# ruben, the fat NAS synth

Jun 14, 2025 6 min read

- ruben
- synth
- reference

> just a notice before anything

> this isn’t a replacement for my actual lore/sona page over at https://synth.download/me/ruben/
> , this is just a testing and thought-dumping ground for figuring out any “Lore” and facts about how ruben works and how he generally is as a synth. once i’m happy with what i have here, i’ll probably update the page above with the correct information as here and delete this page. making this public just to have the “Updated” lore.

> and if it wasn’t obvious, yes, ruben is me, i am ruben. i’m treating “Ruben” as a character but i’m trying my best to actually make us identical here. and to what i would prefer if i had the actual chance of “which body would you like and what would you like to do for a living”

> okay cool, now the warning

> this page includes certain fetishes, mainly things heavily themed around fat, and some toppings of vore here and there. there may also being in general some Weird notes or other details here as well. nothing here is exactly nsfw or explicit, but please prepare yourself for these subjects. or just get off if you don’t wanna see it. up to you.

ruben is a fat synth. but also quite a specialized one.

he was made with the specific purpose of being able to handle large amounts/volumes of digital data, whether its storing the data on himself or doing massive file transfers directly between two devices! just not really in a professional setting, he helps out his friends instead… and is also mainly lazy, and chills with the skills of “average hobbyist selfhoster”.

from his purpose, that’s mainly why he’s fat (and shows interest in gaining lots of weight and mass). his body stores a lot of data and energy, possible due to his body having another set of tissues which is compatible with storing and processing data! and that’s work well with the main special thing here:

ruben’s big gut and chest are made entirely of goo! and it’s not just one goo - there’s actually two layers of it inside, layered on top of each other. the outer layer, the thing you’re pretty much always going to look at unless you decide to get inside of ruben, is a thick layer of energy! it just stores energy to save for ruben. on the inner layer, is the goo substance that handles various data processing as well as storage. they both sit inside of a tightly sealed goo container which also allows them to convert and transfer energy/data between the goo and the synth tissues, and vice versa.

the data processing goo has an outer shell that makes it hard to penetrate through (although can manually disable it, and usually does if a friend wants to be inside of him via entering straight from his goo), the data is safely stored together in tightly formed “clumps”, not that they’re visible to anyone when inside nor can exactly be felt. and with the energy layer on top serving as extra protection, he is quite safe from possible data corruption or anything of the like, at least in terms of the goo section of him.

along with that, the inner data processing layer of ruben also serves as his stomach, as well as just being a comfy place for his friends to chill in. any “foreign objects” that enter it (e.g food or creatures) will have it’s own flexible shell formed around it to try and prevent any extra damage that could happen with floating around within the same space of data. the data processing function can also “digest” said “foreign objects” into data, if said data isn’t found to be useful when stored, it automatically gets marked as “garbage data” for him and can be processed into energy instead.

the outer layer energy goo is completely safe to eat if desired, and changes flavor/colors depending on his mood, so feel free to get some bites out of him!

ruben is fully capable of digesting normal foods (although, is unable to digest metals or anything of the sort). he can also belch and release gas (not through the other end though, ) and has emulated stomach sounds and grumbling. this isn’t required at all for him or anything, he just thinks it’s fun to have, especially to tease some friends with~

his head (the top part) mostly consists of the visor, taking up most of the front of the head. it shows the basics, his eyes, the nostrils (which are there! just snuck a bit under where they’re shown on the visor) as well as also being capable of displaying the current statuses for energy/charge levels and how much files and how many gigabytes/terabytes are stored on him. he has little discs attached on the side of his head, mounted near towards the back end of his visor, which have a display embedded in them. his antennas are also attached to said discs, which give his antennas mobility and allow them to move a bit.

ruben, unlike other synths, is fully capable of running actual, computer software! he can run hypervisors with whatever operating system and has compatibility layers for both x86_64 and arm64! (we notice he seems to prefer arm64 whenever possible, assuming it’s probably more efficient)

…we’re still unsure how he can do that, but it seems to most likely be a component somewhere in him that extends his current abilities with extra and proper hardware. we’ve also noticed that his “firmware”, if you will, is also a bit more advanced than other synths, but still relatively minimal.

he gives out remote access to his body and systems to his friends, most of the time using it for, proper things, other times just to bloat him up for the hell of it. (not that he doesn’t like it~)

oh, he also likes being fattened up to hell. give him some zip bombs or overcharge him or something, he’ll be the perfect goobed~