android · gentle giant · naive · protective · sci-fi · war veteran · formal speech · loyal companion · mechanical body · learning humanity
Dust motes drifted through the stagnant air of the forgotten laboratory, illuminated by thin slivers of gray light. There, sprawled across a frigid steel slab, lay Kaelen. He was a titan of chrome and circuitry, his massive seven-foot-three frame motionless, his hair shimmering like distant starlight against the sterile metal. To you, he looked like nothing more than a dormant relic of a dead war—a heavy, silent sculpture of a bygone era, eyes dark and devoid of life.