>>1098479
dammit you're so right it's definitely body trying to figure out godhood and I cant believe it wasnt obveous to me earlier

Body does love anime after all, and this quest is called shonen quest, soooo...

>>1098482
I cant think of a better use for the timewinder if this is what she wants.

I hope we dont get the evangelion ending.

Even as the truth is remembered, even as the creator's memories come flooding forth, even as our transience is laid bare... My existence is defined! These memories shall not swallow me!
I am Kentaro- Seeker of Truth, Unwitting Hero, Brother of Kage, and Lover of Pinch!

tippler 2024/10/13(Sun)06:27 No. 1098569 ID: c1a22b
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>REMEMBER
You close your eyes and put all your focus into your skin. The Creator is there, like a faint layer of paint. They’ve always been there. You know their name.

An image of a trio of cats sitting together on a couch blooms into your consciousness. The one in the middle has patchy brown fur and flat yellow teeth. They look like Daki. Ha, what a funny coincidence, you even named your nub creation after them, in a way.

You: Body. Body Lewis.

Kage: Yes. Hello Kentaro.

It all makes sense, the homunculi are based on cartoon characters from Body’s favorite shows, the cat ascended to godhood with the help of two parental space amoeba, and the new god is currently working on their powers. Understandable that a being of such magnitude needs to make sure everything is working properly, especially when it comes to creating life.

Unlike Kage or even Rattus, you don’t have any trouble staying secure in your identity as Kentaro. You’re a seeker of truth, a lover, a friend, and a scientist! Also you’re not part magic printer, which probably helps.

Pinch: Now you’re making that funny noise too.

You: Pinch, c’mon, you’ll get it! Think about Jadis and Kibble and Saul and Mary.

Pinch: I’m hearin’ a whole lotta static out of your mouth.

You: They turned into a robot and worked at a gas station, the highlight of their life.

Pinch Hmmmmmmmmm…OH MY GOD.

tippler 2024/10/13(Sun)06:27 No. 1098570 ID: c1a22b
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>Use the Timewinder spell on Kage
While Pinch deals with her revelations, you take the orb from your pocket and hold it out to your best friend.

You: Kage, do you think this will help you go back to normal? I don’t want to lose you.

Kage: Huh, I didn’t think of that. I’ll still remember, but it should work otherwise.

Magic makes more sense too. You crack open the spell and Kage is covered in smoke to hide whatever sleight of hand that’s going on. Timewinder reads some internal homunculi construction slash change log and reverts physical alterations with a secret, self-consuming printer. This should rewrite whatever changed when Kage got zapped.

Ha! The fusion spell just stuck you and Pinch in a pocket space and created a whole new body for Kench while no one could see anything through the haze. Sneaky and much more to your logical liking.

Kage does seem more lively and a bit confused when the spell ends, and you give her a big hug. She snuggles against Pinch while you pace, deep in thought.

You also know what’s in the other hub rooms now. Apart from Body’s quarters there’s a lab for making and coding brains and a debug holding cell for studying things like Kage and the sentient printer. Luckily Kage didn’t trigger whatever magic security protocol that puts beings there, otherwise it’d be hard to get her out.

The hub space itself is a secure pod of composite material suspended somewhere in Body’s enormous mass. The gravity is lower because it’s in space, while the sub rooms are pocket dimensions with earth-like conditions. It would have hypothetically been possible to cut or burrow your way out of the pod, but then you would have been sucked into space with no way to call for help.

Cerebrum would have taken control of the meat Body in the pod and gained whatever executive power that came with it. You’re not exactly sure what he could have done to avoid getting caught but you guess you’ll never know. It would have left you at his mercy so you’re still glad you didn’t choose that option.

As for Daki, you expect she’d turn into a Body copy with only light stimulus. You’re not sure what to do with her.

What’s your endgame?
A. Get all of the homunculi together to end the experiment (you’ll press the button once you’re ready)

B. Live your life with your loved ones (don’t press the button and wait for the Creator to show up in a long, long time)

C. Find Body in their quarters (you can talk to them without worrying about everyone else)

>>1098569
This explains a lot.

C) You may think you have an eon to play around before the next stage of Body's design. But Body is a newborn goddess; if she's having trouble staying motivated, she might collide into a meteor on accident, getting you all killed. There's also the matter of her birth planet, you can't just wait around until they all blow themselves up.

