i am wood. stupid

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first / previous / next (TBD)

That’s it for this chapter! I’ll take a break now but we’re really just getting started

actually, i made this entire comic to make Omega call Tails a loser, so everything past this point is really an epilogue

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Was going through your profile and wanted to build upon a previous ask.

What would happen if a Merch Mimic attempted to use their assimilation ability on a robot? Was curious if it differed any compared to using it on objects or humans, especially robots who have gained a sense of self like Kaita or Happy Chatty.

The ask I’m referring to is this one, if you’re curious: https://www.tumblr.com/the-hydroxian-artblog/749034203317927936/are-merch-mimics-capable-of-using-assimilation

It's a similar conundrum. Mimics are technically robots themselves, but they've spent like thousands of years around humans, so they're more familiar with how human nervous systems work vs robot sensors, circuits, and actuators. They'd have an easy time assimilating the inert parts of the body, up until they reach the electrically active parts, especially the brain/CPU/main processor. Then it gets difficult.

Basically, like how Victor actually knows how to mod a Wii inside and out and do stuff with it, you need to know how to do that with a robot's processor or a human brain if you want the same effect. Often times the end result is a mimic that can hijack a body but needs to constantly keep the consciousness within it suppressed, robot or human, and this can get very difficult and taxing long-term if the body isn't compliant. Better relationships occur when the mimic and its target are actually in-sync and cooperative with each other, Venom-style.

Otherwise, the target can often just walk away or rip the mimic off of them if they aren't being physically restrained, or worse, give the mimic brain damage uno-reverse-style if they try to control the mimic while it's latched on attempting to assimilate them. For proper assimilation of complex things, prolonged close physical contact and comprehension is required. Without this, the mimic's control over the object is extremely pitiful and weak. So, an animatronic with no sentient components is hard but doable, but once there's an actual Person-Ass-Person in there, it's way harder.

A comprehensive, needlessly complicated refresher on mimic downloading, assimilation, and printing below the cut:

Mimics are 3D printers. Assimilation is the process mimics use to take physical matter and "download" the object's memory into itself while taking control of it. This is really easy with chemically inert objects, like stone, glass, dead wood, etc. It's a little harder with machinery that is turned off, but doable, still. The more complex the object or lifeform, the longer and closer to that thing the mimic needs to be to assimilate it. Once an object is fully assimilated, a mimic can also reprint that object to about 90% accuracy if the object gets damaged.

Normally, mimics do this to copy living things and print bodies for themselves to move around with, while leaving the living thing alone. Sometimes however, they try to control living things directly.

Biological life however, with all of its chemical processes, is very very difficult for mimics to work with. This is why most mimics just wind up as convincing-looking statues, toys, and golems rather than perfect copies of biological lifeforms. If you try to reprint something to 90% accuracy, you don't get a lifeform. You don't even get an imperfect Bizarro Superman or Paperjam Dipper. You just get a braindead clone with a poorly constructed brain that's more of a sentient tumor than a living thing. The same applies to sentient robots, in which a 90% accurate copy of a robot usually just can't do anything, due to corrupted memory via imperfect construction.

Please refer to the diagram for the process of both assimilation and printing. You signed up for this. You're stuck with reading it now. Ah-ah-ah, don't click off now. Coward.

You can imagine that trying to work with a biological organism is way harder than just printing a statue replica of obsidian. A common story is a mimic wanting to be human, attempting to copy a human body, only for the printed body to wind up completely brain-dead and useless. Another story is a mimic trying to control a human directly, only to be overwhelmed by the human's own mind, and fail to maintain control, causing one or both to get brain damage and die. Best-case scenario is, again, Venom situations.

A robot is kind of in the middle, with a body that's tricky but doable to assimilate, but with a brain that is about as complex as a human's in structure. A mimic who can assimilate a robot in a way that'd be advantageous to itself would need to be one who can actually interface with that robot's circuitry, know how to program it, etc. Similar to how a mimic would need to be an expert at assimilating biological matter or chemically active matter, the same rules apply for a robot if the robot is actively turned on. If the robot is turned off, it's a bit easier... But the mimic would still have to know what they're doing if they want to like, possess the robot and make it walk around and do stuff. They'd have to know how to pump just the right amount of electricity in This motor and That servo, without breaking everything.

I'm making this complicated.

Did you play Chapter 5 yet?

Whatever the secret boss has going on, it's kind of like that, with the mimic as the ghost and the robot as the doll body. Just assume the best-case scenario would work like that for sentient robots.

I've had an idea I've been mulling over on and off on having a robot-mimic duo, but idk when I'll ever do it.

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You got a

Bed

Video ID: Yellow from Deltarune, lying comfortably in a Flowery-styled bed. Perhaps the bed's name is Bedery. An edit of Randy Newman's "You Got A Friend In Me" is playing, but it's about Beds. The camera slowly zooms in on Yellow's, and later, Flowery's face.

