Freudenstein's Monster

I actually dug up a googledoc I had (obviously) forgotten about. These are the entirety of my notes from this time last year...

Was trying to come up with a Companion AU where Edwin is a bot and couldn't figure out why Thomas as we know him would want to procure an uptight Edwin bot (though i'm sure someone can come up with sexy reasons), when some sort of grungy cyberpunk au started taking shape, with Thomas being a scrapper/mechanic/hacker who rebuilds and jailbreaks discarded Emphatix tech and resells them on the black market. He likes giving his bots autonomy and free will, mostly as a fuck you to his former employer, and pretends he doesn't think its the morally right thing to do. Then he uncovers an older model in random junk pile, something that was used in more professional settings, akin to a C3PO protocol droid. He rebuilds it and something about the old school model stops him for putting it up for sale. He sets the bot up as his office manager, someone to handle customers (ugh) and all the tedium that comes with running an underground business, and slowly but surely the bot evolves into smart, bitchy, fascinating Edwin.

Legolas having a bit of an existential crisis over just how fast mortals, particularly Gimli, age. Time for him to build his boat.