The First Time
A vacation from being, turned into a mechanical automaton. choosing to be like that, enjoying it. frist time for it, but probably not the last "and it's not permanent?" you ask them. "no, of course not. we do have some long-term clients.
Crimson on Copper - Excerpt from Inhuman Acts
I had shrugged it off as another automaton, in for servicing or some other reason. taking a closer look, i saw the blood on its claspers and splashed onto its copper. "the automaton did it?"
Love's Labour's Won
We speak our parts as automatons, emotions leaked from slits under our eyes to drain in tiny pools on ruined carpet, stains of neverwas, and neverwill.
Project: Eternity - Prologue
Blur the line between flesh and machine with such resolve, that at the time of their fall at the hand of their own creations, there had been whispers of the unthinkable: successfully transferring a person's consciousness, their very soul, into a soulless automaton
Rakim
He believes that nothing says "i miss you" like a nearly lifelike automaton of a dead organist playing the myriad pieces of music that he spent his life composing on an organ or one of a dead dancer going through the myriad steps and dance moves that he's
Return to futureland part 3
"second warning, preparing audible alert, then protocol s09" the adrenaline flooded in the teenaged badger's body, an alarm would compromise the mission, then tom remembered when jeff hit one of those freak automatons, they react slowly on unexpected
Zero’s Awakening
Ps: my friend dislikes zero as much as xalo does~ xalogan ran through the underground complex with hasty desperation as talos pursued him through the desolate hallways, the pounding of his heart and lungs matched by the rumbling strides of the massive automaton
Zombiology - Crows
The crows cawed into the sky as if in mourning for their lost automaton. their cries echoed through the patch of forest and the empty valley beyond, carrying on for minutes and miles, until finally an answering call returned to them.
Loew's Creation
Instead, the beasts of the field would have more autonomy over what they were doing than this soul-less automaton, this robot created by loew to guard his friends.
Intel In The Alleyway
Over him stood the victorious automaton. a custom-crafted gladiator droid packed into the chassis of an early-model leisuremech hostess unit. a sleek approximation of an idealized human female's figure. all of it colored dark pink and chrome.
The people of my mind. Ch.1 Introduction to MECO
At first robots and automatons were used as a stop gap for manual labor and other less "thought inducing" occupations. for health care though, people wanted real, organic, living, doctors to care for them.
The Lead Crown: Ch 8.1b, A Dozen 'Tails' Told
The last of the true dragons had died out during the great war, leaving only the wingless or the breathless... and those like wiesen... the fakes... the automatons imbued with hand-me-down life.