Short Story: Android Angela

Male's Point of View - Brainwashing - Compounds - Robot Theme

“Command directive: Stop and stand at attention.” I said.

“Command confirmed.” came her emotionless response. “Stopping current actions to stand at attention.”

She stopped her slow turning and faced the wall in front of her. I couldn’t see it of course, but I knew that her eyes were still focused on a point far away beyond the white paint, giving her a perfectly vacant look.

“Command directive: Enter standby mode.” I said with a smile.

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“Command confirmed. Entering Standby mode.”

Her shoulders did not slump nor did I detect any change in her posture, yet I knew that her eyes had closed. Her mental faculties had mostly turned off to enter a slumber like state in which her subroutines would keep her standing perfectly upright while her brain rested. 

She could stay this way for long extended periods without any input from the outside world. She couldn’t get bored, worried or sore because her mind ignored anything that wasn’t needed to stay standing up.

That includes the notion of time.

To her, being placed in stand by goes by in and instant. One moment, she acknowledges the command directive and the next, I’m waking her from stasis. Hours or minutes, it won’t matter to her mental processes because it is simply another command to execute without thought or emotion.

For all intents and purposes, she is my perfect little Android Angela. 

Of course, she isn’t really a synthetic human. She is every bit the human being I am.

But her mind doesn’t think so.

Her mind is utterly convinced that she is my own person Android Angela. A synthetic human created for the sole purpose of assisting me in my every day life.

The fact that her mind believes such an impossible reality is no coincidence. We spent months meddling in her mind to see if it could be done. An experiment of sorts.

One that was designed with the idea that you could make the human brain believe almost anything if you used the right techniques to... Convince it.

It is truly amazing what a few choice drugs and relentless exposures to specific visual stimuli can do to a person’s sense of self.  

And now, here we are. The results proved to be even better than we could have hoped for. Android Angela has completely forgotten about her past life and is now completely devoted to the owner of her system.

​She has become a simple mindless drone that obeys her programming exquisitely without thought or protest.