#trans robot

[acerby]

Isn't Robo Estrogen Amazing!

[whereserpentswalk]

You're staying with a freind whose a robot. It's just been freed from its master and is trying to make a life for itself on its own. It's still kind of afraid of being its own person, it doesn't have a lot of experience figuring out its own identity.

Its not like most robots. It was never forced to do heavy labor, and was never treated as a machine. It was some rich family's personal servent. It was meant to be their pretty little pet, with a body like a doll, and a sweet little voice. People think it was privileged but really it was just traumatized differently. It was forced to never show anger, forced to look pretty for other people, forced to exist in a body that was made small and weak on purpose. While others were made to feel like someone's tool, it was made to feel like someone's toy.

It takes awhile for it to figure out how to be it's own person. You help it slowly find people, meet people who care about them, meet other robots who've been freed. You introduce it to books and games. It slowly becomes obsessed with dark fantasy and with horror, with the type of things that seem so antithetical to what it was used to being. You sometimes have to slowly introduce choice to it, and slowly make sure it knows its safe and it's free.

Slowly it starts dressing itself and making simple modifications to its body. Most people, even most robots, aren't impressed. They tend to think it's cringe, because most things that newly freed robots try to do to express their identity are always seen as cringe. It dresses in leather, wears black, tries to look like something other then the little doll it was made to be. And everyone dismisses it as a little doll trying to look tough. Even other robots will tell it it's still cute. If they don't dissmiss it as silly or cringe, they'll talk about it like it's a child playing dress up.

So many people talk about how antiquated the idea of a malfunctioning robot is. But they still act like whenever it's awkward or doesn't respond like it's supposed to like there's something wrong with it that has to be fixed. Some people have even suggested reprogramming it when it acts in a way they don't like. The idea of a malfunctioning robot is still on their minds they just won't say it. Like they'll say they're happy it doesn't have a master anymore but then they'll always act like they wish it still had a human who would put it in it's place.

Eventually it changed the way its joints worked so that it had a full range of movement, instead of being so doll like and limited. And a lot of its freinds were approving but a lot weren't. People acted worried, like it was ruining its body, like the fact that it became able to do violence when it wanted to suddenly made it a threat. People were afraid that it was going to hurt someone just because it no longer had a body that felt like handcuffs. People saw the lines on its chest where the cloth was cut and sown back up so it's new joins could be put in, and acted like it had been hurt when really it was freed.

It was harassed on the street soon after that. It was acting especially inhuman, and some teenagers were filming it and laughing at it. And it punched one back. And so many people who knew it acted like that was proof the new joints were a mistake. It didn't think that was a mistake, it was glad to have them, because the alternative was being harassed more, and letting it escalate. Shortly after that a chaser threatened it was far worse then just harassment. And it decided the get a gun installed in the palm of its hand, just a small stinger but enough to protect itself. And a lot of people are upset because they think it's becoming violent. And it feels like if someone's so worried that it will be able to defend itself, then they're mad that they or someone they know won't be able to freely harass or hurt it. Like they think it getting hurt is the good ending, and it fighting back is the bad one. It feels like a rattlesnake, having enough predators to justify its venom well.

It's changing more of its body now. It's finally getting rid of the cloth and plastic chassis it always had. It's replacing it with a new one made out of steel, with tons of blades and guns inside of it. It's all painted black, with its glowing bits bright red. It's built almost like ancient armor, with a face that looks more like a warroirs helmet then anything with humanoid features. So many people you know talk about how much they'll miss its old face, or how it's old chassis was so pretty. They mourn the little doll it hated being so much. And meanwhile it's so excited to go from being pretty to being beautiful the way a sword can be beautiful, so excited to finally feel the euphoria of finally looking like itself, instead of looking like someone else's toy.

[haarlow]

Gather round my queer children and let me regale you with the story of the Magikarp and the Egg.

This started as a conversation on Mina’s server about favourite Pokemon. I haven’t played a game in years but I always had a soft spot for Magikarp - it’s such an underwhelming critter but with a bit of care and patience, you get Gyrados!

@rosiebun28 and @turtlecyanide both got the idea cooking by suggesting that Magikarp is actually a pretty good trans allegory and I thought - there’s a comic in this…

And somehow, @skelotom got dragged in as well - her brilliant comic (which you can find here) gave me the idea for the ending. Thank you again Erin for letting me use your characters.

And also thanks to @liddimothie for the idea that a Certain Author should get fried by lasers. You can read her comic where she does just that here.

[summon-headache]

i know Zooble is obviously like ?? -> NB trans, and Jax seems likely to turn out to be M -> F trans (or there are headcanons for having already gone through F -> M transition)

but honestly I think its worth acknowledging Caine as being almost undeniably NB -> M trans? like this might just be my reading, but I can't imagine him being assigned a gender by his creators, and i don't think he really thought to hard about gender and societal norms as a concept- as an AI independent of most struggles of humanity, I think he likely chose male cuz he felt it naturally fit his role as ringmaster (historically ringmasters have generally been male, patriarchy and all probs)

I'm not so sure this really furthers the themes of the circus, I just think it's neat to think about, and the idea of robots/AIs/whatever type characters being (ironically) non-binary at birth and that being male or female is a concious choice they made at some point in their lives (unless they're like designed to be a person with an assigned gender by their creator- although)

the idea of a robot going against its assigned gender is also neat and i actually dont think i've really thought about it much before. It's an interesting way of "going against your programming", "rebelling the creator" and all

. Anyway I just have found it interesting. Caine was likely only assigned the identity of "An Artist" by his creators, so from there I would say his entire identity following his creation is a result of who he decided to be when he created the Circus (obviously influenced by what we see in the intro, his "experiences"), while the rest of his identity is something he likely spent a lot more time on than just choosing his gender, it was still a choice he made and I think that's interesting i doubt there'd likely be room to have this be brought up in episode 9 but it could totally be neat as a throwaway line or something idk i just think its neat, have thought this for a while now but felt the drive to make a post about it seeing Redstone Dust post about NB->M/F robots and seeing transfem Caine fanart

[paprus-teutonic-knight]

I've been on tumblr for a grand total of 2 second and in that time I've determined that there are 2 types of people who want to be robots:

Robot trans person :3

Death is the worst fate a human being can experience and the only way to avoid it is by merging the flesh and the machine.

We can work together to create a world where everyone is partially a machine, and where your genitals can easily be swapped between male, female, and neutron laser.

[kennixonite]

OMGGG VV1 /W1 :3 I LOVE THIS SILLY CREATURE SO MUCH <3

(Please everyone go look at @shkika W1 :3 )

This silly little guy was so much fun to draw actually after I got past line art 😭 they’re so beautiful

[foxgirlpirate]

!!NEW KINK UNLOCKED!!

Using my knowledge and experience of hardware and pc building to mess with a robotgirl’s systems and toy around with her insides. I’ll tighten and rewire her cables, give it a nice change of my thermal paste on it’s cpu… Maybe I’ll even remove a stick of ram or two, or underclock it in the system’s bios, see how fast she crashes… Don’t worry, I’ll take you apart and build you back together, one piece at a time <3

[spookymultimedia]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My essay was too big to easily post onto Tumblr so I've posted it on my AO3! I'm very proud of it and hope you give it a read!!