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adhdzagreus · 4 months

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curtain call

The Mechanisms are uncharacteristically quiet as they walk off the stage. Even Jonny doesn’t know what to say as the remaining eight space pirates file into the dressing room of the venue they booked for their last ever show on Earth.

The first one to break the silence is the Toy Soldier who sniffles, gasps tremulously, and then wails, “Is all that really going to happen? With the—the black holes and the bar fights and the octokittens and everything?”

Jonny stifles a groan. This is exactly why he’d locked it out in the first place. What’s going to happen is what’s going to happen, and they all might as well accept it.

To make matters worse, the Toy Soldier’s sniffling has set off some of the more sensitive Mechanisms. Ivy pats it on the shoulder with a forlorn look, eyes glassy with unshed tears, and Marius’ fragile expression suggests that if Ivy starts crying, he’ll follow suit.

Tim has his arm around Ashes’ waist, as if worried they might disappear, and though his metal eyes betray no sadness, the firm set of his mouth worries Jonny more than anything else.

“The odds of us changing the future now that it’s been written are over three hundred million to one,” Ivy says sadly. “It’s statistically impossible that we will live forever.”

“B-b-but we have so many more songs left to sing!” the Toy Soldier weeps. “Tales to tell! Wars to wage!”

“And we will,” Jonny says shortly. “None of us are instantly about to keel over, are we?”

“N-no?” the Toy Soldier says.

“Everyone seems in decent health to me,” Marius says quietly. He holds Ivy’s hand in both of his.

“So don’t worry about it,” Jonny says.

“That’s easy for you to say,” Marius says. “You’re not dying for another millennia. I could get eaten by octokittens tomorrow.”

Jonny’s stomach twists, and he wrenches his mouth open to retort, but someone interrupts him.

“No,” Raphaella says sharply. “You will not. We know for a fact that we each die alone. I’m not letting you out of my sight, and you’re certainly not going to check on the octokittens any time soon. I’m planning to have Ivy feed them when we arrive back at the ship.”

“It’s not the same now that I know they eat Marius,” Ivy sniffles.

Marius’s expression shatters. “Don’t hold it against them, Ivy! They’re just hungry! They can’t help it! Don’t be sad!” he pleads.

Jonny feels sick as Ivy starts to cry harder, expounding on the hunting habits of felines, which only makes Marius more upset. He throws himself into a chair and starts taking his makeup off with a wet wipe, trying and failing to ignore them as Raphaella attempts to comfort them both.

“You’re being awfully callous about all this,” Tim says, still with one arm around a stony-faced Ashes. Brian and the Toy Soldier have joined the fray, and Brian’s platitudes about everything coming to an end in time are almost as unhelpful as the Toy Soldier’s weeping and wailing.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Jonny snaps.

“Well, you could at least pretend to be sad like the rest of us,” Tim says. “I know you’re all excited to die, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are.”

“God damn it, Tim,” Jonny snaps, throwing the wet wipe on the floor. “You think I’m not sad?”

“You’re not acting like it,” Tim replies. “Marius had a point. You’ve got a run-up and a death you’re looking forward to. Ashes here could go at any time.”

“Hey, babe, don’t bring me into this,” Ashes mumbles.

“Am I wrong?” Tim says.

“Yeah, you fucking are wrong!” Jonny shouts. “You think I want to die alone in some backwater asteroid bar centuries after the rest of you are gone? Yeah, I’m excited to die, but that doesn’t mean I want to watch the rest of you disappear first!”

The rest of the dressing room falls quiet, and Jonny realizes belatedly that he was shouting. Worse, he feels tears in his eyes, and he scrubs at them angrily, smearing the remains of his face paint.

“Oh,” Gunpowder Tim says. “I guess I didn’t think about that.”

“You choose how you go out,” Jonny says. “I have to wait until it finally decides to fucking stick. You know how many times I’ve been stabbed in the heart? I could go start a barfight on an asteroid tomorrow, but I guarantee it won’t stick.”

“All the same,” Tim says quietly. “I’d prefer you didn’t risk it.”

“And I’d prefer you wore your fucking seatbelt, but we don’t get to choose, now do we?” Jonny says.

Tim flinches, and Ashes frowns at Jonny who takes a deep, shuddering breath.

“I—I mean. I don’t want you to die either,” he says. “But we have to die s-sooner or later. And I don’t want to waste whatever time we have left crying about it.”

Despite this, tears are dripping from his eyes as he speaks, flowing faster than he can scrub them away. No one says another for a long moment, but he feels the eyes of several of his crewmates on him.

“C’mere, you mean ol’ bastard,” Ashes says. They spread the arm not curled around Tim’s waist and gesture for him to approach.

“What?” Jonny says, standing up and shuffling closer.

Ashes crushes him to their chest in a one-armed hug, and Jonny breaks and grabs both Ashes and Tim as best he can. Before he can recover, he feels someone else wrap their arms around him from behind, and before he can protest, he’s at the center of a tangled mass of weeping space pirates—colloquially known as a group hug.

