#factory reset eclipse

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Sun, in his current “Eclipse needs to die yesterday” state, being introduced to the various Eclipse’s Lunar and/or Moon adopt for the the first time? Before today’s bs, of course, because I doubt Lunar would let Sun near any Eclipses after that.

Not all at once or in the same timeline, just how you think a first meeting with each one would go if Sun had no previous exposure to any nice Eclipses?

Sun would probably be very upset meeting Good Eclipse but eventually he’d come the realization Lunar did that ‘oh, he’s just a mechanic’.

If he met Kill Lunar Eclipse, he’d be quite startled to meet a blind Eclipse whose just as snarky and sarcastic but no longer evil. But meeting him may just give him light on his Eclipse’s mindset because KL Eclipse more freely talks about his feelings with his brothers and would do the same with Sun if he asked.

Dadclipse, being the closest Eclipse to Sun’s own, would just stare at Sun and explain every single bit of his own, and therefore canon Eclipse’s, reasonings for the things they did.

Meeting either memory loss Eclipse or factory reset Eclipse would show Sun the scenarios where Eclipse lost his memory and the ramifications it left on them, ML Eclipse being essentially a feral stray only knowing how to survive on the streets and FR Eclipse being a blank slate with trauma but no memories to attach to the various traumas. He’d be very protective of these two, regardless of which one he met, it would greatly change his mindset with Eclipse in general.

Human Eclipse would be a horrific meeting for both parties. Human Eclipse is terrified of everyone, because, in his eyes, everyone is a threat and he could be hurt by anyone. Sun would be more scared of all the bruises and cuts and wounds on human Eclipse because he knows humans are fragile and he would have to calm him down and comfort him before being able to talk to him.

With stress response Eclipse, Sun would be very skeptical because he’s very quiet and he doesn’t speak much because he’s scared of being stressed to breaking again. But once they begin talking, Sun feels very differently about Eclipses knowing his own could break under pressure just like SR Eclipse and would likely feel quite protective of his own Eclipse, despite their past.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

What if something comes up, and Moon has to do something and Lunar’s in another dimension, so Sun is stuck on babysitter duty. And the power goes out, scaring factory reset Eclipse, who’s now stuck in the darkness, alone with the guy who hates him?

Eclipse would likely hide and Sun would get frustrated and yank Monty in to ‘find the little bastard’ and Monty just slowly and carefully inches him out of his hiding place in the play structure and holds him while Sun pouts and broods.

He gets an absolute lecture when the others come home though, he doesn’t escape the lecture, nobody can. Lunar is upset he let the poor thing cry and be alone in the dark of all things and Moon is upset Sun handed him off to someone else who barely knows what they’re doing ‘no offense Monty’ ‘none taken’ and not at least comforting the poor thing while the lights were out.

If Kill Code is even awake or aware enough, he sou even care that Sun disregarded his son, far too busy holding and comforting him and making sure he’s okay.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Trans Eclipse, but the factory reset version? Like, Eclipse was closeted and trans before factory resetting herself, but with the new blank slate she just jumps straight out as girl?

KC would be very startled to meet his daughter for the first time post-reset when she begins correcting him on her gender. It makes him mourn even more because his oldest child never even got to come out to him. KC would still accept her and love her and would absolutely show her off as his pride and joy daughter and spoils her with pretty dresses and skirts and offers of transition. He’s very proud of her coming out straight away to him and, to him, it feels like a piece of his eldest is still there with him, even if Eclipse is wiped.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

He’d also have to get the new Eclipse a proper body and take him to the Daycare before breaking down, because he can’t just leave the fresh impressionable young AI alone in the base.

Of course not. He’s never leaving him alone again. KC would take it as his own fault completely, probably thinking he simply broke down over the work. KC doesn’t even know what Sun and Moon said in their video hurt him until Sun is commenting on the video earlier and mentions the line of Eclipse being the problem with Lunar in the other room.

Eclipse just breaks down crying again after overhearing this conversation and having a full breakdown because the factory reset wasn’t done right and he still has all his old feelings but doesn’t understand them or remember why they hurt.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Thinking about how at least the others would have their base programming to fall back on during a factory reset. But Eclipse and Killcode weren’t programmed, most of their everything was picked up from their hosts. So a factory reset Eclipse would only have his killcode and whatever code he managed to copy off of Sun to shape him. He would be an almost completely blank slate.

The poor boy is simply a little bean, so incredibly optimistic and happy and starstruck just meeting his family. He is literally ‘no thoughts, head empty’ and he’s such a sweetheart about it. He knows absolutely nothing, and he clings onto anyone who teaches him literally anything.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Killcode and Sirius having a therapy group about “You accidentally got someone important to you killed and now the only family you have left is a new family member who was born from their carcass”

Oh jeez, the support group is so small they’re pulling from dimensions that Sun and Moon haven’t gone to yet like ‘come to therapy, please, we really need friends’. Just these two handing out fliers in other dimension daycares like ‘is your brother/son/father a backup, factory reset, and/or a complete amnesiac? Please come to therapy in [insert Good Eclipse’s dimensional coordinates]’.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

building off your idea of Eclipse factory resetting himself, if it doesn't kill him entirely, would Sun, Moon, and Lunar be willing to take him in?

It would take a long time for Sun to even consider it. It’s Eclipse and he despises Eclipse with every fiber of his being, not to mention he’s stressed and upset and very confrontational right now. It’ll take something extremely bad happening to factory reset Eclipse and Eclipse breaking down into tears for him to realize that this Eclipse isn’t the one he remembers and he’s basically just a kid. And he’ll feel horrible once he realizes this because he’s spent weeks by this time actively avoiding him, disregarding him, and just plain out telling him to go bother someone else.

Moon would see how in pain KC is firsthand and take Eclipse in to help KC keep him under constant supervision and care. He understands that KC is grieving and that he needs help while he’s down and ‘how bad can it be, he’s just a kid’ so Moon becomes a sort of secondary parent for Eclipse. It’s also hard not to get attention this blank AI who immediately latches onto him because Eclipse only really knows KC is his dad and he has all these confusing feelings from his incorrect factory reset that he can’t pinpoint reasons for but he is just so full of love and anxiety that it’s hard not to love him back.

Lunar is slow to accept him but he does understand that Eclipse is no longer fully ‘Eclipse’ and treats him well, even if he had a grudge. Eclipse is wiped so he’ll be nice and treat him accordingly. But the first time Eclipse comes to him crying because Lunar flows and he’s terrified of the dark, Lunar just immediately caves in and accepts him and cuddles him up in his arms and let’s him sleep with him in his fluffiest beanbag chair.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Well, a blank slate with free lingering emotional trauma

Eclipse’s trauma sticking to him like glue after the factory reset: