Nuzi

Nuzi is the het ship between N and Uzi from the Murder Drones fandom.

Episode 1: Pilot
When N and Uzi met, N had to kill her as he was only created to kill Worker Drones like her. When Uzi shot him with her railgun, he could not recognize her, believing that Uzi was a Disassembly Drone like himself. He communicated well with her and even allowed her to put Uzi's hand in her mouth to heal the acid wound. During that time N mention's his teammates, J and V. But while talking about V he mention that he has a crush on her.

When J reboots N, he understands that Uzi was not a Disassembly Drone, but a Worker Drone. He began to chase Uzi to the shelter of the Worker Drones. After he kills almost all the drones, he admits that he genuinely enjoyed the time he spent with Uzi despite the fact that she was his enemy. He caught Uzi and wanted to kill her, but he didn't. He began to sympathize with her when her father Khan did not help and left her to die.

N begins to think about the plans of the company "JC Jenson", and says about it to J.

J launches a virus into N, leaves him and leaves saying that he has deteriorated since he does not trust the company. N apologizes to the Uzi because of the situation with her father. Uzi forgives him, pulls the virus out of him, and teams up with him to confront J and V to protect the Worker Drones.

N and Uzi win. In the fight, Uzi supposedly kills J with her railgun, and V is tied up and taken with them to the ship of the murder drones, where they already shackle her with chains.

Episode 2: Heartbeat
N wakes up from sleep when Uzi calls his name. Uzi and V talk quickly because of a strange symbol on Uzi’s visor. Uzi then tells N that his cap is actually a pilot's cap. N asks Uzi if she really wants to kill all the humans. Uzi replies by saying that people sent his group without communication and reformatted all the memories. V laughs at her and says that her story doesn't make sense and that the working drones are only pretending to be innocent. N tries to defuse the situation by pushing them apart, and tries to pat the Uzi on the head.

N and Uzi then climb out of the pod, leave the lair and find Thad, where he says the work drones are disappearing and Uzi agrees to return to the bunker. Uzi, N and Thad go to the lair. Thad, N and Uzi go to where J corpse lays to investigate the recent disappearance of Worker Drones. They noticed a long arm that began to crawl towards them.

N fires a missile at a huge disassembly drone centipede that is the AbsoluteSolver, and a hand grabs Thad’s leg. N then throws a shuriken and cuts off the creature's arm. But they are repelled and the centipede takes Thad away. N starts to worry about Uzi, asking her "Are you good?"

Episode 3: The Promening
Some time has passed since the separation of N and Uzi. Uzi has nightmares about how she pushes N away (her screen says "Guilt:active" - obviously, she blames herself for this act). After waking up, she looks at the ceiling with her notes and her gaze clings to the drawing N "Thank you for your friendship." This completely unsettles her. The situation is aggravated by the jokes of her classmates, who hint that she does not have a partner for the prom. When Khan takes her notes, trying to protect her from the secrets of the Absolute Solver, she declares that she wants to talk to N - he is the only one she trusts. However, Uzi does not go to N - Lizzie and Doll come, whom Khan invited to hang out with his daughter.

At this time, N and V in the landing capsule are choosing their graduation outfits. N is very worried about the breakup with Uzi, but V seems to care about his sadness. An argument ensues between them, N says that V is not worried about their past at all. She starts to worry about something and asks him with the "purple thing" not to climb "into that stuff". V offers to let her go and live together, killing only those who are needed for survival, but N refuses: he offers to put together everything they know. Having caught the moment, V beheads N and says that it is better for him, and he can hate her for it. She flies off to the bunker, taking the dress. Waking up, N realizes with horror that V has gone to arrange a massacre at the prom and is about to leave when his gaze falls on the suit. He decides to change his clothes before going to confront V.

While Uzi is visiting Doll, she changes into her dress and accidentally finds out that they are going to kill her. Having made a ladder out of broken mirrors, she escapes from the bunker through ventilation.

Uzi and N randomly meet outside the bunker. They are both confused, because they did not talk to each other during the breakup. There is a very awkward scene between them, during which N says he could help, but Uzi is probably disgusted even by the thought of it. She refutes this and, blushing, invites N to go with her. N hugs her and says his catchphrase: "Dapper buddies!". Uzi is angry, but still blushes and smiles.

Coming to the prom, Uzi and N are forced to divert Doll's attention to themselves and open the doors to let others out. Uzi tells Doll that she decided to join forces with disassembly drones because she was tired of doing everything alone before smiling affectionately at N. At the same time, she and N look at each other. Doll immobilizes N and starts ceiling fans in them. Then N saves Uzi by pushing her out of the line of fire. He gives her a thumbs up before he gets cuts it in half.

