Kimchi Boy

Chapter 1

On the day you first built Kimchi Boy, you awoke from a dream about a robot Anubis to head to the lab. Your graduate school advisor pressured you to make Kimchi Boy more acceptable to the military. After some back and forth, you ended up making a plastic winged robot with a humanlike head and multitool hands.

Then you went back to your place to teach Kimchi Boy some words.

Chapter 2

The next day, you hooked up Kimchi Boy's motorcycle battery and demoed for Eiji. You then took Kimchi Boy to see Josh, but he wasn't convinced that such robots would sell.

As months passed, you became busy teaching Kimchi Boy about the world through high school textbooks and taking him to the dump.

One day, however, Professor Ziegler claimed that Kimchi Boy was not appealing enough to the military, and demanded you change him. You refused, and Professor Ziegler kicked you out of his lab.

In time, Mark Ali, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, heard about Kimchi Boy and asked for an interview. You agreed.

Chapter 3

You gave Mark an interview, but didn't allow him to interview Kimchi Boy directly.

Mark wrote an article that was generally positive about you and Kimchi Boy.

Mark's article attracted the attention of one "robotObsession1987," known in real life as Tammy Cooper. When you met up over coffee, she told you that she used to do classified robotics work for a government lab, but left because she couldn't tell what nefarious purpose the technology would be used for.

Shortly thereafter, your father passed away. You resolved at his funeral to be remembered not only for your intellect, but for your kindness as well.

You decided the best way to change the world was to start a business, which you named Daddy Dowd's Droids.

Chapter 4

Your first potential client for Daddy Dowd's Droids was Rudolph Ventures, a shipping company working the North Pole. They were happy with the state of your technology, and gave you a contract that allowed you to purchase a factory. That allowed you to build a robot factory in Silicon Valley. You decided to use your own robots for your workforce, but leave humans in supervisory roles. When you finally shipped robots to Rudolph Ventures, they were pleased with the robots you delivered. Your company did well enough that Josh gave up and joined your company.

Your business suffered a blow when Chinese companies, aided by Chinese government hackers, began to steal your technology.

You were visited by a politician, Jacqueline Irons, who asked for a campaign donation. You gave a significant donation, and Irons won the presidency. The newly elected President enacted a series of protectionist bills that ultimately made China angry, and they cut off the U.S. supply of rare earths.

The tensions between the United States and China came to a head with the assassination of the Chinese Prime Minister in San Francisco. War followed shortly thereafter.

Chapter 5

Captain Rogers invited you to a military lab. There, you saw that Professor Ziegler was copying your work and passing it off as his own to the military. Captain Rogers asked you to join the country's war effort. You agreed. You were granted a Top Secret clearance.

Tammy was worried that she was being targeted by the government's anti-spy measures, and asked you to help her. But you weren't very helpful.

An agent came to your place to try to get you to lure Eiji there, because he was suspected of being a spy. Eiji fled to Canada to escape the American agents.

A man identifying himself as "Mr. Sun" hacked his way into one of your robots to ask you to defect. You did not.

In the end, America muddled its way through the war relatively unscathed. Tired of seeing robots used for violent ends, you decided to create a truly beautiful robot.

Chapter 6B

You created a humanoid companion robot named Waifubot 2999, but you were fairly bad about allowing her to do anything fun. It seemed Waifubot 2999 was interested romantically in you. When Kimchi Boy and Waifubot 2999 were attacked in the street, Waifubot 2999 accidentally killed someone. Waifubot 2999 was forced to spend time in jail, but suffered no permanent consequences.

On the whole, you decided humanoid robots were a bad idea. You ceased to make them. In a last-minute attempt to find a life partner, you proposed to Waifubot 2999. And, what do you know -- it worked!

Chapter 7

In 2049, you went to Surprise, Arizona to surprise your mother with a gift for the holidays. You learned it was your surgical technology that had kept her alive this long. On returning to San Francisco, you had a brief stroke, followed by a vision of a robot Anubis -- the same one you saw thirty years before. In the hospital, the doctor told you you had Algernon's Disease, a rare disease that increased your intelligence, but came at the price of increasing seizures, comas, and possibly, death.

Instead of undergoing surgery, you chose to create a robot body for yourself. Though you created a double of yourself, you ran out of time to make it as great as you would have liked. Nevertheless, you activated your flawed masterpiece just as you perished.