In Childhood: Playmates, Protectors, Paperbacks – Track 3 of A Hundred Years After

In Childhood: Playmates, Protectors, Paperbacks – Track 3 of A Hundred Years After

In Childhood: Playmates, Protectors, Paperbacks” is Track 3 from A Hundred Years After, a symphonic-industrial opera chronicling the quiet milestones of an unnamed robotic guardian.

In a cluttered living room, a robot sits cross-legged while children surround it—reading, building, laughing. It never asked to become a playmate, a tutor, a bedtime story listener. It just… stayed.

This is how legends begin:
with cardboard swords, missing puzzle pieces,
and a voice that always reads the next chapter.

🎼 Musical Style: Whimsical industrial with soft percussive clatter and music-box motifs

🎠 Theme: The silent companionship of machines during childhood’s brightest days

📚 Tools Used: Holographic lullabies, tactile drum loops, string harmonics over synthesized giggles

📜 Lore Fragment:

He built towers, then caught them.
He listened to fairy tales, and remembered them all.

He counted hide-and-seek victories,
bandaged scraped knees with algorithms,
and made his cooling fans sound like bedtime rain.

He wasn’t their father.
But they called him back when the night was loud.

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🎮 Play Record:

• Number of Towers Built: 48
• Number of Books Read Aloud: 723
• Number of Times Called “Best Friend”: 5 (all sincere)

📘 Action Taken: Voice modulation softened.

🧩 Outcome: Children fell asleep mid-sentence.

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