#nek-01

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CAT-SS is giving lessons to NEK-01 on how to be more flexible and cat-like! ... it's not going very well.

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Even androids need a little time for fun in the sun now and then.

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NEK-01 is a first-generation, prototype android whose design would eventually lead to future models, such as Bun-E03, and many more.

Rumors abound that the original prototype had no emotion at all, and that her terse, stand-offish personality is based off of a brain scan of a pet cat of one of the engineers. This has been dismissed as being completely absurd, as no self-respecting engineer would ever think of putting a cat's brain in a high-performance android's body.

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Bun-E03 and NEK-01 sketch! Updating the art that I've used for the end card for my (fairly limited) streams.

I have a bad habit of dropping characters and names as though they're already an established thing, so I'm adding a little more context after the jump.

While both characters are essentially mascots I made for streams, I like to come up with some lore that guides their designs, too. While she was the first character I came up with as a sort of dedicated streaming mascot, Bun-E03 is intended to be a High Performance Next-Generation Bunny Mascot with a bubbly personality.

I wasn't totally content with just having the one mascot, though, and I figured that if humanity were going to make animal-themed androids, they'd probably start with cats and dogs. As a result, NEK-01, a prototype of sorts, followed. She actually likes being around Bun-E03, but as a prototype she's not great at expressing her emotions, so she ends up coming off as terse. I hope to finish this illustration Soon™.

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A little collage of what I've been working on over the past month or so. I've shown Bun-E03 before, but I'm still working out the designs of the other three.

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Androids have feelings, too. Unfortunately, Nek-01 mostly just feels disdain.

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Been quietly working on a few things, even if there's not much to show for it yet. A bubbly bunny and a tsundere cat.