Mercedes

the mechanic who finds Jaeger 6.0 and UPDOG9000 and refurbishes them <33

from tumblr; ill clean this up later SOWY
an engineer with a hobbyist interest in old-world robotics from a world post war-induced apocalypse, where most of said robots are a thing of the past and quite a lot of technology has been lost. The so-called “Last War” ruined everything and left people to rebuild with far less than society had before, and AI-driven robots are few and far between, both for lack of technology and concerns about sapient robot rights.

Mercedes finds an old helperbot in a scrap heap while hunting for materials and the lucky special treasure. he’s the absolute prize, a dream in his own right for her - and so she immediately takes him home to see if she can get him serviceable again. she spends several months fixing and refurbishing him in what spare time she can find, and oh so delicately turns him on again for the first time in fifty years hoping and praying that he’ll still work at all. they then spend the next two weeks trying to understand each other like absolute goofballs, since Jaeger 6.0 only speaks in chiptune chirps and his hands were lost to the scrap heap just as he was.

many months (years?) later, Mercedes finds an old hidden gem of an UPDOG9000 rotting in an old, buried army lab; presumably after breaking down, needing maintenance, and its attending officers never making it back. she takes him back home to her workshop  and she and her other robot companion, Jaeger 6.0, work on and off when they have the time to get him back online (if they can at all - salvageable robots are few and far between). UPDOG 9000 does, miraculously, make it back to the world of the digitally living, only for Mercedes and Six to find he’s developed horrific PTSD and a desperate people-pleasing complex to his own detriment.