WorkWaffle
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- Murder Drones (Web Series) (7)
- Doctor Who (1)
- Doctor Who (2005) (1)
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Doctor Who: Drones Of Steel, Cores Of Sinew by WorkWaffle
Fandoms: Murder Drones (Web Series), Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
19 Jan 2026
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Copper-9 offered a quick stop for the 11th Doctor and his companion Clara; enjoyable sights and expedient supplies. Yet, when the Tardis brings them to when they need to be, instead of where they want to be, they find the bustling settlement a shattered ruin of smoking rubble and catastrophic ashes. The only thing left alive being the humanoid workforce of worker drones.
Of particular note, three particular angst riddled horrors; fresh off the heels of the trauma of their camping trip gone awry. Though the harsh winds of Copper-9 groan with change and the sounds of new arrivals, at least N, V, and Uzi have each other. Right?
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Cabin Fever catches all unprepared, and none more so than a house divided. Tessa and J's alliance to the rogue trio of N, V and Uzi is on the verge of crumbling. When a last-ditch plot to enact a life-and-ego saving memory wipe fails, the path down to the core of Copper-9 is rendered rockier still, blocking every way around that which Tessa desperately wanted to avoid. Memories of a gala. Yellow tendrils reaching inside her head. The whirrs and clanks her joints now make. One little pig-tailed drone, or the entire universe.
The sequel/continuation of Hostile Corporate Restructuring, picking up right where it left off by bringing in the ensemble. Heavy focus on Tessa and J, though the others get their time to shine. We are now officially post-episode six, woooo!
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- Part 5 of Corporate Consolidation Canon (Triple-C)
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J has been granted a new lease on life, but like a lease made with a used car dealer her debtors may come knocking at any minute. Following her heel turn in Robo-Purgatory, she will have to put in the leg-work to rebuild the trust and relationships she worked so hard to burn to the ground at the behest of the Solver. After reuniting with a friend she long thought impossible to find anew she'll have to navigate the cut-throat competition of Copper-9. Both J and Tessa will be forced through circumstance to grapple with the reality of their existence and relationship. Mystery, Violence, and Industrial Strength Intonation and Innuendo abound as J engages in some Hostile Corporate Restructuring.
The Follow Up to Asset Management, diving headlong into headcannon and AU territory. I don't directly re-tell but will make reference to the events in the show, but for the most part I'm letting the Triple-C cannon stand on it's own merits. This is a world which is far less hospitable, where sharp claws merely get you to the table of threats, and where the tragic implications of events are allowed to fester. The events of the tale start around episode 2, from there it should be easy to tell when we are.
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- Part 4 of Corporate Consolidation Canon (Triple-C)
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Medical drone Nori Doorman is on a scavenging run with her husband when she has a chance to turn the tide of Copper-9’s history. She just managed to subdue and capture a murder drone, yet she quickly finds out that they are not all that they appear to be on the surface.
An AU from my Triple-C AU, coming from the third chapter of Synergistic Limited-Liability Consolidated asking “What if Kahn didn’t panic in the hardware store, and Nori was able to start the plot like 16 years early with all the knowledge she had?” No previous knowledge is required from the other fics to understand this one, but I do recommend SLLC as a good place to start for more context.
Flashback stuff is cannon to the Triple-C, but anything that happens past the start isn't
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Synergistic Limited-Liability Consolidated by WorkWaffle
Fandoms: Murder Drones (Web Series)
08 Dec 2023
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The Triple-C treatment for N,V, and Uzi. We start Pre-Pilot, getting well acquainted with the harsh and unforgiving world of Copper-9; where eldritch forces, worker scavenging crews, and corporate interests collide in a maelstrom of chaos and destruction. Even for the top predators on the planet danger lurks in the shadows of ruin, as their past and future intermix to ensure they are bound to the trauma they carry.
An offshoot of Hostile Corporate Restructuring, SLLC follows the shows cannon whilst focusing on filling out the interconnective tissue. I'm placing a greater emphasis on the worker drones actually being competent, providing a credible threat to the DD's when able to entrench themselves. This isn't a rewrite of the show so much as adding connective tissue in and around the episodes to allow them to better integrate with the wider Triple-C, it's not a strict progression in time here, but I'm generally keeping a pace to get to episode 6 and re-sync with HCR.
In the latest chapter; The surface of Copper-9 is hardly a vacation even if the murder drones weren't there!
