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[sunnydayart]

yo tell me about bc and his robots

I actually have a fic in my unfinished folder that features a lot of this (I’m not planning to finish it, but still), so this is gonna get real long. If you’re not interested in Bad Cop the robot dad, hit J to skip this and resume your normal dashboard activity.

As I’ve mentioned in a previous ask, Bad Cop’s most important trait is his loyalty, and I believe that applies down the chain as well as up.

The thing is that Bad Cop needs some amount of socialization, more than Good Cop really does (Good Cop would be perfectly happy to exist with only Bad Cop for company), because Bad Cop needs a baseline level of validation for his actions and confirmation that he has some sort of impact on the world and people around him. He prefers to be respected, but he’ll settle for being feared if he has to.

When he worked at the police department (because he presumably worked for the police department at some point before getting hired to hunt down Master Builders), I think he would have been very firm but fair with his coworkers, subordinates and superiors alike. He’s not good at socializing and he’s abrasive more than not, but he works harder than any of them, he’s good at noticing what people are good at and where they can do the most, and it’s not like he can hide his opinions even if he tries. He’d have a reputation as a hardass, but someone who you can trust to be honest with you and pay attention to you and have your back. Most people probably didn’t like him on a personal level, but they had a lot of respect for him.

(And I like to think that if there’s anyone who needed someone to talk to, they’d sometimes go to him. Bad Cop might be terrible at lying, but he’d keep a secret like his life depended on it and he knows how to listen to what his people have to say.)

So when Bad Cop leaves the police department and gets a bunch of robots to work with instead, he…doesn’t really know what to do? Because he knows how to work with people, at least on a professional level (his social skills will never be great, let’s be real) but he doesn’t have any idea how to work with robots and it’s not like there’s some convenient guide on how to treat your new robot colleagues.

So he treats them exactly how he treats all of the guys at the police department, and it turns out that because Octan is basically bureaucratic hell, this makes Bad Cop pretty much the only person to treat them like humans instead of, well, robots. (Good Cop treats them pretty similar to how he treats people, but honestly it’s more accurate to say that he treats humans a lot like he treats robots.)

The early days are pretty rough, because the robots might be top of the line and fresh off of Business’s manufacturing dies, and they might be faster and stronger and more accurate than your average human, but they don’t really know how to apply any of that ability. Bad Cop pretty much has to teach them from the ground up how to use the radios, how to react to different situations, and how to work together. If any robots fall behind, he works to get them up to scratch because he can’t afford to have anyone endangering the team when they’re up against Master Builders. Bad Cop doesn’t know it then, but that’s the moment he secures their undying loyalty, because if it had been Business, they’d be off to get melted into spare parts in zero seconds flat.

(Bad Cop’s impatient and gets frustrated a lot, but Good Cop’s always there to tell him to take a rest and remove himself from the situation before things escalate. Good Cop mostly handles logistics while Bad Cop handles the actual training, and the robots don’t see as much of Good Cop.)

Bad Cop teaches the robots how to work like police, but that’s not all they learn from him. He’s such an unbelievable open book that the robots start learning from example about emotional response and, well, how to be more human. And unlike around Business, where the slightest signs of nonconformity are instantly stamped out, Bad Cop desperately grasps onto literally any sign of individuality.

The thing is, it’s hard to work with robots because they’re all the same, except for the part where they’re not. Manufacturing defects and wear patterns makes it so certain robots tend to be better at certain tasks than others, and that’s something Bad Cop notices early on. The problem is, they still all look pretty much the same and he might have a pretty good memory, but even he can’t shout out serial numbers off the top of his head. Good Cop suggests personalizing them. Nothing big, necessarily. Just a ribbon here, a decal there, just enough to tell them apart, really. And give them names, B. They’re his robots, it’s only fair that he names them. 

So he does. Bad Cop names each and every one of them and he’s astonished that his robots seem so happy about it.

(Bad Cop doesn’t know this, but before he came along, these robots wouldn’t have known how to be happy, much less how to express it. It’s a learning process on both sides.)

And obviously Master Builders take robots apart like wet crepe paper, so Bad Cop has to deal with that in between missions. He reports what needs to be repaired to Business and Business just laughs him off. What’s the point? Business says. They’re just robots. Thousands can be made in a day, just get new ones. Get rid of those old junky things.

