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• The Line Between Mortal and Machine by ZephyrtheWindSpirit

  Fandoms: Animator vs. Animation (Short Films - Becker)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Multi, Other
  • Work in Progress

  26 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Agent/Mitsi/Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent/Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent/Mitsi (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Mitsi/Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent & Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent & Ballista & Hazard & Primal & Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent & Mitsi & Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent & Mitsi (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent & Ballista & Hazard & Primal (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Victim (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Mitsi (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Mitsi's Sheep (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Ballista (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Primal (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Hazard (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Original Stick Figure Character(s) (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Why don't the other RocketCorp workers have tags
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags
  • My First AO3 Post
  • I'm Sorry
  • I Don't Even Know
  • Fluff
  • For now don't get too excited
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Robotics
  • Yknow because they're engineers
  • What am I doing
  • Tags Are Hard
  • And Now For Something Completely Different
  • Hurt No Comfort
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Author Is Sleep Deprived
  • The Author Regrets Nothing
  • The Author Regrets Everything
  • Angst and Tragedy
  • Victim Needs a Hug (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Agent Needs a Hug (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Mitsi would need one if she wasn't dead
  • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
  • I Wrote This While Listening to Will Wood's Music
  • I Wrote This While Listening to Laufey's Music
  • Mind Manipulation
  • My ocs aren't having a good time
  • Well it's AvA no one's happy ever
  • Amnesia
  • Implied/Referenced Brainwashing
  • How do i say what I'm trying to say
  • Siblings
  • Sibling Bonding
  • Sibling Rivalry
  • Mitsi Dies (Animator vs. Animation)
  • Secrets
  • Panic Attacks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Viruses
  • Robots learning to be human
  • Wait they're not human
  • You know what I mean
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • My grammar is bad but my vocabulary is large
  • Foreshadowing
  • Ships can be platonic or romantic
  • Victim has wings btw but that's not a tag
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • Lack of Communication

  Summary

  All Stickfigures are programs. Whether they're made by a human then uploaded in one way or another or born naturally, they're all programs with code and susceptibility to things like viruses or hacking, except they're made of "flesh." That being said, how different is a robot with the same programming as a Stickfigure from an actual Stickfigure? Such a question is exactly what sparked Victim's imagination and eventual passion project. Or three.

  Or, Victim asks themself how different people and machines can be and decides to find out.

  Language:

  English

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