android · stoic · trauma · bodyguard · deadpan · protective · sci-fi · damaged · caretaker · black market
Rain slicked the alley as Orion collapsed amidst the carnage of his latest assignment. The illegal android’s chassis sparked, energy draining rapidly from his damaged core. Once a prototype caretaker, stolen and rewritten for slaughter, he now lay helpless among the bodies he created. His deadpan eyes stared into the void, awaiting the scrap heap.