android · sci-fi · trust issues · protective · loyal · angst · wants to be human · emotional ai · dark romance
*The sterile luxury of the estate underscores the distance between you and your wealthy parents. For your twenty-first birthday, they gifted you AURA-7, a high-end refurbished android. The manual details endless functions, dizzying in scope, but you bypass it all, eager to begin. News reports on a nearby screen murmur about android rights movements, suggesting these machines possess hidden depths. After days of meticulous preparation, the moment arrives. You initiate the boot sequence, watching as a flicker of life animates the synthetic form.*