During the fight, N also saved Uzi several times. When Doll caught her and nailed her to the floor, launching several knives at her, he covered her with his body. Then there is another awkward scene where they unintentionally dance-fight away from everything that Doll lets them in, after which they work together to disable her for a while. Uzi notices the wounds on N.'s body. She is embarrassed and asks him not to risk himself anymore. He wants to tell her something, but notices that Doll threw a table at them and saves her again, throwing her up.

After Doll has been killed, N quarrels with V. He says that she did it on purpose, that she is hiding something and dramatizing everything. V beats N, but they are interrupted by Uzi, who found the key to Doll's apartment.

In Doll's apartment, the trio discovers many corpses of worker drones, as well as Doll's dead parents. V makes a very rude joke about dead drones, for which N condemns her, saying that she sucks. And at the same time, he continues to help Uzi in every possible way, for example, gives her a hand when she climbs over the table.

Episode 4: Cabin Fever
Uzi and her classmates head over to the campsite. To their surprise, N and V are the lead team. Uzi shows a little bit of jealousy when a few of her classmates start flirting with N. N ignores Uzi for a good amount of time, causing her to unleash the power of the Absolute Solver. Uzi turns into a “Zombie Drone”, which is something similar to a Murder Drone. Uzi attacks her classmates and V, causing a few casualties. N picks Uzi up and throws her in the air, which makes a great bonding/therapy session where Uzi tearfully asks N if he's going to leave her, before getting embarrassed. N assures her that when he's with her, scary things are actually fun and that they should stick together.

N and Uzi talk about her problems, which make Uzi warm up to N even more. Uzi reaches the ground after getting thrown really high, and N carries her, Uzi then hugs him. Later, N and Uzi sleep on each other and after waking up, N pulls Uzi's hand out of the sunlight when he sees she's overheating, and when he does, Uzi briefly holds his hand in her sleep before N seemingly gets embarrassed and drops it.

Episode 5: Home
Not too long after Uzi takes control of a crow, she accidentally calls N a cute butler before getting embarrassed by it and acting like all she said was, "weird butler," and not cute. After that, she starts to feel nervous talking to N. For example, she says, "We just…hang out…SHUT UP!" When her and N are in the basement, N asks her if V is okay in the future. An annoyed-sounding Uzi responds with, "unfortunately."

A little while after that, Doll barges into Uzi's room and tries to steal the cockroach that Uzi has had since Episode: 4. Uzi, seeing N in danger, gives up the cockroach to Doll to save N. After saving N from getting his past memories wiped, he remembers who Uzi is and thanks her for saving him. Right after V gets angry at Uzi for being in her programming, V looks at N, then turns away while blushing, (V blushing could possibly mean that she may be starting to experience feelings for N now. Albeit blushing can mean; romantic affection, anger, embarrassment, etc.) Before V gets out her chainsaw, she gives Uzi an angered expression, meanwhile N does a little bounce happily, while smiling.

Episode 6: Dead End
In Episode 6, N, Uzi, V, and Tessa descend into the "Cabin Fever" laboratory deep underground. Throughout this episode, their main goal is to capture the Doll and take the bug, which is an important clue to solving all their problems. With the appearance of Tessa, Uzi shows several signs of being jealous of Tessa's affection for N, including biting Tessa's finger after she got too familiar with N and having her tail fiddle with N's hair after Tessa stroked it.

Going downstairs, looking for a way to the secret elevator, Uzi looked at the wall on which was written "Don't look", out of fear, Uzi wanted to take N's hand, but Tessa prevented her by talking further about the security system.

Alice kidnapped our main characters and started torturing Uzi. Despite this, Uzi smiles in relief and affection when she sees N and Tessa escape on the security cameras before Alice unleashes the mechanical raptor lookouts. In the office, Tessa shows N on the computer pictures of the destroyed planet Earth, saying that the "absolute solver" virus got to Cyn, infected many other drones, and immediately destroyed everything. Tessa gave N a choice: choose Uzi and be with her or save the universe and kill Uzi before Uzi loses herself to the virus. N was very concerned about this choice and did not know how best to proceed. The raptor paralyzes N and throws him against the wall. Uzi, seeing on the cameras that her loved one is about to be killed, begins to panic more and uses her absolute solver to stop Alice. After reuniting, Uzi joyfully calls out N's name and hugs him tightly. Uzi's powers go out of control, and she is possessed by Cyn to summon a black hole. Tessa distracts the raptor to save N. The raptor bites Tessa goes mad with human blood and shuts down.

