It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
i have access to powers and locations that he cannot access independently; he needs my help to navigate the world i've brought him to
i simply found him outside and abducted him one day
there are many cats in the world, but this one is the best and my most favorite. why? because he was available to abduct that morning and for very little other reason.
i have a much greater understanding of this world than him, but he has unshakable confidence in his ability to figure it out and i find that really cute
the power dynamic is fundamentally unbalanced, but i let him have a little audacity. a little combativeness and sass. as a treat.
some humans are needlessly cruel to cats or take them in for a short time before neglecting or abandoning them. but i have chosen to love and guard this one with my life. because i think he's neat.
he is very well-treated and has pretty much everything he could possibly want or need, but he is my prisoner.
Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.
another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this
(Before I start, keep in mind I'm no expert, I just have most of an IT degree and a dream. Take this with a grain of salt, write your robots however you want!)
When you're writing about the DCA (or any animatronic/robot character, really), it's important to remember that they're not humans, they're computers. I read a lot of fanfic, so I've seen a lot of both accurate and inaccurate depictions of how they work.
A lot of the issues I see come from a misunderstanding of how the base computer parts work. So before we get into the DCA proper let's talk computer parts! Fair warning, this is gonna get really long.
The important parts for writing in most cases are the motherboard, processors, RAM, hard drive, and personality chip.
Motherboard
The motherboard is typically the 'base' all the other important parts connect to! It's a big circuit board with a lot of connection points. That's pretty much the start and end of it.
If you wanna get a little more in-depth, the motherboard is also home to a smaller chip, which is referred to by a lot of different names. This chip contains the very basics like system time/date and BIOS settings. (Note: BIOS is sort of the brain stem of the computer, it tells the computer how to access and understand keyboard and mouse inputs and start the operating system.) This chip is powered by a button-cell battery attached to the motherboard. If that battery fails, the chip can't keep count of the time and date, but the other things it handles shouldn't be affected-- by the time the computer needs to access those settings, it's on and routing power to the chip. All this isn't super important to understanding the motherboard, actually, so I better move on.
The motherboard, like pretty much any other part of the computer, is totally replaceable! I've seen several instances in fics where someone's motherboard gets damaged and as a result the character is afflicted with a permanent disability. I absolutely love disability rep in fic, but a motherboard isn't an irreplaceable component and there isn't a lot it can do when broken besides mess up connections with the rest of the body. Considering breaking it would also interfere with the connections between the various 'brain' components, it would probably just flat-out KO them (which to be fair, could totally fry something important).
Processors
I'll be honest, this part isn't one I have an amazing grasp on. What I can tell you is that the processor handles all the instructions from hardware and software, turning input (keyboard strokes, mouse movement/clicks, etc) into output (visuals on the screen, sound, etc). It doesn't contain anything itself, it just points the signals in the right directions.
There are loads of different types of processors, and some are specialized for different things. The ones you are most likely to be familiar with are the CPU (which handles most general tasks) and the GPU (which is specialized for graphics).
Keep in mind that a processor core can only do one operation at a time, they just do it really really fast! Even me typing a word into this draft takes many many different operations happening in sequence. Most modern processors have more than one core so they can do multiple calculations at once.
I've heard of 1, 2, 4, and 8-core processors but there are probably processors out there with more. Given we're talking about sentient animatronics here I'd say it's perfectly fair to give them more cores or just straight up multiple processors. (If you ask me, multiple processors is more plausible and cost-effective, it'd be easier for Fazbear to buy multiple of something easily found on the market than custom-make extra high tech processors).
Like the motherboard, the processors hold nothing essential to an animatronic's being, and are totally replaceable!
RAM
RAM, or Random Access Memory, is to computers what working memory is to us! It's the memory the computer's actively working with, like programs that are currently running and files that are currently open.
For example, let's say you open up a spreadsheet. You're pulling that spreadsheet from long-term memory (hard drive) to working/short-term memory (RAM), making changes, and then saving those changes back to the hard drive.
See above notes on replaceability. RAM does not hold permanent memory!
Hard Drive
The hard drive, to continue the analogy from above, is long-term memory! Hard drives come in a lot of different forms, from big boxes containing what looks like discs to sticks that look kind of like RAM but the long way. Though it's not recommended, you can theoretically use this memory like RAM, but it'd be a whole lot slower.
Basically, RAM is designed to quickly access stuff but not hold onto it, and the hard drive can hold onto stuff but doesn't retrieve stored things as quickly. (Note: Keep in mind that "slow" in the computer world is like. Milliseconds.)
The hard drive is where the operating system (the software that acts as a base for everything else happening on the computer) lives, as well as all the other files and programs on your computer. This is a part that isn't easy to replace. You'd have to carefully transfer everything on it to a new hard drive first.
If you damage this, it's gonna mess your DCA up in a big way. In most interpretations, an animatronic basically is their memories. There are ways to recover that data if you're a tech genius who's super duper extra careful and the damage isn't catastrophic, but success is very unlikely.
If you're going a more realistic route, this baby contains pretty much everything a DCA is, but...
Personality Chip
Now, this one ventures more into made-up territory. I can't really come up with an equivalent in a real-world computer. The best I can equate this to is a specialized processor with the capacity for holding memories. Sort of a fusion of the hard drive and CPU?
How this component works is entirely up to interpretation. Maybe it holds all the animatronic's memories and acts as its 'mind' like a real brain. Maybe it just carries the base code that an animatronic's AI starts with. Maybe how it works is not important, you just need something small your Y/N can easily snatch from the DCA's destroyed body so they can smuggle their boys home to rebuild. I won't judge! Fazbear has the technology to create sentient animatronics, it's not out of the realm of possibility that they can make something so tiny contain the entirety of that sentient AI.
Maybe this part is replaceable in a similar way to a hard drive. Maybe it's absolutely irreplaceable and any damage to it is a death sentence. Up to you!
Next I'll be talking about how the DCA's body might work, which is a lot more subjective. It's mostly about how the parts above are arranged in the DCA's body. But for now, I fear I'm about to discover a character limit on Tumblr and I'd like to draw some diagrams for the next part, so I'll be cutting it off here.
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🌽: How does this OC feel about acts of affection? What's their favourite act of affection, physical or emotional?
🍰: What's something your OC counts as unforgivable?
Howard loves it when someone compliments his robotics projects. But like in a “please let me tell you every detail about how this works now.”
as for physical vs emotional affection.
He isn’t really big on physical affection with most people. If someone he didn’t know super well tried to hug him he’d be SUPER awkward about it. But with a select few he won’t think twice about just flopping on top of them.
Jesse however. Her favorite thing to do with people is pick them up and hug them like a rag doll. Especially visitors and coworkers she’s particularly fond of.
She also happens to be one of the people Howard doesn’t care about physical affection with. Which is good cause He’s her favorite victim of this. (Btw in this picture Jesse’s probably at her shortest setting. Howard has his limits.)
Jesse also loves a person who’s willing to answer all her questions about things. Being a robot only recently built means she has a LOT.
As for the second question!
Howard: doesn’t like anyone messing with his projects. That’s a good way to get on his social, emotional, and physical blacklist. Do something serious along those lines?
Well just don’t do that.
Jesse: silly answer, purposely letting soda go flat. She has reportedly asked someone who did this if they were a masochist.
Less silly answer, Don’t touch her blueprints, Howard’s the only person she feels comfortable even seeing those. Her protectiveness stems from a particular incident that happened. Someone broke into the park and stole her blueprints, damaging Jesse in the process. She got them back eventually when the guy was found trying to sell them but oh boy.
The anxiety that stemmed from that situation was brutal.
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