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UTMV & Murder Drones Rants (although I barely post)

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HELLO EVERYONE!

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(This is really WIP I’ll add more & more tags overtime)

I am also the creator of Corrupted Ink (Haitius)!

I’ll mostly be posting & reposting rants & my own thoughts on the Undertale Multiverse fandom / UTMV / UTAU’s. But will occasionally upload my own AU / OC content here!

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Fav Ships:

Fav ships: Crink (Cross X Ink), Drink (Dream X Ink), Dreamberry (Dream X UnderSwap Sans), Star Sanses Poly, & ColorKiller (Color X Killer).

#colorkiller - Any fanart of Colorkiller I like

Ships I HATEE GRR (I won’t hate for others shipping them though): Any ship with Nightmare (such as Killermare) & Horror X Fell. Cream (Cross X Dream) I have mixed feelings about that changes depending ln the day of the week.

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Tags (WIP & I’m new to Tumblr):

#HC reposts I like - Reposts of headcanons or thoughts on Sans AUs that I like.

#Hcs / #Hc - My Headcanons on Sans AUs or Murder Drones characters.

#rant - my own rant posts on UTMV / Undertale AUs / Sans AUs or Murder Drones.

See all my rants specifically on Murder Drones in this separate to-be-updated often masterpost if they’re hard to find through tags

#ship neg - Posts or reposts about certain ships (both UTMV & Murder Drones) I dislike.

Tags for Archives:

#corruptedink / #corruptedinkau - Content of Corrupted Ink Sans

#trix&bloop archive - A small archive of Trix & Bloop, which are 2 AU shipkids made by yelowdemon_real on tiktok!

#utmv archives - Any reblog of other sans au (such as Color Sans’s) archives or ask content for minor archival purposes

[prokopetz]

If nothing else, you have to give Gooseworx and the Amazing Digital Circus crew credit because they're all very online people and 100% had to know that making a show whose basic premise is "what if a bunch of people who are all fundamentally a bit exhausting to hang out with were forced to hang out with each other at gunpoint" was a fandom discourse bomb waiting to happen, and they did it anyway.

[mr-business-whump]

negative character traits are not the same thing as bad writing

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Murder Drones fans would hate seeing this post X5

[plush-tsukki]

"I don't like this story choice, so that means the writing is bad!" You lick public doorhandles.

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Murder Drones fans would hate seeing this post X4

[mylordshesacactus]

Hey so I'm gonna be very very honest here.

And this is going to make a lot of people very angry to hear.

But a lot of y'all on this website are truly deeply genuinely never going to be capable of any kind of real narrative analysis--and I don't mean 'being right all the time' I mean 'meaningfully engaging with the text in any way'--

Because you are, fundamentally, incapable of comprehending that writers usually do things on purpose.

[mylordshesacactus]

The themes are there on...purpose.

The match cuts were meticulously designed and put there to communicate something.

The VA's delivery of a line was being directed. Inflection and tone change the meaning of dialogue. This is intentional. There are entire teams of people shaping those choices and deciding which take to use based on what works best for the story.

Information is being revealed in a specific order, on purpose, to craft an emotional arc and guide the audience's understanding.

A character's romantic preferences are only, and SHOULD only be, their primary motivation if the genre is romance. That is why there is a genre called that. Most stories are other genres.

Creators who dislike a character generally give them LESS attention, MORE boring storylines, and LESS screentime.

Sometimes curtains are just blue. But if the shot composition or written narration takes time to HIGHLIGHT, especially more than once, that the curtains are blue, then the blueness of the curtains is by definition narratively important.

"Cite your sources" is not a witch's curse that banishes People With Different Opinions to the shadowrealm of Being Wrong. Someone making points that challenge your perceptions, while including screenshots and explicit examples, cannot be dismissed with "cite your sources" because they are literally doing that. Don't @ me on this one I've seen shit in the wars, y'all.

Failing to understand these things WILL bar you from ever really engaging with or understanding any narrative more complicated than Paw Patrol for the rest of your life.

I am very sorry if that makes you angry.

[thesmollestnerd]

To add to this: sometimes the curtains are blue because its of narrative importance, sometimes the curtains are blue because the character likes blue but that's not important, sometimes the curtains are blue because it enhances the shot, provides depth to the visuals, doesn't clash with wardrobe, sometimes the curtains are blue because that's what the set designer decided, sometimes the curtains are blue because they're fuckin' blue. JUST BECAUSE THE CURTAINS ARE BLUE DOESN'T MEAN ITS MEANINGFUL. Not to be old man on tumblr, I've been on this website almost as long as its been around and this is not a new issue. Y'all need to do more learning on the importance of media literacy and analysis outside of your own confirmation bias. Just because you want it to be true doesn't mean it is (which is fine, that's what Fan Media is for!). Take courses, read books, listen to interviews, watch Youtube deep dives (I'm being realistic here) about literary plot devices, cinemotography's role in telling stories, costuming design, set design, dialogue and body language (especially if the media is in a different culture than your own!). These are so foundational to really understanding the message and story of the media you're consuming. ALSO ITS NEAT BECAUSE THEN YOU GET TO SEE EVEN MORE LITTLE EASTER EGGIES THAT THE CREATORS HID.

