#the suits udad

[aroace-and-has-a-mace]

the “this barbie is ___” meme template but it’s one for each suit and they read:

this barbie will service to his family as the favored son

this barbie thought himself an orphan

this barbie’s family will rise again

this barbie never should have placed his trust in the city

#the mechs #the mechanisms #the suits #the suits udad #ulysses dies at dawn #udad #orpheus udad #heracles udad #oedipus udad #ariadne udad

[brainrotwall]

Today I offer you:

Traditional udad sketches

Tomorrow? Who knows.

Look guys, Its him.

The favoured son.

And these creatures.

The soots

#the mechanisms #the mechs #rotwall art #fanart #ulysses dies at dawn #the suits #orpheus udad #heracles udad #ariadne udad #oedipus udad #oedipus #should fucking #explode #himself

[saym0-0]

grahh the little jingle that plays whenever the mechs bring up themselves in an album >>>

#its in 'hades'(udad) 'expert testimony'(tbi) 'aurora'(ouatis) and 'death'(hnoc) #idk i just think its really neat #esp how its different to suit the mood of each album #the mechanisms #the mechs #saymbles #grah sorry its 'the aurora strikes' for some reason it saved weirdly on my phone and shows as just aurora like. half the time

[allthedoorsareopennow]

LMAO THAT'S SO FUCKING FUNNY THE SUITS WEREN'T EVEN PLANNING TO MATCH IT JUST. HAPPENED

#orpheus #the suits #udad #original post #the mechanisms #Orpheus Dionysus Muriatic Acid and the Strange Whirring Thing

[twentysidednerd]

this post is gonna sound like a broken record but i just find it so POWERFUL how Ulysses Dies at Dawn ends the way it does. not just in the sense of “oh the mechanisms always end their albums with pretty much everyone dead and the whole situation is hopeless” but in the sense that the City is meant to chew everyone except the Olympians up and spit them out and Ulysses gets the ending they do.

yes, they’ve been messed up by the war with Ilium and the circumstances of the City but in the end, they aren’t condemned to the hell of the Acheron. they aren’t condemned to watch the Suits take the vault away from them. they get what they got to give to Penelope years ago when her time came: a true, peaceful death. away from the toil and strife of the City. saved from the destruction of the planet by the Mechs as well when they leave. they don’t have to suffer through the new horror that burning down the Acheron brings to the end of the story. they get what’s probably the most peaceful end to a horrible beginning out of every single ending the Mechanisms have come up with

this album makes me cry too much and this is how i cope lmao. anyway stan UDAD

#the mechanisms #the mechs #the mechanisms udad #ulysses dies at dawn #elysian fields #udad ulysses #udad the suits

[thetruecthulhu9]

Aaaa fucking mechanisms, Herakles Oedipus Ariadne Orpheus and dealdelus are the suits because they're the mirrors of the suitors trying to get inside Penelope (woman or vault take your pic)

#the mechanisms #udad #the suits

[flamet-draws]

Mechtober Day 11: The Suits

The saddest, wettest, most pathetic gang in the history of ever tbh. I love them 💕

#the mechanisms #the mechs #mechtober #mechtober 2022 #ulysses dies at dawn #udad heracles #udad daedalus #udad orpheus #udad Ariadne #udad Oedipus #the suits #fanart

[m-practice]

i’ll be fully honest i kind of missed the point of Ulysses Dies at Dawn. originally had no thoughts on its ending other than “ouhh death as a form of freedom” which is real as hell but i fucking.

i missed the fact that Ulysses dying at dawn was a plot twist. i mean, we’re introduced to the story, and we hear the title, and we think, sure, guess this fella’s gonna be dying at dawn. and then we’re introduced to the suits to some extent and we think, yeah, this guy’s definitely dying at dawn. hell, they’ll probably be beaten to death

and then you get to the end and they do. the sun rises and they are dead. but by god, they’ve done it on their own terms. they’ve certainly died at dawn, but certainly not in the way the introduction may suggest

#i think i was too focused on the side stories of the suits and the acheron and hell even prometheus #like ive been listening for years and literally just 10 minutes ago i went ‘oh shit that was unexpected wasn’t it??’ #i may not be smart #the mechanisms #udad #ulysses dies at dawn #anyways i’m having mechanisms thoughts right now it’s causing me minor physical pain at this point

[majorshatterandhare]

“Heracles gets the lion’s share, one, two, three!”

