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Portia, the Mechanical Girl
Series: Disabled Cyborgs
Length: 1100
Summary: Despite everyone's attempts to convince her otherwise, Portia is positive she's a robot.
Notes: Another winner of the Patreon May/June poll! It's leftover from Selfathon, and was originally prompted by rix_scaedu and rolodexaspirin. It was sponsored by the Patreon crowd! More at end.
Portia was a disappointment to the VanDammes in every way.
The family's position in the upper crust was tenuous, due to unfortunate business decisions and scandalous affairs. To prevent total shunning at the parties through which business flowed required gracious manners, rapier wit, and an unerring ability to read a room.
Portia had none of these skills.
Portia was a fat dumpy product of a spiteful affair with a fat dumpy man. Neither parent had much use for her. Raised by an army of tutors, maids, and various cousins, Portia proved awkward, accident-prone, and totally incapable of the social machinations required of her class. Her failings were only exacerbated after a childhood accident that required cybernetic intervention. Although all the machinery was internal, and kept carefully secret, it left Portia even stiffer and more awkward than before.
And now she believed herself a robot.
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Series: Disabled Cyborgs
Length: 1100
Summary: Despite everyone's attempts to convince her otherwise, Portia is positive she's a robot.
Notes: Another winner of the Patreon May/June poll! It's leftover from Selfathon, and was originally prompted by rix_scaedu and rolodexaspirin. It was sponsored by the Patreon crowd! More at end.
Portia was a disappointment to the VanDammes in every way.
The family's position in the upper crust was tenuous, due to unfortunate business decisions and scandalous affairs. To prevent total shunning at the parties through which business flowed required gracious manners, rapier wit, and an unerring ability to read a room.
Portia had none of these skills.
Portia was a fat dumpy product of a spiteful affair with a fat dumpy man. Neither parent had much use for her. Raised by an army of tutors, maids, and various cousins, Portia proved awkward, accident-prone, and totally incapable of the social machinations required of her class. Her failings were only exacerbated after a childhood accident that required cybernetic intervention. Although all the machinery was internal, and kept carefully secret, it left Portia even stiffer and more awkward than before.
And now she believed herself a robot.
( Read more... )
