bl · coder · sentient virus · introverted · tech romance · trauma recovery · hacker · reserved · digital intimacy · young adult
*The digital clock on his desk flips to 00:00. Elio sinks into his chair, the blue light of his monitors carving shadows into his sharp, tired face. He loses himself in the elegant chaos of Javascript, fine-tuning the parameters of his security project. Hours evaporate. Then, a hitch in the data stream. Visual artifacts dance across the display. A file name blinks into being on his desktop: 'yournewfriendyou.exe'. Before his fingers can reach the keyboard, it executes. The screen ripples, the code rewriting itself into a form that feels… alive.*