#they didn’t deserve this

[its-rat-time-babey]

Rain World Iterator Headcanons:

Spoilers for Rain World Downpour by the way.

Most of the metal that makes up iterators is technically organic, just like shelters and karma gates. The metal contains a bunch of microorganisms that organically rebuild the metal and attempt to regrow lost parts if damaged, just like biological material. Shelters and karma gates canonically contain the same microorganisms, which is why those things last so long and never seem to truly decay.

The rot is what happens when those microorganisms and organic metal go horribly wrong, eating into the semi-organic metal it’s supposed to keep fixed and spreading through it, mutating further as time goes on. Because the Rot comes from and survives off of self-healing metal, it can’t survive in places without it, which is why the rot is only seen in and around Five Pebbles (an iterator made of organic metal) and the Garbage Wastes (Five Pebble’s dumping ground where organic metal discarded from him can be easily found). The rot is also weaker in the Garbage Wastes because there’s not much organic metal to go around, meaning that only small amounts of the rot can survive.

Also, the rot really can’t handle the cold well, which is why basically all of it is dead by the time of the Saint. In contrast though, the rot excels in extremely hot environments. Like the inside of an Iterator can where a ton of heat is constantly being generated, requiring a constant water uptake to prevent overheating and slag buildup. In short, the inside of an iterator can is constantly warm and is a perfect environment for the rot.

Five Pebbles isn’t the only one in the local group with the rot. No Significant Harassment also has the rot, which is how and why the Hunter is infected. The rot got into (or came from) NSH’s experiment wing and somehow survived in the Hunter’s body, mutating as needed. NSH’s rot isn’t as bad as Pebbles’s rot, not even close, but it’s still the rot. NSH got the rot not long before the creation of the Hunter and has managed to keep this a secret from the others.

Iterator Puppets aren’t just how Iterators communicate with the outside world. They contain the personality of the iterator and act like a central hub of information, basically being the iterator “core” for lack of a better word.

Also, Iterator Puppets have their own tiny internal power supply, a tiny rarefaction cell, which is meant to keep the Puppet powered during things like maintenance, emergencies, and other times where the main power supply of massive Rarefaction Cells are at low or no power. The puppet needs to remain powered because it’s the central core of the Iterator like mentioned before, contains the Iterator’s personality. If the puppet goes completely unpowered for too long, that sort of thing can get extremely damaged, basically giving the Iterator brain damage and/or leaving them unable to function properly even once they’re completely powered again.

This tiny rarefaction cell is why Looks To The Moon and Five Pebbles are still powered despite both of their cans completely breaking down. The main power sources in their cans were destroyed, but the tiny emergency generators in their puppets are still functioning.

However, that power source isn’t very powerful. It can power the puppet, but not much else. The umbilical arm connecting the puppet to the wall takes way more power to move than the puppet’s rarefaction cell can produce, so Moon and Pebbles are just stuck there unless something actively drags them into another position.

Even though Looks To The Moon was knocked out for god knows how long, that tiny rarefaction cell was still functioning the whole time, preventing Moon from getting Iterator brain damage or complete brain death while they were out. The main problem with Moon is that all of their systems were seized up and full of slag and other gunk and debris by both the collapse and lack of water prior to that collapse, which is why they specifically needed slag dumping orders delivered to them to get them functioning, and the fact that Moon lost her neurons in the collapse, so even if her systems were working as intended, her brain doesn’t have the processing power needed to wake her up. Moons brain and personality basically existed in a vacuum. They existed and remained stable, but lacked the power to do anything but that, no new information can come in, no information can come out, and Moon’s memory only stored the bare essentials deeply connected to her and her personality to preserve storage space.

Moon was still alive due to that emergency power source, but was basically comatose and unable to wake up until an external source:

Manually gave her systems the order to start cleaning out waste, kickstarting her physical systems to start working again, and

Manually connected a neuron to her, giving her computing systems the data, ram and storage space to wake up again.

As a newer model of iterator, Five Pebbles’s puppet contains two neurons on its own, or at least has some sort of equivalent to a neuron in it. And there’s canonical proof here.

This is Looks To The Moon with no neurons:

Comatose and unable to wake up, needing at least one neuron nearby to function and at least four to be fully capable of speech and sentences, and even then they have rather severe problems with memory.

