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duckapus · 4 months

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Meme Regulation Units

MRU1 & MRU2

Statuses: Active

Anchor: Link

The first Meme Regulation Units to be created. While Hyrule currently lacks the technology necessary to even begin inventing the internet, Purah and Robbie managed to invent radio and rig the Skyview Towers into transmitters, with MRU2 hosting a podcast as part of the starting lineup. Meanwhile, the fact that the Internet Graveyard is part of the Sacred Realm has allowed MRU1 to quickly become proficient in Spirit Magic.

MRU3 & MRU4

Statuses: Active

Anchor: Doc

Haven't come up with anything for them yet.

MRU5 & MRU6

Statuses: Active

Anchor: Frida

6 and Frida got off to a rough start thanks to Frida's experiences with Faeries, but they get along fine now.

MRU7 & MRU8

Statuses: Active

Anchor: Timmy Turner

Currently the only MRUs to see their Supervisor as a parental figure.

MRU9 & MRU10/"Marianne Teegan"

Statuses: Active

Anchor: Rodney Teegan (Champion Form)

The Janitor of Heart universe runs on similar rules to the Tulip's Road Trip universe (superhero stuff aside) so to avoid complications 10's been enrolled at Mina's school with the cover story is that she's Rodney's grandniece "Marianne" who's staying with him For Reasons (most common theory for those not in the know is that her parents kicked her out for being gay and her great-uncle took her in). She wasn't sure about the name at first but it's been growing on her.

9 doesn't bother with a human name since she's usually in the IG. Most people who care about her name at all just assume she's trans (which adds more fuel to the "shitty parents" theory).

#the grid #smg4 ocs #meme regulation units #mru1 #mru2 #mru3 #mru4 #mru5 #mru6 #mru7 #mru8 #mru9 #mru10 #marianne teegan

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duckapus · 5 months

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The Meme Regulation Unit Program

(So the Wonder Arc's obviously going to take a while to finish, especially since I'm insisting on the "fics and pics" format I've got going on, so I'm gonna just do my more traditional summary format stuff on the side so I don't lose the ideas over time.)

Anyway, this post is to explain the differences between the SMG Program we're familiar with and the version The Grid plans to create.

Frist off, they're using different terminology. Partially for organizational purposes, partially because the Meme Cycle needs Teh Funni to reach an IRL audience to work properly and the Grid doesn't want to look like they're just blatantly ripping Glitch Productions off because it'll drive away said audience.

Super Meme Guardian: Meme Regulation Unit (MRU)

Avatar: Anchor

Admin/USB: Supervisor

Guardian Pod: Data Chamber (it also has a significantly different design, but is still based on a USB Flash Drive since That's What Works)

There's also a few other changes:

Because the MRU Program isn't starting from scratch like the SMG Program did, they didn't need negative number prototypes and won't make the mistake of only deploying one Unit to a selected universe. As a consequence, the first MRU pair is MRU0 and MRU1, and the Odd/Even dynamic is completely flipped.

Because The Grid is primarily IRL-based, the Supervisor is created alongside their MRUs by an OC Design Agent, rather than being the one to make them. This doesn't change their role, but it does in some ways change the dynamic.

Because the Avatars almost all being or wearing red is just an aesthetic thing, The Grid decided not to bother with a similar trend so they'd have more options available.

Since they're playing catchup with the SMGs, after the initial test universe with 0 and 1, the other MRU universes will be activated periodically in batches of 4. They're not doing more than that at once because that would present an excessive workload and would make it too easy for some major problem to slip under the radar.

For reasons known only to himself Director K is weirdly adamant that either Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom be the first Universe to go online. On one hand this is causing a bit of delay because do you have any idea how long and tedious it is to 100% complete either of those games!? On the other hand this gives them more time to polish and fine-tune the MRU Mod, and the modding scene for both games is big enough that the process is already somewhat streamlined.

Granted, all of this relies on whether or not their newest recruit is as good a thief as Agent Astra believes she's going to be.

#smg4 #smg4 ocs #au lore #oc lore #the grid #meme regulation units #mru0 #mru1 #the legend of zelda #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #director k #piper fuji #magnolia astra #i mean the korok seeds alone-

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