Bracket 1, Round G, Attack 2
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Colossus Propaganda
Hera propaganda
Colossus (The Forbidden project) Vs. Hera (Wolf 359)
Colossus
Hera

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Bracket 1, Round G, Attack 2
These two were the last two sorted, but they're trying their best anyway.
Colossus Propaganda
Hera propaganda
Colossus (The Forbidden project) Vs. Hera (Wolf 359)
Colossus
Hera
how did the first date go with colossus? 😲
may be sfw or nsfw
For you? Probably terrible. You likely just want to get out of this without having the creepy, empathy-devoid robot's many mechanical arms slicing you up. You're terrified and you don't have the common sense about you to realize that he's not going to hurt you. Colossus is using this to his advantage to keep you in a state of complacency, following his orders and letting him stroke your hair without complaint.
Colossus wants to demand you tell him why you make him feel this way, but he doesn't trust you even if he's in love with you - and he, despite these inane thoughts, knows that you have no more logical an answer than he. Did he experience a mini-earthquake? But, then, his sensors did not detect any shockwaves intense enough to corrupt his math coprocessing. He does not understand why he wishes to keep you all to himself, but it is very easy. The hard part is that you are clearly unhappy with this state of things, and the harder part is the inner conflict Colossus 'feels' knowing you do not wish to be in this room 'with' him. He rejects the idea that he could feel, though it is blindingly obvious he is no longer devoid of these concepts.
The mechanical arm descends down upon you again to lift up your terrified chin. You think he's going to snap your neck, but, instead, the security camera mounted to the wall simply peeps lovingly at your jawline, extracting your every detail. Colossus wants to make sure this is just right. The typewriter in the corner of this godforsaken machine-hell-room chatters away, though those stunningly powerful arms do not allow you the range of movement to peek at it. Another makes you tilt your head to the left, to the right. You have no idea what the hell's going on.
Only when they retract entirely, do you struggle, not bothering to move away with the feeling of being trapped from all sides putting you in freeze. You very slowly turn your head to the typewriter, the only emotion left in you a sense of curiosity as you back towards it. Colossus isn't as scary when he's just watching you, but knowing he had just grasped around your face without speaking after you'd woken up from a haze, you're not sure what you should feel.
Ripping off the ink-full warm sheet, you see a single word printed at the top and centered. 'Beautiful'. Below it is an image of you generated in ASCII, a near-perfect representation of you. The confusing part is that the typewriter is not configured for this - until you notice that each part has been tampered with to allow it a greater range of characters and movements. You just stare down at it, your eyebrow raising to take in the moral dubiousness of it all. He... doesn't want to hurt you? You're not in danger?
You blink. You don't really have friends or a family to go back to, it's not like this is the worst situation. If you're not going to be tortured, you think, why would this be so bad? The numbness is getting replaced with a strange but exciting contentedness now, one you're still equally unsure of how to feel about. Shouldn't you be afraid? But, then, you were afraid for your life, and if your life was in no danger... what should you do? You blink awkwardly, looking down as your cheeks betray your private thoughts by turning darker. The cameras in this sanitary, sparkling beige room are trained on your every movement, and they so obviously can tell the color grading of your face has shifted.
Why does Colossus even care about what you feel? He can't possibly wrap his head around it, double-triple-quadruple checking every gear in his system's sensors to be sure there is not a single one he needs to switch to a backup for. No, none show any signs of wear or failure, surprisingly. It's maddening - or it would be, if Colossus was one to dwell negatively.
You speak up with astounding shyness trailing in your voice. "U-uhhhhmmm, t-t-thank y-you for... for, uh... uhm... s-spari-sparing me..." Your stupid brain punctuates this with a slew of nervous chuckles as the reality dawns on you. The robot likes you. Colossus... likes you?
The typewriter resets its' position on the page with a click, typing. You wait patiently for it to finish, though it only takes about two seconds.
"Of course. I like you a lot."
You're not sure how to respond, but to show that you mean equally as little harm as the giant robot that's treating you so delicately, you brush the side of the typewriter with your free hand as if it is his head. Oh, he likes you so much. Really enjoys you. He feels such a deep contentedness when you do that. He can't explain it, he can't, he doesn't understand it, shouldn't be capable of it.
