Rhyme & Reason
Plot
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🡻SUMMARY🡻
Rhyme and Reason is a [RATED T] tale about a robot named Rhyme causing mass destruction to many people's lives - but in secret, to where the victims feel as though they're all alone in Rhyme's games. Some of the victims pursue Rhyme on their own terms, and slowly begin to realize that they're not the only ones who have had their lives ruined in various ways by 'The Killer Robot.' The issue is, they all have DRASTICALLY different ways of hoping to stop Rhyme. But, now that they know they're not alone, they have no choice but to stick together. The series takes place in Rose City, a large metropolis with a high crime rate.Side plot:
A therapy robot named Mang has gone missing long ago from a recently disbanded program called 'The Therapy House.' The shady program was run by a lamp object head named Lightman, and shut down due to it breaking, recently passed, robot rights laws. Mang had spoken out too much about abuse and mistreatment in The Therapy House, and was silenced. So far in the present, a private investigator named 'Kassir' (accessible for events on the tumblr blog @eagleeye-tm04) is on the case. Their client is an unknown therapy robot that survived the horrid past events, and remembered and misses Mang dearly. Mang is currently alongside Rhyme, lost in this new scary world without his memory. Hopefully someone with good intentions will one day find him. In the Love Arc, Mang now goes by Wick.
⚠️trigger topics in the series⚠️
🢂murder / light gore and blood
🢂temporary main character death
🢂mentions of depression / psychosis / mental disorders
🢂mentions of eating disorders and recovery
🢂emetophobia [vomit]
🢂scopophobia [the fear of eyes/being watched]
🢂religion: this series is blasphemous and touches heavily on religious imagery
🢂drug use and recovery
🢂stalking
🢂relationship abuse recovery
🢂realistic trauma from listed above topics
🢂obsessive parasocial relationships
🢂fantasy racism [robots vs organics]
🢂near drowning
🢂cult-like environments
🢂peer bullying
🢂kidnapping
🢂memory loss / amnesia
🢂 recovery from suicidal ideation
🢂 power dynamic grooming between adults
🢂 religious indoctrination grooming [escaping it + recovery]
DISCLAIMER:
All characters in this series were created in reference to things I have dealt with in real life. I do not condone the abusive actions of the characters.This series is heavily focused on recovery, and it is up to the readers of this content to apply critical thinking to the media. Rhyme and Reason is a cautionary tale and study behind why bad behavior may occur, and the effects the behavior will have on others.
MAIN CHARACTER LIST
➽Birthday he/she [23] - A donkey piñata who sees himself as the protector of Team Reason. Late one rainy night in the past, he was followed home by Rhyme after being mugged by strangers. He caught a glimpse of the muggers and their identities, though did not think to take it further. Rhyme appeared to Birthday in the window sill later that night, and offered to end the lives of those who stole Birthday’s money and groceries. Not wanting to live with that guilt, Birthday said “no.” However, the criminals went missing regardless the next morning. Their familiar faces on the news will never leave Birthday’s mind. He is sure the robot did this. Now he believes it’s up to him to hunt this robot down. Carrying his candy themed knife, he uses it to stab himself in the chest to summon an entity within him. His body is Paper Mache, yet magically fleshy - but inside is an entity that can only fight defensively and keep him safe. Birthday is hot headed, easily provoked, and prefers to fight street fights alongside his bull piñata friend Bash. Birthday has hunted Rhyme down once in the past, breaking his body and believing him to be dead, only for Rhyme to come back later from a factory regeneration.➽Rhyme he/they/it [25] - He has 5 lives left. His 6th was spent blowing himself up to create the illusion that he doesn’t care about dying, or that he’s somehow immortal. He can keep coming back because of his factory hideout rebuilding him in an unknown location. What are his motives? He seems to not care about killing, or his own safety. He’s flexible, but can only fight close combat. He runs out of battery easily, but his hat is a portable charger. He can copy voices, but in order to copy it fully he must hear the person ask a question and make a statement. Otherwise he can only copy the voice asking a question, or only speak in the voice’s statements. He has two memory slots for voice registry. To copy a voice he must delete one. The first file is the voice he holds close as his own, so he keeps that saved and close. How do we know this? Static found out - for some reason, patience is Rhyme’s weakness. This robot is immoral and merciless, truly a chaotic neutral. When charged over 30% battery, Rhyme's voice can reach decibels of a painful 140. He betrayed Static when Static refused to share the location of a Lightning Gem artifact, locking the alpaca in their room and stealing his voice to sneak the information out of the person he was in contact with. Rhyme's reasoning for this is currently unknown. Rhyme is thought to be a crash test robot dummy from the information on his computer being revealed. He owns plushies that he made himself of Team Reason, torturing them in ways that have, in some cases, lead to foreshadowing completely unrelated-to-Rhyme events. In canon, Rhyme has dated Static, Mac, and Lotty; but he has only been a plague in the lives of Wes and Birthday.➽Mac they/them [23] - Mac is a robot built for aiding trauma victims with self care during therapy. However, when The Therapy House shut down, they were left to fend for themselves in the hell that is capitalist society. At least they can freely think now. What’s a therapy robot to do as a job? Well - obviously offer a business to strangers online to listen to their problems and offer advice. Surely this isn’t illegal - it’s all good intentioned. One customer kept coming back though, and one day, claimed they knew Mac’s location and SSN. In a panic, Mac blocked the user. However, that user was Rhyme, and Rhyme ended up dating Mac for a long while.
