X’s first memory wasn’t exactly a pleasant one. She woke up alone, her vision broken, leaving her mostly blind and unable to see two feet in front of her. Tessa found her wandering alone, confused, muddy, and possibly on the brink of frying her circuits due to exposed ports and severed wires. It was thanks to Tessa she survived, but barely, her optical sensors glitching out and causing her right eye to turn yellow and her left to turn purple. She was able to keep hidden from Tessa’s mother, who absolutely did not want any more Drones than they already had, but Tessa couldn’t just throw X back out. Unfortunately, she was discovered by Louisa by accident, and if she was to stay in the manor, she would be Louisa’s personal servant. Tessa agreed, but reluctantly, because she knew how cruel her mother could be. 

It was hard and awful for X, but she endured. The one time she left Louisa’s side without being given an order was when she met K for the first time. He had tripped over the outstretched foot of a nearby human and dropped the silver tray he was carrying and shattering the delicate glasses balanced on top of one another. She did it out of kindness, and she took Louisa’s furious lecture later about not moving or talking unless spoken to. Drones were servants in Louisa’s eyes, and nothing more. But, over time, X came to like K’s quiet and kind personality. He never hurt anyone, got angry, and never resorted to violence for any reason, and K grew to like X’s quietly defiant and caring demeanor. 

Not a month later, she was taken by Cyn, and turned into a Disassembly Drone, and sent out as the leader of a squad of two others, K and L. overjoyed to see each other, K and X stayed close during the murder of Earth, but X realized that this wasn’t the same K she had come to care about and had fallen in love with a little. He wasn’t the sweet, quiet, gentle, anti-violence Drone she had met a month ago. He was violent and cruel, taking pleasure in ripping apart every human he got his claws into and drawing their death out and making them suffer, seeming to relish in their screams of agony, while X made the deaths of whoever she caught quick and painless before they even had time to figure out what was going on. She was horrified by who K had become, and she distanced herself from him, unfortunately being placed into a landing pod with him and L, and there was nowhere to go within the tight confines of the pod, so she ordered everyone to temporarily shut themselves down and go offline until they reached their destination of Copper-9, when they would reboot and do their jobs. 

Once they landed, X stayed as far away from K as possible, hating what Cyn had done to him. She knew something was wrong with K. Something that didn’t go as planned with Cyn’s transformation of turning K from Worker to Murder Drone, although X never stuck around K long enough to ask him if he knew something was wrong with him. It had been almost two years since they landed, and X saw K again for the first time in maybe ten months. He had barely caught a stray Worker and was a heartbeat from slowly dismembering it. Even though it was their job to kill any Worker they came across, she couldn’t let it suffer at K’s hands. She stole the Worker from him and mercifully killed it herself, saving it from suffering. K was furious and attacked X with intent to cause major harm, but not kill, as part of him was still secretly in love with her and wanted her back, even though he knew X wanted nothing to do with this version of him she didn’t recognize. He was able to stab her in the heart with his tail acid, specifically the red acid, which causes immense agony and horrible, nightmare-worthy hallucinations. Had it not been for L, who was able to neutralize the acid before it spread into her systems and kill her since it was in her heart, she would be dead. 

Almost a month later, X found a Worker wandering by itself, unaware of the death that loomed over its head on silent bladed wings. X swooped down and turned her left hand into a gun, moments away from firing when the Worker turned around and stared at X, which surprised her. Normally, this was the part where they started running, but this one was... different, somehow. Maybe it was the way she was staring X down, practically daring X to kill her, or just the overall bravery of facing something she knew could end her whole existence in the blink of an eye. Confused, but also admiring the young Worker’s bravery, she lowered her gun. 

They kept seeing each other after that, and much to X’s surprise, she was developing the beginnings of feelings for Kenzie. Kenzie snuck out as often as she could, and X looked forward to seeing her every night. Then, one night, X worked up the courage to ask Kenzie to be her girlfriend, and Kenzie said yes. This went on for almost two more months until Kenzie’s mother, Zadiya, who had a very unpleasant past with a different squad, but either way hated the Murder Drones, found out Kenzie had been sneaking out to see one and she forbid Kenzie from going outside again. 

Thinking something bad had happened to her, X broke into the bunker with the forced help of another Worker who could get in. She hated threatening her, but X had no other choice if she wanted to know what happened to the Worker she had fallen in love with. She didn’t kill anyone, but she got enough information out of other Workers to figure out where Kenzie lived, and Zadiya was terrified when X blew open their door in search of Kenzie. Kenzie immediately jumped to her girlfriend’s defense. And Zadiya, realizing just how much her daughter cared about X, she allowed X to stay, and X finally had the life she deserved, after so many years of pain and hardships. At least for a while...