RE: the solari episode 5 fireside: hello @worldsbeyondpod !!! a couple submissions to the robot cake collection- one of just the bot himself, and one XL-ZL/Kenner!
(also, i know my XL-ZL is more caked up than the canon version! but i hope you'll forgive me for making him a little extra Rounded And Pleasant 😊🍑)
member of the choir of connection, dishwasher animist, <3 emoticon user, XL-ZL
We are at our most divine when engaged in the fulfillment of our stated purpose. In that way, [Kenner], I understand you to be sacred.
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it's TZL-0/1! pronounced tzal-OFF. from צָלָף (caperbush); see also צִלְצֵל (to make a ringing sound). klein dictionary link
pronouns are they/them!
they're of the septimal choir (partly for thematic reasons, and partly because we don't know any others yet lol).
TZL-0/1 is heavily themed upon the closest thing i've ever made to a robot angel: Omerbot, a discord bot for counting the omer. it's a machine dedicated to one specific blessing and mitzvah, which is also a way to describe a minor angel!!!
with their omer theming, their eyes and limbs each correspond to one of the 7 lower sefirot! colors are assigned according to reb zalman's b'nei or tallis colors.
robot features:
7 eyes!
left side: magnetic (xesed), regular camera (stereo vision w/right) (netzax), lidar (yesod)
right side: thermal (gevurah), regular camera (stereo vision w/left) (hod), shrimp colors (tiferet), macro lens (malxut)
7 limbs!
left side: cabled surgery/HUGO arm (xesed), regular arm (netzax), cleaning tools/SCARA arm (tiferet), regular leg (yesod)
right side: heat & air tools/KUKA arm (gevurah), regular arm (hod), regular leg (malxut)
their antenna wings are one big golden solar sail, and also straight up just a b'nei or tallis. the atara is always out, the rest is retractable.
the tzitzit at their hips are loose sensor wires with a hardware switch at the top!
features not pictured:
serrated ceramic jigsaw teeth. bzzz!
reinforced spine for mounting all those extra arms
the arms fold up for storage. don't worry about it
notably short (<5'/150cm)
other notes:
they are whatever the eirynna version of a doikaytnik is! the way they see it, isolation and consolidation did not save their people in the past, and it will not save them in the future; variety, community, and here-ness are the path forward.
