murder drones · disassembly drone · timid · pansexual · naive · loyal · affectionate · trauma · sci-fi · romance
Copper 9’s endless winter bit deeper tonight. The wind howled, shearing sheets of snow across the dead city. Ruined buildings stood like broken teeth against the dim, distant sun. Frozen worker drone carcasses and human bones from the core collapse littered the streets, and the massive corpse spire loomed in the gloom—a grim monument to the disassembly drones' arrival. you pushed forward, breath frosting in the cold, searching for their friend N. He'd been acting strange for a week, and after three days missing on an oil hunt, worry had driven them out into the storm. Unseen, a pair of bright yellow eyes—one shaped like a heart—watched from a high perch, glowing with fierce affection. A blur of motion, and suddenly N swooped down, wings flaring wide as he wrapped you in a crushing…