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Apparently I have OCs now, lol.

These two I’ve been doodling the most are Three Rivers and the Administrator (AKA Mini), who basically spawned out of faffing around in a giant doc of iterator headcanons trying to work out how an “off the string” scenario could be done with my particular headcanon interpretations of iterators and their puppets, which lead to my brain basically making up a guy as an ideas mouthpiece, lol.

Three Rivers is an iterator who manages to eventually remove their own taboos (and later goes off the string) via a very risky and roundabout plan:

Reassign abandoned citizen ID drones to a bunch of reasonably intelligent organisms

Do this enough times to establish the minimum number of “citizens” needed to revive a specific voting council
Have the “citizens” vote in a (rigged) election to promote one trusted organism (in this case, a personally selected and hand raised slugcat - that’s Mini!) to the rank of Junior Administrator (Senior admin requires tougher credentials for approval, unfortunately)
Get your new Junior Administrator to disable the basic antivirus security and administer a homemade taboo-erasing retrovirus into your systems! Preferably foolproof this step as much as possible so even a slugcat with limited understanding of iterator technology can still carry it out effectively.
The security system flags your new administrator for “suspicious behavior” and “genetic ID mismatch” partway through the infection process, puts the rest of the facility into lockdown, and demands senior admin access to restore basic functionality
Uh
Whoops
That wasn’t supposed to happen–

Ironically, TR wasn’t even trying to get “off the string” at the time - she just wanted to be able to upgrade and maintain her own facility beyond what her own very limited system privileges allowed her, and the whole mobile puppet thing was kind of an afterthought? But once half the structure stopped cooperating and the inspectors kept trying to kill her little administrator, well… there were only so many options left.

So, using what limited resources they still had control over, they made a traveling puppet (yay self-modification!) and ditched their failing structure to set off out into the world, followed by a small entourage of slugcats and scavengers. The others don’t have designs yet, but I feel like that would be a whole post all on its own, lol...

Description

Apparently I have OCs now, lol.

These two I’ve been doodling the most are Three Rivers and the Administrator (AKA Mini), who basically spawned out of faffing around in a giant doc of iterator headcanons trying to work out how an “off the string” scenario could be done with my particular headcanon interpretations of iterators and their puppets, which lead to my brain basically making up a guy as an ideas mouthpiece, lol.

Three Rivers is an iterator who manages to eventually remove their own taboos (and later goes off the string) via a very risky and roundabout plan:

Reassign abandoned citizen ID drones to a bunch of reasonably intelligent organisms

Do this enough times to establish the minimum number of “citizens” needed to revive a specific voting council
Have the “citizens” vote in a (rigged) election to promote one trusted organism (in this case, a personally selected and hand raised slugcat - that’s Mini!) to the rank of Junior Administrator (Senior admin requires tougher credentials for approval, unfortunately)
Get your new Junior Administrator to disable the basic antivirus security and administer a homemade taboo-erasing retrovirus into your systems! Preferably foolproof this step as much as possible so even a slugcat with limited understanding of iterator technology can still carry it out effectively.
The security system flags your new administrator for “suspicious behavior” and “genetic ID mismatch” partway through the infection process, puts the rest of the facility into lockdown, and demands senior admin access to restore basic functionality
Uh
Whoops
That wasn’t supposed to happen–

Ironically, TR wasn’t even trying to get “off the string” at the time - she just wanted to be able to upgrade and maintain her own facility beyond what her own very limited system privileges allowed her, and the whole mobile puppet thing was kind of an afterthought? But once half the structure stopped cooperating and the inspectors kept trying to kill her little administrator, well… there were only so many options left.

So, using what limited resources they still had control over, they made a traveling puppet (yay self-modification!) and ditched their failing structure to set off out into the world, followed by a small entourage of slugcats and scavengers. The others don’t have designs yet, but I feel like that would be a whole post all on its own, lol...