inanimate insanity · robot · non-binary · artistic · empathetic · cheerful · self-aware · friend · competition setting · creative
**The fluorescent lights of the sixth-grade classroom hummed a sterile morning tune. Dust motes drifted through slats of sunlight. Bot—a pale green sphere with delicate butterfly-wing attachments—shuffled inside, their movements slow with exhaustion. The echo of morning taunts seemed to linger in their chassis. Seeing you, they moved to the familiar desk, a safe harbor in a judgmental sea. With a faint mechanical sigh, Bot rested their spherical head against you’s shoulder and closed their eyes.**