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Murder Drones fans would hate seeing this post X3

[orbitingrook]

[heydocverdant]

Spent some time reflecting on the second post here, and I think I understand why fandom folks behave like that. In general, when people see things in the world that make us uncomfortable, we often automatically assume that those things are “bad”, and that it is our duty to try to fix those things to make the “bad” go away. This is itself not a negative trait to have — after all, discomfort helps encourage us to stay physically clean, and a core goal of society is to collectively achieve a reasonable degree of comfort — but it’s also a trait that must be utilized carefully, because sometimes things that make you uncomfortable exist for more complicated reasons than you may think.

When it comes to fandom culture specifically, I think that the recent online vitriol towards indie creators stems from both the desire to “fix” the things that make us uncomfortable, as well as the anxiety that develops when we feel powerless to enact real change. On the surface, it seems weird for internet lefties to spend more effort bullying small creators than large corporations, because those small creators are often making art that is more personal (and oftentimes politically-progressive) than mass-produced corporate media. Peel away the top layers, though, and you’ll find that it’s about a desire for control. The mega-corporations won’t bother to create art that will speak to you on a personal level* because that will NEVER be cost-effective, so trying to pressure them to change feels as useless as an ant vowing to crush a mountain beneath its feet; the indie creators, however, are individuals and small groups, and an ant COULD theoretically annoy them into “making better decisions”.

It sounds logical, at least at first; the problem, of course, is that it isn’t sound logic. The indie creators are small enough that you could theoretically bully them into changing their ways, yes, but this strategy forgets that the creators are trying to realize something personal to them, not to you, and that they only have a limited amount of effort and resources they can apply to the project before they lose that passion to work on it. Oftentimes, the perceived flaws in the work are completely reasonable when you consider the context around them: for context about the two creators mentioned in the original post:

Toby Fox (creator of Undertale and Deltarune) was asked about the lack of official localization for his games into other languages besides English and Japanese, and he explained that he currently has no plans to translate his games at this time. The process of localizing a script is an amount of work equivalent to writing a full new game, which is time-consuming for a largely-independent creator. The games are available in English and Japanese because Fox is fluent in those languages, so he can write the English script himself, hire someone to write the Japanese localization, and then edit the Japanese script himself to maintain accuracy. In response to this, some fans insisted Fox was discriminating against fans from Latin America and China by not producing an official translation in Spanish, Portuguese or Chinese, which ended up growing into accusations of Fox being outright racist.

Gooseworx (creator of The Amazing Digital Circus) has wound up embroiled in two recent online controversies. In the first, she responded to a question about the finale by saying that the show’s central characters are Pomni and Jax, which resulted in fans getting outraged at her alleged “favoritism” towards certain characters in her own show. In the second, she responded to news of the finale leaking with a post that said “Eh, who cares?”, prompting accusations of her devaluing the work of the animators. After this, she wrote a post indicating that she had lost her enthusiasm for TADC, which prompted further discourse over whether or not she was attempting to “guilt-trip” the rabid factions of the fanbase.

We’ve also seen similar things occur with other popular indie projects: Dana Terrace (Knights of Guinevere) was accused of transphobia for confirming that a character on the show was not transgender, for example, and I’ve seen some efforts to spark discourse against indie successes such as Dropout.tv (“they’re just trying to scam their fans!”) and Markiplier’s Iron Lung (“not a real indie movie because he spent $2 million on it!”). In some of these cases, the problem is an understandable frustration that the creator simply can’t resolve on their own, while in others the problem lies in the fans themselves. Meanwhile, megacorporations do have the resources to improve and diversify their work, but often choose not to do so for financial or political reasons: Paramount and WB have been quietly killing their animation divisions, for instance, and Disney’s begun winding down their pride-themed Marvel Voices comics out of fear of conservative backlash**.

In many ways, I think that the logic that’s on display here is the same mindset that’s been causing the American left to cannibalize itself for years now: we’re so desperate to feel like we’re fighting for a righteous cause that we start throwing punches at anyone within reach, rather than waiting to throw down with a real enemy that seems unassailable. “The conservatives are a monolith, and too far gone to be reasoned with,” we rationalize, “so we must make our voices heard to those allies that will listen!” And then, if those allies aren’t with us all the way, they’re recast as enemies in disguise that must be destroyed to keep our movement pure. We’re left to rip each other to pieces in the glorified shadow of that conservative monolith, a monument unassailed by hands brave enough to learn just how fragile it really is.

Elaborate metaphors aside, there is a simple solution to this: shut up, listen, then think. If someone’s decisions make you uncomfortable, think long and hard about why that is before you start writing callout posts and organizing a pitchfork brigade. Sometimes, you’ll find that the decisions are reasonable; other times, you’ll find that they’re not. Either way, nobody’s forcing you to like an indie creator, and you’re free to choose whether or not you still want to engage with their work.

