also idk if christmas fic is in the cards it is not speaking to me whatsoever in the word doc rn
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also idk if christmas fic is in the cards it is not speaking to me whatsoever in the word doc rn
Robot Oscar!!!!
Max can't help but take Oscar in but now he is legally Oscar's owner and sure Max is an experienced cat owner but he has never had to care for an android! Max awkwardly hoovering around Oscar asking if he has a usb-c or lightning charging port and Oscar dryly tells him he has a power down mode in which he charges, nothing to be inserted thank you very much!
Also can you imagine professional yapper and know it all Max dealing with Oscar? Max's self-defense in awkward times is spewing cat or geography facts but Oscar literally is the Internet he knows more and always just nods solemnly.
Max waking up one night to not only find the cats curled up on the bed with him, but Oscar too (they form a chaotic trio there to manipulate him, Max is 90% sure Oscar speaks cat but Oscar is denying it) curled up real small so he wouldn't wake Max. Max manhandling Oscar under the covers next to him claiming that he is sure it will help Oscar charge better and Oscar smiles softly and says he thinks so too, he is pretty sure he read an article on it (liesssss!!)
SCREAMING
Vibing with Max basically going "I'm a great cat dad how hard can it be caring for a robot" and Oscar is just silently judging him lol. Max going over with charging cables trying to figure out where the charging port would be and Oscar stops that real fast lol. Oscar explaining his low power mode, kinda between sleeping and meditating and he will power up through that, and Max just blurts out that's great cos electricity prices are so high now as if he isnt mega rich
Oscar thinks it's very amusing ehen Max seems to want to fill any awkward silence with just straight up yapping and Oscar does love to correct Max when he is wrong lol! The only things he doesn't know more on than Max is basically human emotion and habits and it fascinates him, so Max often has Oscar wandering after him to see what he is doing (they gotta talk about boundaries when Max is in the shower and suddenly hears "isn't bar soap better than liquid body wash? According to a study by-" and let's out a screech seeing Oscsr fully clothed in the shower next to him)
Pls Oscar and the cats just vibing a lot and Max is a little jealous when both cats curl up on Oscar's lap instead of his (he says it's cheating hearing Oscar upped his body temp a little because they like the warmth), but Oscar seems excited so it's fine.
Max waking up to 2 cats and 1 android sleeping a the end of his bed and he is groggy and confused but pulls Oscar over to be more comfortable. Oscar might be able to deal with the awkward angle but Max's muscles ache just looking st it so he isnt having his robot be uncomfortable! He mutters it's so Oscar can recharge better and Oscar hums, agreeing thst he read about that too (first lie Oscar ever told anyone).
(He much later also claims he heard that a kiss could help androids recharge faster and innocently asks if Max could help him test that theory)
fic prompt for my landoscar writers out there
oscar is a robot…
lando falls in love with him.
the rest is free reign 👀
Also I vibe with the idea of Max somehow gaining possession of android Oscar (O.S.C.A.R. =Observational Sensor Controlled Autonomous Robot (too perfect), like either red bull gifted him Oscar or maybe he literally paid some random person on the street after seeing them treat Oscar poorly.
And pls Oscar is so deadpan and quiet and does stare a lot, but he is also very smart and has a very developed personality that he is scared to show sometimes! But either way he likes Max and he loves the cats and does not appreciate Lando making jokes about Oscar being pinocchio ("you're a real boy now Oscar!)
realized i've accidentally stolen brad pitt's 'what if this guy fucked his race engineer' plotline and made it into fic.... but it's ok bc mine's gay. and also the engineer is a robot.
rules: tagger gives a word, then for each letter of that word you share an excerpt from your WIPs that starts with that letter
@1425fivefive this is sooooo fun? tysm for the tag!!
her word was race
R
“Really good,” Lando agrees, thinking of Martin and white powder and the friendly side of a mountain.
“Didn’t think too hard, I hope,” Zak tags on.
Lando shoves his tongue into the sharp points of his canines and nods down at the table.
A
A muscle on the inside of his bicep twitches where he’s got his arms crossed over his chest. He’s tanner than he was when they’d parted ways in Belgium, and Oscar recalls the Instagram posts he’d been carefully not interacting with over the last few weeks.
C
“Call if you need later,” he squeezes Lando’s wrist once before letting go.
If you’re panicking, Max means, if you need me to count out your breathing for you like you’re 19 again.
E
Even once he’s done as he’s told, Oscar looks a little uncertain still in the way his smile is soft around the edges, fingers curled around both sides of the plate. A bit like a kitten, Lando thinks, disgruntled after a nap.
i had soooooooo many 'e's to choose from that was crazy...
anyway !! that was so fun !! idk who has been tagged already, but @ipleadbritney and @fear8not1 if you would like to play and haven't, take the word 'hands'
ooo I’m curious on robot Oscar’s “role” in Lando’s life. Is he emotional/practical support— is Lando an f1 driver? (and omg crying about Lando realizing Oscar was designed JUST for him… that’s why he feels so perfect…)
YAY YAP TIME THANK YOU !! (i'm avoiding the jobs.....)
lando is an f1 driver. oscar is his RACE ENGINEER. on the cutting edge. mclaren are the first to do it - bring in a biomech for this big of a job. i picture it like the current car regulations: you cheat the rules until they codify your loopholes out of existence. so lando is the first f1 driver to ever have a completely non-human race engineer, and oscar is designed to optimize race strategies based on evolving data, but also to optimize communication with lando. trained on his personality, his old comms, the way he responds to different things during races. literally designed for him as a driver.
the internal angst i am going to inflict upon lando as he struggles with the realities of 'falling in love' (?) with something he knows is simply taught to extract the best out of him. my poor, poor sad suffering boy....
robot oscar is such a powerful concept and there aren't enough fics about it! so i fully support you in your adventure of writing sci fi if that's what you want 😁
i actually don't want to write sci fi because there's so much world-building to do that it sounds exhausting. BUT. robot osc has possessed me. the concept is actually mainly about lando tbh (as most of my fics are), and now that my brain's invented a new way to make that guy suffer, we've latched ON to it. i fear this is going to be another 40k+ one.... sigh.