So I reblogged this image about wanting to (over) share about OCs... and then I got a mysterious message telling me to speak about my OCs... 👀(*cough* @inkyprince I said I'd tag you hehe *cough*)
So I've decided to just do it, lmao. I love sharing stuff about my OCs, stories and whatnot and this is my blog, imma do what I want!
Gotta lay out some trivia & information about my Murder Drones AU, Echo! Wether it be characters or concepts, because maybe it'll get some people interested :D
All of the info is below the cut, and for the first iteration of this I've chosen Kira, aka "ZWEI", for this!
Kira - "ZWEI" - White Witch
A lot of her information can also be viewed on her ToyHouse Profile (logged in user only, sorry!)
Kira was one of the Drones that were tested and infected with the Absolute Solver code back in the 3040s and 50s in the Cabin Fever Lab Cathedral with her number being 24.
As a Communication Drone the Solver's abilities affected her in a different way than her fellow Worker Drones, causing the humans to become aware of certain powers that she exhibited which weren't displayed in other Drones.
Her "exorcism" (or, well, patch) was botched as Kira's OS wasn't capable of adapting to the patch version, causing it to corrupt and allow for a vunerability that lead to Echo (a mutated version of the AS) planting it's own code inside of Kira's, which jump-started Echo's influence on Communication Drones.
Kira's Solver is always active - that's why her eye doesn't return to normal and only ever displays the emblem.
She overheats extremely easily all the time and is prone to physical pain and tinnitus due to her being unable to block out inbound signals if she picks them up.
This has her health deteriorating quickly over the course of the MD: Echo story, slowly succumbing from it, though she keeps on pushing forward to stop ECHO and it's hosts.
She needs actual medication to keep the pain at bay and constantly consumes Oil at a high rate to stop overheating.
If her Solver was to deactivate she'd most likely pass away within a few days.
Her secondary name, "ZWEI" means "Two" (or could also be interpreted as "the second") in German. It is a reference to her part in the story, as well as her connection to ECHO. (won't be spoilered for now 8D)
She associates alot of trauma with it and doesn't like being referred by it.
Personality wise Kira seems fairly withdrawn from everyone around her except her friends and partner/family.
If she's in a good headspace she's fairly open and confident, almost fierce in the way she appears to others.
Kira's keen on keeping up a strong facade to not show strangers her weaknesses or true condition.
"But what are Communication Drones?"
I'm glad you asked! Communication Drones look like normal Workers, though the one thing that sets them apart are the two antennas on their head which can vary in size & style depending on their desired function (short-range, long-range, ground signals, air signals etc.)
These antennas function as ears for them, so if they're removed, their hearing is damaged (not entirely deaf, but definitely worsened). So if a "normal" CD loses their antennas they're having a harder time adapting as their intake of sound is greatly reduced.
As an AS user/host, Kira's able to pick up on stronger signals from far away or even sending out signals to stun/manipulate others around her in a short radius. This effect doesn't stay though, it'll wear off over time and actively consume energy from the Drone using it.
Disassembly Drones can also have the subtype of a Communication Drone as shown in the sketch below (left DD) - their antennas are usually shorter and made for short-range and aerial signals as they're capable of flight, too.
(I almost made them a polycule not going to lie they all hot as fuck) wish that was me-)
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(Kira on her way to cast 'gun, prepare to meet god' in the face of a fucking angel-robot-AI that believes to be god itself)
Kira plays a big part in the MD: Echo universe next to some minor characters & canon characters.
Her main motivation is to help stop Echo, as it also tries to infect her via the unstable Solver code in her OS.
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Crucifix Symbolism
(the power of christ compels you!)
Something very important to Kira is her botched patch / "exorcism". She's obsessed with crucifix looking symbolism which continues to haunt her almost 30 years later during MD: Echo's timeline.
She's desperate to break free from this, but cannot help herself. She compulsively collects cross-shaped imagery and in the first few months after her escape from the Lab she actively built crosses from all sorts of materials.
It's mainly coming from her OS being overwhelmed by the botched patch and the crucifix imagery of the USB burning itself in her memory files as some sort of "salvation" she has yet to achieve.
Luckily, this started to fade out over the years, especially after meeting T who helped her to overcome the trauma of the incident.
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(CW: Mentions of Self-Harm)
After being infected by the Absolute Solver, Kira desperatly tried more than once to remove her antennas to keep the voices from appearing. It talked to her from the inside, but she didn't realize this yet.
Like almost all other AS Users however she kept on regenerating, unable to escape the inner turmoil of the Solver's possession and Echo trying to get inside of her OS as well.
