#md lore

[theothersideofthesolver]

Reminder that the WDF has a robo-murder hotline, and somebody bothered to print missing posters for these kids. The general apathy towards death in Worker Drone society is not because the average drone is a redshirt toaster who doesn’t understand death, but rather everybody is so overexposed to death that it becomes too exhausting to react to.

Death is a rule in Workerdrone Society. Everybody expects that someday they will die gruesomely. It has been a rule of Workerdrone life since the days that humans still ruled over them.

Unit damage was the highest recorded cause of unit decommission. And let us not forget Louisa Elliot’s favorite way of disposing of her own workers was chaining them up and letting them be ripped apart by crows.

It has always been this way for workerkind.

[katherinearandez]

Why does Doll speak Russian?

All the other drones we’ve seen speak English, so why is this one character randomly different?

I have a theory about this.

At first, I didn’t think much of it and assumed it was just the show trying to be random and quirky, or work some diversity into a world of otherwise fairly monotone characters. I legit could not distinguish between most of the drones for my first few watch throughs, but Doll stood out from the rest, her spoken language making her instantly recognizable in a cast of black and white metal robots that look pretty darn similar to each other before you get familiar with their clothes, hair and associated color patterns.

I think there is a very logical reason she and possibly her family(idk, they are dead and have no dialogue) speak a different language from the other worker drones. Before the core collapse, the drones had owners, and I think Yevas and/or Doll’s dad(no name given 😕) had Russian owners. Maybe Russia was their country of origin on earth, where they were originally manufactured and sold before traveling to copper 9 along with their owners.

Doll speaks Russian because it’s her default language setting. I believe it’s likely all drones have the programming to speak and understand all human languages, with owners being able to change the language setting for their drones verbal output if they want. Just like how pc and smartphone devices can toggle between languages with just a few taps or clicks. All other languages are still stored in their programming, so this change doesn’t impact a drones ability to interpret speech, hence the English speaking drones ability to effortlessly understand Doll.

Likewise, the rest of the drones on copper 9 speak English because they originated in countries where it was the predominant spoken language, and the language their owners spoke.

I enjoy dissecting the logic of this show and it’s mechanics/lore soooo much 🤩

[theothersideofthesolver]

The only confirmed kiss in Murderdrones is Darren x N’s Arm

[theothersideofthesolver]

Obscure Murderdrones Fact #16

Source: Ep. 5 “Home”

Timestamp: 9:39

In this shot we gain a full look at the hybrid-corpse suspended behind V. The creation is chained to the wall. Chains are in large supply at the Elliot Mansion, evidenced by Louisa’s reliance on them to solve all of her problems.

The creation itself appears to be a skeletal human corpse with the head of a worker. The human arms have been bent, and the hands have been fitted with blades, repurposing the limbs into a prototype of wings that would later be found in Dissasembly Drones.

From the pelvis, it becomes a little harder to discern. What looks at first like skeletal legs is cast into doubt upon closer inspection.

Timestamp: 10:18

This shot has been lightly edited to even out the contrast and reduce the glare. In this image, we can see the legs are those of a worker drone (notice the way the light glares on the metal versus the bone, and the segmented appearance matching V’s arm, in shot for convenient comparison.)

The feet also appear to be that of a crow, or rather, the solver’s larger and weaponized crow-talon design. It is hard to say for certain due to the creeping flesh’s overlap of the feet, but I noticed the feet look to be comprised of three long toes, rather than the many smaller bones of a human’s, or the singular merged foot of a drone.

This suggests that, like I have speculated before, crows played a larger role in the experiments leading up to the gala. It also shows a potential transitional period from the hand-based wings made purely by the solver, to the bladed wings engineered for Dissasembly Drones.

[theothersideofthesolver]

Obscure Murderdrones Fact #18

Source: Ep 6 “Dead End”

Timestamp: 7:02

Several of Alice’s corrupted cores have names.

I’d reckon the ones that do used to belong to her fellow test subjects.

You can even suspect that “Jim” is a shortened nickname for “Jimi,” number 058 in the solver experiments, and confirmed corrupted drone.

Source: Ep 7 “Mass Destruction”

Timestamp: 13:09