#engineer jimmy

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JIMMY!! ur gonna overheat the android, buddy!!

(Even though tango DID say he could touch the metal)

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How would they reprint an expendable? Is jimmy human?

The reprinting and expendable stuff is based off the Mickey 17/Mickey 7 movie/book!

In it, the main character is human and signs up to be an “expendable” to secure passage off earth in a big ship because he doesn’t have any other skills to get him on there. They basically take a physical “snapshot” of him and all his memories and then his specific body is the only one coded to be reprinted with a sort of high tech 3D printer thing!

They use him to test things to get vaccines made, send him on dangerous missions, etc, and every time he dies they just print him out again and off he goes!!

In the movie there was also a doppelgänger angle where they THOUGHT he’d died but he actually didn’t and they reprinted a new guy only to find out the OG was still there! And then plot and story ensued etc etc

I’m not going to be using anything much else from the movie besides Jimmy being an expendable and being reprinted only to die again!

He thinks it’s a big honor and is happy to do it, even though his deaths are full of suffering a lot of times. But in his mind he’s a hero because his suffering prevents OTHER people from suffering.

Unfortunately though, he turns a blind eye to the way he’s treated more like a dishrag than a hero, but Tango is picking up on it and it’s becoming hard to ignore.

ANYWAYS here’s some drawings of Jimmy I did over Mickey screenshots to play around with his printing stuff! They fit him with a collar before they let him go which monitors his vitals for research purposes but is also a kill switch if they need to terminate a Jimmy run early 😭

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How did Jimmy actually end up making a functional robot in the first place?

Love the art so much, absolutely eating this up

HAHAH he actually DIDN’T make tango! He’s not a very good engineer at ALL unfortunately, mostly regulated to a pipe fix or frayed wire refresh or a little metalwork!

What actually happened is he found a shut down tango and decided to bring him back online! He MANAGED to boot tango up again but he did such a poor job fixing him that tango finished the rest of the repairs himself (and quietly fixed a few things Jimmy did wrong HAHAHGD)

Also related but unrelated, I saw Mickey 17 and decided Jimmy is an expendable, which if you didn’t see the movie, basically Jimmy does work as someone they can send into dangerous situations or do experiments on! He dies, they reprint him out, and off he goes again!

Which is what the logo on his shoulder indicates!

Tango doesn’t know how he feels about the way Jimmy is treated :/

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hey it’s me again, that anon who asked about your robot yaoi

I had a question about what exactly Jimmy is? if he’s below android and below human and that makes him and expendable, what exactly is an expendable? Is it a human with respawn mechanics? or is it just the poorer class of humans and Jimmy happens to be able to respawn, making this the perfect (airquotes) job for him? Jejdjjdjdkdjkd I love this so much :3

HIII welcome back!!

I think for this, expendable is just a job class and the only one he qualified for BUT they tell him he’s special because not everyone can be reprinted and be functional like he is? Now if that’s the truth, he doesn’t know for sure, but it makes him feel important! Plus the printer can only be coded for one person so he’s the only one that can be made in it anyways.

He IS a human, but instead of a job like an actual engineer or a pilot or something like that, he originally was on a ship and used both there and then the planet the ship landed on, and then after a while when things are all settled and safe, they send him off on another ship to a new world and the process starts over again.

His busiest times are when the ships have freshly landed on a planet and they need a human to trial out all the new bacteria and virus and plant/animal life and make vaccines and plans for the rest of the community to be able to survive perfectly! It’s rough on him but blearily cheering with the scientists as the 56th trial vaccine finally works is the high point of his many respawns

Secretly though…deep down….he hates dying and is scared every time :,0

But now he at least has someone to hold him through some of the longer and suckier trials

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I love your robot yaoi, would also love to hear more (if you’ve got any lol)

that being said I do have a question, on the previous ask you said that Tango was found by Jimmy and not made by him, this made me wonder what Tangos original purpose was. Like did he also do dangerous work or was he more of an engineering android if anything?

it you have anymore tidbits I would love to hear!!!!!! :3

I think I’ll leave tango’s past a bit of a mystery just bc HONESTLY I DONT KNOW DYDHJD

but I think definitely engineering leaning and higher tech, which made it strange that he’d be thrown out like that because he’s definitely not some cheap little vacuum or air purifier??

That was also a big reason Jimmy rescued him from being fully trashed! He could tell he was special (and handsome), and while he’s not exactly cleared to be allowed to have something as high tech as tango, his bumbling fix attempt did JUST enough damage that tango isn’t considered as high tech as he was HAHSG

And if tango fixed himself up but never reported the fixes so that he stays “less valuable” and allowed to stay with Jimmy the expendable….who’s keeping tabs?!!!

I think in this AU it would be fun where like, humans still “run” things but consider tech to be more valuable than people. So while tango is a high tech machine, he’s never tasked with jobs that could damage or destroy him. Those dangerous or sucky jobs are regulated to humans, and the worst ones regulated to the local expendable, which would be Jimmy.