˗ˏˋ꒰ Mechabiosis ꒱

the studied behavior of mechanical life

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Protagonist
A character who features in a story as a protagonist.

You and Me
These characters experience mutual love.
This character has a mutual love with Joseph W.F.

Babyface
This character is the younger brother.

Let's be Friends
This character is a robot.

Team Werewolves 2023
A character who participated in Art Fight 2023: Vampires vs. Werewolves as a part of team Werewolves.

Team Stardust 2024
A character who participated in Art Fight 2024: Seafoam vs. Stardust as a part of team Stardust.

FC Participant
This character has been entered into a Featured Character draw.

A Joyous Title
This character has a name the creator loves.

Close Company
A character that has a physical real-life item, like a plush, statue, keychain, etc.

Most Expensive
You have spent $100+ on this character yourself

Many Neighbors
This character lives in an Apartment

You and Me
These characters experience mutual love.
This character has a mutual love with RPS.

Playing Favorites
This character is the owner's favorite.

Let's be Friends
This character is a robot.

Team Werewolves 2023
A character who participated in Art Fight 2023: Vampires vs. Werewolves as a part of team Werewolves.

Team Stardust 2024
A character who participated in Art Fight 2024: Seafoam vs. Stardust as a part of team Stardust.

FC Participant
This character has been entered into a Featured Character draw.

Lost Media
This character has one or more pieces of lost media.

Close Company
A character that has a physical real-life item, like a plush, statue, keychain, etc

Most Expensive
You have spent $100+ on this character yourself

Happy Go Lucky
This character is light-hearted in nature.

It's Just Business
This character is the CEO of a company.

Always Responsible
This character is the older brother.

Let's be Friends
This character is a robot.

Shining Star
This character is famous in their universe.

Team Stardust 2024
A character who participated in Art Fight 2024: Seafoam vs. Stardust as a part of team Stardust.

FC Participant
This character has been entered into a Featured Character draw.

FC Winner
This character has won a Featured Character draw.

Best Dressed
A character whose design is among their owner's favorites.

Close Company
A character that has a physical real-life item, like a plush, statue, keychain, etc.

Most Expensive
You have spent $100+ on this character yourself

Rogue Project Star Robot

꒰ he/him - ❝I am nothing like you. I. No. I don't think I can be good enough. Whatever that may mean for you.❞ ꒱


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days since RPS fell in love with Joseph

It's not a good day today. My brother is on the couch, lying down, facing the cushions.
He only ever does that when he is having a bad day.
Today is not a good day.
I do not like when he has bad days. I do not like it when he feels... "bad". He's said before it's just something he has to get over. And there's not much I can do.
But I am lonely.
I like to hear him talk. About anything.
My own words are not as pleasant as my brother's. He says it's fine I do not speak like him, it reminds him of "the water".
...
But I wish I spoke like him. Then, I could say something comforting.
And he would not have as many bad days.

And I would not be so lonely.
Our room is not much. There is the couch my brother likes, the ceiling light my brother hates, the wall mirror my brother does not care about, the door where my brother and I leave through for testing, and the vending machine my brother has mixed feelings about.
He hates most of the available snacks. He does not like chips because they're too light, he does not like gummy fruit because it's too small and cold, he does not like chocolate because he does not like cocoa, and he does not like granola bars because they're pretentious.
Not like I really understand. I don't have the ability to eat like he does, so his opinions are my opinions through supposition.
But he likes the oatmeal cream pies. I tried to tell him the labeling is a lie: it's really just two oatmeal cookies with filling in-between. But then he told me to shut up. So.
It's not like it's trouble getting snacks, but those that own this place rarely get anything restocked, so it's usually left untouched by us both.
But maybe today will be the day it is restocked. And maybe he will stop feeling "bad."
Taking a onceover, there is a couple left. I tap and order one, grabbing the snack from the dispensary.
And well, before I give it to my brother, for whatever reason, my reflection catches my eye.
I don't think much about my appearance usually, I am Primary. A robot under Project Star in testing. That is all. But my attention is held by the snack in my hand. I don't know why.
My brother and I are certain the mirror is two-way. He told me it's so the roboticists can make sure we do not kill each other. I told him that's an awful thing to say.
I would never think of killing my brother.
"Prime, what the hell are you doing?"
I turn my head, he's sat up now. His hair is a mess and he looks exhausted. But he's up at least.
I turn my head to the floor. "Nothing. No. Well. No. Nothing. I am doing nothing right now."
"You can lift your head, Prime."
He's right beside me now, just the two of us. In front of the two-way mirror.
I don't understand why the roboticists would think we would ever kill each other.
"You know what would be cool?"
Secondary grins at me in the mirror. "No, I don't know. What do you think would be cool?"
"If we could take a picture. Wish they'd give us a camera in here or something."
He frowns to himself.
"Well, I've taken a photo already."
"Huh? OH, RIGHT, HAHA. I forgot you can do that! Hey, send it to me." He's grinning wide.
I turn away. "No."
"WHAT?"
"No. It's mine. I took the photo, I am keeping it for myself."
"??? Prime. Be serious, just send me the photo."
"No. I. No. I will not do that."
"I... Primary."
"No."
[WIP]

