talking to a worker drone with orange eyelights holding a sword, currently laying on the ground facing the canopy above.

"That's good?" he asked, not moving.

Spectre nodded. "Yeah. Though I'm noticing you don't space yourself very much."

"Maybe? I don't think it hormonal changes as Bird would've most likely shown it sooner rather than later."

"No, not necessarily." The Solver drone butted in. "It's possible, but it might not be our worlds trigger in specific. Trauma and/or stress might be though, as it seems to be the common factor before symptoms show up. Makes me wonder why though."

Cake nodded. "Well simple, given from what I've been told about the fucking thing, I might be for manipulation gives that a scared person isn't usually a thinking person. Not to mention that whilst some, like my mum, would try and figure out what's going on, not everyone is like that. Some are more anxious or would rather deal with it themselves." She briefly paused, thinking about something. "It might also help with hiding it as all the strange behaviour might be shrugged off as trauma related, even to the person themselves."

"You've thought about this for a fair bit haven't you?" Bird asked, slumping against the hybrid.

The purple drone fumbled her words a bit, her visor briefly flushing before getting something clear out, smiling softly. "Yeah, yeah I have."

She then turned to Spectre, smile still on her face. "Anyways, why was this version of my mum feeding her own oil to a baby?"

(Previous)

"Over here, pillbabies are typically fed oil from their parent or someone else capable. It's like breast feeding, if you know what that is." She put her hand over the opposite side of her waist. "I believe it's teen bodies that first get it, but drones have a side panel. It's got a spot to put a bottle then you take the bottle and put it inside a port pillbabies have. There's also a port to share your charge with them, since to my knowledge, they aren't able to fully charge themselves yet."

Spectre moved her hand back.

"Tera was adopted when she was a pillbaby. She had an overheating issue, and so N adopted her. Uzi joined him because disassembly drones had their side panels removed when they got turned into one."

She looked up with an almost fond smile.

"Uzi didn't realize until later that feeding Tera her oil also passed on The Solver. By then, there wasn't anything they could do. I'm pretty sure you need to have the solver in order for your oil to be okay for a baby solver drone to be fed it. At the very least, we feed Tera's oil to Koba and Kiara's to Kim."

"I know what breastfeeding is, mainly in the context of animals, but why have that to start with? Is it babies need it filtered or somethi—" Her optics then unfocused, narrowing as she thought about it, staring into nothing as she realised she might of just answered her own question.

After a moment, Bird decided to just carry the conversation on. "Would I be wrong in guessing the feeding situation is due to one of the babies already having The Solver?"

"Yeah, all kits that are born have the solver. Their bodies are naturally more organic and they grow up like a typical child, they don't have body transfers." Spectre tapped her nails across her leg. "The only exception I know of would be that Bullet, one of V's kids, most likely has the Solver. She and Lizzy opted to use a machine to develop the baby's code instead of carrying it themselves. So the triplets are all pillbabies, we're not quite sure if they would be kits if the machine wasn't used."

Spectre stopped herself and laughed. "Sorry, I'm rambling."

[SD_V: ...]

[CVD: I'm never letting this world's version of you know you exist]

[CVD: Also, who did you have a crush on when you were still alive? :>]

"Nah you're fine. So Solver drones grow like organic babies?" Cake asked, a slight upbeat tone in her voice as one of her optics buzzed yellow like crazy, smiling rather happily.

The blue drone tilted her head slightly, face blank but curious. "You have a machine here that can make kids too?"

Spectre tilts her head to Cake. "Yeah."

She nods to Bird. "In a sense. It's more like an artificial womb. Both drones put in their own data and from there it develops. It really does seem to be for drones who want to have kids but either don't want to carry or for one reason or another can't carry."

Then she went back to Cake. "Hey, so random question. Do you have another consciousness inside your body, or mind, or whatever the right term would be?"

"Sounds similar to something we have in our world. It's how all of us we made actually, nobody — until recently — has carried code." She hummed, looking back at Cake and noticing the hybrid's optics were two different colours now.

The drone in question blinked for a moment, either having a conversation or just thinking. "Yes, I do. It's the person I got my core from, apparently enough of her code or something survived where she was able to get stuck in my head. She's alright." She ended up shrugging, not sounding too bothered as both optics went back to being violet again.

"Huh, interesting. Well at least in your case, it seems to not be a bad thing."

She looked at Bird. "I'm guessing the 'until recently' is referring to you two?"

"Nah, if anything, the opposite. She's genuinely stopped me from getting myself killed on multiple occasions when I was a teen." The purple drone chuckled, sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck.

[SD_V: you got yourself into those situations to begin with." The two stated, although Bird's were the only one's to be heard.

"I know." Cake nervously chuckled, her smile faulting slightly before wrapping her arm around her girlfriend.

"Anyways, y-yes. Did even know this was possible, just started feeling off and it just never went away." The blue drone pulled down her shirt, enough where her servely cracked orange and yellow core light would be seen. "No clue why those in specific, guess we'll find out when they're here."

Spectre leaned forward to get a better look.

"Well, yellow could easily be from whoever's core Cake has. Taking on the color of the original and still kinda alive owner of it, it'd make sense."

Spectre crossed her arms.

"As for orange, I couldn't say. Maybe from a relative?" She started snapping her finger. "Ah, what's the word. Oh! Recessive, right."

"I like to think it came from my dad."

"Yes, recessive. It is likely as nobody can remember the eye colour of one of my bio fathers. So probably came from there."

