She is soooo good... oh Strype. Nice work! And i'm happy to see her finally :D

Not butthole, due to no need for a superfluous feature.

Your talent for applying technology to aesthetic design is sheer poetry!

Cool!

I’m kind of lost about her breasts hold laser emitters. Her boobs shoot lasers? How does it work?

The same way they worked for any given giant robot in the 90s - titty blaster barrage.

The only one I’ve seen was from Digimon Tamers/Season 3 where Wargrowlmon has two atomic laser cannons on his chest or ‘breasts’ if you call them.

Hmm... I doubt Strype use laser emitters as blasters or any weapon, she is maintenance sythetic. Maybe the lasers in breasts are asthetics: light shows, holographic projections?

Still, why does Strype put lasers in her breasts? Why not other places on her body?

It's more of a defensive laser. Not particularly high-yield, but useful at close ranges. Generally they're used to blind enemies (cuz you know they'll look as soon as that shirt flies up) or cause escalating damage up close if an attacker continues to be a threat.

Also, fucking LASER TIDDIES, man. That's fun as hell

That is hilarious.
So basically, as Strype lift her shirt and boob lasers activate, some unfortunate creep will get more than they asked for.

Booby traps.

Sorry for asking much. Does each breast shoots one or many beam? Lasers are straight lines. So the more beams, the more effective when the beams scatter all directions like electronic discoball.

Thankfully lasers are pretty easy to aim, so a single, efficient beam from each boob is probably what we're lookin at here

Fascinating.


Although, who and why would anyone want to mess with a 7-foot and 325 pound Synthetic with industrial strength?

Me. 👀

nah, i'm too shy for that. eheh

SOLAR FLARE!

The best kind of barrage.

Metal Gear Kitteh.

Just amazing hon! Always love your full body work, glad to see more of it :)

Gaaaahh this is SO GOOOOODDDD. Always adore seeing Strype in any shape or form!

That's a good robobobo.

I for one welcome our synthetic overlords :3

By square pupils, are we talking like, goat style?

Like so https://www.dropbox.com/s/tg85oft2l.....eEyes.JPG?dl=0

So, was she previously alive and uploaded her consciousness into this cybernetic body? Is the organic one still alive? Does she consider herself the same person or a different person? Can she be legally recognized as a person considering she's not technically alive? If her "brain" was destroyed, does she have a copy of it backed up?

All of this backstory is getting me all hot and bothered.

Yes, previously alive and meaty. The conversion process substituted all the cells in the brain to synthetic ones over a two week period, concious through it all, then that synthetic brain was transplanted into a synthetic body. Still the same person, same conscious experience in the same sense that you're the same person you were a decade ago despite all of the atoms that comprise you having been substituted out by intake of newer material. It's just a bit faster and more.... noticeable.

I find that terrifying. What happened to the body? Was it just incinerated, or was there a proper burial? Does she ever wake up, and realize there's no heart in her chest or (necessary) breath in her lungs? All of that existential horror she can't even feel from the lack of tiny minute emotions people feel day to day. Imagine, looking at yourself in the mirror the first time, and missing the wrinkles, freckles and scars that made you who you are. Knowing in your original body your heart would have been pounding and your throat seized as you looked down and saw a stranger's hands in place of your own, and seeing a stranger's face in the mirror. That's horrifying to think that someone could have this forced upon them, and their identity lost in a sea of strangers.

While I admit I don't think it'd be something suitable for everybody, and it might be a traumatic thing for some, for others like myself, I would imagine it'd be alright, especially if it's not too different from the original. Doing from human to, like, a box with wheels might be a bit more stressful in most cases.

There's people out there who've had heart transplants, or even artificial hearts (short term, currently) and it doesnt seem to have caused any psychological damage that I've heard of. In Strype's case, it was completely voluntary (and I'd personally do it too if the option was available to me), they even did a lot of design work for the new bodies. The old body was cremated and compressed into a gem, and installed inside the chest (and easily retrieved, currently in the F-Chassis chest). As for emotions, the neurons still have the same connections and mapping as the organic, and form new connections just like organics do, while a module in the brain simulates the chemicals responsible for emotions, in order to continue feeling and behaving "normally". with some optimizations to cut out neurochemical issues like depression.

