(close enough to what they did to him in 1955)
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and you’ve got the brand new face by Garecc for bird_brainz
Fandoms: Steam Powered Giraffe
01 Sep 2025
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Summary
It has been 120 years since 1896.
For once, things are looking up. Rabbit is herself now, finished, after all this time. They are still performing. And The Spine is content with this. He tells himself. He is content with how things are, now.
Rabbit disagrees. She can tell The Spine has problems, and now? Now that she's finished, and now that she's happy, she can REALLY tell he uh, isn't. She decides to try to fix this.
Otherwise,
Rabbit has, after all this time, finally become exactly who she has always wanted to be. In contrast, The Spine has slowly dirfted further and further from who he wanted to be. After all, in 1955, the government replaced his face.In short, this is a musing on The Spine's relationship to how his body has been modified again and again. Rabbit talks him into asking Peter 6 to fashion him a new-older version of his face. This is the journey from asking to installation, with a lot of feelings about how poorly the last face-replacing went.
Lots of repair sequences, lots of feelings, and lots of unpacking the fact that in the past, the robots couldn't particularly say no to augmentation and upgrades.
Series
- Part 8 of beyond the shore au