Spectre blinked.

"One of?"

"Turns out I had two bio fathers." Bird shrugged, not sure what to even say.

"Huh." Spectre gave a tiny shrug. "Neat, didn't know that."

"In that case it very well could've been. I don't know enough about you guys to say any more, though."

"Neither did I until last week."

"Yeah, I don't blame ya', if anything that just suggests we should visit more." The purple drone chuckled, curling her around Bird.

"Or maybe I should visit you all some time."

"Oh, really?" Cake asked, her tail wagging against the ground.

"It would be nice to see you around honestly." Bird chimed, a relaxed smile on her face.

"Yeah, for sure. It'd be nice to meet you two's families."

"Yeah, I would love to see my mum and dad's reactions if they see ya'." The hybrid chuckled.

"I know my dad would be curious, although I do think everyone else will be startled as I don't remember if anyone has visited or not."

"Question. When you see a human, are they detailed, or do you just see a black silhouette?"

"Silhouettes." The Solver drone started. "Although, you were briefly labelled as "Human" when we first met, but later on it did to "Unknown". Now it's just your name."

Spectre chuckled like a gremlin... or like Uzi.

"I always do love seeing people think I'm human until I grow a third arm. The reactions are so funny sometimes."

She hummed. "Honestly, my... I guess species, we don't have a name. The scientific one they came up with was just 'shadow human' or something. I guess that counts?"

The blue drone hummed. "It sounds more like a description, but I do know it used happen a lot. It doesn't change that to me and Cake, you're just Specter."

"Yeah, you're Specter, a friendly shadow we know." The purple other shrugged. "Although I don't think I've ever seen you grow extra limbs pass wings one time."

Spectre blinked.

Then she began to shift in appearance, growing larger, 3 sets of wings revealing themselves to curl around her body, of which several pairs of arms sprouted, reaching through the gaps in the wings. The melted halo above her head shatters, hovering behind her head in some sort of symbol.

"I Can Do A Lot Of Things." Her voice boomed, loud and yet not seeming to affect anyone's hearing.

The two sat there stunned, Cake with a wide amazed smile and Bird with hollowed optics.

"Holy biblically accurate angel, that's awesome!" The hybrid yelled, tail wagging excitedly.

"Huh, your wives have taste." The blue drone stated, sounding so calm and casual it made her girlfriend chock out a laugh.

Spectre laughed as she slowly returned to her normal form.

"Thank you. I've done some thinking for a more 'combat' specific forms. That said, I feel like this one would probably scare Sanctuary more than anything."

"Probably, I'm not sure what to suggest as I don't really fight." She started. "My only suggestion is to mess with it and be willing to go wild with it even if you go for something more simple in the end."

"Eh, I've come up with something more simple. Just thinking on how to tweak it."

She tilted her head. "Don't fight? Surprising."

"Why is that surprising?"

"Why? Hmmmm..."

Spectre looked up in thought.

"Maybe I just know a lot of Solver drones who get involved in fights somewhat often. Tera's a guard, Harlow's an assassin, Tess is... Tess."

Bird thought about her answer, thinking it over. "That makes sense actually, I think I would be surprised to in your situation. But to repeat, I'm not a fighter. I've gotten into arguments but they don't usually result in violence."

"Can confirm, she's gotten angry with me over the years and not once has she hit me over it. She did throw out her voice once though, that was... Awful but given what I was doing at the time, I deserved it." Cake purred, pulling the smaller drone in closer to her.

"You were throwing yourself off buildings."

"Like I said, I deserved it."

"Honestly I think I prefer you not being fighters. As much as I love seeing Tera in action, I think I'll always prefer the peaceful life."

She chuckled.

"I mean, the idea of just... living, it was part of my proposal to her."

"Well, it's nice just living. It might not be the most exciting thing to some but I like it." The blue gave a smile. "Now then, I am a fan of horror so I can't say my life is fully peaceful." She then added, her smile turning into a slight smirk as the hybrid rolled her eyes, a loving smile her face.

#rp blog #oc: cake #oc: bird

Cake and Bird walked through the jungle, the blue drone in front with the purple drone closely trailed behind. The former was wearing a black cardigan with a solid high cut dulling blue shirt underneath, whilst the other was wearing her usually get up of a pale blue jacket with a navy blue shirt with a trim that matched her jacket with shorts of the same colour scheme.

The violet drone was looking around, peering into anything that was even remotely considered dark, expecting something to stare back. She forced her attention onto her partner, flicking her tail before speaking. "So, remind me again, are we telling them or not?"

Blue optics looked up to the taller drone. "No, not currently, I don't want the first thing we tell either Ai or Specter after not seeing them for a while being "I'm pregnant", it feels..." She stopped to tried and find the word but just ended up shrugging, her mind drawing a blank. "Rude? Well, rude is too harsh but it just feels off."

"Got it." The hybrid nodded. "Just wanted to be clear."

@md-ouroboros

As they walked, a familiar voice could be heard.

"You're leaving yourself open."

There was the sound of someone hitting the ground, followed by a groan.

"You're doing better, though. I can feel the energy behind your swings."

If the drones were to approach the noise, they'd see Spectre sitting down on a fallen log, talking to a worker drone with orange eyelights holding a sword, currently laying on the ground facing the canopy above.

"That's good?" he asked, not moving.

Spectre nodded. "Yeah. Though I'm noticing you don't space yourself very much."