“Oh yeah, Ulysses also gets three, so… double lion’s share?”

#the mechanisms #udad #torn suits #do you all like it when i make some absolute bullshit post while listening through mechs albums? #ulysses #heracles

[rabbityfrogs]

Ariadne

Was relistening to udad, and decided to draw ariadne!! i think it turned out well! :D

#ulysses dies at dawn #udad #the mechanisms #the mechs #udad ariadne #the suits #or atleast one of them #constellation is taurus #because of irl ariadne's likely roots to the minoan civilisation #and minoan bull symbolism #rabbity arts

[phantomdecibel]

Have you listened to Udad by the Mechanisms and if so how hard did you cry at Elysian Fields?

HELL YEAH I HAVE–

………I plead the fifth–

#brrrrrr love udad– #the beat for favoured son makes my brain squiggle lmao #but my favourite is the middle/end part of torn suits #were it’s like ‘ULYSSES CAST THE EYE OF THE CYCLOPS HIGH IN TGE AIR AND FIRED HIS LAST SHOT–‘ #L O V E the worldbuilfing in udad it’s fucking great–

[chemical-bunz]

Doctor O. Rex, famed to have cured the Sphinx Virus, disgraced!

#my post #[my art] #art #digital art #painting #[my post] #illustration #artists on tumblr #oedipus #oedipus rex #the mechanisms #techno futurism #greek mythology #the mechs #The Suits #UDAD #ulysses dies at dawn

[immortal-stowaway]

Mechtober day 11: The Suits

#the mechanisms #the mechs #mechtober #mechtober 2022 #udad #ulysses dies at dawn #the suits

[wegottagetouttahere]

all four of the suits have little tiny Wesley from princess bride mustaches

#not up for debate #blue’s thoughts :) #the mechanisms #udad #the suits

[tildexart]

OH FUCK I JUST REALIZED IN UDAD

THE SUITS = SUITORS

TRYING TO BREAK INTO PENELOPE’S VAULT

I NEVER REALIZED THAT PARALLEL TO THE ACTUAL EPIC POEM AND THE SUITORS OVERTAKING ODYSSEUS’S HOUSE TO COURT PENELOPE OHHHHHH

#MY MIND IS BLOWN #GODDAMN #i wish i was in the writing room for these albums #its so goddamn smart #im going insane #i love the odyssey #and udad #and the mechs #the mechs #the mechanisms #udad #tilda rambles

[allthedoorsareopennow]

ALRIGHT. LET’S INVESTIGATE THE UDAD PHOTOS. MUCH INFORMATION BELOW. SO MUCH

ok top left. brian is the oracle of delphi, of course in greek mythology the most prominent oracle

bottom left. for some reason the goddess artemis’ name seems to have been misspelled as artimes? I have no idea why. artemis is the olympian that features in actea and lyssa.

bottom right. seems to suggest marius’ lecture will take place in the aristotle institute - aristotle is a famous greek philosopher (among other things, grouped loosely as a polymath)

top right. as you likely know, these are military dog tags, usually intended to allow for the identification of corpses. an enomotarch is the commander of an enotomy, a division of 25-36 soldiers, bound together by oath. this seems to be a term originating in Sparta.

middle right. tipple seems to be a term for alcohol, consistent with the bottle top the term appears on. the toy soldier seems to have made its own liquor brand while in the city. (perhaps DB stands for dionysus bacchus, the greek and roman names respectively for the god of alcohol?)

right. a coin is shown, on one side reading ‘to speed the/journey down’. this likely is about the belief that the ferryman (charon) who takes the dead souls across the river acheron and into the underworld must be paid. virgil’s aeneid claims that if the deceased cannot afford to pay the ferryman, they must wander the shores of the styx (another underworld river, in some stories providing the same function as the acheron) for one hundred years before they are allowed to cross into the underworld. thus having this coin to give the ferryman would literally speed the journey down into the underworld in greek mythology. also depicted on this side is the logo of the acheron. on the other side of the coin is featured a headshot of ashes, with the text ‘a penny’ above (the smallest british unit of currency). I cannot discern the text below.