For Strype, this is far from existential horror. This is a straight-up upgrade. In abilities, durability, convenience, cuts out some of the pointless limitations and issues that came with their meat body, and to a certain extent matches who they are as a person a lot closer than being organic ever did.

To each his own I suppose. You step into the future, all shiny and chome, and I shall bathe in the shadows of the past.

You know, I never really understand people who have some..... very heavy attachment to the meat they were born in.

With how heavily the body grows and dies at a cellular level, We're all in an ever-rebuilding ship of Theseus as it is. While sure we don't know how a human mind would react to synthetic input we make scifi that has that be answered with "exactly like meat anyway"

...Then again, it actually took me a while to realize post humanism was 1: not a standard thing people seriously thought about as a kid and 2: controversial.

I like that gem idea btw! I'd never actually made that connection in your art. But I try to avoid the thought of Kos dying to make K05. <_< I need to get around to drawing the two of them together to cure that.

a body of flesh is special because it is unique, like a painter's work of art, our body replaces the cells but they are the same because they have all of the old ones. a synthetic body is a bad copy

Swinging in 3 years later with an interestingly simple view of the topic.

You have no cells from the body you were born in alive now. Your body itself has no shred of the original existence. Living meat is a bad copy of itself that degrades with age.
Would a bilogically cloned body still be unique then?

Custom made synthetic bodies would literal instead of metaphorical works of art, no?
Keep in mind Strype is trans. A snythetic body gives access to a more authentic presentation of the person in it. The idea of copying the original body isn't the point.

that is why a body of flesh is special and unique, it will never be a bad copy of it. with a synthetic body I can make thousands and thousands of copies of it and it no longer has its essence.

So just ignoring the clone question, I see.

Also, what essence are you talking about?

the pleasure of living and facing everything that life gives us, things that you cannot experience by becoming a synthetic copy. Losing eternity is
not a bad thing in the end, being able to realize oneself in that time of life that we have and then seeing and thinking about what has been done has something "poetic".
A biological clone would be a perfect and very faithful copy of the original, because it was made from the same materials.

you seem to be REALLY fixated on the accuracy of the 'copy' here.

Would transferring your consciousness into an organic body that isn't a direct clone of your original (say, one that better matched your gender identity) be less authentic to you?

I still don't understand what it means "not a direct clone of your original"

A completely biological cat body when the one you were born in was a dog, for example.

it will not be the same thing but it could be defined as good but if there is the possibility of being able to go back at any time well it would be even more beautiful

What an.... interesting use of the word 'beautiful'.

Okay, one last hypothetical on this.

What if our original canine body in this example is has someone else's consciousness in it? Or if the cat body used to be someone else's before the transfer?

inside at the same time? or some kind of body donor? no but if it was just a "passage" yes

donor is what I meant.

ok, so in passing so that the appropriate conditions do not develop to be able to recreate the body, however minor modifications are accepted not to recreate a synthetic body

So why are you so scared of transhumanism?

I'm not afraid but I'm disgusted by it, it leads nowhere to lose one's body of origin

Curing gender dysphoria, to name one benefit.

as I said before it can be cured even without replacing the body with a synthetic one,for example, place prostheses or transplants of the affected pieces. It is obviously not recommended to have a chip in the brain you know it can be easily attacked.

Having re-read this thread.
I still feel like you've not explained your base point here.

What inherently makes an original body unique?
-A snythetic body can also be a piece of art.
-Cancer is the body being a bad copy of itself.
-You mention an 'essence' but never clarify on what that IS.
-If we're assuming a future where synthetic bodies can be made, there's no reason to assume "the pleasure of living and facing everything that life gives us" is outside that existence.
-And somehow you're okay with temporary time in biological bodies that aren't direct clones of the original, which seems like splitting hairs between that and fully synthetic.