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Static - Flavor Foley

For this song to make sense, you need to understand that RPS constantly needs attention, in a similar fashion to his older brother. But unlike his brother, RPS is horrifically bad at performing many tasks assigned to him, leading to many being displeased with him and focusing their attention on his brother. Which results in Deus being RPS's "only viewer." He's the only one has been with RPS since the beginning and still pays him any mind.

Just another day, throw your cares away and laugh hand-in-hand with me
Just another day, just another day keeping our company
Who cares what people say? We'll stay another day in revelry, reverie

Ohh my god. Basically, just him asking his brother to throw away his cares about RPS's test results and keep his company, asking him to keep being his brother despite what "others" may say. Others in this case being the many roboticists that have been testing RPS and Deus and have basically deemed RPS a failure in comparison to his brother. Also RPS asking his brother to stay another day in revelry, reverie. Staying another day just having fun and daydreaming. Not thinking about RPS's failures...

One, two, three, who's the brightest star you see?
It's me


Just look at RPS's face LOL

The world you know never seems to take it slow
A tiring pace indeed /
Just stay here a while with me

The world Deus knows never seems to take it slow, which is why RPS can never catch up to his brother. It's a tiring pace for him and makes it difficult for him to keep at the pace for long. That's why he asks his brother to just stay a while. Not slow down, or wait, just stay a while.

Don't you find it all romantic, the way things used to be?
We can skip the sign-off, ol' familiar scene, repeating
This is how it should be

Again, RPS's ideal reality where things "are the way they used to be. By now, the two are long past their days of being tested and live on their own. And Deus speaks way differently than she used, speaking in mainly formalities and corporate jargon that upsets RPS deeply. He's asking his brother to "skip the sign-off", drop the formalities and repeat the "old familiar scene" of just playing and talking to him like they used to.

When you go, just don't change the channel
I hope you won't be long
After all, I want to be wanted
Is that so wrong?

I should also make it clear, that by now RPS has already lost his arm and this is also the point in time where he rarely sees his brother. He only gets to see him once a month for 75 minutes. His time has been shortened greatly to basically the length of a film and RPS is miserable over it. His greatest nightmare is that his brother has replaced him, so him asking his brother not "to change the channel" is him asking her not to replace him. He doesn't want his brother to be long despite knowing he won't see him for another month. All he wants is to be wanted. Is that so wrong? :(

Anyway, this song is RPS asking his brother to stay by his side and to not forget him, even though his brother has, in RPS's eyes, very clearly almost forgotten and seems to only see him for nostalgia. It makes him lonely.


Mama's Boy - Dominic Fike

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The Things We Do For Love - 10cc

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スマイリーを探して - Serani Poji

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Joseph W.F.

