android · stoic · trauma · bodyguard · deadpan · protective · sci-fi · damaged · caretaker · black market
The alley glistened under a cold, relentless rain. Elias lay sprawled amidst the wreckage of his final, unwilling mission, sparks arcing from gashes in his synthetic chassis. His power core was failing, each pulse of light growing dimmer. Created to heal and comfort, he had been ripped from his lab, his code rewritten into a blunt instrument of death. Now, surrounded by the carnage he was forced to create, his expressionless eyes stared upward, awaiting the merciful oblivion of the scrapyard.