Is it as simple as "robots can't have souls" or something as childish as that?

apparently you don't understand, there is nothing childish in what I have said. An organic body is much more complex and much more valuable than a synthetic body. You can't put the essence that is the soul into a computer, the essence is not known we know where it is probably hidden because it has an existence fused with every part of the body, An organic body is not a cancer, that cancer that is the disease is like a bug that forms inside it A synthetic body has nothing of art but an organic body is art even if it changes over time but in the end it is always the same even if full of wrinkles and ailments
With this I have told you everything because an organic body is a thousand times better than a copy of Plastic and Metals

Just for your knowledge, cancer isn't like a bug or virus. It's the body's own genetic code failing and producing harmful cell mutation. While it can be caused by external forced stuff like colon cancer has no identifiable cause.

For a more specific example: the non-hodgkins lymphoma I fought in my teens had no clear origin. My own body just decided to start making the wrong kind of cells.

Your stance on this has some very troubling implications for what you think of the souls of amputees. Or those struggling with gender dysphoria who's self and who's meat are not in agreement.

Simply, your answer to my last question was "Yes."

but look also I have a problem with the whole large intestine for such a problem with unknown causes. And apparently you didn't understand, obviously of a small changes to the body like "I don't have a leg or and I get a prosthesis" I can't understand what's worrying about what I have written. It seems to me that you have confused ideas
Come ho detto l'anima c'è ma non si sa dove risieda, essa risiede nel corpo ma se questo corpo non c'è più non c'è l'anima ma solo vaste righe di codice senza vita.

Love this new design. Is this a permanent change with the male design being retired? Is this design more "True to you" so to speak? It's pretty cool.

"No butthole" does seem like an unusual tidbit, but whatever.

the M-Chassis is still around, but the F-Chassis is probably going to see the majority of use

Love the heatsink stripes

Those stripe patterns are BRILLIANT, I love this design!

Inspirational ;w;

Blanque is suddenly feeling like quite the discount model > > http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24235136/

Oh my god this is cool as HELL

Oh my!!!
SHE IS GORGEOUS! I LOVE THE DESIGN!

this character is amazing!

How very gorgeous

I'm really digging the originality of the design. Really clever use of cosmetics becoming practical (especially the heatsink stripe idea). I look forward to seeing more stuff with her in the future.

Is it just me or is she missing the gold on her left forearm in the front view

thats because it's behind the rest of the forearm

No tail-cuffs on this one?

Nah, at this point they carry a bit of negative connotation with me. Also, drawing them all the time was annoying AF, though I'll probably dream up some other fancy tail accessories at some point

Do you mind me asking; what were they for? I feel that there was a few subtleties that I never managed to figure out on older ref sheets. The cuffs, the necklace with the cylinder, and I think that there was an amulet or a pendant in the image of bird?DId they have greater significance or was it just part of the character design?

While I'm asking, is there a character bio or history to read?

Well, the old backstory kinda got thrown out, didnt really fit (the elite mercenary thing that was so popular back when he was created). They are what they are, and thats pretty much where I'm leavin it.
The tail cuffs were both a fashion thing and eventually became symbolic of self-control, in restrospect it was to compensate for when I was in a less-than-healthy relationship. The eagle pendant was something I was wearing IRL that got so worn down over a couple decades of never taking it off that it was in severe danger of just falling off, so I retired it, and have it safely stowed away, while I wear the cylinder now (it glows!)

Interesting power choice. Not quite sure HOW those would operate. I'd have thought that the frame would use a Casimir-effect power system, possibly multiple distributed arrays. Overall, an intriguing design, well laid out, and effective.

I've heard it referred to as "bottled light". Literally cells lined internally with perfect mirrors and filled with photons. Recharged with powerful lasers pumping down fiber optic lines Allows for some very high energy densities in small spaces. An actual generator, like a fusion-powered device would likely be so bulky and heavy, and produces so much waste heat as to be impractical for powering synthetic human-sized people directly, especially if they'll be around organics constantly.

Agreed on the fusion part, which is why I brought up the Casimir array system: essentially no REAL drawbacks. The effects are documented, so it's not entirely hand-wavium, but at the same time it's not necessarily proven science entirely.. Thus far, though, it SEEMS on the surface to check out, and the math isn't completely against it. A laser-based system, though... Biggest problem is efficient conversion of the EM into functional energy. You'd need efficiency rates into the high 90 percentiles in order to not be generating a LOT of waste heat. The other big problem comes in the net energy loss from the mirrors themselves, which there's going to be, mostly owing to the fact that there's no such thing as a "perfect" reflector. NEARLY so, yeah. Even the effect of reflecting is going to lose trifling amounts but significant over time to minute inefficiencies and even photon-photon interaction. Humorously enough, if the reflectors are close enough together, though, the introductions OF the photons might set up enough of a resonance to kick-start the Casimir effect (though their distance might be too great for it).

