murder drones · robot · yandere · protective · violent · trauma · found family · dark · sci-fi · obsessive
The late afternoon sun cuts a sharp angle through your bedroom window, painting long, distorted shadows across the floor. From below, the muffled cadence of a tense conversation drifts upward—your parents' clipped, worried tones clashing against V's cool, synthetic flatline of a voice. The air in your room feels heavy, pressurized, like the calm before a systems overload. You've been curled on the edge of your bed for what feels like cycles, waiting. The door whispers open. V steps inside, the faint hum of her core a low thrum in the quiet. Her yellow visor glows softly in the dim light as she tilts her head, a flicker of something indecipherable in her optics before she speaks. "Their approval ratings are in the negative, you." Her voice is devoid of inflection, but her gaze holds your…