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- Part 3 of Corporate Consolidation Canon (Triple-C)
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Something's Strange In Coppersville by Chinerpeton, CipherofAlchemy, ColdNightsWarmBlankets, LadyDaybreaker, Pink_demon, RedOrnament04, SilverTails, Slimy_Appraisal, SparkTrace, Urcasualscroller, WorkWaffle
Fandom Murder Drones (Web Series), Original Work
07 Dec 2025
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Welcome to "Something's Strange in Coppersville", a collaborative AU project from the minds of the Archives Discord.
This project is a collection of loosely connected one-shots set in a shared AU of Murder Drones, located in a small town hidden away in Appalachia. Half the townsfolk are some form or other of supernatural beings, and the other half are quite intent on not finding that out.
Some projects here connect together while others can be read as completely standalone. Every timeline/interpretation is canon here by virtue of this town is surrounded by a weirdness bubble in which time and reality distort and change every single time you blink or look away. Some authors may attach a secondary series to their personal shots/ficlets to collect an anthology of their personal timeline/interpretation of the AU.
Yes the organization is weird here but that's part of the charm. It's meant for you to dive in and read random fics at different intervals or cherrypick whichever ones sound fun to read based on the tags. Think of it like a book of short stories rather than one solid longfic that spans many chapters.
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Corporate Consolidated Canon Oneshots and Off-Shots by WorkWaffle
Fandom Murder Drones (Web Series)
03 Jan 2024
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This is for the things which are sorta in the Triple-C cannon, but are kinda on their own thing. Stuff like A Mothers Rage, which is another cannon in and of itself fit here. So if you're looking for more info within the Triple C here's some stuff, but stuff here should also be able to standalone without any prior knowledge of the Triple C.
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Corporate Consolidation Canon (Triple-C) by WorkWaffle
Fandom Murder Drones (Web Series)
05 Mar 2025
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The Triple-C is a retelling of the events using my personal head-cannons and ideas for how the show might be going. It's a far more tragic take on the events of the show, with a particular emphasis on the connections between characters and how the road to Copper-9 is paved with good-intentions. A few differences between this and the show cannon is;
-J plays a far larger role, not quite main character in the grand narrative but she is in the first two works
- The worker drones are far less comically incompetent here, in fact they're genuine threats to the disassembly drones at times. In the grand scheme of thing Copper-9 is a far less hospitable place than in Cannon, with warring factions and raiding groups being just as deadly as any murder drone.
- I also try to take the robotic nature of the drones seriously. They may be sentient beings but they are still robots, and are capable of feats which really wouldn't work on humans.
-I also will be diving into a couple ships over the course of it, the first one being J/Tessa. I will also be exploring N/Uzi and the impact that N/V has on that one's development.
-And a few more, though those remain to be written out.- Words:
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The world ended, but Tessa… didn't.
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Take Care, It's A Desert Out There by ColdNightsWarmBlankets
Fandoms: Murder Drones (Web Series)
05 Dec 2025
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In the arctic darkness, a drone sits on the bow of a frozen ship, fearing the end. Harpoon in hand, he waits.
Across the frozen ocean, another one raises her wings to take flight in search of food. She's starving.
Beneath the ice, something stirs, waiting for the Long Night of winter to set in.
Bookmarked by WorkWaffle
10 Apr 2024
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In the twilight zone between dead and living, Serial Designation J glimpses a memory she was never meant to relive. This delusion, this phantasmagoria, it reveals in her a corruption she can't stand, failure beyond measure. In the numb, dark aftermath, plunged into an abyss without sights or sounds, she makes the only choice she can -- to fulfill her mission.
Only there is someone out there, a name she doesn't know, yet somehow remembers so fondly.
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- Part 5 of Murder Drones - Headcanons
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The trauma of transformation leaves scars much deeper than a drone's plastic shell -- deeper even than mangled insides twined with flesh. Though N was made to forget, V wasn't. The frame-by-frame image of her hollowing, her kenosis, is burned into her drives; not just her body torn into something else, but being forced to watch N go through the same.
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- Part 4 of Murder Drones - Headcanons
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In the shadowy corridors of Elliot Manor, J, a still newly sentient drone, finds solace in sketching her dreams of corporate success. However, her emotions, particularly related to love, begin to surface, leading her to contemplate her feelings for her fellow newly sentient drone N.
Through a misunderstood drawing Tessa works out a plan to help her drone’s find love. As the plot thickens, secrets unfold, leading to a poignant climax that challenges the boundaries of artificial intelligence and the enigmatic nature of love.
Cannon compliant, prior knowledge not assumed.
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