If I Rebooted Tin Man

Chapter 23: Shorter Ideas

(1) MC: Camping Trip On The Run

They are on the run. They are fugitives. They are being hunted by a crazy sorceress dictator. They need to lay low. Cain keeps trying to explain this.

Meanwhile, Glitch has decided this is now a camping trip and who wants to tell the first scary story– oh, DG just told him what S'mores are, and now THEY NEED S'MORES IMMEDIATELY.

(2) LS: Muglug

Ambrose finally gets to show the quartet muglug. They all have different reactions to his favorite warm soup-drink-thing.

(3) GI: Glitch Has A Hoard

Glitch has a hoard of random things like buttons, rocks, sticks, a surprising amount of platinum strips, a broken comb, a random doll, this cool screwdriver, some acorns...

Because 1) it fits him so well.

And 2) him having crow-like behaviors is funny in completely different ways depending on if he hates, loves, or has complicated and mixed but weirdly strong feelings about crows.

(4) MC: The Average Zipperhead

What if Ambrose's extreme intelligence is the only reason he's mostly functional as Glitch? What if most Zipperheads are much worse off?

The quartet meets one such Zipperhead, and Glitch goes weirdly quiet after seeing what he could've (should've, might still) become.

(5) LS: The Mysterious Case Of The Three Ambroses

Something causes Ambrose to split into three people: the man he was before becoming a Zipperhead, the man he was as Glitch, and the man he was as a half-brain trapped in a jar.

Questions of identity, acknowledgment of Jar!Ambrose's unnoticed trauma, and a freak out from Original!Ambrose ensue. As do shenanigans.

(6) LS: Aunt Emily And Uncle Hank

DG's got her real parents now, but that doesn't mean the love for her old ones is gone. Her robo-parents still loved and raised her, after all. Navigating life with robo godparents/an aunt and an uncle that she used to think were her actual parents isn't exactly easy or remotely normal — but it's not like DG's ever liked easy or remotely normal, either.