My default size of 2m tall is already quite large compared to most humans, but compared to one of my husbands, Jerry, I'm absolutely massive. When I do want to be on their level, I have a size reduction drive that lets me see them eye to eye.
March of Robots Day 1: Big
From the alternate universe where I'm a Tuftie instead of a scrub jay.
March of Robots Day 2: Cone
I thought that playing Balatro so much would translate to real poker. I was fooled...
March of Robots Day 3: Trick
Me and my hubbies partaking in some videoed gamery. Nothing could be more perfect than having fun with those you love.
March of Robots Day 4: Perfect
Seeing the historic Griffith Observatory from within one of the Griffith Park Gondolas that connects key parts of Griffith Park and adjacent transit. The gondolas were first opened in 2107, originally with just one pair of stops between the Observatory and Vermont / Sunset Station, now the southern terminus of the B line. They are useful for mountainous, low traffic areas like the park.
March of Robots Day 5: Park
Here I am touching up my wing's flight feathers. These translucent hard light structures are a weightless way for me to push against the air and fly.
(I totally didn't forget, lol)
March of Robots Day 6: Repair
A small portion of my HUD, highlighting my compass. It's useful for when I'm flying above the clouds to dodge the rain.
March of Robots Day 7: Compass
The historic Angel's Flight Railway in the heart of New Los Angeles, a funicular that has been in service for over 500 years. It sits adjacent to the 3rd Street Tram Tunnel and connects the Olive Hill Plaza and the Hill Grassway, and holds the record for being the shortest Railroad in the Nation of California. Despite being primarily a tourist attraction, it and the Griffith Park Gondolas are counted as Teir 4 Transit and therefore can be ridden for free by all California citizens.
March of Robots Day 8: Hill
Here I am, flying through the streets at night as I often do, likely listening to some synthwave in my head. The glow from my wings and tail make me pretty hard to miss.
March of Robots Day 9: Night
It's a gate. I don't have anything, I'm sorry.
March of Robots Day 10: Gate
There's a lot more magic* in 2429 than one would expect, but three that are particularly relevant to my life:
Shrink Drive: Allows me to change my size on a uniform linear scale from my usual stature of 2m and 200kg all the way down to a minimum of 2cm and 100g.
Portable Biomatter Reactor: Allows me consume foods in order to charge my battery, producing no organic waste product and generating heat and electricity. The most maintenance I have to do is occasionally descale it to clear out salt, iron, and other minerals that are in food.
Hard Light: It's what extends from my wings and lets me fly. Hard light protections are weightless and able to stop gasses from passing through them while solid objects are able to pass through without resistance.
*There's probably scientific explanations for all of them, but I'm not a smart enough robot bird to explain them.
March of Robots Day 11: Magic
Being able to fly gives me the ability to be alone in places that others can't reach, like the spire of Wilshire Grand Center, the third highest point in New Los Angeles.
March of Robots Day 12: Alone
I went to South Lake Tahoe for a trip last December, and despite the snow and -3°C weather, I made my way out to the beach to see Tahoe Point, a place where California borders two other countries. The water of Lake Tahoe all belongs to Cascadia, but the city of South Lake Tahoe still belongs to California, and it also sits on the border of Sierra, not too far away from Reno.
March of Robots Day 13: Frozen
Inside my body, beneath my biomatter reactor, is my internal storage bay. This allows me to swallow objects, keep them in a safe place, and recall them at will. Inside, nanite polymer (chains of nanobots suspended in viscoelastic fluid) sorts, tags, adjusts size, and moves objects to and from the entry point.
March of Robots Day 14: Cargo
Another feature that I can access with my beak is an instant film camera. There is a slot that accepts film packs at the back of my inner beak, behind the entrances to my biomatter reactor and storage bay, that accepts instant film packs. From there, I am able to take pictures of whatever I'm looking at and either spit them out or swallow them into storage.
March of Robots Day 15: Picture
I'm not someone who likes fighting, and I don't kill. Plus I live in a pretty safe part of New Los Angeles, so I don't have to worry about defending myself all that much. I do keep one self defense tool in my home, and that is a pepper gun. It fires from a pressurized can of pepper gel that expands into a foam that then solidifies and fuses itself to porous surfaces like skin. I've been told this stuff burns like hell (I wouldn't know, I'm both a robot and a bird, so capsaicin just doesn't do anything to me) and I can confirm that this will absolutely block out the optics of a robot if I can hit them in the visual sensors.
March of Robots Day 16: Weapon
The hubbies and I taking a week long trip north from New Los Angeles, California all the way through Cascadia, and into Alberta, Canada to see our Meta-hubbies. We're taking low level rail only and making several stops along the way. I mean sure, we could just take the Tier 1 Maglev from Union Station up to Chico, hop on the CasMag to Lethbridge, and be at Troy's in like 4 or 5 hours, but wheres the fun in that?
March of Robots Day 17: Quest
We never actually told our metas that we were coming, only Matty was home to greet us. Still very nice to see them.
March of Robots Day 18: Surprise
Birds are typically depicted as very graceful and elegant. I'm... not always... that.
March of Robots Day 19: Poised
It's a swing. I don't have any bigger ideas for this one, tbh.
March of Robots Day 20: Swing
You'd think being a robot would make me more tech savvy, but alas...
March of Robots Day 21: Code
This is Zheodora, another member of the hivemind that Jerry is a part of. They are indeed the ghost of a Yinglet.
March of Robots Day 22: Ghost
I've said it before, but I'm not a fighter. It takes a lot for me to actually start fighting with other people.
March of Robots Day 23: Fight
My full wingspan is much larger than my wings without the feathers extended. Now if only these hard light projections could pick up objects. Alas, solids pass right through them, and I can't really bend them like fingers anyways.
March of Robots Day 24: Reach
Archery is pretty cool, I would like to get into it if I could afford my own bow.
March of Robots Day 25: Arrow
Alli spends half the year living with his other hubbies up in Canada. Despite that, we keep well in touch with each other. One day we might have a place where everyone in our hubby chain can live together, but that's likely not going to be for a while.
March of Robots Day 26: Move
A pair of alternate bodies that I can slot my Artificial Brain Unit into should I want to.
March of Robots Day 27: Frame
I have been feeling under the weather the last couple days, so I've been below my blankets for a while.
March of Robots Day 28: Below
Big ass shell I saw at the beach one time.
March of Robots Day 29: Shell
Me walking along a long trail at one of the many parks in California.
March of Robots Day 30: Trail
And that is The March of Robots! This is the third year I've done it, (the first two have been lost to other platforms) and the most elaborate I've made my art in this challenge. It was a ton of fun and I'll gladly do it again next year.
March of Robots Day 31: Complete
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