So I'm going to make this quick because Mek's my buddy and it's hard for him to read a lot of things on a screen.
HAHA NO. NO. THAT'S NOT WHY.
But I got you for a second didn't I.
Actually I need to go to bed. About half an hour ago. And like this isn't even a real ANYTHING it's just a really vague idea.
I have too many manwhores, like, seriously. I don't even know if this guy is going to be a manwhore, but he probably is, because it's both convenient and sexual appealing. In my opinion. I apparently have a dirty opinion.
I don't even--yeah.
Anyway. There's a guy and a girl. Isn't there always? No, it's not always, I know that but I know that, just go with it okay it's late(I'm saying this because I know if I was actually saying this to Mek he'd be pointing out that no it's not and sometimes there's even more than two MOVING ON).
Dude. And a dudette(I actually hate that word, but can't think of a better female version of dude off the top of my head. Generally I just called women dudes too, but that would give the wrong impression in this case.) DUDES. ONE OF THEM IS A GIRL. GO WITH IT.
I have writ like two paragraphs and said absolutely nothing yet. I guess I felt like practicing my impression of a politician.
(ba-dump-chshh)
I have no idea how they meet. You know I've been wanting to do this thing for a while where there's this guy and he's all badass withdrawn mysterious assassin and he likes this totally normal girl who's got a normal life and is a normal person and everything, and then turns out to be not actually normal at all in a FANTASTICAL way. Like he's actually the normal person living in a normal world but she's a mage or a Librarian or just a part of Engine Tree in some way.
But I dunno if I'm gonna do that. Because how would a badass mysterious assassin meet a totally normal girl person in such a way that they meet again and again and get familiar and go out on a date? And I don't want to do a one-night stand thing because she's the kind of normal person that does relationships not flings.
Maybe instead of a little prostitute he's just a party whore and they meet a rave or something.
Stiiiill not even really saying what I mean to say.
This girl is a race of Engine Tree called constructs. They're not a race in the sense they're a consistent, reproducing sentient class of life forms. They're called constructs because they're constructed. They're like golems, except golems aren't sentient(or generally not humanoid intelligent.) Constructs were invented for the purpose of tasks requiring intelligence, basically high-level servants. Instead of just keeping your house clean, they could also look after personal needs, from maintaining conversations with their owners and serving as their personal assistant at work to working actual jobs for their owners, like looking after stock, managing stores, all sorts of things.
However, as time has passed, constructs have become less strictly servants and more a part of the general population. When the next model comes out(generally new models come out every decade or so), the older is turned loose, usually with a very high recommendation that will easily get them the same job they held before in a business that can't afford custom-made constructs.
What about people who are born, not made? Well, Engine Tree's a big place. And it leads to billions of other places. They can go find jobs elsewhere.
Constructs are made of cloth, machinery, they run on energy crystals(crystallized sap from the Tree, dyed different colours to tell them apart as different sap veins contain different energy)some VERY watered down Tree sap runs in their veins(sap at its full potency has a LOT of pow that would overload anything smaller than a planet)and custom constructs often have other bits and pieces in there that aren't necessarily metal.
So the girl's a custom, and she's got things in there like coils of thorny vines, different sets of eyeballs, some spiders(explain in a minute), some tentacles, different sets of teeth(shark teeth, eel teeth, cat teeth, etc)some rodent skeletons. That's about it. Vines and teeth are basic defense mechanisms, pretty standard.
Construct "cloth" is actually a type of spider silk from a special type of spider in Engine Tree. Constructs keep a few(several dozen to a couple hundred) of the smaller(ranging from the size of a rat to flea-sized) variety on their person at all times for maintenance purposes. The rodent skeletons are generally used by the flea-sized spiders. They spin intricate webs to serve as muscle structures and cover the outside in a "skin" just like the construct's, while a slightly larger spider resides in the middle of the body controlling a set of puppet threads.
These rodent mini-constructs are used for gathering materials when a few silk patches aren't enough to repair damages. Mostly because a mouse or a rat or two snatching bits and pieces of things and running off with them are often, in most worlds, considerably more common occurrences than a small hoard of spiders snatching bits and pieces and running of with them. They also have other uses for higher performance constructs doing IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT THINGS. Like spying. Construct spiders have ten legs and two sets of fangs. They are definitely spiders, but large groups of them have seen to be acting out hive mind behaviour, with a queen and everything. "Worker" spiders are fat-bodied, whereas the queen is very long.
And all this happened in my head because I had some image in my head of this construct girl getting repaired and sewn up by a SPECIAL special spider because she got damaged so bad her own spiders couldn't repair her, meanwhile a normal human guy who liked her is looking on trying to keep his brain from exploding because this is the first he's hearing about giant spiders and Engine Tree and the girl he likes being made out of spider silk, tree sap, and machinery.
AUGH NOW IT'S EVEN LATER. GALLDAGGIT. I AM DISPLEASED WITH MYSELF. BAD, THADDEUS. BA--ow. Self-hurt is a bad thing.
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