why do all the MePhones after 4S have no mouths?
i remember i saw a comic thing where cobs does it because 4s also wants food and he decided to stop giving them mouths lmao
This is actually a very interesting question! To answer it, let’s first establish the order in which the Meeple product came out, to our knowledge
MePhone4S/MePad (it’s unclear which came first)
Unknown MePhone (most likely MePhoneX)
Now it’s important that we remember what makes MePhone4 so special: his advanced emotion regulator.
It’s been confirmed that MePhone4 has the most powerful emotion regulator, and every other MePhone has the capacity for less and less emotion. So in a way we can consider MePhone4 the most “human” of the Meeple products.
This slow decline in emotional capability is evident through the behavior of all the Meeple products.
With MePhone4, MePhone4S and MePad (see: Why Does MePad Lie) all being very emotional. While 5, 5S and 5C don’t show as much emotion, though they are still capable of it (possibly even more than we know. Considering none of them got much screen time).
6 and 6+ don’t seem completely lifeless. But they don’t seem to possess as much free thought as their earlier siblings.
By the time we see 7 and 7+, the current Meeple products seem to be relatively void of free will. They live and die to serve their purpose. While we don’t have much info on MePhoneX, we can assume they most likely don’t have much free will, if any at all.
Over time the Meeple products have gotten less and less human. This is symbolized not only through their actions, but through their appearance.
Think of MePhone5 in comparison to 4 and 4S. He’s supposed to appear more technologically advanced. More dangerous. Less fragile. He has more robotic features. He turns into weapons instead of just holding them. He’s less human than 4 and 4S
(Note I’m using the term “human” loosely as technically they’re all objects)
This pattern continues as MePad has no mouth, but he still has eyes. He’s more technological than MePhone4 but he’s still very lively and clearly capable of free will.
5, 5S and 5C have no mouth, and their eyes are either covered or non existent. Their glasses give a slight illusion of humanity, but they don’t have nearly as much free will as MePhone4. And by the time we see 7 and 7+, they have no eyes. Their screens barely resemble a face. This reflects the fact that they themselves barley resemble living beings.
MePhoneX is by far the best example of this, as they don’t resemble a living being at all. There’s no features on their screen that could appear to be a face. Their limbs are thick and robotic unlike the thin and flexible limbs of the living objects, along with the previous Meeple products. There is no humanity left in MePhoneX, and their appearance reflects that.
Hope this helps clear things up!
