If I Was A Shard I Wouldn't Look Around For Hosts I'd Just Hover Around A Mirror Maze And Wait For Someone

SHORTS YOUNGSTER GREW UP, TRANSITIONED, AND MOVED TO UNOVA???

Skitter: starts out wanting to be a hero, but becomes a villain due to her hatred for systems of power and her love for her freinds, as well as her own naïve mistakes early in her career. Later becomes a hero because she fears the end of the world.

Foil: goes straight from hero to villain because she wants to fuck a doll girl.

I'm plushiemoding I'm laying in your bed all inanimate and shit You can flip me over or cuddle me if you feel like it

You are a PRACTICING OCCULTIST. You deal mostly in white magic, you can't deal with that dark magic hogwash. You enjoy the work quite a lot, especially when you are WORKING AT THE COFFEESHOP and writing WHOLESOME LITERATURE. You recently lost a CAT, and hope he returns home soon. What will you do?

i have such hate in my heart

bonesaw looking at morrigan in the vat

older robotgirl thoughts

an old obsolete robotgirl with broken software and a chugging OS from a few decades back

robotgirl full of old programs that don't work and crash its systems fairly often, and the user manuals for them are long gone

robotgirl who is worried it won't survive a fresh install and is way too scared to go rooting around in its own programming or try programming itself without the help of an expert

robotgirl in desperate need of a hard reset and maybe being left off for a bit before being turned back on

robotgirl with an aching chassis that doesn't bend like it used to from wear and tear, and sometimes mechanisms just seize up and trap its nerve wiring making movement hard. it's internal fluids don't flow like they used to at all making maintenance hard

robotgirl who gets tired really quickly because it doesn't hold as much charge in its batteries now, it used to boast a 16 hour battery, but now it's closer to 5 if it's especially busy. sometimes it needs an emergency shutdown to recharge

robotgirl that still likes being programmed, and envies the younger models and the shiny programs they get to run, but runs a lot of esoteric older programs that are really interesting from a conservation standpoint (robotgirl who also struggles to avoid comparing itself to younger machines)

robotgirl who, with even a little love and care (and maybe a couple of upgrades) will run just as smoothly as it did on the day it was made, even if it needs a few patches to manage its processes

robotgirl who is actually really cute and cool, and looks after younger models because its chassis is older than some robotgirls expect to last. it puts the mother in motherboard, and enjoys keeping up with others over its network

older robotgirl which will do its best until it falls apart

i also think you can interpret the "no healing powers" in the same way you're supposed to read the prt power scale and classifications in worm, which is human beings trying to categorize and make sense of a cosmic horror alien virus that they do not understand and that does not play by their rules. like when doctor mother says there's no healing powers, i don't think we're supposed to accept what she says as unquestionably true. doctor mother sucks and she's wrong all the time! the entities have a healing function and cauldron has stripped it for parts. in fact, part of the way cauldron recruits (see, e.g., eidolon and alexandria) is to promise healing.

thematically i actually think there's an interesting reading of noelle's power as a "healing" power, or as noelle receiving one of eden's healing functions. when noelle drinks the vial, she's both grievously physically injured and being re-traumatized by the simurgh into hating her body. the shard in the vial responds to this by trying to "fix" her - it straightforwardly heals her injuries, and then it gives noelle what is, by the shard's standards, a perfect body. it's eden's body! the horror for noelle is that this is deeply coercive and violating. pre-simurgh, noelle wants to "get better," but she also wants to do that on her own terms and at her own pace.

i think it all links up well to themes of coercive treatment/ableism that we see throughout noelle's story and so into my own little personal headcanon it goes <3

Internal monologue while scanning an archive of public domain photos: ooh yeah that guy with a weird expression would make a great enemy in my collage game, I should clip that out and add it to the big file where I’m saving all the heads so I can see them all when designing larger enemies

What I apparently said out loud within hearing range of my roommates who had no idea what I was doing: oh, that one’s going in my head repository

he's like. a master at yuribaiting it comes naturally to him. he will know our ways as if born to them

love how the ming dynasty has a long series of really competent and hardworking and idealistic emperors who each get on the throne and go i’m going to be the best emperor ever, unlike my good-for-nothing predecessor who let the bureaucrats make all the decisions while he sat back and worked in his hobbies! and then they realize that the squabbling confucian bureaucracy has gridlocked the government so badly that the emperor couldn’t make any decisions even if he wanted to and they’re like ohhhh i get it now