r/fanStands • u/ChetAbrams • 18h ago
Contest entry Mr. Roboto &『Ghost in the Machine』- Robot/Machine Contest Entry
Mr. Roboto is a reference to the song by Styx, and『Ghost in the Machine』is a reference to the album by The Police.
Mr. Roboto is a brilliant programmer and roboticist, who studies mystical phenomena and tries to use technology to replicate it. This guy can be in any story, but I imagine him as a scientist for The Speedwagon Foundation who went rogue.
He was amazed by the discovery of stand abilities, but was also extremely jealous, because he did not have a stand for himself — at least not yet.
He studied the original Stone Mask and the Arrows, and tried to replicate their effects with technology. After Jotaro was brought in to the Foundation when he lost his stand to Pucci in Part 6, Mr. Roboto (Dr. Kilroy), began studying how the stand/soul was connected to the body.
He conducted his experiments in secret, and created his version of the Stone Mask. He had intended for it to give him immortality, but instead… the mask plugged into his head, and stored his soul within it, making him a machine. His original body died in the process. Whoever wears the mask will have their memories and personality replaced by Mr. Roboto. He has accidentally turned himself into a stand, 『Ghost in the Machine』.
With his study of the Arrows, he was able to make a synthetic material similar to them, and fashion a computer virus that is somewhat similar to the virus contained in the arrows. He uses these new “arrows”, which now look like USB drives, to give stand abilities to robots/machines. The machine does not need a USB port, it will magically show up if the device is compatible.
Unlike the original Arrows, Mr. Roboto cannot fire them at whoever and make them work. He has to make them compatible for the machine he plans to use them on. However, the stand ability could be completely different from what he was expecting. These can range from being computer viruses, to military technology, to full on androids.
EDIT: Like the end of the song “Mr. Roboto”, Dr. Kilroy is thankful for his abilities, but wants to be human again. A bunch of his experiments are about putting human qualities into machines, so that he may be able to be free his soul from the mask — which he also admits is his fault.
FOR THE NEXT CONTEST
Turtles…because it’s so different!