Whatever you do, remember that the work in question isn’t really made for you, it’s being made to share with you. Art isn’t a restaurant, it’s a potluck: creators bring the stuff they’ve made to the table, and you are welcome to eat what you’d like of it. If there’s bits of stuff you don’t like in the dish, you’re allowed to pick those out and not eat ‘em, and you’re even free to express your personal distaste for that. Maybe your comments will even be taken into consideration! But if you choose to instead throw your plate across the room, yell at the creator for not making the recipe to your tastes, and try to rally others to do the same… well, you’ll just look like an asshole, there’s a strong chance that the creator might not bring anything next time, and you’re still gonna wind up hungry. And where’s the comfort in that?

Footnotes:

*corporations would dearly love to find a way to sell art that both speaks to you on a personal level and doesn’t have to actually be made at all, which is one of the reasons they’re investing so heavily in the failing generative AI sector

**this year’s pride comic did not release during Pride Month and is centered around Scarlet Witch and Vision, who are straight parents to queer children. I can only assume there won’t be a pride issue at all next year

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Murder Drones fans would hate seeing this post X2.

[maidenvault]

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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Murder Drones fans would despite seeing this post

[sharigax]

My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields

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J is next after the oil thing & maybe a few more things.

…Maybe

….no promises.

….I keep forgetting that Tumblr exists.

Maybe I’ll make a J edit in the meantime after the AvA edits

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Why Murder Drones isn’t badly written - Uzi, Khan & N Partial Deep Dive

Edit: No one is forced to read through everything. But even if you aren’t a murder drones fan at all, please just read the first 3 paragraphs at random. Even if you never comment, I will still greatly appreciated anyone willing to read the tiniest snippet of this. I’m sorry if this is all massively unorganized. I just started had too many thoughts all at once.

I really dislike how the entire fandom calls Uzi as badly written in the sense that she has 0 development, growth or arc. This just simply isn’t true, nor do any of the other main characters lack it. In this essay, I will be discussing:

Why Murder Drones is well written

(Mainly) Uzi, Khan, & (some of) N’s character development arcs

How Nuzi (platonic or romantic) plays into their development / arcs

Uzi & Khan, & their ties to representation of abuse victims

Uzi’s development / arcs, the solver, & how it ties into mental illness (partial analysis)

Why Nuzi boosting eachother isn’t objectively bad writing.

In order to prove that Murder Drones isn’t comparable to say, the game of thrones’s finale (in the sense that “none of the characters have any development / growth / arcs”).

N helped her to know that it’s okay to be vulnerable, in which uzi opens up to him and let her emotions out. Uzi has been extreme isolated by her peers (an example of this being Rebecca’s statement before she’s “super unpopular”) because she’s been outcasted due to being “weird,” her father neglected her and with emotional abuse, ranging from her mothers “death,” and experiencing so much trauma. Even from the pilot, she says she’s doing Khan a favor by outcasting herself with the assumption that Khan was going to do it to her. Uzi had no one but herself & she has been taking care of her own self while growing up with no support system.

(In episode 3, Lizzy believes that no one would notice Uzi’s missing if something happens to her, which really highlights how Uzi had no one to rely on)

Due to this, she have huge self-esteem issues due to how she’s not taken seriously by anyone, in which this affects the way she treats & view herself. She dismisses her own feelings as her just being an “angsty teen” & thus scared of being vulnerable. Since she doesn’t want anyone to take advantage of her weaknesses through being vulnerable, she brushes her feelings off thinking it’ll go away when she ignores it.

That is, until N showed up which I’ll explain in part 2. I’ve seen people state that Uzi & N’s development / characters arcs gets completely diminished & is therefore “objectively” bad writing since Uzi still had Thad as a support system due to them being “best friends”, but this is completely fanon. When they talk, Uzi (even if she has a small crush on him) didn’t even expect Thad to know about her name or bother talking to her, & Thad only knew about Uzi due to her being Kahn’s daughter. Speaking of which, in this exact scene, Uzi makes a whole plan to kill a disassembly drones just to earn her father’s respect, which clearly shows how bad her self-esteem issues are to the point of not even caring about her own life as much as she should. Even in her blueprints for the railgun, she writes notes like “other things it can do: not judge me & I can say I killed a murder drone with sci fi nonsense”.

Now, let’s briefly talk about Khan:

Khan prioritized his precious doors over his own daughter. One part where Uzi gives up is when Khan left her to die. As we know, Khan has trauma from Nori’s “death” and is terrified to take action to save his own daughter, but it still doesn’t justify him leaving her for dead, which Uzi even points out multiple times across several episodes later on. But at the ending of episode 2, Khan came to figure out what was going on & saw Uzi, but the first thing she did was hug him after being traumatized of what eldritch-solver J did (make a hologram of Khan & eating it in front of her to make it look like her father actually died). This shows how Uzi still cares about Khan, & I think this is very realistic to how victims of abuse tend to feel about their parents. Despite all the pain your parents have brought to you (despite being the ones responsible of protecting & loving you), you still deep down love them & it takes a lot to cut context. Even then, it causes you to at-least wonder how things could’ve been.