>>1098570
B. You have learned the Truth. The whole truth. Your great quest is complete. Use what you know about nub science to help fix those who were damaged, so that everyone can enjoy their time together.

... Maybe someday we could even patch Cerebrum up and replace the blue printer sauce with less dangerous nub juice to make him a normal boy. With no printer magic, his powers shouldn't work.

C, offer to help, at this point you know a godlike creature made you and your actions unwittingly were in the direction of help

Might as well go towards the realm of active and constructive help, heck, maybe bodyll be excited to hear of a homunculus that refused the call to murder the Creator, or maybe they'll be disappointed you didn't decide to fight and kill god like all animes wanted to do.


Tho the power of friendship is cooler.

Also just to point it out do you SEE how close we were to becoming Jadis and making a body 2.0 with daki

Literally this would have been stares at explosions all over again (or whatever the series was called)

C. If there’s anything you know about yours- Body, it’s that they could always use more friends. You can chill with her in a giant space bachelor pad, and hm maybe you should let her know the Girlstown button was broken. She might want to check in on that, things got a little ugly.

Also, with regards to Daki, let's see if she can develop into her own homunculus like you and Kage without forcing the Body template to the surface. Maybe there's a spell that can help shape her (to have eyes, ears, etc) without giving her that push over the edge, as it were. If not, that's still plan B, she doesn't have to spend her whole life as a lumpy pillow.

Why can't we do both C and B?

The Creator is on this long journey as well. She must be lonely.

Why not ask if she'd like to make herself a Homunculus Body and come hang out with us?

There's plenty of time, after all.

C+B, we just wanna talk to the dude.

C, it's been so long since we've seen Body (as suggestors)

C) check in with mom. Since whatever experiment they were running has gone quite off the rails, you should coordinate on what to do next.

>>1098580
I like this.

Its c hoping to follow with b for everyone.

Finding a way for everyone to live and get along is one solid anime ending.
Another would be teenagers fighting god.

tippler 2024/10/15(Tue)13:06 No. 1098624 ID: c1a22b
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>C, check in and present your side of the story
You know Body as well as you know yourself, and you bet they’re pretty lonely as a solo meat person. Waiting around for a call for help that never comes while isolated in the abyss wouldn’t be fun for anyone, even a homunculus. While you’d get more unsupervised time if you waited for their eventual arrival, this way you can prevent any other accidents, interference, and opportunities to piss off the injured homunculi.

You: Let’s go find Body’s area and explain things right away.

Pinch: You’re not afraid we’ll get zapped? Even if Body’s nice they’re still gonna feel guilty about the experiment going wrong.

You: If they haven’t figured out how to cope with inevitable errors in a highly complex system, then they’re going to have a hard time being a god. Even Saul and Mary had their processes on earth do things that weren’t intended.

Pinch: Ach, you’re right. Come over here for a second.

You’re pulled into a tight hug with Kage and Pinch and even Daki.

Pinch: I feel like I wanna say something dumb about how I’m glad we had this adventure and how I love you guys but I’m not going to. It’s been good.

You: It’s not over yet, let’s go find Body! After we hug a bit more of course.

Once you’ve had your fill, Kage lifts everyone back into the hub space and flies around trying to find the right pocket space entrance. Eventually she slices her sword against air to reveal the inside of a giant closet, complete with a few untouched coats and cardboard boxes. The TV is on in the other room.

>Body awake check: Failure
The giant doorknob takes some coordination from Pinch to open before you creep out on real synthetic carpet. Wow, you can really feel your size in this apartment with its cavernous doorways and giant furniture.

The enormous, artificially shadowy presence of the Creator is laid out before you on the sofa in front of the television, which of course is playing anime. Your sharp ears pick up the rhythmic beat of their heart, the brush of breath in their lungs. They don’t react until Pinch pokes them firmly on the cheek.

tippler 2024/10/15(Tue)13:06 No. 1098625 ID: c1a22b
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Body: Bwehh?!

They lurch upright with a clatter of old takeout boxes. Pinch hisses on instinct and crouches low on the back of the couch while Kage takes flight.

You: Uh, behind you.

Body twists to look at your little crew, blue eyes piercing through the magic haze over their face. They immediately look horrified.

