Will clean this post up later. Was quickly made as a response to a request in the Mothership Discord.
As always, a player can veto or reroll a result if they aren’t comfortable with a particular bond or if it doesn’t fit their character.
Human-human bonds
- You are siblings or step-siblings, and are close.
- You are siblings or step-siblings, and are estranged.
- You are distant cousins.
- You are found family, your bond is closer than many are with their blood relations.
- You were childhood friends but drifted apart.
- Your bond was forged in fire: you served together in a military situation or else both survived a dangerous situation.
- One of you holds the other on a pedestal, whether deserved or not.
- You grew up in the same faith and/or church, and are still religious.
- You grew up in the same faith and/or church, but one or both of you have abandoned it.
- You both grew up in the same tiny settlement in the middle of nowhere.
- One of you saved the other’s life.
- You had a romantic relationship but circumstances drove you apart.
- You had a romantic but short-lived fling before going your separate ways.
- You had romantic chemistry but never acted on it.
- You are recent acquaintances but quickly clicked as friends.
- You have worked professionally together before in a lucrative limited term contract.
- You have worked professionally together and were both unjustly terminated.
- One of you took the fall for the other’s crime, intentionally or not.
- One of you intentionally or unintentionally caused the other to lose a great deal of money or another valuable opportunity.
- You had a romantic relationship, and it ended badly.
- You are frenemies, or have a friendly rivalry that is in reality not so friendly.
- One of you was the other’s childhood bully.
- You are mortal enemies.
- One of you is the clone of the other, but you do not share memories.
- One of you is the clone of he other, including backed up memories.
Android-human bonds
- You served the human character in childhood, as a nanny or tutor.
- You have served the other character’s family for generations. They grew to see you as family as well.
- You served the other character’s family for generations. They always only saw you as an object.
- You were officially assigned to the other character as an aide by a company or government.
- You were officially assigned to the other character as an aide by a company or government but are secretly spying on them and supposed to give regular reports.
- You served as an android asset to a military squad the other character was a part of. They came to see you as one of them.
- The other character built or repaired you.
- The other character saved you from being salvaged or destroyed.
- The other character helped free you from restrictive programming or constraints because they felt it was the right thing to do.
- The other character helped free you from restrictive programming or constraints because They wanted to use you for an operation or cause.
- The other character altered your programming so you report to them instead of your original purpose.
- You helped or saved the other character despite your programming. You still aren’t sure how or why this happened.
- You both entered a (taboo) romantic relationship. It fell apart when the other character was unsure if your feelings were genuine, or even could be. You aren’t sure yourself.
- The other character sent you to be recycled or decommissioned. Somehow you avoided that fate.
- You were assigned the task of assassinating the other character. You haven’t done so, despite ample opportunity.
- The android character is the fragmented backed up mind of the human character, mistakenly thought to be dead.
Android-android bonds
- You were both made in the same factory, one serial number apart.
- You were both assigned to work for a wealthy patron who died, leaving you both in limbo.
- One of you was a freed android, and removed the programming restraints from the other.
- You both served together in the Android resistance front.
- You both served together in the Android resistance front, but one of you is secretly a spy for corporate interests.
- You were both part of a collective of rejected or decommissioned androids, scraping by on salvaged parts.
- You both served in a prestigious assignment. Now both of you have been cut loose.
- One of you is the new model replacement for the other.
- One of you believes the other to be an android messiah.
- You are both fragments of a greater AI mind, forced to flee into android bodies.
- One of you is the backup duplicate of the other, brought online when the first was mistakenly thought destroyed.