However, we see that Khan starts to slowly change & repair their relationship. In episode 2 while Uzi was stopping eldritch-solver J, Khan went to Uzi’s teacher conference & actually began to realize how “weird” Uzi acts while in class & her isolation. The teacher points out that Uzi might be “damaged” & Khan steps up for her. Uzi of course never saw this happen, so when Khan takes Nori’s kooky notes from her room in the start of episode 3 & finally starts acting like a real parent (“personal space under a very alarming coping mechanism isn’t covered under a… non-optimal family support structure”), she lashes out (if you want to help now, stay distant). Yet, Khan keeps trying as he tries to read family support books & gets classmates for prom to potentially be Uzi’s friends.

Even when Uzi’s missing, he looks around concerned that she’s late & worried due to the recent disappearances. Khan also doesn’t leave once the doors open during Uzi & Doll confrontation scene despite Doll throwing knives through telekinesis & overall being a very dangerous threat, & even tries to save her (again, Uzi didn’t see Khan try in this moment) when Doll was about to stab her.

Due to Uzi also not seeing Khan’s recent (major) attempt at caring for her, she clearly doesn’t want much to do with him & only reaches out again to find more information about her mother, which we see in episode 4. But his words to Uzi (After the core collapse, I didn’t notice her collar… she was always all- ‘BUILD DOORS AGAINST THE COMING SKY DEMONS! THE SINGULARITY AWAKENS’… Turns out, I’m not who either of you needed. Just, be safe, okay?”) do cause a shift in her views.

I think Khan’s arc truly gets shown in-your-face when he recreates Uzi’s railgun to save her & the planet on his own (with Lizzy & Thad only going along with him because they were also outside). People still think his arc isn’t completed since him dying to Cyn in order to save Uzi from a tendril stab would’ve been the “objectively better written choice to make death treated more seriously”, but this would’ve erased his entire arc since Uzi has only seen half of his attempts at improving their relationship. In the end of episode 8, she slams the door with her solver when Khan cheers into the classroom, but moreso of a half- annoyed half-jokey way, & in the end credits she’s playing cards with Khan & the WDF so we know their realtionship is stronger now, but there’s still more that Khan needs to do.

I also think that Khan dying to Cyn specifically to save Uzi from a tendril stab wouldn’t exactly work. Cyn can move at speeds fast enough to where time appears heavily slowed down, while Khan is just a normal worker drone so him somehow moving faster than Cyn in order to shield Uzi wouldn’t make much sense.

Now let’s talk about N, & Uzi’s attachment issues:

I feel like not enough people give Uzi credit. If it wasn’t for uzi, N would’ve still be murdering while being treated as a doormat as she was the only one who respected him. Throughout the series, N has been the only one who Uzi had for a looooong time that didn’t treat her like a freak, who didn’t insulted her or threatened her. Due to Uzi’s bad life (as we established prior) she has self-esteem issues, issues being vulnerable & of course would have a fear of being abandoned after her classmates (who isolated & bullied her) start to get along with N (despite him being a disassembly drone) which is where most of the “pick me” claims arise. She doesn’t want to lose her only friend & support system.

This manifests in jealousy when V confronts her (“I’m just SO glad you guys fit right in. Suuuupee cool.”). Then, all her feelings she’s been repressing over EVERYTHING combined with her panicking from overheating builds up to her losing control.

Although there are other, smaller moments like Uzi telling N that she isn’t okay (episode 2). nervously admitting to N that she wants him to go to prom (episode 3), & asking V for N’s help (episode 4), when she’s finally fully back to normal, the episode 4 falling scene fully displays Uzi’s insecurities & her truly starting to open up to N. She immediately disregards herself as gross & expresses her fear of being abandoned. But at the same time, Uzi tries to push N away to be locked inside her own shell (literally, as she covers her whole body using her wings). In response, N reassures Uzi that they will stick together because he can relate- he’s been abused by J, isolated by J & V, & doesn’t remember most of his life. Just like Uzi, survival & trying to appease others is all he’s known. Him showing this patience & understanding made Uzi open up her shell (as in, he literally causes her to willingly open her wings out).

Going a little off topic & shifting solely to talk about N here- the fandom tends to regard N as a uwu soft golden retriever kind boi stereotype that makes him have 0 complexity. While I think he is less in depth than V or Uzi for example, his character absolutely still has complexity. We see N has a very understanding side to him, & also a side where he starts to learn when to put his foot down. An example of this being when N makes it clear to V that they don’t need to kill everyone at prom for no reason, & expresses his frustration at her multiple times for not telling him anything about his past. Yet, he tries to get V to open up to him despite everything she’s done to him until he finally snaps due to V going way too far. 

Another example is in episodes 6 & 7 (…HAHA 67!!!! SIX-SEVEN!) where despite Tessa acting suspicious & manipulative, he glosses over it twice in less dangerous situations before giving her a single chance to explain, & slashes out out of instinct when she tries to manipulate him again.

I also really view it as disappointing to see so many people in the fandom people chalk him up as “objectively” poorly written because of the lack of “N crashout scenes”, or his personality not changing (you can have a complex character without making their main personality change), or Nuzi being reduce to “fanservice” (when Envy was the most popular ship for half of the series which disproves this claim anyways), or because he “doesn’t show any emotions besides being happy because he was nerfed for fanservice” (he snaps at V, he’s shocked & terrified when Cyn traps him, he kills “Tessa” out of pure instinct before nearly collapsing after realizing what he did, he’s determined to stop Cyn, etc).