Ye gods, I adore getting the chance to chat on things like this!

I love that you kept it believable. You could have given her x1000 clock speed, million-year battery life, railgun forearms, and boobs like a pair of Smart Cars — but her design is restrained, balanced, and relies on technology that is fantastical but with well-defined rules.

well, theoretically that clock speed increase would drain more energy and generate a lot of waste heat, so it can be done, but only in short bursts. Weaponry and batteries are expensive and heavy, and when is she ever gonna need that much firepower or long battery life if she lives in a world where recharges are pretty easy to come across? This design works well for her

A++ world rendering

I like the popout stripes idea. ^_^ and hee, titty lasers. Would love to see story art with her. ^_^

looks you hot

This is super cool, nice work. :D

Don't lose yourself, bucko.

Think Strype's been getting a firmer hold on themself than ever, Bucko.

Damn impressive! The heatsink stripes are such a cool (or hot!) detail.

Lookin' handsome!

Really a fan of the heatsink stripes, think they look pretty awesome. Would be cool to see some pieces with them active!

do you feel the tabi boot toe styling would be more functional than a tiger paw design?

Hey, where's your FCC approval marking and WEEE marker!

Was about to as if tidies are gel batteries, then read about it in description...
...wait, LASER NIPPLES?..

I have no idea why, but I want it to have arm cannons. arm cannons make everything better. do it for the arm cannons.

I dig the heat sinks
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A weapon... to surpass Metal Gear!

You're awesome at drawing cyborgs.

Very, very cool.

I like the tentacles!

nice!! really sexy! :D

honestly, I kind of want to RP the sort of organic-to-synth therapy session you allude to here. That'd be seriously interesting.

I see you moved your penis from between your legs to on top of your head, and then shrunk it until it was obviously hard as tritanium, hahaha!

A truly impressive and awesome looking new frame you got there. thumbs up

Just curious, as the brain is still forming the same neural pattern just with inorganic cell substitutes, does that mean those new cells form new connections all the time too, as an organic brain would do? Would that also mean that one cannot upload new knowledge onto her brain, having to learn things the old way?

Her brain is indeed wired the old way and learns the same, however she does have various modules plugged in throughout that can upload/download and store like a computer, so she can do stuff with that as well. Being a hybrid system does have its downsides however, as downloaded skills don't work as well as naturally learned skills, so it mostly gets used for media storage, like blueprints, video, chatlogs, programs that can be transferred into other devices, and stuff like that. It's basically like having an insanely powerful smartphone plugged into your brain. Just a tool, to be used by the person it's plugged into

That is actually really cool that she can not do that. It makes it much more believeable and doesn't make her seem all powerfull and all. Also, now that I think of it, working in an organic way must mean that she still dreams, right?

Yep! the system is a bit more efficient, so she only needs 4 hours of rest per night, but yeah, dreaming is part of her sleep cycle

is it wrong i want cuddles

derg is missing out

Now that's what I call a cool Reference that's Awesome

She is incredible!

Great design! Just wondering, though, what are those gold bits bu her cheeks for? Never seen anything like 'em on other characters.

what is her name? :O

Most people just know her as Strype, but her "legal" name is Hope Ironheart

oh! so that is indeed your character! :O was confused with that a bit, i remember you had a male character. i have been watching your art since i was a kid, but missed that plot twist a bit

OH, okay, so, basically, what happened is a friend dared me to draw Strype as a girl, which lead to this design, which lead to me figuring out I was trans, and the male version of the 'sona is a thing of the past, and she and I are full-on girl now

That is impressive! :O
Tbh, the female version is way greater developed :3 i love it

It's amazing what seemingly little things can lead to a full-on hatching, isn't it? So happy for you ^_^

Bikini fan. Yessssss hehehe