"Maybe? I don't think it hormonal changes as Bird would've most likely shown it sooner rather than later."

"No, not necessarily." The Solver drone butted in. "It's possible, but it might not be our worlds trigger in specific. Trauma and/or stress might be though, as it seems to be the common factor before symptoms show up. Makes me wonder why though."

Cake nodded. "Well simple, given from what I've been told about the fucking thing, I might be for manipulation gives that a scared person isn't usually a thinking person. Not to mention that whilst some, like my mum, would try and figure out what's going on, not everyone is like that. Some are more anxious or would rather deal with it themselves." She briefly paused, thinking about something. "It might also help with hiding it as all the strange behaviour might be shrugged off as trauma related, even to the person themselves."

"You've thought about this for a fair bit haven't you?" Bird asked, slumping against the hybrid.

The purple drone fumbled her words a bit, her visor briefly flushing before getting something clear out, smiling softly. "Yeah, yeah I have."

She then turned to Spectre, smile still on her face. "Anyways, why was this version of my mum feeding her own oil to a baby?"

(Previous)

"Over here, pillbabies are typically fed oil from their parent or someone else capable. It's like breast feeding, if you know what that is." She put her hand over the opposite side of her waist. "I believe it's teen bodies that first get it, but drones have a side panel. It's got a spot to put a bottle then you take the bottle and put it inside a port pillbabies have. There's also a port to share your charge with them, since to my knowledge, they aren't able to fully charge themselves yet."

Spectre moved her hand back.

"Tera was adopted when she was a pillbaby. She had an overheating issue, and so N adopted her. Uzi joined him because disassembly drones had their side panels removed when they got turned into one."

She looked up with an almost fond smile.

"Uzi didn't realize until later that feeding Tera her oil also passed on The Solver. By then, there wasn't anything they could do. I'm pretty sure you need to have the solver in order for your oil to be okay for a baby solver drone to be fed it. At the very least, we feed Tera's oil to Koba and Kiara's to Kim."

"I know what breastfeeding is, mainly in the context of animals, but why have that to start with? Is it babies need it filtered or somethi—" Her optics then unfocused, narrowing as she thought about it, staring into nothing as she realised she might of just answered her own question.

After a moment, Bird decided to just carry the conversation on. "Would I be wrong in guessing the feeding situation is due to one of the babies already having The Solver?"

"Yeah, all kits that are born have the solver. Their bodies are naturally more organic and they grow up like a typical child, they don't have body transfers." Spectre tapped her nails across her leg. "The only exception I know of would be that Bullet, one of V's kids, most likely has the Solver. She and Lizzy opted to use a machine to develop the baby's code instead of carrying it themselves. So the triplets are all pillbabies, we're not quite sure if they would be kits if the machine wasn't used."

Spectre stopped herself and laughed. "Sorry, I'm rambling."

[SD_V: ...]

[CVD: I'm never letting this world's version of you know you exist]

[CVD: Also, who did you have a crush on when you were still alive? :>]

"Nah you're fine. So Solver drones grow like organic babies?" Cake asked, a slight upbeat tone in her voice as one of her optics buzzed yellow like crazy, smiling rather happily.

The blue drone tilted her head slightly, face blank but curious. "You have a machine here that can make kids too?"

Spectre tilts her head to Cake. "Yeah."

She nods to Bird. "In a sense. It's more like an artificial womb. Both drones put in their own data and from there it develops. It really does seem to be for drones who want to have kids but either don't want to carry or for one reason or another can't carry."

Then she went back to Cake. "Hey, so random question. Do you have another consciousness inside your body, or mind, or whatever the right term would be?"

"Sounds similar to something we have in our world. It's how all of us we made actually, nobody — until recently — has carried code." She hummed, looking back at Cake and noticing the hybrid's optics were two different colours now.

The drone in question blinked for a moment, either having a conversation or just thinking. "Yes, I do. It's the person I got my core from, apparently enough of her code or something survived where she was able to get stuck in my head. She's alright." She ended up shrugging, not sounding too bothered as both optics went back to being violet again.

"Huh, interesting. Well at least in your case, it seems to not be a bad thing."

She looked at Bird. "I'm guessing the 'until recently' is referring to you two?"

"Nah, if anything, the opposite. She's genuinely stopped me from getting myself killed on multiple occasions when I was a teen." The purple drone chuckled, sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck.

[SD_V: you got yourself into those situations to begin with." The two stated, although Bird's were the only one's to be heard.

"I know." Cake nervously chuckled, her smile faulting slightly before wrapping her arm around her girlfriend.

"Anyways, y-yes. Did even know this was possible, just started feeling off and it just never went away." The blue drone pulled down her shirt, enough where her servely cracked orange and yellow core light would be seen. "No clue why those in specific, guess we'll find out when they're here."

Spectre leaned forward to get a better look.

"Well, yellow could easily be from whoever's core Cake has. Taking on the color of the original and still kinda alive owner of it, it'd make sense."

Spectre crossed her arms.

"As for orange, I couldn't say. Maybe from a relative?" She started snapping her finger. "Ah, what's the word. Oh! Recessive, right."

"I like to think it came from my dad."

"Yes, recessive. It is likely as nobody can remember the eye colour of one of my bio fathers. So probably came from there."

Spectre blinked.

"One of?"

"Turns out I had two bio fathers." Bird shrugged, not sure what to even say.

"Huh." Spectre gave a tiny shrug. "Neat, didn't know that."

