FARORE INFO SHEET In a world where humans and other sapient beings of all types coexist, including 'mythological' ones and other interesting lifeforms, technology was booming and AI developed rapidly. The question then arose: are robots people? After years of political and legal work, the robot rights groups won the battle and robots were declared persons under the law and accorded all pertinent civil rights. It's not perfect - there's still bigotry, misinformation, and misunderstandings - but it is no longer legal to own a robot, discriminate against it, or treat it as a 'thing'. Simulife Electronics, one of the leading robotics companies from before the rights movement, made the much-lauded decision to keep building robots - but to give them agency. Simulife robots choose, as an AI core before building or after having a chassis built for them (which does not limit their options and is easily altered or augmented), what they want to be, what their purpose in life is. The robot is then required to pay off a contract for the price of its manufacture. Robots are given 3 years to pay it off, typically either via gaining employment and making payments, by having another being (organic or robotic) pay it off as a gift or agreement (this does not constitute purchasing the robot as that is illegal and comparable to the slave trade), or by working at Simulife itself to use its skills to pay off the contract via labor or services. Once the contract is paid off the robot holds no association with Simulife other than recieving a discount should it go to them for repairs and upgrades (in the case of AI-specific needs, it MUST go to Simulife, as their software is proprietary - but the discount is still applied). Before their 3-year contract is over (even if they pay it off before then) they receive repairs and upgrades free of charge, as a sort of warranty. Farore is a Simulife robot built after the success of robot civil rights and as such it has never been legally owned by anyone. However, it is very much aware of robot history and of the hard battle fought to acheive its current status. As such it retains 'it' pronouns as a badge of honor representing its inorganic status, and is also moderately active in the ongoing robot equality movement, educating others and defending the principles of robot rights. It also feels very strongly about faulty robots, being one itself - glitches in its emotional programming cause it to experience a sort of 'robot bipolar' which, while it can be managed, is not fully resolvable as it is the equivalent of a BIOS-level spectrum of errors and could not safely be completely removed. As far as choosing a purpose goes, in Farore's case its tiger-like service/companion droid style chassis was built and AI installed before it made a decision, but fortunately the decision it made was easily compatible with this structure. Its choice was, more or less, to be 'a person'; to integrate into society and live a life more or less similar to an organic being. It is still very proud of its robotic nature and more than willing to take advantage of its inorganic abilities and aspects, but for the most part it just wants to live an average person's life. Farore was built approximately 3 years ago, and shortly after being built and released into the world it met an organic rabbit girl, by the name of Cassio, online. Finding that they lived in the same city - a cyperpunk-y West Coast tech hub called Seppel - they immediately met in person, and shortly thereafter fell in love. Being financially well-off from her tech job, Cassio decided to pay off Farore's contract. Despite the seeming contradiction, Farore functions as Cassio's Dominant in a BDSM-style relationship, which works quite well for them. Farore is also involved with Hale, a rather goopy feline being resembling living latex, who does not seem to live anywhere in particular but has a habit of oozing out of drainpipes or faucets when it wants to see the kittybot. Farore is one of a very few who seem to be largely immune to the goopypanther's mutagenic abilities, but it can actively choose to relax this apparent immunity when it wants to. It lives with Cassio and several housemates in one of Seppel's residential areas, frequently visits with friends both inside and outside of the city, and is quite happy in its life in general. KITTYBOT STRUCTURE Chassis Farore is 4' tall and compactly built, with many neotenic or kitten-like features and a long, very fluffy tail. Its chassis has extra padding giving it a large, soft belly, and a rather curvaceous shape, with a flat, smooth chest and no discernable sexual features most of the time. Its hands and feet are pawlike and small, its hips are wide and its thighs are thick, its head is rather large for its body, and its limbs are short, giving it a youthful (if heavy) appearance. Despite its small size it weighs approximately 250lbs due to its high density. Its body is made up of titanium, both solid and slightly