It’s awkward with so much metal and wood and weapons, but Jonny can’t even pretend to be annoyed by it. He’s too focused on not breaking down into sobs. He’ll be damned if he lets his crew see him cry anymore than they already have.

“I love you all very much,” the Toy Soldier says happily. “Best space pirate crew ever.”

Jonny rolls his eyes and sobs silently. Hopefully, buried as he is in a mass of bodies, no one will notice.

“Well, now that that’s been dealt with,” DrumBot Brian says, “I would like to return to the Aurora. I am concerned our parking pass has expired.”

Jonny sighs. “Fine, but you stay away from the damn airlock.”

“Your concern is touching and noted,” says the DrumBot.

The Mechanisms disperse and hurriedly gather up their things. Jonny lovingly coils up his microphone and tucks it safely away, and the band of space pirates begin to make their way back to the Aurora and off to destinations unknown.

#death to the mechanisms #the mechanisms #polymechs #prison mechs #my fic #death cw

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mechsconfessions · 25 days

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Not even gonna turn anon on cause I'm no coward.

In polymechs people HAVE to start included Nastya, Toy, AND Aurora in the ship. Cause it's not a true full polycule (like the name "polymechs" would imply) without EVERYONE kissing each other.

PEOPLE DONT INCLUDE TS???? MY LITTLE WOODEN BOY????

#the mechanisms #the mechanisms band #the mechs #the mechs band #polymechs #nastya rasputina #toy soldier #the starship aurora

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rocksanddeadflowers · 4 months

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I believe in short Marius. I also believe in physical touch love language Marius. So now I believe he does the "smell my shirt" thing to give forehead kisses. He's done it to the entire crew (+Lyfrassir) at least once.

#question is what did he have to do to convince these people to smell his shirt while wearing it lmao #bonus points if he did this to Lyf during the prison era imagine their face #the only ppl on board possibly shorter than marius are jonny and ivy btw #jonny definitely killed him after pulling this (but he was also the easiest to convince bc creature jonny)#(jonny loved it but he'd never admit that)#lyf would know immediately that marius was up to no good but Marius is stupidly persistent and Lyf is so tired lmao #ivy knew what his goal was she'd already seen him do it but she doesn't mind and leans in anyway #the list goes on #sigh....... space pirate polycule my beloved:)#the mechanisms #marius von raum #polymechs

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qprsmackdown · 8 months

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Boatem (Hermitcraft S8) vs All Of The Mechanisms (The Mechanisms)

Boatem propaganda: I think they have dogpile sleepovers every night and take turns on which house they go to for them, there’s a whole schedule for it They built an area together and came up with the dumbest meeting ideas. They went moon mad together, they took a spaceship into the void together, turned the end of the world into a fun sleepover with no sleeping. I love them.

Mechanisms propaganda: look they're a band of immortal space pirates . relationships get complicated and i like to think they're all in a big qpr together because it makes me happy IM SORRY DO YOU THINK NOTHING WILL HAPPEN IF YOU STICK NINE PEOPLE (AND A SHIP) (HONESTLY DEBATABLE IF ANY OF THEM ARE PEOPLE) INTO A BOX FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS!! THEY JUST HAVE SUCH ENERGY AND LIKE THE LITTLE MOMENTS IN THERE PERFORMANCES WHERE THERE JUST MESSING ROUND AND AGHHHHHH!! ALSO THE CONSTANT ANGST POTENTIAL OF TOY SOLDIER CANONICALLY GOING UH OH ALL MY PARTNERS ARE DEAD GUESS I GIVE UP THEN IT JUST HURTSS!!! BUT HONESTLY I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR THESE LOT LIKE THEY JUST FIT SO WELL TOGETHER

#mod zazie #qpr smackdown #qpr tournament #boatem #hermitcraft #grian #gtws #scar #pearlescentmoon #impulsesv #mumbo jumbo #the mechanisms #polymechs #round 2 #side 2

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bestpolyshipbracket · 2 months

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Best Polyamorous Ship Group 1 Round 1

Chart by @dykerory

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saym0-0 · 2 months

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she/he tim and they/them ashes they make the whole rainbow

#what am i saying i dont #.#they are married #polymechs in various states of relationship #tim and ashes r married #tim and brian and jonny r boyfriends #jonny ashes boytoy #you understand #polymechs #the mechanisms #the mechs #sayms mechs headcanons #saymbles

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noncentsical-fanbug · 4 months

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my mechanisms relationship headcanons!

all the mechs have been together at some point or another, but these are the only relationships that really stuck.

obviously, Nastya and Aurora are in a very happy monogamous, intimate relationship, there’s no doubt about that. most of the other mechs make fun of them for their monogamy but it’s all in good fun.

the prison mechs (Ivy, Raphaella, and Marius) have all been officially together since the Bifrost Incident. Ivy and Raph were dating beforehand, and Marius was dragged in only semi-willingly while they were in prison. in timelines where they save or are reunited with Lyf, they are part if the prison polycule as well.

