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Nerdy the Artist’s Murder Drones Fanfiction Spotlight!

Welp, it’s finally here! Sorry if this is a long time coming, or that this is shorter than expected. Nintendo has started to show more of Metroid Prime 4, and so my brainrot over Metroid has been reignited. Never the less, here it is! Following in the footsteps of my Metroid Fanfiction Spotlights, I am now going to be highlighting several fanfictions I have read that I believe are worth your time. I tend to focus on in depth storytelling and character exploration, but there may be an exception to that. In any case, these are in no particular order, though they will largely just be in the order I find them in.

1. Intermission

Link: https://youtu.be/VKzv_3q_b8E?si=8dbsFUpev2taOp5D

How could I make a post about Murder Drones fan stories without bringing up Intermission? This a fan episode of Murder Drones set between episodes 4 and 5, dealing with the aftermath of Uzi’s corruption from the Absolute Solver and further setting up Cyn and the past of the Murder Drones. The video is done as a well animated storyboard, with great sfx work and riveting voiceover performances. It even has its own soundtrack! The story isn’t perfect, but I do recommend watching it between Cabin Fever and Home, as it breaks up the breakneck pacing of that stretch of the show. There is also voice actors in this episodes also do a great job. Their impressions are ok at best, but the amount of emotion they bring to their roles is astounding. V, in particular, benefits immensely from this episode, getting center stage in much of the episode, and the nuanced and varied emotions for her character are delivered perfectly, showcasing her manic and tender sides in depth. If you wish you had more V, look no further than Intermission. I know most of you will have watched Intermission by now, but there for the new people to the series, go watch this incredible project.

2. Forgive and Forget. Forgive and… Forget.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61109395/chapters/156137086

Forgive and Forget is a fic that gyrates between cute and disturbing at an unpredictable interval. As of writing this, the author, Kiwi11, has gotten 9 chapters of this story out. It follows V as she wakes up aboard the Disassembly Drone transport ship. Due to some programming faults, she ends up being the only one in the group to remember their past, the Elliot Manor, Tessa, and a few small traces of memory of a certain fourth worker drone. There’s a lot of tech explanations of the ins and outs of the Worker and Disassembly Drones that I just eat up. There is also a lot of attention paid to the sort of secondary personalities the trio has. The ruthless obsession with company goals isn’t J’s coping mechanism in this or a sincere belief, it’s an intrusive split personality that takes over during moments of stress, making her more ruthless to even the people she cares about. I’ll leave it at that to keep you guys safe from spoilers. While this story isn’t finished, I can already say confidently it is worth a read.

3. Onions

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61979827/chapters/158492584

Onions is, at its core, a sort of What If type of rewrite of Murder Drones, centered around one specific change; what if V found Uzi first instead of N? However, this isn’t just some halfassed excuse to write Vuzi Fanfiction. There is genuine creativity on display from nyhll. Firstly, things don’t play out quite the same as in the show. The changes are subtle, chains of events that wind up causing further changes down the road. One such occupance is from the scene where the Murder Drones find one of their own having gotten past the first and second bunker doors. As V doesn’t respond to the whole company schtick and dangling of trinkets, V isn’t given the “branded peeeeeeeeen” and thus Uzi doesn’t have it for the 2v2, causing the fight to go much worse, as well as the railgun getting destroyed in episode 1 rather than episode 2. Additionally, there are additional chapters set in between the corresponding episodes, adding extra depth to characters like Doll and Kahn. It is absolutely worthy of your time for that alone. But also… the whole vampire romance thing is played up here much more. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it for that as well. You’ll find my partners laughing at me in the notes.

4. Experiment

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63463585

Many of the stories here are rather long (or will be once they are finished), so how about a little one shot for a change of pace? This story, written by Kenns02, tackles a particular oddity of the Absolute Solver; it can regenerate clothes, like N’s hat. This fun little fic display the main cast testing to see the extent of that ability, as well as its imperfections. It’s a fun short thing to read when you’ve got a minute to spare.

Decided to draw V today. I still haven’t quite cracked the code on her hair, but I’m getting there.

Had this sped up audio of my friend ranting about Lunchly for a while now. Someone brought up the idea of this being Uzi ranting about JCJenson and I just had to draw it. She went a little obsessive in the bunker. Also N likes his oil drippy, brah.