All the plans

[mybackstory]

That gigglin' of yours is startin' to get more than just a little ominous. Not that I don't like seein' people happy, but when it's you it doesn't mean anythin' good for any of us. Or anyone else, for that matter. For the most part anyway, even if you do a handful of nice things every now and again.

Might be time that you take a break from all these ideas. You've all got that horrible list already, don't need to go addin' anymore to it yet. Maybe stop all together.


... Yeah, didn't think that'd work.

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[stayfluffy]

What's your mun giggling about?

Mine's giggling too! I asked her about it an' she said she was giggling about parades, so maybe your mun isn't giggling about anything scary either!

[Poor gullible bot]

[mybackstory]

I kinda doubt that's why they're gigglin', The Jon.

[A Jon that looks like a girl and is tiny. He has now seen everything.]

[stayfluffy]

But that's what she said!

[mybackstory]

They don't always tell us the truth, I'm afraid.

oh hey there. mind threading with a lil SPG-inspired OC? :) (ok fine she's a fanbot)

[harpstrings]

Ah...

[A wide pair of glowing blue eyes is staring up at you, the Spine.]

Are you... one of Colonel Walter's machines?

Don't mind at all (shh I was sleeping)

[mybackstory]

[Okay, now he's seen everything.

Still, there's a polite tipping of his fedora and a friendly practiced smile.]

That I am, Miss. Who would you happen to be?

YAY (it's fine lmao)

[harpstrings]

[She sinks into a preprogrammed curtsy, her joints squeaking and her old motors whining as she moves.]

Pizzicato. I was commissioned after my master heard of Colonel Walter's work.

[mybackstory]

That so? [Well, it wasn't much of a surprise. The Grandmaster's work on them had spread quite a bit, them being considered the eighth-and-a-half wonders of the world at one point.]

Well, I'm The Spine. I was built with a titanium alloy spine, [Oh, here we go. Not originally, but hey no one wants to go there.] that's kinda my backstory.

[harpstrings]

[HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF US

She giggles softly, carefully closing her porcelain-covered hands together in front of her.]

I never thought I would get to meet you... it's a pleasure.

[mybackstory]

That's a thing about this place, gettin' to meet those you'd not usually get to. [Or expect to.] 'Course, there's quite a few of us -my brothers and me- runnin' around.

[harpstrings]

I'm glad.

Is it nice... having brothers?

[mybackstory]

Sometimes. [Spine.] There's always those times when it'd be nice for some peace and quiet, but that's pretty darn hard to manage with Rabbit around.

[At least he isn't going on about how they technically aren't brothers, just robuts who shared a creator.]

[harpstrings]

... maybe, sometime, you could come visit me. It's always quiet at home.

[mybackstory]

It's a nice offer, Miss Pizzicato, but I ain't really allowed off the grounds of Walter Manor. [Pausing....] Not that this place is any better than that. [There's a straightening of his tie-] Where do you live?

[awfulsentimetal]

Does it ever work?

[Deadpan robut is deadpan.]

[mybackstory]

[He can barely hear the deadpannedness over "When You're Evil" playing in the background over here, other him.]

Once. It worked once.

[harpstrings]

Oh... that's right. When my master was home, a long time ago, he wouldn't allow me to leave, either. I'd nearly forgotten.

I live in Master's manor.

[mybackstory]

It's a precaution, really. Other than shows and the like of course.

Do you happen to know where that is? Either way you're a bit far from home.

marks this down on the list of "things I should have already thought of"

[harpstrings]

[She hesitates for a long moment before shaking her head.]

I don't know. I only came out from below to entertain guests.

[mybackstory]

... From below.

[Alright, that didn't sound good at all but there was no point in jumping to any conclusions.]

[harpstrings]

Master was afraid that thieves would take me, so I stayed downstairs and he locked the door.

[mybackstory]

That's mighty strange, but then again I'm used to havin' free roam of the manor and the HoW.

[The humans could do what they wanted, couldn't they? Considered owned property, and if they weren't seen as family who knows what things would be like.]

[harpstrings]

The Walter Manor... I've heard stories about it before, from my master's guests. Is it true strange things happen there?

[awfulsentimetal]

[His mundane thinks your mundane has good taste, Other The Spine.]

Once? That's a darn miracle from where I'm standin'!

[mybackstory]

I'm lucky I'm just in that dressin' room place, and I darn well know it.

[Theme song, best theme song ever, as named by friends, yessir.]