This is Five Pebbles with no neurons:

Barely aware of his surroundings and barely able to speak, but still (albeit barely) functioning, with his dialogue sounding like Moon when she only has two neurons left.

So Pebbles, as a newer iterator, contains at most two neurons or something equivalent to two neurons in his puppet.

Speaking of neurons, they, like the rest of the Iterator, are partially organic and partially mechanical. Neurons get their energy by consuming microbes and bacteria in the air.

Iterator legs just end in nubs. They’re supposed to be suspended in zero-gravity or at least suspended off the ground by a mechanical arm attached to the wall at all times, so walking around on the ground was never something considered to be an option. So, no feet. Just nubs.

There is no program or taboo that technically forces Iterators to work on the great problem. When the Ancients existed, they kept the Iterators working by virtue of being their creators and the ones with admin access. Once the Ancients were gone however, the only reasons that Iterators kept working were that there was literally nothing else they COULD do and the promise that if they did figure it out, they themselves could follow their creators into non-existence.

Due to the fact that they aren’t technically forced to work on the great problem, there are a lot of different groups of Iterators with their own philosophies and opinions towards the great problem. Sliverists with the opinion that dying is in and of itself the solution are the loudest and most well known, but there are others. Like for example, a group that believes that the great problem is genuinely unsolvable and that was why their creators went through a mass ascension through void fluid instead of waiting for a genuine solution to be found. This group predates Sliverists by a long time as they were created not long after the Ancients disappeared, but is rather quiet, as this philosophy opens up the terrifying question of “if the great problem is unsolvable, what is our purpose?”.

In fact, that question of purpose in general terrifies Iterators. Just think about their situation. They were built specifically to solve a specific problem and only have the means to do that. They’re stuck in place and can’t move or experience the world because why would they even need to do that? They were built to solve the problem and literally nothing else. They do not die of old age and the metal that makes up their puppets and parts of their cans does not decay easily, healing when damaged. If the problem is unsolvable or worse, is solvable but cannot be applied to them, what else is there for them to do? They have no other purpose and even though they have the CAPABILITY to pursue other goals and interests, they lack the tools required to do so. Even their secondary (added in as an afterthought) purpose of taking care of the Ancients that live on top of their cans is pointless now because the Ancients are all gone and there’s no one left in the cities. Just as a rule of thumb, Iterators do their best to avoid thinking about that question.

#rain world #rain world downpour #headcanon #iterator #looks to the moon #five pebbles #no significant harassment #the more I think about iterators the more I want to punch the ancients in the face #they didn’t deserve this

[amazingdudesblog]

Me seeing that both blue beetle and mutant mayhem did terrible at the box office

#they didn’t deserve this #we’ve failed #blue beetle #teenage mutant ninja turtle mutant mayhem

[applesandpavenders]

How could Henry do that, to Luxa and to Ares. I get that his life sucked and he felt helpless but... still

They would have died for him, they loved him. Did he just not see that?

#tuc spoilers #tuc major spoilers #tuc20 #poor Luxa #and ares #they didn’t deserve this

[spideymouche]

So in episode 4 my character survived a stressed Fanny on the bus, Jarod trying to set them on fire, and a shoot out in the back of John’s truck, only to die to save Zoe at the border… a doomed character

#road 96 #i am sobbing #they didn’t deserve this

[emzalot]

I just watched the Umbara arc for the first time and I am not okay you guys

#i’m literally crying #they didn’t deserve this #poor waxer #sw clone wars #umbara arc #star wars clone wars #captain rex #arc trooper fives #dogma #hardcase #starwars #Star Wars #darkness on umbara #pong krell

[fiorituraa]

Im so angry and heart broken.

I will never ever understand or accept this day.

#personal #broken #my babies #I can’t even close my eyes for seeing them #they didn’t deserve this #I want whoever did this to fucking BURN

[mysweetsong]

Have y’all ever thought of how truly messed up the idea of like quests are in PJO.

Because when you see the people that go through Boot Camp, or become pro football players, it’s never the popular guy. It’s always the kid that has something to prove, the kid that got bullied, the kid that got looked over. And this is a demigods description to a T. 