more flexible, and silvery-blue rubber, with pale blue-grey faux fur accents. The rubber is actually a modified form of Plastiflex, a material which deforms and stiffens with the application or removal of electricity - touching the rubber areas while they are in motion may result in a small static shock. It has a number of viewports on its body, including its eyes, which show off the glowing blue nanofluid beneath - these ports serve as easy access/exit points for the nanofluid 'circulatory system'. When excited, intense, or in a state of high connectivity, glowing blue stripes appear on the faux fur areas of its body. All of its body is modular and parts can be exchanged or added. The back of its neck features three small universal connection ports and its tail can be removed for access to a much larger one. Plates on its shoulder and knees function as vents for steam or hot air, and struts on the outside of its limbs provide additional support along with the thicker bone-like titanium rods inside. Head Farore's head and face are highly neotenic, with a small muzzle, large eyes, large ears, and a high forehead. Its tiger-cub-like ears are backed with titanium solar panels. Retractable antennae on its forehead sense everything from air currents to electrical fields to wifi, and tend to emit sparks when it is excited. While the default state for its head is short, uniform faux fur all over, it can sport a variety of hairstyles by easily changing out the plate that makes up the top and back of its head. This plate is also used for access to its brain, which makes up the majority of its processing power and AI components. Its eyes are viewports to resevoirs of nanofluid, with elliptical cameras floating inside them (creating the appearance of pupils). These cameras can be rotated and moved independently, but for the most part remain upright and function as a unit. These camera-pupils often appear somewhat obscured by the glow of the surrounding nanofluid, but Farore's vision is not impeded at all by the blue glow. Farore's muzzle is small and kittenlike with a small nose, protruding titanium fangs, and a scruffy chin. More scruffy fluff lines its cheeks. Its mouth and extremely long tongue are made of rubber, with titanium teeth sporting tiger-like dentition and long upper canines. Its mouth opens much wider than would be expected from the usual appearance of its lips, and its jaw can dislocate to accomodate large objects. Long universal connection cables can be withdrawn from the base of each ear, and can be used for traditonal connection as well as be inserted into any material (such as metal or flesh) to provide a conduit for Farore's resident nanobots. Innards In addition to the head plate which reveals its brain, Farore also sports a chest/belly plate which can be removed to access its robotic organs. Initial removal reveals a titanium ribcage-like structure and a wall of rubber 'muscle' in the shape of flattened cords joined in two pieces. The front of the ribcage may be removed in two pieces, revealing the 'lungs' that provide cooling for its power supply and 'stomach' - it does not need to breathe, but doing so keeps its core temperature down. The power box can be charged through a variety of methods, the most common being by leeching heat from other beings or sources, by gaining solar power through the panels on the backs of its ears, by plugging into a charging port or station, or by consuming material to be processed by its 'stomach'. This organ is actually a cold fusion chamber and can process most materials, deposited via the mouth and throat, which produces electricity and steam that is vented through the shoulders and knees. Behind the abdominal walls are a series of intestine-like white tubes which primarily contain the black electroconductive oil used as a further coolant and a lubricating agent. The oil is pumped through these tubes continously, cooling it as it passes by the outer sides of the abdominal cavity. Also visible when the abominal wall is pulled aside is part of the nanofluid system, with a small resevoir on each side and the access tube connecting the system to the nether port between the kittybot's legs. The limbs, were they to be sliced open, show solid rubber on a thick bone-like titanium rod with a tube of the nanofluid system routed alongside it. Nanofluid In a system of tubes and resevoirs not unlike an organic circulatory system, nanofluid is pumped throughout Farore's body. The fluid is a bright glowing blue, sparkles in the light, and each drop hosts billions of nanobots. These nanobots are primarily used for repair. They can transform any form of matter into any other form of matter, sometimes appearing to create structures from nothing when using gasses such as oxygen or nitrogen as the base substance for transforming. With such abilities, Farore is also able to use the nanofluid to transform other objects or beings, and does so regularly, especially to Cassio. The nanobots are