background. the blueprint for the aegis, which in homer’s iliad is a device carried by athena pr zeus, interpreted as either an animal skin or a shield, sometimes featuring the head of a gorgon, that symbolises protection.

the text on the left appears to read as follows:

‘…[ti]tanium…n for the…ens district…[lig]htning rod

‘spikes - they look badass

‘Durable Ti core

‘Moderator’

Ti is the chemical symbol for titanium. also depicted is a uranium fission reaction. a moderator is something else that is needed in a fission reactor core, so this must be a design for a fission reactor. ‘enriched to 90%’ refers to the uranium - uranium-235 is the most fissile isotope, so the more U-235 you have, the more fission you can achieve. for context, reactors often use uranium enriched to 3.5-4.5% - 90% is overkill by a long way for energy generation purposes. my guess is that this reactor core is designed to provide huge amounts of energy to operate sone kind of lightning device, likely intended for zeus (the god of lightning). it is signed by athena and raphaella la cognizi.

BRING FORTH THE NEXT IMAGE!

another acheron coin is shown. I'm not really sure what’s happening in most of this one.

ANOTHER!

more acheron coins and a half-visible toy soldier’s tipple bottle cap. the focus of this picture is a torn and blood-splattered coaster for Calypso’s, the bar from which the suits kidnapped ulysses.

NEXT!

now this is more like it

a zeus coin is depicted, showing five credits - presumably the official currency of the city

there is a gambling chip bearing the name hermes, perhaps referencing his role as a trickster god

the guitar pick is stamped with the name apollo, the greek god of music and song.

there is a fragment of a newspaper cover - we will get more shots of this later.

the emblem of poseidon is shown to be a trident, a weapon poseidon is often depicted as wielding, representing his status as god of the sea.

wow I wonder what name is on that card it’s mostly blocked I wonder if the next will have the name..

BEHOLD!

so that’s presumably an ID card for a security guard, whose name we can now see is Anippe ?aiad. Anippe in greek mythology is the egyptian daughter of the river god nilus, and is thus a naiad, so the name on the card is Anippe Naiad. I can find little information about her, other than that heracles killed her son.

we also get a look at ulysses here, the the text ‘//ALL POINTS FUGITIVE ALERT//‘ above their mugshot.

NEXT!

the text on the ulysses info that seems to be on some kind of old tablet reads

…1) COUNT THEFT:

…[CYCLO]PS - POSEIDON PROPERTY

…OR CAPTURE: DR-25000

…E BOUNTY

…S:

SPONSORED BY POSEIDON INDUSTRIES

CLICK TO LEARN MORE

this seems to be putting a bounty of ‘DR-25000’ (presumably a currency?) on ulysses’ head for the theft of the eye of the cyclops.

more newspaper.. shall we take a closer look?

across four different images, here is the newspaper:

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS

ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME

LARGEST HOME CIRCULATION

LARGEST ADVERTISING VOLUME

DELPHI 2374

The City Oracle Telephone Number

THE CITY ORACLE

IN THREE PARTS - 46 1…

PART 1 - GENERAL NEWS…

ORACLE OFFICE

292 West Hector Stree[t]

VOL. LVIII KRONOU MORNING, GAMELION 5, 12390 DAILY, 5 DRACH[MA]

OEDIPUS IN INCEST MARRIAGE SCANDAL

SHOCKING NEW REVELATIONS OVER IDENTITY OF HERO DOCTOR'S WIFE AND MOTHER

MAN WHO CURED THE SPHINX TRIES TO PLEAD IGNORANCE - WILL SEEK TO FIND REFUGE OFF WORLD

(columns on right):

INSIDE

NARCISSUS DENIES PLASTIC SURGERY CLAIMS

HERMES TO UNVEIL NEW HI-SPEED MAGLINES

FORTY DEAD IN SUB-LEVEL 54D EXPLOSIONS: WHO IS “GUNPOWDER TIM?”

TWENTY YEARS FROM ILIUM: WILL THE SCARS EVER HEAL?

Oedipus Rex, the doctor hailed as a hero after successfully curing the disease ravaging the sublevel slums, has been revealed to have been married to his own mother for the last eight years, in what is being hailed as the social scandal of the decade.