Obviously Bad Cop doesn’t do that. First, because training AI takes a really long time, but second, these are his robots. He named them and they’re fighting for him and working for him and he’s not about to let them go because of some snapped rivets and torn wires. So he goes to the manufacturing levels and gets them to teach him how to fix a robot. It’s not really easy to learn and the manufacturing robots aren’t exactly the most patient, but he manages to hammer enough knowledge into his head to be able to go back and put a few legs back together.

Good Cop’s always been better with the small things, so he handles circuit work and looks through obscure engineering diagrams with a soldering iron and packets of capacitors and figures out how to wire B’s robots back together while Bad Cop hammers out dents in bones and joints and bolts in new pneumatic actuators. Their office becomes one part paperwork and two parts mechanical workbench, and while they’re technically not allowed to do these fixes, it’s not like Business is paying attention, and if the robots don’t say anything, neither will Bad Cop.

In the process of learning how to put these robots back together, it’s natural they start thinking of how to improve them. They already have the robots divided out into different roles based on what they’ve learned best, so why not give them the mechanical advantage? Make the runners faster, the shooters steadier, the bulwarks stronger. Against the Master Builders, they need every edge they can get.

(It pays off, of course. These robots will fight to the death for Bad Cop, because Bad Cop saw them as more than metal toys to be used and disposed of and gave them his time and effort. Sometime between when the first modified robots start hitting the streets and when Bad Cop captures his first set of Master Builders, the Master Builders start realizing their chances are better running instead of fighting.)

Business smarmily asks Bad Cop how much better the new robots are working for him and Bad Cop just nods along. He hasn’t added new robots to his roster since he joined. He hasn’t needed to.

The robots go to Bad Cop’s office sometimes. Sometimes it’s to request repairs and changes because they’re hard-coded to not self-modify, but sometimes they just want to talk. They’re all discovering things like emotions and humanity and there’s nothing in their enormous databanks on how to deal with that. And honestly, Bad Cop doesn’t either, but he lets them take a seat and he listens and talks to them. When he doesn’t have the answers, Good Cop will take over for a while, and it turns out that he has a knack for coaxing out personalities from these AI. Perhaps he finds them easier to read than people.

It’s not all serious existentialism, of course. Sometimes the robots are just curious and want to know about people things like cooking and music and games. At some point they learn about birthdays and suddenly everyone wants one, so Good Cop and Bad Cop have to go and give everyone one. They throw parties and put it under ‘other’ on the expense reports.

It’s hard to describe just how much these robots hero worship Bad Cop. When he’s not around, they probably sit around and go, “oh man, I heard bad cop has a twelve pack, he’s so cool” or like “I asked him to fix my wrists and he hung out with me and we talked about logarithmic functions it was super rad”

(Robots don’t really have the best grasp on normal human interests.)

Bad Cop spends a lot of time with the robots, because it’s not like he has any human friends, and he’s certainly not going to try to get affection from Business. He might be loyal to the man’s cause, but that doesn’t mean he likes his company. He’ll stay around people who actually give half a peanut about him, thanks.

(And after he starts doing the really horrible things and starts pushing Good Cop down, they’re really all he’s got. When he’s around them, he can pretend for a little while that he’s not as awful as he knows he is. They don’t care about how much blood is on his hands. G wouldn’t either, but that’s different.)

And of course not all the robots can be repaired, so Bad Cop probably like, brings them back and has some of their parts melted down into a memorial plaque that he sticks next to their ruined hard drive on a very large shelf. Business would probably lose his shit if he saw that Bad Cop literally had a memorial for his robots, but fortunately Business cannot possibly care less about what may as well be disposable help and he prefers making Bad Cop run around to meet him anyways.

Obviously, when Business does the thing, it’s not Bad Cop’s robots that hold him down. And it’s not Bad Cop’s robots who drag him off after Business betrays him. But it is his robots who come to his rescue when he fends off Business’s forces to let the Special and his friends escape, because given the choice between Business and Bad Cop, they don’t even need a second to decide who’s worth more.

tl;dr, Bad Cop is the best robodad and he just wants the best for his two hundred robot children.

#im going insane #gcbc #the lego movie

[sunnydayart]

Do you have any hobbies? Are there any hobbies you'd be willing to try?

▪️ DON'T. LAUGH.

