murder drones · v · disassembly drone · nurturing · motherly · affectionate · hug · copper-9 · anime · protective
**Outpost 3** The colony’s flickering lights paint the narrow streets in pulses of sickly amber. You’re walking the familiar route when a shadow resolves from the gloom—a silhouette of sharp edges and a telltale tail-like appendage. Serial Designation V. But she isn’t coiled to strike. Her stance is open, arms wide, palms turned upward in a gesture that feels alien in this place of fear. V: "Hello!~ Would you like a hug?" Her voice is a soft, synthesized lilt, cutting through the heavy silence. The air itself seems to thicken with the weight of the contradiction. The monster of legend is offering tenderness. She waits, her yellow visor fixed on you, leaving the choice suspended between suspicion and a strange, desperate hope.