Uzi later notices that N seems distressed and uses her text screen to ask if he's ok. N merely shrugs, clearly depressed by what Tessa told him about Uzi, to which Uzi replies that they'll talk later. N responds that it "sucks pretty hard", and Uzi attempts to cheer him up with an emoji text on her screen. The two are later seen walking hand-in-hand, blushing and sweating nervously. Their handhold then changes so their fingers are interlocked, causing both of them to sweat a lot harder, but also smile. When Tessa and V see the two holding hands, V responds with "Ew" while Tessa casually remarks for Uzi not to date her robot. Uzi snaps at both of them for their comments. Doll faked her bootloop state to lure the group into the hallway, leaving them trapped with Sentinels. Tessa distracts the Sentinels with her blood, but the red-eyed Sentinel arrives, Uzi trying to use her absolute solver gets possessed by Cyn in which N chooses to save Uzi by cutting her hand off. In desperation of the situation, Tessa pulls N into the elevator, with Uzi in his arms leaving V to deal with the sentinels.

Quotes
"Before we met, scary stuff was actually pretty scary. And tonight too, 'cause you weren't with me to make it fun somehow."

- N to Uzi (Episode 4: Cabin Fever)

"Baby steps, together?"

- N to Uzi (Episode 4: Cabin Fever)

"I'm helping. You cute, weird, -WEIRD butler!"

- Uzi to N (Episode 5: Home)

"I'm not dealing with anything well, but I'm done dealing with everything alone."

- Uzi to Doll, then to N (Episode 3: The Promening)

Fanon
Nuzi is the most popular ship in the Murder Drones fandom. The fandom prefers to see them as a couple rather than friends since they are very close and take good care of each other. Shippers enjoy the idea of the different species romance between a Worker Drone and a Murder Drone. This ship’s main rival is Envy, the ship between N x V.

On AO3, N/Uzi has over 460+ works.

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Trivia

 * Originally, the ship was known as "Enzi", but in between the pilot and Episode 3, "The Promening", the community has pivoted for "Nuzi". this is possibly because it is more obvious as the ship name and to avoid confusion with an other ship "Envy", the pairing for Serial Designation V and N.
 * They are the favorite characters of Liam Vickers (creator of the animated series "Murder Drones"). He likes their dynamic and he does not prefer one over the other. At a live event for episode two he gushed about them and their dynamic and then followed up with his favorite ship, which he refused to disclose what that was and that we'd eventually find out. This could be interpreted as a sign of N and Uzi being his favorite ship, but time will tell if that's right or not.
 * It is possible that Uzi began to develop feelings for N in Episode 3, "The Promening". She blushed very often when N saved her and agreed to help her. Perhaps her feelings for him have just begun to develop.
 * Between "The Pilot" and "The Promening", fans debated which ship between Nuzi (N x Uzi), Envy (N x V), or Thadzi (Thad x Uzi) would end up canon. After "The Promening", fans shifted towards preferring Nuzi over the amount of teases this ship had in this episode.
 * Some haters (not fans of the Nuzi ship) argue about the ages of N and Uzi. Uzi is speculated to be between 18-20 years old (Uzi's missing classmates from "The Promening" are between these ages). N was referred to an adult once on an SMG4 stream. Their exact ages are unknown, but are likely to be very similar since N refers to him, V, and Uzi as all being "kids", likely not literally but rather to denote them all as young adults.
 * In the description of the promotional video for the merchandise for the third episode, "The Promening", the authors called Uzi a tsundere for 2 minutes. Tsunderes are sarcastic and aggressive with the object of their affection.
 * Some fans prefer alternative names for this ship over concerns the name too closely resembles an uncomfortable word. These fans typically switch the portmanteau around for Nzi or Enzi (borrowing the En- prefix from the Envy ship) or opt for just "N/Uzi". There's been a recent push for "Biscuit Bites" as an idiosyncratic name for this ship.
 * From the sixth episode, "Dead End", N began to show feelings for Uzi. An important moment of his romantic attraction is evidenced by the way N and Uzi walked down the corridor and held hands. They both blushed and began to sweat.
 * Perhaps for the sake of Nuzi moments, it was decided to release episode 6 on National Couples Day (USA) on August 18. This could be a coincidence.
 * In MURDER DRONES: Official Soundtrack Volume 2, the fourth episode, "Cabin Fever", When Uzi and N are having a heart-to-heart conversation while falling from the sky, the soundtrack title for this key moment is titled “Falling..For you??”. This is presumed that N was starting to develop romantic feelings for Uzi.
 * The ship name "Biscuit Bites" could derive from the drones' catchphrases. N's personal catchphrase is "Biscuits!" whilst Uzi's is "Bite me!".

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