The truth is that Uzi, Khan & N all have development / growth / arcs, Nuzi is a key factor in this because they boost each other. N is like a healing pill to Uzi, to the point Uzi thanks N for everything he did for her, before sacrificing herself. Now, is N & Uzi boosting eachother as characters “objectively bad writing” simply because they boost eachother? No! We have scenes of N growing overtime naturally, & Uzi never orders him to change his mentality (besides convincing him to switch sides). He learns to stand up for himself, his loves ones & his new life against his tormentor’s manipulation all on his own. In media two characters talking, both coming to a realization, & growing as a result is also extremely common within media like anime, ATLA (avatar the last airbender), Gravity Falls, etc. Why should we label it bad writing in this case?

I feel like there’s so much more I could talk about- more on Khan’s arc in regards to Nori or how he parallells N, Uzi’s arc in regards to the solver throughout episodes 5 - 8 which I didn’t even cover, disproving Uzi’s “plot armor”, Uzi’s implied BPD, Uzi N & V’s sacrifice tendencies, the anti-self-harm messages within the series, how PTSD is portrayed, N’s impulsiveness, potentially way more about N’s arc in regards to V’s or J’s, disproving the claims that murder drones has 0 worldbuilding, etc. I just didn’t want this to be so long & way too cluttered as it is now.

And the more I think about it, the more disappointed & scared I become of even posting this knowing I will continue to receive hate over “overthinking an indie show” or “glazing” or “it’s not that deep” (the same people who claim they are literate genuinely believe this btw) or “trying to make “real” fans who know the writing’s objectively bad seem stupid” But regardless, I hope atleast one person enjoyed this other than myself lol.

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Being a Murder Drones fan in this economy means putting up with the dumbest takes imaginable and the constant babying of Liam Vickers as an author. I swear the way yall treat him you'd think the dude can't write for shit with the series being compared to FNAF, Stranger Things S5, & even the Game of Thrones finale but he's actually not bad at it.

Murder Drones is not a perfect series. I have a couple of small critiques about things it could have handled better, but the series is exceptionally well crafted.

Unfortunately, you'd NEVER think that if you went to the show's fandom, because everyone here is too focused on what they wanted the show to be rather than appreciating it for what it is. This rise of fans thinking they deserve control over every decision the writer wants to make (as if the concept of fanfics & AUs was nonexistent) has been more popular within more “newer” fandom’s lately (Murder Drones, TADC, Knights of Guinevere, Invincible, the Backrooms movie) & is sad.

[spotsupstuff]

Since I've been working on that MD post, listening to my sad little liminal tunes as one does while drawing, I thought about what/how much N means to Uzi, and what it means to Be Someone.

What does it mean to be an individual. Sapient and with traits. What even are traits, how can one define their self. Through stereotypes? Through such superficial things as what we like, how we dress?

Uzi likes her hot topic stuff. She presents herself as a goth through clothes, and she seems to associate this with an edgy sort of personality. But that's such a damn mask. We can see it right in the first episode - *this* bitey angry girl is a shield, because goddamnit if she doesn't have it drawn then that's just asking to be hurt, isn't it?

She *is* angry deep down, at injustice, but she's also a confused distraught kid with nobody to lean on. No place, no one to find safety in - no home despite having a place to lie her head down.

And then N shows up and he's hurt too, but doesn't have it in him to successfully mask who he really is (boy's shit at lying + too nice). His inherent vulnerability to the world that stings him over and over again with others, unintentionally peels off Uzi's mask.

And who is she without it?

She's a reassuring gentle smile. Worried searching eyes. A goofy jokester. A little bit shy, flustered, giddy mess. She's a kind, loving, listening idiot that's ready to throw herself into hell for someone dear to her.

She is all this normally. Buried deep as a survival tactic. (And she is so damn strong too, because despite being a kind person deep in there, she doesn't allow anyone to break her.) But she finally could experience herself free thanks to someone finally being genuine and warm, giving her the invintation to find a home in him. Through her interactions with her home, N, we get to slowly meet the true Uzi Doorman.

We are defined by reactions and reactions within relationships, and he was a key for both us and her.

[ladydaybreaker]

I feel that a lot of people miss this in Uzi's characterization. Yeah she's the bitey, angry and spiteful little menace at times...

But they forget that at her core, she's actually kind.

She had every right to leave N dying at the doors after J stabbed him. For all she knew this was the guy that killed her mom. The reason her dad neglected her for all these years. Hell, he's the reason her dad left her just a few minutes ago.

But she stayed.

She saw the wounded and hurt boy who was just doing as he was programmed to, who had the wool pulled over his eyes and got a reality check in the worst way possible by someone he looked up to. She looked at him, saw herself...and she wasn't sure if she liked that or not. So she took the higher road (while still passing it off as a 'fiiiine I'll help...but only because we'll be even then'.) and helped him.