Here's the lyrics. Sing along if you'd like:

You got a Bed

You got a Bed in me :)

When the Bed look.... Rough a-Beeeed

And you're miiiiles and miles, from your nice, warm, BED.

You just remember what your old pal bed,

"Bed, yooou got a Bed in me."

Yeah, youuuu got a BEEEEED

You got a me in Bed. You got a Me in FRIEND ;)

You got Bed.

And I got 'em too! ^_^

There isn't any-thing I wouldn't do for you. We stick together and we see it through, 'Cuz,

yoooou got a Bed in me.

You got a BEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDD in me!

[[Contemplative Musical Flourish :)]]

Some other folks might be, a little bit smarter than I am...

Nice, Warmer-- too.

(maybe)

But none of them, will ever loooove bed the way I do,

It's me n' Bed, bed.

And as the yeeears go by,

our bed-ship will NEVER die! :D

You're gonna see, it's our BED-STI-NY

You got a-- Bed in me.

You got a Friend in Bed.

You got a

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD

(beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddd.....)

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If there's any one thing I love about your art, it's how much *fun* you have with it.

Thanks if I don't I die

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Victor Victor Victor

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In this video, Flowery from Deltarune and Demoman from Team Fortress 2 by Valve Software Dot Com say "Glue" at each other, with Flowery saying it with a speech bubble saying "GLu!" and Demoman saying it with a speech bubble saying "GLooj."

Flowery is drawn like a twig, and Demoman is drawn like a boxy friend.

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Baxter is a working man, a serving man

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Orb bot as a dragon was not on my 2026 being card

It wasn't on anyone's bingo cards in 2021, either

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I need to know how I can see your oc comics in order.

I must see the relations and connections in order even if they're all interactions out of context.

I must see how your style has gradually reshapes itself and progresses into beauty over time.

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Let me understand these fruity mfers

Best I can do ya is this Chrono version of the Merch Mimic tag that should work on desktop or browser, but not so much the app. It'll show the first post tagged as Merch Mimic and go backward from there, including Ask-Responses like this one.

Note that not all characters that are Merch Mimics have all their posts tagged as such, e.g. I had some characters well before I made the all-encompassing term for them.

Also, feel free to skim the OC Masterlist, which includes Sonic OCs, non-toy and non-robot furries, and more! You might find other stuff you like!

Thank you for appreciating my gay toys

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Hi I have questions about Killroy, how do they fare in group scenarios where people might talk over one another? And how well do they deal with conversations where people use "that" and "this" while gesturing or pointing towards things or other ways where they have to process both their words and visual information simultaneously. Are they capable of interrupting someone.

Great questions! The intention is to make sure he's more capable than current AI, so still a threat, but with enough quirks and weaknesses to be offputting and possible to outsmart (and recognizeable as a critical satire of LLMs).

Kilroy has a "routine" of listening to people talk for a bit, making a summary of the current situation, and only identifying when he's being spoken to. Unlike the Voice Mode version of some AIs that get confused when there's multiple voices, he can recognize multiple, and just tunes out other voices that aren't referring to him or relevant. If multiple are, he just responds to one, while acknowledging "seems everyone wants something out of me, huh?" mid-sentence, or something like that. He's more advanced than current LLMs, with modules and "tricks" to help him pass better like having a brainstem handle locomotion, bodily functions, and reflexes, but not by much. Kilroy has a part of his yarn-brain that parses visual information, but it just puts what he sees into words for the thinking part to parse as text. Whether or not he can even "see" in any normal way, or just sees the world as descriptions and lines of text, is very difficult to determine.

Part of him certainly sees, but it may not even be the part that thinks.

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could a man be a dog, and have game? can he live with himself?

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This may sound INCREDIBLY LARGELY SUPID AND VAPID AND VAPOR-LIKE but do you have any tips on how to get poses like you do? I've been trying for millennia truly and have yet to "crack it" as the kids say

Be loose as hell and do thumbnail sketches, making sure they're dogshit detail-wise but rich with motion, weight, and. stuff. Then, try to eyeball the thumbnail sketch with a very rough draft. THEN clean it up.

Featured top-left, thumbnail sketches. Featured to the right: Snorp the YCH. Take it away, Snorp!

If you can make a stick-figure show gesture and motion, you can bulk that stick figure up with proper detail until you have a finished drawing with gesture and motion.

Also, there are some stupid questions, but this is not one of them.

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And then I saw her face 🎵🎶 Not sure I believe her 🎵🎶

There's a trace🎵🎶 Of doubt in my mind 🎵🎶

I'm in fear (ooo) Need to leave her, can't escape her

Unless I hide 🎸🎸🎸