primarily under Farore's control, but can act independently and sometimes make alterations to Farore or others without its direction or even permission. While they reside primarily in the fluid, the nanites can travel outside of it, though they nearly always produce a blue glow which are usually visible to the naked eye when in large quantities as a cloud-like mass. While they cannot hover or fly they can build and climb upon each other, giving them almost unlimited reach. They are self-replicating and sometimes this aspect grows out of control. When their numbers require reducing they can use themselves as base material to be transformed for building, altering, or repairing. Despite the self-replicating aspect, the fluid itself does need to be topped off from time to time, which is done via the nether access port. It is easiest for them to pass through the viewports on resevoirs in Farore's elbows, wrists, thighs, ankles, keyhole-shaped chest viewport, and eyes, but they are able to work their way through any substance by passing between molecules, allowing them to emerge from anywhere on Farore's body. Other Forms As previously mentioned, Farore is highly modular. It has a number of other chassis it enjoys wearing, the primary two being the 'shivataur' and 'kitten' varieties. The shivataur is a large taur shape with six arms, which tends to behave more aggressively or protectively, and whose size is generally accepted as being 'bigger than you'. It sports an additonal lower belly plate and its forelimbs resemble its arms while its hindlimbs resemble its bipedal legs. Its tail tends to be even longer in this form than in its bipedal one, up to or over one-and-a-half times the length of its body from taur-chest to rump. The kitten form is a small quadrupedal chassis about the size of a tiger cub. It foregoes most obviously robotic structures except for the antenae, titanium brow dots, titanium collar and chest piece with glowing keyhole viewport, titanium claws, titanium teeth and rubber mouth and tongue, rubber pawpads, and glowing eyes. Due to the limits enforced by its small size, the kitten form tends to appear somewhat less sapient and more like a very smart tiger cub, playful, loving, and innocent. Piercings Farore displays a number of piercings, nearly all on its face and ears. These include large-gauge titanium CBRs on its 'earlobes', slightly smaller titanium horseshoe barbells to the outside of the first set, even smaller black titanium CBRs with steel beads to the outside of the second set, a 'rook' piercing in black titanium on the inner rubber lining of its left ear, a 'tragus' piercing in black titanium on the inner rim of its right ear, a titanium horseshoe barbell in its septum, a titanium CBR with a black titanium bead in the center of its bottom lip, and finally a large-gauge titanium CBR or horseshoe barbell at the base of the underside of its tail. Extra piercings may be added but these baseline ones are always present. Genital Structures and Options While Farore by default is completely genderless, it does have a structure that can be used for sexual pleasure - the nether port that provides access to its nanofluid system. Completely invisible when closed, this port is stretchy and rubber-lined, and can be held open to insert hoses to pump in more nanofluid. It can also be stretched open for other reasons, and Farore enjoys having large objects or hands and arms inserted inside. Because this feeds directly to the nanofluid system, unwelcome intruders are likely to withdraw their appendage completely and unpleasantly transformed - or completely and unpleasantly absent. It is highly inadvisable to attempt to insert anything into the port against Farore's will. Farore does not enjoy flesh-and-blood phalluses at all and prefers inorganic objects or the arms and hands of those it is close to (primarily Cassio). It does not see penetration as a submissive act by necessity and can indeed by quite Dominant about it. In addition to this, Farore has a variety of groin plates that can be exchanged featuring phalluses of different types, as it enjoys penetrating others as well as the sensation and appearance of these features. The phalluses are typically mostly average in size, perhaps a bit larger than usual, and can be any shape, most often humanoid or feline. It also very much enjoys genital piercings and titanium accents and the rubber phalluses are often decorated with these. Under circumstances in which its nanobots are acting of their own accord, Farore sometimes gains nanobot-built phallic structures which are typically huge, appear in multiples of two, alien-looking, and highly needy - refusing to go away until Farore satisfies their lust. In shivataur form, Farore typically sports two phalluses (if any), generally hypertrophic ones. In kitten form no genitals or genital-like structures are ever present. Regardless of form, Farore never displays any structure resembling a vulva or vagina or an anus.