Mopp's Art Hoard

I severely doubt I'll be doing this again for a long while as I feel pretty content with this moniker.

Name explained under the cut

Well, her "Handler". Some habits are hard to break, even after a decade+ and extensive deprogramming.

Nowadays, she wakes up at 0400 in her new home built from the remains of her old mech, and powered by its onboard batteries. Her implants, the ones that weren't deactivated to give her some humanity, needed a few more minutes to reactivate and load their civilian programs. She still sneaks into the maintenance bay tool shed to check on her farming equipment before the day begins. She still takes freezing cold showers, not because of a corporate ration, but because she wants her Handler wife to have hot water when she wakes up in an hour. She still loves her Handler, though her wife isn't always pleased with the pet name or the baggage it carries, its not something so easy to deprogram. That being said, "Handler" no longer meant a sterile presence who coerced affection and demanded perfection, now "Handler" represents a warmth and appreciation enthusiastically given and received.

The Hound was never designed to be reverted, but time and care have remade the Hound into something new, something human.