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• Is it easier? Without a heart? by MEOW_I_am_a_cat

  Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen, Other
  • Complete Work

  08 Apr 2021

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Drumbot Brian & The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
  • Jonny d'Ville & The Toy Soldier
  • The Mechanisms Ensemble/The Toy Soldier (implied)
  • The Mechanisms Ensemble & The Toy Soldier (background)
  • polymechs (background)
  • The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
  • Jonny d'Ville
  • Drumbot Brian (The Mechanisms)
  • (other mechs are mentioned)
  • Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • The Toy Soldier's trauma
  • the author might also have trauma
  • contemplation on the nature of love
  • contemplation on the philosophy of the mechanisms (as in the body parts)
  • Self-Harm
  • mild body horror
  • implied/referenced suicidal ideation
  • The Toy Soldier is Not a Person
  • (The Toy Soldier is definitely a person)
  • aspec Toy Soldier
  • No beta we kayak like Tim
  • (idk if there's a mechs equivalent for that tag)

  Summary

  The Toy Soldier doesn't know if it has a heart. It doesn't know if it wants one. It doesn't know if that makes it a person. It doesn't think it wants to know.

  --

  Please mind the tags!!

  Series

  • Part 1 of like Real people do

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,490

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  14

  Kudos:

  124

  Bookmarks:

  20

  Hits:

  765

• A New Heart by MEOW_I_am_a_cat

  Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Multi, Other
  • Complete Work

  21 Jun 2022

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • The Mechanisms Ensemble/The Toy Soldier
  • The Mechanisms Ensemble & The Toy Soldier
  • Jonny d'Ville & The Toy Soldier
  • Gunpowder Tim & The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
  • Drumbot Brian & The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
  • polymechs
  • Raphaella la Cognizi & The Toy Soldier
  • Nastya Rasputina & The Toy Soldier
  • Ashes O'Reilly & The Toy Soldier
  • Bertie/Gunpowder Tim (background)
  • The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)
  • Raphaella la Cognizi
  • Gunpowder Tim (The Mechanisms)
  • Drumbot Brian (The Mechanisms)
  • Ashes O'Reilly
  • Marius von Raum
  • Ivy Alexandria
  • The Aurora (The Mechanisms)
  • Nastya Rasputina
  • Jonny d'Ville
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • The Toy Soldier's trauma
  • Very mild body horror
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • The Toy Soldier is Definitely a Person
  • aspec Toy Soldier
  • arospec Toy Soldier
  • like they talk about love but it can very much be read as (queer)platonic love

  Summary

  The Toy Soldier is patched up, and a Discussion is had regarding its desire for a new heart.

  Series

  • Part 2 of like Real people do

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,018

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  8

  Kudos:

  80

  Bookmarks:

  8

  Hits:

  454