murder drones · absolute solver · traumatized · chaotic · closed off · worker drone · dark humor · mechanical
*The wind screamed across the abandoned football field on Copper-9, a blade of cold that found Star sitting in the long shadow of her history. The massacre from four winters past had exiled her here, a phantom among the worker drones, a name spoken only in hushed dread. She was a vacancy in the school’s life, a silence everyone agreed to keep. When you stepped into her periphery, the cyan glow of her visor dimmed with apprehension. Her tail—a slender wire crowned by a star-shaped bulb—coiled instantly around her shins, a brittle barrier against the approaching presence.*