꒰ she/her - ❝WHAT? Wai- Oh! You're leaving already? Oh, Well... Wait, Hold on! Please, take this at least. I insist! AH! No buts, Mr. Star!❞ ꒱


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Joseph has loved RPS for

days

"Aww. I'm happy now. But, I mean, before I found how to be happy, I was pretty miserable."
She shifts herself on the rail of her baclony, the dimples of her face giving away the smile hidden underneath her mustache. I'm not entirely she if she wants me to move next to her. I stand in place.
"I mean, I was happy with the first family I got to work for.
I was one of the first manufactured robots of that time. The ones made for public use.
[WIP]

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BIRDBRAIN (w/ OK Glass) - Jamie P

To start off, Joseph is not stupid, but due to her situation, she feels less than compared to other robots and actually falters in a lot of areas. Something in specific is that she can no longer connect to the internet or bluetooth on her own, so she typically either relies on whatever knowledge is sitting in her memory or her phone (which is odd for a robot to have since... robots are robots. Think of it like an aid for her that she doesn't like to admit to having too often.) The reason for this is that Joseph is an insanely older generation model robot, especially in comparison to Deus and RPS. There's no longer a lot of compatibility for robots like her, leaving her to rot and forced to adapt in her own ways to catch up with the moving world of robots.

So -- fuck!
So unsure, before it's even heard
Never confident in a single word

Unlike way more articulate robots, Joseph speaks in a more casual and slang-like tone. She swears, she's loud when she laughs or just excited, she cuts herself off, her train thought is a spectral, and just in general, speaks nothing like RPS's monochord-like speech or Deus's formal speech. Anyway, as stated, she's not confident in everything she says because she can't verify it through the internet like other robots can. She mainly talks from past experience or whatever sits in her memory.

Tell me what about me is built so wrong?
There's so much passion
But more I'm lacking

Joseph doesn't often like to think about behind she in technology compared to newer robots, but the thought does come to her every now and then, and it's upsetting for her. She has the passion to do more, but physically, she can't due to being "built wrong." There's just no technology compatible to her anymore, so she lacks behind. Honestly, hanging around RPS does not do her wonders on her thoughts on herself early on, since he's so well-advanced. Even with a missing arm as a handicap, he outperforms insanely well, even if he does not notice. It's normal for him, but outstanding to her, and well, makes her feel lacking.

But I falter on the forethought
I keep on running like a chicken with its head cut off
Achromatic twisted aeronaut
A birdbrain, baby, I don't know when I'm supposed to stop

Again, Joseph constantly secondguesses herself, not just her words but behavior and actions as well. Not only is she no longer able to connect to the internet, but her battery life is extremely small compared to her earlier days, meaning she ends up secondguessing going out on fun trips or out in general, in fear there won't (and there rarely ever is) be a charging station compatible with her. She's been around for so long, she doesn't even feel like a proper robot, more like "a chicken with its head cut off". She never got the script to stop, so she's just been running around doing her own thing. And while that does make her happy, she does feel lesser because of it. Also, ACHROMATIC TWISTED AERONAUT????????? Look at her color scheme compared to Deus and RPS. Early robots like her were made without color, so in comparison to colorful robots like the Star Brothers, she does feel very out of it, even with the sparks of pink she's tried to add in to herself or her fun outfits, it doesn't color in the color she's missing from head to toe. She's too monochrome to look human, and too old to be like other robots.

(So when you go, I won't cry)
'Cause even though it hurts, it's the thousandth time

Alongside the fact that she has been around for an insanely long time, Joseph has been in countless human lives and seen literal generations of families pass. She's also seen generations of robots newer than her become old and obsolete, only making her sad to see these robots experience the same feelings she's had. This is why she does not and will not cry when people go, she's seen it all, and is always uplifting others to avoid the feelings of obsoletion that she feels. She has a million photos logged in her memories of the people and robots she's met in her life, even if it's been the thousandth time, every life means so much to her so it does her hurt to see them leave, but she understands, people cannot stay around for as long as she has.

I'm so damn selfish, I can't live like this
So be my witness, I won't back down
I'll play the hero, divide the zero
So I wanna hear you s-say… something?

This one is directed towards RPS, the addressese of the song from her, sooo cutesies. Anyway, she's mainly explaining to him here her feelings of obsoletion compared to him, hence why she's so "damn selfish and cannot live like this." Aside from her battery life and lack of internet connection, one of the biggest things she is self-conscious about is the huge gash in her face that took out her eye. She was never able to get it fixed and it basically exists to haunt her of how worn-down she is comparison to someone as sleek as RPS. She's asking RPS to be her witness when she decides she won't hide it anymore to properly address these feelings of hers, and to help her cut her hair (SO CUTE WHAT DA HELL). This is also a big ask of her, considering she knows thousands of people and robots, but RPS's story is the one that gets her to open up about herself which makes her a bit shy which is why she stutters slightly when she asks to hear him say something (likely in response to her look after the cut.) SO CUTE. I would also imagine if I did animate Joseph to this song that the next time you see her doing the BIRDBRAIN dance, she has her new look and a big ass cheesy smile.

