thinking about stray and how humans have been gone for nearly 7 million years and yet that doesn't really matter, because the robots, especially in the slums, are still keeping humanity alive. They're about as human as we are. They make art, music, they eat, they have barbershops. They keep plants alive despite not even needing them. They have friends and families. Humanity's legacy was kept alive by their own creations that continued to live on honoring their memory. You don't see the robots go to war with each other, not by their own means. The Humans separated themselves by social class, they built the Sentinels and Peacemakers. They built the prison complex. The robots are just continuing the way of life that they learned from the humans that were in the different social levels with them (except antvillage, maybe?). Everything humans knew and did were transferred onto a completely different species after they died out. Stray took the idea of Robots succeeding Humans and turned it into something wonderful. They weren't the cause of humanity's downfall, they were next to them. I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't meet any old robots that had any humans they remembered, except for B-12 who WAS human, but the concept itself was still so very beautifully executed.
Sometimes I get worried that when I die I won't get remembered, that I'll just disappear without a trace. This game brings me a sort of peace when it comes to that. By the time I pass, I doubt we'll have sentient robots, but the thought of humanity itself being preserved by something that can live for centuries is. yknow. nice.
[This is for a Stray / Rain World AU that I am working on called Stray Rain]
A Dozen Blue Birds is not a full on iterator- rather the memories of a ancient scrapped together in order to act as a "kill code" or fail safe in case if Five Pebbles were to be compromised. However long ago these memories (stored in pearls) would end up being scattered by an unknown ancient. The puppet prototype would be heavily damaged. A Dozen Blue Birds apartment would be left in shambles blue prints and posters being torn apart. Damage not done by time.
During a case where the fail safe was activated, only one pearl would be left behind to be scanned and imported into a bio computer connected to the puppet tester. This pearl would only hold the few instructions to contact with a living creature and/or study it. It would be signed by A Dozen Blue Birds as the writer of the pearl and end with "Log" and then a number.
The energy that this bio computer works similar to an iterator in that it needs water vapor- just a much smaller amount. Instead of liquid it used water vapor from surrounding clouds.
A Dozen Blue Birds' apartment is located in a sub section to Metropolis.