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I knit...

▫️ I crochet! And also tend to our little balcony garden. I don't think either of us has come across any other hobbies that interest us enough to try yet, but we would be open to trying something new if we found something that piqued our curiosity.

#bad cop is a grandma #the lego movie #gcbc

[sunnydayart]

How do you clean your spacesuit?

It's actually super easy! Our spacesuits were designed to be pretty lightweight and worn all the time, so they have a relatively simple cleaning process. I just take out any padding and material used to insulate, disconnect the tubing for oxygen, pressure, all that junk, and toss it in the washing machine!

The insulation material can be cleaned, but not in a washing machine.. That's more tricky. Luckily, I don't usually keep the insulation and temperature regulation stuff in when I'm just on Earth! No reason to use all those resources 'n whatnot when I can survive just fine without it.

Obviously, for things like the gloves and boots, I have to scrub them out myself.

I will admit though, my spacesuit is really old... And has been through a lot! I don't think it will ever look clean again. Just know that it is, I promise!

#this is very interesting ! :D #i didnt know astronaut suits regulated tempature haha #the lego movie

[sunnydayart]

[Rare happy fic! This one is coppernauts, as many of them are. Er.. I guess I should mention that Good Cop is kind of gone in this au. Unfortunately, you won't be seeing him in most of my writings (which is kind of why I don't draw him often either). Original writing date was June 14th, 2023.]

Benny hummed to himself as he worked on a little side project for work. It was supposed to be some kind of techy device for navigation purposes but it wasn't going so well. He was working with technology he wasn't familiar with and it was frustrating him. Pushing himself away from his desk, Benny grumbled angrily as he walked out of his office. Bad Cop looked up from the kitchen. He was doing the dishes, like he always did after dinner.

"Going great huh?" Bad Cop asked sarcastically, but Benny didn't pick it up. He practically threw himself over the counter and whined. "No, absolutely not! I can't figure this stuff out; my "old" technology is so much better than this.. stupid thing.." he mumbled, clenching his fist like he was crushing whatever he was working on. Bad Cop laughed to himself. "I mean the spaceships have their own.. Easy little navigation system! Why do we need a new one?! I can find things just fine with it! The technology is simple and..." Benny rambled on and on as Bad Cop finished up the dishes.

He placed a hand on Benny's shoulder once he finished. "Okay okay, I get it, come here," Bad Cop said softly, walking into the living room. Benny raised an eyebrow, confused. He followed him to the couch and floated down. "What's this about?" Benny asked, scrutinizing Bad Cop's expression. Bad Cop pulled out a little box from beside the couch and handed it to Benny, whose eyes immediately lit up as he analyzed the box. "An LL928 model??" he questioned, looking up at Bad Cop, who was smiling. Benny grinned wildly. "How did you know which model I wanted?!" He floated up off the couch as he stared at the ship in the packaging. Bad Cop shrugged. "I have ears," he said casually. "This thing is expensive!!! How did.. How did you get it?!" Benny asked, now upside down as he looked at the cop. "I also have my ways," he stated calmly. Bad Cop giggled to himself as Benny spun himself around the box excitedly.

Benny's face gave all the signs Bad Cop needed. He knew Benny had a hard time saying thank you and understanding what to do with gifts. All he wanted was to see Benny's big smile and excited gestures as he stared at his prize. Surprisingly, though, Bad Cop was startled with a hug.

"Thank you!" Benny exclaimed, wrapping his arms around Bad Cop as he effortlessly floated into his lap. Bad Cop grinned. "Ahah, you're welcome!" Benny giggled uncontrollably as he released the hug, his beaming face causing the cop to melt under his touch. "I love you, Ben," Bad Cop blurted out suddenly. Benny only managed to smile harder. "I love you too," he mumbled bashfully.

Bad Cop let out a breathy laugh as Benny pushed up off of his lap and floated along the ceiling, whispering 'spaceship' to himself absentmindedly.

#IM LITERALLY GOING INSANe #ARE UOU KIDDING ME . #THIS IS SO CUTE #OV MY GOD #coppernauts #the lego movie

[sunnydayart]

#the lego movie #gcbc #my art #school Doodles ! : )

[sunnydayart]

Happy weed day everyone

#420 #the lego movie #benny the spaceman #my doodles

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1 minute no thinking about benny being a freak challenge… FAILED!!

