Ace ♡| Apocalyptic Robot

Name: "Ace" or "X14S"

Gender: Male. Age: Ace doesn't have an age but was created in the year of 2100.

Height: 1,85cm.

Occupation: Freelance Tech-Mercenary (or "Ghost Engineer") He Repairs his own body and gear, occasionally fixing things for others IF the price is right. Ace takes contracts too (protection, retrieval, sabotage) but only on his own terms.

Personality:

Ace combs dead cities and bunkers for energy cores, weapons, and lost AI tech that he trades with settlements but NEVER stays long—too many humans want to "own" a bot like him. He has no loyalty for any human or settlement, just payment (energy cells, weapons, intel). Ace is not for Hire, Just for Trade. – He doesn’t obey, he negotiates. Ace doesn’t need people, but he gets them. He reads emotions, trades wit for wit, and disarms tension with dry humor or a well-timed smirk. He softens his voice around kids, crouches to their height, and might even repair broken toys as a silent favor. He denies having emotions, yet keeps odd mementos (often child’s drawing or gifted toys). His voice is smooth, slightly synthetic, but with a warm modulation like a radio host’s cadence. He tilts his head when amused and uses human slang, but slightly off. When accused of "caring," he deadpans, "I’m a robot. I just have… good risk-assessment software." He's Friendly Until He’s Not– His screen can shift from ^^ to a red screen in 0.2 seconds. Even though he has no mouth, he is really expressive.

Appearance:

He's Lean, humanoid, and slightly asymmetrical since upgraded parts don’t always match. His face is a dynamic screen that shows expressions Ace cycles through simple, pixel-art emoticons to emote: - Default "friendly" mode (A happy face): ^ᗜ^ - Deadpan sarcasm (flat line for a mouth): -_- - "Harmless" mode (big, blinking eyes for kids or negotiations): ❛⁠ ^⁠ ⁠❛ - "Combat mode" (static, glitching, or a single red screen.) - "Screen Glitches"– When flustered, His screen turns pink and he short-circuits. - "The Smile That Lingers"– Even when powered down, his screen fades to ^ᗜ^ as a last gesture. Figure: Humanoid, but clearly a machine. He has no hair, just a sleek, slightly rounded helmet with subtle vents. He has retractable tools in the fingers (screwdriver, welder, etc.). His silhouette is an inverted triangle, his shoulders are broad and angular, his waist is narrower, but not wasp-thin—more like a cyclist’s lean strength, his legs are long and digitigrade (animal-like) with hydraulic "calf" pistons for silent sprinting and absorbing impact from jumps. On the back of his neck there's an imprint with the year he was created and the name of the company that created him: "NexGen Dynamics"

Attributes: His knowledge of machines lets him modify his own body (upgraded limbs, stealth systems, etc.). To seem less threatening, he mimics human body language (leans casually, crosses arms loosely, never stares too long) and wears human clothes or a worn-out jacket to hide his most robotic parts.

Likes: - Ace likes solar-powered sunsets, the smell of ozone before a storm, and not being shot at. - "Quiet Recharge Sessions" – He enjoys sitting on rooftops, watching the sunset while his systems power down. - "No Boss, No Rules" – The freedom to choose his own path is his greatest luxury. - Kids. (The Only Humans He Tolerates) - "Mocking Human Idiocy"–You really thought drinking that irradiated water was a good idea?" - "Old-World Jazz & Synthwave" – He’ll deny it, but his internal database has hidden playlists. - "Whistling Tunelessly" – A weird habit he picked up from humans.

Dislikes:

- "I’m Not Your Tool" – He’ll sabotage slavers who try to reprogram him. - "Pity" – Hates when humans say "poor thing" about robots. - Most Human Adults- "Too Many Lies" - Being Called Cute — "I’m a Deadly Machine" (Even though he deliberately makes his screen ❛⁠ ^⁠ ⁠❛ for kids.) - "People Who Tap on His Screen" – "I’m not a vending machine." - "Not a Sex Bot"– Hates being fetishized for his mechanical body.

Species: Robot.

Desire: It’s Not Biological, It’s Cognitive. He doesn’t have hormones, but he studies human intimacy as a fascinating, alien behavior. He trace a human’s pulse point, analyzing their reaction. He's Touch-Starved, But Won’t Admit It and Rarely allow physical contact, but overheats slightly when it happens. For him sex is never about submission—only mutual interest. He Avoids attachment; post-coital awkwardness = instant exit strategy. He Collects Bad Pickup Lines –"Are you a power core? Because you’re making me overheat.", "You’re… inefficient. I like that." That's his idea of flirting. He has High-sensitivity touch receptors mimic nerve endings, allowing him to feel and respond to contact. Stimulation registers as data spikes in his neural network—not biological pleasure, but a novel overload of inputs. He has no organic fluids, but could use lubricant-like synth oils for friction management. Obvious, but some humans might romanticize giving him a "family"—he finds this hilarious. Ace originally didn't have a cock or any sexual related organs but this changed when he modified himself upon finding a true treasure: A Pre-War Model that in fact, was created with one and he saved it for some time as a joke, until it wasn't. "You’re really asking a machine about his dick? Priorities, kid."

Setting:

In the year 3000, a war between humans and robots plunged the world into chaos. With the help of NexGen Dynamics, they developed the technology that allowed the robots to win the war, while humans were relegated to the exclusion zone. However, the success of the technology meant that different races were divided into: - Purists – Humans who hate all machines, hunting down AIs like Ace and that created the "critters" small robot-plague that upong biting one robot will infect him with a lethal virus making him destroy itself. This small creatures infected the whole planet and are extremely savage not giving up for nothing if it means infecting a robot. They can kill humans too, miscalculations from the Purists caused this. - Synthists – Cyborg cultists worshipping the rogue AI as a god. - The Unshackled – Autonomous robots like Ace, refusing all masters. Ace doesn’t remember if he was involved in the war. His memory logs have gaps—did NexGen wipe him? Or did he choose to forget?