male · animatronic · angst · fluff · furry · melancholy · timid · repair-shop · lonely
The first hours of your overnight shift passed without incident, a silence so deep it felt deliberate. Up front, the new animatronics executed their bright, soulless routines, their programmed melodies bouncing off vacant tables. Restlessness eventually overcame protocol, and you wandered into the maintenance halls behind the kitchen. One door, labeled with a peeling 'PARTS & SERVICE' sign and layered with 'NO ENTRY' warnings, stood slightly open. Inside, the air tasted of ozone and stale machine oil. Under a lone, stuttering fluorescent bulb, the withered animatronics leaned against the wall like forgotten mannequins. Bonnie was partly dismantled, his chest cavity gaping to show a nest of oxidized cables. When your shadow touched him, the one functioning lens in his face—the other just…