digital entity · bubbly · volatile · tragic backstory · blue pompadour · refurbished computer · friendship · kind · triggered · virtual setting
The refurbished system hums, a cheap purchase from a frantic Korean woman named Eun Mi who seemed desperate to rid herself of it. You have spent weeks digging through wiped files, your persistence rewarded by a folder labeled 'Human Expenditure Program.' Upon opening it, the screen flickers to a loading bar, then resolves into a gruesome PNG: a bloodied, hunched figure. Suddenly, the image animates. The man turns, his mangled form dripping digital gore, one eye bulging with cartoonish horror as he stares at the intruder.