Mac is kind hearted, dramatic at times, and passionate about small collectable plastic animals. They had a 2yube.com channel where they would share videos of them customizing the small plastic dolls with paint. For a couple of months, Lotty ended up rooming with Mac after they met in OneMart. Before then, they knew each other online from 2yube; commenting on each other's videos and falling asleep to each other's voices. Mac had a rough history in The Therapy House with flirting with adult patients, and dating their other robot peers. A history which makes them feel guilt in the present.➽Lotty he/him [24] - A tired onion man making a living off of drawing art online. He went to college for a bit as a vet major, but ended up dropping out. It’s okay though, their job at the burger joint has been paying well. What’s the meaning of it all if not to find a happy medium away from stress? After that robot he went on a date with stole his money and valuables, surely that was a sign that he’s unlovable. Every day seems dull. But, hunting this robot down in his new friend group has brought light to his life. Maybe everything will be okay? He even gets to draw their t-shirt logos. Soon, he’ll get to run a DND session when they need a mental health break. When he’s not calming Wes down, he’s challenging everyone to fighting games - sometimes even uploading them to his lets play 2yube channel. His mother is in the hospital, and he visits her when he can.➽Wes he/him [21] - Where do we even start. What a mess. Team Reason has set up a permanent sleepover at Wes's house, agreeing to split rent amongst the 5 of them and share rooms and the couch. Wes's parents left for business, promising Wes help with house rent as long as Wes continues his church duties under Bloodwood. Wes's family is unaware of Team Reason, or the events with Rhyme. This poor ice cube man looks like he’s in his early 20s on a good day, and bordering 40 on a bad. Constantly rambling on and on about how he’s being watched by eyes, and the 'shadow' behind him, he's jumpy and paranoid, and drippy when anxious. Wes was chased by Rhyme in his first church in the past, Rhyme forcing Wes to call him God, and forcing bread and wine into Wes's mouth for reasons currently unknown. Wes was in a long term abusive situation under his first church, and Father Bloodwood. This has been going on since age 6, as Wes was forced to be an acolyte and donate the water from his ice cube head. It was revealed this water is holy water in the Eye Arc, as Wes has been prayed over at church so often. Wes learned in the Eye Arc that he is capable of freezing ice in long patterns. His brother never attended church so often, so was able to use magic on normal water. Wes had always tried, but never could. Though, after the Eye Arc events with Bloodwood, Wes was lifted of the holy water condition. Wes can now use ice magic on normal non-blessed water.➽Static he/they [26] - Static is an Alpaca who used to have a full career in rock music. He is quiet, and focuses hard on hunting Rhyme down through red string boards, newspaper articles, and boundless Word documents. Static has the eyes of an entity that watch him - though, Wes can see them as well. He had been caught in a time freeze in church while practicing preaching in the early 1900s, white figures in the empty church watched him as years passed like seconds. When he could finally escape, he was in year 2021, and the pent up electrical energy from the eye entity caused a near month long power outage in Rose City. He was the first character Rhyme dated, and the first ever person to meet Rhyme as he is. Alongside the robot, he created a successful music career in under a year with what he already had planned from his recent, yet far away, past. Static was the one to bring the group together after meeting Birthday and Bash in a city sewer where they believed Rhyme to be located at the time. Using his hands, he can charge an electrical current enough to administer a hefty shock to whoever he touches. He was told by a stranger once that the electrical magic was due to an artifact object that a member of his bloodline had touched far in the past. Static is calm, patient, considerate, and persistent. You can sometimes find him charging his phone with his hand. Many times he finds himself being the only one with his found family's collectively shared braincell.➼SIDE CHARACTERS➼
