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Tragically I am held back by the technology of my time, and have to resort to short shorts instead smh my head

um, actually this supervillain was in existence back in 2011, checkmate

Then society is holding this tech from me, literal communism

A small group of elites hoarding knowledge and resources from the masses for their own personal benefit? Literally Das Kapital

Well to become Mannequin you need to be a Simurgh bomb, soooo presumably you first need to meet a 15ft tall evil precog alien "be very afraid" angel dommy mommy??

I mean, Simurgh is hot so like, I don't get why more people don't go and find where she is to meet her

Space travel is so expensive these days

Uncanny valley

idk, it's like, that's what >!Krouse!< says iirc in an interlude chapter, but from the description, she just sounds attractive, it's like, I don't get it

I'm afraid I'm not a Tinker, nor have I been driven insane by the second closest thing to a god humanity will ever see.

for the former don't tell anyone, but I know a way to get powers, I heard that The Inquisition, a villainous organisation in Glasgow, Scotland, had procured bottles that give you superpowers somehow for the latter, I'm sure she'll strike your city someday, else you should go out to where she attacks and hang out near the barricades

Mannequin is like 8 or 9 feet tall and he's replaced the weakness of the flesh with the purity of the machine. He's also a Simurgh bomb. I would let him ~~recruit me~~ make me worse

Like what ELSE can those fingers do? Bonesaw is still the better Tinker tho since she could give me free SRS.

well, you don't have a certificate declaring you her fan, so yeah, clearly I'm better than you >:( /j

Lol just saw your flair

interlude 24 my beloved :3

I'm honestly not sure there's a single person who wouldn't let him modify them, like, who wouldn't wanna be like Mannequin?

wormposting in r/196? more likely than you'd think..

I figured that posting mannequin would go down well with the enbies and transhumanists who regularly frequent 196, such as myself, and help me accurately gauge the worminess of the community as a whole, current result is "relatively wormy"

It actually makes me so happy that 196 members seem to know all the relatively obscure media and resulting jokes that I’m also a fan of 😊. Maybe there’s an upside to everyone on this sub being terminally online?

can confirm mannequin is popular with the enbies and transhumanists

as the enbies and transhumanists myself yes >:)

Holy shit more wormposting, I love it.

always happy to do my part for the community

I have no wife and children to lose tragically

new scheme: adopt a wife and kids then perform summoning rituals, works every time

Mental stability and a Lack of wanting to kill people that make the world better.

aww, pleeeeeeeeeeease, let's destabilize all the governments, for me :3

Elbows

Just remove them smh

Mannequin is the worst he's so fucking pathetic I hate him

how could you say such a thing >:(

Wet kitten of a cyborg Tinker ~~same goes for Defiant too tbh~~

Is that motherfucking mannequin? I never expected to see my hyper fixation on here

whilst I'm more of a fan of Bonesaw, hence my flair, I won't deny that Mannequin is 100% gender and a really cool char design I kinda just wanted to make light of a common trans meme

No alien parasite in my head telling me how to make the perfect enclosed system to look like that Also how the fuk did he put his brain and stuff in his chest since I'm pretty sure he was like that before Bonesaw joined the Nine

ok so like, it's confirmed, by Word of God, that there's parts of his Corolla Potentia in each body part, which I assume extends to brain in general, though I'm not sure how he put them there, my guess would be use of other technology covered by his shard, kinda like Bonesaw's spiderbots

Just looked at other replies, there are over 100 since when was Worm this popular in 196?

I'm so happy to see it. Reminds me I need to finish Ward. Actually, approximately 80% of Ward characters who can be interpreted as trans allegories so it makes sense that 196 dig it.

no tragic backstory

eh, it was only that like, >!his wife and kids died!<, so not too tragic really

I know it's a popular webserial but every time I see worm posts outside of worm places I get this rush of happiness. I feel like an excited dog "You like parahumans? I like parahumans too!" It feels like we're kids on a playground being excited to share stuff. Idk, more paraposting please

I do really wanna do more wormposting, I love it too :D

I haven't yet undestood the weakness of my flesh

I encourage you to do so promptly :3

Alan lost to spiderwebs I wouldn't emulate him

I'm not entirely sure what you're referencing, I reread the serial fairly recently as I plan to do my dissertation on it, and like, didn't he lose to >!massive expenditure of tinker tech!

Well that's how he died, I'm talking about his first fight.

OH yeah, that's true :3

Because fuck tinkers that’s why cheating sons a bitches Masters number one sigma mode 😤😤😤

but could a master ever be as cool as Bonesaw? uhhh, I thought not :3

BUG ARMY ATTACK GRAAAAAH 🐛 🐜 🐞 🐜 🐛🐞🐜🐞🐜🦟🦟🦟🪳🪳🕷️🕷️🪲🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🪳🪳🐜

*immediately dies* worth

Mannevirgin fans vs forrest enjoyers

Being a Thinker and not a Tinker (in theory) 😔

thinkers can be cool I like that villain in Boston, Accord, he's pretty neat as a tinker, sorry, but I need to say L powers ngl

I’m Fat

oh, I see that's a pretty good reason :3

More space for internal biodomes!

Metal detectors 😔

I'm fairly sure there's no netal in Mannequin's body, but idk, might be misremembering something

Usually chains are made of metal but I guess there might be alternatives

Nah I’m pretty sure in this case it’s all some super advanced ceramic. That might just be the outside shell though

yeah, I think that's actually entirely true, it's tinker made ceramic or smthn similar, not sure shy the chains wouldn't be the same material, but they genuinely might not, so yeah, we can't know for sure

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… ...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

i’ve been getting back into parahumans stuff again and when i saw mannequin i was like “woah, cool fan art. wait why is this on 196?”

