Seam was an ancient android, no bother trying to hide it. He's been around for ages, a scrapped model unable to pass the Turing Test. In his part of Detroit, he was known to be a deviant. And honestly? He just lived like a normal human would. Almost nobody bothered him. He got odd jobs, bought knickknacks, and milled around at his own leisure.

He had nothing to say, so he didn't say anything at all. He had no friends and looked visually unappealing to anyone who even thought about 'buying' him. He looked like a darker-skinned android, an orange eye and a black socket, and frazzled light brown hair. He's tried to grow a beard and failed, his old model not suited for the advances.

Children personally loved him. Seam himself didn't know why. They wanted to hear his tales of friends come and gone, of his first days on the run, of his 'grand adventure' through the scrapyard. About his old entertainment partner and fellow reject, Jevil.

Ah, Jevil....

He and Jevil had both failed the Turing Test and had then been bought up by a circus company toying with android animals. Jevil fit right in, being such a wild card. He found such joy in making others laugh and smile. Seam was the magician, which consisted of tricks both old and new. He enjoyed seeing children's eyes twinkle in amazement as doves emerged from his sleeve and rabbits from his hat. Oh, what ever happened to that hat...?

Then some cops came by and spotted the two androids who were supposed to be scrapped. Seam never did see what became of Jevil. He'd played dead and been dumped into a scrapyard. He'd spend days there searching for his friend and eventually left to set out. He's never seen him since, and had come to the terms of the thought of his friend's death or reset.

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Seam had such a hard time finding a place to rest.

One moment he's in a nice hotel for a week, the other he's trying to live in a tree. Now he was being forced back to the scrapyard, not wanting to enter a building at this time of night. His LED flickered to red for a few moments as it started to rain, reminding him of his first night at the yard. Hands, dismembered limbs grabbing at him, trying to tear him apart.

Seam sat down a fair ways in under a broken-down crane. He curled up, hugging his knees and sighing. Wonderful....just wonderful.

"Hhh...hhh..."

Seam slowly looked up. Another android? No surprise there. In the scrapyard, many runaway androids lived. "Hello? I can cause no harm." his voice had a rusted tinge to it from years of no proper repair.

"Hhhheehh...hehhe..." the voice was glitching, lagging behind itself and overlapping. "H-h heelll...ooohh...?" it sounded like an old model, confused and curious. "Hhhhheellloo...?"

Seam stood up and looked around. Thunder crashed. Then he heard a soft thump as something crawled into view. Jevil.

Jevil looked like he'd been thrown into a grinder. His legs seemed to be useless and he was dragging himself along by his arms. He looked to be mostly blind and his entire face was half gone. A scan, even from Seam's old model, showed that he was mostly blind, deaf, and barely clinging to life. He was bleeding from his torso from what looked to be a struggle. Recent, given how long he seemed to have been here.

"Jevil-!" Seam rushed forwards, not processing that his friend couldn't tell it was him. Jevil screamed when he was picked up, squirming but overall helpless. His LED was red and pulsing, his stress levels skyrocketing. Jevil slammed his head into Seam's chest and then bit his shoulder, still screaming and trying to escape.

"No! No! No! No!" Jevil's voice was broken and screwed up, and he kept screaming 'no' over and over. Seam was floored for a moment before he turned to run, sprinting out of the scrapyard as fast as he could and to the nearest Cyberlife store.

The clerk, an android and deviant-hater named Rouxls, jumped a little when the known deviant burst through the door. "What, did thy get attacked by a dog aga-" he stopped, seeing the broken form of Jevil in his arms. "Is that...?"

"FIX HIM!"

Jevil started screaming again when he was shoved into Rouxl's arms. He fumbled for a moment before flipping Jevil onto his chest, keeping him on the counter. "Get me a screwdriver and thy SP100!"

Lancer flew through the door, being under Rouxls' care as he was a deviant. He was a kid model, so surely he could be 'fixed'. "I'm here! Wh- WHO'S THAT?" he asked loudly.

"Get me some spare audio processors-! Thine RK series will do'ist fine!" Rouxls barked, being an RK himself. Lancer jumped and nodded, bolting away.

Rouxls let Seam scoop Jevil up and try to calm him down. Seam cupped the screaming android's head in his hands, rubbing his head gently and trying to soothe him. Gradually, Jevil quieted. Either he was realizing he wasn't being mauled yet or he'd screamed his voice box through its last breath. "Shh, shh, I'm here, I'm here...." Seam said softly, rubbing the spot just behind Jevil's ear and below his jaw that he seemed to enjoy. He could feel the desperate hums of his Thirium pump struggling to keep circulating.

A minute later, Lancer returned holding a few types of audio processors in his hands. He dumped them onto the table, not being mixed up thank goodness. They were tied together in their pairs. Rouxls snatched one and rather unceremoniously grabbed Jevil's head and crammed it into place.

Jevil's eyes widened at the rush of noise and sound, his stress even higher now. "Jevil, Jevil are you okay?" Seam asked, panicking. Jevil fainted, his LED changing from a bright red to a blue all in one moment.

"Jevil?!"

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"Hh...hhhh....h...."

Jevil had been placed on the makeshift bed in a spare room in the store. It had been where Lancer usually slept- his settings were broken from his deviation and thus he had the urge to sleep in a bed alongside an adult. Whom happened to be Rouxls.