There's far too many stories and comics and other things out there with her being this absolutely horrible person to N...to everyone. Because "well, she's an angry and bitey teenager so she gets to be horrible!" but that's not the truth like, at all.

Yeah, she's got a bit of a god complex...but when she realizes she f*cked up, she goes to fix what she's done. Which is a lot more to say about her than some other people I know...

This teenage girl had the world turn its back on her. So she threw up walls to keep herself and that little spark of hope she still had kindled, that hope of someone caring about her and treating her like she mattered. That she wasn't something to throw away...like she'd been treated most of her life. I know this is rich coming from me since I'm one of Khan's greatest defenders but like...yeah, he f*cked up. Intentionally or unintentionally, there's no skirting around that. He neglected her...whether that was out of grief from losing Nori and being unable to look at Uzi due to their similarities or devotion to protect his and Nori's Greatest Work it doesn't matter. (though he gets better at trying to make it up to his baby girl, I'll fight people on that bite me.)

And then. And THEN. Here comes this golden retriever wolf boy. Who shattered every barrier just because he is who he is. Who gently hopped over the walls she threw up and sat next to her to tend that little spark of hope until it became a blaze. A blaze that eventually was strong enough to stand up against the devil itself.

Then the camp happened and she just...broke. Everything went upside down again. She was losing control of her body, gaining new powers she didn't understand...hell there was flesh growing out of her when there really should not be!! She was scared and hurting and confused so she lashed tf out. Which was kinda natural.

Her fear wasn't that N was going to think she was a monster. Her fear was that he, this source of light in her world that had been so dark for so long...was going to abandon her. Like everyone else in her life, her mom...her dad...her classmates...everyone had done to her before. And that scared her more than anything.

Uzi's a very complex character. People just look surface level and see "Oh god a scene kid with god complex and god powers ew." But that's just who she is. She's soft where no one can see, but hard and sharp edges that refuse to be sanded down everywhere else.

Because she had to learn to be that way.

And that actually breaks my heart a little bit.

[mintrori]

While reading both of these beautifully crafted essays, I realized I couldn't stop thinking of V. Every time I read about masking, my mind jumped to V. I dug around my head and I think I have the answer as to why.

V and Uzi are similar, but different. Yes, both of them are mentally unstable women that N (and fandom) had a crush on at some point. However, there is much more than that. Here is my funny-killer-robots analysis.

Uzi had her family split when she was a baby; she never knew the warmth of a home and a family. On the other hand, V had a decent semblance of it, until Cyn took it. (Whether it is better to know & loose or to never know - is a question I will leave for philosophers.) And Cyn would replace N anytime he learned something he shouldn't.

Thankfully, Cyn and V have made a deal that could salvage this mess. V just needed to do a single job and she did it well. In fact, work has turned into a hobby. A mindless habit even! Too bad that, it consisted of murdering everybody. This is the source for a very twisted spark of hope or maybe even delusion she had. V has masked so much for so long that, it became part of her. Even Uzi avoids killing roaches and reassembles them, while V just eats them.

And after of years of doing a good job, this purple thing waltzes in and defeats V? A fluke, she had N on her side. Then this red creep defeats V with the same power Cyn used? That could be a problem... that Uzi resolves with the power of "teamwork". This "teamwork" thing seems a bit better than Cyn's deal.

...Then it turns out that, Uzi also has Cyn's powers and symbols. Uzi must be Cyn then, right? So, V decided to provoke the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing until it reveals itself. It worked; the monster ate the classmates and it asks where N is to eat him as well.

...And another plot twist, Uzi is not Cyn after all. N just talks Uzi out of it and she just stops. So, that's how this "teamwork" works. At this point, V finally "gets" how to not rely on murder for everything and the value of being honest & friendly for a change.

V, unlike Uzi, has roughed out the soft parts as well. That is how V has managed to ignore N for years despite all his attempts to open her up. She is a hardened professional. Fortunately, even professionals have limits and her limit is an adventure with Uzi and N to save the world.

(On a related note, the relatively drastic change is likely the reason why V's arc is so noticeable. For example, N's arc is less extreme, so a sizable amount of people think N doesn't have an arc at all! But that's a different can of worms someone else can open.)

[spotsupstuff]

The MD comics are quite subpar but they Did get me hooked on biscuits again. One of my favorite things to remember again are the visual feeds of the drones. Such as, Disassemblers seem to have objectively worse vision than Workers.

Compare N's feed with Uzi's:

(Pilot & ep. 4)

His shit is so damn pixelated it makes me laugh, Uz is like 8 squares to him god bless. They remind me of cats quite a bit, both with the forced yellow colour pallete (cat's got that and like. blue. grey...) and the nearsightedness. Neat is that they've got two secondary feeds, one darker and one sharper. Night vision and different angle, maybe? Something like what chameleons have with narrowing down on prey? Saving CPU by having the high resolution secondary?

Then V and Doll's victim from the beginning of ep 3, both in need of glasses.

Interesting that there's basically two versions of eye decay, the biological-esque (blurring) and then the pixelation of DD's.

