The Lamp

The Lamp is a bird-like rescue robot built by the Jakarta Institute of Robotics in 1989.

Appearance
The Lamp is made of brass and gold. He's powered by orange matter, which can be seen through the military grade glass coverings on his stomach, shoulders, knees and tail feathers. He wears a brown top hat and vest with a peach polo underneath, with short bishop sleeves and an orange tie. The top hat has a singular goggle with several magnifying glasses on it. His arms are adorned with cream coloured feathers with darker brown tips.

His stomach has a compartment that opens with a sliding door, the container holding orange matter seen on it flattens when he opens the compartment, it connects to a darker section below, which connects his digitigrade legs to his hips which are covered by two peach leg warmers (which hide the welding scars underneath). Those legs have 3 dark claws on the bottoms and reinforcements on the second section, connecting them to the first. His 3 tail feather guns are segmented into 2 pieces and can be disconnected at the hip, revealing a brown trigger and leather handle. The guns are made up of 2 segments, the top one of which can disconnect from its base and move via mechanical spine like a snake's head. His bird-like face is made up of a few plates with short, tan beak that is split horizontally. His eyes are dark brown and orange, somewhat glitchy and distorted. When stable his irises appear gear shaped.

As his necrofied form, Apollo, all his colours are darker and desaturated, bright green blindfold with a single red eye covers his eyes and wraps around his hair and head, his tophat rips open and his hair tuft pokes out of it. The orange matter cases show bright green matter with a single pupil in each, frantically looking around. His beak also splits open vertically, threads still showing and red and green liquid leaking from the open beak, a fan tucked inside where the hole is.

History
Explored in the story, Cracked Lantern

The Lamp was built back in 1989 by the Jakarta Institute of Robotics as a rescue bot for events such as earthquakes. His first day being active was January 25th 1989. Years later, around 1994, he was about to make his debut, when the facility was bombed and attacked. The Lamp tried to save the people who had created him, but was ultimately knocked out and unable to help; as everyone in the facility was killed or kidnapped.

In the early 2020's he was found in the ruins of the facility and brought to Walter Manor where he was then repaired as best he could by Walter Worker Sprint who he then bonded with and was eventually adopted by.

The Lamp suffered lasting damage to his eyes as a result of being knocked with a bat and having debris fall on him, having faulty vision, so hallucinations and playbacks keep playing over his actual vision. He’ll see looming shadows or monsters over people, which have been found out (through his internet connection, those with intranet connections he cannot see.) to be linked to their current emotional and mental state. He was left to rot for a few months until he deactivated, after which a search was done on the ruins of the facility, leading to his discovery. He was shipped to Walter Manor where he now resides and was repaired (still having that faulty vision) and somewhat adopted by Walter Worker Sprint who is one of the creators or MRM-20 or Hiram, who Lampy considers his adopted brother and vice versa. He now tends to the manor's flowers and has even started to make a small garden next to his giant birdcage-shaped room on the roof of the manor.

Personality
The Lamp is terribly cowardly and anxious, often running in quick bursts to avoid "dangers" as a result of his hallucinations. He can be a dork when discussing things he's fascinated in, such as the accordion and his companions, but otherwise he's very shy and can be quite clumsy. He's not very good at socializing, often awkwardly trying to make puns or jokes to no avail. He is deeply emotional and very caring towards people.

Shadows
List of shadows/replays The Lamp sees by themselves or connected to other bots:


 * faces
 * disembodied arms
 * black fog
 * dark tendrils from corners
 * his creators
 * Eris: Broken beaker/ tarnished crown/ necrocore
 * Oddbody: original warbot head design
 * Hiram: dripping human heart attached by dripping nerves
 * Storm: leviathan
 * Koutali: grim reaper
 * Luxine: Adustine
 * Dice: ghost possessing them at the time/Jazz
 * Captain: trees
 * Cleco: clickety
 * Oxygen: Meligo
 * Equinox: skeleton horse
 * Tempest: goat-like form (similar to Gale)
 * Siren: a mash of metal and tentacles
 * Clickety: broken music box
 * Lola: performer
 * Sprint: Pavel
 * Lav: Pavel and or Sprint
 * Suva: multiple silhouettes of distorted humanoids.
 * Dardot: Doll-like parts extending from her robotic arm to the rest of her body.
 * Victor: rook chess piece
 * Rook: Adaki red feather
 * Chernit: Mikhail / the tschernobyl reactor

Orange matter notes:
(Representing healing, comfort and warmth.) The Lamp is powered by orange matter. His creators were unfortunately unable to pass down the knowledge about it to anyone due to the government at the time. With the facility now in ruins very little information about orange matter has been recollected but Walter Robotics has done some more research on it within the boundaries placed by The Lamp, of which there are many as he is very reluctant to let people work on or experiment with him, who is currently their main source of information regarding this particular matter (or variant of it at least):


 * Naturally found in Java, Indonesia since its closer to the equator and is in a tropical climate.
 * Its naturally a liquid around room temperature,
 * Its very warm and has the consistency of blood,
 * Reacts to stimuli by glowing slightly brighter or dimming.

Trivia

 * Fluent in Indonesian and English
 * Plays the accordion
 * Is able to spin his head 360 degrees
 * Has the ability to mimic any sound he's heard before
 * When he experiences too much pressure/ too much of an emotion/ gets overwhelmed in general he speaks Indonesian
 * chirps like a bird