Unfortunately, the explosion of Benedict's steamboat ended hope of future performances at the Bayou Music Festival, but around 1915, the band turned to performing closer to home. A fourth robot, the Steam Powered Giraffe namesake Delilah, was completed three months after Rabbit, and the automatons rode Delilah to victory in what became known as The Weekend War or The Battle of the Colossi.Īfter the success in Africa, Rabbit turned to entertainment, and she and Peter Walter I made a premiere appearance at Ralph Benedict's Bayou Music Festival in 1898. Rabbit was first used to combat an invasion of Thadeus Becile's Copper African Elephants on the Nile River in 1897. Walter tried pointing to other objects to see if he could teach her more words, but all the robot would say was the word "rabbit". To his surprise, the robot repeated the word back to him. Walter pointed to a lab animal in a cage and said, "Rabbit". She received her name when Peter Walter I decided to experiment with the world's first artificial intelligence. Rabbit was the first of the Walter Robotics automatons built in 1896. This is most apparent through her frequent stuttering or false starts, when she repeats herself at length, or when she breaks down during performances. She is a steampunk-style robot, and experiences the most malfunctions of the band due to her antique parts. She is fond of puns, and animals she greets the whales in Whale Song warmly, and when she is not performing, her favourite thing to do is feeding the ducks at Walter Cemetery.
Sometimes, she becomes enamoured with inanimate objects, such as Jenny the Toaster. She also has rather inscrutable motivations, and often does things that seem nonsensical to others. She also has a creepy/scary side, often saying or singing things that are morbid or gruesome. Rabbit is a well-intentioned robot, and has great expertise in showmanship and storytelling from long years spent performing. She usually has long black sleeves and red gloves, which vary in length from her palm all the way to her elbow. She often wears red-and-black vertically striped tights, and sometimes has a short skirt or a long jacket. She usually wears a red or red-and-black striped corset, with a black leotard or black dress underneath. Both her chest and limbs may also be made from impossium. Her limbs, when visible, are doll-like in appearance, pale and ball-jointed. Her upper chest is composed of pale metallic bands resembling a human skeleton or ribcage, though she is usually wearing a blue-matter grille over them. Her neck is connected to her body with copper bands varying in form and appearance, with dark gaps between. There is a large weathered copper plate bolted over her right ear, which she uses something like a hair accessory. Occasionally, she will wear the goggles without the hat, either atop her head or around her neck. Underneath the hat, she wears a black hair wig with colorful highlights in pink, purple, and/or blue. Rabbit is usually seen in a short black hat with Peter Walter I's goggles atop the brim. She sports vents on each cheek to increase resonance during performance, as well as channel hot air away from her Blue Matter-powered Self Oscillating Utilitarian Lifesource core. Her current appearance includes a sleek white impossium faceplate, with gaps around her eyes and lips (and sometimes on her forehead) showing her original oxidized copper beneath.
She is mainly comprised of copper, the softest metal of the band's automatons. Rabbit has undergone the most drastic appearance changes in the band throughout its history, and also has the most varied wardrobe, with frequent outfit changes.
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