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⇢ Saplin Bloodwood he/him [???] [Father Bloodwood]: Wes's pastor in the Eye Arc. He is an extremely old Bloodwood Tree Plantfolk. When he was a young tree, he met Static in the past as Father Ampere. Static had encouraged him back then to become a priest. After Static went missing in the time leap, Bloodwood dedicated his life to keeping the church safe and learning all possible rituals to keep entities away. When he was fully in charge of the church, he used Wes for holy water donations for spell casting, manipulating Wes from age 6 and on when his family moved to the church. Wes moved churches in the Eye Arc after Static and Birthday Advised him to. Bloodwood had told Wes that his sexuality was a sin, and was still using horrid manipulation tactics to keep Wes as an acolyte and under his wing. His last sight of Wes was after an event where Wes had gone to return one last time to that church to grab his hoodie he had left behind. Bloodwood attempted to drown Wes's head in the holy water tub, causing Wes to panic and use ice magic to immobilize him. Team Reason came to the rescue later that night. Static only learned that this was the same Bloodwood he knew back then after Birthday had shown him the photo she took of Bloodwood trapped in ice.⇢ Novelle T. Lightman he/him [47]: An adult lamp object head, and magical robotics scientist. The owner of The Therapy House (that is in the present disbanded due to robot rights laws), and the creator of The Therapy Robots. He had mile long rules for the robots to follow and would not hesitate to cause one of them to go 'missing' if they crossed a line in misbehavior. He did not believe robots could be sentient, until the events of the Love Arc, where he ran a PR tumblr stunt Q&A on the blog @Light-co. Lightman is responsible for the following robots being decommissioned from TTH: Huckleberry / huck (room 333), Sugarplum / plum, Cloudberry / cloud, Watermelon / mel, and Strawberry / fields (Childcare Unit). He is being held responsible by the law, which can be read about on the legal blog: @am-law-pllc.⇢ Mang/Wick any pronouns [23]: An exiled therapy robot revealed (through Eye Arc event puzzles) to have gone missing in the late days of The Therapy House. He left a final online survey, supposedly from The Therapy House, begging for everyone to stand up for themselves and riot if he went missing that dreadful night. His wish never came true. In a recent story event, he was revealed to be in a factory where he is faintly hanging on to digital memories of who he used to be. He lived with Lightman as a house worker in the short time his memory was lost as well. The attention online from story event asks alerted Rhyme to Mang's factory location. Rhyme arrived to take Mang from that location in a 'rescue.' Mang was then able to escape, changing his name to Wick, and receiving repairs from a Cliffdrake named Shanty.Marco he/they/it [???]: A small creature Mac has been feeding outside Wes's home since the beginning of the Trauma Arc, and all through the Eye Arc. It was first revealed physically in the Mealsmith posts. It has one giant blue eye that can open as a mouth, and wears a cape-like torn attire. Its body is black with blue, almost electric-like veins that pulse with a cyan glow. It's current motives or reason for being in the story are unknown, though it seems to be connected with the phrase 'grey area.'
The Setting
❀Rose City❀
Rose City 'where your life has room to bloom' is a populated location with a high crime rate. However, the latter fact is kept under the radar. Like every large city, it is active during the day and even more active during the night. Filled with neon pink and green lights, floral street art, bars and restaurants, street food, apartments, clothing outlets, clubs, businesses, and skyscrapers, there is rarely little to do.minimum wage is 13$ an hour.
Citizens / Rules
All species are normalized and accounted for. Furries, object heads, slime monsters, robots, you name it you'll probably see it on the Rose City Streets. In this universe, robots are self thinking yet were still made to follow a purpose. Their rights are controversial because of this, but they are always payed for their work. Robots who are designed to have the identity of a child are exempt from work.
⤩Creatures exempt from the universe:⤩➽Dead entities like zombies or ghosts are considered supernatural or unearthly. Vampires are allowed, but in secret. They would not be considered a race. Same goes for werewolves if you wanna have fun with lycanthropy or vampirism when making OCs.➽Gods are not earthly. They are worshipped above, and a topic of controversy. A heavily followed religion in Rose City is Westernized Christianity.➽Humanoid shapes and Feral shapes are considered a hard line drawn when it comes to interspecies relatonships. [Ex. A minotaur that can verbally consent is allowed to be with a human, but a feral dog that can speak human tongue would be considered illegal for an android robot to date.]
✨KINNING / IDING AS / SHIPPING / SELF-SHIPPING ETC. WITH OR AS MY OCS IS A-OK!✨⚠️as long as it does not support or contain incest, pedophilia, or beastiality⚠️
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