#the mechanisms the aurora

[reegis]

“When are you coming back?”

“Probably won’t.”

(commission for @deadcaptainn!)

#ty again for trusting me w vague prompts & my poorly done sketches ilyy #the mechanisms #nastya rasputina #the aurora #the mechanisms out #my art #commissions

[yumeinati]

#the mechanisms #the mechs #drumbot brian #nastya rasputina #gunpowder tim #raphaella la cognizi #the toy soldier #ivy alexandria #marius von raum #jonny dville #ashes oreilly #the aurora

[adhdzagreus]

thinking about the period of time between the mechanisms performing DTTM and their deaths actually occurring...

thinking about how the mechanisms know how they die but they might not know when they die or in what order.

thinking about them trying to prevent each other's deaths. none of them wants to be the last to go.

raphaella begs the others not to leave marius alone on the ship. tim refuses to leave ashes's side in the hopes he can stop the accident from happening. brian pilots them around pockets of temporal instability and away from backwater asteroids. marius pleads with ivy not to retire. nobody talks about how they die in front of the toy soldier. they don't want to make it sad.

jonny selfishly seeks out bar fights, hoping this time it will finally be the one, and he won't have to watch his friends disappear one by one until a milllenia has passed since the last time he laughed. even if the others mourn him, he doesn't want to still be alive when the rest of his crew are all gone.

none of them know for sure who dies first, but they all know who they don't want it to be, and they all hope it's themselves instead.

#the mechanisms #dttm #death to the mechanisms #jonny d'ville #ivy alexandria #raphaella la cognizi #gunpowder tim #ashes o'reilly #drumbot brian #marius von raum #the toy soldier #immortal crew of the starship aurora

[rocksanddeadflowers]

There should be mechanisms ASMR/ambience audios where some of audio is comforting/aesthetic but some of it is typical bloody chaos. ASMR for sleeping where you're napping and cuddling with your favorite mech but the other crew members are LOUDLY murdering each other in the other room. Typical studying ambience but you can also hear most of the crew down the hall drunkenly performing songs or full albums, with the occasional shootout or something.

There's one where you're napping in Aurora's engine room with Nastya and it's actually super cozy but midway through this four hour audio is the sound of Jonny coming in causing a minor ruckus followed by Nastya silently but gorely beating him to death for disturbing nap time.

("Timestamps for anyone who needs them!!! <3

00:00:01 beginning

02:05:47 Jonny enters and starts talking

02:06:09 Nastya gets up and starts beating him to a pulp

02:12:16 Nastya gets back into bed

04:32:16 end :)" )

This is all framed as a joke but deadass if there ARE vids like this for the mechs please I'll go insane gimmie gimmie

#you could make these a series and title them all “POV You're Lyf Living on Aurora and [ ]” #the mechanisms

[gunpowderdtim]

It's no wonder Out happened when you really think about it. Nastya doesn't like organic life because it's complicated, it can break, sometimes it's even unfixable.

quote from gender rebels

Nastya is in love with Aurora, and in saying that she is saying "you are not organic life, I can deal with you because you are metal and algorithm and predictable" - we can see this in bedtime story when she says she'll tweak Aurora's story creation algorithm

screenshot from A Bedtime Story

Aurora is not inorganic. She is not ai. She is a space moon made of flesh and blood and teeth and bone. She is not an ai. She is a body that was taken and stripped of autonomy, of the right to self identify, of the right to think- to be imperfect and organic.

The metal is a veneer that hides how messy and traumatized and unfixable she is. From the outside she is a starship. From the inside she can still bleed.

And this makes them fundamentally incompatible. But yet, they are in love.

And really, it's no wonder Nastya fell in love with Aurora. Let's take a look at Nastya's home planet, or at least home society:

"Terminals were scattered across the planet. There was one on every street corner, one beneath every lamppost and one in every commune block." "The midwife-machine performs a series of programmed manœuvres to quieten [the baby]. It cradles it and hums at several pitches until it finds one that seems most soothing. Mechanical arms stroke the baby’s flesh even as others start the process of implanting augmented reality interfaces into its nervous system." "The Czar an atrophied frame, never present in the real world and worn to dust by the chemical compounds that kept his brain alive so it could live forever in a perfect virtual paradise. The Rabotnik a copy, a mind preserved unchanging in the instant before its death and placed in an everlasting metal frame." (Cyberian Demons)

Its safe to say the world Nastya was born into, from the very minute she was born, was ridden with technology. She has augmented reality interfaces inplanted into her from birth. It would stand to reason that being taken from this society, wherein technology is everywhere, inside and out, would stand for a bit of a shock.

Aurora too had been augmented by the Cyberia.

While it is stated that the last time Nastya had used the ports themselves was directly before her death — "The last time she had used the ports, her tutor had ripped them out of her as the rebels stormed the palace" — Aurora is laced with Cyberian technology. I'd imagine she has something of a 'bluetooth wireless connection' with Aurora, rather than the physical data transfer of files between the ports and Nastya, it may as well be similar enough.

Imagine being Nastya, going from Cyberia, wherein there is augmented reality contantly, transplanted onto a ship with metal blood, a jonny, and a vampire. To Aurora, where the only bits of augmented reality run through Aurora.

Of course she'd fall in love with her. Aurora is familiarity. Aurora isn't organic. Aurora isn't human.

And of course when the undeniable part of aurora that is organic, that is a flesh moon plated in metal with her brain hooked to machines, when so much has broken and been replaced, when, presumably, aurora is less of an algorithm, nastya leaves with the brand cyberia left on her.

Because Aurora healing, becoming more of herself and less of a starship, is messy, and organic, and human.

and hard for nastya.

