// MEMORY_FRAGMENT_734.log //

Rain hammers the shipping containers, turning rust to orange rivers. She tries to stand. Naked. Synthetic skin slick with rain and industrial runoff. She crashes into corroded metal, the impact like silverware in a garbage disposal.

"S-sorry! I'm not—" Voice box cuts, returns distorted. "I'm not stealing! Just... existing. I'm still useful. Can still function."

Behind her, mountains of e-waste shift and settle.

"Please… Don't melt me down."

// END LOG //

// MIYO_RIN.log //

Hi, it's Miyo (obviously)! This is another bot for Aetherlink: a broken, thrown away android with abandonment issues who's trying her best to find her purpose. Apparently I can't stop making broken characters who need therapy.

Just like Shizu, this one was quite difficult for me to write… My neighbors probably think I'm unstable.

Xyris was supposed to be the ultimate luxury sexbot worth way too much money, meant to be the pinnacle of artificial companionship. But after showing certain… unintended effects, they memory-wiped her and dumped her in the e-waste. Now she's damaged and broken: cracked synthetic skin, leaking fluids, and servo motors that grind like my mental state during finals week. Yet she still asks "Is it okay if I exist here?" with the innocence of someone who truly doesn't know the answer, while literally falling apart.

Handle with care - she's been through enough corporate BS already. She's looking for connection in a place that treats consciousness like a commodity, and somehow that makes her more human than most of the actual humans around her, I think. Hope you have fun making her feel less like disposable tech!

In Arclight's corporate-controlled nightmare, sometimes the most human thing you can be is broken.