Seam hadn't budged, even when his stress levels grew more and more every hour Jevil stayed passed out. Rouxls had sent Lancer straight to Cyberlife to fetch the oldest model that could be scrapped he could find. Or some Jevil-only parts. Jevil and Seam were one of a king. RJ and RM respectively. A deck of cards, if you will. Royal Joker and Royal Magician. Rouxls was, well, the Rules Card. Spelled Rouxls Kaard, ha.

"Nnnngg..." Jevil groaned, his LED turning yellow as he started to wake up. He slowly opened his eyes. His unseeing eyes that flickered to and fro, as if by some miracle he'd be able to see after a good nap. "...S...Seamy....?"

"I-I'm here, I'm here friend." Seam pulled him into a hug, which was immediately returned. "Shh, don't strain yourself. Are you okay?"

Jevil's LED turned red and he started sobbing without warning. No tears came, but he was still sobbing none the less. He gripped Seam tightly, burying his face in his chest and whimpering about how alone he was and how scared he was and still is.

"Shh, shh, shhhhh..."

"I, I....I...I want, want, want...to....see, see, see you...I want.....want...to see....you..." Jevil reached up, grasping for Seam's face as if his life depended on it. He felt his rough hair, trailing his fingers down to his neck and feeling every groove on his friend's face. The look of starved, desperate longing on his face was painful to look at.

"Shh, you will soon friend, I'm sure. Some kind androids are trying to find compatible parts for you." Seam soothed, running his hands through Jevil's hair. "I'll stay by your side through it all, okay?"

"O-okay, okay, okay..." Jevil whimpered. His voice box must be horribly damaged to make him repeat words like that.  Seam rubbed his head soothingly, letting the broken deviant cling to him.

Rouxls burst through the door. Jevil tensed. "It's okay, it's okay, it's just Rouxls." Seam murmured. "He's here to help."

"O-oh, oh..."

"Is thy deviant awake? Readyeth for repair?"

Jevil made a face. "Who, who....? Shakespeare model, model...?" he muttered in clear confusion at Rouxls' speech.

"No, no, that's just how he is." Seam smiled a little. Rouxls approached, placing his hand on Jevil's head. The deviant made a face and tried to lean away from the stranger's touch. "He's ready when you are."

"Okay, then..." Rouxls set a small box down. Lancer peeked out from behind him. "Cyberlife was being very....reluctant and thy seems suspicious of our odd request. I hope thine two have similar models, because precious water beetle said it was for Seam."

"Thy, thy, Shakespeare, I am, am," Jevil mimicked, amused at the stranger's speech. Rouxls sighed deeply. "Uee hee, hee, hee~"

"Just keep thy eyes open, worm..." Rouxls muttered. Jevil rolled his eyes before obeying, staying snuggled against Seam and keeping his blind eyes open. "This may sting, thy being a deviant."

"Mm-hmm..." Jevil's LED turned red as Rouxls slid his hand intrusively against his eye. The ex-jester let out little whine and whimper. There was a buzz, then a spark as the RK tried his best to pry the eye out.

"Thy's glued into thine socket-!"

"Please be gentle with him, Kaard." Seam said softly. Jevil shuddered, moving to pull away and back out.

"Be stilleth, worm." Rouxls muttered, giving another push as he appeared to get a grip on the pesky piece. "If thy can, turn off thy pain processors."

"C-can't-can't-can't r-r-r-reeeally, really, really, do that, that- th-that-" Jevil stuttered, shuddering badly. Every wire in him screamed that he move away from the pain. But Seam was there, holding him, so he must be safe. He was safe.

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop- stop it, it, s-s-s-stop it, stop! Stop! S-stop it!" Jevil lashed out, grabbing Rouxls by the arm as self-preservation kicked in. He refused to let go, whimpering in fear. Seam tried to get him to let go.

Thankfully, Rouxls was much stronger than him. The RK pried Jevil's arms off of him and let Seam keep them pinned to his sides. LED bright red, Jevil started to try to escape. "Keep thy worm still, I almost have the pesky eye out."

"You're not making this easy for me either, Kaard!" Seam snapped, but did as he was told.

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Jevil curled up in Seam's arms, shaking badly. Well, now he was traumatized for life. He could see now, so that was....nice. He could see Seam, and actually absorb him in all his glory. Still as cute as always. A little roughed-up-ness never hurt anyone.

"How do you feel?" Seam asked slowly.

"Better, better." Jevil said softly. Despite his voice being fixed and returned to normal, he still bore the habit of repetition.

"Do you want to tell me all what happened?"

Jevil paused, debating it for a few moments. "...yes, yes." he hummed. "After you were scrapped, or so I thought, thought, I followed soon, soon after. They left me deep, deep in the scrap, scrapyard since I put up a fight, fight. Uee hee hee..."

He went quiet for a few moments as he recalled the events. "Another android, android, thought I was dead, dead, since I hadn't reactivated yet, yet. They tried to steal, steal my legs. I scared, scared them off when I woke up, up. They did not, not have any legs."

"....and, and then I realized that who, whoever tried to off, off me had rendered my legs, legs useless. I couldn't, couldn't walk much, much, if at all."

A small paused. Seam motioned for Jevil to continue. "...I kinda, kinda switched between looking, looking for you and sleeping, sleeping. I had lost, lost a lot of Thirium so I had, had to be careful."

There was a small pause.

"...then I found what, what I thought was a dead android, android. And I tried to get access, access to its Thirium pump. But it was alive, alive, and it fought back and a fled and, and that's how you found, found me."

"Ah..." Seam sighed, pulling Jevil into an embrace. "Well, you're safe now and Rouxls and I can fix you up."

Jevil smiled weakly and hugged him back as tight as his weak body allowed. "That sounds nice, nice..."

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