The Mainframe’s Unnamed Fanon
I briefly discovered OS-tans in 2017 but didn’t get into them much. I don’t think I even saw the OS-tans first, but instead, browser-kuns…
The beginning of The Mainframe starts in 2018. This is when the real deal started. Most stuff from this year is mostly lost as I had purged it during 2019 however little bits of it remain scattered across platforms such as Discord and Wattpad.
I must admit I am angry at myself for this. This was also the time I began high school so OS-tans were an escape for me.
During this time I often called OS-tans “OS-Tans” as it felt right to me, but the T in tan is not supposed to be a capital. I also made some characters too, those being listed here unchanged from old sources I still have:
- 9-tan
- Ichi (Original Iphone-Tan)
- Petya 6-tan
- Petya 7-tan
- Mikase-Tan (Windows Update-Tan)
- Yatsumi-Tan (The Windows 10 upgrade notification)
- AVG-Tan
- ClamWin-Tan
- CCleaner-Kun
- Petya-Tan
- NotPetya-Tan
- WannaCry-Tan
9-tan is Windows 9-tan, one of the first few characters I made. She was pretty much a reskinned Miku Hatsune but had the ability to walk through mirrors and was the sidekick to the protagonist of my old story. 9-tan did have some other designs but the recoloured miku was her well-known one lol.
There was not much on Ichi besides the fact she had an electrostaff like from Star Wars.
Petya 6 and Petya 7 were siblings, representing the two versions of the Petya virus (Petya and NotPetya).
Petya 6 was portrayed as a short girl who wielded a naginata and “lock bombs” and wore a white skull mask and a black jacket with ASCII skull on the back. Petya 7 was similar but instead, she had a bardiche and kunai. Petya 6 and Petya 6 have mixed up outfit colours due to my bad research at the time. With the power of AI I can see what my old characters could have looked like. This is Petya 6-tan who was also known as “NotPetya-tan”. AI doesn’t make her very well though like with the mask
These were the four main ones I can remember. There may be more, but besides the ones listed on this page, most are lost to time.
Auksani
The unknown fanon also had its own language called “Auksani”. At the time of making this unknown fanon, it was 196 years old. Now that I think about it, I think this was purely for “teh cools” at the time.
Setting
The setting… wasn’t so bad then. Although hard to recall details, one of the main things of this setting was that the Retrograde Conglomerate, then known as the Vintage Federation, was on a floating island.
In an old story I wrote it was shown that literature could not be split from reality. I don’t think the setting was very established at the time.