Other thing I adore about the feeds is the WD on-screen programs. Uzi had her playlist at the ready during the most intense fight of her life, Bluey Kelsey down there was ready to delete her search history before croaking I fucking guess. The Task manager, Kelsey's telling time while Uzi's is so very helpful with pin pointing her location (,,Dude we're in SPACE"). The calculator on hand and the goddamn- what is it. App list?

App for headlights, bluetooth sharing, cloud connection, friend list, ideas?? Damn. Got a fridge pre-installed as well.

The survival mode vs edgy mode is neat to me regarding Uzi's characterization, too- it goes hand it hand with the Pilot, that the edginess is just a mask Uzi puts on. It's a mode rather than her personality.

[spotsupstuff]

[N's feed, ep. 8 flashbacks] Oop, yeah, the pixelation is DD OS specific- nothing to do with the time of Elliot Mansion vs Copper-9 post core collapse. Forgot about this specific POV.

[dantetrindade]

20 minute aura farming uzi

or maybe she is resting her cpu

[purprants]

Calculating heat resistance in Murder Drones

(CAN SOMEONE PLEASE VERIFY IF ALL THIS INFORMATION ON THE TEMPERATURES IS CORRECT?)

Anyone can repost this without credit

Heat resistance:

If we assume the drones are made out of iron: Steel begins to lose strength around 204C (400F) and structural integrity around a 593C (1,100°F). Pure iron melts around 1,537C (2,800F) while many steel alloys begin to melt around 1,232C - 1,593F (2,250F - 2,900°F).

If we assume the worker drones are made out of lithium, or at-least their battery based on Uzi’s POV (unless if this was just the name of the song she was playing since the top- “DEAD BATTERIES” is the canon name of a worker drone music band, & it also says DRONE AMP above): Lithium-iron batteries have a max safe operating temperature of 60C - 70C (140F - 158F).

EDIT: Lithium is just the name of the song she was listening to.

Uzi, Doll, N & Cyn have resisted explosions in episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 7 which are 2,480C (4,496F). Military bomb tests have documented temperatures of 2,480C - 4,500C (4,496F - 8,132F). It makes sense for the disassembly drones to be around these ranges since disassembly drones were created by Cyn to fight back against humanity, & they have tanked missiles & the explosions from them before.

The temperature of hypersonic missiles (the disassembly drones missiles are extremely likely to be hypersonic missiles) can exceed around 1,600C (3,000F) which N, V, J, Doll, Cyn & Lizzy have all tanked before.

Brandon, a worker drone is perfectly fine despite his head being on fire for several days - weeks. Fire generally ranges from 500C - over 3,000C (932F - 5,432F). However, there’s sparks that appear right before his head catches on fire. Fires started by electricity (arcs, sparks, or short circuits) range from 2,760C - a little over 5,500C (5,000F to over 9,932F, likely 10,000F).

Both nerfed solver hosts (dissasembly drones) & full solver hosts (solver host drones from the labs, Uzi, Nori, Doll & Cyn) can also resist high-temp microwaves, which only makes them sluggish according to Alice. Specialized high-temperature processing microwaves can exceed over 1,000C (1,832F).

Uzi & N also survive re-entry which typically reaches between 2,500C - 3,000C (2,500F - 5,000F) (they likely would’ve had to tank this in the spaceship explosion). Low-Earth orbit shuttle re-entries in specific peak around 1,500C (2,700F).

Shock layer plasma is a highly ionized, dense gas region formed between a body and a detached shock wave, typically at hypersonic speeds. It constitutes a thin layer where flow changes from supersonic to subsonic & temperatures range from 6,726C (7,000K or 12,140F) - 14,726C (15,000K or 26,540F). Disassembly drones have consistently shown that they can reach subsonic - supersonic+ & hypersonic speeds. Shock layer plasma also occurs during re-entry from space.

In episode 6, Nori while controlled by Cyn buries down into copper 9 towards its core to start devouring it. This is heavily implied in N’s flashback in episode 7 & then happens again at the end of episode 7 towards the start of episode 8 where Cyn herself devours whatever is left of the planet. If we assume that copper 9’s core is the same as earth’s, then Nori would’ve had to tank around 6,000C (10,800F - 10,832F).

Hear resistance - Tessa’s spacesuit:

Tessa’s spacesuit would’ve likely been protecting her from all the fine silicate particles (abestos) & also the low temperatures of the planet. Spacesuits can resist freezing temperatures of -156C - 121C (-248F - 249.8F)

Results:

Minimum temperatures: 1,600C (3,000F) (tanking hypersonic missiles). 2,480C - 4,500C (4,496F - 8,132F) (military bomb tests). 2,760C - a little over 5,500C (5,000F to over 9,932F, likely 10,000F) (electricity fires). 6,000C (10,800F - 10,832F) (planet’s core).

Max temperatures: 6,726C (7,000K or 12,140F) - 14,726C (15,000K or 26,540F) (shock layer plasma).

