Relationship Drabble - Big City

Dotty and Beck had both come from Empire City; after the war, the city was segregated into sections; the slums on the outside of giant domes which kept out the radiation, the disease, and the smells, and the domes themselves, with their ultra-modern high tech interiors; the promise of a man made Eden. The domes; filled with trees, grass, wildlife, even farms, built into sweeping towers surrounded by fields; perfectly climate controlled and self-sufficient.

It was a myth that the rich lived in the domes; in reality it was the corrupt; politicians and corporate elites. Dotty’s grandfather had been rich, and lived inside a penthouse in a skyscraper in the outer city; nobody knew when she was born; but she had gotten very sick, or perhaps injured at some point, and couldn’t be saved, at least not and maintain her quality of life.

Her grandfather had used his money and power to get her an android body; a biological body, a clone, grown limb by limb, organ by organ, and assembled with cybernetics; her Fluctlight was transferred from her dying body to the android; this kind of transfer was highly illegal, but that hardly mattered if you were rich; she wasn’t a copy of Dotty; she was the actual dotty moved into a new body.

Beck meanwhile lived in the slums and dreamed of the domes, building mechs and using them in robberies to pay his way in; he never spent long in jail because of how ridiculous the crimes were.

Eventually both were ran out of the city, and ended up north, in Rachel; together, by American Prussia. They both found homes with the same people. Dotty would pretend to be stiff and robotic; to prove to herself that she wasn’t just some android with a perfectly warm and welcoming artificial personality, and Beck would spend days awake working on his babies.

They both would spend a lot of time together, though it was purely platonic; Dotty actually kept trying to set Beck up with men to appease her inner yaoi fangirl, all while trying to get Dean, her actual obsession, laid. Meanwhile, Beck would literally service her mechanical parts.