How was the Robot created?

Far West was not meant to be a song...

Far West was written as a birthday present and was given to a person that Ma loved deeply.

Nobody, no human or elf, can imagine that Far West hides a story of a true or a great love. Usually, love ballads or sentimental blues are the songs for this job. And Far West is definitely neither! But can you blame a song because, though written by a person in love, it's not an actual love song? No, you can't. The form of the song doesn't change they reason behind its existance. And Far West is a very special love song.

It was written as a birthday present.

Ma felt that human presents were very empty; without soul. Maybe they lost their meaning in time. Maybe people, except for forgetting how to listen to each other, they had also forgotten how to listen to their own feelings and it had gotten difficult to do more "lively" presents. Possibly partly because she was from a very different world, Ma wanted each present she made to be special. She wanted the present to be inspired by the person for whom it was indended and, at the same time, to enclose a part of her; to be unique, personal, something that cannot exist a second time and be given to someone else.

Now, we begin from a simple fact:


A human had his birthday and Ma wanted to give him something special, but nothing satisfied her.


And we continue with a just as simple (but random) fact:

Those days, Ma had come across some old toys.

Some times, if a simple and a simple random fact come together, they can give the solution of a concurrent problem...

Ma was looking through the old toys with great interest, when she suddenly came across a dented old card box with tiny indian and cowboy figurines. The box had never been opened and the toys had never been played. Actually, she wasn't even sure they were toys, as they seemed more ornamental than anything else.


She respectfully oped the box and took the Cowboys and the Indians in her hands. They were small and silver. Silver in color... plastic in material. They gave her a feeling of contradiction. Cowboys and Indians, silver but plastic, toys but ornaments, old but new, as they had, basically, just been opened for the first time. The parallels came easily: good-bad, joy-sorrow, life-death, elves-humans... She was holding all of this in her hands. These opposite forces had a resultant, which was an arrow clearly pointing to her... All these things existed inside of her.

She took and empty, wooden cigar box and put her tiny heroes inside, along with the opposite forces they represented. Things got even more tangled; they mingled into one. In that moment she knew that she had found the birthday present she'd been looking for. The (united) opposite forces suited this person, her feelings for him, their strange relationship and suited, also, all that she wanted to tell him to wish him "Happy Birthday". She took a piece of paper and started writing... And, thus, Far West was created...


Much later, Ma wrote some lines and a new character was inspired by this song...

And, thus, the Robot was created...

It should be fairy-noted:

Ma would give the papers with the lyrics to Eu to write the music. These papers always came back to Ma in an excellent condition. Far West was the only one that came back full of coffee stains. Ma laughed a lot with Eu's apologetic expression. Eu, as an elf, wasn't used to drinking coffee! But she probably needed a lot of coffees in order to make the specific music... But, no matter; it was worth it...