Continuing from the blade runner-esque AU, wouldnt it be ed up if ned`s invention (that was born out of love for his late wife and grief over her death) got stolen by some corporate dudebro, and turned into a business of some run-of-the-mill s*xbot company? Like imagine ned just. Running away from the city bc hes so angry seeing all these ppl walking around with the male and female versions of his late wife thats been reduced to smth so shallow. And this is where nes (dirga) comes in. He was originally one of the same b0ts created for pleasure, but then he was acquired by kiku, who lled more and more programming that turned him almost identical to humans. But dirga was actually considered "faulty" at first, bc he still rened some of the original programming that abel created in memory of his late wife (a lot of those things were things that indonesians sometimes do with their s/o, which were removed from the current line of b0ts in order to make them more "relatable" according to the company). Anyhow, abel sees dirga after his years of isolation and he`s both sad and angry bc hes reminded of the injustice being done to him, but at the same time hes also seeing a b0t that actually resembles his late wife but this one has already grown beyond his programming but loves someone else.

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