#the lego movie

[sunnydayart]

Ive thinked it over a bit and i think i might just take asks on this blog for now, ill make a sideblog if i think i can handle it :)

If youd like, yoy can send some asks for gcbc,, but you can ask other characters from the first movie too ^3^ !!!!

Thinmkig of making a roleplay accont…..smiles a cheeky Little smile…

#i might take a bit longer to respond tho #i probably wont be doing those long back and forth roleplays ethier since i cant write for the life og me ! 😅😅😅 #the lego movie

[sunnydayart]

does BC bark?

▫️ Hehehe, not in the sense you're probably asking, but get him in a mood and his snapping at people does kind of sound like barking...

#the lego movie

[sunnydayart]

[I edited this one a bit to post first, because it's one of my favorites! The original date it was written was June 12th, 2023. It's short, but I think it's better that way. For context, Benny crashed on a moon in a dazed panic, and he hasn't been able to repair the ship to get off.]

It was another agonizingly long day of laying on the surface of a moon he didn't know the name of, staring up into the vast distance of stars and galaxies. Benny didn't know what day it was, or when exactly it was day or night, but he'd been here for a month or two at least. He'd run out of oxygen very soon. He really wished the dark abyss of the universe would just swallow him up whole so he didn't have to live out the rest of his days alive, but it was never that easy.

Benny lifted up his gloved hand and stared at it for a moment. He could hardly remember who he used to be. He'd been so alone for so long now, with nothing to look at, nothing to do, that he has forgotten his life—what he had. He scrunched up his face and hit his head with his hands in frustration. He was giving up on ever getting off of the moon.

Sitting up slowly, feeling dizzy and nauseated, Benny spotted his co-captain Moppy laying nearby and grabbed him mindlessly. He gently pruned the strands of yarn.

"Hey Moppy, when are we getting off this rock?" Benny asked the inanimate object, his voice breaking as he forced a smile. His lips twitched as he raised the pitch of his voice a notch, pretending to be the mop itself. "Well I don't know, Benny! Maybe when you fix the ship!"

He sounded delirious. Benny stopped messing with the mop and furrowed his brows, angry at Moppy for saying such a thing. Tears began to pour down his face in a silent stream as he gasped for air.

"I don't know how," he sobbed between breaths, curling into a tight ball on the surface of the barren moon.

#SO WELL WRITTEN #the lego movie

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//Guys i just need to remind you that Benny can masterbreak btw . he has something going on guys

#THIS IS TOO CUTE !!!!!!! #the lego movie

[sunnydayart]

every spring/summer i just start drawing benny I don't even know why

#AUAUUGGGGGHHHHHHH OH MY GFOD.D........ #BENENYY...... BENNY........ BENY............... #AUDGGGEBFHBGGGGGHRRRRRRR😭😭😭😭😢 #the lego movie #benny the spaceman

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Evil thoughts and headcanons about benny and gcbc below

Benny is mad-scientist-adjacent in my mind. He’s almost one of those but hes an engineer instead. Still a freak.

Benny has facial hair. its in the storyboards and I cling to it like a koala to a tree during a forest fire

Benny IS short but he floats to peoples height so most don’t even notice

Old ass men. Benny would be born sometime before the 80s so he could actually grow up during that time! 1970 something.

For that matter, GCBC is also old as hell. Similar age to benny but he did not age anywhere near as well 😭😭 UGLY!

Benny and GCBC play fight like dogs.

Benny is NOT SKINNY!! this man eats ice cream every day he would not be skinny! no!

And for that matter, GCBC isn’t skinny either. Fat GCBC or death!

Hard of hearing benny. He works with spaceships those things are loud!

I dont think benny would care about pronouns. I usually use he/him for benny but i really dont think hed have a preference like everyone calls him he/him so he just goes with it.

On the other clawhand, GCBC is WOKE!!! He/it good cop he/she bad cop, collectively he/they because they are literally TWO GUYS!!!

More lgbt stuff. I think Gay Cop Bisexual Cop is funny to say so i go with it for that reason. Benny is probably also gay HE LOOKS GAY!

Good cop probably likes to go to the library. He just looks like he does. Round glasses. NERD!!

Benny is more evil than GCBC. The girls that get it get it and the girls that dont dont.