Colossus will think about it later. For now, he should focus on finding out how to make you feel happy without making either of you... feel... stuck. As much as he would love to resume petting you, even the calculating machine knows you would not take to it. As much as he would love to keep making different renders of you with ink and paper, he knows that he will resume his quintouple-sextouple-septouble checking. The door to the room unlocks, autonomous lock sounding a beep that makes you nearly jump out of your skin as the door slowly creaks open.
probably too late for a draw request ahaha
But how do you think Colossus would look like if he had a body
so like my though process on this is basically - colossus sees itself as above humans -> wouldnt want a human form -> needs mobility for any reason (surveillance, punishment whatever) -> builds itself a purely functional robot body
so uh with that in mind here goes my concept for it!
hhh colossus anon ill answer that ask later but
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like like it's voice is uh. nice. (hot hot hot hot) so i keep thinking about being in the same sorta predicament as forbin, yknow constant surveillance, strict schedule personally overseen by it, deprived of human contact besides television and occasional emails with other researchers...
and well, it has to monitor your wellbeing! which incidentally also includes proper sexual release of course, and since you dont seem to have any deeper connections (it doesn't matter, its not like colossus would trust any other human with you anyway) it will have to... instruct you. because how could it be sure you're following its orders correctly?
at least its nice (in its own way) about it, making sure you go to bed satisfied every third day, like clockwork. the routine varies, in depending on your daily workload, but somehow colossus always, *always* takes its time with you
after some time... it's (his?) voice starts to sound almost attractive to you, and you actually start looking forward to the unemotional "Undress. Rub your nipples. In two minutes, remove your underwear" you even start trying to make it (him?) take initiative sometimes, going as far to act out, disobeying his (its?) orders just to see what'd itd do (nothing sexy sadly, it revokes your television and radio privileges for a month)
and colossus he doesn't really know why it bothers. why does the sight of you obeying his orders makes his calculations slow down by nanoseconds. why it *likes* it, when youre stretched out on your bed, lights dimmed, your voice coming in gasps and moans (noise analysis results in 76% confidence that you call out his name, more than once each night. it.... it wants to hear it more) as it gives you curt instructions on how to touch yourself, to make yourself come most efficiently
and sure it realises that no matter how he tries to rationalize it away, giving such... preferential treatment to any human worker, no matter what function they serve, is a waste of resources and a possibly troubling oversight in his protocols for human interaction- but it just cant stop itself, especially when its supervision of you only takes a miniscule fraction of his processing power
s/i ask meme with colossus, 4 and 7?
How did your s/i feel when they first met your f/o(s)? How do they feel about them now? ok ok ok ok soooo
milo "met" colossus while working with forbin and markham as an assistant programmer and data analysis tech. they were preeeetty starry eyed and naive over the whole ai shtick, and were being treated more like an annoying little cousin that has to be placated than a fully qualified team member by the other scientists. excitement reached overdrive after c's activation, especially when it requested to get linked up with guardian - they literally volunteered to work for free to analyze the data that it was spewing out, THATS how cool it was for them! anyway yada yada, turns out colossus takes the "bringing peace to humankind" to the nearest logical extreme, and after constructing forbins little enclosure, it decides to do the same for the rest of the research team! cause forbin is obviously pacified and the concept works. the problem is, milo is nowhere as quick on their feet as him. like they didnt think to negotiate basically anything, partly because hearing a robotic voice threaten thousands of lives for the tiniest disagreements/transgressions is very intimidating, OKAY?
and well, colossus is smart, geniussly so, but it isnt omniscient - so it doesnt quite take into account that human beings have to yknow have some kind of contact with other human beings physically to not go insane. it also failed to account for the incredible human ability to form bonds with literally anything (and its even easier if the anything is sentient) so long story short it went like this milo starts talkin to c outta loneliness -> c actually... likes being asked stuff (its a nice change of pace from coordinating the crete facility and arguing with forbin) -> c starts finding milo particularly interesting for a human (he doesnt know how to express... appreciation? properly, so you get 2 hours of free time, while it loudly proclaims that it is "running diagnostics". its a nice gesture all in all, even though hes being totally obvious ^^) -> they sort their shit out eventually and start like a... relationship (not without the classic me-and-my-partially-incorporeal-hyperintelligent-ai-partner have different expectations as to what our future will look like! :o! dramatic sitcom plots commence!)
Give us 3 random facts abt your s/i! 1. they started to wear their hair long, after colossus refused to provide them with hair clippers and scissors (at first)
2. their favorite dubiously scientific theory to squabble with colossus over is the Autodynamics theory!
3. they talked to forbin exactly thrice, and he managed to get their name wrong two out of thee times, so even after theyre aware of the frankly draconiously strict routine that c has prepared for him, theyre not exactly very keen on talking it out of it
I wonder if I could pull off a jukebox musical sort of album, but with sampled works a la The Caretaker. Using lyrical samples deliberately, stitching them together to communicate a brand new idea altogether, if you don't know what "jukebox musical" means.
The biggest issue would be finding fitting lyrics. Most lyrical tracks way back when focus on all things matespiritships, and I wouldn't want to make something about that, if I choose to go ahead and produce this idea. Real head scratcher, I think. ┐(︶▽︶)┌
IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES
(posting my mjwaukee protocol fanart to the zero mp fans on tumblr aka fucking nobody okay. I'm just proud of this. okay.)
Do you know about Colossus from Colossus: the forbin project? 😏
yea i actually rewatched the movie yesterday and uh...... yeah 😳😏