In a certain world, there was a young boy who lived with his family, happily and lovingly.
You see, this certain boy is a brilliant inventor.
He loves to build robots from scraps, so he often went to the junkyard alone...
One day, the young boy went out to scavenge spare parts in the junkyard.
While searching around, he happened upon a broken down robot.
...
But to his surprise, the machine functions still.
Desperately it reaches out, moving its rusty appendage.
Then, it spoke in a broken tone
"Please,..give me a new..soul"
The young boy was kind and innocent.. He agreed to give it his soul.
He had another reason as well; he was curious to see the world through the eyes of a machine...
All that was left
Was a robot with a doll
Is it a robot
That has a new soul?
Or was it a boy..
Who've lost his own?
A long time has passed.
A sad lonely boy came to the junkyard, wandering aimlessly until he found a broken down robot.
...
But to his surprise, the robot functioned still.
Desperately it tried to speak, reaching out to the boy.
It pleaded and it begged
"Please,..give me a..soul!"
And without a second thought, the boy agreed to give it his soul.
For he had no friends nor family, the boy felt unwanted, and upon hearing this, the robot remembered a memory...
⋆
A long time ago,
there was a boy who gave his soul to a robot out of kindness, but was naive of the price he paid so dearly for.
He went home to see his family.
In grief for their lost child, they chased him away for they thought that he was the robot that took their son away.
Soon the boy grew to despise and hate his robotic shell, but he realized that he was the robot.
He lived in regret of what he's done.
⋆
He decided that he will not take the boy's soul, for he does not want the same fate for the boy, and instead he gave the boy his doll and ask to love it in its place,..
And then he felt his soul's fading away.
He was breaking down...
Then the boy took the little broken parts and he built a tiny robot that ran on electricity instead of souls, and the boy will never be alone again for he made two new friends.
The doll, the robot, and the boy...
Lived together happily.