‘Think how long she’s been flying you around. Think how many bullet holes you’ve punched through her and how many atmospheres you’ve dropped her through. Think how many alterations and improvements we’ve made, Tim to her guns and Ashes to her storage and Brian to her engines and the Toy Soldier to who knows what. How much do you think is left of her after all she’s brought you through?’ Nastya held up the ancient, battered piece of hull plating. Just visible under the grime and scars of particles of space junk was a fragment of the Aurora’s original logo and serial number. Jonny honestly couldn’t remember the last time he had seen a version that hadn’t been painted by the Mechanisms themselves. ‘So she’s free, now.’ Nastya gestured around at the spaceship they were standing in. ‘This Aurora can take you where you want to go. I’m going to take my Aurora somewhere else.’

Aurora was ship of theseus'd. Aurora was improved. Aurora was no longer cyberian. (both literally, and metaphorically)

So nastya left.

#is this anything guys #nastya #aurora #nastya rasputina #aurora the mechanisms #the mechanisms

[pokeythegreat123]

Nastya: Woman in STEM

Aurora: STEM

#the mechanisms #nastya rasputina #aurora the mechanisms #the mechs #gay sex tag #credits to my friend vita partially

[mechanicalinfection]

Look at this cheeky bastard checking you out...

Lovely springtrap belongs to the amazing @shey-pancake!

#go check them out they make bangers #trust trust #anyways #art #digital art #the mechanic's crafts #springtrap #springtrap and aurora #springtrap and aurora redemption #springtrap and deliah #fnaf #ayayayyajdjdmsmd #i #i wh #i ahen i #when i love him actyallky #i font even know #YOU FONT EVEJ KNOW MAN I LOVE HIM SO MCUH #auggdudjm #look at this cheeky aa bastard

[dropitdoeeyes]

#i had to do it #the mechanisms #the mechs #the crew of the aurora #i’m not tagging them all #posts that are nothing

[labyrinthineclockwork]

Hehe no one can stop me from making paper snowflakes be The Starship Aurora

#the mechanisms #the aurora #paper snowflake #my roommate got so mad when he figured out that i did this #he thought id make normal decorations but No it Must be the Mechs #what autism does to a mf

[tnt-tourney]

ROUND ONE -- Kermit and Miss Piggy VS. The Mechanisms (Jonny d'Ville, Ashes O'Reilly, DrumBot Brian, Gunpowder Tim, Raphaella la Cognizi, Marius von Raum, Ivy Alexandria, Nastya Rasputina, The Toy Soldier, Doctor Carmilla, and The Aurora)

#tnt tourney 2023 #round 1 #the muppets #the mechanisms #kermit the frog #jonny d'ville #miss piggy #ashes o'reilly #drumbot brian #gunpowder tim #raphaella la cognizi #marius von raum #ivy alexandria #nastya rasputina #the toy soldier #doctor carmilla #the aurora

[the-southern-cereal-king]

Fans of The Magnus Protocol and The Magnus Archives, PLEASE go listen to The Mechanisms if you haven’t already. It’s a band Johnny Sims is in, and it’s phenomenal

#the magnus archives #magnus archives #the magnus protocol #johnathan sims #johnny sims #johnny d’ville #the aurora #gunpowder tim #nastya rasputina #ashes o'reilly #ulysses dies at dawn #the bifrost incident #once upon a time in space #the mechs #the mechanisms #raphaella la cognizi #the toy soldier #drumbot brian #ivy alexandria #marius von raum

[reegis]

*intense flirting noises echo through the hallways*

(commission for @ashdances!!)

#the mechanisms #nastya rasputina #the aurora #how nastya ever gets anything done is a mystery jdjfjfjg #asks #my art

[acrayday]

noo nastya don’t get lost in the cosmos

close up hehe

image id under the cut

[start image ID] nastya rasputina in space, she is floating , her hair is spread around as if underwater. she is clutching the last piece of the original Arora to her chest. nastya is much greyer than normal, there is a thick layer on frost on her glasses and on her clothing, skin and hair. the first image has extra darker layers ontop. with the second image being a close up of nastya without the extra colour layers ontop [end image ID]

#Nastya Rasputina #The Mechanisms #the mechs #the mechanisms fanart #the mechs fanart #and #the aurora #ig

[miralines]

Fic where Carmilla, in her feelings about having used mad science to create five (5) children she did her damnedest to parent before they all rejected her, gets into a fistfight with Victor Frankenstein whose mad science child was just begging for his love

#alternatively Carmilla adopta the creature #dr Carmilla #dr Carmilla and the mechanisms #the mechanisms #the mechs #btw I say 5 children bc jonny-ivy plus Scuzz #she didn’t create aurora even though she adopted her #Brian is more of a weird uncle #Tim was a friend they made along the way #ts is ts #and she wasn’t physically present for Raph and Marius

[ceaseless-rambler]

If I had a nickel for every mechs character in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with some sort of space transportation I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice

#the mechanisms #nastya rasputina #the aurora #the odette #the bifrost incident #if this is how you find out that Kofi said Odin was a trainfuvker I'm so sorry

[flamet-draws]

Mechtober Day 25: (No) Happy Endings

I was gonna say ‘In just under the wire 😤😤’ but it’s actually the 26th for me now so I’m late

#ignore the fact I just traced my OUATIS drawing from 2021 but with updated designs #and the fact that the Aurora is just copypasted from late year #I’m still tired 💀 #the mechanisms #the mechs #mechtober #mechtober 2023 #mechtober 23 #once upon a time in space #ulysses dies at dawn #high noon over camelot #the bifrost incident #the starship aurora