#attolo

[nemowrites]

Since Attolo's new/updated demo got released and I have way too much free time on my hands, I made some art with ArtBreeder for the vibes that it gives me and composed a song with Bandlab to go with it (uploaded as a video because Tumblr is like: Audio files? Nah <3):

@attollogame Just so you know, I'm obsessed with your game thank you very much! 😌💕

[ceoil]

metuere started following you attolo started following you timeir started following you

Greeting people when they follow you is apparently a custom around here, so I might as well join in and try to blend into the internet culture.

Hello, welcome to the blog, etc etc. My name is Clayton and chances are highly likely if not guaranteed I don't want to be your friend.

[zmogedra-blog]

This just in. Tumblr user attolo is still my favorite Tumblr user.

That doesn't mean Ness is getting a starter, though. I don't even know how to begin saying hello to that child.

[thousandsoffacesmoved-blog]

attolo replied to your post: The night is quiet. Thank goodness.

Imagine if the night had lungs though! I bet that’s what they’ll think of next— grafting vocal cords onto the night!!

I would rather they didn't.  There's enough people around to speak for the night.  It doesn't need a voice of its own.

[metuere-now-exspiritment]

wow look at all of this hot timeline info

outside of the lab

This universe is a lot like ours, but science has advanced considerably further in 2013 and there’s a notable difference in morale and ethics.

Ethically, the work that the lab does would still be met with shock and horror if the general public was aware of it, but there is a large portion of the population whose mental faculties are fit for the kind of morally grey and amoral work it does. (The place is run by mad scientists, sociopaths, and cookie cutter egomaniacs with lots of money is what I am trying to say here.)

And as far as morale goes, the ordinary people in this ‘verse aren’t as motivated or passionate as the ones in ours. It’s a small difference and hard to define, let alone point out, but I’d blame it on how society has begun to desynthesize people, slowly but surely, and the fact that people just got bored. It’s nothing that would save them from being surprised by boys with fox ears or girls who can change their appearance at will, seeing as this things are not common—let alone well-known.

Nobody knows about the lab except for its employees, who are all carefully selected and profiled, so it's a bit odd how the lab carries itself around like some all-consuming, all-obstructing kingdom when they're just a bunch of scattered buildings desperately trying to stay off government radar.

basic experiment stats

Okay, so! Aside from the obvious phsycial, mental, and physiological differences among experiments and ordinary people, there are a few basic alterations made on almost every subject the lab has.

Their strength, speed, and endurance when it comes to pain, hunger, and extreme temperatures are enhanced (unless the effects of social isolation strip them of their ability to feel temperature altogether).

Along with that, a lot of their digestive systems have been tampered with an infused with chemicals that allow them to function properly on less calories than an ordinary person would need. Their nervous systems are strengthened to assist with that whole pain thing mentioned above. (Their bones are stronger, too, and blunt force trauma that might kill an ordinary human wouldn't damage an eight-year-old test subject nearly as badly.)

Sometimes the lab fucks around with their immune systems, too, so that they don't have to worry about viruses or infections, and it's only natural for the experiments to be injected with a shitload of immunizations not available to the outside world so that they don't get parasites or the common cold or whatever.

By nature, a lot of the lab kids act like cornered animals when (get this) cornered, or stressed, or walking down a crowded street, or when just—existing. It depends on the extent of their testing and their specific nature.

branch g

Definitely not one of the lab’s most successful branches.

It’s a standard building with standard experiments and a decent selection of brains working crazy shit out (for science), but the thing was damaged by Burns once before he finally burned it to the ground at age seven. It doesn’t really get more embarrassing than that.

The highest ranking scientists at this branch weren’t on good terms with The Head Honcho, either, not since they refused to donate their first daughter for testing, and the entire lab has paid for this breach of the unspoken rules. Budget cuts, stricter rules, harsher reports, crazy stuff like that that only matters to the hierarchy or whatever.

selection

There are a few ways that babies become lab kids!

A lot of the time, it's scientists donating their own genes, embryos, or straight-up infants. This is kind of unspoken protocol in every branch.

Others, it's especially gullible parents being told about day cares or boarding schools with picture-perfect schedules, prices and terms of communication with your child once they have arrived. (It's all bullshit, of course, but the parents are either given fake letters and fake phone calls or terminated immediately once they start getting suspicious.)

More common than that, though, are angels dressed to the tooth in business casual approaching desperate dead-beats, prostitutes, or alcoholics and offering them ridiculous sums of money for their infants, toddlers, or six-year-olds.

For science!

types of experiments

You’ve got your biggest category, soldiers, which sounds simple enough when you just want to make a good old fashioned super soldier (ie the Wolfgang Division) and gets increasingly complicated when you start talking about psychokenisis and the BBWs.

Soldiers, despite the branch they come from, go through similar training courses—similar to basic training in the military if you ignore the excessive brutality and experiments on the weekends.

Some soldiers are just strong and compact; some have supernatural abilities, like those in Project PK, and some have combined animal characteristics with human DNA capable of everything and stronger than the highest preforming member of the Wolfgang Division. These are called the BBWs (big bad wolves), and so far canine-human mutations are the only ones the lab has messed with. If you saw what they did to four 350 pound gorillas after a week of no food, you’d feel pretty content with your progress, too.

There are other animal-human hybrids created to serve different purposes, but the goal is still the same: combine animal adaptations and instincts with human intelligence and evolution like God never wanted. Some are trackers, some are scavengers, and some were just made to see what happens when you poke Creation as it was intended with a stick.

Most experiments with aggressive or physical ”’powers”’ were used for military purpose, but other mutant-like subjects fall in these categories: interrogator, investigator, agent (think James Bond but younger and basically one of the X-Men), or, once again, ‘let’s poke Creation with a sharp stick and then stick our thumbs in the wound’.

Basically, anything goes when it comes to The Lab, and each branch has a variety of experiments.

[fossorem]

attolo said: ME!!

[ attempts and probably succeeds to lick his eye!! this is intelligence in motion, kids. ]

[metuere-now-exspiritment]

✿ pls

✿ - Happy headcanon

The joke here is that most of Spirit’s happiness is achieved through delusion or ignorance, and it’s debatable whether she feels that sort of thing like you or I do at all.

That being said! People make her kind of sort of happy, especially if they’re Dream or D or criminally insane bad guys, and Spirit does this really kawaii thing where she bites her lip and covers her mouth and did I really use kawaii in a grammatically correct sentence byE

[fossorem]

attolo said: Oh no!!

Don't yell at me, man, your exclamation points are hurting my ears.