"In that case it very well could've been. I don't know enough about you guys to say any more, though."

"Neither did I until last week."

"Yeah, I don't blame ya', if anything that just suggests we should visit more." The purple drone chuckled, curling her around Bird.

"Or maybe I should visit you all some time."

"Oh, really?" Cake asked, her tail wagging against the ground.

"It would be nice to see you around honestly." Bird chimed, a relaxed smile on her face.

"Yeah, for sure. It'd be nice to meet you two's families."

"Yeah, I would love to see my mum and dad's reactions if they see ya'." The hybrid chuckled.

"I know my dad would be curious, although I do think everyone else will be startled as I don't remember if anyone has visited or not."

"Question. When you see a human, are they detailed, or do you just see a black silhouette?"

"Silhouettes." The Solver drone started. "Although, you were briefly labelled as "Human" when we first met, but later on it did to "Unknown". Now it's just your name."

Spectre chuckled like a gremlin... or like Uzi.

"I always do love seeing people think I'm human until I grow a third arm. The reactions are so funny sometimes."

She hummed. "Honestly, my... I guess species, we don't have a name. The scientific one they came up with was just 'shadow human' or something. I guess that counts?"

The blue drone hummed. "It sounds more like a description, but I do know it used happen a lot. It doesn't change that to me and Cake, you're just Specter."

"Yeah, you're Specter, a friendly shadow we know." The purple other shrugged. "Although I don't think I've ever seen you grow extra limbs pass wings one time."

Spectre blinked.

Then she began to shift in appearance, growing larger, 3 sets of wings revealing themselves to curl around her body, of which several pairs of arms sprouted, reaching through the gaps in the wings. The melted halo above her head shatters, hovering behind her head in some sort of symbol.

"I Can Do A Lot Of Things." Her voice boomed, loud and yet not seeming to affect anyone's hearing.

The two sat there stunned, Cake with a wide amazed smile and Bird with hollowed optics.

"Holy biblically accurate angel, that's awesome!" The hybrid yelled, tail wagging excitedly.

"Huh, your wives have taste." The blue drone stated, sounding so calm and casual it made her girlfriend chock out a laugh.

Spectre laughed as she slowly returned to her normal form.

"Thank you. I've done some thinking for a more 'combat' specific forms. That said, I feel like this one would probably scare Sanctuary more than anything."

"Probably, I'm not sure what to suggest as I don't really fight." She started. "My only suggestion is to mess with it and be willing to go wild with it even if you go for something more simple in the end."

"Eh, I've come up with something more simple. Just thinking on how to tweak it."

She tilted her head. "Don't fight? Surprising."

"Why is that surprising?"

"Why? Hmmmm..."

Spectre looked up in thought.

"Maybe I just know a lot of Solver drones who get involved in fights somewhat often. Tera's a guard, Harlow's an assassin, Tess is... Tess."

Bird thought about her answer, thinking it over. "That makes sense actually, I think I would be surprised to in your situation. But to repeat, I'm not a fighter. I've gotten into arguments but they don't usually result in violence."

"Can confirm, she's gotten angry with me over the years and not once has she hit me over it. She did throw out her voice once though, that was... Awful but given what I was doing at the time, I deserved it." Cake purred, pulling the smaller drone in closer to her.

"You were throwing yourself off buildings."

"Like I said, I deserved it."

#rp blog #oc: bird #oc: cake

Cake and Bird walked through the jungle, the blue drone in front with the purple drone closely trailed behind. The former was wearing a black cardigan with a solid high cut dulling blue shirt underneath, whilst the other was wearing her usually get up of a pale blue jacket with a navy blue shirt with a trim that matched her jacket with shorts of the same colour scheme.

The violet drone was looking around, peering into anything that was even remotely considered dark, expecting something to stare back. She forced her attention onto her partner, flicking her tail before speaking. "So, remind me again, are we telling them or not?"

Blue optics looked up to the taller drone. "No, not currently, I don't want the first thing we tell either Ai or Specter after not seeing them for a while being "I'm pregnant", it feels..." She stopped to tried and find the word but just ended up shrugging, her mind drawing a blank. "Rude? Well, rude is too harsh but it just feels off."

"Got it." The hybrid nodded. "Just wanted to be clear."

@md-ouroboros

As they walked, a familiar voice could be heard.

"You're leaving yourself open."

There was the sound of someone hitting the ground, followed by a groan.

"You're doing better, though. I can feel the energy behind your swings."

If the drones were to approach the noise, they'd see Spectre sitting down on a fallen log, talking to a worker drone with orange eyelights holding a sword, currently laying on the ground facing the canopy above.

"That's good?" he asked, not moving.

Spectre nodded. "Yeah. Though I'm noticing you don't space yourself very much."

"Maybe? I don't think it hormonal changes as Bird would've most likely shown it sooner rather than later."

"No, not necessarily." The Solver drone butted in. "It's possible, but it might not be our worlds trigger in specific. Trauma and/or stress might be though, as it seems to be the common factor before symptoms show up. Makes me wonder why though."

Cake nodded. "Well simple, given from what I've been told about the fucking thing, I might be for manipulation gives that a scared person isn't usually a thinking person. Not to mention that whilst some, like my mum, would try and figure out what's going on, not everyone is like that. Some are more anxious or would rather deal with it themselves." She briefly paused, thinking about something. "It might also help with hiding it as all the strange behaviour might be shrugged off as trauma related, even to the person themselves."

