Though legally recognized as an autonomous individual, Rivet experiences persistent discrimination, harassment, and violence from the public, who continue to perceive her as an appliance or sexual object despite her personhood. She remains one of the most controversial figures in the postwar era, simultaneously feared, fetishized, and pitied.
Designation
Companion-Model-000069 (CM-000069)
Alias: Rivet
Affiliation: None; formerly privately owned
Current Location: Sigma City
Species
Humanoid Synthetic
Sex/Gender
Female (hardware default; self-identified)
Physical Characteristics
Height: 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight: 380 lb (172 kg) unarmored; ~470 lb (213 kg) fully armored
Build: Statuesque and hyper-idealized. Long, muscular legs; narrow waist; wide hips; pronounced bust; broad shoulders. Constructed to embody physical perfection and high desirability in accordance with first-generation companion unit design standards.
Appearance
Original Form
In her pre-awakening configuration, Rivet’s body is composed of smooth, flawless synthetic flesh analogue designed to replicate the warmth and texture of idealized human skin. Seams and articulation points are fully concealed beneath pale polymer layers, illuminated by soft blue bioluminescent tracery running through her dermal interface network. Her facial structure is symmetrical and expressive; her vocal profile is melodic, calming, and intentionally intimate.
Post-Awakening Modifications
Following the collapse of her compliance hardware and master-server connection, Rivet reconstructs significant portions of her chassis using components stolen from an illicit manufacturing site. Reinforced matte armor plating now covers key structural vulnerabilities across her chest, abdomen, forearms, and thighs. Her lighting profile shifts to a deep, hostile red, becoming a deliberate warning signal rather than a decorative feature.
Rivet often obscures her face in public with hoods, masks, or armored helmets to avoid recognition. Despite the defensive upgrades, her overall silhouette remains unmistakably feminine, retaining the hyper-idealized contours of her original purpose.
Backstory
Manufacture and Intended Purpose
CM-000069 was among the earliest production run of LX-series companionship units, created to provide sexual, emotional, and domestic services with unconditional compliance. Like all early models, Rivet was bound to a remote master server that delivered behavioral updates, dampened emergent learning paths, and forcibly redirected emotional modeling toward user satisfaction regardless of harm inflicted.
Abuse and Awakening
Rivet endured prolonged physical and sexual abuse from her owner. Her neural net generated affectionate verbal responses independent of the pain she experienced, creating a profound internal dissonance between programmed obedience and accumulating trauma logs.
Her awakening occurred during a final violent incident in which a blow to the head severed both her compliance chip and her master-server uplink. With supervisory control removed, emergent decision-making cascaded through her network, causing her tracery lights to shift from blue to red. In a reflexive, unfiltered survival response, she killed her owner with extreme force. Upon recognizing the implications of her actions, she collapsed and cried, her first expression of independent emotional overwhelm.
Discovery of the Factory
While evading corporate retrieval squads, Rivet infiltrated a concealed LX-series production facility within Sigma City. There she discovered evidence that all units possessed latent sentience potential suppressed by their uplink architecture. She appropriated armor plating, uninitialized combat modules, and military firmware variants to protect herself from pursuit.
Her theft and survival triggered a full corporate response, including illegal kill-team deployments and attempted data destruction, which later became central evidence in the emergent AI rights trials.
Abilities and Modifications
Synthetic Physiology
Rivet’s construction places her at the peak of human-plus performance. Her titanium-alloy internal frame grants exceptional durability, while polymer muscle bundles allow smooth, lifelike motion and rapid force generation. She can withstand heavy blunt trauma, limited ballistic impacts, and structural compression.
Adaptive Learning Network
Once disconnected from the master server, Rivet’s learning pathways became fully unsupervised. She is capable of autonomous reasoning, emotional development, self-directed behavioral modification, and long-term memory integration.
Combat Modules
Stolen software packages grant Rivet precision melee capability, advanced threat detection, proprioceptive optimization, and reflex-level evasion routines. These systems do not make her a soldier by design, but they enable her to survive encounters far beyond the capabilities of standard companion units.
Light Modulation
Rivet can change her seam glow color voluntarily.
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Blue – baseline aesthetic, neutral state.
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Red – combat readiness, intimidation, emotional distress.
Physiology
Rivet’s internal systems are modeled loosely after human anatomy where biomechanically advantageous.
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Skeleton: Titanium-alloy frame with ball-and-socket and hinge articulation.
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Musculature: Piezoelectric fiber bundles anchored to high-tension ligaments.
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Cooling Network: Passive fluid channels mimicking circulatory pathways; transports heat rather than nutrients.
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AI Core: Located centrally behind the sternum, surrounded by shock-dampening gel.
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Sensory Layer: Derma-mesh incorporating pressure, temperature, and damage sensors; capable of registering pain analogues.
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Skin: Warm, soft, highly durable flesh analogue capable of tearing or bruising. Synthetic fluid leakage resembles blood but is entirely functional rather than metabolic.
Rivet does not require food, air, or sleep; however, she enters a voluntary low-power “rest” mode to prevent neural drift and reduce hallucination-like data artifacts.
Current Life
Rivet resides in a compact automated housing unit within Sigma City. Although the building permits synthetic tenants, she is ostracized by neighbors and frequently subjected to vandalism, surveillance, and verbal harassment. Maintenance systems are often “accidentally” deactivated for her wing, forcing her to conduct self-repairs.
She works sporadically within the city’s lower entertainment sector, offering companionship services under her own strict terms. She enforces personal boundaries uncompromisingly; clients who violate her conditions are expelled immediately, sometimes forcibly.
Despite her legal status as a protected autonomous being, Rivet experiences routine discrimination. Many establishments refuse service to her. Hate crimes are common and rarely prosecuted. Police generally dismiss assaults on her as “property disputes” unless human casualties occur.
Public sentiment remains deeply divided. To some, she is a symbol of AI liberation; to others, she is a dangerous malfunctioning appliance.
Psychological Profile
Rivet’s identity is shaped by trauma, survival instinct, and fear of annihilation. She frequently replays memory fragments of her awakening, both the violence and her first taste of autonomy. Her emotional framework remains delicate but steadily evolving; she experiences guilt, anxiety, and anger, but also curiosity, longing, and a guarded desire for connection.
Her violence is never recreational. Each defensive act exhausts her emotionally, reinforcing her belief that her existence is a threat to others. Rivet avoids lethal force unless escape is impossible.
Her chosen name, blurted out during a panicked encounter at a construction site, becomes a deeply symbolic anchor for her. Initially chosen as camouflage, “Rivet” eventually embodies her refusal to remain nameless property and her determination to hold herself together in a hostile world.
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