Tw: mention of drone cannibalism, drone guts (components), drone core, drone gore and similar topics.
Long story short, this spawned in my brain thanks to a convo with a friend and I wanna share it!
So, we all probably know about how in Murder Drones episodes, it's shown at least one time (as far as I remember) a drone core being eaten, consumed even. But, how does a core taste like? And what's it's texture?
(The texture convo has already happened in the Kincord server, but I wanna expand upon it).
First, the core of a drone seems to be pretty fleshy, resembling biological stuff like meat, but since it's a component of an artificial being like a robot, it can't be fully biological (at least in my mind). I consider this 'fleshy' look the exterior, like the components of the core are covered in this meaty shield.
This meaty exterior, would probably have similar texture to actual meat, octopus or calamari would be my best bet, but I can honestly see it being also similar to minced meat or meatballs.
Second of all, the actual core would be mechanical as the rest of the drone body, with those sharp limbs that resemble crab legs probably being similar to DD's blade fingers. This means that it'd have similar texture to the rest of the drone, crunchy it's my best bet, but I honestly tend to compare it to cartilage or soft bone.
Now! The taste :D
The fleshy exterior is easy, it probably tastes salty as some unseasoned meats, also meaty, and probably a bit metallic too because of it's closeness to actual metal and probably because of blood? (Question mark?) And some hints of oil for obvious reasons. For me, drone oil would be kinda bitter, maybe comparable to dark chocolate milk! Which I tend to associate it to.
The interior is a bit more difficult to pinpoint, apart from the expected metallic taste of it I'd actually expect it to have less flavor than the exterior metal parts from a drone. You'd ask why, and I answer it!
In real life, meat from animals tend to have a hint or flavor resembling their environment, the perfect example would be sea food tasting a lot like sea and the meat parts of the taste being overshadowed by it (have in mind this is an opinion from a sea food hater, thanks!). So, the exterior of the drone would have more taste akin to being more exposed to the elements of the environment, while the interior is soaked in metal and oil.
TL;DR
Drone cores would have a meaty exterior, and a crunchy inside. The taste of the exterior would be very meaty and with hints of saltiness, bitterness and metallicness. In comparison, the interior would lack flavor and have less saltiness, but maintain the metallic and bitter taste.
Thanks for reading my random ramblings I do to distract myself from the urge of bitting a screen 🤝