"You've thought about this for a fair bit haven't you?" Bird asked, slumping against the hybrid.

The purple drone fumbled her words a bit, her visor briefly flushing before getting something clear out, smiling softly. "Yeah, yeah I have."

She then turned to Spectre, smile still on her face. "Anyways, why was this version of my mum feeding her own oil to a baby?"

(Previous)

"Over here, pillbabies are typically fed oil from their parent or someone else capable. It's like breast feeding, if you know what that is." She put her hand over the opposite side of her waist. "I believe it's teen bodies that first get it, but drones have a side panel. It's got a spot to put a bottle then you take the bottle and put it inside a port pillbabies have. There's also a port to share your charge with them, since to my knowledge, they aren't able to fully charge themselves yet."

Spectre moved her hand back.

"Tera was adopted when she was a pillbaby. She had an overheating issue, and so N adopted her. Uzi joined him because disassembly drones had their side panels removed when they got turned into one."

She looked up with an almost fond smile.

"Uzi didn't realize until later that feeding Tera her oil also passed on The Solver. By then, there wasn't anything they could do. I'm pretty sure you need to have the solver in order for your oil to be okay for a baby solver drone to be fed it. At the very least, we feed Tera's oil to Koba and Kiara's to Kim."

"I know what breastfeeding is, mainly in the context of animals, but why have that to start with? Is it babies need it filtered or somethi—" Her optics then unfocused, narrowing as she thought about it, staring into nothing as she realised she might of just answered her own question.

After a moment, Bird decided to just carry the conversation on. "Would I be wrong in guessing the feeding situation is due to one of the babies already having The Solver?"

"Yeah, all kits that are born have the solver. Their bodies are naturally more organic and they grow up like a typical child, they don't have body transfers." Spectre tapped her nails across her leg. "The only exception I know of would be that Bullet, one of V's kids, most likely has the Solver. She and Lizzy opted to use a machine to develop the baby's code instead of carrying it themselves. So the triplets are all pillbabies, we're not quite sure if they would be kits if the machine wasn't used."

Spectre stopped herself and laughed. "Sorry, I'm rambling."

[SD_V: ...]

[CVD: I'm never letting this world's version of you know you exist]

[CVD: Also, who did you have a crush on when you were still alive? :>]

"Nah you're fine. So Solver drones grow like organic babies?" Cake asked, a slight upbeat tone in her voice as one of her optics buzzed yellow like crazy, smiling rather happily.

The blue drone tilted her head slightly, face blank but curious. "You have a machine here that can make kids too?"

Spectre tilts her head to Cake. "Yeah."

She nods to Bird. "In a sense. It's more like an artificial womb. Both drones put in their own data and from there it develops. It really does seem to be for drones who want to have kids but either don't want to carry or for one reason or another can't carry."

Then she went back to Cake. "Hey, so random question. Do you have another consciousness inside your body, or mind, or whatever the right term would be?"

"Sounds similar to something we have in our world. It's how all of us we made actually, nobody — until recently — has carried code." She hummed, looking back at Cake and noticing the hybrid's optics were two different colours now.

The drone in question blinked for a moment, either having a conversation or just thinking. "Yes, I do. It's the person I got my core from, apparently enough of her code or something survived where she was able to get stuck in my head. She's alright." She ended up shrugging, not sounding too bothered as both optics went back to being violet again.

"Huh, interesting. Well at least in your case, it seems to not be a bad thing."

She looked at Bird. "I'm guessing the 'until recently' is referring to you two?"

"Nah, if anything, the opposite. She's genuinely stopped me from getting myself killed on multiple occasions when I was a teen." The purple drone chuckled, sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck.

[SD_V: you got yourself into those situations to begin with." The two stated, although Bird's were the only one's to be heard.

"I know." Cake nervously chuckled, her smile faulting slightly before wrapping her arm around her girlfriend.

"Anyways, y-yes. Did even know this was possible, just started feeling off and it just never went away." The blue drone pulled down her shirt, enough where her servely cracked orange and yellow core light would be seen. "No clue why those in specific, guess we'll find out when they're here."

Spectre leaned forward to get a better look.

"Well, yellow could easily be from whoever's core Cake has. Taking on the color of the original and still kinda alive owner of it, it'd make sense."

Spectre crossed her arms.

"As for orange, I couldn't say. Maybe from a relative?" She started snapping her finger. "Ah, what's the word. Oh! Recessive, right."

"I like to think it came from my dad."

"Yes, recessive. It is likely as nobody can remember the eye colour of one of my bio fathers. So probably came from there."

Spectre blinked.

"One of?"

"Turns out I had two bio fathers." Bird shrugged, not sure what to even say.

"Huh." Spectre gave a tiny shrug. "Neat, didn't know that."

"In that case it very well could've been. I don't know enough about you guys to say any more, though."

"Neither did I until last week."

"Yeah, I don't blame ya', if anything that just suggests we should visit more." The purple drone chuckled, curling her around Bird.

"Or maybe I should visit you all some time."

"Oh, really?" Cake asked, her tail wagging against the ground.

"It would be nice to see you around honestly." Bird chimed, a relaxed smile on her face.

"Yeah, for sure. It'd be nice to meet you two's families."

"Yeah, I would love to see my mum and dad's reactions if they see ya'." The hybrid chuckled.

"I know my dad would be curious, although I do think everyone else will be startled as I don't remember if anyone has visited or not."