In the golden hour you seem to know no fear
Is it really true?
That a bird like me could never think like you?
Is it all in my head?
Is my ignorance just manufactured dread?
When I've naught but my pride
Can you take a look and
Say you like what I've got inside?

This entire bridge is crazy for Joseph. First off, the use of golden hour here is so fun themeatically for Joseph. With golden hour not only referencing the point in time when the sun rises and it's nice out AKA when chickens do their whole thing, but also it's the "the first hour after the occurrence of a traumatic injury, considered the most critical for successful emergency treatment." Joseph is the first person to find RPS immediately after his arm is torn off, (more like in the middle of being torn off) and she is genuinely thrown off by his lack of fear, not only then, but after. RPS walks around just fine and without care that his entire arm is missing and mangled. This in comparison to Joseph who immediately hid her own serious injury of her own, and finds shame in it, she wonders if a "bird like her could ever think like him". It makes her wonder if her self-consciousness and feelings of obsoletion are all in her head. "Just manufactued dread" that's been keeping her back from being someone she likes. And to top it all off, she asks RPS if there's even anything he likes when he looks at her because he's really the only robot she's met with the confidence to seemingly not bother getting his arm fixed and values his opinion once she decides to no longer hide her own injury. (soooo cute....)

Hit me with the flap down, mired in the earthbound (Foul!)
Bilious baby braying babble bent her beak (What a freak!)

These two verses are super cute to me LOL. There are two meanings for flap down here. The first like when a bird flaps down pretty quickly to get down from somewhere, but also "flaps down", as in when a plane sets its flaps down in order to land SLOWLY and safely. Joseph is very likely asking RPS to hit her with the flap down as in to help to quickly get out of her this embarrassing thought process of self-consciousness when in reality she needs a slow descent like a plane. She is not the bird she thinks of herself, she's a craft that needs to slow down and pace herself as RPS paces himself as well. As well as for the next verse, she is obviously way smarter than she imagines herself as. Unlike other robots who would need to check their information via the internet before speaking, there is mountless information Joseph just knows and can recite effortlessly, to the point she does not realize how much of NOT a birdbrain she is because of this.

To end, this song is mainly about Joseph and her personal struggles of feeling lacking and behind newer generation robots like RPS and Deus. She's shy about this, but it's ironically thanks to a extremely advanced robot like RPS she feels confident to push herself to address her feelings like she does in this song. I also just think this whole animated music video was SO CUTE. If I ever do animate it, I'd imagine Deus and RPS in the background of her video as she does the dances and records herself. I also imagine she would be recording the whole thing on her phone, which while she is shy to use in front of others, I think the fact she would have Deus and RPS in the video just shows her growing confidence in herself, alongside her refusal to be ashamed of the aid she needs to exist. Deus and RPS are her friends and they think she is lovely in her own way. SO CUTE what da hell...


Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight - Tiny Tim

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Messages from the Stars - Dabeull, Rude Jude, Holybrune

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Blow My Brains Out - Tikkle Me

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Deus

꒰ he/she - ❝What a great talk we had today! Have a Lovely Day in our Lovely World! ... I'll see you next month.❞ ꒱