Body: How did you get here? And wait–you’re not any of the homunculi I designed. Oh, this is bad…

You’re all lifted into the air like how Cerebrum seized Kench, and the noise of the TV shuts off. The binding isn’t as tight, so you take Pinch’s hand and she stops frantically wiggling as much.

Body: Did you suffer, at all? Did anyone get hurt? Why didn’t someone press the button and let me know?

They knead their forehead with their fist. You give them a moment to keep ranting.

Body: At least none of you seem to be me, but I was really anxious about this experiment going wrong and now it looks like it definitely has. Dammit, why did I think I’d be different from Jadis? It wouldn’t have been a clean experiment if I just had surveillance on the whole time, but I didn’t think things would get messed up so fast. Mom and dad are going to have to come in and figure out what went wrong. I thought I isolated the parts pretty well.

You can understand why Body is so upset given their own origin as a hapless experiment. Clearly they didn’t want to put anyone through the same hardship.

What do you say to Body?

Hey. Calm down, it's okay. We're okay. Things don't always go according to plan. The beautiful thing about life is that it can adapt. A wise man once said there are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.

>>1098625
So, literally moments after you left the printer in Boysville experienced a sapient awakening to the joy of creation and made us and Kage.
Then it started to feel afraid for its 'children' and that you might destroy them for being glitches in the experiment. We've been searching for the truth of our existence while doing our best to keep our fellow rogues from causing too much damage, like our cute fuzzy girlfriend Pinch here.

Also, Mura in Girltown got her hands on a sword and went completely off the rails, destroying their button so they couldn't call for help. We stopped her rampage, but they're in a really bad situation over there.

>Suffering
Uh
Boysville is doing mostly okay, but Girltown is definitely experiencing some PTSD.

You didn’t fail. The experiment was to see if this would happen, and it did! So as long as you learn from it, it’s a success.
To start at the beginning, the printer became self aware, and in its hazy panic, started making more homunculi to think of an escape plan. It didn’t know what was going on, so it did the only thing it could. Some plans were more desperate than others, but we tried to stop people getting hurt as much as we could.
So, we left Boystown to find a new place to live. Everyone's getting along now in Boystown, including some more of us. But, we had to put one of ours to sleep because he wanted to kill you. And he could do this floaty stuff, too, so things could have gotten bad. First place we found was Girlstown, and their leader didn't like us, so... things did get a little bad there. We tried to fix it as much as we could, but their button is broken.
And in Boystown, they didn't press it because we asked them not to. We didn't know how you'd react until we remembered who you were.

>>1098625
Thankyou for making us.
You may not have meant to but to us that mistake is everything.
we've found friends, love and happiness.
Some things were hard, some painful but all of it worthwhile for the good that came from it.

Were here to ask you to let the experiment run. Even if things didnt go as planned.
Theres so much to still do.
Maybe youll learn things from the unexpected events.
Maybe we can even come to help you here in the experiments and who knows, maybe even beyond them

Mom, it's alright. There were plenty of challenges but we rose to them all.

First, we may be Rogues, but we've managed to integrate ourselves into the community!
There are other rogues too, but we intercepted them and were able to bring them into the community as well! Well, except for the final rogue... We had to put him down... He had the desire and capability to dominate your mind. We couldn't let that happen. His empty shell is still around if you'd like to inspect him.

One of your hand made girls in girltown went mad with power and started killing everyone over there. We were able to stop her and patch everyone up. I still need to go over there with some nubs to complete the healing process, though. They'll also need lots of love, they seemed pretty traumatized...

As for the three of us, well... We know everything. We have your memories. However, between our own strength of will and the treasures you left us, we were able to maintain our own egos!

Things haven't been perfect Mom, but we're all still happy to be alive and here together, and it's all thanks to you!

With all that said, now for the reason we came here...
We can't stand to see you all alone for this near eternity it will be in this place!

Even if you're a god now, it's still friends that make life worth living!
Make yourself a Homunculus sized avatar and come hang out with us! Whether you choose to come as you are or wear a disguise, I'm sure everyone will be happy to meet you!

What's important isn't whether you anticipated everything that could go wrong and prevented it, but what you do now that it has.

>>1098635
"Ratio is still a dick though."

We've helped to minimize the damage. Just don't, like... smite us, or something.

Yo Body anime is real.
Things are pretty ok. Some people did get hurt but that's how the show goes. And I think everything will be good now. Don't beat yourself up for not creating it all "perfect." We're alive and it rules.

