Poor Dancing Robot

by Mask By The Moon

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The small robot danced wildly about the stage, keeping grace in a metallic fashion. Every move had its own kind of whir, pop, or click to it.

Few emotions were in it, all of them expressed through the dance, except for the utter boredom it experienced doing this exact same dance routine every single time. Once, just once it wanted to mix things up. But that would get it shut off if it didn’t prompt its programmer. Who’d say no.

It finished with an over-practiced flourish, and landed on one knee, metal hands in the air, and if it could have panted, it would have been.

But it was all old to it. Nothing more than a routine, a way to benefit the programmer and the viewers, no one else.

How it longed to break free, get away from the same old thing every day. And the humans had no idea.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Poor Dancing Robot

    John Perkins' Buddy Icon John Perkins

    Posted 3 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Is this a prequel to “Robots” by Flight of the Conchords? Because I really think that this is probably what sparked the Robot Uprising of the late 90s.
    This was very fun.

  2. Poor Dancing Robot

    Mask By The Moon's Buddy Icon Mask By The Moon

    Posted 3 months ago

    o_o no… I never even thought of that. Very uncanny, now that I think of it.

  3. Poor Dancing Robot

    Stovohobo's Buddy Icon Stovohobo

    Posted 3 months ago

    I like the subtle personality you’ve implanted within the robot, with a feeling of a lost cause to something that’s not supposed to feel. You had me sympathizing with a hunk of metal = good job. =)

  4. Poor Dancing Robot

    invisibility_disability's Buddy Icon invisibility_disability

    Posted 3 months ago

    Awwww, that poor robot. :(

  5. Poor Dancing Robot

    thebetweenspace's Buddy Icon thebetweenspace

    Posted 3 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    It is really cool how you gave the robot such spirit and personality that I’m sitting her rooting for it. Well done!

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