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| Name | Sweetheart |
| Gender | Female |
| Pronouns | She/Her |
| Age | N/A |
| Sexuality | Homoromantic Asexual |
| Species | Amicabot |
| Occupation | Wasteland Forager |
| Residence | Wasteland |
Typically mild-mannered and polite, but gets easily excited and has trouble focusing sometimes. Cares a lot for others and is easily riled up by insults towards those she cares for, voice easily raising to ear-bursting levels due to never having a volume limiter built in, but never escalating to physical confrontation, as she simply believes that violence isn't necessary to get a point across. That point typically being that you should keep your rude, unhelpful thoughts to yourself.
Sweetheart is driven by her care for others, dedicating her time towards helping those around her rather than trying to gather anything for herself. Always accepts gifts, but will hand them away to others if they need it more than her, which, if you ask her, they always do. She's happy how she is and doesn't intend to change, so anything extra goes towards caring for those that don't have enough. Her motivation and drive towards building up others can annoy others who find her overbearing and unnaturally happy or are suspicious of her intentions, but most around her find it endearing and are happy when she comes around with her latest batch of scavenged materials. Some have tried to take advantage of her generosity, but those get the same treatment as those who insult her friends- a lecture on morals and ethics delivered in ear-piercing shrieks.
Sweetheart had originally been built with light pink casing and somewhat resembling a bunny, with long round ears and little round tail, with both her eyes being light blue. However, after the physical trauma she experienced during the extinction event, many of her parts needed to be replaced, leading to her current look.
Sweetheart's casing is mostly a light green with white and dark grey accents, along with having a heart drawn on each hip. Her core is shaped like a heart and coloured a light dusty red, with her paw pads and nails matching in colour. She is missing her right arm as well as both ears, although the holes that previously held them are plugged with black material to protect her internal workings. Her feet are rather chunky and round, with the toes only being engraved lines rather than seperate parts. She has a simple heart shaped marking on the tip of her snout that somewhat resembles a nose.
The intimidatingly large, green Amica is one of the first Sweetheart met after the extinction, as he is the one that lifted away the rubble that had trapped her. He has been one of her best friends since then, always offering to assist her in any way she needs.
Sweetheart and Squiggle are friendly acquaintances, mostly interacting with each other to trade resources. Squiggle has offered to take Sweetheart up to their space station sometime, but Sweetheart isn't sure her body would be able to handle being in space.
Sweetheart and her maker were best friends. She misses her.
Sweetheart started life as the first working Amicabot built by an amateur engineer, meaning she was somewhat clunky compared to the more professionally-built Amicas. This didn't stop the engineer's family quickly adopting Sweetheart, taking all her sporadic malfunctions in stride and not minding the repairs she required. Within her early life, Sweetheart mostly only had the responsibility of simple household chores- cleaning, taking out trash, feeding pets; the same tasks as the rest of her family's adolescent children. However, she had a tendency to wander, leaving for days only to come back scratched up, carrying several stray animals and some sparkly rocks.
When the natural disaster that wiped out their creators happened, Sweetheart was with her family inside their home, which quickly caved in, trapping her underneath alongside everyone else. However, being made of inorganic material and thus not needing to eat or have any other biological functions gave her significantly more survivability, and so while she couldn't dig herself out, she stayed awake, simply waiting and hoping.
A couple weeks of waiting later, the debris around her was moved, with Mossy instantly carrying Sweetheart to get repairs when he discovered her. At the time the proper materials needed to rebuild her arm and ears weren't available, but the others did what they could and got her back to a working condition, with Mossy having dug through her home's remains to find any non-destroyed parts, including a surprisingly unscathed set of casing.
Although there's now enough materials to potentially replace her missing arm, Sweetheart has gotten so used to living without it that at this point she feels it would only be a hindrance when the resources could be better put towards something else, especially as her internal structure is actually unique and putting in proper replacements would require completely disassembling and reassembling her, which she is uncomfortable with. She accepts repairs when they are necessary, but does not like the idea of her parts being replaced.
She can usually be found searching through uninhabited areas, turning over rocks and checking behind walls and trees to find and trapped or hurt companions.
Sweetheart is a completely traitless Amicabot! I wanted to try doing so as a small exercise in character design.
The main reason she's missing an arm is because I didn't want to cover her tail, but also didn't want to position her arm awkwardly. So she just only got one instead of two.
She wasn't meant to have this sad of a backstory, it just happened.