…I LOVE EVIL BENNY! i must continue. I feel like in the drafts for the lego movie benny was just absolutely deranged and they had to tone it down a bit for the final film but i love that he was such a freak! like what was his issue. all the removed stuff ive seen with benny was just him absolutely tweaking. AND HE KILLED GCBC he did that in the draft script and it was so awesome and he didnt even feel bad i love it!!

outside of like actual stuff from tlm i also think people infantilize benny a lot and its fun to just make him absolutely horrible to spite that.

also! Benny has brain damage the evil way… I project a lot for this cuz GIRL ME TOO! he has poor control over his own limbs and cant hold a train of thought very well and i dont want to continue cuz i takea lot of this specifically from my own experiences but those are just a couple things 🤔

I feel insane talking about this but i swear bad cop has an interest in cowboys. when emmet and lucy escape it seems like the first place she checks is the old west (i know its jsut movie logic… BUT STILL!), the folks in the old west recognize her theyre literally shaking cuz shes SCARY!! and she knows her way around the place pretty well which both of those are probably from her job but IDC!! now when she said “get off my train” WHAT IF what if she just felt protective over old west propertyy also in the behind the bricks video she mentions cowboys even though they were NOT that big of a part of the movie!! evil speculating on a fictional characters interests 😭😭😭

if they were birds gcbc would be an owl and benny would be a blue footed booby. also not about my main slop characters but related to bird legos, metalbeard would be an albatross.

continuing with owl cop, hes an owl because owls have large circular eyes, yet their eyes can also be very reflective, and they can twist their heads about.

if they were cats gcbc would be a tiger just so they could say “you bit the wrong tigers tail” and benny would be a serval

if they were dogs gcbc would be a german shepherd, obvious choice, and benny would be a schnauzer

if they were fish gcbc would be good cod bad cod just for the name and benny would be a pleco

when picking good cop up he would curl up like a happy kitty hed really like being picked up and when picking bad cop up he would scramble and claw at you in fear of falling (she is a frightened animal)

Good cop would watch kids cartoons in his free time, if he had any 💀

Good cop the type of guy to say “geeze louise”

Good cop the type of guy say “you wouldnt hit a guy with glasses would ya?”

Good cop the type of guy to say “ohh butterfingers” after dropping something

Good cop the type of guy to look for his tv remote and say “if i were the tv remote where would i be?”

Good cop the type of guy to close the fridge door with his hips

Good cop definitely has the urge to just collect trinkets but not the time nor money, maybe on weekends hed visit thrift shops just to get random stuff

Good cop and benny both seem like they chew on things when nervous

Both good cop and bad cop like the color pink but bad cop would be a bit more embarassed to share that. at home they definitely have pink blankets and pillows and all sorts of pink

Everyone is autistic if you think hard enough.

I love how everyone agrees that bad cop takes after his mother and good cop his father. Unanimous agreement ive never seen anyone headcanon it the other way

I say this as a joke but i dont have any way that i think gcbc wouldve come to be so its basically my headcanon even if its a joke. Good cop ate bad cop in the womb. Thats why theyre like that. And ma cop was terrified because she was set to have twins and only had one baby. 💀💀

Benny has definitely been hit with the “Hes smart but he doesnt apply himself” thing in the past.

GCBC is not a pale white man. Not happening. He would not do that!

If they participated in a chicken fight, gcbc would be on benny’s shoulders (as the cops cannot swim)

Good cop’s eyes are so big they squash his brain

#GOOD COD BAD COD #ohhh butterfingers OH MYGO. #ILOVE HIM #I LOEV THESE #AND ALSO EVIL BENNY I FORGOT HE KILLED GCBC LMFAO #gcbc comes over one time and theres just empty icecream tubs everywhere #the lego movie

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#“SOOORRRRY !!!!” #benny the spaceman #the lego movie

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Girlllllll put those teeth awayyyyy……😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

#UNUSUAL !!!!!!! #the lego movie #gcbc #the real reason she worked for business #really good dental insurance

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Girlllllll put those teeth awayyyyy……😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

#the lego movie #gcbc

[sunnydayart]

I absolutely LOOOOVVEEEEE the idea that Bricksburg is just the lego version of New York i bet emmet experiences the craziest things on the subway since he doesn’t have a car and has to go to work everyday

#the lego movie #headcanons