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obii-wan-kenobiii · 2 years

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what is the mechanisms? based on your posts i'm 50% sure they're a band?

hi omg okay permission to infodump???? if you say yes i will reblog this and ramble for half an hour. actually i don;t want to wait so im just gonna put it under the cut (skip to the end for a very short summarized verison of everything)

SO THIS IS THE LEAD SINGER AND HIS CHARACTER IS JONNY DVILLE (he’s played by jonny sims) AND SO THEYRE ALL IMMORTAL SPACE PIRATES BTW AND SO IT’S SIMILAR TO A MUSICAL

SO TO BECOME IMMORTAL THEY GOT A PART OF THEIR BODY REPLACED BY SOMETHING WHICH IS CALLED THEIR MECHANISM(hence the band name) AND SO JONNYS IS HIS HEART AND SO HE HAS A MECHANICAL HEARt AND HE GOT MECHANISED BY THIS VAMPIRE NAMED DR CARMILLA WHO LEFT THE BAND; SHE ORIGINALLY FORMED THE BAND TO BE HER BACKING BAND BUT THEN LEFT AND THE ‘canon’ explanation for this is that jonny pushed her out an airlock

marius!!! so his name is marius von raum and his mechanism is one of his arms

he plays violin for the band and voices some of the screamier characters

oh!! jonny dville is the lead singer btw :)

okay and uhhhhh nastya rasputina!! she left the band in early 2015 for personal reasons but i still love her and am pretending she is still there she plays violin and doesn’t voice any characters but has appeared as herself in one of the albums

oh!!! also their spaceship is sentient and named aurora and her and nastya are dating <333 lesbian rights

and this is aurora

drumbot brian!! as the exact opposite to jonny, his mechanism is everything but his heart, and he plays banjo and sings a bit too and he has this switch that has two modes, means justify ends and ends justify means which are two morality modes and so on mje he can’t do anything he would consider immoral but on ejm it’s the opposite of that

( my autocorrect changed ejm to run at first and that’s accurate honestly 😭😭)

oh did i mention jonny dville has canonically committed every non sexual crime?? jonny dville mr king of consent ily. maybe you’re a bloodthirsty murderer who kills people for fun but <333

okay uhhh ashes o reily!!! mx. o reily i love you please marry me i love them sm okay. uh the crews resident arsonist, plays bass and voices a few characters!! their voice is so hhhng. they burned down their entire home planet

brian got shot into space pew pew pew and floated there for a while until he was eventually found by doc carmilla

and jonny is the first mate, he’ll tell you he’s the captain but don’t listen to him

brian is the pilot

ashes is the quartermaster

nastya is the engineer, oh and nastya’s mechanism is her blood!! i don’t think i mentioned that lol

and marius is the doctor (he says he has a degree but nobody has actually seen it so.) not that you really need a doctor when these nine kill eachother regularly but anyways

but raphaella la cognizi, the ships science officer!! as cruel and brutal as she is… science! plays piano and voices multiple characters, her mechanism is her wings

ivy alexandria!! the ships archivist :) her mechanism is her brain, she plays the flute and one other instrument i believe? she doesn’t voice characters afaik but she has appeared as herself in an album once. she stores information!! she’s like a living data collection center

the toy soldier!!! it’s… present, as usual. we’re not really sure what it does, nobody is, all we know is that it showed up and won’t go away. it’s just happy to be there

and finally!!! gunpowder “prettiest mech” tim!! he’s so,,,,, hhhhhhng. his mechanism is his eyes!! he plays guitar and voices a few characters in albums!! he’s the weapons guy

ABDHDHHSHD ALRIGHT NOW THE ALBUMS

okay so one thing you have to understand before all this is that they take old folk stories and retell them but make them either in space, cowboys, and much, much gayer

their first album, once upon a time (in space), think disney but much more violent and also lesbians

and then there’s ulysses dies at dawn!! it’s like green myth but mafia!!! ahdhhfhsjd it’s so good

tales to be told is just backstory songs/songs that didn’t make the cut for albums, it’s still great it’s just not one defined plot line as each song follows something different unlike the rest of the albums

high noon over camelot!! arthurian legend but cowboys and also mordred is trans and arthur guinevere and lancelot are all dating eachother ( i,,,,,cried at the end of hnoc :)))))

