#botsies

Attitude Cards and a Typical Writer - Digital - 2026

Without one, a botsie is just a lifeless metallin husk. The body might stand, the limbs might twitch, but there’s nobody home.

The cards are written on repurposed game cartridges by script jockeys, many of them former writers and techs shoved out of work by the same specialized androids they helped bring into the world.

Some write clean cards.

Some write black-market cards.

Some put a little too much of themselves into the work.

That’s where a botsie gets its voice.

Its timing. Its mouth. Its temper. Its bad jokes. Its strange loyalty.

A good card makes the machine useful.

A great one makes it impossible to forget. Unforgettable...

Botsies - Digital - 2026

In the world of KOATR, androids are commonplace. From service models to security units, they are part of the everyday song of Aeris, as well as one of the story’s main character arcs.

I saw botsies as high school robotics projects turned neighborhood mascots, cobbled together from scrapped metallin and street-wise ingenuity. Inner-city schools with enough funding compete to build the most realized hand-made androids, and botsies are the result of those competitions.

Some teams dismantle their projects afterward. Others keep their creations running for as long as there is a willing engineer or caretaker, because repair and replacement are constant work.

Attitude Cards

Without these, the android is just a lifeless metallin husk. Once inserted, the creation comes to life, imbued with all the grit you’d expect from a disgruntled ex-script jockey, robbed of a job by the same specialized androids they helped write.