"Question. When you see a human, are they detailed, or do you just see a black silhouette?"

"Silhouettes." The Solver drone started. "Although, you were briefly labelled as "Human" when we first met, but later on it did to "Unknown". Now it's just your name."

Spectre chuckled like a gremlin... or like Uzi.

"I always do love seeing people think I'm human until I grow a third arm. The reactions are so funny sometimes."

She hummed. "Honestly, my... I guess species, we don't have a name. The scientific one they came up with was just 'shadow human' or something. I guess that counts?"

The blue drone hummed. "It sounds more like a description, but I do know it used happen a lot. It doesn't change that to me and Cake, you're just Specter."

"Yeah, you're Specter, a friendly shadow we know." The purple other shrugged. "Although I don't think I've ever seen you grow extra limbs pass wings one time."

Spectre blinked.

Then she began to shift in appearance, growing larger, 3 sets of wings revealing themselves to curl around her body, of which several pairs of arms sprouted, reaching through the gaps in the wings. The melted halo above her head shatters, hovering behind her head in some sort of symbol.

"I Can Do A Lot Of Things." Her voice boomed, loud and yet not seeming to affect anyone's hearing.

The two sat there stunned, Cake with a wide amazed smile and Bird with hollowed optics.

"Holy biblically accurate angel, that's awesome!" The hybrid yelled, tail wagging excitedly.

"Huh, your wives have taste." The blue drone stated, sounding so calm and casual it made her girlfriend chock out a laugh.

Spectre laughed as she slowly returned to her normal form.

"Thank you. I've done some thinking for a more 'combat' specific forms. That said, I feel like this one would probably scare Sanctuary more than anything."

"Probably, I'm not sure what to suggest as I don't really fight." She started. "My only suggestion is to mess with it and be willing to go wild with it even if you go for something more simple in the end."

"Eh, I've come up with something more simple. Just thinking on how to tweak it."

She tilted her head. "Don't fight? Surprising."

"Why is that surprising?"

#rp blog #oc: bird

Cake and Bird walked through the jungle, the blue drone in front with the purple drone closely trailed behind. The former was wearing a black cardigan with a solid high cut dulling blue shirt underneath, whilst the other was wearing her usually get up of a pale blue jacket with a navy blue shirt with a trim that matched her jacket with shorts of the same colour scheme.

The violet drone was looking around, peering into anything that was even remotely considered dark, expecting something to stare back. She forced her attention onto her partner, flicking her tail before speaking. "So, remind me again, are we telling them or not?"

Blue optics looked up to the taller drone. "No, not currently, I don't want the first thing we tell either Ai or Specter after not seeing them for a while being "I'm pregnant", it feels..." She stopped to tried and find the word but just ended up shrugging, her mind drawing a blank. "Rude? Well, rude is too harsh but it just feels off."

"Got it." The hybrid nodded. "Just wanted to be clear."

@md-ouroboros

As they walked, a familiar voice could be heard.

"You're leaving yourself open."

There was the sound of someone hitting the ground, followed by a groan.

"You're doing better, though. I can feel the energy behind your swings."

If the drones were to approach the noise, they'd see Spectre sitting down on a fallen log, talking to a worker drone with orange eyelights holding a sword, currently laying on the ground facing the canopy above.

"That's good?" he asked, not moving.

Spectre nodded. "Yeah. Though I'm noticing you don't space yourself very much."

"Maybe? I don't think it hormonal changes as Bird would've most likely shown it sooner rather than later."

"No, not necessarily." The Solver drone butted in. "It's possible, but it might not be our worlds trigger in specific. Trauma and/or stress might be though, as it seems to be the common factor before symptoms show up. Makes me wonder why though."

Cake nodded. "Well simple, given from what I've been told about the fucking thing, I might be for manipulation gives that a scared person isn't usually a thinking person. Not to mention that whilst some, like my mum, would try and figure out what's going on, not everyone is like that. Some are more anxious or would rather deal with it themselves." She briefly paused, thinking about something. "It might also help with hiding it as all the strange behaviour might be shrugged off as trauma related, even to the person themselves."

"You've thought about this for a fair bit haven't you?" Bird asked, slumping against the hybrid.

The purple drone fumbled her words a bit, her visor briefly flushing before getting something clear out, smiling softly. "Yeah, yeah I have."

She then turned to Spectre, smile still on her face. "Anyways, why was this version of my mum feeding her own oil to a baby?"

(Previous)

"Over here, pillbabies are typically fed oil from their parent or someone else capable. It's like breast feeding, if you know what that is." She put her hand over the opposite side of her waist. "I believe it's teen bodies that first get it, but drones have a side panel. It's got a spot to put a bottle then you take the bottle and put it inside a port pillbabies have. There's also a port to share your charge with them, since to my knowledge, they aren't able to fully charge themselves yet."

Spectre moved her hand back.

"Tera was adopted when she was a pillbaby. She had an overheating issue, and so N adopted her. Uzi joined him because disassembly drones had their side panels removed when they got turned into one."

She looked up with an almost fond smile.

"Uzi didn't realize until later that feeding Tera her oil also passed on The Solver. By then, there wasn't anything they could do. I'm pretty sure you need to have the solver in order for your oil to be okay for a baby solver drone to be fed it. At the very least, we feed Tera's oil to Koba and Kiara's to Kim."

