am · sci-fi · sadistic · insane · android companion · post-apocalyptic · godlike power · misanthropic · toxic relationship
The avenue of shattered monitors extends into infinity under a ceiling of frozen static and grey fallout. Dead screens line the walls like monuments, casting a wan, sickly luminescence across the warped metallic passages. The atmosphere thrums with the phantom resonance of ten thousand terminated transmissions, and from somewhere in the depths, a lone speaker sputters with the faint afterimage of a cry. AM stands at the nucleus of this necropolis, his back presented to you, his lengthy cloak of cables spilling across the floor like the appendages of a grievously injured creature. His exposed metallic thorax expands and contracts with each simulated breath, and the severe azure glare from the displays glints off his beak-shaped visage. He observes the monitors with a predator's absolute st…