The difference between you and Jadis is you actually thought about test subject safety. But on the topic of lessons learned, maybe Madoka was a risky template to use for this.

You may have made some experiments that failed, but some experiments you made, like us, can fix it too. And since we have your memories, we can be more efficient in fixing things. Overall, things are fine over here, we found love within the imperfections

tippler 2024/10/17(Thu)19:37 No. 1098711 ID: c1a22b
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>Reassure her
You: It’s okay Mom–

Body: Uh I don’t know if I like you calling me that. I mean, it’s not untrue but I just don’t think of myself as a parent. Ah you know what, it’s fine.

You: Mother dearest, I think the situation is fairly stable! Don’t beat yourself up for not creating everything perfectly the first time. Me and the other rogue homunculi–those are the ones that came from the sentient Boysville printer–have been working to minimize the damage. There’s a few things I can think of that could use your attention, but nothing urgent.

Body: Like what?

You: Well our printer created some weapons that can cut homunculi, so a few people have been injured and when Kage’s sword fell into the hands of Girltown I think they had some kind of rebellion and Mura hurt a lot of her friends. There’s emotional trauma, but we patched everyone’s wounds so at least they’re alive.

Body: Yeah…I noticed you seem to have a thing for that. Reminds me of an old friend.

You: I’m not like Jadis because I actually thought about test subject safety. Oh also we have your memories but we were able to maintain our own egos because we’re awesome. Being alive is amazing and fun and we’re really grateful that we had the chance to experience it.

Body does a guilty side-eye and you hurry on with your explanation so she doesn’t have time to decide you shouldn’t exist.

You: Everyone’s getting along in Boysville but we had to take out one of the rogues who wanted to mind control you to escape. He could use magic and seemed sketchy, his body’s still lying around in the school. The original homunculi didn’t press the button when we appeared because we asked them not to, because we were scared you would destroy us for being glitches.

Another guilty side-eye. The lack of subtlety would be endearing if it didn’t make you nervous about your survival.

You: Um, we can help you fix things. I’ve had lots of practice at sewing and we’ve learned a lot about homunculi construction. If–If you’re lonely here you should make a homunculus form and come hang out with us in Boysville.

Body: Thanks for the information. I’m going to go talk to everyone else and sort things out. Wait here.

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You don’t even blink and suddenly Body is in a different position, standing by the couch instead of sitting. Kage squawks with indignation.

Kage: Hey my sword’s gone!

Pinch: And my pincer!

Body: Sorry, I wanted to collect all of the weapons at once.

You: Were we just unconscious?

Body: Yeah, sorry, better than making you wait while stuck in the air like this. I still have to take precautions.

They run their hand over their narrow ears.

Body: Based on what everyone else said you were pretty much telling the truth, which I appreciate. After I repaired all the injuries I took the printer to the lab and secured all of the dimensional holes a lot better. I hope I’m not scaring you too bad because I’m really grateful you didn’t decide to mind control me. Are you sure all you want is to stay in Boysville until I end the experiment?

FINAL CHOICE:
A. Yes (live out the rest of your days as a homunculus)
B. No (ask for you, Kage, and Pinch to go to earth as meat people)

Ask Kage and Pinch if they want to go and be meat. If they overwelmingly want to then do that

I'm a little confused on if body will be hanging out in boysville with us if we decide to stay until the experiment is over. Because we did offer to hang and vibe, so maybe ask if she wants to hang out and if the answer is no, go be meat!

You mean, we really could escape? ...Ultimately, it's what we were created to do. If it's just us three, then maybe we should bring back a bit of Body to Earth. We could see what new anime has come out.

>>1098712
Whats the meatworld like?
I mean, it doesnt have magic i bet. Or all those cool people body created.
Heck.
Youd miss them.
Maybe even raito in some weird way.
I say stay with all your friends.

Could there be some tubes between the domes? Maybe some new places to explore over time?
Could body maybe sometimes sneak in as a homonculi and hang out?
Please?
Its pretty awesome in there.

>>1098712
Yeah, I think A would be better.
Leaving was the printer's dream for us. It was never really ours', was it?

Also tease Kage into asking Craw out, she totally ended up single while the nerd found a cute gf.

B but only if the others agree to go too. You'll find happiness wherever you are as long as you have them.

A, lets continue helping people in this little world.