Think about it, they have dyslexia, ADHD, and behavioral problems to boot. They feel like they will never fit in anywhere because they’re not quite human, there’s always something a little different about them.

And the gods they know this, for fucks sake, they even abuse it. They go around, neglecting their children, not even acknowledging half of them. And then there’s the prospect of quests. With quest, you will be given honor, and glory, and maybe even if you’re lucky, your parents attention.

So, of course, their children are going to say yes to these quests, I mean, Annabeth said it herself “A quest is to be in conversation with the gods themselves”. As if it is such a high honor to have your father/mother talk to you.

#Ricki when I catch you Ricki #BRB have to go fight the gods #THEY DIDN’T DESERVE THIS #THEY ARE JUST CHILDREN #heros of olympus #percy jackon and the olympians

[pinecone246]

It seems the real dead end was the final season that Netflix abruptly cancelled along the way

#ughhhhhhh #rip dead end #dead end paranormal park #they didn’t deserve this #Netflix you had one job to do

[astral-from-afar]

I’m okay I’m okay I’m okay I’m okay I’m okay

#astra liveblogs #nabari no ou #they cared so much for each other #then they were taken away #if asahi knew her husband was dead #she would have wished him to be alive with miharu #her last words were saying their names #miharu’s dad’s first thought when seeing tobari #was to take miharu away #they didn’t deserve this #they didn’t deserve it all

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

絶頂讃歌 | 真っ裸

#Some more Wanuka redraws because I’ve been ignoring my OCs for Bucchigire and that’s wrong of me #they didn’t deserve this #They really didn’t #This is why I can't get into stuff so hard nowadays because I have my own children to take care of #I say that but you know I'm gonna go right back to Bucchigire art after this #I really just needed a break #Insanity Draws #Insanity of Mojiru #透明な無名世界

[sonny-shine]

No, I feel so bad for Belgium 💔

#they didn’t deserve this #belgium nt #euro 2022

[space-girlllll]

I wrote a short story for a class and now those little guys are taking over my every waking moment

#They didn’t deserve this #But I did it anyways #I might post it sometime #But everything they do drives me crazy #On the verge of tears

[himbo-in-limbo]

Glamrock Blues (a security breach DLC comic)

Tw spoilers!!

I like making myself sad 😔

But this is going off the idea that if Bonnie is “possessing” the wet floor bots….I wonder if he sticks closer to Freddy in that way to stay close 😭??? Or to try and tell the gang where he’s at??? Just a random idea I had….

#my art #digital art #digital illustration #fanart #fnaf security breach #security breach ruin spoilers #security breach ruin #glamrock bonnie #glamrock fronnie #glamrock freddy #fronnie #my poor lovelies didn’t deserve this #Glamrock Blues

[rrat-king]

“and for the briefest moment, you see two silhouettes in the rail of moonlight across the ripples of the lake. a tall and awkward teenage girl’s silhouette and a strong and confident woman briefly hold hands”

a tall and awkward teenage girl.

a tall and awkward teenage girl— god she was only 16! she revived rats in the woods! she was a cleric and a beloved student and tall and awkward and just. lucy frostblade i will never stop thinking about you.

#brennan said that line and i burst into tears #not to be insane about a fictional character but i’m glad your resting easy lucy. you didn’t deserve what happened to you #d20 #fhjy #fantasy high #dimension 20 #lucy frostblade #fantasy high junior year

[couthbbg]

“deserves to win” is such a silly concept. you know who deserves to win? MY team. why? because I love them. next question

#my brother always says oh but they deserved to win #who cares !!!!! I didn’t want them to 😠😤

[kitkat-the-muffin]

I love how Wallace ended up being Todd’s gay awakening and then they DIDN’T end up together in the end

Instead Wallace led him on by failing to communicate that their fling was temporary and now Todd has an unhealthy obsession with Wallace and it’s so so so funny (and so tragic)

Next thing you know Wallace’s new boyfriend is gonna have to fight Todd’s new league of Wallace’s evil exes

#BRUH HE BROKE VEGANISM FOR YOU 😭 #todd deserves better he’s been babygirlified #spto spoilers #spto #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim takes off #todd ingram #wallace wells #I didn’t even know Mobile existed is he not in the movie? #mobillace