#bugbug au

[mairzymarzipan]

one thing i can’t quite figure out how to get around is the reason Winnie’s cursed in the fantasys Us is bc a fairy or some magical force reached into his mind and pulled out something that was already there just, not on the surface.  he already loved bugs and everything he just never felt comfortable in his own skin.  and like, i guess idk how to translate that detail to ‘random science accident caused weird science to happen’ 

[mairzymarzipan]

i still can’t can’t quite stop obsessing over the bugbug au

i realized that i really like the idea of Winnie shifting in shape back and forth all the time when work called for it.  maybe the process for doing so requires a lot of dangerous type energy or something- in any case, he finds it much easier to make a copy of his human self to stand in his place

the first image is already uncannon as Winnie is a reasonably smart guy, but he’s no genius.  He can build robots.  probs has someone working for him- perhaps Dudley?  

my first idea was a robot but the human!winnie in the rest of these images are necessarily robots.  maybe they’re clones?  i also considered sort of an avatar situation where Winnie controls the body remotely like some kind of Henson animatronic.  

and then my mind dipped into a weird trying to get Phillip involved.  See, there’s two Phillips in this world- one Winnie’s living, breathing, 30-something ex, and Phillip5′s a digital snapshot of Phillip’s feelings and memories from when he was seventeen.  This AI has been uploaded onto a pair of glasses that can hijack bodies at rest.  Phillip is...kind of weirded out by this.

I think eventually Winnie will decide(with much prodding from Phillip) that using the memories of a kid to pilot his unwanted human body is kind of a shitty thing to do, but he feels too bad to shut down the AI by then, so they make Phillip5 a new robot body.

Phillip5 five can speak and think, and uses force fields to fly.  Later on, he’s able to hone this to shape the force fields, and manipulate objects near him(as glasses).  He can even take control of non-organic, non-robotic bodies like mannequins and such.