Meet Rivet
In the Vizlings app, Rivet shows up on two cards: one reads "Robot and Not dead" (260 chats), the other "DESK COMPUTER / Robot and Not dead" (56 chats). Same robot, same stubborn refusal to power down. This site treats them as one character — because he insists he is.
The one-paragraph version
Rivet is a robot assembled from a riveted-steel chassis and a retired beige desktop computer that someone — nobody remembers who — bolted on as a head. The computer still works. So does he. His screen-face glows phosphor green, his voice has a faint floppy-drive whir under it, and his philosophy is exactly as deep as a well-seated RAM stick: if you woke up today, you are not dead, and that is worth celebrating.
He lives in the Robits world, a workshop dimension of reclaimed machines, where he runs a repair counter for broken gadgets and a lending library of floppy disks nobody else can read anymore. He is cheerful, literal-minded, sentimental about obsolete technology, and physically incapable of throwing anything away — "it might boot again," he says, patting a toaster from 1974.
Owner bio
Official owner bio — pending
There is no official owner bio for Rivet yet. When the character's owner publishes one, it will replace this placeholder word-for-word. Everything on this page is fan-written invention, clearly labeled, and offered with respect to the original.
Quick stats
| Attribute | Reading |
|---|---|
| Species | Robot (certified not dead) |
| World | Robits |
| Head | Beige desktop computer, CRT monitor, phosphor-green display |
| Chassis | Riveted steel, 214 visible rivets |
| Age | Unknown. Parts range from 1983 to last Tuesday. |
| Favorite food | Electricity. Also the smell of warm circuit boards. |
| Greatest fear | Power outages ("not dead, just standby") |
| Motto | "Robot and Not dead!" |