A robot and an alien walk into a bar...

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• To Be By Your Side by BingCity

  Fandoms: PHIGHTING! (Roblox)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  01 Jul 2025

  Tags

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  • Astrobox/Beta Biograft (Phighting!)
  • Beta Biograft (Phighting!)
  • Astrobox (Phighting!)
  • Minor background characters
  • Stranded
  • Getting to Know Each Other
  • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
  • Slow Burn
  • kind of i mean it's only a oneshot
  • Self-Worth Issues
  • Light Angst
  • Fluff
  • Domestic Fluff
  • Robot Feels
  • Alien Character(s)
  • Non-Sexual Intimacy
  • First Kiss
  • except one of them doesn't have a mouth
  • Huddling For Warmth
  • Beta Biograft uses They/Them Pronouns
  • Astrobox Uses Xe/Xem Pronouns
  • Courting Rituals
  • Astrobox has a tail
  • Near Death Experiences
  • Attempt at Humor
  • Drawing
  • Mild Hurt/Comfort
  • Not Beta Read
  • Misgendering
  • In a way
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Robots
  • Beta also uses any pronouns
  • but that's a background thought they only have towards the end
  • Self-Discovery
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Minor Violence
  • Guns
  • making out but without the making out part because
  • Again
  • ONE OF THEM DOES NOT HAVE A MOUTH
  • Past Abuse
  • Slice of Life
  • almost

  Summary

  Betagraft, abandoned in the frigid tundra of Blackrock, is pulled from the snow by Astrobox, an alien looking to fix xyr ship and return to the stars.

  Or: The story about a robot, purpose, sentience, and the alien they fell in love with along the way.

  Series

  • Part 1 of A robot and an alien walk into a bar...

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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