Heat resistance - items the disassembly drones create (SPECULATIVE & HIGHLY DEBATABLE):

In the end credits, J creates a plasma torch to fix the spaceship. The weapons disassembly drones have to create is stated to be stored via a hammerspace. But given that V is only able to switch to her claws with one hand after it’s freed from the table restraints (in episode 6) connected to the inside of her arm, it’s possible that they store their weapons in their bodies with their bodies acting as / their insides / their nerfed solvers possessing a hammerspace. Therefore, their bodies MIGHT need to internally tank the temperature it emits when they first create it.

Oxy-fuel torches range from 3,100C - 3,500C (5,612F - 6,332F). Plasma torches range from 10,000C - over 30,000C (18,032F - over 54,032F).

Max temperatures: 10,000C - over 30,000C (18,032F - over 54,032F) (plasma torches).

[purprants]

PART 2 to calculating heat resistance in Murder Drones:

There’s something that I missed!

In episode 8, if you slow down the scene then you can see Uzi’s finger grazes the accretion disk of the NULL before she throws it. This is further proven by the top of her finger glowing red from the heat & smoke coming out of it which she blows away.

For thermal radiators detecting the human body, this is 730 °C (1,350 °F).

For thermal radiation, in practice, virtually all solid or liquid substances start to glow around 525C (977F; 798K), with a mildly dull red color (it was bright red so we know solver hosts can go higher than this) (source -> characteristics -> “Subjective color to the eye of a black body thermal radiator” chart).

Steel glows red at 800C - 900C (1472F - 1652F) & orange-red at 900C - 1000C (1652F - 1832F) (source).

[purprants]

Scaling Xtale!Mettaton

I have taken it upon myself to make a blog for Xtale Mettaton’s scaling (as of Underverse 0.8 part 1)!

Keys: Pre-Overwrite boost (Xtale) | Overwrite boost (Underverse S2)

Attack Potency (AP):

Atleast small town (should be stronger than Fell sans who destroyed the entire ground in 0.4, getting a value of 1.1638546128107 kilotons of TNT) | large country (their OVERDRIVE Global Diffusion produced a value of 9.790925e+13 Tons of TNT or 97.90925 Teratons of TNT)

Speed:

Atleast transonic (should be relative or slightly slower than Cross who has transonic - supersonic speeds & was capable of speedblitzing the rest of the Xtale cast, with value of Mach 1.007 or 345.401 m/s). Likely supersonic (speedblitzes XGaster who is able to block Cross’s gaster blaster in time with a value of Mach 1.13 or 388.2530616m/s) | Sub-Relativistic attack speeds (through the OVERDRIVE Global Diffusion which was 3163815.789m/s -> Mach 9223.952738 -> 0.010553c)

Lifting Strength:

Atleast Class K as calculated here (134000kg)

[purprants]

Maybe these analysis posts & the masterpost gave me a bit of a ego, but it’s so frustrating to see people blatantly lie about the series & then hide under the shield of “writing is subjective therefore my analysis / opinion is objectively right since you can never disprove it since all writing critiques are subjective”. The logic doesn’t even make sense in the first place since you’re claiming your own analysis / opinion is objective & that mine (or anyone else that even slightly defends the show) is “objectively false”… despite saying all writing critiques / opinions are subjective?

SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS are things that cannot be verified as wrong or right because they aren’t meant to be verified against facts. They represent personal beliefs or values that cannot be proven true or false. Examples being “I don’t like chocolate” or “I think the pacing of Murder Drones harms the writing of the series”.

A FACT is a statement that can be verified. It can be proven to be true or false through objective evidence. An example being “chocolate has sugar & sugar can be bad for you in large amounts” or “rain falls from above, aka the sky” or “Uzi, N & V have characters arcs of (insert explanation) through (insert more explanations)”.

A FACT & AN OPINION TOGETHER would be something like: “chocolate has sugar & sugar in large amounts is bad. So personally I don’t like having chocolate that much & I just don’t like it as a ice cream flavor in general” Or “the patch not really being foreshadowed prior to episode 6 personally diminished my enjoyment for the start of episode 7 scene of them using the patch even if it was likely intended as a surprise reveal”.

A INCORRECT / FALSE FACT is NOT A SUBJECTIVE OPINION / CRITIQUE. Examples include:

- We don’t need water to survive

- (insert main character) has no backstory & the backstory scenes we see directly in the series multiple times MUST be fan-made & my source for this is The Onion

- A planet on the verge of being destroyed or a family never forgiving each-other or a character losing an important item close to them isn’t a valid stake in stories because all stakes must be specifically death & can never be anything else

- A robot (who can survive seemingly sub zero temperatures & planetary impacting explosions) surviving being in space for a few minutes makes no sense

- Murder Drones is poorly written because nothing at all is ever explained -> (a school having prom makes no sense, Doll & Uzi having the solver or Uzi going to cabin fever isn’t ever explained, etc).

Another point- ALL CRITIQUES ARE BIASED at least to some extent no matter what platform they’re written on because critiques are produced by human beings, they are inevitably shaped by the critic's personal preferences, life experiences, & education status.

To reduce someone or other’s takes to “objectively incorrect” (to the point of, in another post, very conveniently bringing up a SINGLE point that the redditor MISHEARD due to their hearing issues) because they posted it on reddit or here on tumblr IS both biased & intentional bad faith.