Your husband has a creative streak, one that sadly keeps him away for long periods of time.
Yet, his latest solution to this problem is by far the most unique.
His workshop had seemed more and more like a lab over the last year or so: tubes of cyan liquid, sample slides, graphs, and readings on subjects that were only designations never named. Really, you didn't understand what he was up to until he was leaving for some research expedition, a note on the fridge telling you that his long-awaited gift was in the lab waiting for you, promising that he would be back sooner than last time.
Snagging the note, you make the short track to his workshop, expecting some pet or the like waiting for you, only when you unlock the workshop's door, you find several iterations of your husband staring back at you. The top half of their faces is clearly mechanical and focused on you with a singular red glowing eye, but otherwise, they all look like your husband from his early twenties to what you think is an attempt at creating his own look when he is in his late forties, perhaps even early fifties.
As the gaggle of your husband's creations closes in on you, there isn't much that comes to mind beyond, why?
Sure, you had mentioned feeling lonely and missing him when he goes away on these long trips and expeditions, but you didn't need a horde of robotic versions of him to keep you company!
The first of this group to touch you makes you jump, you had expected a silicone feeling or even metal, but the touch on your arm and hands feels like flesh. A flicker of the last time you were here comes back, the tubes, the designations, he was making these things for you then, and, unintentionally, a small thought curls through you...
Did- did he make them fully accurate to himself? Or did he take some more creative liberties with his robot? Cyborg? Clones?















