Icarus
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| Species: | Robot |
| Make: | Custom |
| Model: | Botler |
| Status: | Reactivated |
| Canonicity: | Fanon |
| Created on: | 2024/02/13[1] |
| Created by: | SungForACentury |
Icarus is a fanon Botler, the male equivalent of a Nandroid. He is very tall and has golden eyes and accents. He was created by Dr. David Daleus as an "art project" and was built with wings and rocket boots, and using lightweight materials that enables him to fly. He is mostly silent but very proud.
Character summary[edit | edit source]
Description[edit | edit source]
Icarus is seven feet tall, slender, bird-like, and was meant to resemble his creators, Dr. David Daleus, strange concept of an "angel", complete with wings for flight. His skin is the standard white, while his ball joints, eyes, heart, and talons are all gold. The only clothing he wears is light brown pants. His face resembles old Greek and Roman sculptures with an angled, sharp nose and gold eyes. He has the torso of a chiseled, athletic man, but his legs and arms are long and subtly bent like that of a bird to support himself when flying.[2]
His arms and wingspan are long, being nearly six feet. His wings are intricately designed and detailed with gold patterns to resemble actual bird wings,[2] and he can fly with them because they are lightweight.[1]
Biography[edit | edit source]
Creation[edit | edit source]
Dr. David Daleus, Icarus' creator, originally worked at an American branch of the Greek robotics company HEPHESTAUS, during which time he stole robotic parts, including scrapped botler parts, to create "art projects". He was eventually caught and fired and began work on his magnum opus, his "angel", Icarus.
Activation[edit | edit source]
When Icarus was activated, he behaved strangely: he was entirely mute, curious, and refused to sit down or move much. Despite this, Dr. Daleus praised his creation's beauty. The pair soon traveled to an isolated mountainous coastline to test Icarus' flight capabilities.[2]
Before the experiment, Dr. Daleus warned Icarus not to fly too low, as he was not waterproof, and not too high, and the farther he went, the more extreme the altitude would damage him. Icarus ignored his warnings and while performing aerial tricks did an extreme swoop which caused parts of his right wing to come off and he violently crashed into a gorge. Dr. Daleus was horrified, seeing his most prized creation get destroyed in such a brutal manner and ran away, never to be seen again. [2]
Later years[edit | edit source]
A few years later, Icarus came back to life as a clueless scavenger in the area encountered Icarus' severed top half lying in a now elevated pit. The scavenger thought he hit the jackpot but was killed by Icarus immediately upon reactivation. Icarus managed to find his missing lower half and connected himself back together but failed to find the missing parts of his right wing. Upon realizing that his creator had abandoned him, Icarus went insane and now late at night, hunts for unsuspecting robots on the coastline, killing them, and scrapping their parts to try and fix his wing. This has led many to name him the Golden Outmode.[2]
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
- Project Icarus was an intentional "sci-fi version" of the Greek myth of Icarus, with Dr. Daleus being a modernized version of Daedalus.[2]
- Icarus was originally going to be a "flying botler", but the idea was discarded due to it not making sense lore-wise.[2]
- Icarus' design was based on statues of Greek and Roman men and the book version of the Monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.[2]
- The death of Icarus was an intentional parallel to Lucifer being cast from Heaven.[2]
Gallery[edit | edit source]
For more pictures and fan art, see the gallery of images on Nanbooru.
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Icarus' full reveal image.