"I know what breastfeeding is, mainly in the context of animals, but why have that to start with? Is it babies need it filtered or somethi—" Her optics then unfocused, narrowing as she thought about it, staring into nothing as she realised she might of just answered her own question.

After a moment, Bird decided to just carry the conversation on. "Would I be wrong in guessing the feeding situation is due to one of the babies already having The Solver?"

"Yeah, all kits that are born have the solver. Their bodies are naturally more organic and they grow up like a typical child, they don't have body transfers." Spectre tapped her nails across her leg. "The only exception I know of would be that Bullet, one of V's kids, most likely has the Solver. She and Lizzy opted to use a machine to develop the baby's code instead of carrying it themselves. So the triplets are all pillbabies, we're not quite sure if they would be kits if the machine wasn't used."

Spectre stopped herself and laughed. "Sorry, I'm rambling."

[SD_V: ...]

[CVD: I'm never letting this world's version of you know you exist]

[CVD: Also, who did you have a crush on when you were still alive? :>]

"Nah you're fine. So Solver drones grow like organic babies?" Cake asked, a slight upbeat tone in her voice as one of her optics buzzed yellow like crazy, smiling rather happily.

The blue drone tilted her head slightly, face blank but curious. "You have a machine here that can make kids too?"

Spectre tilts her head to Cake. "Yeah."

She nods to Bird. "In a sense. It's more like an artificial womb. Both drones put in their own data and from there it develops. It really does seem to be for drones who want to have kids but either don't want to carry or for one reason or another can't carry."

Then she went back to Cake. "Hey, so random question. Do you have another consciousness inside your body, or mind, or whatever the right term would be?"

"Sounds similar to something we have in our world. It's how all of us we made actually, nobody — until recently — has carried code." She hummed, looking back at Cake and noticing the hybrid's optics were two different colours now.

The drone in question blinked for a moment, either having a conversation or just thinking. "Yes, I do. It's the person I got my core from, apparently enough of her code or something survived where she was able to get stuck in my head. She's alright." She ended up shrugging, not sounding too bothered as both optics went back to being violet again.

"Huh, interesting. Well at least in your case, it seems to not be a bad thing."

She looked at Bird. "I'm guessing the 'until recently' is referring to you two?"

"Nah, if anything, the opposite. She's genuinely stopped me from getting myself killed on multiple occasions when I was a teen." The purple drone chuckled, sheepishly rubbing the back of her neck.

[SD_V: you got yourself into those situations to begin with." The two stated, although Bird's were the only one's to be heard.

"I know." Cake nervously chuckled, her smile faulting slightly before wrapping her arm around her girlfriend.

"Anyways, y-yes. Did even know this was possible, just started feeling off and it just never went away." The blue drone pulled down her shirt, enough where her servely cracked orange and yellow core light would be seen. "No clue why those in specific, guess we'll find out when they're here."

Spectre leaned forward to get a better look.

"Well, yellow could easily be from whoever's core Cake has. Taking on the color of the original and still kinda alive owner of it, it'd make sense."

Spectre crossed her arms.

"As for orange, I couldn't say. Maybe from a relative?" She started snapping her finger. "Ah, what's the word. Oh! Recessive, right."

"I like to think it came from my dad."

"Yes, recessive. It is likely as nobody can remember the eye colour of one of my bio fathers. So probably came from there."

Spectre blinked.

"One of?"

"Turns out I had two bio fathers." Bird shrugged, not sure what to even say.

"Huh." Spectre gave a tiny shrug. "Neat, didn't know that."

"In that case it very well could've been. I don't know enough about you guys to say any more, though."

"Neither did I until last week."

"Yeah, I don't blame ya', if anything that just suggests we should visit more." The purple drone chuckled, curling her around Bird.

"Or maybe I should visit you all some time."

"Oh, really?" Cake asked, her tail wagging against the ground.

"It would be nice to see you around honestly." Bird chimed, a relaxed smile on her face.

"Yeah, for sure. It'd be nice to meet you two's families."

"Yeah, I would love to see my mum and dad's reactions if they see ya'." The hybrid chuckled.

"I know my dad would be curious, although I do think everyone else will be startled as I don't remember if anyone has visited or not."

"Question. When you see a human, are they detailed, or do you just see a black silhouette?"

"Silhouettes." The Solver drone started. "Although, you were briefly labelled as "Human" when we first met, but later on it did to "Unknown". Now it's just your name."

Spectre chuckled like a gremlin... or like Uzi.

"I always do love seeing people think I'm human until I grow a third arm. The reactions are so funny sometimes."

She hummed. "Honestly, my... I guess species, we don't have a name. The scientific one they came up with was just 'shadow human' or something. I guess that counts?"

The blue drone hummed. "It sounds more like a description, but I do know it used happen a lot. It doesn't change that to me and Cake, you're just Specter."

"Yeah, you're Specter, a friendly shadow we know." The purple other shrugged. "Although I don't think I've ever seen you grow extra limbs pass wings one time."

Spectre blinked.

Then she began to shift in appearance, growing larger, 3 sets of wings revealing themselves to curl around her body, of which several pairs of arms sprouted, reaching through the gaps in the wings. The melted halo above her head shatters, hovering behind her head in some sort of symbol.

"I Can Do A Lot Of Things." Her voice boomed, loud and yet not seeming to affect anyone's hearing.

The two sat there stunned, Cake with a wide amazed smile and Bird with hollowed optics.

"Holy biblically accurate angel, that's awesome!" The hybrid yelled, tail wagging excitedly.

