#and i dont think they realized how sentient he actually was or else they'd see how cruel it was to trueman show him

[quaranmine]

55 bc its a good number. also i hate it when there are songs about romance and sex that also just have the perfect musical accompaniment. like, the tone and vibe of the song works absolutely perfectly for an au or story i devise but the lyrics are just the lewdest thing ever lmao

i wouldn't say i listen to lewd music in general because it really aint my thing, but i agree that i have a LOT of songs i love, that would probably fit various AUs or stories really well if they weren't obviously about romance. these days i normally just live with it (see: titling my grumbot fic with a line from love like ghosts by LH despite the story being platonic) but it does spice this challenge up lol

ironically, given the subject of this ask, you gave me a great song to work with!

Take a little spark From a battery Electricity And put me back together Back together, yeah Take a human heart Add some vanity Authenticity And put them all together Do whatever To your broken machine

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Grumbot didn't really know what he was.

He wasn't a good robot. If he was a good robot, he wouldn't make mistakes. His computer would always be correct. He would be precise, accurate, and always give his dads the correct answer. That's the only thing he wanted to do--help them. And if he was a good robot, he would have the right answers.

But he didn't make for a good person either. He wasn't ever meant to be alive like this, was he? He saw the first time when he called his dads "dad" for the first time. Before, he had just used "creators" like he'd been programmed to. But that word didn't really encompass what he felt for them.

They'd been surprised. Open to it, but surprised. At the time Grumbot was just happy that they accepted it, but over time, in the late nights when his processor supposed to be on standby, he thought about it. He knew that having a family was a thing that people did. So he made himself a family, with two dads. But he wasn't really like them, was he?

People moved around, went places, socialized. Grumbot stayed stationary. There was a world around him but he had only a platform. They normally had voices to talk with; Grumbot just had text. They bled and lived and died and had warm bodies and....Grumbot just had a CPU that ran hot sometimes and wires for veins.

He could tell that when his dads looked at him, they just saw a robot. They were nice to him. They were kind to him. They spoke to him. But they treated him more like a tool than a son. They had built him to help them win the Mayoral campaign, and that was the only reason they ever stopped by to chat.

So maybe he was just a robot. A robot with two dads and an important job and computer for a brain and that was it.

Except machines weren't meant to want to be loved. They weren't meant to want anything.

Maybe if he was good enough to help his dad become mayor, then they'd love him back and he wouldn't have to worry about this anymore.

#quara asks #GIRL HELP I CANT STOP WRITING GRUMBOT ANGST HES MY BABY BOY NOW #grumbot #hermitcraft #mumbo jumbo #mumbo #grian #quara fanfic #listen. listen. i just can't get over that grumbot is basically a person. #but that he isn't treated like a person because mumbo and grian built a MACHINE. #they don;t know what to do with him. but they created him. #and i dont think they realized how sentient he actually was or else they'd see how cruel it was to trueman show him #in fanon of course. #anyway this song is actually about likening a person to a broken machine but what if it was a machine who was broken bc theyre a person