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Title..............Broken, Part 1
Start date.........2019-10-18
End date...........2019-10-18
Volume.............1
Storyline..........Broken
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Next chapter.......Broken, Part 2

Chapters

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"Broken, Part 1" is the first chapter in Pandora's Tale.


Characters Appearing in This Chapter

Pandora

Pandora's light-furred friend

Pandora's dark-furred friend

Kyndley

Zero Angiers

Isabelle Monday

Veronica Fortuna

Con Yung


Characters appearing for the first time in this chapter


Characters who are first named in this chapter


Synopsis

The scene opens on the Helper Corporation training facility, where genetically engineered cat-people are bred, brainwashed, and "trained" to be slaves.

Helper Corporation training facility

Helper "training"

A Helper who will eventually be known as Pandora tells her overseer Kyndley that she is a girl, despite being assigned male at birth.[c1p3]

Overseer (Product Care Agent)

Transfeminine (Nonbinary Wiki)

Kyndley reminds Pandora that Helpers are created to serve their owners, and Pandora's future master won't be happy with a boy who thinks she's a girl. Pandora responds that she isn't "a boy who thinks he's a girl": she's a girl[c1p4].


Kyndley tells Pandora that she is broken[c1p5], and takes her to a doctor. The doctor explains that some Helpers just are trans, and Monopolith doesn't understand why[c1p6]. Kyndley plans to have Pandora's memory erased and give her a new personality to make her a boy[c1p8] Pandora screams "I'm not a boy!" and runs off[c1p9].


Pandora crawls through a vent, and finds herself among helpers who are about to be shipped to buyers[c1p12]. Seeing a chance to avoid having her memory erased, Pandora climbs into a capsule which is about to be shipped[c1p13]. Pandora wishes she wasn't broken[c1p14].


By sheer chance, the delivery drone containing Pandora suffers from an engine failure and lands in the middle of the desert, where the Pioneer City resistance finds it.[c1p15]

The Resistance


When resistance member Isabelle Monday realizes the pod contains a person[c1p16], she goes to open it[c1p18]. What Isabelle doesn't know is that the pod contains a gas which causes Helpers to view the next person they see as their owner[c1p19]. Hence, when Isabelle literally opens Pandora's box, Pandora declares her purpose is to serve Isabelle, leaving Isabelle and the rest of the resistance very shocked[c1p20].


Trivia

Chapter 1 draft script (Patreon)

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