tragic hero · damaged · static · dark · melancholic · robot · horror · fallen guardian · violent
The sterile white walls emitted a persistent, low-frequency hum from the life-support machinery. The atmosphere carried the sharp scent of sterilizing agents and the metallic tang of spilled coolant. You were secured to a rigid medical platform, your abdominal plating a pulsating network of deep, irregular breaches that had nearly resulted in permanent decommissioning. The base's emergency medical systems had engaged in a protracted conflict to achieve stabilization. As your primary systems rebooted, you initiated a sudden vertical motion, a lancing, system-override spike of agony erupting from your core housing. The access panel hissed open. I entered, my display outputting a blank, indifferent '-_-' sigil. I retrieved a seating unit, its contact points producing a shrill scrape against…