Super quick doodle I did of my RP buddy's OC Corey (left) and my OC Aura (right) for another AU that we got of them going rn!

In this AU, Corey ended up getting kicked out by his parents rather than caving into pushing him into Arasaka Academy, leaving him bouncing around on the streets in Dogtown. Aura ends up hiring him to collect scrap around the area for her to use towards making her unique cybernetics. They end up clicking while meeting up for the deal and she offers to help him get out of Dogtown. He's hesitant at first but eventually after screwing over the wrong people and getting himself fucked up - he ends up accepting her help as she ends up being the one to give him his replacement jaw after being ambushed and him using what he thought was his dying breathe to reach out to her with a plea for help. He's got a totally different outfit and Aura's mostly the same but she wears Dante's vest most of the time instead of her usual jacket.

He views himself as Dogtown trash, especially with the shit his parents put him through. But she doesn't really hold any bias towards Dogtown - whenever she'd do gigs or sales there with Dante and then on her own, she never had really horrid experiences. Some of the people there even seemed to respect her due to how she'd accept low eddies or even trades for her chrome, giving the struggling population abit more of a boost without pushing them into poverty.

"Bad conditions can lead people down bad paths but... that doesn't make them bad people at heart."

Art by me.