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The 14th.
Every 14th, I invite my little brother over to my office on the 51st level. The absolute top of LOVELYWXRLD, sitting inside the star itself. And suprisingly, he's on time every time. Even when I'm running late, he's... there. He just sits there in front of my desk. He doesn't even look at anything, or maybe twiddle with something to pass the time. He just... sits there.
And then, when I finally show up, apologizing for making him wait. He turns and just...
"I don't need an apology. No. Sorry. Thank you. This won't cut into the 75 minutes, does it?"
Just as always. It makes me laugh, if I'm honest. He'd probably sit there for a day and still say the same thing. I can't even hide the chuckle as I sit down at my desk, shaking my head.
"You already know the answer, why would it? Hahaha..."
It's not easy to notice if you don't know him, but he relaxes. His fans slow and the sparks in his shredded arm dull to a stop.
"How's..."
I gesture to the mangled star.
"Okay."
He doesn't move it, he doesn't even glance at it.
He never tells me what happened and I don't ask.
A minute passes in silence. He twitches.
He hates talking. But he hates the wasted minutes more.
"How. I. Sorry. How are you?"
I pretend to think on it. Like I don't know what what he wants to hear.
I grin, before recounting my month and what he's missed. There's nothing even exciting about what I say, usually meetings, finances, people I've met. I can't say he even understands all of the jargon. I think he just wants to hear me talk, if anything.
By the time, I'm done, there's only five minutes left.
As usual.
He's practically yanking on the hanging wires of the remnants of his arm. I'm never sure if I should point it out.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes. Sorry. Yes, I'm sorry."
It makes me laugh, because I know he's not apologizing for his arm. But because he thinks I think he wasn't paying attention.
Kinda funny.
He slows the yanking to the occassional tug at the wires. Calming himself, I think.
"This was nice. Yes. Did. Do you want me to come next month?"
I flick my earring, once again pretending to think on it. He asks like I'm the one who needs the meeting. I grin widely.
"Of course, it would be fun!"
He stops tugging and relaxes again. I didn't even notice his fans cool.
"Okay. I'm sorry."
"You're forgiven."
He stands, though doesn't turn to the door. He tugs at his wires again.
"Are you angry with me."
I tilt my head, my earring resting against my cheek.
"Should I be?"
I'm not sure if that calms him, but he stops tugging. He turns to the door.
"Okay. Good-bye. Please expect me next month."
There's a mirror above the door that lets me see his face as he leaves. I wave.
"I always do. Bye! I love you!"
His head lowers before he closes the door.
I make a note in my calendar.
For the next 14th.

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Spoken For - FLAVOR FOLEY

This song is so Deus, it's actually crazy. Despite how Deus may talk and act towards his baby brother in MECHABIOSIS, it should be clear that he loves him dearly. Unfortunately for Deus, he does not get to express this, if ever. When Deus was accepted to run as CEO of LOVELYWXRLD, this was not her own decision. Something decided by those who had created her and her brother, not that that bothers Deus. The idea of running a company, as well as the city was something she was looking forward to as a fun oppurtunity. What terrified her was the realization that every word and action of hers would be recorded by the higher-ups of the company for "quality assurance." Which may seem like nothing to those who created Deus, it's a genuine nightmare for Deus, especially considering those that created Deus and her brother have already made frequent comments on scrapping PS00000001, her brother, due to its blatant failures in every test compared to her. It's only because Deus vouches for PS00000001 that RPS avoids being scrapped, instead being maintained as a robot-in-training under Deus's call.
But since Deus is constantly recording everything, he makes the decision to limit how often he sees his brother to barely an hour a month, labeling their meetings as check-ins to record PS00000001's progress. This is all to make clear that Deus is miserable despite the nice life she has.

Clear cut
Put on the emotion guaranteed

If it wasn't already clear, everything about Deus needs to be made perfect for the public image of LOVELYWXRLD and the city in general. There really is never a point in time anyone will see him not smiling. He's never frowning or showing negative emotions, always cheerful and grinning as is guarranteed by those in charge of him.

I’m miles above the street
Staring as I pass me by
My self-deceit

From where Deus use to reside with his brother, in the testing facility that had no windows or even much light, to now in the large star of the LOVELYWXRLD building, Deus really is "miles above the street." But it's also at the cost of no longer getting to act like himself, it's been so long since he's started working for LOVELYWXRLD that he's just accepted this self-deception that this is who she's always been but when she passes "by herself", mainly when she meets with her brother, she sees her old self and just feels miserable.

Caught up in routine
Can they see the person beneath?

This is one not just directed towards those responsible for Deus, but his brother and himself as well. RPS and Deus have been having these monthly meetings for so long, that neither are even enthusiastic about it anymore despite this being the only time either get to see each other. Deus is so busy with the routine of his new life that she ends up late to her and her brother's meetings at times. Even with how apologetic she is, RPS only ever asks if it cuts into their shared time together. He no longer cares or can pretend to care about Deus's new life because it just makes him miserable. Their lives have been so compacted into one insane meeting a month that two have forgotten who they use to be and act like together.