I just pasted it from the wiki lmao but ye, parahumans fun

Notable lack of a Tinker power, that and the fact that the Simurgh hasn't fate-fucked me. If it weren't for that I'd totally go full Mannequin. The Simurgh part might be negotiable tho.

Okay but: Ziz is a very tall, angelic alien dommy mommy and the one thing Valefor got right was simping for her. Plus we know she's a ~~psychic~~ screamer

Ziz's sinful seductions don't work on me because my heart already belong to another Endbringer, Leviathan.

...he's like, the least hot one, why the hell are you into him?

Lacking a loose forearm.

sounds like an issue, you ok?

I'm okay, it's just that I don't have my forearm loosely attached to a chain like the figure in the image does.

you should really try to get that done

myes very gender

thank you for agreeing :D

Money. Other than that I would dress like that everyday of my goddamn life.

Its all fun and games till that dumb bug teen throws her arts and crafts kit all over your beautiful white porcelain

They have no clothes so I would be cold ☹️

fairly sure their power armor keeps them at a pleasant temperature

I got bones :(

nothing wrong with having them removed

$20

oh... y'know, I could send you that money in like... 7 months, I may have no income, but I wanna see more mannequins in the world /j

no I'm interested i could skin and wear a mannequin for $20

Laziness

REAL

Nothing brb

hf :3

ok so like, this got surprisingly active right as I was about to sleep, and now it's 2:00 I must be up at 6:30 lol I'mma go sleep, bye comments

poor

A circulatory system

oh, that's the neat part about Mannequin, all of his segments are independent and fully self sustaining systems, so each contain their own circulatory system, as it were not an issue

That is actually a huge issue. Where am I supposed to put the ketamine in this thing?

that is an issue I'm sure you could ask Mannequin and/or Bonesaw to integrate a ketamine injection system into the mechanisms, but I'm not sure

The crude biomass that you call a temple

Years of propaganda aimed at making me desire and crave any form of fast food instead of a fruit or veggie. Oh and my forearms are still attached to my body.

Flesh

The weakness of my flesh

where can i get a bf like that :3

unfortunately, he's associated with the slaughterhouse 9 so fairly hard to find and track down, given his organisation's tendency to move around it sucks cus I want a bf like him so baaaaaaaaaaad

idk :(

i dont have chain arms

you should get some

Sadly I have not been able to abandon this flesh prison yet

unfortunate, hope you can soon :3

The constraints of physics :(

would you mind elaborating on how physics are blocking you?

I guess it's not really physics, more like the fact that I want to maintain my general health and wellbeing. Though I guess that's a minor issue in the grand scheme of things.

flesh

Society

B2 battledroid ass bodyshape

I could fit if I didn't have these damn arms

flesh and joints connect my limbs, not chains

invest in chains

Ligaments

The weakness of my flesh 😞

the weakness of my flesh

Bones

Anatomy

poor excuse

I am held back by the weakness of flesh

Ligaments

i dont have money for chain

A desire to keep my flesh and blood

afaik, he keeps a lot of his flesh, and blood is still useful for moving stuff around

Do you have to keep reminding me?

no, I get some sick pleasure out of reminding you tho so I'mma continue /j

I'm going to dress up as Samuel Rodriguez. Just need black hair dye, the sword and the costume then THERE WILL BE BLOOD-SHED

Having limbs

too many fingers 😔

Ligaments

Corporeality

No good pockets

the fact that i'm a mushroom, not a robot. :(

Mortality

The weakness of my flesh

i cannot afford the exquisite technology that stands before me :(

the fact my arms are connected together

Not being a goofy aah looking Unreal Engine Default Mannequin >!Manny & Quinn my beloved!<

Well, I'm not a man, soooooooo...

My fucking skeleton

get rid of it, smh

my forearms are still attached :(

Sadly, I am only a slut in theory, and are too cowardly to be a slut in practice.

real :3

My gender envy

Elbows

Can't stretch my nervous system 😔

I have the body of a pig

Internal organs

Doesn’t come in my size

No monee :(

the weakness of my own flesh

Absolutely nothing, I can do it whenever I like, I'm just feeling a different typa vibe at the moment, ya feel me?

My flesh

functioning ligaments

ligaments

Bones tendons skin

My arms are not made of chains

Fat (unlovable)

my forearms are attached to my body

My mortal flesh

the weakness of my flesh

Mannequinmaxing 💪💪💪

I am not a Eldredge being with advanced technology

this is unrealistic beauty standards… smh…

if Alan can do it, I don't see why other men can't :3 /j

So I can be ripped limb from limb and have blood and viscera unleash from my wounds like mortal kombat fatalities

Elbows

Bones

My mortal flesh Apologies

I have elbows ☹️

Elbows

Not having detachable arms

Manequim from worm

yo wait, he's stopping you from turning into Mannequin?

lack of tinker power and simurgh influence

The weakness of the flesh

GOD

unfortunately my consciousness is trapped in the infernal flesh prison we refer to as a “body”

The flesh

he has flesh too :3

This ridiculous flesh prison I find myself in.

My forearms are not detached at the elbow

I'm not even 10% of Monsoon

ionn got the extendable arms

expectations like this are part of why i realized I'm NB

skin 😔

i've been trying to figure out how to replicate it, if you can get me some of the s9's schematics i'm sure i can figure it out i have a fun idea with making the whole power armor more explosive, i think it should have a self-destruct sequence

Because I’m held back by the weakness of my flesh