The machine's purpose was never understood; wherever it wandered, the world became enveloped violently in wires erupting from its presence. Having found a way to stop its tracks, they watch and wonder what the reaper thinks as it watches back.
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made up a skeletal robot for fun :) ID in ALT text!
the idea was a machine built for a purpose that isn't aware of morals/what being "alive" means, it just walks around doing what it was made for- it doesn't understand why it's being stopped, and can only tell the similarly sapient things holding it hate it for some reason
the people in white are a group dedicated to watching the robot that in turn don't know what robots even are, thinking it some evil entity they're in charge of keeping from hurting more of their world.