Or: A very sick little murder gremlin with her cheerful puppy boyfriend, her solver possessed tail, and her eldritch horror mother looking after her.
My first Murder Drones art, please be nice ;w;
More long-ass yapping (detailed desc) below read
I bet you're all surprised to see a Murder Drones art from me of all things. And this late? Yeah I got into this series way later than most. Well honestly? MD has become a bit of a comfort to me for a while. Not sure why, I guess I just vibe with it. Not a fixation or anything, but something I can enjoy whenever I feel the need to watch something fun yet intense.
And tbh? I'm a bit nervous to share fanart with such a big fandom. (unlike RainCode being small, this larger fandom intimidates me >.<) I'm NOT in the fandom at all. I'm just a lurker. Making things for my own personal enjoyment. (like always)
Ngl, robot illness has been a fascinating point of topic for me since I was a kid. Some of my favorite characters growing up were robots and only one touched on the subject of a "virus" properly imo. It gave me some room to experiment in my head. Honestly, the Murder Drones are the most humanized robots I've come to know. Especially with the fact they can blush, sweat, vomit, and run high temperatures from overheating (that alone gave me ideas lmao)
And after reading a plethora of MD sickfics on AO3, I realized there is a criminally lacking amount of illness art content for MD. So just as I do, I took matters into my own hands. And attempted to draw various doodles of my favorite little angsty teen going through the worst virus ever... XD (my rule is my faves must suffer lol)
N being there is a total given. That boy is the epitome of a caretaker to Uzi through most of the series. So naturally she'd let her guard down around him. As for her mom, I liked Nori and wish she got more screen time. And I personally think her and Uzi would have a solid relationship with each other, though I also see them constantly fighting over the dumbest stuff. I do like to imagine she tries to parent Uzi where her father failed miserably (fuck that guy) so she does her best to be a mom to her when she can. And this is for sure one of those times.
Uzi as a sickie I imagine to be incredibly cranky and moody. Lashing out at everyone who tries to help, insisting she can handle it on her own, wanting to stay in the dark like the little bat she is, cursing every time her system malfunctions, steam comes out of her body, or she has to puke oil for the who knows-how-many-ith time.
However, with N... she completely melts into his embrace begging to be doted on by him. Clinging to him tightly yet pretending she's still being tough. Utterly touch starved. At least that's how I see it. She 100% lets her guard down around him and allows herself to be vulnerable in his presence. Because she knows she can count on him, and he'll take good care of her.
That's when I came up with this scenario within my doodles. Uzi wakes up not long before fainting and when Nori stays home while her dad's at work to try and help her, she completely refuses and rejects her mother's care. It becomes too much for Nori so she resorts to contacting N to have his "help" in getting Uzi to cooperate. When he does come by and Uzi calms down, Nori does whatever she can to properly read her code and install the anti-virus. And N tries too, by feeding her oil soup...when she has zero appetite.
The device in Nori's claw hand is like a drone's version of a thermometer, basically a scan to read a drone's coding and seeing if any of it is corrupted by a virus. The symptoms are similar to a human flu virus; fever, chills, head + body aches, coughing, unstable balance and a stomach ache + vomiting substituting the cold-like symptoms, because robots. (and its canon that they can get those issues)
Despite being absent from Uzi's life, I think Nori does still care and worry for her daughter as a mother would, and she'd still try to help in her own way even if Uzi refuses it. She's trying her best ;w;
The doodles are completely out of order, but hopefully they still tell the story kind of. To any MD fans that see this, just know that I yap a LOT about my art sometimes. So kudos if you read allat... x'D
Again, not a part of this fandom. Just a lurker. But if you enjoyed these doodles, then I'm very happy I could feed you as I fed myself. Hopefully I did these drones justice in my art style. They weren't easy to get right lemme tell ya... ^^; (especially their glowing eyes.)
If any of you know of existing illness-related MD art, lmk in replies, no seriously, hook me up xD (i need more sick drones in my life)
Hope you enjoy the art! This took me 2 and a half days to finish.
Headcanon time: Uzi learned to code at a very young age because she was desperate to look through her own code and fix whatever was wrong with her that made even her dad seemingly hate her before giving up on that and trying to make them all love her by defeating the Murder Drones.
Don't imagine little Uzi stealing the equipment to check her own code and finding out the hard way why drones usually go offline for procedures that involve it— the connection in place making her feel more like she was repeatedly being kicked in the chest, nearly making her fall and curl up in a ball and crying out for help. (And maybe she doesn't even remember actually doing those things, because it hurt so badly that she was ignored when she tried).
But she got up, and scoured through her own code for hours, tears in her eyes as she desperately clawed for anything she could change and edit on her own, something that would make her likeable to even one person, only to discover nothing. There's nothing she can actually change that they would like, because she's tried it before without changing any code and they'd only made fun of her or told her to stop.
Don't imagine her ripping all the cords out and sobbing again anyway, wanting so badly for anyone to come in and comfort her while knowing deep in her code nobody would.
Headcanon time: Uzi learned to code at a very young age because she was desperate to look through her own code and fix whatever was wrong with her that made even her dad seemingly hate her before giving up on that and trying to make them all love her by defeating the Murder Drones.