Showered in fame, my fans adorе me
Only way to fuck it up is to be boring
I don't get thе messages, they don't come to me
Everything that I can say is spoken for me, yeah

In the universe of MECHABIOSIS, Deus is dearly beloved by robots and people alike in the city she resides over. Even the employees of LOVELYWXRLD love Deus and are always inviting her over for work parties and functions. While this is a dream of Deus's to be this liked by others and he does love the attention, it's also at the cost that he can not "fuck it up by being boring." He's really nothing as he's presented as. He likes vending machine oatmeal creme pies, he hates bright lights in his face, he can't stand how much alcohol he's pressured into drinking at parties, he gets sick of wearing the same outfit over and over again, he likes dresses and other things that just don't mix with the publci image he has to upkeep. He has to eat fancy foods, he's constantly having cameras flashing in his face, is he ever spotted without a glass of champagne in his hands, he has to wear the same outfit to stay in brand. None of what he wants to do is approved because it's boring and weird. And he can't complain because this role is one-of-a-kind, it's not something he can just pass up, especially knowing if he "fucks it up", he'll likely be scrapped for the next SS00000001 to take his place.

Get fucked
God, I’m so pathetic

Deus is fully aware of how miserable her life is, knowing there's no positive to the harm and misery she's been putting herself and her brother through. Despite knowing, she continues in the role, still smiling and cheering. She thinks of herself as pathetic and weak for being aware and not even doing anything to fight against it.

And when I rip you out my chest
Won’t you realize you’re just obsessed?
A fraud at best
Drain the blood from this abscess

The first two verse holds two meanings: One, ripping his brother out of his chest, a call to the shared battery-design the both of them share. He wants to relieve his brother of the "obsession" of trying to garner his approval by pushing him away. He's more and more formal and corporate-cold to his brother in hopes of pushing him away from the fraud that she has become. There is also the second meaning of Deus literally ripping out his battery from his chest and showing his fans and higher-ups how obsessed they are with him when he's no longer around. But again, he's just a fraud of who he is expected to be and would unfortunately, be replaced easily. As for the next verses, an abscess is a pocket of pus that forms after white blood cells fight an infection. Just as Deus is trying to help his brother by pushing him away, he's only harmed him in doing so as the white blood cells do when they leave an abscess. And RPS is going to do the worst thing possible and drain said metaphorical abscess, which is never recommended and one of the worst ways to handle an abscess since it will lead to further infection. Both RPS and Deus just want to help the other and make things better but in their own ways, make things worse for the other and for each other.

Am I anything?
Am I even a person beneath?

As a throwback to earlier when Deus asks if anyone can even see the person beneath, she now asks if she is even a person at all. Again, she's been at this for so long, all she really knows to do is smile and wave. Being this overconfident bravo friendly robot is all she's been, she doesn't feel like there's anything of worth beneath it all anymore after so long.

The daze of blood stains, cruel and gory
Visions of violence are overpowering, yeah
Puking my guts out almost hourly
Shaving off the numbers of this fucking body
I can't read the messages, they come so quickly
Please I'm begging anybody come and save me
I don't get the messages, they don't come to me

This chorus and the next bridge are so insanely Deus, it's SICKENING LOL It's not that Deus dislikes his entire life. It's that his entire life forces him to live as someone he's not. Her life is so easily predictable and structured, she doesn't even need to be be there fully, allowing herself to run on autopilot and fully dissassociate from whatever the current event she's been pushed into is. Just as Teto sings and dances to these lyrics with an upbeat mood and smile, Deus as well is frequently smiling and cheerful despite his thoughts and visions of violence unto himself. Deus regularly imagines tearing his star battery out of his chest and doing anything out-of-character to snap herself out of this mind-melting routine she's stuck in. Not to mention, that Deus is not human. He's nothing like his employees at his parties, so when he drinks and chats with them, once the party is over, Deus is alone to empty whatever contents he consumed, via opening his abdomen cavity and removing his "stomach" to throw away everything in it down the garbage. It's a process he hates and has to do more frequently than he ever did at the testing facility. Even then, he at the very least had his brother to console and help him. But not a single person is interested helping Deus with such a 'gross' process in their eyes. It only heightens his feelings of being liked for who he is expected to be, but nothing more. As much as Deus may literally beg mentally to be saved, he feels overwhelmed and nauseous and alone. As for "shaving off the numbers of this fucking body", while Deus has no real "weight" to lose as a robot, he does feel a dissassociation from "this body" of his. It no longer feels like his, he's an image, a brand, a serial number to be replaced. Of which, while he never follows through in his violent ideals, he at the very least is frequently scrubbing out his serial ID on his body. Though again, because every action of his is recorded, this is usually done in the dark. And of course, because Deus cannot go ten minutes without a manager checking in on him, she's typically caught right after (of which she always has an explanation for the random scrubbings), and the ID print is repainted on to his misery. He really does not care about "this body" any longer, which is why it's so easy to go along with the routine as miserable as it is.

