Ancillary Narratives

Parent Micro Story
Volta

Medium: Mobile Children's Book

In this book an orphan girl named Rosi is adopted and given a robot dog named Bark-E as a gift. One day Rosi and her new family go on an outing but a storm hits and Bark-E has ventured too far for the family to wait for him. They had to leave him behind. Rosi is distraught over leaving Bark-E behind so she decides to go out on her own to get him back. Along the way she encounters a little boy named Max who is also lonely so Max ends up tagging along with Rosi on her mission. When night came they were able to find their way due to a strange orange light in the forest as they approached the light it grew softer and softer until they saw Bark-E trapped in mud. They get him cleaned up and take him back home. Rosi, Max, and Bark-E are now best friends that go on fantastic adventures together.

Target Audience
children 4-10 boys and girls, also their parents. This would be a great entry point for children and their parents, especially if the parents had never been exposed to the world of Automata.

Equilibrium
Medium: Animated Web Series (YouTube Red)

A young man is forced to smuggle a secret package to another city. He is ambushed along the way but managed to get out alive and with the package still in tact, he peeks at the package which turns out to be a new more intelligent type of A.I. robot called a Sentient. These robots could feel emotions and even had artificial skin on their bodies. This sentient is called Andi, she is being smuggled because she was framed for the murder of her creator. The organization called Arrow ordered the young man to deliver the package and if he failed he was ordered to execute her rather than to let her be captured. She held too many secrets and if she fell into the wrong hands she would be used for evil.

Target Audience
Sentient would target females 12-35 because of the female protagonist and even a female villain.

Robolution
Medium: Blog

In the sector of Polido Basura on the outskirts of LA, a cyborg teen named Hector Lagos reports on the events happening within the sector during the uprising. He shares pictures, audio, interviews, and codes that could be used to unlock mods in the game, Robolution.

Target Audience
Both genders 8-35.