My eyes stared at the mirror in front of me a coldish silver gaze stared back at me as my bright spiky brown hair made it's way to about 5CM short of reaching my eyes. My hair was short but naturally spiky as I stared at the reflection whilst I washed my hands. I then trailed down to my suit.
A business suit colored in a neon blue and ebony tie underneath that was a purplish shirt that most of the employees at my company wore. The shirt itself was a normal shirt that most people wore to work just that it was a purplish color and not white. Below that was greyish black trousers with a brown belt tied around my waist containing an allotment of tools. My eyes turned to the door out of the bathroom as I finished getting myself ready for a new day of work.
I walked out of the door as I made my way downstairs towards the kitchen after all it was still quite early I had at least an hour before I had to leave the house to go to work so I can make some coffee and toast or maybe a full breakfast would work today.
Either way I made my way towards the kitchen as I stared at the walls of orange that I painted months ago and some of the pictures I had on the walls ranging from my early childhood photos to my coworkers as well. My eyes then trailed to a certain picture.
This picture seemed to be taken during the day and held a picture of me next to a blond woman with green eyes. She wore a golden dress with silver lining on the skirt. I noticed that she smiled beautifully within the picture itself and I felt a smile of my own coming on from seeing it. Next to her was a younger me who smiled warmly at the woman next to him. He wore a V neck long sleeved shirt with grey ripped jeans.
"I wonder how she's doing." I spoke in my mind as the thought of my partner entered my mind. She left earlier this week to spend a week with her family in London whilst I stayed in Cardiff. I walked down the stairs further as the final 2 steps were passed I quickly made my way through the living room which also held a dining table on it.
Soon I entered the kitchen and started to check for the stuff I wanted to make some Bread with baked beans, bacon and eggs. The stuff that I loved having for breakfast was really simple to cook not that I cared much about what I wanted to eat since Liz did most of the cooking.
Elizabeth was my wife often shortened to Liz or Beth but mostly Liz to me. She was charming, Kind, Determined and most of all she didn't act like a hypocrite like most women I dated before her. It was why I fell for her after all.
*Going to skip a bit of stuff basically he had made breakfast and ate it and is now at his job*
I stood up staring into the blank lifeless eyes of the project I was working on. An animatronic bear that looked semi human not to dissimilar to what most half human half animal anime characters are like. I chose to give them brownish hair that matched the bear like ears they had which would flop up and down with the robotic endoskeleton underneath the skin. It's eyes were a reddish hazel and contained sharpened metallic claws that were actually soft to touch for the fact that this animatronic was going out on stage.
My eyes scanned the wiring I was working on underneath the animatronics lower torso as the test I just performed should make the legs respond slightly. When it clearly didn't and I know knew why the wires hadn't been properly sorted and as such made it harder for the animatronics limb nodes to respond.
"Welp somebody had decided to not check on it and give me more trouble in the process." I spoke aloud as I grabbed a few tools to sort the wires out fully beginning quickly as I efficiently redid the wires in such a way that they, would work fairly fast and give the animatronics responses an almost automatic reaction which was better then the idiot who worked on this one before did.
Finally I finished the task as I got back up putting the torso part back fully. Then I turned back to the monitor and with the hope it would work I touched the enter button beginning the movements from the torso to the legs. Pressing the key I immediately picked up on the sound of it working and as I turned around I saw the animatronic actively moving it's leg joints with some level of finesse.
My eyes turned to the computer as I deleted the specific code that linked to the movements lower torso area which then coincided with the leg movements as well. I then entered the results of the test on a piece of paper next to me as my eyes read the next test which was related to the upper torso area testing the neck and shoulder movements. Entering the code in quickly I made sure to look at the animatronic before tapping the enter key starting the program.
The animatronics neck moved allowing it to face me and as if something within it recognized me as
Why did it look at me like that? There's no way it could recognize me as it's just a robot unless those rumors were true but of course rumors are just that most of the time so for now I chose to ignore the strange thing that had happened as I realized the shoulders weren't working. I sighed realizing that I was once again cleaning up for sloppy work on the wiring or something else for twelve time today.
"Seriously make my job harder huh?! I vocalized my frustration aloud as I knew that the level of incompetence it would take for this to almost not work entirely and had to be fixed by someone who yes knew the way to do it yes but my main job here was to double check if it works. Not make up for someone's inability to do their fucking job.
I needed to ask who worked on this things wires as it seems to always be a wire fault with this one which meant that somebody was getting either fired or moved to another area within the company preferably the department that handles all of the clothing for the animatronics here. Which reminded me about my next task after this was finished.
Getting the clothing for the animatronic sorted which typically meant having to decide based on the animatronics designated personality traits which clothes suit them best. Yeah personality traits apparently they coded these things to have a semi human like personality as it would help attract costumers to the stores if they could relate to the animatronic somewhat. And it allowed the company to consistently have returning costumers.
I removed the stomach hatch and the arm areas as I made sure to place them softly on the ground as I looked at the animatronics insides seeing several wires tangled together as well as missing the ligaments entirely. It was a disaster in of itself I fixed several faults like this already but it seems that there was always more to fix.
Once I rewired everything making sure of everything on the inside would work before I decided to remove the head as well and sort everything there since there was bound to be more parts I had yet to do. And getting those sorted now will make everything easier. Finally looking at the extra work I did a sense of pride washed through me as I looked at my work some more there was another feeling there. Satisfaction a feeling I knew all to well.
I turned back to the floor and began putting all of the animatronics parts back on as I picked them up slowly and steadily then afterwards I moved back to my desk and once again activated the movements for the arm and neck this time it worked with maximum efficiency. And looking at that the pride I was feeling earlier only grew as my self-confidence grew slightly even if I knew that I could do it just seeing a completed piece of work like this made it grow bigger still.
Now then there's more I have to do but I should be fine after all a Phantom always works hard.