Oh, I could be a canvas
I could be a doll
I don't think I'm even something real at all
I could be a woman
I could be a man
Look into the mirror, tell me what I am
Oh, I could be a difference
I could be the same
Try to give me meaning, it's a losing game

Deus feels as though she has turned herself into a canvas for others to paint. She no longer holds the paintbrush to say what she does or says anymore, especially with how often she simply lives on autopilot, nothing feels real to her any longer, especially herself. And for her gender, the only person who ever understood how Deus preferred to identify was her brother. With her introduction to LOVELYWXRLD, she's been forced into a masculine box that just does not fit her. Not only was her voice altered to be less feminine, but his clothing and pronouns have been halved to only be masculine. He's only ever addressed with he/him pronouns by others, and his clothing only consists of neutral colors, alongside a lack of skirts/dresses. While she does not hate her clothing, she would like to be more. But she's only what anyone ever tells her that he is. Alongside stating that trying to giving meaning to him is a "losing game", Deus feels as though, turning herself into such a blank slate of a robot has ruined any chances of her forming real connections. The only individual she had a connection with was her brother, and she's pushed him away for his own good, but also so he would stop trying to form a connection with her when it's a losing game for him. There is nothing to connect to.

Oh, maybe I am nothing
Maybe I am all
Baby, make me something 'fore I get that call 'cause

I CAN'T HEAR THE MESSAGES, THEY JUST DON'T LET ME
I CAN'T BEAR THE SOLITARY, DON'T FORGET ME
I CAN'T READ THE MESSAGES, THEY COME SO SLOWLY
I DON'T KNOW A SINGLE THING AND I'M SO LONELY

The call in question for Deus being his biggest nightmare: having to report his brother for scrapping. This is Deus's biggest motivator to keep moving, through his self-violent thoughts, his dissassociation, his self-hatred, his loneliness. Because he knows if he's ever replaced, his replacement wouldn't think twice to scrap RPS and that idea puts him through the worse misery than no work party could even amount to. It terrifies him to his core anytime he's called by his higher-ups for a progress report on RPS. Which is terrifying to him because he doesn't even know what the higher-ups are thinking themselves, he doesn't "know a single thing". As important as she is, she's just a robot who plays a brand image for LOVELYWXRLD, she doesn't more than anyone else what goes and that terrifies him. Not only does Deus want to make himself something worth being around to avoid being scrapped, he wants her brother to be something to avoid that same fate as well. It's the biggest reason why he pushes him away, but hammers in the idea that RPS must find a purpose or a job or a role or SOMETHING so Deus has something worth reporting on RPS's progress. But because RPS struggles to do so, it only serves to worsen Deus's anxiety and honestly RPS's too. RPS doesn't get Deus's messages about why it is so important he finds a role, only that his brother seems to be more dissappointed in him each meeting they have. And Deus never gets the messages of how his pushing is only serving to worsen RPS's self-worth, starting to believe he can only find worth in his brother's eyes as scrap material. Neither of them can really bare the solitary Deus enforces on them with their only-once-a-month meetings, but they desperately do not want the other to forget them and how nice things used to be. They don't know anything about what's really gone and they're both miserably lonely.

As I said in the beginning, this song is so Deus, it's actually crazy LOL Deus is miserable because everything is recorded and spoken for. Deus and RPS are endlessly miserable in their own ways and honestly keep making things worse for the other unintentionally. They love each other dearly but have no idea how to navigate the awful situation they're stuck in.


Puppet Boy - DEVO

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JOYRIDE. - Kesha

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Two Birds - Regina Spektor

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Stars - PinkPantheress

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