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Sandrone always knew her purpose on this world was meaningless.
I mean who would want to be made to be the replacement of a mans little sister?
She doesn't contemplate it anymore, those days were long gone the moment he left her out in the rain. She has a new purpose now anyway, and that's managing her workshop and getting through life. Shes changed her apparence quite a bit to seperate from looking like that mans sister, such as painting freckles in herself, given herself glasses, and cut her hair short. Life has been relatively quiet since she's moved to Nod Krai, she's gotten rather used to its strange land and even stranger residents. She's even made quite a name for herself using her talents to repair a multitude of things, A lot of people are foolish with their machines it seems, she's not complaining, she gets paid for it. Now there is one current issue as of late, and that is...
"SANDRONE COME HELP KNUCKLE DUCKLE IS GLITCHING AND WONT LET ME DOWNNNN!!!" A young girl with pink hair exclaims, with her cozy hoodie and crocs, otherwise known as Aino. And currently she is hanging off one of knuckle duckles arms with her mechanical tail.
Sandrone sighs, having dealt with this problem many times before yet Aino refused to listen to her advice, this girl was stubborn about learning from her yet begged for her help the moment things go astray.
"I told you exactly how to fix it last time, how on teyvat did this happen again!?"
"I DONT KNOW BUT PLEASE HELP!" Sandrone rushes over realizing Aino might actually be in trouble for once, and kicks the large duck right near where some wiring was, causing it to crash and go still.
Aino fell from its arm as Sandrone caught her and held her to her chest, this time was far too close for comfort. Aino sniffled as she clung to sandrone, clearly genuinely frightened this time as Sandrone stands there awkwardly holding her, not sure how to comfort her.
"Why didn't you call for Ineffa? She wouldve been able to easily help you." Sandrone said as gently as she could, wiping tears away from Ainos face.
"I-Ineffa went to go get more sweets because I was behaving good, so she isn't home right now"
"Ah, I see, try not to do risky things without her or at least me around alright?" Aino nods as Sandrone carries her back home.
Right, her current issue is this young owner of the krumcake workshop, whom has decided that Sandrone is her rival and that she must seek her out for every little thing. The girl was smart, not just for her age in general, she was just naturally intelligent. While she isn't Sandrone level, her work is pretty close in some ways, such as her giant laser in the town. At first Sandrone found her to be a major annoyance with all her huffing and puffing, but over time its gotten endearing. She even helped Sandrone out on some occasions.
But of course for every one time Aino helped her, Sandrone had to help her 10 more times.
Once they got to Ainos residence she opened the door and laid Aino on the bed, before smiling softly and ruffling her head causing Aino to whine.
"What was that for!?"
"That's what you get for not listening to me." Sandrone smirked, messing her hair up even more. Before turning to go fix up Knuckle Duckle, Aino can usually handle fixing it up, intelligence isn't a problem, but she's not exactly strong enough to manage not to get hurt from it while doing so. "I will be back once I fix it up, stay here and maybe take a nap ok" Aino is already on it as she lays down on bed and closes her eyes, and Sandrone shakes her head and leaves to go back to the route to fix him up.
She finds him active again and spinning its fists around, trying to hit everything in sight.
Yeahhhhh, this is gonna be sooo fun.
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After multiple hours, lots of blood (or whatever she's made of) sweat and tears, and maybe some ducktape, she finished fixing it up. Getting close to it had been hard but trying to fix it while doing that was even tougher. She pants wiping sweat from her brow, kudos to Alain for making her as realistic as possible and giving her sweat glands, curse him. But now it's back into regular standby position as if it never did a thing at all.
Out of the corner of her eye she swore she saw a flash of something magenta and light blue, but the moment she looks in its direction its gone. Strange, she thinks.
Then again this whole world was freaking strange.
"SANDRONE, INEFFA IS BACK!" she hears Aino call from the main entrance, hopping up and down with excitement and waving her arms around before running down to talk to Sandrone, must be happy to be getting those sweets. Soon Ineffa followed suite and bows in gratitude to Sandrone.
"Thank you miss Sandrone for helping see to Aino while I was gone, I had told her to stay out of potential threats, but its clear she didn't listen to my intructions-" Aino playfully smacked Ineffa on the arm lightly and pouted.
"wasn't my fault Knuckle duckle decided to freak out on me! Geez Ineffa your so bossy!" Sandrone chuckled at bit at their interaction, they truly were like sisters, or would it be mother and daughter since Aino made-
Yeah lets not think of that.
Sandrone would be lying if she said she wasn't fond if the two, for the year she has been here, while they were a bit annoying, they were also fun and welcoming, and she did somewhat like being able to look out for people.
"Oh, Ineffa that reminds me, I was supposed to help with some "upgrades" of yours today but its getting late, still up for it tomorrow?" Ineffa lights up and nods leading Aino to look between the two with confusion written on her face.
"What upgrades?"
"that information is confidential I'm afraid" Ineffa states leading Aino to gasp dramatically
"I'm your creator! I'm supposed to authorize any add ons to your mode-"
"Say, since its late you should join us for dinner Miss Sandrone"
"I would love to! And I've told you, you can drop the miss. Now let's get going!" Sandrone says as they walk back to the house, purposefully messing with Aino as she whines with confusion before hurrying to catch up with them.
"WHAT UPGRADES!?!?"
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"That girl.... Sandrone is it?" A voice murmurs from behind one if the many mechanical structures in innocent curiosity. Her black and majenta hair swaying a bit in the wind.
"I wanna talk to her... I wonder if my sisters have any advice"