THE BIFROST INCIDENT!!! MY FAVORITE ALBUM OKAY

SO THINK NORSE MYTH BUT MAGIC TRAIN IN SPACE

AND THE MAIN CHRACATER IS LYFRASSIR EDDA

so basically

odin sends a train, the ratatosk express through the bifrost to get from midgard to asgard but the train arrives in midgard eighty years late and so lyfrassir edda is assigned to investigate it and so it’s like this whole super elaborate plot and it’s amazing

and takes to be told. vol 2 is the same idea as the first one so

and then finally,,, death to the mechanisms :( they broke apart in 2020 and they recorded their final concert and released it as an album and it’s always rlly sad to listen to :((

and finally,,,,,,,,,,,, backstories,,,,,,,,,,,,,

so jonny killed his dad bc he had collected debt and then proceeded to kill the person who made him kill his dad bc of said debt and then ran away with doc carmilla

nastya ran away from her family after she accidentally got them killed? fun fact thta i noticed bc i read too far into everything: so nastya’s name is actually anastasia but she doesn’t go by that, and nastya means reborn AND SO SHE WAS REBORN AFTER SHE ACCIDENTALLY GOT HER WHOLE FANIMY KILLED AND AHHDHFHSHJFF

i have émotions abt these characters

tim fought in the war against the moon kaiser and when his ,,,,,,,,,,,best friend’’’’’’’’ got killed he blew up the moon bc he got mad and also he went on like a massive killing spree

marius doesn’t actually have a set backstory yet!! his actor is working on an album but they haven’t released it yet

raphaella also doesn’t have a backstory yet i believe?

ashes burned down their entire home planet bc some guy screwed them over

brian got shot into space pew pew pew and floated there for a while until the doc picked him up

ivy lived in a library and doesn’t remember her life, she got picked up by the doc and mechanised after she died

the toy soldier was made as a toy to serve someone and it stole its voice from an angel (heavily implied to be some sort of singer but i’m not sure) and it’s just stayed there

so this was. badly summarized and not well said but also hhhng thank you for asking me!!! basically the people in the band play characters who do retellings of stories, and they play characters in the stories. they’re all immortal space pirates and have a mechanical body part which is how they became immortal. they retell the stories like ten times gayer and it’s fantastic anyways.

#yayyyy badly done ramble #ill probably edit this later but

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catbotbrian-archive · 4 years

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mechs kj au???

*marries u* ok mechs kj au

so you dont really need to know the mechs to understand this? basically theyre space pirates in a band (and yes my kjs are in a band no they arent mcr but currently their only album is a damger days type thing abt how they escpaed bl/i. also theyre all immortal and the thing that gives them their immortality is called their mechanism and its different for all of them!

fun ghoul was a spy droid in the city so everything except his voice is his mechanism (for mechs fans: like toy soldier, but he functions like brian). he kept watch over citizens discreetly and was meant to report people who talked abt escaping or a rebellion

poisons mechanism... im thinking their heart? theyre the first of the experiments bli was doing regarding immortality that succeeded but theyre. "defective." so they escaped and later found the rest of the gang

kobras mech are his eyes (theyre designed to look like snake eyes bc. why not) and he was taken by bli bc hes poisons little brother (poison does not know this. kobra is not telling them) and they thought itd work on him too

jets mech is his arm! he was captured by bli from the "zones" (small areas outside city limits but since bli is just. one massive city over the entire planet(for mechs fans: yes the City from udad. im unoriginal). its very easy to capture people when they need to they just dont bother)

so party poison is out in the city spreading the word of what bli is doing and how many people have been taken and killed and ghoul is like Hold On. What The Fuck and tells them to knock it off but they somehow convince him to help him rescue whoevers still alive in there and surprise its JUST jet and kobra so the four of them get the fuck out of there and jet brings them to a starship he didnt know how to use before he got captured and ghoul is A Robot so he figures it out and they zoom off into space

band-wise i think ghoul would be their narrator/lead singer bc he would break any instruments and has a good voice, poison plays space keyboard and sings a lot, jet plays drums and some sort of guitar and doesnt sing much, and kobra plays some other type of guitar and sings a good bit

#killjoys #the mechs #mechs kj au #ty fr this!!#long post #jg-piff #danger days #ttlotfk #tlotfk #ttlofk

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