Step 2, by Alicia R. Thomas!And bios! ^____^
~Rose Girdwood Rose is an average teenage city girl sent out to the country to work on her uncle’s “android farm”. She’s a good worker when she puts her mind to it and does well in school. She has been raised her entire life to think of androids as nothing more than technological conveniences. Android doormen, android cashiers, android waiters, android garbage men…. They are common sights in some parts of the world, and nearly non-existent in others. In her hometown of Karoton it’s a neat mixture. Because of this Rose takes the role of androids as humanity’s willing, automatic servants for granted…. Until she meets Peppermint.
Rose has never been in a relationship before Peppermint, which makes his feelings all the more troublesome to her. She is a socially oriented person and, depending on the situation, doesn’t have problems making small talk. Peppermint is a robot, though, not a human. Should she treat him as a mechanical servant, or as a feeling young man?
In short, she is torn between her world-accepted biases, and what she experiences that contradict and slowly tear them down.
~Peppermint Peppermint is a household android being trained by Rose. As a household android, he will be required to carry out chores both inside and outside the home, entertain both his owners and guests, and properly care for and manage children\elders should it be required of him, among other such things. At first he is merely going along with the training because it’s required of him to be able to better perform his duties, and because he’s programmed to go along with his superior’s wishes… But soon, a curious change begins to occur within him. He genuinely looks forward to his lessons, and more than just out of duty. He eventually realizes that it is because Rose is there.
He becomes confused by his newfound feelings, and realizes that he has contracted “emotions”. Something he’s not really supposed to have. He considers turning himself in for reprogramming, like a good little android, but then decides against it, something that at first disturbs him even more than his “emotions”. This decision means that he also has “free will”. He no longer has an unquestioning inclination to follow orders; he can go against them if he wishes.
Peppermint, however, does not wish to, as he hasn’t been ordered to do anything wrong, and he has received decent treatment. Now that he’s not blindly going along with programming, he’s all in all a decent, good-natured chap. He cheerfully carries out requests\orders and begins to carry on conversations with Rose and other workers on the farm, as well.
Through these interactions, Peppermint realizes that he’s becoming more and more like a human (mentally, at least)… But as there is no Blue Fairy around to tap him on the nose, he has to come to terms with this himself.
He starts experiencing these things about two weeks after Rose starts training him. About a month afterwards, he comprehends and expresses his feelings for her. He shows his child-like-ness in his emotional development by how absolutely devastated he is when she very firmly rejects him. However, he has a hidden stubborn streak that even he is unaware of, and determines to stick around for her.
When he’s sent in for reprogramming and rework, he puts all of his android braininess to the test, bamboozling everyone on the farm while in the end retaining his own individuality. He has hope all the while that Rose will return his feelings.
He sees a sort of realization of this hope as he gauges her reaction to the “new him” upon her return to the farm the next year. This hope is realized in full once he explains what he’s been doing in order to stay with her.
Over the year, Peppermint has matured to more of an in-control young man than an emotional child. His eyes are more serious, and his sparkly, eye-grabbing charm transformed into more of a calm charisma.
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