"Huh, your wives have taste." The blue drone stated, sounding so calm and casual it made her girlfriend chock out a laugh.

Spectre laughed as she slowly returned to her normal form.

"Thank you. I've done some thinking for a more 'combat' specific forms. That said, I feel like this one would probably scare Sanctuary more than anything."

"Probably, I'm not sure what to suggest as I don't really fight." She started. "My only suggestion is to mess with it and be willing to go wild with it even if you go for something more simple in the end."

#rp blog #oc: bird

The scarab shows a map of a building

[I have a lab dedicated to studying the solver]

[Oh wow, have you figured out anything by using it those far?]

[we’ve created a virus that disable nanites and consumes a drone from the inside out.]

[Oh! Um! Holy shit on a brick that is actually terrifying]

[I’ve also been thinking up a way to prevent the solver from being present in an area. Like say the solver is able to manifest anywhere in reality, what if a just created a hole reality the solver couldn’t be in. That way, I could disable a solver host from using their solver in any way whilst in my territory.]

[Also Tamonhak, my Voidmancer, has been studying a Planet Devourer that was accidentally made by Zeta.]

[Oh really? That's honestly amazing, especially if there's a universe out there where The Solver doesn't exist. Just as long it doesn't cause pain or kill them then I'm all for it]

[I have several questions, but um, who's Zeta and how did they do that?]

[The Solver doesn’t exist in my universe, or at least if it did it died out a long time ago.]

[Zeta is one of Alex’s drones, she’s a solver drone, apparently outside of the primary host, Zeta is the most skilled with the solver in that universe. We were trying to see if Zeta could make a null, but she accidentally made a small planet Devourer.]

[Huh, I hope she's okay, I'm not fully sure what effects they get from using The Solver in Alex's home. But I hope she's okay regardless. Also, what is a "null"?]

[As far as I’m aware, the only changes she’s experienced from the Solver outside of the usual needing oil and having fleshy insides are that she has, I think an extra set of teeth or something.]

[You don’t know what a null is? From what I’ve seen, they’re just black holes created by Solver drones.]

[No, I've never seen one, I don't think anyone knows what they're either.]

[Odd. Most universes I’ve seen that have solver, people are very much aware of nulls]

[I don't know, I guess no one has seen one here? Or at least The Solver drones in my bunker haven't seen one]

[That is rather strange that they don’t know what nulls are. Or maybe some do know, they just won’t tell, for whatever reason.]

[Maybe, or, again, they've just never seen one]

[True. Should we ask them if they’ve actually seen a null before?]

[Yeah, just need to finish a few chores first then we can do that. Won't take more than an hour]

[Understood.]

Within exactly one hour from the last message sent, the sound of something moving could be heard outside Cake’s house.

The purple drone was sitting on the couch when she heard the noises, pushing herself up and opening the front door.

Anutek is outside the house, standing perfectly still, almost looking like a statue.

"Hey." Cake chimed. "Here to ask the others about those black whole things?"

“Yes. Who do you think we should ask first?”

"My parents, they should be home by now and they have a fair amount of experience with the thing, so they might know or at least knew of someone who did." She suggested. "They might of seen one and not know what it's called. Knowing what something looks like but not knowing what it's called kinda stuff."

“Understood.”

Anutek moves for the first time since his arrival, backing up to let Cake guide him to her parents house.

Cake soon walked out, locking the door via keypad and walking to her parent's home. It didn't take long, soon walking over to the door and knocking. Soon the door slide open standing there was this world's version of N, wearing a pink shirt with a dog head on it and pink pajama pants.

"Hey buddy! What brings you here—" He soon notices Anutek. "Uhh, would they the reason?" The Disassembly drone asked, a bit taken a back by how tall the new face was.

The young adult nodded, rubbing the back of her neck. "Yeah, he mentioned something and was surprised that I never heard of it, so we wanted to know if either you or mum have."

"I'm guessing it's Solver related?" He chimed, earning a nod from his daughter before he gestured for them come inside.

N then walked over to a rather comfortable couch where there was already a short purple haired drone sitting there, watching whatever was playing on the TV. "Hey Uzi, Cake brought a friend over and they want to know if we've seen something."

"Uh, sure." The short drone looked over her kid, only to pause when seeing Anutek and turning to give N a bewildered. "Uh, what do you want to know. And what are you?" She asked, with the last part practically inaudible.

“I am Overlord Anutek, I am a Necron. That isn’t important right now though. Do you know what a Null is?”

The two older drone's stared for a moment, Uzi looking over to her kid a raised brow and slight question on her face.

"Basically a black hole that Solver users— Solver drones? Has a proper name been decided or..?"

"No and I don't think we're ever going to."

"Okay, anyways they're a black hole that Solver drone's can make." Cake asked, watching her parents think it over, practically seeing there systems frantically trying to find something.

N's face then light up. "Oh! Yeah, we have. Well, more accurately me and your grandmother have, you mum was also possessed and she knew what was going on. But yeah, we've seen them, just never realised that's what they were called." He chimed, his voice whilst far away from cheery, it was still a bit too upbeat for the younger drone.

And she didn't hide it, violet hollowed optics looking between her parents. "Why am I still surprised..."

“So they do know what nulls are. Should we also ask any of the other solver hosts as well?” Anutek says, looking down at Cake.

"Depends, what do you mean by Solver host?"

#rp blog #oc: cake

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