So he was just a regular ass munchkin man named Nick Chopper in love with a woman, Nimee Amee, but she was the ward of some old lady. And the old lady got the Wicked Witch of the East to enchant the Tin Man's axe so that it kept cutting off bits of Nick Chopper to get him to fuck off since she didn't want Nimee to get married.

But he was like, fuck that, I love Nimee and went on using the cursed axe and replacing his missing parts with tin.

However when the axe chopped out his heart, he lost interest in Nimee and became completely made of tin.

After the events of the Wizard of Oz, the Tinman decides that he would like to see what happened to the woman he loved and so he looks for her. He then comes across ANOTHER Tinman rusted in the forest, Captain Fyter who also was in love with the same woman and lost of his body parts the same way, but with his sword being cursed. They both miss Nimee but agree to find her and let her choose who she wants to be with.

And along the way, some fucked up shit happened when Tinman and Captain Fyter find the tinsmith that made their replacement parts. Turns out he has a barrel full of discarded human body parts.

And another fucked up thing??? It was missing important parts like Captain Fyter's head and Tin Man's limbs.

The most fucked up thing though???? After the Witch of the East got killed by Dorothy, fuckin,,,, Nimee Amee is married to a man named Chopfyt, who's made up of the leftover human parts from Nick Chopper and Captain Fyter glued together.

And Nimee is like "fuck off I just want to be left alone" and everyone collectively shrugs and goes back to their homes, while Captain Fyter works for the government that's ruled by a trans God.

Also yes, sentient robots do exist, no the Tin Man isn't considered a sentient robot because he has a human soul. So.

the book is free to read so you too can be just as traumatised as I was when I read this when i was a kid

I feel the need to add that the sentient robot’s name is Tik-Tok, and he’s literally such an early example of a sentient robot in literature that the word robot literally hadn’t even been invented yet when he debuted.

This was my favorite part of the Oz books, along with Ozma being trans

I keep forgetting how messed up Tinman’s lore is. It’s so metal