Marius is generally the hardest to determine if he’s in a relationship with someone or not due to the fact that he’s the most physically affectionate of all the mechs. he will just give cheek or forehead smooches at random and the recipient is just left confused.

Tim and Ashes have a sort of friends-with-benefits, on-and-off fling relationship. it’s not romantic, they’re just arsonists who like to mess around sometimes.

drumbot brian and jonny have the most confusing relationship among the mechanisms. they’re queer-platonic partners, technically, but for some unknown reason, jonny refuses to acknowledge it. brian is unbothered by this, but the other mechs are endlessly frustrated because from their perspective, the two are just pining forever. it’s very entertaining. they keep trying to set brian and jonny up but they already spend most nights cuddling in one of their beds. can you tell i’m a two of hearts truther.

#the mechanisms #nastya rasputina #the aurora #ivy alexandria #raphaella la cognizi #marius von raum #lyfrassir edda #prison mechs #gunpowder tim #ashes o'reilly #jonny d'ville #drumbot brian #two of hearts #polymechs #the mechanisms band #the mechanisms tbi

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shitty-mechs-headcannons · 10 months

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the whole of the mechs polycule is intentionally vague. all of them are dating the others (save for nastya, who’s mostly monogamous) but they refuse to define their relationships. all of them are some flavour of aroace and none of them quite know what sort of attraction it is, so they just say they’re partners and nothing beyond that. the only definition they’ve agreed on is that it’s not romantic. is it platonic? queerplatonic? alterous? who knows, not them

Who the hell knows! 💛

-mod Wil

#the mechanisms #shitty mechs hc #mod andy #polymechs

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monster4monster-bracket · 3 months

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Propaganda under the cut

Frankelda x Herneval - Los sustos ocultos de Frankelda / Frankelda's book of spooks

They are the custest. Herneval has known Francisca ever since they were both children and saw how much potential she had, he even helped and supported her writing career when no one else did. Francisca followed Herneval and became her main story writer to help his kingdom become more powerful. She also loves Herneval all the same even if he is cursed to look like an old mossy gremlin book instead of the handsome harpy prince she met all those years ago. Herneval is protective of Francisca and tries to protect her even from herself. They both are willing to sacrifice themselves for each other, Herneval is willing to spend an eternity cursed if that means he can spend it with Francisca, and Francisca is willing to lose her liberty if that means Herneval isn't alone.

Jonny d'Ville, Ashes O'Reilly, DrumBot Brian, Gunpowder Tim, Raphaella la Cognizi, Marius von Raum, Ivy Alexandria, Nastya Rasputina (Polymechs) - The mechanisms

So they are all aliens to each other. They are also like canon found family, and are immortal. I love this ship because the nine of them deserve happiness and some love because they are doomed to have heartache in their lives. They spend so much time together and will die alone and while they are together I think they should kiss.

#monster4monster #monster4monster bracket #polymechs #the mechanisms #the mechanisms band #Los sustos ocultos de Frankelda #Frankeldas Book of Spooks #poll tournament #poll bracket

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thesteamhunk · 2 months

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Currently rotating a Jonny centric polymechs art piece based off of We’ll Never Have Sex by Leith Ross in my head….. oooough…….

So much soft polymechs could be stored in here……..

#the mechanisms #the mechs #polymechs #jonny dville #I just…… they…..

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dumbasswithapen · 2 months

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doodle for @the-suns-a-tube

#my art #the mechanisms #marius von raum #gunpowder tim #ashes o'reilly #polymechs #well I guess it could just be found family #But everything is polymechs. To me.

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adhdzagreus · 9 months

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#the mechanisms #did I post this already #poly mechs tag #polymechs #greater Aurora polycule #immortal crew of the starship aurora

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mechsconfessions · 25 days

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Sending this of anon because I don’t care:

I hate when fanfiction excludes Nastya from polymechs and states the reason for this as her and Aurora being monogamous. In the fiction Jonny complains about her having queer orgies when he’s onboard, I have no idea where her being monogamous comes from.

YEAH THIS

#the mechanisms #the mechanisms band #the mechs #the mechs band #nastya rasputina #the starship aurora #polymechs

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rocksanddeadflowers · 1 month

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Polymechs but anytime Marius is stuck by himself (like sleeping alone while planetside or something) he listens to stuff like this to comfort himself and think of his partners

#do you see my vision here #the mechanisms #marius von raum #polymechs

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graydrawssometimes42 · 2 years

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POV ur about to be robbed by a polycule of female space pirates at a fancy party/black market auction

Alt title: Date night with the girls!

There aren’t very many Nastya/ivy/raphaella fics on ao3, but multiple involve a heist. I just love the idea that the ideal date night for this ship is the plot of a heist movie, so here’s the girls turned out in their best dresses. Tried something new with shading

#the mechanisms #nastya rasputina #ivy alexandria #raphaella la cognizi #the mechs fanart #polymechs #Nastya/raphaella/ivy #nastyaraphivy #art #fanart #the mechs

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bestpolyshipbracket · 2 months

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Best Polyamorous Ship Group 1 Round 2

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