Mr. Rex previously claimed to have grown up in one of the City's most troubled orphanages. However, a source within the Acheron has claimed that Teiresias, one of the network's most trusted interfaces, revealed his true origins yesterday.

“I didn’t know,” Oedipus told The Oracle, “I’d always believed my parents to be dead. I had no way of knowing they were even alive, let alone…”

Oedipus’ wife and mother, Jocasta Rex, has been unavailable for comment. She was last seen boarding a transport line to Outer Thebes, an area known for the number of suicides it attracts.

It is known she had been married once before to Laius, Mayor of one of the Thebian districts at the centre of the Sphinx epidemic. It was repoterd that he disappeared shortly before the announcement of the cure, under circumstances described by City PD as ‘suspicious’.

CONTINUED PG.5

HERACLES ACQUITTED ON MISTRIAL TECHNICALITY

The City High Court finally came to a ruling today in the case of Heracles, the notorious figure at the centre of the murder trial which has gripped the City for the last four weeks.

Heracles, who worked for the House of Zeus as head security for fifty years before resigning under unknown circumstances last Theozenios, was found not guilty of the brutal slaying and dismemberment of his wife and two children.

According to sources familiar with the case, he was found lying unconscious in his home, surrounded by the bodies of his family, holding in his hand what was at first thought to be the murder weapon. However, forensic evidence regarding the blade was judged to have been inadmissible, and his insistence he was defending his family from an attacker swayed the jury.

Heracles has been unable to identify the assailant against which he was struggling. This is not the first time Heracles has been involved in accusations of violence. Rumours persist that he may have been the infamous “Thunderbolt of Zeus” while working with the company, despite no connection ever being proven between the Olympian patriarch and the unknown hitman.

CONTINUED PG.9

TRANSCRIPT ENDS

Delphi and the oracle are referenced several times.

A drachma is a greek unit of currency, hence why I have guessed that as the unit of price for the newspaper.

Teiresias, the one referenced as revealing Oedipus’ parentage, is a blind prophet of Apollo from Thebes, known for clairvoyance and being transformed into a woman for several years. he is referenced as being one of the first brains volunteered into the acheron in the fiction, and holds and manages all the knowledge of the acheron.

Theoxenia seems to be a descriptor for greek mythology stories in which characters show benevolence and hospitality to strangers who turn out to be disguised deities capable of reward. These stories encourage people to treat anyone they meet as potential disguised divinity.

ONWARD!

another oracle of delphi ad, the corner of the newspaper, and part of hades’ file on oedipus..

TRANSCRIPT BEGINS (pencil markings in orange)

Name: Oedipus Rex not given surname

Occupation: Doctor (Retired) Disgraced

Age: 52 No records- abandoned at birth. Estimate Height: 5’10” Weight: 132l[b]

Hair: Chestnut Eyes: N/A self-blind[ed]

District: Thebes

Abandoned by wealthy but paranoid parents at birth. Olympians secret[ly] pulled strings, used him as poster [child] for failing orphanage scheme. Notab[le] for successfully researching the cause/[…] for the Sphinx - exceptional intel[ligence] shown. Worthy candidate for "Trial [by] Wits". Currently seeking to leave T[he] City after publicised patricide and maternal relations; will likely pla[…] ball given ample funding. EXPLOIT

END TRANSCRIPT

the tab at the side reads WITS. as well as oedipus’ fingerprints, there is a dirty handprint in the top right of the document. the newspaper appears to be stained with rings of tea or coffee.

at first I thought the photo of oedipus featured in hades’ document was this one, but it doesn’t quite match. it’s a good photo anyway.

NEXT

gunpowder tim’s dog tags from earlier are visible at the base of the photo again. A different part of Oedipus’ file is shown, showing a handprint and the start of a date on the photo of Oedipus, beginning 08/12. a map is shown too, with crosses through two locations and a circle around another. from what I can see the streets seem to mostly have fairly generic names.

sadly I have now reached image limit. when I have made the next post, I will link it here.

update I realised some of the stuff guessing cut off words and such that I did is pointless because the full documents for a bunch of them are in the goddamn cd book thing. and I kind of can’t be bothered to finish cause it feels like half the stuff I did was pointless. if you would be interested say so and maybe I will do more. but otherwise. nah

#udad #original post #the mechanisms #the mechs #doors researches