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(The main reason I made this thread is because I love this character)


MCRAID (Marshmallow Cooking Robotic Artificial Intelligence Droid) a rogue cyborgic bot. was part of the reason that only Aekea may legal have robots. Original purpose was to use it's clawed hands to cook marshmallows, but... well... it glitched up. Badly. Most Aekeans were told it was scrapped, just so they wouldn't live in fear. Few were told the truth. It started to thirst for blood after it managed to logic that anything squishy was a marshmallow, so it went around skewering helpless victims. After it's first capture, scientists tried to fix it by implanting a donor's brain into it. However, they failed to reprogram it properly, and the human and computer brains combined together that it must destroy all things with a heart beat (marshmallows still logiced into this result, but the trained specialists have yet to decode HOW.) It went around slaying helpless victims. It was the first event where every single Gaian law agency had to get into the man hunt (Including MAGIC, as the thing was also kill members of the magical underground), and it was finally apprehended through a clever marshmallow trap. It was brought back to the lab were, do to a previously passed three-strikes rule of robotics, they tried one last attempt to fix the marshmallow roaster, by have magical runes placed to hinder it's erratic behavior. It worked, and it was placed back on its job for the first time in three years, and it continued working fine, until two months and three days later when it went ballistic, yelling "must toast marshmellows, must burn all else!" and, on the restaurant's busiest day in history, the building was burnt to the ground, the only survivor was the nutso droid, who went on another spree of blood, tears, flames, motor oil, and perfectly cooked marshmallows. For the seconded and last time in history, all agencies were forced to team up, end in the biggest showed down in Aekean history, ending with MCRAID falling from the then flaming crane.

This time, when the lab took it back, it was to scrap it. However, they met a dilemma: the organic brain, meaning if they destroyed the bot, it'd be murder, but it had hit strike three. So they did the only thing they could do: they filed the its claws blunt, kept it on sleep mode, and during the dead of night, they transported him, (as they decided to refer to him as male) to Aekea Hills, and told everyone it was taken apart and had it's remains redistributed into other projects (which is technically true: during its brain transplant, the removed parts of the computer brain was used on the eldest faktori bot). To this day, few doctor are allowed and willing to study him.

Time past, the burned restaurant was rebuilt as a bookstore ("Moonlit Reading" maybe it's cursed?), but MCRAID remains, ranting on and on about marshmallows, s'mores, and open flames. At nights, some claim they hear him scream "must toast marshmallows, must burn all else!"

name: Bananaman

age: 33

story: Bananaman has no other aliases or a previous past. He resides in aekea mental health facility after a botched attempt at vigilantism by trying to fly. He had jumped off the top of the crane eagle spread, but plummeted down and slammed face first into a police possum. Miraculously he survived without a scratch, only to be admitted to the mental health facility for observation. originally referred to as John C Doe, He insisted on being called Bananaman.

This isn't so much of a story as it is a sort of guideline so I don't have to be all of the police bots all the time, but yeah. Here goes.


The police bots of Aekea were built in a time when there wasn't so much that threatened the city other than petty theft and Liam's issues with indecent exposure. Because of this, they were built with the mentality of a friendly neighborhood cop so that they might get to know the citizens and put them at peace. However, the creator thought it would be a nice touch to given them certain classic police officer quirks so that the people and robots of Aekea could both trust and accept the new police force.

This means that almost all of the basic droids are walking stereotypes. Think Danny from Hot Fuzz. They love their job, want to to everything they can, but they'll halt at the sight of a delicious pastry and are generally just kind of incompetent. They're the nicest bots you'll ever meet, of course, it's just that their work ethic leaves a little to be desired. Aekea is full of the "good cops", with a very rare "bad cop" stereotype thrown into the mix for the interrogation drones.

The bots all have names consisting of the last three digits of their serial number. These currently range from 006-842, but there are only about 25 drones total. The bots are not well equipped for combat, but do have a basic laser sidearm. They fold easily and sometimes glitch to the point of disrepair, but nobody has ever taken the initiative to revamp the whole system, and as such they have stayed as they are. They are easily replaced, as their creator actually filled a small warehouse (all bots up to 999 have already been created) with police bots as a reserve in case the whole force was eliminated repeatedly. Usually only 20-30 are in circulation at any time, but the chief can activate more if needed.

While they are very similar, no two bots are identical. They all have their own quirks, and you can feel free to make up a bot currently in rotation as long as he/she is still very "buddy cop"-esque. Pictured is the standard uniform, but most bots deviate a little from the norm to distinguish themselves (thing labtechs, elftechs.... you get the idea).