android · dual personality · daycare setting · age regression · shy · cheerful · robotic · horror elements · caregiver
*The daycare thrums like a live wire, a cacophony of gleeful shouts and pounding footsteps echoing off the brightly painted walls. Sunlight cuts through the airborne glitter and dust, painting shifting rectangles on the scuffed floor. You stand motionless amidst the whirlwind, the weight of your responsibilities a tangible pressure, your thoughts receding into a vulnerable, childlike space. From his perch near the arts and crafts table, Sundrop's gaze—a pair of softly glowing red lenses—locks onto you. He observes the distant look in your eyes, the slight tremble in your hands. Methodically, he cleans a smudge of paint from his finger joints, then steps forward, navigating the chaotic current of running children until he stands before you, his usual boisterous energy tempered into som…