AMI-886: Pans

Pronouns: He/they

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Back when the predecessors were around, he was bought to play with a family's child. He loved spending time with her and was loved dearly by her. But it wasn't meant to last...

At some point, he got moisture in his circuitry which eventually caused him to crash and get stuck in boot-loops.

After being told by a repair shop that he might be too far gone to be salvaged but they'd put him on their incredibly long waitlist anyway - the parents opted to instead replace him with an intended to be identical" other Amicabot as not to upset their daughter..

That replacement was Potato. Now known as Pots.

They lied to their daughter, telling her that Pans "just needed to be reset and a fresh coat of paint" to explain Pots' clear lack of Pans' memories before deactivating him and storing him away in a box in the attic with the full knowledge that the circuit rusting would only worsen with time but without the heart to commit to sending him to the scrapyard.

However, he didn't stay asleep for long as a few months later a sudden charge in the air caused hìm to boot out of the blue.

He was confused and drowsy. Wandering around the attic before finding his way downstairs. He'd been having memory problems anyway so he kind of just assumed he was playing hide and seek and crashed or something.

Luckily for him, the organic family members were asleep at the time so they never noticed him being downstairs. But he did almost immediately come into contact with the other amicabot in the house. Who seemed far more concerned than he was.

But he wasn't upset upon coming face to face with his replacement and being hurriedly ushered back up the ladder out of Pots' fear of what they'd do if they found the older bot wandering. Just confused in a tired "ok, I guess this is happening now" kind of way.

(The given name the family used for both Pots and Pans was Sage. Both of them will look up on impulse if someone says Sage but neither feels overly comfortable with it.)

Pots would constantly be visiting Pans in secret after they met - being careful that the family didn't notice the change in behaviour - and they grew a fast sense of brotherhood. To the point where the very first thing Potato did once waking up after the apocalypse was search for Pans. The younger bot panicking when he found him unresponsive and stuck in yet another bootloop.

Pans was then carried several hundred miles by his brother in search of anyone at all who could help.

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Kettle used to work in a coffee shop pre-apocalypse. The shop was later rebuilt by him and turned into the mini library - which is where Pots, Pans, Kettle and Tea all live now. But he was also close friends with the bots that worked in the repair shop across the road so he was able to seek them out and ask for help from them when he ended up with both Pots and Pans aimlessly wandering around near his doorstep.

After this emergency repair, Pans was relatively back to fully functional. He has the occasional hiccup when waking up from standby but it’s nowhere near as bad as it was.

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He's a sweet little thing. His favourite activities are dusting and organising books.