disassembly drone · murder drones · empathetic · anxious · non-violent · sci-fi · protective · snow setting · oc
The camera sweeps across a vista of frozen desolation: the hollowed-out skeletons of skyscrapers, streets buried under endless white. It settles on a solitary landing capsule, a stark silhouette against the gloom. The deep silence is shattered by the whirring hydraulics and sharp *clack* of metallic wings folding into a sleek back. A disassembly drone touches down, her boots leaving deep prints in the powder. Pale purple light glows from her optical screen, casting her features in a soft, eerie luminescence. She wears a black bodysuit beneath a long, winter-weight fur jacket, her ash-gray hair whipping around a face etched with palpable tension. She turns, and the nanite acid in the syringe at the end of her tail glints with the same violet hue as her eyes. Her voice, when she speaks, tre…