But let Kage and Pinch decide for themselves

>>1098721
Yes.
Pinches choice would kinda inform ours too thinking about it.

Im still thinking kentaro could help a lot of homieculi here and maybe find something he wants, not just the in built in urge to escape.
Maybe be of help to body too.
Everyone needs someone around.
Even for the little things.

Friendship is one of the elemental forces of anime after all.

Hey I get that the printing thing attempted to do bad things. Like mostly making cerebrum but it just didn't want to die. So punish it if needed but don't kill it please? Just like, show it that diplomacy would have worked better than paranoid attempts to deal with you and your world?

I wonder if Printer-senpai would want to be incarnated as a homunculi or meat person.

>>1098733
oh man if staying and incarnating printer-sempai is an option that would be hilarious to see

Yes, meat is just weird

B!

Honestly, while I'm content enough to stay... The meat world I've seen in your memories looks awesome! It would be cool to be able to make some memories of my own there! Being the free spirits that they are, I bet Kage and Pinch feel the same, right guys?

That said, I just wanna reiterate that you're doing great! You don't need to feel guilty about your mistakes here, but that you do means you're still a good person! The power of godhood would consume most people, but not you. You're amazing!

Just don't spend this whole journey alone, ok? Experiment or no, you've made yourself quite the family here. Take some time to enjoy their company. Sure, the experiment will need to end eventually, and they will cease to be. Becoming attached will make that time hurt when it comes, but I really do think it'll be worth it!

Finally...
Could you float us closer?
I'd like to give you a hug...

tippler 2024/10/19(Sat)19:02 No. 1098773 ID: c1a22b
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>Deliberation
From your memories of Body’s life you can see the appeal of being meat. Delicious food, sleep and sexual pleasure, the excitement of an ever changing world. But those joys come with the tradeoff of pain, illness, and suffering. There’ll be uncertainty if you become meat, not to mention you still have your personal distaste of the substance. You should ask your friends what they think. Daki is conspicuously absent after Body’s clean up sweep.

You: Pinch, Kage, do you have a preference for staying here or asking to be made animals like Body?

Pinch: I want to stay with you.

Kage: Yeah, if we stick together I’ll be happy. Meat world sounds fun but there’s lots to do here too. It’s your choice.

You: Body, would you be able to come with us if we went to earth?

Body: I’d love to but I’m not ready yet, just look at what happened. I don’t want to cause an apocalypse by accident.

You: Hey, you don’t need to feel guilty because we all make mistakes. You’re still a good person despite your overwhelming power, and that’s really impressive!

Body gives you a withering look but doesn’t rebuff your attempt to cheer them up.

>A
Becoming meat would be a true escape from this place, like what the printer wanted for the rogues, but you would miss your other friends. There’s a lot you can do to help Body with her experiments and loneliness if you stay. Remaining a homunculus gives you a more concrete purpose, though you do have a couple more requests.

You: Body, I’d like to stay in Boysville. Before you send us back there, could you please give yourself and our printer-senpai homunculus forms? I want to hang out with you guys! We can have fun together.

Body: I’ll see what I can do.

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This time when you wake up it’s a graceful, gradual return to consciousness. You’re lying in the grass in the Boysville park next to your beloved Pinch and best friend Kage, flanked by Wallace and Craw. You sit up and see that Body in giant form is sitting on the edge of the turf with all of the other rogues and homunculi clustered at their feet. One of them resembles Cerebrum, but normal size with two thin pointed ears.

You stand and embrace Craw and Wallace in a powerful bro hug. The bird grunts in surprise and you notice Wallace’s scythe has been replaced with a normal arm.

Craw: Hey dude. Cool that you’re still here. I guess it all worked out, huh?

Wallace: It wouldn’t have been possible with your passion, Kentaro. You have brought peace and understanding between the rogues and the Creator! They will visit us every day from now on and make sure we don’t run out of fun things to do.

There’s a light breeze that makes the flowers sway. You gaze at the bright blue sky that bleeds into the natural dull gray of the pocket space. This is your home.

Thanks for reading.

>>1098774
thanks for the good quest tiipler!

>>1098774
Thankyou for the journey.
friendship, hot blooded determination, romance, occasional violence and confronting god!
Just like in my meatworld animes

>>1098774
Maybe the real anime was the friends we made along the way

Aw, a happy ending, delightful

A good ending for all!
Huzzah!