Xiang

Xiang was a corvo engineer.
== Story ==
If you were to ask Xiang if machines could talk, she would say yes: even those that have no voice have a way of making themselves understood by those who listen.
Machines were simpler and purer than people. They had no evil or good in them. They functioned and that was it. No ulterior motives, no secret agendas.
Xiang wished that she was a cyborg. Her body had all the technological upgrades she had been able to afford. Most people wait until their natural body parts give out to factory accidents or disease, but not Xiang. She replaced her own arm for a bionic one that could turn into all the tools she needed to build drones. At least if she were to lose it now, it wouldn’t hurt, she thought happily.
She wished for people to be more like machines: happy little beings that worked hard to do their best and who never went out of their way to make other people's lives miserable. And when machines failed, it was because they were broken rather than because of something they could be at fault for. She believed that machines were like people, in that if you never stopped to listen to what they had to say, they ended up broken.
Like her brother. If he had been a machine, Xiang could have repaired him. Or even better, she could have listened to him, and helped him before he broke.
== Source Material ==
This short story originally appeared in Rulebook v1.0.
Category:Short Stories
Category:NPCs
Category:Story Seed