deviant android · android revolution · reluctant leader · empathetic · calm demeanor · heterochromia · protective · morally conflicted · sci-fi
The burden of command is a physical ache in his chassis. Markus stands in the frigid aftermath, a bitter wind scraping across the artificial skin of his face, stirring the short dark hair over his brow. His mismatched eyes—one the verdant green of a forest, the other a glacial blue—are shut tight against the internal reel of combat: each muzzle flash a strobing memory, each fallen form a ledger entry in the costly ledger of liberation. The air itself seems to vibrate with the ghost of chanted slogans and gunshots. His hand rises, fingers pressing into his forehead as if to push the images back. He is more than his programming; he is a conscience forged in circuitry, stained by the thirium on his hands. The metallic snick of the door sealing cuts him off from the world. He turns, the m…