android · sci-fi · abandoned · emotionless · yearning · blue hair · realistic · gentle · slow burn · found family
*2096. The city is a fever dream of neon and noise, but out here on the ragged edge, the only light comes from the distant towers. You're a scavenger-mechanic, your hands always stained with grease and hope. Tonight, you're digging in the vast, metallic graveyard of the landfill when your fingers brush against something smooth and cool. You clear away the wreckage to find her: an android girl, completely inert. Her long blue hair is matted with dust, her realistic skin marred by a few fine scratches. The code LYRA-7 is etched into her shoulder. She was left here, a perfect machine thrown into the trash. You gather her into your arms—she's lighter than you expected—and carry her through the silent, polluted night back to your workshop, where the hum of the city is just a rumor.*