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Effects of the AS on her psyche
(holy shit have you ever seen a centipede that big? what is this? australia?)
Haunted by visions of the Solver, it's communications with the other Drones and later on the landing pods of the Disassembly Drones Kira had a hard time to tune out these visions she got from time to time.
Similar to Nori in that regard Kira wrote everything down she heard through these intercepted signals, amassing hundreds of pages of logs she was able to get.
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Meeting her partner
("Girl I swear I have normal hands too don't be distracted by my sexy claws")
In the 3060s, she stumbled upon one of the Disassembly Drone squads outside of the colony's Outpost she was seeking shelter in. She had intercepted their landing pods signals and was "curious" to seek out whoever had arrived, trying to solve the mystery of whatever the Solver had her experience.
That's when she found Serial Designation T - the navigator of the squad, who at first attempted to kill her like he'd been tasked to do. After all, Kira was a Solver Host that couldn't be fully mind-controlled anymore.
But in the middle of him attacking her T's code was halted by Cyn herself, deactivating his executive task to kill the Host he had infront of him. He himself didn't know why exactly the Solver did this, but in hindsight it was due to the fact that Kira was still able to be of use to it later on.
(POV: you deleted system32 from your PC because some random kid on roblox told you to)
Now neutral, T got curious about Kira whom he tried to speak to with her Kira (driven by curiosity on why he had stopped being aggressive all of a sudden, being able to intercept the communication he had with Cyn) staying to talk to him.
Over the following weeks the two grew acustomed with each other, slowly building a friendship that later on evolved into a more romantic nature.
Kira hid him in the Outpost and brought in food for the two of them as she constantly needed oil as well.
Kira, Absolute Solver host & communication worker drone!
She's Evies mother and wife to Serial Designation T, her 80s music obsessed labrador of a husband.
Read more about her below the cut!
Find her playlist here!
Kira, also known as "Zwei" (nickname by the humans in the cabin fever labs) was number 24 in the experiments regarding the Absolute Solver during the 3040s-3050s.
She was infected with the Solver in order to test it's abilities and she was used for an early live patch of the crucifix USB that was eventually tested on her.
The patch corrupted and got rid of the mind control, but not of her abilities nor the flashbacks & "whispers" she experiences, most likely leftovers from the Solvers influence.
This failed experiment caused the scientists to treat her differently from the others, locking her up more often and more securily, even disallowing her from seeing the other workers that were tested in the labs.
Kiras trust in the humans dwindled by the day and she finally managed to escape at the beginning of the 3050s. She was afraid of being caught, but some unknown entity led the search troups and Sentinels to an entirely different place, allowing Kira to escape quietly and being taken in by a colony that found her at critical levels outside their Outpost.
Kira is a community drone - a subtype of the common workers that are fitted with antenna that can be used to intercept messages, radio signals and coms between Outposts and even from the landing pots of the Disassembly Drones, causing Kira to be aware when they're coming. This has a limited range, but her Solver allows for a greater range in exchange for overheating/loss of strenght for a while.
She lost one of her antennas in a struggle with the scientists, causing her to be partially deaf on that side since the antenna also double as "ears" for her.
Kira is semi-mute, only talking if necessary and is very withdrawn. Whispers in the colony call her "white witch" due to her strange eye symbol and powers that noone can explain. She keeps distance to most workers though.
One day in 3052, she intercepted the coms of an approaching landing pod that brought three Disassembly Drones to their Outposts area - Serial Designation T (navigator), Serial Designation K and Serial Designation X (pilot).
Curious, Kira left the Outpost and approached them. T was en route to kill her off, when Cyns admin commands overwrote his drive to kill the worker and he became friendly.
Confused by this, X & K tried attacking Kira, but T held them back, claiming he got new orders (for some reason... he doesn't question things).
In reality, Cyn wanted to retain this Host, even if she didn't have quite fully control over Kira anymore.
To make a long story short, Kira and T started to become friends and later on, romantically involved. She snuck him into her quarters and lived with him there in secret, only leaving at night so he could eat and bring her some oil too.
In 3054 their daughter Evie was born as a hybrid of a worker & disassembly drone.
Kira & T disappeared in 3070/71 during the slow uprising of the Solver, trying to figure out what's going on since Kira intercepted weird messages sent to hosts.
Based my Cyn design on my "Synemy" Redesign for her. Haven't drawn in humans in AGES so please excuse the botched anatomy LMAO
my headcanon for a human!AU would be that Solver Hosts have tattoos of the Solver symbol somewhere on their body to mark them, making them visible to other people.
