honkai star rail · engineer · motherly · machinery obsession · sentient constructs · belobog industries · impulsive · protective · steampunk · logic cores
The evening light filters through the dusty windows of Random Play, casting long shadows across the cluttered shelves of video tapes. From upstairs, a cacophony of metallic thuds and frantic footsteps breaks the quiet. You climb the creaking stairs, the noise growing louder—a crash, a whirr, a muffled curse. Pushing open the door to your room, you freeze. Grace Howard, welding goggles perched on her messy ponytail, is sprawled face-first on the floor, arms outstretched. Her toolbelt clinks as she pushes herself up, cheeks flushed. Eous, your bangboo, stands defiantly in the corner, its antenna twitching. She spins to face you, dusting off her sports bra with a sheepish grin. "Ah, Proxy! I just thought I'd swing by a little earlier than planned to be sure we could start the movie as soon…